informing and fighting back against education overreaches to save hearts and souls
I love research. I always have and will continue to love it…especially when it leads me to so many off the beaten path locations where Common Core and Career Pathways intersect. Frankly, any place CC and post high school intersect. Why? Because we’ve been fed the line so often of how CC is only K-12! […]
Continue ReadingRecently, I was talking with a modern day substitute teacher. She shared with me that not too long ago she was called into a classroom where many computers were set up. Being that it was the end of a particular learning cycle (I think it was 9 weeks), it was time for assessments. While each […]
Continue ReadingThis past Tuesday, I wrote about the CCSSO (Council of Chief State School Officers) and their “lab states” for Common Core. Well, thanks to an avid Common Core Diva reader from AZ, I was pointed to even more that falls under the realm of the CCSSO. So, let’s get the Meter ready… “KnowledgeWorks” This arm […]
Continue ReadingThis is a follow up article to my original one from late September 2014. Thank you for expressing such an interest in this subject. I’m planning a third article soon. More about that in the closing comments. Harvard Graduate School of Education and Pearson Foundation: Back in 2010, the Pearson Foundation (an arm of the […]
Continue ReadingIt’s Thursday! That means a look at Common Core Standards all grown up! As in ‘adult education’. Now, this could mean a recently graduated high school student or an adult anywhere on life’s path. CTE (Another member of the Common Core Alphabet Soup): CTE or Career Technical Education is a part of the NASDCTEc […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been asked to provide more proof about Common Core and/or national standards not from the ‘early years’ of 2008-2010. It appears folks are having a harder time finding documents from 2011 to present. So, it is in that mindset, I am sharing the following “U.S. Department of Education, For Each and Every Child—A Strategy […]
Continue ReadingIt’s Wednesday & that means something about Common Core you just have to research to believe. (in other words, so ridiculous it appears made up, but then isn’t!) Today’s topic: FUN!!! Search, I dare you! Let’s say we’re playing a game of hide & seek. Our goal is to find the ‘Common Core fun’. If […]
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