FOM: Career Readiness Via Coding

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”, […]

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FOM Friday: CCSS “Can’t Be Wrong”?!

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 […]

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FOM: Update on Christian Schools and Common Core

Do to overwhelming response to my post today, I’m updating it to include all kinds of the information about Common Core in private, Christian schools. It has been epic in proportion!!! First up, the original post included 2 photos will you notice are now removed at the request of the family involved. I am hereby rendering […]

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FOM Friday: “Primary Source”, Friend or Foe of CCSS

First Up, The Fib-o-Meter: When I first began my blog, I set aside Fridays to bust the myths surrounding Common Core wide open. Today’s entry is no different. I’m focusing the Fib-o-Meter on “Primary Source”.  I discovered this globally minded, 25 year old group from The Global Education Conference from 2014. If you’re not familiar with […]

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