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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

2-4-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida ALL Week

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









Common Core is promising “tests worth teaching to.

From John Thompson in the Huffington Post: Test-driven reform has largely failed but, until recently, it was as great of a public relations success as anything that the billionaires’ bounty could buy. They branded teacher-bashing and union-busting as the “21st century civil rights movement.” High-stakes bubble-in test prep was spun as “High Expectations!” Defenders of the principle of public educa




2-3-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida ALL Week
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: '  State Education Chiefs Can’t Withdraw for Data Sharing – Even If They WantedWrites Dr. Karen Effrem, President of Education Liberty Watch and co-founder of the Florida Stop Common Core Coalition in Truth in American Education: On January 23rd, 2014, thirty-four chief