Common Core

The Battle in the Senate The state senate will be meeting this week to discuss the budget. The PARCC reference successfully removed in the House was a good start, but we need more on this leg of the journey to ensure that Common Core is not further entrenched with HB59. As such, we would be…

by Kevin Ritter Today in our schools there is a movement gaining traction that seeks to limit the reading of classical literature at the expense of what are being called “informational texts.” The movement, called the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), is based in part upon the fallacious idea that because high school seniors…

The National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) together formed the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) to develop a set of academic standards to be used in common across all states.  The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a set of learning standards in English language arts (ELA)…