Stop Common Core!

"Like locally grown apples, the core should be local and exceptional, not common."
Quoted from 
 http://stopcommoncorewa.wordpress.com/

What is Common Core?

http://commoncorefacts.blogspot.com/

An Arkansas Woman Testifies of Problems With "Common Core"
Math via "Common Core" is quite unusual :

 http://stopcommoncorewa.wordpress.com/

Research Common Core!  
This Teacher Did Her Homework, will you?

English in the Common Core Curriculum

Begin your research by exploring what it is like in a Common Core Classroon"

Common Core Middle School Language Arts Class:
(about 6 minutes)

Common Core Reading with Tim Bedley

A "read aloud" with his 4th and 5th Grade Common Core Elementary Classroom   

The book is Junkyard Wonders by Patricia Polacco

(about 23 min)

One Problem Math Class with Tim Bedley
Grade 4/5
(Short 23  min. version)

Here's the "problem" the children are to solve in this video:

Write several different types of equations for 2.4. 

Draw some different types of pictures to represent 2.4. 

Is 2.4 the same thing as the quotient 2 remainder 4? Why or why not?

High School Common Core 
(1 minute Common Core Promotional Video)

Detailed and related video also from The Teaching Channel :   (about 7 minutes)
 "Reading Like a Historian: Philosophical Chairs"
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/reading-like-a-historian-taking-positions

Homeschool Legal Defense Association and Common Core Issues
Lots of Videos @  https://www.hslda.org/commoncore/Video.aspx
HSLDA is in the fight against Common Core because they believe it will harm homeschoolers.

Is Common Core developmentally appropriate for children?
(25 minutes, Sept. 18, 2013)
Dr. Megan Koschnick, child clinical psychologist says, (Emphatically) "No."  She also expresses her concern over the lack of research regarding Common Core.