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Tag: cradle to career
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 this election year. No matter if it is a local school board race or a state-wide race, this compendium is for you!! If you should have an issue you would like more information on and […]
Continue ReadingFTF: A ‘Dependent Truth’
Well, the new U.S. Dept. of Education Secretary is wasting no time when it comes to selling higher education opportunities. But are these opportunities truthful ones? Will these opportunities come with MORE Common Core State Standards strings attached? What about College/Career Readiness? Career Tech Education (and all its other names) and their strings? I guess […]
Continue ReadingTech Thursday: High School Equivalency, CCSS/CTE Style
No, the GED’s makeover ISN’T the biggest news at the moment in the War Against the Core. However, as we’ve seen in this fight to save our educational system from the massive agenda which accompanies it, WHAT has been going on SINCE the GED Makeover?? If your state is anything like the one I live […]
Continue ReadingMonday Musings: Supportive Acts to Back the Initiative
Much has been written lately about the S1787 (Senate Bill 1787) which is to continue to implementation/support of the ‘Community Schools’ overhaul. This means, the neighborhood schools you know as they are NOW will be laced with the Common Core Initiative (meaning it will be not just the Standards being embedded, but ALL the other […]
Continue ReadingSic’ ‘Em Saturday: Pint Sized Common Core
Anti CCSS Warriors, just in time for the 4th of July, the latest ‘Zero to 3 State Baby Facts’ for each of the 50 states are out. So be ready to ‘rumble’! The National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families: http://www.zerotothree.org/ Their mission statement per the above website address is, “ZERO TO THREE is a […]
Continue ReadingTech Thursdays: Anti CCSS Need to Know Items
It’s been an honor to be a trusted ‘go to’ person in this War Against the Core (as I call it). Especially when it’s come to the aspect that Common Core is extremely embedded in our post-secondary world. Why is it so important to repeat this? Because no matter where your pre-K through 12th grade […]
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