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Another reader speaks truth to power about the Common Core SBAC Test
Wait, What? has the greatest readers. Here is another great comment to today’s blog. The Memo from Commissioner Pryor’s office is a minor classic of doublespeak in the service of damage control. Just look at the opening: “We wish to convey a time sensitive update with you…” Yes, that is one way to put it; […]The post Another reader speaks truth to power about the Common Core SBAC Test appeared f
More testing, less learning
So many comments on Wait, What? posts deserve to be their own post. In fact, more often than not, the most interesting information and observations can be found in the comment section. Here a reader confronts the mindlessness of the decision, that in the name of ensuring that students are college ready, the Malloy administration […]The post More testing, less learning appeared first on Wait What?.
Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test of a Test delayed a week
As teachers and school administrators learned on Friday, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test isn’t (quite) ready to be given. Years in the making and the consortium behind the absurd Common Core test informed partner states on Friday that things would not be ready to go this coming Monday, as scheduled. The “shocking […]The post Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test
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The list of towns (Part 1) misleading parents on the Common Core Test grows…
As an increasing number of parents know, Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education is engaged in an immoral attempt to force school districts to prohibit parents from opting their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Field Test. Last December Commissioner Stefan Pryor sent out a memo providing public school superintendents with step by step […]The post The list of towns (Part 1) misl
MAR 13
Would one of the top four leaders of the Connecticut General Assembly please stand up?
Governor Malloy and Stefan Pryor, Malloy’s Commissioner of Education are lying to Connecticut parents. Parents have the right to refuse to allow their students to be guinea pigs for the corporate education reform industry. There is absolutely NOTHING in Connecticut law that prevents Connecticut parents to opt-out their children from this year’s absurd Common Core […]The post Would one of the top f
Look out Bridgeport, here comes Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry
According to the website that hosts his “inspirational” speaking business, Steve Perry is the “Most Trusted Educator in America.” His “non-nonsense” approach to education takes many forms, including an obsession with his Twitter Account. Just the other day Steve Perry Tweeted, “Uncoachable kids become unemployable adults. Let your kid get used to somebody digging in […]The post Look out Bridgeport
Common Core: The solution for poverty, language barriers and special education needs?
According to Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and those who support the corporate education reform industry, the “solution” that will create a better educated society is the Common Core Standards, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Testing scheme and evaluating teachers based on those inappropriate tests.Two things became painfully clear at yesterday’s Common […]
MAR 12
A snapshot into how the Malloy/Pryor political operation really works
The follow document reveals why Malloy’s new Common Core TASK FORCE is little more than a joke. Malloy’s choice to co-chair the Task Force has is already a strong supporter of the Common Core, a point he was going to make clear Legislative testimony today. But someone intervened in order and the new co-chair’s testimony […]The post A snapshot into how the Malloy/Pryor political operation really
Hey I know, let’s have a Taskforce!
Faced with growing opposition to the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Testing scheme and the unfair and faulty teacher evaluation program, Governor Malloy held a press conference in late January 2014 to announce that he would push off the implementation of the teacher evaluation system until January 2015 (60 days after election day) […]The post Hey I know, let’s have a Taskforce! appe
MAR 11
NEWS FLASH: Pryor threatens public school superintendents
A number of public school superintendents were recently instructed to join an emergency conference call with Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor. According to numerous sources, Stefan Pryor used the call to threaten public school superintendents by telling them that if they testified at the Education Committee’s Common Core public hearing their school districts […]The post NE
More crazy sh*t Capital Prep Steve Perry has said
Steve Perry is the principal of a public school in Hartford, Connecticut. For that job, the taxpayers of Hartford and Connecticut pay Perry close to $200,000 in salary, benefits and retirement credits. But Steve Perry also has a lucrative speaking business that means he is absent from his job about 20 percent of the school […]The post More crazy sh*t Capital Prep Steve Perry has said appeared fir
Bribing the guinea pigs (aka our students)
Governor Malloy, his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and the corporate education reform industry are fond of claiming that the Common Core and massive Common Core testing scheme is about making sure students are “College and Career Ready.” As a result of their warped belief in more and more standardized testing, most Connecticut towns will […]The post Bribing the guinea pigs (aka our stud
MAR 10
The Malloy/Pryor Jumoke Charter School Gravy Train
For those looking for a case study about the growing privatization of public education in America need only look as far as Connecticut and the tenure of Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy. Call it the Jumoke Academy Charter School Case Study. First there as was Charter School called Jumoke Academy. Like all charter schools in Connecticut, […]The post The Malloy/Pryor Jumoke Charter School Gravy Tra
Malloy full steam ahead on Common Core, Common Core Testing and “education reforms”
Just over a month ago, Governor Malloy took the the microphone to announce his election year effort to persuade teachers, parents and public school advocates to overlook his three years of failed education policies and throw their support behind his re-election aspirations. In essence, Malloy said, “I hear you and we’ll wait until after I’m […]The post Malloy full steam ahead on Common Core, Commo
MAR 09
Malloy Administration: Clark Elementary Parents – You must accept Friendship Charter School or else
Parents, teachers and the community that makes up Hartford’s Clark Elementary School in Hartford are still reeling from the Malloy Administration’s threat that the Clark “Turnaround Committee” must agree to turn their local Hartford neighborhood school over to Washington D.C.’s Friendship Charter School Inc or else they won’t get the funds necessary to improve their […]The post Malloy Administrati
MAR 08
The two “MUST READ” columns of the weekend
Fellow pro-pubic education advocates and commentators have done it again – with two more MUST READ pieces. Sarah Darer Littman with “The Brave New World of being ‘College and Career Ready” and Wendy Lecker with “A crisis of low standards” Wendy Lecker writes, Not poverty. Not inadequate resources. Not toxic stress. Not segregation. According to […]The post The two “MUST READ” columns of the weeken