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Video: Florida Senators Lee and Hayes: Why They are Done With Common Core...
Florida’s Senators Tom Lee and Alan Hayes This week in Florida, senators are speaking up against the Common Core testing and “accountability” systems. In the video below, Florida’s Senator Lee’s...
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Ten Reasons To Opt Out of Common Core/SAGE Testing
1. THE TESTS HAVE NEVER BEEN VALIDATED. It is out of the norm for tests to be given to children that never have been validated in a formal, scientific, peer-reviewed way. Professor Tienken of...
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Detailed Schedule: Band of Mothers Event at UVU this Wednesday, May 13
The Band of Mothers Tour proudly presents the “Empowering Parents Symposium,” convening to present freedom’s true fight for children this Wednesday, May 13th, at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah....
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New York Teacher: “Bald Piano Guy” Plays Now-Viral Billy Joel Anti-Common...
“Bald Piano Guy” is a New York teacher who sings “Opting Out” to the tune of Billy Joel’s “Moving Out,” and sings “Seen Them Opting Out on Broadway” to the tune of “Seen the Lights go out on Broadway”....
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U.S. Senator David Vitters’ Privacy Bill in Congress Can Protect Student Data
Ever since that dark day three years ago when I received a written response from the State Office of Education saying that the answer to my question was “No,” –NO to the question of whether a student...
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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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Stanley Kurtz: Drilling Through the Core
I can’t wait to read Drilling Through the Core. I’m sharing this brand new book before reading it myself, because I know these authors and I’ve read their work, making it a must-read for me. You can...
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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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You Shall Not Pass: Utah Senator Mike Lee Isn’t Fooled by No Child Left...
Legendary US Dept of Education whistleblower Charlotte Iserbyt has pointed out at her blog, ABCs of Dumbdown, that some members of Congress are deliberately concealing machinations of No Child Left...
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Utah Rep Jason Chaffetz on Dept. of Ed Data Mining: “It has become an...
Parents and Educators Against Common Core Standards posted the following incredibly important video of this week’s “Information Security Review” of the US Department of Education which was led by Utah...
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SENATOR MIKE LEE: HOW SENATOR ALEXANDER’S ESEA/NCLB IS TO BE RAMMED DOWN...
Even if you had time to read the final version of the new ESEA bill which will get released days from now –which you won’t, because you’ll be eating turkey– and even if you agreed with every word...
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VIDEO: Why the American People Must #STOPESEA
ESEA, a huge bill about data and federal roles in local education, is being rammed through in the dark. The vote is in a week and there’s no access to the final bill yet. Senator Lee is right. This...
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Open Letter to Senator Mike Lee from Charlotte Iserbyt: #STOPESEA
Former U.S. Department of Education Senior Policy Advisor Charlotte Iserbyt, patriot, whistleblower, and author of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, has written an open letter to Senator Mike...
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Michelle Malkin’s #STOPESEA VIDEO
Michelle Malkin’s #STOPESEA video is available on her public Facebook page; click here to view. It was posted 18 hours ago and already has over 120,000 views. I hope each viewer called D.C....
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VIDEO: Jakell Sullivan on Building Something Better (ABE Conference)
At this year’s Agency Based Education (ABE) conference, one speaker, Jakell Sullivan, presented the following remarkable research. Please watch and share. Oak Norton, founder of ABE, shared this...
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Utah and Oklahoma Moms Chat About Data Mining Children Without Our Consent
Moms Alyson Williams, Jenni White, Alisa Ellis and Christel Swasey, of Utah and Oklahoma, chat in a Google Hangout about their concerns and experiences with government data mining children without...
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Inspiration From Houston’s #AboutTheChild Conference
At the #AboutTheChild conference in Houston last week, B&L Network speakers said that even in the middle of a struggle we might seem to be losing, we have great power and great hope. Although...
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“User Profiling” by Department of Ed #StopSETRA
Buried deep in a 2012 report on “Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics,” the US Department of Education states that one of the key applications of educational data mining is “user profiling”...
