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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

4-23-14 @ The Chalk Face

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Those 24 Common Core 2009 Work Group Members
In May 2009, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and former State Education Superintendent Paul Pastorek signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This CCSS MOU would become “Appendix B” for the US Department of Education’s (USDOE’s) Race to the Top (RTTT) program. In June 2009, the National Governors Association (NGA), […]


Guest Post: Ken Derstine. “Talking Back to Mark Gleason”
The 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, held in Philadelphia from April 3rd – 7th, has come and gone. The thousands of delegates have left town, but for the general public of Philadelphia, the most memorable and long lasting thing to come out of the conference was to get a glimpse of […]


4-22-14 @ The Chalk Face
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