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Mark you calendars! The CATO Institute is hosting an event you won’t want to miss.

Opposing Common Core:

Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute
Emmett McGroarty, Executive Director, Preserve Innocence Project, American Principles Project

Supporting Common Core:

Chester Finn, President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Michael Petrilli, Executive Vice President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute; moderated by Fawn Johnson, Correspondent, National Journal

This event will be streamed live www.cato.org/live, starting at 11am CST. Click here to learn more about this event and what will be covered.

This is a great chance to see experts go head-to-head in a debate over Common Core and then share your thoughts with us!

Common Core State Standards, Connections, Creepy Stuff, Curriculum, Data Mining, No Child Left Behind, Race-to-the-top

National Sexuality Education Standards: Core Content and Skills, K–12

September 26, 2013 commoncoremn 5 Comments

Yes, you read the title right, that’s the name of this new standard for kids: K, as in Kindergarten, to 12th grade.

“The National Sexuality Education Standards were further informed by the work of the CDC’s Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT); existing state and international education standards that include sexual health content; the Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education: Kindergarten – 12th Grade; and the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics5, recently adopted by most states.”

Read it for yourself, print it out, it might be something that you want to ask your child’s school about.