RMT Sunday: Complex human, common education?!

We humans are complex, wonderfully made creatures. We’ve been hanging around on Earth for quite a while. We’re anything but ‘common’..So my riddle today is this: Since we’re so complex, how can we expect a set of constricting, common standards to serve us well? Common Core Standards seek to level the educational landscape..NOT enhance it […]

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Sic ‘Em Saturday: Google’s Common Core Classroom

Recently, I ‘attended’ yet another webinar connected to Common Core and classrooms. It’s amazing to me just how many on-line meetings have taken place over the past few months with new ways to ‘sell’ the Standards, make them ‘easier’ or how you just can’t live without their greatness..Please, give me a break! Here are the […]

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Fib-o-Meter Friday: More CC aligned Superintendents?!

Last week, I put 3 state superintendents through the “Fib-o-Meter” to see where they landed with Common Core Standards. I had at least 4 requests for other state supers to be ‘put to the test’. So, here they are in alphabetical order per state: CA, NV, NJ, and NM. California’s State Superintendent, Tom Torlakson:  Mr. […]

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Tech Thursday: CTE (Career Technical Education) Workforce

It’s Thursday! That means a look at Common Core Standards all grown up! As in ‘adult education’. Now, this could mean a recently graduated high school student or an adult anywhere on life’s path. CTE (Another member of the Common Core Alphabet Soup): CTE or Career Technical Education is a part of the NASDCTEc   […]

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Would You Believe It? Evil Hath No Place in Education

Wednesdays mean some pretty far out there stuff when it comes to Common Core Standards and the things connected to it. We know the CC Standards  are so low they violate the U.S. Constitution (see my Welcome/Introduction post). However, would you believe they literally sink to the depths of Hell, itself? This information was passed […]

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From the Files Tuesday: “Equity, Excellence in Education”

I’ve been asked to provide more proof about Common Core and/or national standards not from the ‘early years’ of 2008-2010. It appears folks are having a harder time finding documents from 2011 to present. So, it is in that mindset, I am sharing the following  “U.S. Department of Education, For Each and Every Child—A Strategy […]

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