Governor Cuomo Says Common Core "Is The Right Direction" But Implementation Has Been "Too Hasty"
Sheriff Andy Cuomo today in Buffalo:Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in Buffalo offering a summary of his executive budget proposal and talking about new IBM jobs, said the implementation of the Common Core standards has been “too hasty” and needs to be slowed down. While the demand for a slowdown of the State Education Department’s rollout of the new national standards — and the related use of tests to measure
President Obama Shouldn't Have Disparaged The Liberal Arts
A few weeks ago, Obama made fun of art history, comparing it to a useless endeavor that sentences college students who major in it to a lifetime of poverty and misery.But the NY Post has an editorial that suggests the liberal arts are not the poverty-inducing, misery-causing majors people like Obama claim them to be:In popular lore, a liberal arts major is held to be a prescription for poverty in
Wall Street Bankers, CEO For Cuomo
From the Post:Gov. Cuomo is making another pitch Monday for Republican heavy hitters to back his re-election campaign.Home Depot founder Ken Langone is hosting a “Republicans for Cuomo” event at the Harvard Club at 8:30 a.m. Cuomo will address the well-heeled Wall Street and real-estate titans and field questions.David Malpass, who ran in the 2010 Republican US Senate primary, also was involved in
Governor Cuomo Pals Up With Banker/Criminal John Mack For Wall Street Outreach
Jimmy Vielkind at Capital NY:ALBANY—Governor Andrew Cuomo is utilizing John Mack, a senior adviser to Morgan Stanley who the governor recently brought on to be an adviser on global trade, to help him navigate the titans of Wall Street, according to schedule documents released by Cuomo's office.Cuomo began regular meetings with Mack, a former C.E.O. of the investment bank, in the fall of last year.
2-23-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: How The Chinese Rig Their PISA Scores - And Why It Doesn't Matter AnywayThe next time some education reformer type spews alarmist clap trap around the PISA scores, you can lay this on them:Chinese experts are also less impressed than Truss by the Pisa scores. "Even though Shanghai students scored well on the test, this doesn't mean that Shanghai's education system doesn
