Meanwhile, Kentucky Board of Education reaffirms commitment to Common Core National Review on Line is reporting that “Michigan Delays Common Core Implementation.” So, Michigan has joined Pennsylvania and Indiana in placing holds on their Common Core adoption processes. I am also seeing reports that Wisconsin is getting ready to place some sort of restrictions on…
Well known liberal (the teachers’ union loves her) and blogger Diane Ravitch, who is a noted education historian and professor at Columbia Teachers College, posted this guest blog from math teacher Stephanie Sawyer early this year that asserts: “I don’t think the common core math standards are good for most kids, not just the Title…
BIPPS’ Richard Innes talks to Joy Pullmann about growing privacy threats from ever-expanding student databases in this Heartland Institute Podcast released on May 21, 2012. The recording includes a real world example of how supposedly sanitizing student data does not provide adequate security. Innes points to an example where database matching allowed sensitive student data,…
Along the way, some good points surface A couple of days ago, I blogged about “School standards in the new era???”, which criticizes a scheme to reduce grading standards in Bullitt County Public Schools so students can receive (but, not really earn) more KEES taxpayer-funded scholarship money. In writing that blog, I generally agreed that…
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But, the articles can be hard to find!! The Kentucky Enquirer ran an article about a week ago titled “IN OUR SCHOOLS: Glitches follow testing switch,” that talks not only about the computer-based problems that showed up in multiple states, but also about Kentucky dropping scoring for accountability with the high school end-of-course exam constructed-response…
Reaction to the first year of Common Core State Standards aligned testing in New York has been dramatic. In lower Manhattan, large numbers of parents boycotted the tests when they were administered. Now, 15 New York City upper level school principals say: “…they will no longer be using results from a controversial new state test…
While the Kentucky Commissioner of Education takes shots at people who are starting to raise questions about the new Common Core State Standards (read near the bottom of his latest blog), it looks like the actual standards in Kentucky’s schools are declining. The Courier-Journal’s May 23, 2013 editorial, “Scholarship shenanigans” bemoans a serious lowering of…
Got a report over the weekend that the Utah GOP just adopted a resolution against the Common Core State Standards. To read it, go to this link and scroll down the page a bit to read: “Utah GOP Anti-Common Core Resolution PASSES” The Utah resolution is heavily researched and referenced. It is very interesting reading…