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National Standards
- Rising Chorus of Voices Against Federal Takeover of U. S. Public Schools
- Common-Core Standards Drew on Ideas From Abroad
- Education: what is wrong with this picture?
- Guest View: Education as work force development falls short
- VIDEO: National Academic Standards Pose Threat to Local Control of Education
- VIDEO: Federal Education Policy with Former Assistant Secretary of Education Bill Evers
- The Do's and Dont's of the Common Core Standards
- “Texas Must Not Be Trapped by Public Vouchers”
- Common Core State Standards handouts
- American Education Fails Because It Isn’t Education
- Race to the Top: A Practitioner’s Perspective
- Wrestling with Policy Dilemmas: Common Core Assessments
- CITIZENS IN WASHINGTON STATE MAKE PLEA TO STOP COMMON CORE STANDARDS
- Common Core Standards Not Internationally Benchmarked
- Several Articles Regarding Core Curriculum Standards...
- Letter To Oklahoma Education Officials From Donna Garner and Henry Burke
- Common-Assessment Consortia Expand Plans
- Why Race To The Middle? First-Class State Standards Are Better than Third-Class National Standards
- Minnesota Rejects Common Core Math Standards
- If It Were A Snake...What the Common Core Is Saying That We're Not HEARING
- Letter from Virginia To Arne Duncan - No Common Core Standards
- The Common Core Standards Initiative: An Effective Reform Tool?
- Let's Get Off the National Standards Train
- National Academic Standards Pose Threat to Local Control of Education
- Massachusettes Seeks to Get Out From Under Core Curriculum Standards
- Common Core vs. Charter Schooling?!! Waving That Yellow Flag
- Is Common Core Running Off the Rails Already? Waving the Caution Flag
- Stotsky on the Common Core Vote in MA
- Proposed math standards unteachable
- Common Core Curricula - Killing Cursive
- Don McLeroy: Teaching Our Children What It Means to Be an American in 2011
- PODCAST Heritage in Focus, May 30: Lindsey Burke on National Standards in Education
- PODCAST "National Education Standards Don't Work" featuring Neal McCluskey
- To Adopt or Not? States Will Decide on Common Standards
- DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW? -- BY DONNA GARNER
- Why National Standards Won’t Fix American Education: Misalignment of Power and Incentives
- Global Education/Global Government At The Door
- National Assessments Based on Weak Standards
- An Interview with Neal McCluskey: No Evidence or Research for National Standards
- IB Unraveled
- Village Academic Curriculum: Unsafe at Any Speed (or Grade)
- Education: Too Important for a Government Monopoly
- Obama Plan Would Tie Title I to College-Career Standards
- National Education Standards: Here They Come Again!
Legislation
National Standards
Race To The Top
Gulen Schools
Recent Blog Posts
- Growing loans and unemployment calls benefit of higher education to question
- Gulen Charter Schools, time for America to wake up
- KOSU's Story On The Million Cell Phone as Incentive Reading Program
- (Revised) Clash of the Education Titans
- Oklahoma City Public Schools will now give away CELL PHONES to 6th and 7th graders to 'incentivize' reading
- Intrinsic VS Extrinsic Motivation In Schools, or Why We Should NOT Give Kids Cell Phones As A Reward For Reading
- Thank You Oklahoma and ROPE Members!
- Point of View in Saturday's Oklahoman
- Race To The Top of What?
- US history and civics curricula shouldn't be mandated (or "incorporated") but the Oklahoma Murrah bombing SHOULD
Sex Education
- Oklahoma Public Schools Listed with Students Observing the GSLEN Day of Silence April 17, 2010
- The case for abstinence-centered sex ed
- Should schools promote 'gay clubs'?
- Educators warned re: new sex-ed law
- Sex Education in ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS!?
- Everything You Don't Want To Know About Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings, BUT SHOULD
- Obama Czar's 'Homo-genda' Proposed for U.S. Schools Congressional Legislation Called 'A Sexual Revolutionary's Dream'
- Memo to Public Schools: Stop Pushing Sex!
