USED Document Says Tech Providers CANNOT Require You To Waive Your FERPA Rights
We’ll take any ray of hope, no matter how small, at this point when it comes to being able to protect our children’s privacy. That ray came in a complaint […]
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How would YOU spend $20 million in education?
What would you do with $20 million to spend on education? If you were a tech provider you would fill the schools with devices which you think will anticipate their […]
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Common Core Disruptors’ Book Takes On The Threat of The Administrative State
Here in Missouri we know their names well. Emmet McGroarty, Jane Robbins and Erin Tuttle of the American Principles Project have published a book, Deconstructing the Administrative State: The Fight […]
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State Board of Education begins search for new Commissioner – Tell them what you would like to see them looking for
The State Board of Education is beginning the process of searching for a new Commissioner of Education to replace ousted Margie Vandeven. There are a few ways for you to […]
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Vandeven firing a good move for the state
By a narrow, but predictable, vote the State Board of Education fired Commissioner Margie Vandeven Friday. This is the first time a sitting Commissioner has been fired which may be […]
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Lack of math fluency is the real problem
The Springfield News Leader paper published a Missouri math educator’s opinion on how to teach math in K-12 classrooms. Larry Campbell posed the question: “Do we really want, for example, to […]
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School technology not delivering as promised – is it actually more of a distraction than a help?
The difference between promise and delivery for technology in the classroom today is causing teachers to have to span an impossibly wide gap. Two years ago Superintendents were asked to […]
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Walking Out Of Public School And Into Classical Education
If you have kids in the public school, by now you’ve had a week or two to get the feel of this year’s convoluted landscape. You’ve probably been asked for […]
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Which comes first? Engagement or Success?
Today’s post is reblogged from Traditional Math with the author, Barry Garelick’s, permission. Articles I didn’t finish reading, Dept. This article in Business North was titled “Teachers Learn to Make […]
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Are your school device policies unconstitutional?
Article IX Section 1(a) “The general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the general assembly shall establish and […]
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The New Speed Teen Emancipation Proclamation
How old do you have to be to make your own life changing decisions? When it comes to drinking, smoking, tattoos, marriage, contracts, etc. the age at which you can […]
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U.S. House hearing on student data gathering shows no limits on the federal desire to know everything about our children
Karen Effrem of Education Liberty Watch has once again put together a powerful letter explaining the privacy problems raised by the proposed reauthorization of the Education Sciences Reform Act (ESRA), […]
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Colleges get reprieve on acting as quasi judicial systems for Title IX complaints
Very few college attorneys will soon forget the US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights April 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter that dictated to colleges and universities how they were […]
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Higher order thinking about HOTS
All hail Higher Order Thinking Skills! HOTS (gotta love the acronym) conjures up images of Einstein, Hawking and Holmes. Who wouldn’t want to be them? Who wouldn’t want to have […]
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Missouri Activist Sues Over Illegal Conduct by the General Assembly – Again
Jefferson City, MO, May 9, 2017 – A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Senate Bill 638, passed by the Missouri General Assembly in 2016, was filed in Cole County circuit […]