These are the Common Core Weekend Reads for March 22, 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: 3-15-15

NC Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) Updates:

NC ASRC Site 
Next ASRC meeting:  April 20, 2015. 

NC UPDATES:

• VIDEO: NC Common Core March #ASRC Meeting (Updated)
• Stotsky and Milgram spoke frankly to NC Standards Commission
• NC ASRC Member Asks If Common Core Needs ‘Overhaul’. Answer Received Cheers and Applause. (Video)
• Three Outlets Report on ASRC Meeting; All Quote Angry Jere Confrey
• The Elephant in the CCSS Room
• Lt. Governor Forest Talks Common Core With Pete Kaliner
• Guest Post: A Rebuttal To Dr. Atkinson’s ‘State of Education’

QUOTES OF THE WEEK:

“My breaking point came with a math problem asking kids to combine Grover Cleveland’s electoral votes won in 1884, 1888 and 1892, a sum that would mean nothing to even the most obsessive presidential historian.

The publisher of that workbook, Pearson, also holds the state contract to design the tests , leading schools to adopt its workbooks to get a hoped-for edge .”
– NY Daily News, A mother’s Common Core breaking point: Why Cuomo is failing parents’ test

LEGISLATIVE/LEGAL:

• Kansas House committee rejects anti-Common Core measure
• Common Core ELA 6-12 Standards Minority Report to be Written in Missouri as Political Appointees Leave the Autocratic Workgroup
• Nevada Legislature to Consider Anti-Common Core Bills
• New York Legislature Considering Common Core Parent Refusal Act
• Montana Lawmakers consider repealing Common Core Standards
• Maryland Lawmakers want review of Common Core Testing
• Arkansas effort to end Common Core-linked test fails
• ​Why parents are suing to end school failure​

POLITICAL/PROTESTS:

• Hundreds Rally Against Common Core
• Jeb Bush, Common Core cronie$, Pearson, PARCC, and your kids’ privacy
• Jeb Bush Doubles Down on Common Core, Ignores Grassroots ‘Critical Thinking’
• Ted Cruz in New Hampshire: We Should Repeal Every Word of Common Core
• Arne Duncan Insists High Standards Don’t Have to be Common Core

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES:

• Public School Will Be Data Tracking Parental Conversations With Young Children
• A Common Core Test Was So Confusing, a Teacher Testifies Through Tears Over Student Harming Himself 
• Flashback: It begins, Common Core Syndrome
• What Common Core Has Going For It

THE WEEKEND READS:

• Common Core Claims of High Quality Not Valid
• Malkin’s Interview with Glenn Beck on Common Core, Pearson, Bush
• Who are the Villains: Pearson or the Politicians/Bureaucrats Who Gave Pearson the Educational Power?
• Pearson and Its Palm Scan (and More)
• Pearson Is Everywhere: The ‘Turn Around’ Schools Program
• Pearson Is Everywhere: The “Boss” App
• Pearson Is Everywhere: Raptor Technologies
• Pearson Is Everywhere: Defending Spying On Students Edition
• Challenge For Consortia PR To Keep Ahead of Public Backlash
• When it comes to social media monitoring by schools, the current landscape is very muddy
• Sic ’em Saturday: Education Freedom (NC)
• Officials vow to us or to CCSS?
• ‘Teachers will lose their minds’: Anti-Common Core movement adds uncertainty to education reform efforts
• Principal: How Common Core testing hurts disadvantaged students
• ​CCSS Workforce Pushing Labor Reform
• ROI on STEM degrees vs. Dr. Zimba’s Common Core
• ​The Barbarians are already inside the classroom walls​
• Girls May Be The Ones To Suffer Most Under Common Core Math

TESTING UPDATES:

• ​RI Teacher Suspended for Discussing Opt Out, Students Demand his Return​
• PARCC Consortium Protects Pearson Using “Best Practices” Co-authored by Testing “Nonprofit”
• PARCC’s Lately-Published “Test Fairness and Security” Statement
• Smarter Balanced and On-Line Monitoring of Students. Did it Learn Anything from the Pearson/New Jersey Incident?
• Revolt against high-stakes standardized testing growing — and so does its impact
• Forget Test Scores: Let’s Rank Those PARCC States Now
• SBAC Math Test Not Immune To Problems Either
• Smarter Balanced Monitors Student Social Media
• ​PARCC’s Fatal Design Flaw
• ​NYS Corrupt Common Core Scores​
• Common Core means three tests in three years for Michigan kids
• Common Core in California: Homeschooling and standardized testing

VIDEO OF THE WEEK:

• Alisa Ellis: Fighting Common Core in Utah (Video)
• G.E.R.M. – Global Education Reform Movement (Video)​

TWEETS OF THE WEEK:

@TruthinAmEd @EDactivistNH @LadyLiberty1885 CC Adaptive tests =>Behavior Modification =>Operant Conditioning rats. https://t.co/RfM0ayIRGv

— Ian (@JR767RDU) March 20, 2015

Why Our Children Don’t Think There Are Moral Facts – http://t.co/7nb3GFwBjl http://t.co/keUiZWjctl #stopcommoncore @manateespirit

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) March 20, 2015

Computer attack during Common Core #PARCC test delays some exams in Colorado Springs school district http://t.co/YeJEXFMt12 #stopcommoncore

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) March 20, 2015

http://t.co/9s2q18NpYH Jeb Bush Foundation’s #CommonCore Mega-Donor Admits Spying On Students #StopCommonCore #Rottentothecore #tcot

— NC Beagle Watchdog (@katys) March 19, 2015

Heartwrenching Video: Mother Compares Common Core to Her Abusive Marriage http://t.co/wwgPlAEU5w cc @LadyLiberty1885 #StopCommonCore

— ZillaStevenson (@ZillaStevenson) March 17, 2015

Live Tweet Timeline from the NC Common Core #ASRC Meeting – 3/16/15 https://t.co/CNZpfEhBeG #stopcommoncore #nced

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) March 17, 2015