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This Wave is Coming to Kill Common Core

August 20, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

Via the Tampa Bay Times – “Common Core curriculum standards spark political firestorm” An excerpt: That wasn’t always the case. When the initiative launched in 2009, lawmakers from both parties, teachers unions, parent groups and business associations supported it. They made the argument that national standards would raise the bar for students across the country […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, Florida State Board of Education, Kathleen Shanahan, Tampa Bay Times, Tony Bennett

Race-Based Academic Goals

October 15, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

I couldn’t let news out of Florida late last week go by without comment.  CBS Tampa reported that the Florida State Board of Education passed a plan for racially-based academic goals. On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of […]

Filed Under: Education at State Level Tagged With: FCAT, Florida State Board of Education, Kathleen Shanahan, NCLB waivers

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