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States Fighting Back Map Update
Here is an updated map. North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania have been added. You can download the map by clicking on the down arrow at the bottom of the document. You can get a download link and embed code by clicking the share this file envelope just to the left of the down arrow. Retaining [...]
Informative CCSS Conference Call Scheduled in Wisconsin
Daniel Webster once said: “If truth be not diffused, error will be.” Common Core State Standards in education have garnered a growing degree of attention from all sides of the educational policy field in the last several months. Wisconsin was one of the first states to adopt this new set of academic standards and is right [...]
CCSS Parent Opt Out Form
Here is a CCSS Parent Opt Out form for parents to use in expressing their desires to their child’s school. You can download this form to use and share.
Crack the CCSS Egg to See What is Inside
After reading the article Huntsville, Madison legislators back off of bill to revoke common core standards (updated), I couldn’t help but think of the saying “There’s a sucker born every minute.” I encourage you to click on the link above and read the article. I don’t know if this is a situation with suckers, fools, [...]
Retaining Constitutionally Guaranteed Liberty and State Sovereignty
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Reality Has Shown Itself in NY: The State and Districts Forge Ahead
Ken Mitchell has written a report for the Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Ken is the District Superintendent of the South Orangetown School District in Rockland County in New York State. Federal Mandates on Local Education: Costs and Consequences—Yes, it’s a Race, but [...]
Whiteboard Advisors Education Insider
Whiteboard Advisors Education Insider: Digital Learning and Common Core Assessments February 2013 is available online and can be downloaded by clicking here. Here is the Executive Summary: In the wake of the Senate hearing on No Child Left Behind waivers, 71 percent of Insiders think ESEA will not be reauthorized until at least 2015. Insiders [...]
Using Twitter in the Classroom–to Teach How to Read and Write?
This is up in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in Canada. Apparently a first grade teacher, Kathy Cassidy, posted a YouTube video about how her students at Westmount School – her six and seven year-old students – are learning how to read and write using Twitter. But hey I’m sure they’re focused on STEM and are going [...]
The Garfield Stand and the Common Core: Will They Both Come to a School Near You?
The “Garfield Stand” may eventually come to a school near you following the roll out of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and related assessment implementation across the country. What is the Garfield Stand? It is what the teachers at Seattle’s Garfield High School are doing—they are taking a stand on important issues related to [...]
Opaqueness and Closed Government
Jay P. Greene’s Blog “Head Start Manipulating Scumbags” starts off with an excellent video clip that has more global applicability than just addressing Head Start. Jay P. Greene says: I should repeat that the researchers have done an excellent job evaluating Head Start in this case. It is the bureaucratic class at the Department of [...]
