Fib-o-Meter Friday: IB (International Baccalaureate) Schools, Common Core
Fib-o-Meter Friday post on IB schools and Common Core claims
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Tech Thursday: Workforce Common Core Style
I love research. I always have and will continue to love it…especially when it leads me to so many off the beaten path locations where Common Core and Career Pathways intersect. Frankly, any place CC and post high school intersect. Why? Because we’ve been fed the line so often of how CC is only K-12! […]
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 […]
Continue ReadingTech Thursday: Blast from our “Workforce” Past
This post walks through major workforce and education programs from Manpower and CETA to School to Work Goals 2000 and WIOA and highlights the Workforce Data Quality Initiative that matches workforce data with education data for pre K through employment tracking.
Continue ReadingTech Thursday: Duncan goes to Massachusetts
This Tech Thursday breaks down a radio interview with Arne Duncan in Massachusetts covering community colleges as workforce trainers Common Core standards testing teacher evaluations and federal grant driven programs.
Continue ReadingTech Thursday: NC’s “Workforce” Despicable Moves
A follow up to the NC Workforce Learning Summit detailing how business and public private partnerships influence education direction with community colleges and CCSS aligned workforce tests like WorkKeys.
Continue ReadingTech Thursday: CCSS, Career Pathways and Workforce
This post connects Common Core to career pathways and workforce policy citing quotes from a National Dialogue on Career Pathways then details NCICTE federal CTE initiatives and how public private partnerships continue to drive education reform.
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