Consorting To Align And Undermine
2018-03-23
Warriors, who among your State education leaders used to be in another arm or leg of the CCSS Machine? Where are they now?Continue Reading
Tech Thursday: Lifelong Skills or Lifelong Sentence?
2016-01-14
Anti CCSS Warriors, the above picture is one I featured in a previous article, but serves my topic for today very well. Since the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) is now law, CCSS (Common Core State Standards) will NOT be a phrase you see. BUT it will be there allContinue Reading
ESSA Ties to WIOA 2014 and New Citizens
2016-01-05
Anti CCSS Warriors, you know you have heard me on the air and read my blog where I have stated several times that the WIOA of 2014 (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014) has embedded in it 21 different times the phrase ‘Career Pathways’. More recently you have heardContinue Reading
Tech Thursday: Post Secondary Champs?
2015-11-19
For today’s “Tech Thursday” article, I want to shine the light on the CCSS alignment in post-secondary education yet again. Shouldn’t my focus be on the re-authorization of the ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act)? While the focus is on that (my last 2 published articles were devoted to theContinue Reading
Tech Thursday: Update on CCSS/CTE for Adults
2015-11-12
Warriors Against Common Core: how many times have I shared with you that the CCSS Machine seeks to encompass EVERY student..including adults? Young adults, just graduating high school and moving on in life; mid-life adults and/or older adults desiring to go back to work and needing education…you get the idea.Continue Reading
FTF: New CCSS “Unpacking” Guide
2015-11-03
It seems fitting for my “From the Files” post, that we look at CCSS and it’s unpacking. After all, if we’re going to continue to see students fail, teachers frustrated to the point of resigning, and other staff members saught after for MORE CCSS alignment, we need to know theContinue Reading
FTF: Measure Twice, Cut Once
2015-10-27
Repeatedly, you have read my researched articles verifying CCSS, CTE, STEM, and all the other names of the programs, resources, or standards “Common Core” goes with. For today’s “From the Files”, I’ll show you how MORE private companies are measuring education, not once, but twice. Their aspirations? In my researchedContinue Reading