FTF: Revisit to Redesigned CCSS High School
Post on how CCSS redesigns high school curriculum and affects readiness
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Weekend News: Heads Up, Higher Ed CTE Update
This Weekend News is an update to the continued Common Core/Career Tech Education/Aligned Apprentices efforts our post secondary students are facing. What can we do to fight this? How can we inform others? Read on, my fighters!! A White House “Fact Sheet”: Dated September 9th, 2015, this news release gives us several key pieces to the […]
Continue ReadingTech 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.
Continue ReadingFTF: “Human Capital”: The ‘New’ Name for Citizens
Post on human capital and its implications for citizens in education and workforce policy
Continue ReadingFTF: 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 full of all the CCSS/CTE/CCR you can stand. Among them are Blackboard and Ascend Learning. You may know about Blackboard‘s alignment to the CCSS Machine and agenda, but do you know about Ascend’s? Did you […]
Continue ReadingMonday Musings: More Parent CCSS Alignment
Post on parent/Common Core alignment and how messaging shapes views on CCSS
Continue ReadingWeekend News: HEA (Higher Ed Act) and the ‘Common Core’
Greetings, Warriors! What’s the latest on the re-authorization efforts concerning the Higher Education Act, but HOW is the “Common Core” involved? The quick answer is “Career Technical Education”. (what I’ve proven to be the ‘adult version of the K-12 “Common Core Standards”). Another short answer is the ” Initiative behind the entire alignment of education.” What […]
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