informing and fighting back against education overreaches to save hearts and souls
This post walks through major workforce and education programs from Manpower and CETA to School to Work Goals 2000 and WIOA and highlights the Workforce Data Quality Initiative that matches workforce data with education data for pre K through employment tracking.
Continue ReadingLet Me Introduce You: The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is half owner to the copyrighted Common Core State Standards. This is well documented, so I won’t elaborate. However, did you know there are a small number of our neighbor States across America who are the ‘innovation lab’ participants? Yes, that’s correct. Certain […]
Continue ReadingPost on repeal ideas for Common Core and restoring local control in education
Continue ReadingHow many of you like math? Of all the subjects I had to learn, Math was not my favorite. My students, also, weren’t huge fans. However, knowing math is crucial, we carried on and were successful. Common Core Standards and math has been written about repeatedly. So, I’m not going to tackle it in depth. […]
Continue ReadingThis Tech Thursday breaks down a radio interview with Arne Duncan in Massachusetts covering community colleges as workforce trainers Common Core standards testing teacher evaluations and federal grant driven programs.
Continue ReadingSocrates and Plato would shudder if they were around today to see what Common Core Standards have done to critical thinking. I’d like to think they would be leading a protest of some epic proportion. I’m sure they could be successful at raising the people’s attention to the issue of usurping education. I’m pretty sure […]
Continue ReadingThis Sic Em Saturday post challenges the idea that Common Core critics are uninformed using a Jason Zimba CCSS math Q and A and shares practical action steps to read the standards review curricula and raise awareness
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