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The Slow Death of Common Core
Alan Caruba
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FIORINA, KASICH CRACK TOP 10 IN NEW Q POLL
Marco Rubio skidded. Jeb Bush slid. Ben Carson zoomed. Mike Huckabee bounced. Scott Walker stayed steady. And that’s how you end up with a five-way tie for first place in the latest Quinnipiac University national poll on the GOP Sixteeners. Put another way: With five candidates evenly dividing half of the vote, there is no first place. While Rubio lost a third of his support and Bush continued to droop, losing three points for the second month in a row, all five can say with confidence that they will meet the polling criterion for the first GOP debate, hosted by Fox News and Facebook on Aug. 6 in Cleveland.
Aside from having filed as candidates – including required financial disclosures – and paid their candidate filing fees, a candidate must be among the top ten in the average of five methodologically sound national polls taken before the debate. Huckabee, Bush, Carson and Rubio may be sowing some volatility, but they can expect to be there with Walker on the big day.
But the real drama right now is about the bottom, not the top. Quinnipiac looks at the back half of the pack: “Rounding out the top 10 for televised debates are U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky at 7 percent, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas at 6 percent, Donald Trump at 5 percent, New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie at 4 percent and Carly Fiorina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 2 percent each.” -Fox News
Marco Rubio skidded. Jeb Bush slid. Ben Carson zoomed. Mike Huckabee bounced. Scott Walker stayed steady. And that’s how you end up with a five-way tie for first place in the latest Quinnipiac University national poll on the GOP Sixteeners. Put another way: With five candidates evenly dividing half of the vote, there is no first place. While Rubio lost a third of his support and Bush continued to droop, losing three points for the second month in a row, all five can say with confidence that they will meet the polling criterion for the first GOP debate, hosted by Fox News and Facebook on Aug. 6 in Cleveland.
Aside from having filed as candidates – including required financial disclosures – and paid their candidate filing fees, a candidate must be among the top ten in the average of five methodologically sound national polls taken before the debate. Huckabee, Bush, Carson and Rubio may be sowing some volatility, but they can expect to be there with Walker on the big day.
But the real drama right now is about the bottom, not the top. Quinnipiac looks at the back half of the pack: “Rounding out the top 10 for televised debates are U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky at 7 percent, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas at 6 percent, Donald Trump at 5 percent, New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie at 4 percent and Carly Fiorina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 2 percent each.” -Fox News
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Artfully edited Walker ultrasound comments start media feeding frenzy - WashEx: “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker believes forced ultrasounds are ‘just a cool thing for women,’ a handful of online news sites reported Wednesday. Problem is: That's not exactly what the Republican governor and likely 2016 presidential candidate said. In an interview Friday with conservative radio host Dana Loesch, Walker defended a bill that he signed into law in 2013 mandating that women seeking abortions must also be provided with ultrasounds. … The Wisconsin governor, who is also the father to two sons, then marveled at the technology behind ultrasounds. ‘…I think about my sons are 19 and 20, you know we still have their first ultrasound picture. It’s just a cool thing out there,’ he said. … Newsrooms took it from there, editing together Walker’s comments so that they could claim in headlines that the Republican lawmaker said ‘forced ultrasounds’ are ‘cool.’” -Fox News
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Fiorina mocks Hilly’s grassroots campaign - After a day on the campaign trail in South Carolina lacerating Hilly Clinton for ethical misconduct and unaccountability, Carly Fiorina took her Clinton stakeout online. Her campaign launched a new site called Ready to Beat Hilly. The site includes video and photos of Fiorina campaigning against Clinton, and making obvious comparisons between the two, highlighting her major campaign point that it will take a woman to beat a woman candidate for president. -Fox News
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Santorum makes immigration hard line a campaign centerpiece Byron Yorkwrites: “In his June 6, 2011 speech declaring his first run for the presidency, former Sen. Rick Santorum didn't mention immigration. On Wednesday, announcing a second race and seeking to win the support of displaced and discouraged American workers, Santorum laid out the toughest position on immigration of any candidate in the large 2016 GOP field. … As proof of his bona fides, Santorum pointed to high marks he received recently from the head of the restrictionist group Federation for American Immigration Reform. ‘Santorum is really the only one who is drilling down into the nuts and bolts and is looking into the job market and how immigration is really hurting American workers,’ Dan Stein, head of FAIR, said recently during a debate sponsored by the Washington Times. In his announcement, Santorum touted FAIR’s assessment.” -Fox News
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Megyn Kelly Hits Back at CNN Host
(newsinc.com) - Thursday morning, during a contentious interview with Pamela Geller, CNN’s Chris Cuomo attempted to draw an analogy between holding a Muhammad cartoon contest and saying the “n-word.”... As he put it, “the ‘n-word’ gets treated the same way that depictions of Muhammad does. We don’t say it because it’s offensive, not because legally I can’t.” This idea not only rubbed Geller the wrong way but also appeared to bother Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, who invited National Review editor Rich Lowry on her show tonight to discuss it. “His view is she’s not allowed to have a ‘Draw Muhammad’ contest because in his view, he has pronounced that is offensive,” Kelly said of Cuomo. “The question is offensive to whom, Chris?” she asked later. “There is a group that finds this offensive, and there are tens if not hundreds of millions who have no issue with it whatsoever.” Lowry, in turn, defended Geller’s right to run cartoons of Muhammad on Washington, D.C. buses, saying, “they may be offensive, but they’re not gratuitously offensive because she wants to include the line ‘support free speech.’ That is a political message and a political message that should be entirely unobjectionable.”
