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The Roadmap to Understanding Common Core

Bill Gates, a Global Socialist, is intricately involved in the development of the CCSS Initiative. Here is a good history of his work with the UN, UNESCO,the Federal Govt, etc in the development an implementation of the CCSS Initiative.http://www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com/the-common-core-lie/

MUST WATCH VIDEO… BILL GATES … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtTK_6VKpf4

Bill Gates video ( @ 2009 National Conference of State Legislators) explaining that the CC standards and nationalized testing will lead to nationalized CURRICULUM and Data Collection. Listen to this explanation..... in his own words http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtTK_6VKpf4

please send this video to GOV JINDAL..... demanding that he get us OUT of this plan for nationalized education that will result in a "federal curriculum" When every state has the same standards, the same testing, the same curriculum, and the same data collection...... what else can you call it but FEDERAL EDUCATION DATA MINING: WATCH THIS VIDEO http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/video-arkansas-teen- scholar-against-common-core/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

Prezi Presentation: “The Roadmap to Understanding Common Core” ** ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW… IT TAKES TIME TO GET THRU THIS PRESENTATION ALL THE RED FLAGS/VIDEOS….… BUT AREN’T KIDS WORTH THE TIME… http://prezi.com/ssrw4brbxpk0/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share FLYER: http://files.meetup.com/1387375/STAND-FOR-EDUCATIONAL-FREEDOM.pdf James Milgram/Sandra Stotsky review: an accurate and well documented discussion of the ACTUAL level of the mathematics

Core Standards, and shows that, as the lead writer claimed in March 2010, the standards document is "Not only not for STEM, its also not for selective colleges. http://files.meetup.com/1387375/ZimbaMilgramStotskyFinal.pdf

BROOKINGS INSTITUTE: http://www.schoolimprovement.com/common-core-360/blog/common-core-brookings- study/ “So, essentially, the Brookings Institute finds, based upon the past success of individual states’ standards, that standards, and

subsequently the Common Core, don’t affect student achievement in any way, and that they don’t level the educational playing field”.

HERITAGE FOUNDATION: http://blog.heritage.org/2013/09/05/pdkgallup-poll-reveals-a-nation-confused-on-the- common-core-national-standards/ “But as implementation of the new centralized standards moves forward, parents will soon learn

what’s in Common Core, and taxpayers will learn what it will cost them. Common Core is yet another top-down approach to education reform. American citizens were not engaged in the decision-making process to adopt the standards. Rather, state officials were enticed to adopt the standards through (1) stimulus funding and (2) a process that completely circumvented Congress: the Administration offering No Child Left Behind waivers to states that agreed to adopt common standards. Centralized education is not conducive to the American

model of self-government. Self-government in education requires empowering families with educational

• pportunity to make sure their children can inherit the blessings of a free society.

PIONEER INSTITUTE: http://pioneerinstitute.org/featured/new-research-on-common-core-damaging-statelocal- school-autonomy/ The United States Department of Education (USED) should be prohibited from making adoption of national

English and math standards known as Common Core a condition or incentive for receipt of federal funding, and both USED and

• rganizations like the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, whose dues are paid with

taxpayer funds, should make public the amount of time and money they have invested in promoting Common Core according to a new study published by Pioneer Institute.

HSLDA: http://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=blog/common-core-how-does-it-affect-you Common Core proponents offer

upbeat descriptions of utopian educational goals along with detailed practical lists of what students should know and be able to do in grades K–12 in mathematics and English language arts. But those goals and standards are just two facets of the conglomeration of federal funding, preschool–workforce invasive student tracking, and one-size-fits-all computer-based learning that has become the Common Core.

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CATO INSTITUTE: http://www.cato.org/events/common-core-de-facto-federal-control-americas-schools The Common

Core: De Facto Federal Control of America’s Schools :The Constitution gives the federal government no authority to govern education, and numerous laws prohibit Washington from influencing school curricula. How has the federal government gotten around these barriers? Primarily by attaching demands to federal money, which is exactly what it did to get states to adopt the supposedly “state-led” and “voluntary” Common Core curriculum standards. This unprecedented drive to national uniformity is dangerous for many reasons, not the least of which is that it puts Washington in control of what almost all schools teach.

AMERICAN PRINCIPLES PROJECT: http://americanprinciplesproject.org/preserve- innocence/2012/video-series-why-the-common-core-must-be-stopped/ TheAmerican Principles Project

(APP), the Heartland Institute and Pioneer Institute, co-hosted a one-day conference at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, to discuss the destructive implications of the Common Core Standards and the future of the education of America’s youth.

