FOM: Post Secondary Ed: The CCSS Trojan

Fib-o-Meter Friday
As the push for the re-authorization of the HEA heats up, more evidence has surfaced showing how post-secondary education is an ideal set-up for the CCSS Machine.
As the push for the re-authorization of the HEA heats up, more evidence has surfaced showing how post-secondary education is an ideal set-up for the CCSS Machine.

Over the past months, we anti CCSS warriors, have learned so much in fighting Common Core. We’ve learned that Common Core has a wide array of names it can be linked to (or often times, be used in place of “Common Core”). Today’s special “Fib-o-Meter” will be devoted to the the groups/efforts and evidence concerning the often overlooked avenue of post secondary education being aligned with Common Core or it’s adult version: Career and Technical Education.

It's Friday, you know what that means! Time to measure what's truth, what's fallacy/fib or what's in between.
It’s Friday, you know what that means! Time to measure what’s truth, what’s fallacy/fib or what’s in between.

The Evidence:

From my archives, I have 5 pages of evidence, complete with association names, ties to Common Core and/or Career Tech Education, funding sources for some; videos, pdf files, and so much more.

If you’d like to search through the five pages for yourselves, here’s the link:
https://www.commoncorediva.com/page/5/?s=community+colleges

If you’d like them broken down by topic, I’ve got a couple of suggestions to use. Feel free to use your own key words.

GEDs, SATs, and other such assessments is a vital piece of evidence of “Total Truth” because these are used to gauge competencies either in place of a diploma or a way to be admitted to college. Both are used by community colleges as proof of the students academic achievements. One assessment you may not know (and it another “Total Truth” is the the CASAS, or Comprehensive Adult and Student Assessment Systems.  I wrote about this on 10/28/14. See: https://www.commoncorediva.com/2014/10/28/ftf-tuesday-align-and-mine-part-2/

Bringing the U.S. Dept. of Labor into the CCSS/CTE mix is another huge “Total Truth” component to the link between post secondary education and aligned education. A big conference where this is extremely evident was when Sec. Duncan and Mr. Perez spoke to a MA audience. The article featuring this was published on 10/16/14. “De facto curriculum? Yes, Mr. Duncan said it. See where and learn even more,
https://www.commoncorediva.com/2014/10/16/tech-thursday-duncan-goes-to-massachusetts/

Another “Total Truth” you can use in your state can be found by learning about the state I live in. Originally published 10/09.14 shows not only how every single community college in NC is CCSS/CTE aligned, but how you can find it in your state’s post secondary arena. Here’s a key excerpt, “From one of the hosts speaking at this meeting, it was shared that all 58 of NC’s Community Colleges are in tune with the businesses in our state. The “master plan”? Kindergarten-12th grades, as well as community colleges (those 4 yr colleges will be added soon, or so it is hoped) to have classroom lessons in tune with the jobs in manufacturing , finances, logistics and healthcare.”
See: https://www.commoncorediva.com/2014/10/09/tech-thursday-ncs-workforce-despicable-moves/

Post Secondary Data Mining: https://www.commoncorediva.com/2015/01/29/tech-thursday-educauses-higher-education-project/ (“Total Truth” from 01/29/15)

Pearson ‘Bribing’ College Students; this “Total Truth” from 03/31/15:
https://www.commoncorediva.com/2015/03/31/ftf-ccss-pearsonites-at-your-higher-ed-campuses-now/

Post Secondary College Degrees being profiled; another aspect not many are aware of.
See this “Total Truth”, https://www.commoncorediva.com/2015/04/22/wybi-ccss-supporter-profiling-higher-ed-degrees/

How the HEA re-authorization is bad news for America:
https://www.commoncorediva.com/2015/03/26/tech-thursday-more-on-the-hea-higher-ed-act/ (*NOTE: will impact students, teachers, and schools)
https://www.commoncorediva.com/2015/03/24/ftf-tuesday-aacte-and-common-core/ (*NOTE: this one is directed toward the professors and teachers of higher ed; their training is also a part of the re-authorization efforts)

Lastly:

The original article I published revealing how CTE (Career and Technical Education) is more Common Core. This is from September 25, 2014. See: https://www.commoncorediva.com/2014/09/25/tech-thursday-cte-career-technical-education-workforce/

From that article, here are the Career Readiness Partnership Council members:
Achieve
Alliance for Excellent Education
American Association of Community Colleges
American School Counselor Association
America’s Promise Alliance
Asia Society
ASCD
Association for Career and Technical Education
Business-Higher Education Forum
ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career
Corporate Voices for Working Families
Council of Chief State School Officers
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
Ford Motor Company Fund
Gallup
James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy
The Manufacturing Institute
National Academy Foundation
National Association of State Boards of Education
National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium
National Council of La Raza
National Education Association
National Governors Association
National League of Cities
National Youth Employment Coalition
Skills for America’s Future, The Aspen Institute
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

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