Sic’ ‘Em Saturday: Grab a CAPE, CCSS Warriors!
Council for American Private Education CAPE and its connections to Common Core standards and private education policy.
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Tech Thursday: Common Core Military Special
This post spotlights Common Core impacts on military families including an infographic claiming 82000 military students in the CCSS line of fire and links to DoD Army RAND and Achieve materials tied to CCSS and military readiness.
Continue ReadingWYBI: Job Development Grants and CCSS?
Known by a bevy of names, let’s see what we can learn today about CCSS and job development investments grants. Are they only in NC (where I first learned about them) or are these in other states? If so, what are the educational implications? The Name Game: As knee deep into CCSS as NC is, […]
Continue ReadingFOM Friday: CCSS “Can’t Be Wrong”?!
What Could Possibly Be ‘Right’ About Common Core? In today’s post we’ll measure the latest ‘new evidence’ about Common Core in the classroom. Let’s get the Fib-o_Meter fired up! First, the organization: ASCD (formerly, The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) The website: www.ascd.org “Total Truth”, each state has an ASCD Affiliate. So do several […]
Continue ReadingTech Thursday: CCSS, Worthy of the Folly of Shame
This Tech Thursday post names the CCSSO as the folly of shame winner and highlights the ILN CCCR framework how it drives state to local system redesigns assumptions about all students and policy moves that tie diplomas credentials higher education and workforce outcomes together.
Continue ReadingWYBI Update: Amping Up the Common Core
For today’s “Would You Believe It” Wednesday post, I’m updating my original article from Sept. 2014 that delved into Common Core Standards via Amplify…and a few others. Here’s the link to the original post: https://www.commoncorediva.com/2014/09/10/will-this-be-delivery-or-dine-in/ As I did yesterday, I’ll only be using excerpts from the original and contrast them with what’s happened since then. I […]
Continue ReadingFOM Friday: Diplomas, a Thing of the Past?!
Post analyzing claims that diplomas are becoming obsolete under Common Core
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