Challenging State Academic Standards

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“Gridding” Education

By: Lynne Taylor

On: November 27, 2017

In: Breaking News!, Monday Musings

While D.C. thinks ‘skills’ can build America’s economy, D.C. is forgetting it’s ‘killing’ academics in the meantime!Continue Reading

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Big City, Private Education

By: Lynne Taylor

On: November 16, 2017

In: Tech Thursdays, Would You Believe It Wednesday

Warriors, I know we are all beleaguered by the awful impact the CCSS Machine has rendered upon our schools. But to do all this and then slap a faith-based label on it? I’m sorry Warriors, but to me, that’s pretty deceptive. Continue Reading

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When “Me” Means ‘Collective’

By: Lynne Taylor

On: August 22, 2017

In: From the Files Tuesday

ESSA’s language INCREASES the public/private partnerships! This means corporations will have more overreaching power into classrooms for every school choice.Continue Reading

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Ed/Workforce’s Dirty Laundry?!

By: Lynne Taylor

On: June 7, 2017

In: Tech Thursdays, Would You Believe It Wednesday

We cannot continue to allow Congress to see our children as merely ‘human capital’.Continue Reading

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Closing Out April

By: Lynne Taylor

On: April 25, 2017

In: From the Files Tuesday, Monday Musings

When ‘great’ is the enemy of ‘truth’, what’s a citizen to do?!Continue Reading

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Anybody Got a Fan?!

By: Lynne Taylor

On: February 14, 2017

In: From the Files Tuesday

Will large chunks of evidence reveal what a farce ‘state sovereignty’ is in education?!Continue Reading

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Sorry, Mr. Babbage..

By: Lynne Taylor

On: October 19, 2016

In: Would You Believe It Wednesday

From the beginning of the CCSS agenda, the point has been clear: culture shift.Continue Reading