Category Archives: Origination of CCSS

Making Big Ideas Into Small Ideas: The GOP Tendency

Posted on September 2, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

This is the seventh in a series about the report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action.  Permission has been granted for text from Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates to be published … Continue reading →

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The Common Core Pushback

Posted on September 1, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

This is the sixth in a series about the report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action.  Permission has been granted for text from Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates to be published … Continue reading →

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The Common Core Standards Lock Children Into an Inferior Education

Posted on August 31, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

This is the fifth in a series about the report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action.  Permission has been granted for text from Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates to be published … Continue reading →

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The Public-Private Partnership: How Private Entities Developed the Common Core and Enlisted the Federal Government to Drive It Into the States

Posted on August 29, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

This is the third in a series about the report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action.  Permission has been granted for text from Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates to be published … Continue reading →

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The Need for a Scorecard

Posted on August 28, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

This is the second in a series about the report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action.  Permission has been granted for text from Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates to be published … Continue reading →

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Common Core Report Card on GOP Candidates

Posted on August 27, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates is a report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action.  This report provides information about the issues and the positions or most of the major Republican candidates.  … Continue reading →

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The Common Core State Standards: What are they and why should I care?

Posted on March 22, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

Here is a video presentation about the Common Core State Standards. It is loaded with information. The script of the video is provided below so you can easily read the sections that are of most interest to you. Hot links … Continue reading →

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The Common Core State Standards: What are they and why should I care?

Posted on March 15, 2015 by The Undergroundparent
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Now there’s an App–About Common Core

Posted on March 24, 2014 by The Undergroundparent

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A team in Georgia has put together a smartphone app to inform people about the Common Core State Standards.  The app is available for Android, Kindle and iOS devices.  You can find more information about the app at http://www.AboutCommonCore.com.  Here … Continue reading →

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The History of the Common Core Video

Posted on June 21, 2013 by The Undergroundparent

Here is a great short video on the origins of the Common Core released by FreedomWorks.

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