These are the Common Core Weekend Reads for December 14, 2014.

This is a review of the past week of news on Common Core nationwide and in North Carolina.

Articles are organized by category.

Prior Edition of Weekend Reads: 12-7-14
Weekend Reads archive at StopCommonCoreNC HERE.

NC UPDATES:

The next ASRC meeting is this coming Monday, December 15th.

• “Career Education” Is The New “Career and College Ready”?
• NC Governor’s Video Has Your Spit-take Of The Week
• Reminder: ASRC Mtg Monday; Also ‘Weekend Reads’ New Home
• Why is NC still a member of SBAC?

APUSH UPDATES:

• Here are some really good suggestions for improving the teaching of U. S. History in our schools

QUOTES OF THE WEEK:

He was a “very, very conservative governor in Florida; he cut taxes like Ronald Reagan did,” said Dan Henninger.

Henninger added:

So if conservatives generally are going to say that if – because – he said something about, or supported Common Core, or they don’t like something he said about immigration, therefore, he can’t even consider being a nominee, then the Republican Party is going to have a big problem.
​- Breitbart News, WSJ: Conservatives Should Get Behind Super Conservative Jeb Bush

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Many teachers remain bitter over what they perceive as King’s mismanagement.

“He screwed up New York, and now he can go to Washington and screw up the whole country,” said Tony Felicio Jr., a teacher-union president in the Connetquot district.
– Newsday, State education commissioner tested by Common Core to leave NY

LEGISLATIVE/LEGAL:

• Heritage policy recommendations for NCLB Reauthorization
• Welcome to TotCare: Obama’s preschool takeover
• Fed Ed wants your tots
• Vitter’s Bill attempts to reduce Federal power
• Legislation Lets States Cut Ties Between Common Core and Federal Grants
• Arne Duncan’s Latest Education Power Grab from States
• Haslam wants to cut role of test scores in teacher evals
• 2015 Fed Ed Budget
• More Fed Budget Watch
• Wisconsin Lawmakers Discuss Common Core Opt-Out

 POLITICAL/PROTESTS:

• Preview of Common Core Battle in Florida Legislature
• Bobby Jindal: Common Core is a Bait and Switch
• House Speaker Appoints New ELA Work Group Member
• If teachers are judged by student test scores, how about state education leaders?

 HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES:

• Facebook Page: ‘Teach Stupid People About Common Core’
• “Me stupid parent. Me family live in cave. Me need Common Core save us. Unga bunga! Hahahahahahahaha!”

THE WEEKEND READS:

• NY’s Ed Commissioner King Allegedly To Become Duncan Staffer
• ​What Common Core Has Done to Massachusetts
• Another mathematician shares concerns over Common Core Math
• Jeopardy! kids and “Not Common Core Math” Category
• A Common Core Informational Text Candidate
• Data sharing among agencies is massive
• Common Core Aligned: Front Row Education
• ​Catholic Parents: Share this Anti-Common Core Letter​
• ​History Repeating?​
• Shimer College Doesn’t Give a S**t About what David Coleman Thinks?
• Tracking Your Child’s Data: Who Has it, Why is it Being Gathered, Where is it Going?
•  Where There’s Smoke, There’s Common Core
• ​The “Core” is “Ready”. Are you?​
• Common Core Promises
• Post Secondary Published CC Alignment

TESTING UPDATES:

• ​PARCC Testing Schedules for Fall 2014 and Spring 2015
• A Note on the Pearson Site About Louisiana, PARCC, and Data Recognition Corp
• A Note on the Pearson Site About Louisiana, and Details on the Official PARCC Contract
• Mom to Common Core task force: Take the 4th-grade PARCC practice test. I dare you to tell me it makes sense.
• More on John White’s 2015 PARCC Fraud
• “Faux-PARCC” Details from Louisiana’s Recently-approved NCLB Waiver Extension
• Pearson Holds All “PARCC-Consortium-Developed Items”
• Most Alabama Students Fall Short on Common-Core Test

WEEKEND VIDEOS:

• Watch This 100-Year-Old Teacher Explain Why She Really Hates Common Core

TWEETS OF THE WEEK:

Hope @DrJuneAtkinson is happy the way her #APUSH machinactions are playing out. #shameless http://t.co/KsoJDKVi7N pic.twitter.com/33XpWSgPiz

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) December 6, 2014

Thanks to Common Core there has been a jump in the amount of students now homeschooled. http://t.co/S0ImxnTTHW #tcot

— Accuracy In Media (@AccuracyInMedia) December 3, 2014

I’m certain that comparing homeschoolers to Dahmer will really generate sympathy for Common Core. #StopCommonCore pic.twitter.com/BU4zJoHU1N

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) December 10, 2014

What Arne Duncan says vs. what Arne Duncan does http://t.co/W6bPk33tww #StopCommonCore #StopArne

— Teri Sasseville (@TeriGRight) December 11, 2014

.@smarick From OK to IN to AZ to NY to TN @CCSSO members who favor bigger fed role dropping like flies #StopCommonCore

— Pioneer Institute (@PioneerBoston) December 12, 2014

You’ve got to be kidding. From Parents for Common Core. CCSS Supporters: weep. #stopcommoncore @LadyLiberty1885 pic.twitter.com/pTm8QZdEFu

— Logue (@manateespirit) December 13, 2014

@SOTHVNY @LadyLiberty1885 Yes, let’s make fun of a 7 year old cancer survivor. https://t.co/YOOhIYyPfX #stopcommoncore

— Logue (@manateespirit) December 13, 2014