Monday Musings: Leading/Teaching, Duncan Style
Post on Arne Duncan-style leadership and Common Core impact on teaching and schools
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FOM: Achieving CC Aligned Competencies
Every Friday, since I began blogging, you’ve been treated to the “Fib-o-Meter” and how it measures various Common Core documents, groups, and other related parts of the CCSS Machine. Today, you’re in for a treat…we will be tackling Achieve, Inc’s. “Post-Secondary” foray into education. A Tiny Bit of History for Achieve, Inc.: This pro CCSS […]
Continue ReadingWYBI: Seeds of Gates for CCSS
In today’s post, we’ll see how the CCSS is being sprouted in ‘compact cities’. All thanks to the SEED Foundation, the Gates Foundation, and more than likely, a few others. The Seed Money: In 2013, the Gates Foundation gave the SEED Foundation $200,000. to help create College Ready Compact Cities. Purpose? Here is the excerpt […]
Continue ReadingFOM: Trying to Turn the Tide to CCSS
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 […]
Continue ReadingFTF Tuesday: Comprehending Assessments
As always, on Tuesdays, you anti CCSS warriors are treated to those files, documents, and links I’ve been able to uncover that continue to point to the underbelly of the CCSS Machine. Today’s is a doozy! “Pathways to College On-Line Library”: Website: http://www.pathwaylibrary.org/ The file from their archives today has an interesting note at the bottom […]
Continue ReadingWYBI Wednesday: ICE, Chilling Our Education
In yesterday’s post, I revealed quite a bit about an international credentialing company tied to Common Core. Today’s “Would You Believe It” Wednesday post, looks at the American based companies. Will they, too, be tied to Common Core? ICE (aka: Institute for Credentialing Excellence): Here’s how they describe themselves, “The Institute for Credentialing Excellence, or […]
Continue ReadingRMT Sunday: Leveled Education…YUCK!
As if CCS (Common Core Standards) haven’t reeked enough havoc on our students, I’ve discovered yet ANOTHER dull, boring, and downright yucky website totally devoted to ‘leveling’ reading for our youngest of students. What an unmitigated disaster!! So,here’s today riddle: The website?? Benchmark Education (see: http://www.benchmarkeducation.com/) Where There’s a Benchmark, There’s a Gates: You knew the […]
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