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FTF Tuesday: CCREC (College and Career Readiness Evaluation Consortium)

Lynne Taylor7 Comments on FTF Tuesday: CCREC (College and Career Readiness Evaluation Consortium)

I don’t know if you’ve heard of this group, but I can’t help but think “CC Wreck” not “CCREC” when I see the acronym. Although it could stand for something like “Common Core Rots Education/Curriculum”. Well, enough pithiness, let’s get down to finding out more about CCREC. College and Career Readiness Evaluation Consortium: (http://www.edpartnerships.org/college-and-career-readiness-evaluation-consortium-ccrec) According to […]

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Sic’ ‘Em Saturday: When Your Faith Based School Uses CCSS Assessments

Lynne Taylor11 Comments on Sic’ ‘Em Saturday: When Your Faith Based School Uses CCSS Assessments

A few months ago I was chatting via Facebook with a parent of 2 children enrolled in a particular faith-based school. She had contacted me to find out how to discover where the Common Core Standard ties were hiding. What tipped her off? Homework! “Sara’s” Story: To protect my long-distance, anti Common Core mom, I’ll […]

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Sic’ ‘Em Saturday: Common Core, Minding Our Manners

Lynne Taylor7 Comments on Sic’ ‘Em Saturday: Common Core, Minding Our Manners

Recently, I wrote about Social and Emotional Learning and how ‘Common Core’ is incorporating the style. If you remember, it’s more about the ‘greater good of a collective group’ than it is about ‘being the best you, you can be’. So, why the shift? It appears to be to better accommodate the ‘global citizen’ mindset […]

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WYBI Wednesday: Almost Snookered into Common Core

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The following is a true story from a family who wishes to remain anonymous. I have respected their request. Please, be aware. “FREE Computers” for deserving students: The educational conference I attended had a sign up table with little to no information other than ‘nominate your students’. Of course ‘free’ was the catch. However, because […]

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Sic’ ‘Em Saturday: CCSS, Progressives and PBLs

Lynne Taylor7 Comments on Sic’ ‘Em Saturday: CCSS, Progressives and PBLs

I have a ‘suppose this’ scenario for you…Suppose I wanted to take progressively liberal agenda, add Common Core and come up with something ‘wonderful’? What do you suppose the results may be? You’d get PBL (Project Based Learning). Now PBL has been around awhile, but think, what better way to move my ‘educational agents of […]

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