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President Obama's imminent indoctrination of the nation's schoolchildren, there's an education story bubbling up in Texas that could have considerably more far-reaching consequences.,,,Approved textbooks, the standards say, must teach the Texan student to "identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly, and the Moral Majority." No analogous liberal figures or groups are required, prompting protests from some legislators and committee members. (Read an excerpt here.)

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Ohanian:Take a look at CCSSO's corporate partners. Even I am shocked. No subtlety here. Their Corporate Partner of the Month is Data Recognition Corporation.

Of course the National Governors Association doesn't have clean hands. Here is their list of "Corporate Fellows." There's a picture of Microsoft officials getting an award at the 2009 winter meeting.

We MUST fight this. For the sake of the students. For the sake of our profession.
Out in the streets!

I'm marching in the 4th of July parade tomorrow, wearing this sandwich board. I will also wear it in my solitary vigil in the popular Church Street Marketplace in Burlington.

NOTE: Christopher Sopher was a field organizer for Obama's Organizing for America campaign. In 2008, Christopher worked full-time for Obama for America, first as a press intern in Chicago and later as a staffer in Maine. Now he's an intern at American Prospect.

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Ohanian Comment: This, of course, comes as no surprise. You can keep track of this group at http://www.corestandards.org/.

You may look at this list of names, recognize someone's name whose work you admire, and feel a sense of relief.

That's a mistake. No good will come of this and we should fight it with ever sense of our being.

I sit here with tears streaming down my face. I think this marks the end of public schools as we know them. And instead of protesting, our professional organizations are joining in.

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"Having real high standards is important, but behind that, I think in this country we have too many bad tests," Duncan said. "If we're going to have world-class international standards, we need to have world-class evaluations behind them."

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In the fight against childhood obesity, getting kids moving is one of the most effective ways to combat the problem. But only Illinois and Massachusetts require P.E. classes for all kids in kindergarten through 12th grade. And, as Eberhart's example shows, even those requirements sometimes are not enough.

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So there you have it: Three of the most influential education leaders in the country, all supporters of national standards, but all raising their eyebrows at the current state and testing-industry-led effort to get there.

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they say, a regulated exchange would eliminate flexibility. Mark Lenczowski is a managing director at JPMorgan Chase.

MARK LENCZOWSKI: We think it would be a mistake to impose that kind of a one size fits all requirement on our economy.

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On the eve of the 21st century, the struggle for the curriculum--being played out in the setting of state academic standards and measures for holding schools, teachers, and students accountable for meeting them--is no less fractious. Scholars, administrators, teachers, and parents are all bidding to leave their imprint. But in the span of a hundred years, much of the control over what is taught has shifted from the schoolhouse to the statehouse--an often turbulent transition made reluctantly and grudgingly. State leaders, more than ever, are at the helm, still trying to fulfill the hope and promise for public education their counterparts were striving for a century ago.

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by Maria Glod - "If you agree to common standards but you don't agree to tests, it's like buying a car without a motor," said Jack Jennings, president of the D.C.-based Center on Education Policy. "It's buying the outside without getting the thing to work."

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We forget that the American economy lived off the ingenuity of “ordinary” people, including many with limited or no formal educations, and not just “the best and brightest.” They sometimes saw themselves as anti-intellectuals—because we mistakenly created a false divide. Too many so-called intellectuals missed the connection between hand and eye and brain—not to mention ear, feet, and stomach! Americans turned their “ordinary” fascination with the world of work into hobbies and into finding new ways to do old things and old ways to do new things as well. They produced actual goods and products—good decently paid work was a source of pride.

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It's all about yardsticks

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Lately, especially here in Alaska, we've been putting both groups on the same playing field and saying "play ball." You wind up with the phenomenon of tackle basketball, during which each team is accusing the other of playing unfairly, incompetently, or simply stupidly. You think these people are incompetent, backward -- well, you could make a long list of negatives there, because when you're playing the game of life as you understand it and you meet these other guys who you think are playing the same game, and they're cheating -- they're knocking you over -- then you get the sense that they either don't know how or won't play fair.

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AK monitoring NGA & CCSSO's Common Core Standards dvpmt w/states.Must stabilize core before taking on new programs. http://tinyurl.com/kqougo 2:14 PM Jun 1st AKGovSarahPalin

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If you cannot cut taxes, and you will not make a dent on entitlements, then the next big ticket item is defense. My view is that a successful future Republicanism will begin to urge a dismantling of the empire and a limiting of the war on terror just as it will do in the war on drugs. This doesn't mean isolationism; it means a much more sober view of what a bankrupt America can do effectively to advance its real interests in the world

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a progressive blogger who thinks national standards are a good idea

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"The standards are not the education problem we face," the governor said. "The major challenges are persistently low achievement among some students and low graduation rate. Now is the time for the state and school districts to work together to improve instruction and student achievement."\n\nTo that end, in this past legislative session the administration proposed and the legislature funded a pilot program to improve young children's readiness for school and an initiative to help struggling school districts build a sustainable capacity to serve their students.\n\n

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