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FOM: Career Readiness Via Coding

March 6, 2015December 12, 2019Lynne Taylor3 Comments

Throughout our battle against Common Core aligned education, we’ve heard the rhetoric about College/Career Readiness. We’ve heard about being ‘globally skilled’, etc. Join me today as we filter through the “Getting Smart”/MIcrosoft team effort to making coding career readiness. Time to crank up the Fib-o-Meter! Briefly, before we find out what’s “Total Truth”, “Total Fallacy”, […]

FOM: “Collective” Education

February 27, 2015December 12, 2019Lynne Taylor3 Comments

Literally, a couple of days ago, I shared with you about an organization called FSG and was able to tie it, not only to Common Core, but to the Gates Foundation. Before we fire up the “Fib-o-Meter” for its weekly measurement of “Total Truth”, “Neutral”, or “Total Fallacy”, I wanted to introduce to you a […]

FOM Friday: CCSS and Test Prep

February 20, 2015December 12, 2019Lynne Taylor2 Comments

Common Core Standards are everywhere. We know this is “Total Truth”. However, have you heard of this one service designed to help your student ace the ACT or SAT? Let’s start the Fib-o-Meter!! “Testive”: I found this company on my smartphone as I was scrolling through my Facebook. The ad featured an adorable fox with […]

FOM Friday: CCSS “Can’t Be Wrong”?!

February 13, 2015December 12, 2019Lynne Taylor5 Comments

What Could Possibly Be ‘Right’ About Common Core? In today’s post we’ll measure the latest ‘new evidence’ about Common Core in the classroom. Let’s get the Fib-o_Meter fired up! First, the organization: ASCD (formerly, The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) The website: www.ascd.org “Total Truth”, each state has an ASCD Affiliate. So do several […]

FOM: Trying to Turn the Tide to CCSS

February 6, 2015December 12, 2019Lynne Taylor2 Comments

Just released from the Common Core Standards laden group, Foundation for Excellence in Education, is a report titled (and this is NO joke) “Turn and Face the Strain”. The report is a true ‘gloom, doom, and we’ll all perish UNLESS we adhere to FEE’s way of aligning education’..This one’s going to be good, so, let’s […]