Parents for Truth in Education

10/30/2013

Maya Angelou, a well-known author and poet who’s been a major supporter of President Obama, now says he’s faltering on education, unwittingly driving away children from reading due to onerous standardized testing.

10/22/2013

http://www.fairtest.org/

The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest)works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.

10/16/2013

Are you aware that the "standards" have been copy written and cannot be changed!

A new set of national education standards known as the Common Core has many parents concerned. Critics say it strips away local control and was poorly designed.

10/15/2013

Knox County Schools, Knoxville, TN. This is a small portion of the Knox Schools Board of Education meeting on 10/2/13. During the open floor time, a teacher ...

10/09/2013

One of our Stop the TN Testing Madness members has written a fantastic test refusal letter and he has been kind enough to share it with us. Not only does he refuse the tests, he also shares how the...

10/08/2013

The plot thickens!

Paul Horton a teacher at the University of Chicago High School demands an investigation of corruption of Common Core Standards. Pearson payoffs may confirm it.

10/08/2013

Thanks for the efforts of all you warriors! This is HUGE!

Parents who were opposed to some of the textbooks being used in Tennessee classrooms are celebrating what they describe as a victory.

10/08/2013

The first story takes a bizarre social work approach to learning. The next story is about a cheating husband and father, and, again, it’s for third grade.

09/23/2013

Guest Post by Mara Zebest GatewayPundit previously reported here and here on Common Core promoting po*******hy in the classroom. Another recent report comes to light from an outraged Louisiana parent of a fourth grader who was helping her 9-year-old son with a Common…

09/19/2013

Tennessee district spends $5.2M to align with Common Core standards
The new Common Core standards being implemented in states around the country are bringing unforeseen expenses to local districts, like a Tennessee city that had to borrow $5.2 million to buy iPads and laptops for kids as young as kindergarten.

The Common Core State Standards – a national assessment standard currently adopted in 45 states – places a greater emphasis on learning technology for even the youngest pupils. Many school districts in Common Core-aligned states are therefore pushing for an upgrade in technology, arguing that students need such devices to better prepare them for computer-based assessments.

In Murfreesboro, Tenn., for example, City Schools Director Linda Gilbert asked the city council last month to approve a plan to float $5.2 million in bonds to upgrade technology, The Daily News Journal reported.

"Currently, despite the daily efforts of our IT technicians, many of our student computers do not work, and the newest ones were purchased in 2007," Gilbert reportedly wrote in a letter to the council. "It is recommended that City Council approve the technology proposal request as it will help prepare our children for future entry into the workforce and for future state online assessments."

"Not only are we facing the need for upgrading our computers based on instructional demands, but we are facing a writing assessment in February which must be administered online to all students in grades 3-6," Gilbert continued. "In addition, Tennessee's achievement tests for the 2014-2015 school year will be given online."

The Murfreesboro City Council subsequently agreed to borrow the money so the district could buy iPads for kindergartners and first-graders and laptop computers for students in grades two through six. But Councilman Eddie Smotherman told the Murfreesboro Post he was suspicious of the motives behind the federal government's backing of Common Core, and he complained that the cost was excessive.

09/16/2013

Crazyness!

As more schools try to revise US history, it has been f […]

09/14/2013

This has some very offensive material but as you read it and gasp, remember, this is what they recommend to 10th graders!

Common Core recommends that teachers teach many multicultural, politically correct books and gives teachers and students web links to authors’ sites, thus influencing students to purchase more books by these same authors.