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Thomas B. Fordham still pushing the Common Core on Nevadans

Michael Petrilli and Michael Brickman, of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute have made their way back to Nevada via a Las Vegas Review...

The Parental Breach

On February 3, 2015 I watched Senator Lamar Alexander’s Fixing NCLB roundtable in its entirety. Participating in the roundtable was a...

Nevada District Bullies Mother Over Opt-Out Notification

Clark County, Nevada, mother of six*, Claudia Kintigh, notified her children’s school that she would not be giving permission to,...

"I am a teacher and today I'm standing up for my students, finally."

This is a moving speech from Jennifer Rickert, 6th grade teacher out of New York. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV6HoDLsnH8&feature=yo...

How Dale Erquiaga took a bad situation and made it worse

When covering for our misdeeds, as children, my siblings and I would shout out our innocence, with confidence that the power of decibels...

Symposium on Common Core State Standards

Parents, Do Not Miss This Program! Citizens for Sound Academic Standards Welcomes the community to an open and public REVIEW of the Pros...

Nevada Parents Choose Homeschooling over Common Core

While most of the children throughout Nevada wrap up their Christmas break and head back to school this week my Godson will be starting a...

High Falutin' Rhetoric

The thought of spending my valuable time on David Coleman, President of the College Board, exhausted me before I even got started. ...

Parenting is not for Sissies

We’ve all heard the line “Parenting isn’t for sissies.” Those words may be truer now than ever before. I don’t know if it is society or...

The Common Core Con

In reading through a thread of comments under a recent article written by the Thomas Fordham Institute on Nevada’s Washoe County I...

About the Author

Christina Leventis is a Nevada mother of two who believes that children are the greatest of all gifts. Upon educating herself on Common Core State Standards she began writing and speaking on the subject. Christina also believes it is important for parents to exercise their fundamental rights as the first and final authority in the upbringing of one's own children and that includes educational decisions.