Monday Musings: “The Boys are Back in Town”
Post on key education influencers returning to shape CCSS and ESSA reform debates
Monday Musings
From the Files Tuesday
FTF: Revisit to Redesigned CCSS High School
Post on how CCSS redesigns high school curriculum and affects readiness
Tech Thursdays
Tech Thursday: “Career Passports”, Seriously?!
This post investigates Viridis Learning and the rise of skills or career passports linking student data mining assessments and stackable credentials to career pathways and workforce matching with tracking that follows individuals beyond school.
From the Files Tuesday
FTF: Ascending and Aligning
Warriors Against the Common Core State Standards Initiative: You’ve heard of all the on-line aligned courses and schools out there
Monday Musings
Monday Musings: More Parent CCSS Alignment
Post on parent/Common Core alignment and how messaging shapes views on CCSS
Tech Thursdays
Tech Thursday: High School Equivalency, CCSS/CTE Style
This post uses North Carolina as a case study showing how high school equivalency testing options GED HiSET and TASC tie into CCSS CTE CCR and community college systems.
Tech Thursdays
Tech Thursday: Career Pathways Meet Competency Based Pathways
This post reviews the Achieve Inc and NASDCTEc push to connect CTE and competency based pathways and highlights policy moves like eliminating seat time competency based credits community wide stakeholder systems and aligning higher education to K 12 CBP
Tech Thursdays
Tech Thursday: Career Tech Education (Federal Style) Update
This post explains why federal career tech education functions like an adult Common Core spotlighting the NCICTE CTE center Perkins funding state CTE efforts Aspen Institute reports and concerns about alignment and data mining.
Monday Musings
Monday Musings: Honor Among CCSS Warriors
Greetings anti CCSS warriors! The beginning of a new work week. The beginning of a new day to war against