WYBI Wednesday: National Center for Post Secondary Research and CCSS

It’s “Would You Believe It Wednesday” and I cannot think of a better follow up for this week’s “From the File Tuesday” about SHEEO, the CCSSO, and CCSS than today’s eye-opener of a research paper by the NCPSR (National Center for Post Secondary Research) describing in detail the purposed implementation of CCSS!! In our above […]

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Fib-o-Meter Friday: Pro CCSS Teachers, a Corporation, and an Advocacy Group

It’s Friday and we’re in for a treat! Today we have a pro CCSS set of teachers, a corporation, and an advocacy group all telling us how GREAT CCSS is!! Bring on the “Meter”!!! The video:  Step One, preparing to view it: If you’re like me, you’ll be ready to throw something by the time […]

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Monday Musings: Education Fables, Common Core Style

Since it’s Monday, I thought I would share with you some musings about the educational fables Common Core Standards have created for us.  (I’ll continue to refer to the CCS throughout the rest of the post by giving it a book title of  ‘Common Fables of Education’). Unlike Aesop’s book, ‘Common Fables of Education’ ( in […]

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How Common Core Standards are Taking Over our National Honor Societies

GUEST POST: How Common Core Standards are Taking Over our National Honor Societies Posted on June 29, 2014 by A.P. Dillon The following article is a guest post from a concerned parent in North Carolina about the deep reach of the Common Core Standards. —————————————————– “Honor among thieves?! How Common Core Standards are Taking Over our […]

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