Update: CCSS, CTE, STEM, and Connect NC Bond
Update on Connect NC and the CCSS Machine. Vote ‘NO’!
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State Digital Education
Anti CCSS Warriors, if you have seen my last two articles, then you know the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) has mandates for digital education embedded, a massive and invasive data collection study in the works and more. But what about the digital education push from your state’s level?In case you haven’t read the articles, […]
Continue ReadingWeekend News: Tangled Webs of Educratic Moves
For this first “Weekend News” of 2016, I wanted to focus in on how much CCSS (Common Core State Standards) and CTE (Career Technical Education) is still alive and thriving across the nation. As most of you (anti CCSS Warriors) know, I reside in NC. As you can imagine, NC, like all the other States, […]
Continue ReadingTech Thursday: Post Secondary Champs?
For today’s “Tech Thursday” article, I want to shine the light on the CCSS alignment in post-secondary education yet again. Shouldn’t my focus be on the re-authorization of the ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act)? While the focus is on that (my last 2 published articles were devoted to the ESEA re-authorization push), we need […]
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: Collective Workforce
Ahh, another weekend. Time for a brief break from the working world for some of us. However, for those of us against Common Core, we’ve learned our work is still before us. We’ve learned that the WIOA of 2014, Common Core, Career Tech Education, Career Pathways, STEM, and American Apprenticeships are ALL not only part […]
Continue ReadingRMT: The Other Side of the ESEA Battle?!
Good Warrior Day to you, anti CCSS fighters. We’ve been gearing up for a ‘showdown’ so to speak for months now over HR5, S1177, and other proposed CCSS/CTE laced legislative bills before Congress in Washington. It’s down to the wire. The voting surrounding most of these is set to possibly happen in a couple of […]
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