informing and fighting back against education overreaches to save hearts and souls
As you know, I’ve taken on all kinds of angles to researching Common Core’s presence in every educational realm. This includes not only traditional schools, but private ones, homeschools, post-secondary education, charters, and IB Schools (International Baccalaureate). I’d like to share a first hand student’s account of the experience in an IB school. But first, […]
Continue ReadingThanks to an avid supporter of my blog, I recently received a tip that the profit making, CCSS writer, David Coleman was a guest at a CAPE event. What’s CAPE? CAPE stands for the Council for American Private Education. Website: http://www.capenet.org/states.html CAPE was founded in 1971 by 8 different private school related groups to ensure there […]
Continue ReadingCould it be possible to have an independent federal agency for humanities align us all via Common Core? That’s the riddle for today, April 12, 2015. NEH, National Endowment for the Humanities: Before we get into what NEH does or who is involved, let’s assume you aren’t familiar with ‘humanities’. According the Act of 1965 […]
Continue ReadingGreetings, Anti Common Core Warriors! A new work week for us to wage war on the Core. Are you ready? Is the warrior next to you ready? Let’s help each other out. Warriors and Sharing: Governments use the concept of sharing to defray projects. Co-op groups of all kinds use sharing as a way to […]
Continue ReadingI don’t know about your battle in your state, but here in NC, things are far from over. News that we don’t have CCSS anymore is just a plain lie. Our state is like the others seeking to be free. None of us are truly free yet. However, the post today is about celebrating and […]
Continue ReadingOkay, so it’s not new news about the love affair NC has with Common Core. However, the latest move to allow both K12, Inc. AND Pearson into the virtual educational airwaves of the state remind me of the “Dumb and Dumber” guys. The Backstory: While I’ll not give you the entire past account of NC’s […]
Continue ReadingWhat 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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