Duncan Tries To Hear Teachers
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is here with some back-to-school blogging to assure folks that he is totes listening to somebody. His back-to-school conversation comes with two messages.First, he wants to send out a big thank you to all the folks who helped create some super-duper data points last year-- specifically, the high school graduation rate and the college enrollment rate. I might b
More Bad Polling News For CCSS
While we're making note of how Common Core is tanking in the Education Next and PDK/Gallup polls, let's pull out one other poll from earlier in the summer. This one also us ed the word "plummets," which has become a serious contender for leading the Common Core Headline Word Bank.Conducted and released in June of 2014, the Rasmussen Reports national phone survey checked the support for t
8-20-14 Curmudgucation
CURMUDGUCATION: Patronizing Teachers for the CoreWhen you read this sentence at the start of a blog post, you know things are about to head south rapidly:One of the most frequent questions I get from coaches is about how to coach teachers in the Common Core (CCSS).This is the lede from "Coaching Towards the Common Core State Standards" over at Ed Week. Our coaching...um...coach is Elena