Bragging About Broward’s Common Core Buy-In From Broad Grad Superintendent
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt released a statement last week intended to attract investors by touting how much business they were going to be getting with their Common Core products. This Business Week story focused on what Broward Schools in Florida had purchased: Florida’s Broward County Public Schools, one of the largest public school systems in the country, recently partnered with HMH to support t
Familiar Story in Tennesee: Gov, Ed Boss Want Common Core – GOP Legislators, Not So Much
Looks like a familiar story is unfolding in another republican dominated state. Joey Garrison reports in The Tennessean: Republican lawmakers are putting the final touches on legislation that would delay the implementation of Common Core education standards and the companion test in Tennessee, perhaps setting the stage for the type of fight playing out in statehouses across the country. Around a d
1-20-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: The New York Common Core Story That Frightens Florida GOP LawmakersIt’s come to this in New York: To say John King Jr. is New York’s embattled education commissioner is an understatement. A statewide teachers’ union is making plans to take an unprecedented no-confidence
