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Sunday, March 30, 2014

3-30-13 Curmudgucation Week

CURMUDGUCATION:






Results! Right!! Now!!!
There has been a great deal written about the content of the current testing regime, concentrating on what The Test covers, and how little depth of complexity can be measured. But there's another dimension of The Test that deserves the same sort of attention and criticism.Time.The obvious issue is the time spent on the test itself. The weakness of writing components is often noted and the clearest

A Message from Andrea Rediske

It's a tough contest these days to determine which state legislature is most hostile to public education, but Florida legislators (motto "Finding New Ways To Make Things Worse") has been giving it the old college and career ready try.Nobody knows that better than the family of Ethan Rediske. His mother Andrea has been working tirelessly to insure that extraordinarily challenged children
3-29-13 Curmudgucation Week
CURMUDGUCATION:Van Roekel/NEA CCSS UpdateIt's been almost six whole weeks since Dennis Van Roekel stepped up to make the announcement that CCSS implementation has been botched, and to suggest some startling ideas for correcting course. It' a month and two days since he took to the US News debate club to issue a rewritten version of his statement about the botch that walked back most of the excitin