ESSA in a Nutshell
Anti CCSS Warriors, the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) is meant to be tough. It is meant to embed educational […]
From the Files Tuesday
ESSA and Digital Overload
Look into the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) for all the digital parts of education via College and Career Readiness (the new ‘Common Core’ name). (*Note: in the ESSA, ‘Standards’ is innocently stated as “Challenging State Academic Standards”). Why do I point this out? The law (ESSA) uses both phrases for education!
Weekend News
The School Board Special, Part One
This Weekend News begins a special series for all those ‘anti CCSS Machine Warriors’ out there running for their school boards
Weekend News
Weekend News: Heads Up, Higher Ed CTE Update
This Weekend News is an update to the continued Common Core/Career Tech Education/Aligned Apprentices efforts our post secondary students are facing.
Tech Thursdays
Tech Thursday: Career Pathways Meet Competency Based Pathways
This post reviews the Achieve Inc and NASDCTEc push to connect CTE and competency based pathways and highlights policy moves like eliminating seat time competency based credits community wide stakeholder systems and aligning higher education to K 12 CBP
Fib-o-Meter Friday
FOM: CCSS/CTE “Hype”, D.C. Style
In the scheme of things lately, we anti CCSS (and CTE) warriors shouldn’t be surprised at the amount of hype
Would You Believe It Wednesday
WYBI: CCSS Supporter Profiling Higher Ed Degrees
Back in 2011, The CCS/CTE/CCR (Common Core Standards/Career Tech Ed/College, Career Readiness) and other higher education institutions got a ‘leg