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Guess Who Wants Americans to Surrender Internet to U.N.
(teapartyupdate.com) - It’s bad enough we’ve got trolls like the NSA snooping through our personal data courtesy of nObama and his executive order on data collection... But now we’ve got a high level politician calling for the Internet to be controlled entirely by the UN. Who might it be None other than Hilly Clinton’s successor, Mr. hanoi John Kerry. hanoi Kerry maintains in order to protect people across the globe the UN should be in control of the Internet. http://teapartyupdate.com/guess-who-wants-americans-to-surrender-internet-to-u-n/
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Rep Gohmert Reveals The Amnesty Secret Attack Hidden In NDAA
(rickwells.us) After applauding the decision by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the injunction against the nObama amnesty issued by Judge Andrew Hanen, Rep Louie Gohmert (R-TX) exposes some of the motivations, aside from the basic illegality on the part of the nObama regime... behind the hard-fought opposition to the insertion a Democrat amendment to the NDAA. That amendment would have permitted the military service of illegal aliens and would have quite possibly led to the overturning of Judge Hanen’s injunction by the Fifth Circuit. The nObama attorneys could certainly have made a compelling case, according to Rep Gohmert. He explains just how close we might have come to the flood gates being thrown open. Had the Democrat amendment remained in the bill, it could have been interpreted as an endorsement of the amnesty itself, which would have put the injunction in serious jeopardy. http://rickwells.us/rep-louie-gohmert-reveals-the-amnesty-secret-attack-hidden-in-ndaa-a-stealth-bullet-dodged/
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China Seizing Territory In South China Sea
(rickwells.us) - The Chinese program of taking by force disputed island territory in the South China Sea has reached a point where the United States felt compelled to issue a meaningless threat against the aggressive behavior of our financial and, in many ways, political masters... Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter issued a warning saying, “There should be no mistake about this, the United States will fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows.” Ambassador John Bolton is asked if he believes our response to China was sufficiently strong. He describes it as “woefully inadequate, and it has been for the last six years.” He says, “What China is trying to do here is take what are now international waters in theSouth China Sea and turn it into a Chinese lake. That’s important for two reasons. One, it would give them control over the oil and gas and other mineral assets under the water and second, every barrel of oil that goes to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan from the Middle East goes through the South China Sea. So it would give China hands around the throats of those economies.” http://rickwells.us/china-seizing-territory-in-south-china-sea-american-response-is-woefully-inadequate-john-bolton/
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IRS Official Subpoenaed After Agency Refused to Testimony
(sharylattkisson.com) - The House Oversight Committee today issued a subpoena to compel the testimony of a public IRS official. That after the IRS failed to voluntarily allow the official, the Director of Privacy, Government Liaison and Disclosure, to confirm she would appear at a hearing next week examining federal agencies’ failure to follow Freedom of Information Act law... In theory, the Freedom of Information Act entitles members of the public and the press to obtain access to public information from federal agencies within 20 business day. In reality, federal agencies routinely ignore, delay and obfuscate such requests with impunity. There’s some irony in the IRS’ refusal to voluntarily let its officer in charge of public disclosure testify to Congress. It might be humorous if it weren’t such a sad commentary on the state of government transparency today. https://sharylattkisson.com/irs-official-subpoenaed-after-agency-refused-to-allow-voluntary-testimony/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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Canary Mission Website Gives Hard Left a Taste of Its Own Medicine
(Raheem Kassam) - There's a website called "Canary Mission." I don't know who's behind it. Nor, it seems, does anyone else. But I think it's a great exercise in turning the tables on anti-Israel activists who have been 'shaming' people online for years... Canary Mission says its aim is to "expose individuals and groups that are anti-Freedom, anti-American and anti-Semitic in order to protect the public and our democratic values." And while I'm kind of sad that political activism in both the United States and the United Kingdom has sunk to this level, it isn't new, and thusly there shouldn't be the outcry over it that there has been online. http://www.meforum.org/blog/2015/05/canary-mission
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Big Brother FCC Plans New Internet Tax
