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Quick Links / Overview:

New to "Common Core," introduced in NJ schools this September?  The best places to start are these short video introductions.

• Tennessee Student Ethan Young (5:21) - before Knox County School Board, TN.
• Wallbuilders Overview (23:35) - David Barton
• National Sexuality Educational Standards

• Opt-Out of Testing FORM & Instructions
  

• NJ Proposed Legislation: S2973 / A4403
  

• FIVE County Freeholder Boards oppose it
  

 This is scary stuff:

Overview Video Series - concerns:

      Part I (10:29) - Origins & Testing

     Part II  (8:13) - Education without Representation, Sub-standard "standards"

     Part III (4:22) - Intrusive Data Tracking

     Part IV (3:51) - National Standards Do More Harm Than Good

     Part V (5:30) - Where Will Common Core Take the Nation? 

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  The Official Common Core Website

  The Official PARCC Website

  StopCommonCore.com - national coordination

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American Principles Project videos

         with Kevin Kookogey

   Part I-1 (8:42) - Confronting the Common Core

   Part I-2 (6:06) - Confronting the Common Core

   Part II-1 (9:17) - Confronting the Common Core

   Part II-2 (12:43) - Q & A Session

  Why Common Core Must Be Stopped

Additional Resources

   TruthInAmericanEducation.com

       - The Common Core State Standards

   Stop Common Core - Links by State

   CURE-NJ on Facebook

           - Citizens United for Responsible Education / NJ

   Stop Common Core in NJ - Facebook

           - Stop Common Core in NJ

   Talking Points - pdf

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School Boards Resort to Force at first sign of dissent:

Gilford, NH -- Parent attends a crowded school board meeting May 5th to object to book that contains explicit sexual content - and GETS ARRESTED!  (Charges have since been dropped.)

• Link:  WMAU-TV video
  

• Link:  TheBLAZE.com story
  

• Link: Union Leader newspaper story
  

• Link: Laconia Daily Sun newspaper story
  

 Remember Robert Small's arrest 9/23/13 in Towson MD? 



What Is "Common Core"?

The "Common Core State Standards" and its affiliated "PARCC" testing standards (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) have been proposed by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers as a means to implement a single set of federal educational standards and testing across the 50 states.

You can read their statements here.

However, once the federal government made participation in Common Core a requirement to receive Race To The Top funding and more was learned about this effort, teachers, legislators, parents, churches and others began to raise serious questions about its real motives and benefits.

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Opinion

    Washington Times, 4/18/13

   Washington Post, Blogs, 2/26/13

   "Abolish All Local School Districts", WSJ 12/1/08

   Stop The Rush article - NY Daily News

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   The New American.com - Data Mining

  How they cornered Georgia's educational market

  Chart: Morna McDermott Financial Connections (pdf)

   Common Core Facts, by Sandra Stotsky (pdf)

   Common Core: many issues at stake (pdf)