Good news in the campaign against Common Core
This article is a slight rewrite of the an e-mail sent by the president of stopcommoncorenevada.com 1. We've had the best media coverage yet. Superintendent of Public Instruction Dale Erquiaga was on Jon Ralston 2/06/2014 discussing Common Core (from 17:50-24:40). Jon read three of our emails and used them to pose some pointed questions. https://www.ralstonreports.com/tv/2614-dale-erquiaga 2. US Congressman Joe Heck (R-NV) requested that "...the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hold a full committee hearing on the federal government’s involvement in the Common Core State Standards Initiative." https://www.dropbox.com/s/3qziwqffqdlvck9/Common%20Core%20Hearing%20Request%20Letter%20Heck.pdf 3. US Congressman Mark Amodei (R-NV) has known about CC issues for several months, thanks to a relentless effort by a lifelong teacher and education activist. 4. Several US Senators oppose Common Core (but none from NV). http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/05/gop-sens-blast-obama-coercion-of-schools-through-common-core/ http://www.christianpost.com/news/eight-senators-join-fight-against-common-core-94876/ 5. At least 10 states have already withdrawn from CC testing, more will follow. http://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-assessments/what-states-have-pulled-out-of-their-common-core-assessment-consortium/ After article was written KY dropped CC testing (but not NV). 6. At least 29 states have legislation pending to slow, not fund, defund, or stop CCSS (not NV). https://app.box.com/shared/10nl1409mkaf00zzzuyf Since the map was last updated, AZ, AR, MS, TN, KY, IL, WV, NJ, and NH have also introduced similar legislation (but not NV). But not NV...! Nevada is moving full steam ahead and ignoring all negative aspects of CCSS... WHAT IS WRONG WITH NEVADA?? Whatever is wrong can be traced right back to what you hear this interview. There are a LOT of issues with what the guest said in this interview. ALL of the misconceptions and misstatements have been explored, explained and corrected in many respectable publications by many education professionals and education writers, and he knows about all of them, yet he toes the "party line."Please watch the interview, https://www.ralstonreports.com/tv/2614-dale-erquiaga. Read the materials on http://www.stopcommoncorenevada.com/ and https://peter5427.wordpress.com/category/education/ Follow the links shown in these articles, especially in http://peter5427.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/common-core-primer-for-ccrcc.pdf and https://peter5427.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/outrageous-examples-from-common-core/ .Follow us on https://www.facebook.com/groups/456644794408223/Leave comments on http://www.stopcommoncorenevada.com/Contact_us.html Please forward this article to parents and grandparents.