On average, children take 112 standardized tests from grades K-12.

112 tests--spread out among federal, state, and local levels. All those tests equate to 2.3% of overall classroom time. That 2.3% is only for the time to administer the test, not for classes that prepare students for said test. Common Core Standards implemented in recent years increased that number drastically, while parents have demanded--and local and state school committees have started--their own tests to coincide on a smaller level.

President Obama wants to cap that time spent at 2%. "Learning is about so much more than just filling in the right bubble," said Obama in a video released on Facebook.

So instead of 9 or 10 standardized tests a year, maybe it'll be only 8 tests.

Little Johnny and Suzie in kindergarten can spend all that extra free time being an actual five-year old for ten minutes.

The American southwest is apparently an education wasteland.

The Common Core Standards were adopted by forty-four states as an effort to improve student results in a variety of math and reading curriculum. Yet a recent study suggest that not only has improvement stagnated under the initiative, it might have resulted in worse performances.

According to a study at Education Week, scores have stalled or decreased--and by their metric of scoring (high school graduation rates, proficiency scores on tests, per pupil spending)--no state garnered an "A" grade. The best is Massachusetts, which earned a "B."

The American southwest/lower midwest is where the most troubling grades occur, with four of the five worst states residing there.

The five worst:
5. Arizona  (D+)
4. Oklahoma  (D+)
3. New Mexico  (D)
2. Nevada  (D)

Nevada holds the honor--or disturbance--of having the lowest percentage of graduating students from high school, at 60%.

But the worst state for education, according to Education Week's study?

1. Mississippi  (D)

Only 22% of Mississippian students in 4th and 8th grade are deemed proficient in either math or reading.

Sometimes it's hard picking on a state that's only found success in failure.

150 teachers took to Seattle's streets to protest Bill Gates and the Common Core Standards.

Bill Gates is Bruce Lee.

Bill and Melinda Gates, through their foundation, have put upwards of $230 million toward establishing the Common Core Standards, using their political muscle to have the initiative moved through a variety of political hurdles to find it adopted by 45 states.

Yet, not everyone is thrilled by the Common Core Standards, which caused 150 teachers protesting in the streets of Seattle, a march that led to the doors of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

As teacher Noam Gurdle told Seattle's King 5 News, "I find the notion that educators are reluctant to be open to these crazy, untested, scientifically unproven ideas to be absolutely abhorrent." (Gurdle apparently loves to add a dash of sarcasm to things.)

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation eventually released a statement to the media, one that kills its opponents with kindness, subtly pats themselves on the back, all while ignoring the teachers' concerns.

Says the Foundation:

"Teachers guide much of our education work at the foundation. We are engaged in a constant conversation with great teachers here in Washington State and all across the country about what they need to help all their students succeed and how we can best support them. While not all teachers agree on how best to make that happen, they are all dedicated and passionate about their students. We share that passion with the educators we work with every day."




I'd like to know who guides the rest of the "education work at the foundation," if not teachers. Parents? Administrators? Bruce Lee and Batman? Who else?


Photo: Alex Wong, Getty Images, via Daily Caller.

Florida state rep doesn't want to be the bearer of bad news, but the Common Core Standards will turn your kids gay.

It's a plot by government officials, says State Representative Charles Van Sant, "to attract every one of your children to become as homosexual as they possibly can."

Van Sant told the Operation Education Conference in Orlando, FL, that he "hates to bring you that news" about the budding gay army of grade school students, "but you need to know."

And to think some thought the Common Core just limited access to a variety of great literature. Now it has to power to change sexuality!

Here's Van Sant speaking at the conference:

Louis C.K. describes the Common Core Standards during an interview on the Late Show.

Comedian Louis C.K. went on the Late Show with David Letterman to promote whatever comedians go on late night talk shows to promote (comedy?), but talked for a little while about his daughters' attempts at understanding the Common Core Standards so prevalent throughout American schools today.

It's the only time you'll ever hear "Common Core Standards" and "comedy" in the same sentence.

Ever.