05 March 2013

(Editor: The Report Card www.thereportcard.org has been publishing a series of articles on the Common Core Standard. Today’s post by Paul Horton, History Teacher at the University of Chicago Laboratory School is a petition calling for an investigation of undue financial influence of the Common Core. Mr. Horton believes that the many same organizations calling for an investigation of undue financial influence of…

Perhaps the one room school house of legend had values, and educational standards that we would do well to emulate today. Hard work, discipline, a neighborly spirit, and a dedicated teacher we enough to produce some fine citizens. Maybe we need to spend more time building character and less time constructing expensive buildings. My good friend and neighbor Tim Palmer describes his learning experience in a one room school house near Spokane, Washington in the 1950′s.…

By Bill Korach and Deb Gonzales

Republican candidates, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Michelle Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have stated that the Department of Education (DOE) should be either abolished or significantly reduced in scope. We believe that the DOE is doing far more harm than good, and should be abolished. The DOE was established under Jimmy Carter in 1978 at the urging of the newly formed public teacher’s unions. The budget for the first year of…

by Bill Korach.