The Election is Over. So What Happens in Education?
It’s time for citizens to voice our opinions on the direction of public education as a new administration transitions into The White House. Rumors started yesterday […]
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Oopsie. This School District Stepped on the ‘Legal Minefield’ NSBA Advised Districts to Avoid.
From Poway Unified security breach: Information of 36,000 students mistakenly released: The privacy breach leaked information about every student in the district and it included medical information, […]
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Video: Who REALLY wants to know ALL about your kid? Opt-out
Apparently, there’s a new Bill Gates’ funded video circulating. It’s all about making sure parents don’t opt out. Oh Please. Rather than promote the paid advertisement for Gates’ Common Core tests […]
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Teacher Asks: ‘How Bad Is It Going to Get?’
This teacher discovers no one has the answers to her Common Core questions. From How Bad Is It Going to Get?: And even worse – despite the fact that […]
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‘Grandmother/High School Principal’ Explains Benefit of Common Core ‘Analytical Thinking’ of 1st Grade Grandson & Why He Wouldn’t Make Trip on The Mayflower
Politico writes how How Common Core quietly won the war. The journalist informs the Republican presidential contenders to forget about any sort of action against the idea of jettisoning […]
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Standardized Assessments: Fact vs #EdReform Talking Points
Do you have concerns if the assessments used in your states and for students are valid and age appropriate? Your state can crow about *excellent* assessment results but as you […]
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A Bureaucrat Testifies to Where Student/Teacher Data is Sent & For What Purpose. Confirmed: It’s Cradle to Grave.
The blueprint for data retrieval has been in plain view for quite some time now if legislators and citizens were curious to know how/why data was being gathered on […]
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Is Kindergarten a Place of Joy or Data Gathering?
Parents don’t need data sets to know that if a young child is not ready to learn a skill (but is pushed to do so) or if learning that […]
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Another CCSS Proponent Believes Teachers & Parents ‘Need to be Educated’ on the Wonders of CCSS
Above is an excerpt from the mailbag at STLtoday.com, the electronic version of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The writer’s contention that Common Core should be kept is not based […]
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Maybe Even Gates Money Can’t Save Common Core?
The Brookings Institute published a report which must be causing must consternation in the pro-Common Core circles. It’s increasingly apparent that all that money and all the time many education […]
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Joke of the Day: DESE says “Take Time to Get Involved in Your Child’s Education”
DESE welcomes your involvement as a parent! It published the above graphic on its Facebook page. But how is that involvement defined by DESE? It doesn’t list the ways […]
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Data and More Data: Missouri Teachers to be Evaluated via Student Data. (Video Attached)
The above graphic is taken from the 9.10.15 Federal Register. It is entitled Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; […]
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The ‘Fill in the Blank’ Op Ed(s) by Fordham Institute on Why States *Need* Common Core
Visit MEW tomorrow for a guest post about a Common Core editorial from Fordham Institute’s Robert Pondiscio and Michael Petrilli that recently appeared in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. […]
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Common Core Standards DO Tell Teachers How/What to Teach
A 9 year old girl shows the difference in solving a Mathematics problem via Common Core vs using the standard algorithm: Stop Common Core in Washington State writes […]
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The Common Core Misinformation Revealed. Say it’s Not True: A State Educational Agency Misrepresenting the Truth?
In a Joint Committee for Higher Education meeting last week in Jefferson City, a spokesperson from The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education stated that the Common Core […]