This week's award for Biggest Common Core Jerk goes to Missouri GOP state legislator Mike Lair. Parents, teachers and administrators who object to the government education "standards" racket—which usur...

The freedom-enhancing, life-improving power of school choice is more than a theory for me. It's more than a talking points memo or teleprompter speech. Unlike many of the politicians paying lip servi...

The Common Core gold rush is on. Apple, Pearson, Google, Microsoft and Amplify are all cashing in on the federal standards/testing/textbook racket. But the EduTech boondoggle is no boon for students. I...

Valerie Strauss reports in the Washington Post: The new version of the SAT college admissions exam that was due to be unveiled in 2015 is now being delayed until spring 2016. The College Board hired Da...

Just when you thought the Obama administration couldn't antagonize America any further, along comes Education Secretary Arne Duncan. He didn't just attack "white suburban moms" and children over their ...

From the Washington Post Arne Duncan: ‘White suburban moms’ upset that Common Core shows their kids aren’t ‘brilliant’  BY VALERIE STRAUSS U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a group of state sch...

Why do the Common Core educational standards (e.g., a list of what needs to be taught in each grade dreamed up by David Coleman) need to be common across the country? Why is it crucially important th...

As I've mentioned before, relative to the usual quality of educational standards writing, the new Common Core standards reflect a fine masculine intelligence. The author clearly understands how a hi...

Over the years, I've read a lot of K-12 educational standards. They tend to be eye-glazingly abstract, general, and boring. For example, one widely endorsed math problem solving strategy is: First pri...

Here's a video of woman who teaches teachers to lecture fourth-graders, especially rural kids, about "white privilege." The Common Core standards Michelle Malkin has been reporting on will increase thi...