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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

9-24-14 Schools Matter All Week

Schools Matter:






Peg Robertson Says No to Common Core Testing in CO
Posted here earlier:Citizens of Colorado, I address this letter to you, because you are my community, my people. You have the power to shift the momentum in our public schools – where our students are increasingly being taught to the test under the intense high stakes conditions created via Race to the Top. Meanwhile, child poverty is ignored. I send this letter to you because I have made attempts


Teacher Preparation Matters for Teacher Attrition
from Ingersoll, Merrill, and May (2014), available here:




9-23-14 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: New NC Standards Commission Headed by IBM Offshoring Expert and Tea Party DarlingFrom WRAL:IBM executive Andre Peek of Wake County and longtime Forsyth County school board member Jeannie Metcalf were named co-chairmen of the commission.Jeannie Metcalf is Tea Party school board member.  Andre Peek's LinkedIn page has his expertise listed as Outsourcing/Offshoring (really!).What can