Harry Mathews's Blog – January 2013 Archive (34)

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What some leaders are saying about Common Core.

Common Core could highly impact a parent’s control of their child’s education and really cripple the role of local school districts. One technique in education we have yet to use, having tried all others, is freedom. -Congressman Rob Bishop

Common core is too common for Utah. We do not need regulations from outside of Utah directing our local…

I see at least 3 major flaws in the Common Core Curriculum

1)   From Race to the Top we have received about $24 per child to implement Common Core, which is not enough to pay for even ½ of one textbook. The cost of textbooks, teacher retraining and administration will clearly cost us 100’s of millions of dollars making this an incredible unfunded mandate in a time when our schools are already strapped for cash

2)   Common Core is an "outcome based" curriculum. I think I speak…

Bill Ayers,

Domestic Terrorist, University Professor

By Bill Korach www.thereportcard.org

The Occupy Oakland Education Committee – comprised of public school…

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Special House Hearing to Feature Testimony from Arizona Business Leaders on Common…

by Harry Mathews

               Arizona received $24M to implement Common Core through Race to the Top. With 1 million school children in AZ, this works to be about $24 per child which isn’t even enough to pay for ½ of one Common Core textbook. Clearly, through book purchasing and seemingly endless hours of teacher retraining and bureaucracy, Common Core will cost the state 100’s of millions of dollars, which makes this a massive unfunded mandate in a time when our government and our…

Kiwis Do It Better?

A professor who grew up in New Zealand finds American universities to be more like finishing schools.

by Richard Cocks

I am a New Zealand native who has experienced higher education both there and in the United States. I came to the United States in 1990 to do a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, and I now teach at SUNY’s Oswego campus. Let me share with you a few of my experiences in the United States…

Planned Parenthood has reported a record year for abortions, according to CBN News. The abortion provider's annual report shows 333,964 abortions were performed in the 2011 to 2012 fiscal year -- pushing its figures to 995,687 abortions in three years. At the same time, contraceptive…

Kim Palmer and Jim Forsyth Reuters – 1-8-13

American Council of Trustees & Alumni Posted on 05 January 2013.

By Bill Korach. www.thereportcard.org

We recently reported on a new study from the…

by Jim Liebelt

A new study concludes teens’ perception of the dangers of marijuana is at its lowest level in more than 20 years, prompting federal researchers to warn that the already high use of the drug could increase as more states move to legalize it.

The annual survey released by the National Institutes of Health found that only 41.7 percent of eighth graders believe occasional use of pot is harmful. Roughly 44.1 percent believed that its regular use was detrimental, the…

The idea for massacring children in an elementary school or shooting up a mall filled with Christmas shoppers does not come from reading books, watching movies, or listening to music. Does the incitement for such unspeakable acts come from hours of role-playing violent video games?

As we speculate on what was going on in the mind of the murderer, the media are trying…

 The Virus of Violence: The Problem and The Solution to School Massacres

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Delta-Schoolcraft Intermediate School District (DSISD) began developing the Take the Challenge • Take Charge program in 2003. The program is designed to reduce the amount of time students and families spend using…

Kim Kendall Florida Digital Learning Task Force

Posted on 31 December 2012

Kim Kendall Florida Digital Learning Task Force

By Bill Korach. www.thereportcard.org

Many states are moving toward equipping K-12 students with…