Pediatrician’s Opinion on Common Core
This is a post from Stop Common Core in Mississippi on Facebook that currently has over 1,200 shares. Is this happening in your state?
#Commoncore Falls Apart in Alabama. But Don’t Worry: It’s All Candy Land.
Common Core State Standards Initiative has been an untested theory that is now in practice. Promises made to parents (when CCSS was finally discovered by the public) that data tracking and standards written by private organizations (because teachers were too incompetent to know how/what to teach) were finally THE answer to higher student achievement. How’s […]
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#Commoncore Falling Apart in Missouri
Missouri schools are starting to experience with what early implementing Common Core states like New York and Kentucky found out about Common Core two years ago: it’s not higher or better. Look what was was shared from a rural Missouri school: Proponents will say it’s an implementation issue. That explanation falls flat as […]
SEP 24
How Participants Not Involved in the Delphi Movement Viewed HB1490 Deliberations
If you read DESE’s press release about the last two days of work group deliberations pursuant to HB1490 directives, you would think they have been a smashing success and DESE is being helpful, rather than obstructive for a true exchange of ideas and thoughts on setting MISSOURI standards for MISSOURI kids: (click on graphic […]
SEP 23
Missouri Leadership Clarifies DESE’s Role in HB1490 Workgroups
The meetings yesterday in Jefferson City for the HB1490 workgroups were largely Delphi in nature by DESE and the facilitators. In response to citizens contacting leadership yesterday expressing their displeasure and DESE not following bill language, Lt. Governor Peter Kinder issued the following letter clarifying DESE’s role in these workgroups: Thanks to leadership for the […]
SEP 22
Missouri 1490 Work Groups: DESE Delphied?
We’ll be updating the work group process that started this morning in Jefferson City in accordance with HB1490 and the rewriting and development of Missouri standards, not standards written by private organizations held unaccountable to the public and legislature. Word from the citizens who are attending, it has been a total Delphi attempt by […]
SEP 21
Teacher’s Husband Explains What Common Core Leaves Out: Parental Responsibility.
We are all too familiar with the ever increasing stories of parents not being able to help their children with 2nd grade homework. Chipper notes from school administrators offer sessions so parents (often with advanced degrees) can ‘learn how to help their children with math’. Assessments are done online and parents don’t know how these […]