informing and fighting back against education overreaches to save hearts and souls
Anti CCSS/CTE Warriors, are you sick and tired of the repeated lies we hear about how the CCSS is just K-12th grades? I got fed up with it from the beginning. That’s why I’ve specialized in researching all the other areas of education CCSS swears it is..but, oh how we know it is. To that […]
Continue ReadingA Common Core Invitation from the U.S. Dept. of Labor?! They are extending an invitation to all public-private partnerships to receive grant money to further align our students, regardless of educational choice or age. Act Now, This Offer Won’t Last: If you want the grant money here’s your time constraint: “The period of performance is […]
Continue ReadingToday’s “Tech Thursday” post has us look up close at the big name Common Core aligned publishers and their venture into the educational realm beyond high school. Post Secondary Textbook Publishers: Cengage Learning, supports Career and Technical students. They also participate in the SkillsUSA competitions (secondary and post secondary schools: public, proprietary, or private). Aside from Cengage […]
Continue ReadingThis Tech Thursday post defines alternative education using a US Department of Education research report then shows how career tech education ties alternative education to Common Core alignment assessments like WorkKeys credentials and workforce pipeline placement.
Continue ReadingOn this Saturday BEFORE Thanksgiving, why not send a note concerning Common Core Standards to your student’s school. You can widen the circle by sending letters to school boards, chambers of commerce, local representatives or senators, state level legislators, your governor, your US Representatives and Senators, and the list can go on. What? I’m sure […]
Continue ReadingThis Tech Thursday explains how Perkins Act funding supports CTE in secondary and postsecondary schools, the strings attached to federal money, and how performance based funding and P3 models can tighten the Common Core squeeze.
Continue ReadingFor today’s “Would You Believe It Wednesday”, we’ll be taking a closer look at the Common Core Talent Supply Pipeline. All thanks to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Ed and Workforce Center. Personally, I absolutely despise referring to people in such a debase term as ‘talent supply’ or to suggest they are ‘pipeline’ matter. I […]
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