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Truth in American Education vs. “A Complete Resource Guide for Utah’s Core...
http://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-state-standards/debunking-misconceptions-the-common-core-is-state-led/ Of all the things that the Truth in American Education site has posted, my...
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Wasatch School District Unveils Common Core Tests to Parents April 8, 2013 at...
You Are Invited: Monday at Wasatch School District – April 8th at 4:00 p.m. 101 E 200 N Heber City, UT 84032 (435) 654-0280 Presentation on Common Core Assessments: American Institutes for Research...
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Utah Asst. Superintendent Dodges the Billion Dollar Question –Again
After a whole year of never receiving an email response from Asst. Superintendent Judy Park, today she wrote back! Wow. But. The billion dollar question was dodged again. It’s been dodged in emails...
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Parents Demand Real Answers at Alpine District Meeting on Common Core A.I.R....
Yesterday I attended the Alpine School District meeting, where U.S.O.E. representative John Jesse, director of assessments, gave a presentation about the new Common Core testing system created by the...
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Utah Parents Need to Attend the Common Core Test Presentation Meetings!
I’m posting an update for Utah parents who can and should attend the public meetings in their areas to pose questions about Common Core to the presenters from the Utah State Office of Education....
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Dear Utah State School Board
Feel free to use this letter if it helps. I sent it today. If others wish to add their voices to mine, the board’s email is : Board@schools.utah.gov. The Governor needs to hear from us, too. ——— Dear...
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USOE/Davis School District Meeting Today on Common Core – Please Come if You Can
Today from 4 to 6 PM District Office / Kendell Bldg (2nd Floor) 70 East 100 North in Farmington, Utah USOE to present Common Core Testing System to Public Please attend the Davis School District...
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U.S.O.E. Informational Meetings on Common Core Tests: Clueless on the Big Issues
Did you watch the Deseret News live feed of the Davis District meeting tonight? I had an “A-ha!” moment, as I again watched Judy Park of the Utah State Office of Education present information about the...
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Utah State Office of Education at Uintah School District: On Common Core Testing
Guest post by a parent who requested that his/her report would be anonymously published I attended the meeting held by Uintah School District last week. The meeting appeared to be a training on the new...
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BYU Math Professor David Wright on Common Core Math
This letter (posted at Utahns Against Common Core) is written by a BYU professor to help Utah legislators know the facts about Common Core math. Other important letters on this subject from other math...
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USOE Still Dodging Honest Debate, USOE Asking Teachers for Stories About...
The Utah State Office of Education sent out this email to state curriculum directors yesterday, labeling calls by teachers, senators and parents who ask for honest debate on the many constitutional,...
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No More Databases Tracking Our Kids Without Our Consent!
I want to share this most VITAL point recently articulated on the Utahns Against Common Core website by Utah parent Oak Norton: “We totally agree [with the State Office of Education] that we should...
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Dr. Stotsky Sets the Record Straight on English Language Arts 70/30% @ USOE
Is it logical to say that writing and literature will be effectively taught by all subject teachers? All teachers do not have adequate training in grammatical, literary and editing background teach...
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How Long Until Utah “Complies” With Federal Requests for Hundreds of Data...
Today I called Jerry Winkler, Utah Information Technology Director to ask questions about the federally paid-for State Longitudinal Database System. He was very gracious and I appreciated his...
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Fighting the Adoption of Common Core-aligned Science Standards and Textbooks
None of us have enough time to process, comprehend and then fight against all of the intrusions on our time and our God-given rights and liberty. But some things are more important than others. And...
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Dr. Gary Thompson on Common Core A.I.R. Testing
Dr. Gary Thompson is an African American Doctor of Clinical Psychology from Utah. He doesn’t mess around. He recently posted the following letter, which he wrote in response to the Common Core testing...
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Not Misinformed: We Know What It Is And We Reject It
If we remain bound to the Common Core stranglehold, it will be because a low-information citizenry passively buys the unsubstantiated claims of the proponents of Common Core without doing their own...
