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The Common Core State Standards Studies

The Common Core State Standards Studies

    EPIC recently completed an alignment study on the Common Core State Standards. The study determines the extent of correspondence (alignment) between the exit level Common Core State Standards… Read more »

Higher Education Analysts Sound Caution on Obama Student Loan Relief Plan

Higher Education Analysts Sound Caution on Obama Student Loan Relief Plan

    by Jamaal Abdul-Alim – When President Obama touted his two-pronged student debt relief measure before thousands of students Wednesday at the Auraria Higher Education Campus in downtown Denver,… Read more »

Recent grads must face up to student loan debt

Recent grads must face up to student loan debt

With student loan debt making headlines, this is a reminder to spring graduates that you must start dealing with your debt before the six-month grace period runs out. Here’s the… Read more »

BREAKING: Homeland Security Adviser Allegedly Leaked Intel to Attack Rick Perry

BREAKING: Homeland Security Adviser Allegedly Leaked Intel to Attack Rick Perry

TX Dept. of Public Safety Director: “We know [Mohamed Elibiary] has accessed DPS documents and downloaded them.” Texas Department of Public Safety officials are asking questions following a report that… Read more »

Cobb school system contemplates largest redistricting in county history

Cobb school system contemplates largest redistricting in county history

    Parents and students in Cobb County soon will face a change of attendance boundaries as the school system contemplates the largest redistricting in its history. Two elementary schools… Read more »

Colleges start offering ‘midnight classes’ for offbeat needs

Colleges start offering ‘midnight classes’ for offbeat needs

    By Greg Toppo – It’s midnight. Do you know where your students are? Well, they’re in class. A handful of colleges across the USA are offering “midnight classes”… Read more »

Napolitano queried on lack of Fast and Furious probe

Napolitano queried on lack of Fast and Furious probe

Congressional Republicans are trying to expand the scope of questions over disastrous ATF gun-sting operation Fast and Furious to Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano, asking her why she never… Read more »

A primer on corporate school reform

A primer on corporate school reform

By Stan Karp “Corporate education reform” refers to a specific set of policy proposals currently driving education policy at the state and federal level. These proposals include: *increased test-based evaluation… Read more »

Finally unearthed: The stunning, toxic origins of Obamacare

Finally unearthed: The stunning, toxic origins of Obamacare

Legislation traced to Soros group, marketed by radicals NEW YORK – A book released this week documents for the first time the radical origins of President Obama’s health-care law, revealing… Read more »