These are the Common Core Weekend Reads for January 18th, 2015.

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: 1-11-15

NC UPDATES:

• 1-16-15 NC Common Core Commission Meeting
• Common core review commission worried that keeping standards would violate copyright law
• CCSSO Pres. Atkinson Calls Standards Copyright Questions “Preposterous”
• Sen. Barefoot Receives Key Education Related Appointments
• What they’re saying about Common Core and Education in NC
• NC #ASRC Handout has Author Missing
• Holshouser Legislators Retreat 2015
• January NC Textbook Commission Meeting
• Common Core replacement co-chairs offer different visions about their mission 

QUOTES OF THE WEEK:

​”​And speaking of what is best for our students, I call on the members of the state Legislature to pass legislation making it crystal clear that no school district in the state is required to use Common Core standards.   Going forward, I want to eliminate any requirement to use Common Core.
​- Truth In American Education, Common Core in Scott Walker’s State of the State

“I also want them to make it perfectly clear in the statutes that school districts do not have to use common core, and that we take it a step further and we work with the legislature to make sure there aren’t things like the Smarter Balanced test going forward that require the schools to use the Common Core,” said Walker.
– FOX11 Online, Walker Reiterates His Plan To Repeal Common Core

LEGISLATIVE/LEGAL:

• Re-authorization of ESEA Threatens to Cement In Testing
• Will You Help? <– National Level Action Item
• Important legal discussion – Common Core podcast
• CO Legislature’s Bill Would “repeal current academic standards…”
• New Hampshire Bill to Allow Common Core Opt-Out Related: SB101
• IN Sen. Mike Delph Proposes Ditching New Academic Standards for 2006 Version
• State Board of Education Considers Rules for State Longitudinal Data System
• Integrated or traditional math? Ga. to let districts decide

POLITICAL/PROTESTS:

• GA Governor’s State of The State Address Calls For Study Commission
• Senator Rand Paul blasts Common Core education program in New Hampshire swing
• Marco Rubio: ‘Very Concerned’ Feds Could Use Common Core to Impose Restrictions on Schools
• ​WSJ Editorial Ignores ‘Conservative Contender’ Mike Pence’s Common Core Problem​
• Ten Moments In Duncan’s ESEA Speech
• Holshouser Legislators Retreat 2015
• Mississippi Rally AGAINST Common Core

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES:

• Nevada: More Misinformation & Mayhem from the Common Core Cabal. The Wild Wild West of Spin. **Updated With Video**
• Fallout from Nevada Common Core Debate
• Is there a Problem With Sandra Stotsky’s Qualifications to Criticize Common Core
• Who is Robert Pondiscio and What Does He Think About the Questioning of Common Core?
• CCSSO Pres. Atkinson Calls Standards Copyright Questions “Preposterous”
  Related: More questions on the copyright
  Related: What does that Common Core Copyright mean?

THE WEEKEND READS:

• Parents fear losing recess after Common Core rolled out​
• Another Education “non-profit” in NC: Education NC
• Report: Requiring kindergartners to read — as Common Core does — may harm some
• What Common Core wants kindergartners to do: Read, write, do geometry
• New Common Core Report Finds Curriculum ‘Demoralizing,’ Fails to Understand How Kindergartners Learn
• Imagine the Data Set on a “Devil Child”
• Assessments Data Mining, CCSS Style
• ‘Policymakers need to make sharing student-level data mandatory’
• Parents, Have You Taken Your Common Core Class?
• Empty Curriculum
• K-12 Education settles for Empty Curriculum
• Aligned Work. Thanks, CCSS.
• Common Core Aligned: Getting Smart
• Amping Up The Common Core 
• Gates Funded Start Up’s Director Is Tarheel Of The Week
• The Common-Core Standards’ Undemocratic Push
• It’s 2015 and Common Core still a bad idea for Alabama
• Common Core Implementation Will Prove Costly Error For California

TESTING UPDATES:

• Mississippi Pulls Out Of PARCC
• Chicago school district refuses to give PARCC Common Core test as mandated by the state of Illinois
• Arne Duncan: Scrap No Child Left Behind, Keep the Tests
• What Duncan Got Wrong About Testing
• CCSSO President Questions Testing For Homeschoolers
• CCSSO President’s Homeschool Tweet Sees Backlash
• Want your kids to opt out of standardized tests? The Constitution may be with you.
• AFT Endorses Maintaining Fed Requirement of Statewide Tests
• AFT, WTF?
• CASE 21 Tests In NC
• Testing as target acquisition

VIDEO OF THE WEEK:

• Sneak Peek: Building the Machine Part II: The Parent Interviews
• Nevada Legislature Common Core Symposium 1-13-15
• Emmett McGroarty on Federalism and Common Core

TWEETS OF THE WEEK:

Watch for answer by NDE @ 1:29:50 #specialed SHAMEFUL http://t.co/O9jFD7XHEf #stopcommoncore LISTEN TO MILGRAM’S RESPONSE @LadyLiberty1885

— Logue (@manateespirit) January 16, 2015

#StopCommonCore pic.twitter.com/TgfBfTkl8y

— Cora Brush (@CoraBrush1) January 14, 2015

ICYMI 10/2014 -Look who’s data-mining your toddlers –BOTH parties, Big Biz/Big Govt complicit http://t.co/yUP6rusxQz #StopCommonCore

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) January 14, 2015

Common Core Means Teachers Can’t Do What’s Best for Their Students http://t.co/BwUOY3A3kj via @cafedotcom #StopCommonCore

— BaconLovingCrusader (@ZillaStevenson) January 13, 2015

SHOT: https://t.co/ize6fy9NJw CHASER: http://t.co/ziddJk5AwB #OptOut #StopCommonCore #NCLB

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) January 13, 2015

Common Core and Testing Concerns… A Letter to My Principal http://t.co/6tjGOsAwHB #stopcommoncore pic.twitter.com/TUwEtbImBP

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) January 13, 2015

@EducationNC How are you different from every other “non-profit” for education in NC funded by SAS, Goodnight, ZSmith? #ncpol #nced

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) January 12, 2015