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The NC Supt. Responds to the Lt. Gov.'s Questions About the Common Core

August 22, 2013 By J.R. Wilson

…or does she? On July 18, I posted a video in a post titled NC Lt. Gov. Forest Expresses Concerns and Questions About the Common Core. In the video the Lt. Gov. of NC posed a lot of questions he was seeking answers to from the state superintendent. He also provided a link to his […]

Filed Under: CCSS Content, CCSS Implementation, CCSS State Costs, Common Core State Standards

Common Core Headaches: Not Enough Resources for Implementation

August 8, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

Via Politico from yesterday: Many of the states phasing in Common Core are finding that they don’t have enough staff — or cash — to train teachers, develop new curriculum materials or support online assessments aligned to the standards, according to a report due to be released today by the Center on Education Policy at […]

Filed Under: CCSS Implementation Tagged With: Common Core Implementation, Common Core State Standards, Diane Stark Rentner, Politico

NASBE Bought and Paid For

August 7, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

Well you have to appreciate that the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) is open and honest about being bought off.  From a presser they just sent out yesterday: ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 6 – Even as most states work hard to implement the Common Core State Standards in math and English language arts, […]

Filed Under: CCSS Implementation Tagged With: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Common Core State Standards, NASBE

Mississippi Will Struggle With Common Core Implementation

January 21, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

I had written earlier that Arizona has funding issues with the Common Core.  Iowa’s Department of Education doesn’t even have statutory authority to implement the SBAC tests.  Now The Sun Herald in Biloxi, MS reports that schools in Mississippi will have a hard time with implementation: All U.S. students in second through 12th grades, under […]

Filed Under: CCSS Implementation Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, costs of Common Core State Standards, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

Common Core Has Funding Issues In Arizona

January 9, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

Here is where the Common Core State Standards are very much at risk of becoming undone.  State Boards and Departments of Education rushed to adopt them, but they’re not the ones paying for it.  Arizona is having problems with the bottom line.  I doubt they are alone. From The Arizona Republic: Arizona leaders have called […]

Filed Under: CCSS Implementation Tagged With: Arizona Department of Education, Common Core State Standards, Jan Brewer, The Arizona Republic

Common Core Math Standards Making the Simple Complicated

November 21, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

Barry Garelick wrote at The Atlantic about the Common Core Math Standards.  Basically he says that kids are required not to just learn how to make a calculations, but also how to explain why they are doing so.  The standards actually elevate this above learning how to solve math problems.  Garelick points out a couple […]

Filed Under: CCSS Implementation, Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Barry Garelick, Common Core Math Standards, mental math

Common Core Propaganda: Who Created the Standards Exactly?

August 29, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

Propaganda has accompanied the Common Core State Standards, but now they are being implemented expect it to come out even more.  I wanted to point out an example that was emailed to me yesterday.  From a piece written by Cammy Harbison at Voxxi.com.  She writes about the benefits of the common core state standards, and […]

Filed Under: CCSS Implementation Tagged With: authors of Common Core State Standards, Cammy Harbison, CCSS development, CCSS Implementation, Common Core State Standards, David Coleman

Should Teachers Be the Only Ones to Own Education Standards?

August 3, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

John Ewing writing at Education Week seems to think so. Or was it? After two decades of standards, we still wring our hands about student declines, unfocused curricula, and dreadful textbooks. There is little evidence that previous standards substantially improved education, and the fact that we continually replace old standards with new does not suggest […]

Filed Under: CCSS Implementation Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, Education Week, field tested standards, John Ewing, ownership of standards, parental sovereignty

Now We See How A Common Core Failure Will Be Spun

July 17, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

Blame the teachers… via EdWeek’s Andrew Ujifusa reporting from the Education Commission of States policy meeting that was held in Atlanta last week: Zimba fended off a question from an audience member about whether the common core had been comprehensively tested in the field by saying the common core is the result of a decade-long […]

Filed Under: CCSS Implementation Tagged With: Andrew Ujifusa, Common Core English/Language Arts Standards, Common Core Math Standards, David Coleman, Jason Zimbia

About Those NCLB Waivers…

July 12, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

From some who thought the No Child Left Behind waivers were going to ease the reporting burden on states who receive them… think again.  From EdWeek: The Education Department is in the process of changing its requirements for the federal EDFacts system, which consolidates data from various education programs including Title I grants to districts […]

Filed Under: CCSS Implementation, Education at State Level Tagged With: accountability, Common Core State Standards, No Child Left Behind Waivers, STATS-DC Conference, Title I, U.S. Department of Education

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