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PARENTAL RIGHTS ON THE LINE: Come at 4:00 Today – Capitol Building: HB164 and...
With my stomach in knots at two sickening bills that are poised to be slammed through today, I will go (hopefully alongside very many other moms and dads and teachers like me, along with our children)...
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Video: Michelle Malkin Roasts Common Core-Based GOP at CPAC Speech
Watch this! At minute 2:30, Malkin starts in on Common Core. “It’s not people outside the party that have thrown the conservative, grassroots base under the bus. It’s the people who have paid lip...
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Updated: Protect Children’s Privacy: UT Legislature MUST Support HB0358
Update 3/10/16: Utah’s legislative session has passed, but HB 358, the student privacy bill, has not been funded. And so we are stuck, at least for another year, without proper protections for our...
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HB 358: Protecting Student Privacy Rights in Utah
Student privacy rights are improving in Utah! Utah HB 358 passed and was funded this legislative session. This is very happy news for many who have been extremely concerned about the lack of proper...
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#STOPSETRA – Congress! Protect the Psychological Privacy of Children
Here’s a must-read, new article at Townhall.com (here) by Emmett McGroarty and Jane Robbins, “Why Does Your Congressman Want to Psychologically Profile Your Children?” The article begins: “If the...
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Miracles Do Happen: Governor and Chair of Common Core Organization (NGA)...
Governor Herbert surprised a lot of people this week, including me. After spending the past six years promoting, marketing, and providing workforce alignment strategies to serve Common Core, and after...
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Video: Dr. Gary Thompson For Utah State School Board: The Dirty Dozen
In case you missed the rally speeches and missed the Fox News report, here begins a series of posts featuring the speakers at this week’s rally at the state capitol, where Utah voters had the...
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Common Core’s National Curriculum Has Arrived: “Learning Registry,” OER, and...
Jane Robbins and Jakell Sullivan co-authored this article at Townhall.com, which is reposted here with permission. Please note the links to learn more. In May 2014, conservative columnist George...
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The Enemy Inside: How #GoOpen, The Federal Learning Registry, and the U.S....
Recently, a friend mentioned that she was happy that Common Core was finally gone, and that we could finally look toward something better. Why did she think the Common Core Initiative was over? It’s...
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Common Core’s Role in Hot State School Board Race
Senate President Niederhauser and House Speaker Hughes The State School Board race has never drawn much attention before. But this year, the Salt Lake Tribune reported, businesses and even top-tier...
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Testify Now.
The purpose of this post is to ask you to testify this week to the newly created White House Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking (CEP)– either online or in person— against CEP’s idea of...
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Three Anti-Common Core State School Board Members Elected in Utah Last Night
Miracles do happen. Utah’s liberty-loving, anti-common core community did a lot of happy dancing last night when candidates Alisa Ellis, Michelle Boulter and Lisa Cummins won three seats on the state...
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Zeide: On Ethics in Common Data Standards and Competency-Based Ed
Watch the last ten minutes, at least. Zeide is a scholar and a lawyer, not an activist for student privacy. She lays out the pros and cons of Competency Based Education with probing ethical questions....
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Trump won. Now what?? -by Emily Talmage
This must-read article is partially reposted from Emily Talmage’s blog (Maine mom against common core). I think my favorite part is the video clip at the end, depicting a real cat and a real...
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Who’s Trump Pick for Education?
I agree with Joy Pullman: “I shouldn’t have to give a flying fig about whom Donald Trump picks for this position.” But we care, and the figs are flying, because there’s so much power unconstitutionally...
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What’s Competency Based Education?
Alyson Williams, who worked in data management for the publishing industry, a mother who has written and spoken much about education and data reforms over the past several years, has just given a...
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UT Lawsuit Puts Spotlight on 750,000 Stolen Records of Students and Families
Judith Pinborough-Zimmerman A news bomb about the theft of student data exploded in Utah’s Deseret News last July, but nobody noticed, apparently. The article’s headline — “Wrongful Termination Lawsuit...
