Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education

Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education:

Welcome back, Coach – FL teacher and writer, Bob Sikes, has returned to the Blogosphere !!! #ColorMeHappy @bobsikes | Continuing Change

Welcome back, Coach – FL teacher and writer, Bob Sikes, has returned to the Blogosphere !!! #ColorMeHappy @bobsikes | Continuing Change: Welcome back, Coach – FL teacher and writer, Bob Sikes, has returned to the Blogosphere !!! #ColorMeHappy @bobsikesDecember 8, 2013Education      Rate ThisGOOD news !!!!Florida teacher and education blogger, Bob Sikes of Scathing Purple Musings has returned from

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Sick of ObamaCare? Consider JebSchools

Posted on December 9, 2013by Bob Sikes

Last year’s abrupt departure of Florida’s education commissioner, Tony Bennett, put the brakes on the ideological insanity that drove the state’s education policy-making. After three straight commissioners who were tools of Jeb Bush’ s foundations, it was time to have someone different. Pam Stewart has brought much-needed deliberate, thoughtful process back to the table. The Orlando Sentinel’s excellent education reporter, Leslie Postal, gives a review of what’s happened over the last few months with Florida’s testing regime:

A recent memo from Education Commissioner Pam Stewart suggested state educators want to tread carefully.

“Florida is engaged in a fair and open process … leaving all options available as we move forward with the statewide assessment decision,” she wrote.

In 2010, Florida adopted Common Core, then joined a group of about 20 other states to devise new standardized tests tied to those standards. The exams created by the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers were to replace FCAT’s math, reading and writing 

  

Common Core’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost in Florida | Scathing Purple Musings

Common Core’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost in Florida | Scathing Purple Musings: Common Core’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost in FloridaPosted on December 8, 2013by Bob SikesThere’s a nifty little site I can  calculate the number of days it has been since my last post – 116 to be exact. More on my sabbatical later. But it seems ironic now that my last post on August 15th was  It’s Begun: F

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