“A-hunting We Will Go”
Article on workforce competency and education alignment concerns
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“Conformity Readiness”
Discussion of conformity readiness and critique of education policy in Common Core Diva post
Continue ReadingTech Thursday: Online Learning for Everything?
This post highlights how online courses and digital resources can quietly connect back to the CCSS Machine using examples like Middlebury Interactive Languages K12 Inc ties and the We Are Teachers site then shares practical steps to snoop and verify curriculum sources.
Continue ReadingWeekend News: HEA (Higher Ed Act) and the ‘Common Core’
Greetings, Warriors! What’s the latest on the re-authorization efforts concerning the Higher Education Act, but HOW is the “Common Core” involved? The quick answer is “Career Technical Education”. (what I’ve proven to be the ‘adult version of the K-12 “Common Core Standards”). Another short answer is the ” Initiative behind the entire alignment of education.” What […]
Continue ReadingSic’ ‘Em Saturday: Aligned Summer
Ahh, summer approaches. While you may have plans of relaxing fun, the CCSS Machine has a fully ‘locked and loaded’ menu of intentional alignment to illegally crafted Standards. Would you know where to spot them? CCSS, Summer Style: Type in “CCSS Summer” as a search option. If your results are anything like mine, almost 500,000 […]
Continue ReadingTech Thursday: College/Career Readiness Success and Common Core
This post reviews the CCR Success Center and related content and regional centers then connects Common Core alignment to postsecondary education through Lumina Foundation work by David Conley and Achieve research tying CCSS to CTE and Perkins funding.
Continue ReadingFTF Tuesday: “Align and mine”, Part 2
Last week I shared with you detailed information about the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s grant awards given in rounds to help align data mining with the U.S. Dept. of Education. The connector? CCSS aligned Workforce. For a reminder of last week’s post, see this picture. In the past few days, Missouri Education Watchdog (as well […]
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