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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

STEVE CATES: MAINE LEAVES COMMON CORE TEST CONSORTIUM TO PROTECT STUDENT PRIVACY

Maine Gov. Paul LePage signed a bill last week that requires the state to leave Smarter Balanced, the testing consortium that provided the common-core aligned assessments state students took this past…...

Thursday, March 05, 2015

STEVE CATES: PRESIDENT OBAMA, ARNE DUNCAN AND DAVID AXELROD CLAIM OBAMACORE AS THEIR CREATION

In the Obama’s own words: Common Core is ObamaCore   North Dakota’s education system is being transformed. The transformation is being done through the adoption and implementation of Common Core. Common…...

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

STEVE CATES: POSSIBLE ILLEGALITY OF NORTH DAKOTA’S COMMON CORE CONSORTIUM

On February 2, 2015 constitutional attorney D. John Sauer testified before the North Dakota House Education Committee regarding the legality of the state’s involvement in the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium…...

Monday, January 26, 2015

STEVE CATES: COMMON CORE – TRANSFORMING EDUCATION – MIND MAPPING STUDENTS?

    Download PDF of this Article   UCLA Psychologists Manage/Oversee North Dakota Education On November 4, 2014, Robert Marthaller of the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction signed a…...

Friday, January 16, 2015

STEVE CATES: MISSISSIPPI WITHDRAWS FROM COMMON CORE TESTING GROUP

January 16, 2015   Mississippi will sever its ties from the controversial Common Core testing consortium known as PARCC, according to a press release sent Friday by the state Board…...

STEVE CATES: WHAT STATES HAVE PULLED OUT OF THEIR COMMON CORE ASSESSMENT CONSORTIUM?

States that have pulled out of their Assessment Consortium:   Utah (Smarter Balanced) – http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/mobile/54627081-68/utah-state-standards-consortium.html.csp Oklahoma (PARCC) – http://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-assessments/oklahoma-pulls-out-of-parcc/ (the Tulsa World article is no longer on the website). Georgia…...

Saturday, January 03, 2015

STEVE CATES: THE PROCORES, THEIR LETTER TO THE EDITOR, AND THEIR MULTIPLE HISTORICAL REVISIONS

On December 20, 2014 the Fargo Forum and the Grand Forks Herald printed a letter to the editor authored by the proponents of the Common Core State Standards. For ease…...

Friday, December 19, 2014

STEVE CATES: IS THE CLAIM THAT IT’S NOT OBAMACORE A DECEPTION?

Here is a 32 second video of David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to President Obama introducing the actual architect and implementer of Common Core, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at…...

Monday, December 08, 2014

STEVE CATES: U.S. GOVERNORS AND REALIZATION OF THE COMMON CORE DECEPTION

It is becoming more and more apparent that the more people know about Common Core the less they like it. Governors who were original supporters have come to the realization…...

Sunday, November 30, 2014

STEVE CATES: GATES AND PEARSON PARTNER TO REAP TENS OF MILLIONS FROM COMMON CORE    

The Heartland Institute provides a great article spelling out the relationship behind the drivers of Common Core: Follow the money. It all ends up in the hands of a very…...

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

STEVE CATES: N.D. COMMON CORE….SYSTEMIC REFORM TROJAN HORSE?

Download Article PDF As I became aware of the implementation of the Common Core State Standards in North Dakota an interesting phenomenon became apparent. The supporters of Common Core want…...

Monday, July 21, 2014

STEVE CATES: N.D. COMMON CORE – LIBERAL CONTROLLED…IN SECRET…BY DESIGN - PART II

Expanded Narrative Documentation of Part I   Download Article PDF 2012 Presidential Election and Self-Designated Gallup Poll Data: http://www.gallup.com/poll/167144/wyoming-residents-conservative-liberal.aspx#2    Expanded Narrative: (1) The proponents of the Common Core State Standards…...

STEVE CATES: N.D. COMMON CORE – LIBERAL CONTROLLED…IN SECRET…BY DESIGN - PART I

Download Article PDF After “Systemic Reform” of North Dakota’s education system to the Common Core model and structure, education policy will be almost entirely beyond the control of the state’s…...

Thursday, May 08, 2014

STEVE CATES: ND DPI DENIES REALITY OF COMMON CORE BEING ‘SYSTEMIC REFORM’

STEVE CATES: ND DPI DENIES REALITY OF COMMON CORE ADOPTION   During the May 6, 2014 edition of the Jay Thomas radio program from WDAY of Fargo I repeatedly asked…...

Tuesday, May 06, 2014

STEVE CATES: LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS – LEFTIST ACTIVISTS - PERCEPTION MANIPULATORS?

