by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 10, 2014 | Government, Philosophy
It Is Not the Standards Most people trying to combat Common Core seem to be focused on proving that the standards are bad, wrong, harmful, stupid, and otherwise nefarious. I think this is the wrong approach. “Common Core standards” are not some...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 15, 2014 | Government, Public School
Utah proudly claims to be the reddest state in the union — meaning that we like to think we are more conservative than anyone on earth. But we're not. We're not much different, collectively, than the nearest progressive, voting in favor of more and more stuff that we...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 23, 2013 | Public School
#1 Teaching Kids is Easy Keeping young kids quiet, sitting at a desk, for seven hours a day, 180 days per year is hard. Teaching them reading, writing, and arithmetic is easy. People who tell you otherwise about the general population are lying to protect their jobs....
