States Get Graded CCR, Style!
How CCR is measured in your state. How it connects to the ESSA.
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Update: CCSS, CTE, STEM, and Connect NC Bond
Update on Connect NC and the CCSS Machine. Vote ‘NO’!
Continue ReadingESSA in a Nutshell
Anti CCSS Warriors, the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) is meant to be tough. It is meant to embed educational reform as we have never before seen. It was meant to be SO tough, no one would ever truly know the rotten insides lurking underneath the ink. It is full of CCSS, CCR, CTE(Common Core […]
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ESSA and Teacher Pay
In the shift from one federal education law to another, we need to know how the CCSS Machine is going to pay our teachers. More specifically, how the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) will reward, or punish, them.
Continue ReadingCompetency Pathway Update
An updated look at the co-joined movement to unite Career Tech Education, CTE, the adult arm of ‘Common Core State Standards’ (CCSS) to CCR (College and Career Readiness) via the Competency Pathways (CP). If you haven’t heard of the CPs, you will know it after reading this. First, A Look Back: I first shared the […]
Continue ReadingFed Ed, 2017, Are You Ready?
Usually, on Thursdays, I delve into the CCSS Machine’s overreach into post-secondary education, but today I am focusing on the President’s Fiscal Year Budget request he has just given Congress. Why should, we, those opposed to Common Core, College and Career Readiness, Career Tech Education, and all the rest of the CCSS Machine’s grinding America […]
Continue ReadingWeekend News: The IES and the ESSA
In yesterday’s ‘Tech Thursday’ article, I gave you plenty of information about the CCSS Machine’s efforts via the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) and digital education. In the ‘Closing’, I assured you we would look at the IES (Institute of Education Sciences) next. Why? Section 9210 of the ESSA discusses the IES’s role in federal […]
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