Video Series: Why The Common Core Must Be Stopped http://americanprinciplesproject.org/preserve- innocence/2012/video-series-why-the-common-core-must-be-stopped/

Professor Nick Tampio Speaks on Outrages of Common Core – HuffPostLive Video: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/race-to-the-top-failed-education-reform/523a0383fe3444589700024f Fast forward to minute 9 where Professor Nick Tampio of Fordham University speaks, in this video segment from HuffPost Live entitled “Race to the FLOP

Mark Naison, a professor at Fordham University and an expert on the Common Core movement, told TakePart that

• pposition is growing, and more states like Texas may very well reverse their adoption of the standards.“Because

Common Core Standards are being imposed without trial implementation to test their effectiveness, or even see what they mean ‘on they ground’ in actual schools and school districts, they are looking more and more like a full-court press from the government and large corporations overriding the long-standing tradition of local control over public schools,” he said.“What makes this even more suspect is that test companies like Pearson stand to make huge profits from their implementation. Given this, we can expect opposition to the standards to grow, not diminish in coming years.” http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/05/28/common-core-state-

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APP’s RESPONSE TO THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION’s “SETTING

THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS” http://files.meetup.com/1387375/FEEE%20response.pdf http://hechingerreport.org/content/why-states-are-backing-out-on-common-standards-and- tests_12895/ When 45 states and the District of Columbia quickly adopted Common Core in their pursuit of federal largesse,

it seemed the common standards and tests would take the country by storm. Fast-forward three years, and the nation is split between higher-performing states chafing at the prospect of less rigorous standards leading to declining student performance, and their lower-performing counterparts that are unwilling or unable to fund the transition to Common Core tests.

CONCERNS:

The effort to nationalize and centralize education results in severe loss of state control of education and pushes states into a minimalist, common set of standards. Dr. Sandra Stotsky, an official member of the CCSS Validation Committee, refused to sign off on the adequacy of the standards and testified that “Common Core has yet to provide a solid evidentiary base for its minimalist conceptualization of college readiness–and for equating college readiness with career readiness. Moreover… it had no evidence on both issues.” The Common Core standards are experimental, expensive, controversial, and have not been piloted. Common Core standards are not considered among the best standards in the nation, and there are clearly superior standards. Additionally, the CCI robs states of the sovereign right to raise state standards in the future. There’s no provision for amending the CCSS federal standards, were we to choose to still remain bound by them.

http://files.meetup.com/1387375/Evidence%20of%20a%20National%20Education%20Takeover2.pdf

If you REJECT the CCSS INITIATIVE, Are you a “conspiracy” theorists, or misinformed?

Here are some well known Governors, Senators and Representatives against the CCSSI. ASK Governor Jindal, are they misinformed? Or do they want to protect our American form of government, Protect States sovereignty rights and more importantly PARENTAL Rights. Eight Senators Join Fight Against Common Core Eight U.S. senators have signed onto Sen. Chuck Grassley's (R-

Iowa) fight to defund the Common Core State Standard's Initiative. On April 16, Grassley announced a letter asking the chair and ranking member of the Appropriations subcommittee overseeing the U.S. Department of Education's funding of the Common Core to require that any funds appropriated to the Department of Education not be used to develop, implement or evaluate state-level education standards, or to awards grants or contracts for development, implementation or evaluation of state-level education standards.. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). http://www.christianpost.com/news/eight-

senators-join-fight-against-common-core-94876/

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has written a public letter to Senator Mike Fair, backing his proposal to block the

Common Core, which South Carolina’s education board adopted in July 2010 following approval by the Education Oversight

• Committee. - See more at: http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/sc-gov-nikki-haley-backs-bill-to-block-

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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell didn’t mince words when asked about whether his state would buy into the

Common Core State Standards(CCSS). I don’t want to have a federal bureaucracy monitoring whether or not we are having the right programs in our schools. The bottom line is we don’t need the federal government with the Common Core telling us how to run our schools in Virginia. We’ll use our own system which is very good. It’s empirically tested.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry(R-TX), has been a strong critic of the common-standards movement, which he has

argued is an attempt to create a national curriculum. Perry also said no to Race to the Top funds and said, “we would be foolish and irresponsible to place our children’s future in the hands of unelected bureaucrats and special interest groups thousands of miles away in Washington, virtually eliminating parents’ participation in their children’s education. http://bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/what-rick-perrys-fascinating-opposition-to-common-core- standards-could-mean/ The Texas House of Representatives voted 140-2 to pass language prohibiting Texas from participating in the Common Core State Standards. Only two votes against it. Incredible. The bill, HB 462, was sponsored by State Representative Dan Huberty (R-Kingwood).