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Deseret News Op-Ed: We’re Not Misinformed; We Know What Common Core Is And We...
Hooray, Hooray! Today, the Deseret News published my op-ed. Here’s the link and the text: Utah state delegates officially disapproved Common Core when they passed the anti-common core resolution this...
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Response to UT School Board Member Dave Thomas on Common Core
http://utahpubliceducation.org/2013/07/10/sit-in-my-seat/#comment-97870 When I saw that a Utah State School Board member had taken the time to (sort of) answer my questions about Common Core, I was...
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Common Core Watch
In Utah, lawmakers and the Utah State School Board are hotly debating solutions to the problems created by the adoption of Common Core. I wanted to share this one, to the Utah School Board from...
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Even Salt Lake Police Will Root for Anti-Common Core Demonstration Friday at...
When Carie Valentine, a mother against Common Core, secured the proper permit yesterday to have a peaceful demonstration against Common Core this coming Friday, she also called the Salt Lake Police to...
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Does Opting Out Mean a Student is Labeled Nonproficient? Force-Feeding...
“A teacher shall consider students’ summative adaptive assessments in determining students’ academic grades for the appropriate courses and students’ advancement to the next grade level… Students not...
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The Federal Fist: No Formula Funding if States Reject Common Core
First, the federal government forces Americans to choose between giving our hard-earned educational tax dollars to them –or going to jail. Next, they promise to give back some of that money –so we can...
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Fighting With the Utah State Office of Education
http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/common-core-movie-building-the-machine-trailer/ I am impressed by the new Common Core movie trailer (that I shared yesterday) and I do hope it gets a...
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Open Letters: Dear State School Board Representative
Dixie Allen, my State School Board Representative ————————— Sharing a long string of emails between my State School Board representative and me, from this week and last. ————————— Christel- I hope that...
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USOE Curriculum Director Opposes Increased Parental Power in Curricular...
Utah parents, please take note: Diana Suddreth, a curriculum director at Utah’s State Office of Education, sent out this email today: ———————- From: Suddreth, Diana...
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UT Associate Superintendent Park Responds to Open Letter on Student Data Privacy
Yesterday, UT Associate Superintendent Judy Park responded to an open letter (posted below) that I sent a week ago. I had sent the letter to support St. George parents who want to opt children out of...
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Ann Florence: Utah English Teacher Stands Up for Real Teaching and is Shut...
“I am required to teach key reading comprehension strategies, the writing process, information-gathering skills, grammar, vocabulary, etc., etc. But I also hope to awaken a love of reading and...
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For Utah School Districts: A Common Core Fact-Checking Adventure
Let’s not call this research! This is a fact-checking adventure. This adventure begins because of the FAQ statements about Common Core posted at the Provo School District website. (See it on their...
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Utah Dads’ Open Letters on Common Core Math and Local Control
These two excellent letters are written by two Utah dads, Oak Norton and Jared Carman. If you would like to write to the state board, send an email to: board@schools.utah.gov -and if you would like to...
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Alan Singer on Pearson Ed: Why Pearson Tests Our Kids
Note to Utahns: Utah children are being tested by AIR, not by Pearson. So why post this article? It’s no secret that Utah, as well as the federal government, has heavily invested in...
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Dr. Gary Thompson: On the State Board of Education Meeting
Dr. Gary Thompson is a rock star. Despite his shy nature, he’s one of the loudest, smartest, funniest and most fearless fighters in the quest to protect children and to expose the widespread...
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Alpine School Board Members Speak Out For Student Privacy
Three remarkable Alpine School Board Members: Wendy Hart (front left) Brian Halladay (standing, middle) and Paula Hill (front, right) have written an open letter on student privacy, citing...
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Leaked Letter: Utah Teachers’ Evaluations (Pay) Will Depend On Common Core...
