Consorting To Align And Undermine
Warriors, who among your State education leaders used to be in another arm or leg of the CCSS Machine? Where are they now?
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Tech Thursday: Lifelong Skills or Lifelong Sentence?
Anti CCSS Warriors, the above picture is one I featured in a previous article, but serves my topic for today very well. Since the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) is now law, CCSS (Common Core State Standards) will NOT be a phrase you see. BUT it will be there all the same. The name has […]
Continue ReadingESSA Ties to WIOA 2014 and New Citizens
Anti CCSS Warriors, you know you have heard me on the air and read my blog where I have stated several times that the WIOA of 2014 (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014) has embedded in it 21 different times the phrase ‘Career Pathways’. More recently you have heard me state, as well as […]
Continue ReadingTech Thursday: Post Secondary Champs?
For today’s “Tech Thursday” article, I want to shine the light on the CCSS alignment in post-secondary education yet again. Shouldn’t my focus be on the re-authorization of the ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act)? While the focus is on that (my last 2 published articles were devoted to the ESEA re-authorization push), we need […]
Continue ReadingTech Thursday: Update on CCSS/CTE for Adults
Warriors Against Common Core: how many times have I shared with you that the CCSS Machine seeks to encompass EVERY student..including adults? Young adults, just graduating high school and moving on in life; mid-life adults and/or older adults desiring to go back to work and needing education…you get the idea. No matter how many times […]
Continue ReadingFTF: New CCSS “Unpacking” Guide
It seems fitting for my “From the Files” post, that we look at CCSS and it’s unpacking. After all, if we’re going to continue to see students fail, teachers frustrated to the point of resigning, and other staff members saught after for MORE CCSS alignment, we need to know the latest. The graphic you see […]
Continue ReadingFTF: Measure Twice, Cut Once
Repeatedly, you have read my researched articles verifying CCSS, CTE, STEM, and all the other names of the programs, resources, or standards “Common Core” goes with. For today’s “From the Files”, I’ll show you how MORE private companies are measuring education, not once, but twice. Their aspirations? In my researched opinion, to have cookie cutter […]
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