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…
Bluegrass Institute president Jim Waters joined a panel discussion about how much progress was really made toward public pension reform during the 2013 Kentucky General Assembly. (click on the image below to view the video) Read more about solutions to Kentucky’s public pension crisis.
We’ve been writing about Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday’s recently posted blog item about: “…a lot of misinformation being pushed by folks who are not supportive of more rigorous standards for students….” I’ve already posted two blogs under the “What’s the Real CCSS Story” title with a discussion about why it is wrong to…