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New America Ed Central: Website: http://www.edcentral.org/ Who’s behind the organization: “The New America Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States.” Who backs or contributes to the New America Foundation? “The program’s work is made possible through […]
Continue ReadingFor today’s Tech Thursday post, I’ll be giving an update to my original article titled, “Aligned and Employed” , which looked at Common Core extending from high school to community college.(see: https://www.commoncorediva.com/2014/09/13/sic-em-saturday-aligned-and-employed/) Before we look at what’s new about this subject, please note when you access the original one, it is specific to NC, however, like […]
Continue ReadingNew Year’s Day is not far behind us, that’s true. In the scheme of fighting Common Core, however, each day is a new one to experience consistent progress in our battle for our students. So, how do we BEST plot out our course from here? Some ideas: 1) Remember, new warriors are joining the anti […]
Continue ReadingWe’re near the end of 2014 and it’s a great time to take a look back at our anti CCSS victories! We’ll be back at it in 2015, for certain. Now’s a fabulous season for counting our blessings or considering the positive movements made against the CCSS Machine. What We Did Right: We got loud! […]
Continue ReadingBefore we look at how Common Core via the Career Tech Education has impacted “Alternative Education”, we need to know how “AE” is defined. So, for that, I’m using the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Research Report “How Do the States Define Alternate Education?” (I must cite it as the following: Porowski, A., O’Conner, R., & Luo, […]
Continue ReadingOkay, my anti Common Core warriors, it’s merely days before most of us will gather together to celebrate Thanksgiving 2014. I’m sure we have a million things to do between now and then. So, today’s post will be a bit different than most of my “Musing” posts. Thankful for what CC has taught me: This […]
Continue Reading“Riddle Me This” Sunday, the last one before Thanksgiving 2014. Common Core Standards has had so many of us fighting non-stop this year that we may find we’ve taken little time to focus on much else. I know it’s been hard for me. However, we’re only as strong as our weakest link. So, today’s riddle […]
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