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Friday, February 28, 2014

2-28-14 Wait What?

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More and more teachers are leading the opt-out effort.
Just this in from Chicago, a growing number of Chicago public schools teachers, like public school teachers in Seattle are standing up and taking on the corporate education reform industry’s absurd, unfair and inappropriate standardized testing frenzy. Guy Brandenburg, a fellow pro-public education advocate and bloggers reports that, “According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the entire […]The post More


Is Dan Malloy a Pathological liar?

A pathological liar someone who, “is an abnormally habitual liar.”  Some call it a disease, some call it a condition, and some just call it the typical behavior of far too many politicians. As noted in a Wait, What? post yesterday entitled, “Malloy/UTC Scam – the biggest lie yet,” Governor Malloy and the CEO of […]The post Is Dan Malloy a Pathological liar? appeared first on Wait What?.


2-27-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: Where Does Common Sense Fit Into Common Core? (By Barth Keck)Earlier this week, Connecticut educator and CT Newsjunkie columnist Barth Keck published another important column about the problems associated with the Common Core and the utter failure in the way it is being implemented. The Common Core fiasco was begun with President George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind,” and continued u