(rickwells.us) - There is no pretext too petty or insignificant that a redistributive-minded control-freak politician won’t use it to impose their global Marxist agenda upon the American people... Free speech is a right protecting by the First Amendment. They’re unilaterally adding a right to “free stuff” to the Constitution too, including a phone and Internet access, so that they can further control every aspect of our lives. The nObama regime already taxes Americans to provide “sponge phones,” also known as “nObama Phones” to the lazy social parasites that feed upon us, but that was just the foot in the door. They’re just getting started.Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler announced on Thursday that the program is about to get bigger, and naturally, much more expensive, to now include “free” internet for those who might grow weary of watching Oprah all day on the couch. http://rickwells.us/big-brother-fcc-plans-new-internet-tax-expansion-to-control-what-happens-inside-our-homes/
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nObama – ISIS Spreading, Gaining Support In Southeast Asia
(rickwells.us) - The failure of the nObama regime to put anything other than the pretense of efforts into the worldwide battle against Islamic terrorism and the forces of ISIS is showing in an increased presence of the terrorist organization in Southeast Asia... ISIS has been successful in expansion in that region to the degree that they now boast an entire terrorist military unit from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. That is not merely terrorist propaganda; those are the words of the Singapore Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, who estimated their numbers to include more than 500 Indonesians and dozens of Malaysians, as well as a few Singaporeans. “This is why Singapore takes terrorism, and in particular ISIS, very seriously,” Lee said. “The threat is no longer over there, it is over here.” http://rickwells.us/great-terrorist-strategy-obama-isis-spreading-gaining-support-in-southeast-asia/
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DOJ Official: Slavery to Blame for Riots in Ferguson and Baltimore
(J. Christian Adams) - Vanita Gupta, head of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, has told a lawyers group in Colorado that slavery and Jim Crow helped fuel the Ferguson and Baltimore riots... The last few days have seen a number of fanciful stories with the Obama administration seemingly questioning the authority of local police. I’ve long maintained that the administration is nakedly seeking to federalize policing standards — but get rid of local police? No way, that sounds like something broadcast from a shortwave station in Austin, Texas. But then up steps Vanita Gupta to lend some credibility to the idea that some want to disband local police and replace police powers with the federal government. Speaking to a group of left-wing lawyers in Colorado. http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2015/05/19/doj-official-slavery-to-blame-for-riots-in-ferguson-and-baltimore/?singlepage=true
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Judge orders Clinton Foundation racketeering case to trial
(Sarah Westwood) - A Florida judge has set a trial date in the racketeering case against the Clinton Foundation and Bill and Hilly Clinton... Judge Donald Middlebrooks of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ordered the racketeering, influenced and corrupt organizations, or RICO, case to head to trial January 20, 2016. The order, entered Friday and obtained by the Washington Examiner, came days after Larry Klayman of Freedom of Watch filed a lengthy civil complaint against the Clintons and their foundation in the same court. While the Clinton legal team could settle the case or enter a variety of motions in an effort to derail the lawsuit before the trial, the judge's swift decision means the matter could go to court before the Feb. 1 Iowa caucus and Feb. 9 New Hampshire primary. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-trial-date-set/article/2565272
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The Slow Death of Common Core
Alan Caruba
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(factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - Think about the major policy undertakings of the nObama administration over the past six and a half years. It began with a “stimulus” that wasted trillions in the quest of generating jobs, but did little to nothing in achieving that goal. That was followed by nObamaCare which most agree has been a disaster for the nation’s healthcare sector and, finally, Common Core, a one-size-fits-all testing program intended, we were told, to improve learning standards in the nation’s schools. The only thing it has achieved is the opposition of parents, teachers unions, and entire states..
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Perhaps the greatest surprise among these numbers is that the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Educational Association, as Rob Bluey of the Heritage Foundation noted in February “is no longer a cheerleader for Common Core national education standards.” In a letter to the union’s three million members, its president, Dennis Van Roekel, took Common Core to task for its failure to even provide information for implementing it in their classrooms. The American Federation of Teachers had raised similar concerns nearly a year earlier!
Perhaps the greatest surprise among these numbers is that the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Educational Association, as Rob Bluey of the Heritage Foundation noted in February “is no longer a cheerleader for Common Core national education standards.” In a letter to the union’s three million members, its president, Dennis Van Roekel, took Common Core to task for its failure to even provide information for implementing it in their classrooms. The American Federation of Teachers had raised similar concerns nearly a year earlier!
