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The Washington Times
March 5, 2012
Well before the March 10, 2010, release of the national Common Core (CC) standards for K-12 math and English, the Obama administration was pressuring states to commit to them if they wanted to compete for a share of $4.35 billion in Race to the Top funds set aside from the federal stimulus...
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Salt Lake Tribune
February 29, 2012
The state school board will not be asked to reconsider its decision to adopt Common Core academic standards, but a legislative committee approved two measures Wednesday making it clear lawmakers still have concerns....
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Bloomberg
July 10, 2010
The Gates agenda is an intellectual cousin of the Bush Administration's 2002 No Child Left Behind law, which required all public schools—though not individual teachers—to make "adequate yearly progress" on student test scores. Some opponents of No Child Left Behind questioned its faith in data; are scores too narrow a gauge of how well kids are learning?
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