Hiding Behind the Tests
Find out how ESSA is hiding more than you think when it comes educational research.
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Tag: social emotional learning
Ed For Sale
Weekend News for the Anti CCSS/Fed Ed/Global Education for All Warriors.
Continue ReadingWeekend News: The IES and the ESSA
In yesterday’s ‘Tech Thursday’ article, I gave you plenty of information about the CCSS Machine’s efforts via the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) and digital education. In the ‘Closing’, I assured you we would look at the IES (Institute of Education Sciences) next. Why? Section 9210 of the ESSA discusses the IES’s role in federal […]
Continue ReadingTech 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 ReadingThe Morning After: CCSS Lives On
Anti CCSS Warriors, it has been said that there is nothing new in life. Last night we saw our U.S. Congress commit an old tactic: a tyrannical treason. By the lack of backbone, our elected officials chose to let CCSS live on! They chose to let data mining of our students live on, the assessments […]
Continue ReadingWeekend News: The State of CCSS’s SEL
During this busy time, anti CCSS Warriors, we have much distracting us in this War Against the Core (Common Core, that is). For today’s “Tech Thursday”, I’d like to draw your attention to the Gates Foundation funded ASCD (Association for Supervision of Curriculum Development) and their push for SEL (Social Emotional Learning). SEL is a […]
Continue ReadingFTF: Recaps for Anti CC Warriors
Face it, anti CCSS/CTE Warriors, we’ve come a long way together. We also face much more activity before we can find ourselves finished. Since the recap of my “Would You Believe It?” articles was a big hit, I thought the “From the Files” would be helpful, especially when each one has embedded documents we need […]
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