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Connecticut Students, Parents Unaware of Social Media Monitoring

May 18, 2015 By Shane Vander Hart

Fox Connecticut reports that students, parents and educators are unaware that their students have their social media monitored as they take Smarter Balanced.

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: common core assessments, Connecticut, Connecticut State Department of Education, Smarter Balanced, social media, UCLA

Smarter Balanced Monitors Student Social Media

March 20, 2015 By Shane Vander Hart

Smarter Balanced shares that like Pearson they also monitor student social media to keep track if test questions are being posted online.

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: PARCC, Pearson, Smarter Balanced, social media

This is Horrible, But It’s Not Common Core

August 13, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

I made the mistake of sharing this story on my Facebook timeline. Post by Shane Vander Hart. I say it was a mistake because people continued to share it without including my warning.  Let me be clear.  This book is awful, and if I were a parent in this district I’d be furious. This article, […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, inappropriate tactics, sex education, social media

#StopCommonCore Facebook Profile Picture Blast

November 11, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

You are encouraged to change your Facebook profile picture to a “Stop Common Core” picture this week from November 12th to November 15th.  We use our profile pictures to reflect who we are, what we love and what are passions are.  So why not use it to show your opposition to the Common Core State […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: #StopCommonCore, Common Core State Standards, Facebook, Leslie Beck, social media, Stop Common Core

#StopCommonCore vs. #SupportTheCore

April 18, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

It’s pretty obvious that our #StopCommonCore Twitter Rally was effective on Tuesday.  StateImpact Indiana compared us to the #SupportTheCore counter rally that was going on the same time. A snapshot of Twitter analytics from the website Hashtracking around 1 pm ET showed the#StopCommonCore hashtag was “reaching” over 1.9 million Twitter users. #SupportTheCore reached closer to […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: #StopCommonCore, #StopCommonCore Twitter Rally, #SupporttheCore, Common Core State Standards, social media

Connecting with Anti-Common Core State Groups on Facebook

April 12, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

Thanks to Laura Rambeau Lee at Right Reason for compiling a list of anti-Common Core Facebook pages and groups by state.  We have many of these Facebook pages, as well as, organization websites here (we typically only list the Facebook page if they don’t have a website). She has 55 groups so far.  While it […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, Facebook, Facebook pages, social media, State Anti-Common Core groups

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