An email sent to schools by the Utah State Office of Education (USOE) this week was forwarded to me. It’s gross evidence of a gross circumstance. The USOE decided that teacher evaluations (read:...
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Dr. Gary Thompson: SAGE/Common Core Tests Break Basic Codes of Test Ethics
I sat in the Early Life Child Psychology and Education center this week, watching Dr. Gary Thompson’s presentation about Common Core testing, thinking that Dr. Thompson is the fearless kid in the tale,...
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Second Parent Member of Utah SAGE Test Review Committee Speaks Out
This is the second in a series of posts to be added by members of Utah’s Common Core SAGE test’s parent review board. Parent Molly Foster spoke out previously and is joined now by fellow mom Christine...
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Come Downtown Friday Morning
Come downtown Friday morning. If you are one of the thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands in Utah with grief and concern about the continuing takeover of student data...
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SAGE as Red Herring: Utah’s Stealth Assessment For Unrestrained Data Mining
Goodbye, recognizable tests; hello, ongoing stealth assessments. Using stealth rather than SAGE tests, states can cater to federal and corporate funders seeking metadata on children while appeasing...
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Reject Biased NGSS Science Standards May 6 in Provo
The Vernal and St. George science standards meetings have passed, but you can still attend the Provo, North Logan, and Salt Lake City meetings. The Utah State Office of Education (USOE) has set them...
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Open Letter from Alisa Ellis: USOE Deliberately Withholding Actual Science...
Alisa Ellis, parent member of Utah’s Science Standards Review Committee, is calling for an immediate stop to: 1- the USOE’s public comment survey –because USOE has only allowed the public and the...
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Utah State Office of Education Lies to Legislature and Board about National...
You can’t just watch this; you have to act: email your legislators and school board members and members of the media. One dog barking does not wake up a town. Ten thousand barking dogs will. This...
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Threatening Academic Freedom and Scientific Truth: Last Chance Public Meeting...
How Do the Common Core Science Standards Threaten Academic Freedom and Scientific Truth? (This information is provided by Vince Newmeyer, a scientist and member of Utah’s science standards review...
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USOE Letter Tells State Board All is Well, All is Well in Special Ed
Below are two letters. The first one is my response to the second, so you might want to skim the second one first. But the second one is written in the style that George Orwell warned us about– “like...
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Tucker, a Top Ten Scariest Ed Reformer, to Lecture at Legislator-USOE Conference
I’m surely sprouting new gray hairs at 80 miles per hour. If there was doubt about whether something was truly rotten in the state of education governance here in sweet, naiive Utah, this news should...
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2015 Update: US Congressman Schaffer on Marc Tucker’s “Dear Hillary” Letter
The following is authored by former US Congressman Bob Schaffer and is posted with his permission. In light of the fact that Marc Tucker has been invited to advise the Utah legislature on education at...
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Orwellian Reason Obama Said States Can “Stop Obsessing” About Tests
People throw around the word “Orwellian”. What does “Orwellian” mean, and how does it relate to education –and to our current president’s latest softening commentary about high stakes testing? George...
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Video: Board Member Wendy Hart on Why Common Science Standards Adoption is a...
Wendy Hart, a member of the school board in Alpine School District, Utah’s largest district, has taken a public stand against the Utah State Office of Education’s adoption of NGSS national “Science”...
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Please Audit Utah State Office of Education’s Public Comment Survey
After everything scientist and patriot Vince Newmeyer has written, after everything that people in other states have said and done (and sued about) concerning the INSANE error of adopting national,...
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Utah State School Board to Vote on Science: Effects on Local Control,...
In case there were not enough fires to put out for those who value academic freedom and local control of education, this week there’s another situation for Utah patriots to address that’s as important...
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Dr. Thompson to USOE: Stop Lying to Legislators; UCLA Never Validated SAGE Test
State School Board candidate Dr. Gary Thompson’s tooth-and-nail fight against the Utah State Office of Education, a fight for ethical student testing and protection of student data –a years-long,...
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