WYBI Wednesday: ICE, Chilling Our Education

In yesterday’s post, I revealed quite a bit about an international credentialing company tied to Common Core. Today’s “Would You Believe It” Wednesday post, looks at the American based companies. Will they, too, be tied to Common Core? ICE (aka: Institute for Credentialing Excellence): Here’s how they describe themselves, “The Institute for Credentialing Excellence, or […]

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FTF Tuesday: IASSC..Universal Certification

IASSC (International Association for Six Sigma Certification) is a third party in the field of workforce credentials. If you’re not familiar with how credentials play into Common Core, think WorkKeys assessments (from the ACT, Inc. folks), Career Tech Ed, and THAT arm of the CC Machine. What’s interesting to note is this credentialing company has […]

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FOM Friday: Diplomas, a Thing of the Past?!

Imagine, if you will…a society where those diplomas we worked so hard to earn are rendered useless. A society where Common Core has so overtaken us, we work for the credential authorized card. It’s not that far fetched. Watch this short video produced by the NCCER (National Center for Construction Education and Research): http://youtu.be/mvmrwEUEdvo NCCER […]

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