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Saturday, April 15, 2017

CURMUDGUCATION: PA: Are We Future Ready?

CURMUDGUCATION: PA: Are We Future Ready?:

PA: Are We Future Ready?


Pennsylvania is using its newfound ESSA-empowered freedom to create a new dashboard for measuring school awesomeness-- Future Ready PA. Many folks in Harrisburg are very excited about it and are touting it as a relief from the standardized tests that are "failing" PA students. Let's grab our flux capacitor and our supply of illegal plutonium!














Is Future Ready PA all that and a bag of Snyder's chips? Well, I've looked at it before and, spoiler alert-- no. But it's time revisit this mess in more detail. Let's look at a breakdown of the pieces parts courtesy of the state's own power point slides from its webinar presentation about FRPA. I'm going 
CURMUDGUCATION: PA: Are We Future Ready?: