Local School Board in Georgia Votes Down Buying Common Core Math Books
This is interesting. From The Marietta Daily Journal:
State Schools Superintendent John Barge is coming to Cobb County on Saturday to address concerns about the controversial Common Core standards.The announcement of Barge’s visit to Cobb comes on the heels of a 4-3 vote by the Cobb Board of Education last week to reject the purchase of $7.5 million in math textbooks aligned with Common Core. This rejection at the local level came after the state had already committed to implementing the nationwide standards under the past two governors, Sonny Perdue and Nathan Deal, even though the Legislature has never voted on the issue.That Barge would come to Cobb to face what is likely to be a room full of fellow Republicans with
Second #StopCommonCore Twitter Rally Reaches 9.7 Million Twitter Users
Parent Led Reform, in collaboration with Truth in American Education, hosted a second rally via Twitter Thursday May 2nd. The #Stopcommoncore Twitter Rally shared research diligently collected by parents, citizens, and education professionals concerned about the government’s push for national common standards in education with a wide reach of nearly 9.8 million Twitter users. Common Core standards are national K-12 education goals as defined by federal and state government.
“The response to our second #stopcommoncore Twitter rally was amazing,” says Shane Vander Hart, spokesperson for Truth in American Education. ”Parents and concerned citizens are awakening to this previously unknown revolution in education called the Common Core State Standards. ‘We the people’ are starting to have our voices heard. Last night we sent a strong message that education policy can not be decided by a handful of elites. ‘We the people’ through our elected representatives must have a say. Our kids deserve real reform, not a data-less,
untested fad.”
untested fad.”
But the action doesn’t end there. Parent Led Reform issued a challenge: “Join to make your state the first to
Common Core Testing Glitches
From Ed Week:
Widespread technical failures and interruptions of recent online testing in a number of states have shaken the confidence of educators and policymakers in high-tech assessment methods and raised serious concerns about schools’ technological readiness for the coming common-core online tests.The glitches arose as many districts in the 46 states that have signed on to the Common Core State Standards are trying to ramp up their technological infrastructure to prepare for the requirement that students take online assessments starting in 2014-15.Disruptions of testing were reported across Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Oklahoma and
Kentucky’s Common Core Testing Program Hits Major Snag
(LEXINGTON, Ky.) – Only one year after Kentucky became the first state in the nation to introduce an education assessment and accountability system aligned with the national Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the program has already hit a major snag.
In a decision with national overtones for the other 44 states that have signed on to the CCSS, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has discontinued scoring for all constructed-response questions in each of the four CCSS-aligned high school end-of-course exams.
This decision means only multiple-choice questions remain as scored portions in these tests, which are a major element in the state’s accountability program for high schools.
The US Department of Education has put states under considerable pressure to adopt common core standards with the goal of developing school programs that prepare students for college and careers.
Lawmakers expressed surprise when told of the dramatic action, which KDE officials quietly communicated to