Common Core Rollback: One Down, 44 to Go – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER:
by Kris Nielsen
Somebody has had just about enough of the developmentally inappropriate, overbearing, confusing, and time-consuming program that Pearson thinks is going to help him grow into a successful adult.
Enjoy this student’s videography:
by freetoteach
Enjoyed Tim and Shaun’s discussion Sunday on InBloom thanks for brining Rachel from CO to educate us. if No Child Left Behind was propaganda, this date mining bonanaza is another holy grail for corporate ed deformers.
I keep getting ads and invitations to update my Linked In account and once on Facebook, people start popping up all over the place. This is the cloud.
by Timothy D. Slekar
By now the poverty does or doesn’t matter dichotomy is really starting to get old. Anyone that truly cares about helping children from low socio-economic environments succeed in school knows that all children(even poor ones) can learn. It’s absolutely ridiculous when education reformers insist that those of us “resisting” are claiming that “poor kids can’t […]
by Jim Horn
Indiana has officially become the first state to say no more Common Core. The State Legislature will have another look in 2015. From Valerie Strauss:
. . . . Indiana is one of the handful of states that are either pulling back or considering halting the standards, including Alabama, South Dakota and Georgia. The Michigan House recently voted to strip all funding for the Common Core, though the governor, Rick Snyder, says he supports the standards.
There is a range of criticism about the core. Some argue that many of the standards were not well written, while others are concerned that it removes local input from what teachers should teach.
The standards were approved in Indiana when reformer Tony
