informing and fighting back against education overreaches to save hearts and souls
How many times have we heard that ONLY public schools have Common Core Standards? If you’re like me, you’ve heard this out and out fallacy TOO many times. However, how many folks have you met who still think Christian universities are exempt from the Standards? Yes, you read correctly, Christian universities. Many of us anti […]
Continue ReadingBefore we look at how Common Core via the Career Tech Education has impacted “Alternative Education”, we need to know how “AE” is defined. So, for that, I’m using the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Research Report “How Do the States Define Alternate Education?” (I must cite it as the following: Porowski, A., O’Conner, R., & Luo, […]
Continue ReadingThus far this week, there’s been a timely inter-connected theme for my :education waivers, Common Core, and our individual states are being impacted. Today’s post is no different. I broke this article late last night to my fellow NC anti CCSS warriors due to the 2 day State Board of Ed meeting beginning in just […]
Continue ReadingI only recently heard of “CREATE” and if I’d not really been paying attention, I would of just glossed over it. However, knowing the Common Core Machine has so many overreaching parts, it’s worth a look. CREATE: The acronym for “Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness”. Their goals? Improving student outcomes aka […]
Continue ReadingWelcome Back, Friends! I hope you had a restful Thanksgiving break. I know I am ready to once again, pick up my anti Common Core sword and get back in the fight. Today’s post will tackle educational waivers..friend of our educational system??? Or foe to it? Let’s find out. Just what is a waiver? According […]
Continue ReadingData mining is a huge concern in our educational system. While so many of us, especially here at “Prevent Common Core“, have been fighting the illegal education standards, Washington, D.C. has been busy passing legislation that will make it easier to data mine our students. Of course this is done with our tax money. How much? The price […]
Continue ReadingOkay, my anti Common Core warriors, it’s merely days before most of us will gather together to celebrate Thanksgiving 2014. I’m sure we have a million things to do between now and then. So, today’s post will be a bit different than most of my “Musing” posts. Thankful for what CC has taught me: This […]
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