I get questions from time to time about the real, high quality standards based education program I learned about in my Air Force days operated and how it differs from the flawed approach used by the Common Core’s creators. So, here’s a You Tube that answers those questions.
“One thing I will refuse to do is chase money.” Kentucky Commissioner of Education Stephen Pruitt February 8, 2017 Let’s hope this holds. Chasing Race to the Top money brought the Common Core State Standards and a lot of other dubious education programs to Kentucky.
We just got an interesting “vote” for charter schools. It will come as a shock to the Elizabethtown Independent School Board. Even the local newspaper’s editors in Elizabethtown are not buying their local school board’s bias against charter schools. In “Time to charter a different course,” the News-Enterprise newspaper in Elizabethtown clearly says it’s time…
Western Kentucky University professor, Kentucky Board of Education member and Bluegrass Institute Board of Scholars member Gary Houchens has started a very interesting and readable series on school choice in Kentucky. He is talking about what choice in education looks like and why Kentucky needs it. You will find some great, readable information starting with…
We have written before about the obvious problem with the nation’s falling employment rates. These rates, unlike the unemployment rates, are not jimmied when job seekers lose hope and just stop looking for work. And, as we have written several times, including here and here, the employment data, technically called the “Labor Force Participation Rate,”…
Here is another great speech from the School Choice Rally in Frankfort, Kentucky, on January 27, 2017. In this video, Kentucky State Representative ‘Bam’ Carney, the chair of the Kentucky House Education Committee, makes it clear that not all public school educators have closed minds about the need for school choice in Kentucky.
As the Kentucky Board of Education prepares to hear proposals for a major revision to the state’s assessment and accountability program this Tuesday, and as the Kentucky legislature mulls Senate Bill 1, which is in part a reaction to the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Education Week reports that the major enabling regulation for…
I’ve been writing about how lines are already forming in the fight to end Kentucky’s use of the Common Core State Standards for math and English language arts. Poorly-aimed shots already were fired last week in an Op-Ed that appeared under the title “Column: Common Core: If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it” in the…
As I wrote yesterday, with the Kentucky legislature coming back into session, a big question to be decided is whether the state will continue to use the Common Core State Standards for its English language arts and math standards. Already, lines are forming, and poorly-aimed shots were fired last week in an Op-Ed that appeared…
With the Kentucky legislature coming back into session, a number of education issues are heating up. One of the more hotly debated topics will be whether the state continues to use the Common Core State Standards for its English language arts and math standards. Because Kentucky was the first state to adopt the Common Core…