THE RISE AND FALL OF COMMON CORE IN OKLAHOMA

In the fall of 2014, Oklahoma City University Law Review published a paper on Common Core in Oklahoma and the history of Federal Government involvement in education. On the first page the author acknowledges Linda Murphy as a leader in the opposition to Common Core State Standards which led to their repeal from law in …

U.S. HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE- information collected and shared

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce invited Jane Robbins of the American Principles Project Foundation to speak, on January 30, 2018, about the Foundation's concerns regarding the collection, use for forecasting student and economic outcomes, sharing, longitudinal study and long-term storage of individual students' private information.  This government collection of …

Has Technology-delivered Teaching Taken over Your School?

Is your school’s education program totally delivered through technology or is it delivered by both technology and teachers in what is called “blended learning?” This change to reliance on technology delivery is actually all about money.... lots of money flowing to people pushing the model. Other supporters have gotten caught in the marketing rhetoric that …

Trump wants to STOP Common Core! Oklahoma is still fighting to STOP it.

Speaking in Los Angeles yesterday, 4-4-2017, President Donald Trump said "I like the fact of getting rid of Common Core. Common Core to me, we have to end it," Trump said. "We have to bring education local." Today I see a flurry of backlash from the naysayers, doubters and weary supporters who think Trump can …

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION –IT’S TIME TO KILL IT

(Picture -- U.S. Department of Education = Federally Mandated Yearly Tests; Teaching to the Tests; Psychological Profiling; Data Mining; Race to the Top – Common Core; Baby Common Core National Standards; Sec. of  Ed. Controls State Plans; Parent Replacement Centers- Community Schools –Thanks to Dr. Karen Effrem @ http://www.edlibertywatch.org ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If we have ever …

Trump’s Education Agenda & Problems with Betsy DeVos

Donald Trump’s appointees “signed up for Trump’s agenda”, Mike Pence, VP elect on Sunday morning “This Week” 12-4-16 Betsy DeVos was appointed by Donald Trump as Education Secretary. Trump’s agenda is: Public Charter Schools in Inner Cities Local Control of Public Education Education returned to the Parents Stop Common Core / National Standards Betsy DeVos …

Social Emotional Learning Tests

By: Linda Murphy, Oklahoma Educator Introduction:  This article was first published in "The Oklahoma Constitution" in the Spring 2016 Issue and was entitled: "How will Oklahoma's K-12 Students be Tested?"  Oklahoma pulled out of the highly controversial Federal backed PARCC Partnership for Assessment of Readiness in Careers and College Consortium testing in 2013. In May …

The Growing Federal Education Bureaucracy

STOP FED ED! Federal government bureaucrats now have new ways to be involved in every aspect of the life of a child in public schools with the passage of the “reauthorized” federal education bill. Preschool education, psychological testing and training of every aspect of a child’s life are now open to more federal involvement in …

STOP Illegally Funded Federal Common Core Curriculum

President Obama and his Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have used excessive amounts of “stimulus” money to push the biggest ever Federal advancement of control over the classrooms across America and even over what our children will learn. The Federal control has advanced into curriculum and that is now documented in a published article from …