Why Bill Gates Defends the Common Core
At the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards’ Teaching and Learning Conference...
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The Puzzling and Contradictory Nature of the Common Core State Standards
The Puzzling and Contradictory Nature of the Common Core State Standards (Common Core) initiative. The Common Core is a multi-billion dollar initiative that was adopted by 45 states and territories, while only five states...
Read MoreGeorgia Legislature Having Difficulty Opting Out or In of Common Core
Last week, the Georgia legislature passed a bill in the Senate (SB 167) that will essentially opt the state out of the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and English language arts and other projects, ideas, technologies...
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Science is a Way of Thinking: So, Why Do We Try and Standardize it?
Figure 1. Carl Sagan and the Universe. Copyright sillyrabbitmythsare4kids, Creative Commons...
Read MoreInfinity & Beyond: Unbounded Learning and Human Potential
Figure 1. Unbound Learning Learning is limited by the test-based and standards-based accountability system that holds the reins on the curriculum of American schools. One of the consequences of this system of...
Read MoreThe Universe of Learning and a Sense of Wonder
This is Part One of Bill Moyers’ interview with astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Tyson is director of the Hayden Planetarium, at the American Museum of Natural History. In the interviews with Moyers, Dr. Tyson...
Read MoreUnreason and Anti-Science Alive and Well in the Georgia Legislature and is not Unique to Georgia
Figure 1. High School mathematics teacher. Creative Commons Attribution.[/caption] The Georgia legislature has already passed a bill in the Senate (SB 167) that will essentially opt the state out of the Common Core State...
Read MoreThe Season of Unreason in the Georgia State Senate@Standards Bill 167
In an article published at the PeachPundit, the author, Charlie Harper suggests the Georgia Senate Bill 167 is an anti-science bill. In this post, I want to add to Mr. Harper’s conclusion that the action of the Georgia...
Read MoreWill Georgia Follow Florida and Release Teacher VAM-Like Scores?
Will Georgia follow Florida by releasing teacher VAM-like scores? In Florida’s case, the Florida Times-Union released links to all 116,723 teachers’ VAM scores in an extraordinary unethical move that has happened...
Read MoreWhat Every Georgian Ought to Know about Charter Schools
Georgians should be aware that our state legislators are at it again under the Gold Dome changing key aspects of education in our state through the passage of House Bill 897. The partisan bill affects education in the state...
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