FORUM: STOP COMMON CORE IN LOUISIANA Feb.20th at 6:00 PM at the Crossfire Auditorium BR

Panel Guest:  

Dr. James Milgram: Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, 

Dr. Sandra Stotsky: Professor of Education, University of Arkansas  

(Both Dr. Milgram and Stotsky were members of the Validation Committee for the Common Core State Standards Initiative) 

Common Core’s English language arts standards won’t lead to college readiness:  Common Core’s “college readiness” standards for ELA are chiefly empty skill sets and cannot lead to even a meaningful high school diploma.

We hear no proponents or endorsers of Common Core’s standards warning this country about the effects of the college-readiness level in Common Core’s mathematics standards on postsecondary and post-baccalaureate academic and professional programs. We hear no proponents or endorsers of Common Core’s standards advising district superintendents and state education policy makers on the kind of mathematics curriculum and courses they need to make available in our secondary schools if our undergraduate engineering colleges are to enroll American students.

At this time we can only conclude that a gigantic fraud has been perpetrated on this country, in particular on parents in this country, by those developing, promoting, or endorsing Common Core’s standards. We have no illusion that the college-readiness level in ELA will be any more demanding than Common Core’s college-readiness level in mathematics.” – Sept. 2013 paper: Can This Country Survive Common Core’s College Readiness Level? by R. James Milgram and Sandra Stotsky

James Stergios, Executive Director of PioneerInstitute, highlights the numerous conflicts of interest that have riddled advocates of the Common Core.  

Jane Robbins, Senior Fellow for AmericanPrinciplesProject, Jane discusses the Common Core Standards, looking at their origins, the federal and private interests behind their creation, and the threat they represent to parents’ and teachers’ voice in what their children are learning.

Emmett McGroarty, Executive Director of the Preserve Innocence Initiative at the AmericanPrinciplesProject, speaks about the national effort to stop Common Core.

Dr. Terrence Moore, Professor of history at Hillsdale College, "Literature is the study of human nature. If we dissect it in this meaningless way, kids not only do not become college and career ready, they don’t even have a love of learning; they don’t even have an understanding of their fellow men… The thing that bothers me more than anything else is found on page number one of the introduction. That says that Common Core is a living work. That means that the thing that you vote on today could be something different tomorrow, and five years from now it is completely unrecognizable"