By Lyndsey Layton E-mail the writer | Originally Published at Washington Post. February 19, 2014 The head of the nation’s largest teachers union said the rollout of the new Common Core academic standards has been “completely botched” in many states and that wholesale changes taking place in [...]
In response to many calls from students, parents, and teachers, opinions have changed. Courses too. Now, the President of the National Education Association says it is time for a correction. In respect to the Common Core State Standards or the assessments used to fulfill this agenda, he [...]
Flickr image cc by Phil Roeder By John O'connor | Originally Published at Florida State Impact, National Public Radio. February 10, 2014 7:54 AM Chris Guerrieri is a Jacksonville art teacher who also blogs about education. Last month he sent us an email about Florida’s Common Core [...]
House K-12 Subcommittee Chairwoman Janet Adkins proposed deleting Common Core from Florida Statutes so all the state's education standards will be under one name. File photo by John Iarussi By James Call| Originally Published at The Current. January 31, 2014 It’s not as Orwellian as making a [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 15, 2014 For almost thirty years, I have been a serious recreational and competitive cyclist. Despite my goals as a cyclist focusing primarily on endurance events—such as English centuries (100 miles) over mountain courses [...]
Photograph; Angel Nevins, center, and her friend and classmate Jade Smith, left, wait for their signal to ring their hand bells as children from the Anderson Grove Head Start program in Caledonia, Mississippi, ring their hand bells to accompany several patriotic songs, Tuesday, February 26, 2013, at [...]
Political Cartoon; "Believe" By Clay Bennett, Washington Post Writers Group By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 14, 2013 Compelling research suggests that the public in the U.S. is unique in its commitment to belief, often at the expense of evidence—leading [...]
By Leslie Postal| Originally Published at Orlando Sentinel November 17, 2013 Florida's Common Core education standards make for dry reading. But they've created such a fierce political battle that when the state asked for public comments, more than 19,000 of them poured in. On Tuesday, the State [...]
Photograph; Opponents of the Common Core State Standards kept their children out of school Nov. 18 to protest what they say is a federal overreach. Might we blame a bad Common Core State Standards rollout on a website or could it be that the website rollout went [...]
