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David Coleman, Education Hero
American Thinker, by Bernie Reeves
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Posted By:Judy W., 1/14/2013 6:15:10 PM
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| Finally, someone with clout is committed to undoing the damage done to the American educational system by radical scholars. Our hero is David Coleman, president of the College Board, a Rhodes Scholar, and a former McKinsey & Company consultant. Coleman used a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to mold the requirements for the Common Core States Standards in English -- adopted by 46 states to be implemented in 2014 -- to mandate that 50% of reading assignments are non-fiction "informational text" in elementary school, and 70 percent by grade 12.
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This takes me aback. Everything I´ve heard about Common Core is scary, until this. I still think a national curriculum is a terrible idea. And while Coleman´s standards may be great, you can bet the leftists are scheming night and day to get rid of him and put their stupid pap back into the English classes.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
fayebeck, 1/14/2013 6:21:19 PM (No. 9116482)
This will go nowhere.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 1/14/2013 7:04:34 PM (No. 9116555)
A pleasant surprise - and grounds for a glimmer of hope. This is exactly the right path. It may be that economic reality -competition for jobs in a tight market- will scrape off the ideological barnacles and fungi that have accumulated since the Sixties and restore education to the schools and universities. Political correctness and dumbed down courses with phony majors of no value to anyone may soon be a luxury American society can no longer afford. Of course it is just a dream - but dreams sometimes come true, especially when reality is behind them and pushing them forward. The rubbish preached in schools and universities doesn´t justify the time and expense of going to school. About all modern education seems to be good for is producing Obama voters who can´t find jobs and expect the government to take care of them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ramona, 1/14/2013 7:24:39 PM (No. 9116582)
The Common Core is yet another way for Big Government/Big Education to micromanage teaching. This idea did not emanate from teachers, teacher educators, or even administrators. It came from politicians -even Republican governors.
Yet billions of dollars will be spent on inservice to prepare teachers to accommodate these standards. Education is a local responsibility. No Conservative should give CC a second thought.
Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Linda in Seattle, 1/14/2013 9:34:36 PM (No. 9116795)
It doesn´t make any different how great David Coleman is. Education is a state responsibility and the feds need to butt out!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
avmermaid, 1/14/2013 10:26:28 PM (No. 9116875)
I have been in schools that have started implementing Common Core. To me it is a nightmare and I´m glad I am no longer teaching. The books and materials are being dictated by the state or regional education service agencies with orders not to deviate from the set curriculum. The amount of time to be spent on each skill is dictated. The abilities of students or their interests don´t matter and the principals are enforcing this. All creativity is extinguished and the joy of teaching is disappearing. Common Core might be appropriate for teachers with no training, but it is horrible for any teacher who thrives on individualization, creativity, relevance, and appropriateness.
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Posted By: Judy W.- 5/8/2013 10:34:18 AM
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In a move that had some of us dropping to our knees and shaking our fists at an indifferent God, C-SPAN recently announced that it is launching its "Road to the White House" programming for 2016. For others, however, the response was more like "it´s about time!" Chief among them is that happy band of political warriors who think it´s "Hillary´s turn." Last week, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi admitted that she prays Hillary will run. Also last week, Emily´s List, the liberal feminist organization dedicated to getting liberal feminist women elected to public office, announced
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The economist Milton Friedman warned that the United States cannot have open borders and an extensive welfare state. (Snip) In addition to being unfair to those who follow the law and encouraging more unlawful immigration in the future, amnesty has a substantial price tag. An exhaustive study by the Heritage Foundation has found that after amnesty, current unlawful immigrants would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits and services and pay more than $3 trillion in taxes over their lifetimes. That leaves a net fiscal deficit (benefits minus taxes) of $6.3 trillion.
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Posted By: Judy W.- 5/7/2013 7:38:26 AM
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I must admit that I would have been too embarrassed to teach Julia Alvarez’s sexually explicit novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, to the college students I have taught for over twenty years, much less to ninth- and tenth-graders, as many Georgia high school teachers have been instructed to do. Some high school teachers also have a problem with its overtly feminist and leftist-leaning ideology. (Snip) The novel is taken straight from Common Core’s “Text Exemplars” for ninth and tenth grades. Although the “exemplars” are officially intended to be suggested readings, educrats take the suggestions literally.
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On Monday, the Obama administration requested dismissal of a suit the government had filed against Bible publisher Tyndale House Publishers, which refused to implement the Obamacare mandate to provide employees’ birth control. “Bible publishers should be free to do business according to the book that they publish,” Senior Legal Counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom Matt Bowman told LifeSiteNews. “The government dismissed its appeal because it knows how ridiculous it sounds arguing that a Bible publisher isn’t religious enough to qualify as a religious employer.” This marks the first wholesale legal loss for the Obama administration in its quest
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Posted By: Judy W.- 5/6/2013 1:23:02 PM
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American Thinker, by Larissa Atbashian
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Posted By: Judy W.- 5/6/2013 9:10:50 AM
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The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback in January, and now city officials have a plan for what to do with them. Mayor Mike McGinn is expected to announce Tuesday that they´ll be melted into bricks carrying messages of peace, and the bricks will be placed around the city. The buyback program was announced a month after last December´s elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., by city leaders sick of hearing about gun violence. Private sponsors including Amazon.com contributed tens of thousands of dollars
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Glenn Smith*
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/8/2013 12:59:28 AM
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford completed the trail to political redemption Tuesday with a win over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to reclaim his old seat in Congress. Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent, according to full unofficial results. Turnout was heavier than expected, with about 32 percent of the district’s 455,702 registered voters casting ballots. Sanford, who has never lost an election, returns to the 1st District seat he held for three terms from 1995-2001. It’s a remarkable comeback for a man many pundits had written off after his highly publicized affair with an Argentine
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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tells Benghazi witnesses that "death is a part of life." CUMMINGS: And, as I listen to your testimony I could not help but think of something that I said very recently -- two years ago now -- in a eulogy for a relative. I said that death is a part of life, so often we have to find a way to make life a part of death. And, I guess the reason why I´m saying that, going back to something Mr. Nordstrom said, he wanted,
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There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation. It is a record that may well come to haunt Hillary Clinton, the first Secretary of State to lose an ambassador in the field in more than three decades, if she runs for president in 2016. But the obvious Republican effort to turn this inquiry into the Democratic (Obama) version of the Iraq intelligence scandal that has tarred the GOP since the George W. Bush years -- led by that least-credible of champions, the almost-always-wrong Darrell Issa --
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution
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Washington Times, by Douglas Ernst
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/7/2013 8:22:18 PM
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence. “One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said. Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not
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Mark Sanford wins South
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Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner
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Posted By: supersid- 5/7/2013 8:55:20 PM
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Mark Sanford has won the South Carolina special election in a competitive race for what in normal circumstances is a safe Republican seat. The former governor beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert Busch, for the state’s 1st congressional district. The AP called the race for Sanford early in the evening, with the Republican leading Colbert Busch 54 percent 46 percent.
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