What Your Child is Learning About US History
- Should Oklahomans Believe That only 2.8% of Oklahoma Public School Students Can Pass The National Citizenship Test?
- Obama Education Reform Rhetoric AND Parents 'Awakened' to District Education Agenda
- Elected Officials Score Lower than the General Public on the ISI Civic Literacy Survey
- Who Is Rewriting History?
- NEWLY RELEASED Civic Literacy Report from ISI!
- Shortchanging Our Students
- Look What They're Erasing From U.S. History!
- Mathew Staver on The Huckabee Show; Discusses Changes to History Textbooks
- At Conference, Boren Decries 'Scandalous' Lack of Historical Knowledge
- 75 Percent of Oklahoma Students Can't Name The First President of The U.S.
- It Will Be as if the American Founding Never Happened
Textbook Reviews
Political Indoctrination in the Schools
- The "Alliance for Climate Education" May Be Bringing Their Distorted Version of Reality to Your Child's School
- Oh Yes Virginia, Community Organizers DO Target Your Kids and Here's The Proof!
- Indoctrination Watch: Student contest for “best census cheer”
- The Marxist Storyteller (Howard Zinn) Dies
- HOWARD ZINN’S LEGACY: Instructing Teachers to Disobey Education Codes
- Second Graders Sing About Allah?
- Parent Wants Book Off Union Public Schools Library Shelves
- Obama Organizing in Ohio High School
- Christian speech targeted as 'hate'
- More Radicalizing of Higher Education Ahead
- Training Teachers to Promote 'Social Justice'
Videos
- Union Teachers Explain How to Push Marxism in the Classroom
- The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
- Train Up A Child - Part 1
- Train Up A Child Part 2
- Train Up A Child - Part 3 (Scariest of the 3!)
- Charlotte Iserbyt - Deliberate Dumbing Down of the World
- Our American Form Of Government
- Exposé of Safe & Drug-Free Schools "Czar" Kevin Jennings
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Research
- Common Core State Standards and Race to the Top - An Introduction to Marxism 101
- An Interview with Neal McCluskey: No Evidence or Research for National Standards (Dumbing Down test explanation)
- Analysis: Broken Arrow scandal unfolds with lots of moving parts
- Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto NAEP Scales 2005-2007
- HOPE Isn't Change or Vote NO on State Question 744
- Public School Results at Elite Prep-School Prices
- State Would Pay Heavily For Education Funding Plan
- Groups oppose Oklahoma education spending initiative (SQ 744)
- Superintendents' Pay in Oklahoma Involves Factors Other Than Student Enrollment
- Oklahoma Rank Shows Gain in Education
- Reading scores decline for 4th-, 8th-graders in Oklahoma
- State question on Oklahoma school funds called ‘job killer’
- Oklahoma education plan draws fire
- Coalition launches to defeat State Question 744
- Pitting roads vs. schoolkids just bad for public policy
- No State Left Behind - How To Get States To Improve Their Tests
- A Vote AGAINST State Question 744 is a Vote FOR Oklahoma Public School Students and Taxpayers
- Oklahomans Say More Spending Won't Help Oklahoma Public Education
- New CATO Study Shows Educators Lie
- Interim Legislative Study on the Impact of SQ744 Commissioned by Leslie Osborn
- Information on Senate Bill 1759 - Transparency In State Government/Education
- Not a fan: OEA Shouldn’t Bank on Henry’s Support
- Look for the OEA Label Video
- A Vote AGAINST State Question 744 is a Vote FOR Oklahoma Public School Tax Payers and Parentst
- From One Oklahoman To Another - Vote NO on State Question 744 Video
- Oklahomans Will Always Tell It Like It Is
- The Giant Blob That Ate Oklahoma's State Budget....public education
- SQ 744 opponents decry lack of accountability