Missouri Education Watchdog: The Sunday Education Weekly Reader Visual Soundbites 03.11.12

Missouri Education Watchdog: The Sunday Education Weekly Reader Visual Soundbites 03.11.12:

The Sunday Education Weekly Reader Visual Soundbites 03.11.12

by stlgretchen

Welcome to the  Sunday Education Weekly Reader Visual Soundbites from twitter. Tidbits from the week include tweets about the abolishment of the DOEd, lack of due diligence while instituting expensive (and taxpayer funded) early childhood programs, data sets picking winners and losers and another expert comes out against common core curriculum...err, standards.

• Could it be states regain control of education?  These senators have a plan for that to happen.....Conservative Plan to Eliminate Education, Energy, Housing, Commerce Depts.http://shar.es/gSGN3

•  Another early childhood program shown to have limited to no positive effect....Studies find few to no benefits for Tools of the Mind, an #earlychildhood #education curriculum:http://bit.ly/wza8NI 

•  Sounds like Kirkwood School District in MO...instituting early childhood program (all day