The League of Women Voters seems a benign civic minded organization that simply puts on candidate forums. But those forums have a format that may be designed to be controlling…...

Thursday, May 01, 2014

STEVE CATES: THE SYMPHONY THAT STARTED IN BISMARCK IS THE MUSIC OF THE UPCOMING MOVIE “AMERICA”

On July 4th of 2014 renowned scholar, author, presidential advisor, and movie writer/producer Dinesh D'Souza will release his latest movie entitled “America.” The theme music of that movie began as…...

Friday, April 25, 2014

STEVE CATES: WHO REALLY RUNS N.D. EDUCATION – IS COMMON CORE REALLY AN INCESTUOUS $$/POWER GRAB?

  Who has the most effect on the education of North Dakota’s children? (a) Governor Dalrymple? (b) Department of Education Superintendent Kristen Baesler? (c) Your school board members? (d) The…...

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

STEVE CATES: BEFORE COMMON CORE – OBAMA, MARXISTS, AND THE SECRETIVE CHICAGO EDUCATION REFORM

  Did the Common Core Standards appear magically out of thin air? Unlikely. “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who…...

Sunday, April 06, 2014

STEVE CATES: AT THE CORE OF COMMON CORE - WHAT IT IS REALLY ALL ABOUT

The Core of the Common Core   The American political left has always wanted more and more control of education through the centralization of power to the Federal Government. In…...

Friday, March 28, 2014

STEVE CATES: THE MANIPULATED MEETING? - COMMON CORE AND THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

The meeting held in Bismarck on the evening of March 27th was claimed by the Bismarck-Mandan Chamber of Commerce (Chamber) to be to discuss the “facts and fallacies of Common…...

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

STEVE CATES: SANFORD HEALTH WILL ENABLE ABORTIONS TO CONTINUE IN NORTH DAKOTA

During the North Dakota Legislative Session of 2013 SB2503 passed both houses and became law. That law stated: An abortion may not be performed by any person other than a…...

Saturday, February 02, 2013

ABORTION CLINIC EXECUTIVE CLAIMS NO MORE DANGEROUS THAN PENICILLIN….. REALLY? - NO. 1

“Having an abortion is safer than receiving a penicillin shot,” Tammi Kromenaker told the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 29, 2013 in her testimony in opposition to SB2305. She also…...

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

STEVE CATES: SB 2305 - ELEVATING MEDICAL PROTECTION OF WOMEN AT ABORTION CLINICS

TESTIMONY SUBMITTED IN SUPPORT OF SB 2305 This proposed legislation should be supported by all who put the health and wellbeing of women who are patients seeking elective termination of…...

Monday, December 05, 2011

FARGO FORUM GIVES PORN STAR FREE ADVERTISING - AS A NEWS STORY!

  From the Fargo Forum:   "Adult film star Jenna Jameson coming to Fargo this weekend Adult entertainment star Jenna Jameson will appear at two nightclubs this Saturday.   Adult…...

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

STEVE CATES: CONSERVATIVES MUST NEVER FORGET THE FOUNDATION OF NATURAL LAW

At first it was a mere trickle. Then a steady seep. A little later a soft current. Then the current reaches critical velocity to enable the substrate to be washed…...

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

STEVE CATES: OF LIFE AND DEATH AND GEESE AND DUCKS

Folks,Kind of overcast this late summer morning. Slight breeze. Nice rain last night. Just enough to keep the hoses coiled under the faucets while everything remains green.  The raspberries are…...

Thursday, September 01, 2011

CURTIS OLAFSON: BULLY OF THE N.D. SENATE? BY PROXY? WITH TAXPAYER MONEY?

Note BLACK SPOT (clip-on sunglasses) In early May of 2011 I became aware of the North Dakota Highway patrol sending an officer to the home of LaVonne Geotsch of Bellfield.…...

Monday, May 02, 2011

STEVE CATES: FROM THE PUBLISHER - MARCH 2011

Finally! It can be said that it is a beautiful spring day in North Dakota…..but, a chance of snow in the northwest corner of the state. Well at least from…...

Thursday, March 17, 2011

STEVE CATES: FARGO FORUM’S ABORTION PROPAGANDIST?

On February 23, 2011 the Fargo Forum published reporter Patrick Springer’s article entitled “Family Planning Faces Funding Cuts”. I would contend that this article was either poor reporting or propaganda.…...

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

STEVE CATES: REGARDING HUMANITY AND HB1450

The Logic of Life   Webster’s Dictionary Definitions: HUMAN 1: of, relating to, or characteristic of humans 2: consisting of humans 3a : having human form or attributes b :…...

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