The Common Core State Standards, since their adoption in 2011, have been an expensive and harmful experiment that threatens Maine’s…
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Last week, Governor Paul LePage delivered a letter to the 127th Legislature vetoing LD 1492, “An Act To Establish a…
Every state in the country that has claimed to have “repealed” the Common Core Standards has in fact done no…
Growing up within the public school system, I dreaded the days or weeks when we had standardized tests. Sitting and…
I graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in mathematics not knowing what my next move would be.…
The push to rid Maine of the controversial Common Core State Standards suffered a setback on Monday, as the Legislature’s…
No two children are alike—so why must we insist upon educating them like they are? Common Core isn’t necessarily a…
It was with reserved optimism that I accepted a post on the Standards Review Panel. I was informed that this…
By No Common Core Maine — The chair of Maine’s State Board of Education, Peter Geiger, wrote recently (see here)…
AUGUSTA – Maine teachers are growing frustrated with the Common Core State Standards, a controversial educational reform that has quietly…
Watch Dr. Sandra Stotsky break down the Common Core State Standards at Saco City Hall on Oct. 2. Stotsky served…
A crowd of parents, grandparents and taxpayers from the Saco-Biddeford area gathered at Saco City Hall on Wednesday evening to…
By Pat Murray In 2007 I began to research elementary math programs because my son, a second grader at the…