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Writing on September 2014, Joy Pullman, a Heartland Institute research fellow whose expertise is education held forth on the “Top Ten Things Parents Hate About Common Core.” Among them was “The senseless, infuriating math.” “If Common Core hadn’t deformed even the most elementary of our math abilities so that simple addition now takes dots, dashes, boxes, hashmarks, and foam cubes, plus an inordinate amount of time”, you are not going to get the right answer.
Writing on September 2014, Joy Pullman, a Heartland Institute research fellow whose expertise is education held forth on the “Top Ten Things Parents Hate About Common Core.” Among them was “The senseless, infuriating math.” “If Common Core hadn’t deformed even the most elementary of our math abilities so that simple addition now takes dots, dashes, boxes, hashmarks, and foam cubes, plus an inordinate amount of time”, you are not going to get the right answer.
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Parents in growing numbers have discovered, as Pullman notes, that “when they do go to their local school boards, often all they get are disgusted looks and a bored thumb-twiddling during their two-minute public comment allowance.” Pullman says, “The bottom line is, parents have no choice whether their kids will learn Common Core, no matter what school they put them in.” That, obviously, is changing as state after state pulls out of the Common Core program.
Parents in growing numbers have discovered, as Pullman notes, that “when they do go to their local school boards, often all they get are disgusted looks and a bored thumb-twiddling during their two-minute public comment allowance.” Pullman says, “The bottom line is, parents have no choice whether their kids will learn Common Core, no matter what school they put them in.” That, obviously, is changing as state after state pulls out of the Common Core program.
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In a new book by Samuel Blumenfeld and Alex Newman, “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children”, Blumenfeld points to “Growing levels of illiteracy, plunging international rankings, the decline of critical-thinking skills, mushrooming decadence, mass shootings, and companies that can’t find the skilled workers they need—these have become some of the atrocious hallmarks of U.S. public schools.”
In a new book by Samuel Blumenfeld and Alex Newman, “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children”, Blumenfeld points to “Growing levels of illiteracy, plunging international rankings, the decline of critical-thinking skills, mushrooming decadence, mass shootings, and companies that can’t find the skilled workers they need—these have become some of the atrocious hallmarks of U.S. public schools.”
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“Common Core schemers are engaged in what can only be described as consumer fraud with monumental implications for education and the future of America.” The bottom line is that “the scheme was never field-tested before being foisted on America.”
“Common Core schemers are engaged in what can only be described as consumer fraud with monumental implications for education and the future of America.” The bottom line is that “the scheme was never field-tested before being foisted on America.”
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There is no part of student’s education that Common Core does not impede or corrupt. In the area of science, Blumenfeld says “Instead of teaching children about science—real science—the standards will offer students a steady stream of controversial propaganda presented as unchallenged fact.” Regarding climate change “students will be required to learn that human activities are mostly to blame, even though this notion is disputed by countless scientists and a vast, growing body of actual scientific observational evidence.”
There is no part of student’s education that Common Core does not impede or corrupt. In the area of science, Blumenfeld says “Instead of teaching children about science—real science—the standards will offer students a steady stream of controversial propaganda presented as unchallenged fact.” Regarding climate change “students will be required to learn that human activities are mostly to blame, even though this notion is disputed by countless scientists and a vast, growing body of actual scientific observational evidence.”
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Closest to home are Common Core’s “National Sexuality Education Standards” aimed to begin the “sexualization of children in kindergarten” says Blumenfeld. “Is learning about ‘homosexual marriage’ before first grade in government schools really ‘age appropriate’ or necessary?” But it gets more radical “with graphic lessons promoting everything from masturbation and fornication to transgenderism and homosexuality.”
Closest to home are Common Core’s “National Sexuality Education Standards” aimed to begin the “sexualization of children in kindergarten” says Blumenfeld. “Is learning about ‘homosexual marriage’ before first grade in government schools really ‘age appropriate’ or necessary?” But it gets more radical “with graphic lessons promoting everything from masturbation and fornication to transgenderism and homosexuality.”
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We shouldn’t be surprised at the backlash Common Core has received from both parents and teachers unions among others. Like the “stimulus” and nObamaCare, Common Core demonstrates a thorough lack of understanding of the values of individuality that have underwritten our nation’s free market economy, helped create a respected healthcare system, and which parents have expected the educational system to pass on to new generations.
We shouldn’t be surprised at the backlash Common Core has received from both parents and teachers unions among others. Like the “stimulus” and nObamaCare, Common Core demonstrates a thorough lack of understanding of the values of individuality that have underwritten our nation’s free market economy, helped create a respected healthcare system, and which parents have expected the educational system to pass on to new generations.
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Instead Common Core teaches collectivism—socialism—and degrades various elements of education from math to English to science.
Instead Common Core teaches collectivism—socialism—and degrades various elements of education from math to English to science.
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It cannot be removed from our nation’s schools soon enough.
It cannot be removed from our nation’s schools soon enough.
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