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) ,first sounded off against the federal government’s education grab in early July, when

he penned a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, stating the unconstitutionality of the move to create a national education curriculum. “ I am also concerned that the U.S. Department of Education has created, through its contractors, national curriculum materials to support these Common Core standards. Such activities are unacceptable; they violate three

existing laws: NCLB, the Department of Education Organization Act, and the General Education Provisions Act. All three laws prohibit the federal government from creating or prescribing national curriculum” http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-

buzz-florida-politics/rubio-comes-out-against-common-core-putting-him-at-odds-with-jeb-bush/2133354 Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) - South Carolina faces challenges in its education system that are unique and unlike those in

• ther states. Instead of being forced to adopt blanket standards like Common Core as a prerequisite for funding, let’s put

decision-making back in the hands of parents and teachers in our communities.” http://www.scott.senate.gov/press- release/scott-amendment-provides-states-more-choices-education

• Dr. Megan Koschnick’s presentation discussing how certain aspects of the Common Core standards are

developmentally and age inappropriate. Dr. Koschnick gave her presentation at a September 9, 2013 conference at the University of Notre Dame. APP, Heartland, and Pioneer sponsored the conference, entitled “The Changing Role of Education in America: Consequences of the Common Core.” http://files.meetup.com/1387375/PR%20- %20Video%20Common%20Core%20Presentation.pdf

Common Core will control more than math and English, even though again this is happening gradually. At the press conference yesterday, Mrs. Anna Arthurs explained this eloquently, but I will summarize here. If you look in the Prezi, you will see that every subject other than math is a subset of English. When a state governor signs onto the Common Core English, the federal government does not have to go back to the state legislature or the governor or anybody. The federal government can go directly to school boards and say, "Here is the curriculum for social studies, science, history, sex education, etc. Start teaching this right now." The WORLD article does mention that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave $5.8 million to the Fordham Institute since 2003, including an October 2009 grant "to review the common core standards and develop supplementary materials."

Bill Gates and his MONEY, a brief audit of his Common Core (CCSS) purchases. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mercedes-schneider/a-brief-audit-of-bill-gat_b_3837421.html It is important to those promoting CCSS that the public believes the idea that CCSS is "state-led." The CCSS website reports as much and names two organizations as "coordinating" the "state-led" CCSS: The National Governors Association (NGA), and the Council for Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). Interestingly, the CCSS website makes no mention of CCSS "architect" David Coleman. CCSS is not "state led." It is "Gates led."

How foolish it is to believe that the man with the checkbook is not calling the CCSS shots. The "nonprofit" Student Achievement Partners, founded by CCSS "architect" David Coleman”, also benefits handsomely via Gates. All that Student Achievement Partners does is CCSS, and for that, in June 2012, Gates granted Coleman's company $6.5 million.

In total, the four organizations primarily responsible for CCSS- NGA, CCSSO, Achieve, and Student Achievement Partners- have taken $147.9 million from Bill Gates. Common Core Gates Standards. Let us now consider major education organizations and think tanks that have accepted Gates money for the express purpose of advancing CCSS: American Enterprise Institute: $1,068,788. American Federation of Teachers: $5,400,000. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development: $3,269,428. Council of Great City Schools: $5,010,988. Education Trust: $2,039,526. National Congress of Parents and Teachers: $499,962. National Education Association: $3,982,597. Thomas B. Fordham Institute: $1,961,116.

Can Bill Gates buy a foundational democratic institution? Will America allow it? The fate of CCSS will provide crucial answers to those looming questions.

Education reform should not be driven by private philanthropists with their own agendas, however well-intentioned And now Gates says he won’t know if the reforms he is funding will work for another decade

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/09/27/bill-gates-it- would-be-great-if-our-education-stuff-worked-but/

http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/common-core-500-billion-scandal/

Big government and big business are under estimating the will of the American people,

who want local control over how they educate their young. The public is weary of political cronyism and corporate greed seeking to dictate the course of American public policy for the purpose of lining their coffers with billions of the people’s money Joanne Weiss, the chief of staff to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and leader of the Obama administration’s Race to the Top program, blogged in the Harvard Business Review: “The development of common standards and shared assessments radically alters the market for innovation in curriculum development, professional development, and formative assessments. Previously, these markets operated

• n a state-by-state basis, and often on a district-by-district basis. But the adoption of common standards and shared

assessments means that education entrepreneurs will enjoy national markets where the best products can be taken to scale. In this new market, it will make sense for researchers to mine data to learn which materials and teaching strategies are effective for which students – and then feed that information back to students, teachers, and parents.” Student information obtained through Common Core testing – data mining – is being shared with private companies that sell educational products and services. These companies will mine the information to create new tailored products. Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/common-core-500-billion-scandal/#wgLuPrS68m3XgdU3.99