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Feds’ Comment on Children’s Privacy: “Ripping the Band-aid Would Probably Not...
I am so annoyed. Those words actually came out of the mouth of the CEP Commission leader: “Ripping the Band-Aid (of data privacy and control) probably would not fly.” But pulling it off using (in his...
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Who Defines Truth? Fed Center to Assume Role Under New NDAA Law
America, stand up and start reading. Back in the spring, there was a bill called the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016. It didn’t pass then, but its intent, just this month, did, buried...
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Chicken Thieves and Data Thieves: What’s Up with CEP?
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck stole chickens. Huck’s father had taught him how to stomach chicken theft. That reminds me of the way the federal CEP (Commission on Evidence Based...
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Questions for Congressional Betsy DeVos Hearing: Letter from Grassroots...
Nationwide Coalition letter linked at Florida’s Stop Common Core Coalition here. January 9, 2017 Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee 428 Senate Dirksen Office Building, Washington,...
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Deadline tonight: Federal Comment-Gathering on Data Mining the Emotions of...
The Federal Register is collecting comments on and International Early Learning Study (IELS) that’s scheduled to be conducted next year. The deadline for these comments is midnight tonight, February...
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#StopCommonCore Mom Sheri Few Runs for U.S. Congress for South Carolina
It isn’t every day that one of the original #StopCommonCore moms runs for U.S. Congress. America, please support this mom; if every one who read this donated even five or ten dollars, that would buy...
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GSV ASU Summit in Salt Lake City in May: Is This Really About Abolishing...
According to its vision document entitled “American Revolution 2.0”, the pro-Common Core investment group GSV Advisors is plotting a lucrative U.S. “revolution” (GSV’s own words) that will include...
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Student Data Privacy Toolkit Available Now
Free to use and share: the Student Data Privacy Toolkit has arrived! If you’re wondering why it matters, read on. ———————————– ————————————- —————————————– Is anyone honestly opposed to having...
View ArticlePlease Call to Stop Student Privacy-Torching Bills Now
It’s a good day to call Congress. It’s a good week to call repeatedly. I hope thousands will pick up their phones to call (202-224-3121) to halt the student/citizen privacy-torching bills that are now...
View ArticleAmerica, Learn from Rwanda and Jamaica – the Price of the Loss of Privacy
National I.D. cards in Rwanda, like the one above, (see PreventGenocide.org) cost hundreds of thousands of innocent people to lose their lives in 1994, since certain tribal affiliation was cause...
View ArticleVideo: Jane Robbins’ Testimony to Congress: On Consent and Student Data Privacy
On January 30, 2018, Jane Robbins, a lawyer with the American Principles Project, testified to Congress’s House Education and Workforce Committee. She strongly opposed the recommendations of the...
View ArticleUT Senate Passes Ed-Dictatorship Bill; Will House Agree?
Update 3/8/16 – Friends in Ohio and Florida have confirmed that this exact bill (elimination of elected school boards) is being pushed there. Watch the “greedom-over-freedom” ed-tech lobbies, such as...
View ArticleUSBA Joins USDOE in Trying to Take Away Families’ Freedom to #OPTOUT: Common...
Educational freedom needs defending. Children need defending. Parental rights need defending. As its new legislative priority, the USBA lobby has set this bullying doozy: forcing all students to...
View ArticlePlead for President Trump to Veto HR 4174
Even though Americans cannot call the White House today (the answering machine says it’s due to the shutdown) we can tweet @POTUS @WhiteHouse @RealDonaldTrump —or send an email. (Scroll to the bottom...
View ArticlePrivacy-Crushing FEPA Bill #HR4174: 10 Nitty Gritty Facts You Missed #VETO !
History itself must be holding its breath to see what happens next. H.R. 4174, Foundations of Evidence-Based Policy, a bad bill for liberty and privacy, awaits President Trump’s signature –or his...
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