“Common Core Catastrophe”
Williamson Evers is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and former U.S. assistant secretary of Education. Pittsburg Herald Tribune reporter Eric Heyl interviewed the George W. Bush appointee and got his thoughts on Common Core. ….it’s a kind of utopian project to align all the classrooms in the country to be doing roughly the same things. Anything like that is just an unimaginably difficul
For-Profit Charter Schools Want Standard Contracts to Dodge Accountability
Florida republican legislators are using predictable – and false – talking points to justify their latest charter school reform bill. Erin Kourkounis reports in the Tampa Tribune: …Three changes set for consideration in the state Legislature would inject the Florida Department of Education into a process now largely controlled at the school district level. The proposals would require a review of a
Rick Scott’s Common Core Political Problems
Education commissioner Pam Stewart has provided much-needed calm in Florida’s education universe. Rick Scott probably wishes he had her in place all along instead of ideologues Gerard Robinson and Tony Bennett. But Scott would probably admit that those were the kind of guys he wanted when he was elected in 2010. And he was smitten by the carefully crafted Michelle Rhee story and had completely bou
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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 ALL WeekA Tale of Two EmailsYesterday’s 107 minute news conference by New Jersey governor Chris Christie was taking place about the same time the story broke that disgraced education commissioner Tony Bennett had hired s