Latest Story The Georgia Department of Education would have you believe that the College & Career Ready Performance Index is based on scientific research, and is a valid and reliable "index" of school performance. Each year during the spring, about 1.6 million...
Terrill Nickerson commented on the previous post on this blog, 6 Reasons Why the Common Core is Not Progressive Ideology. I thought his comments were important to share as a separate post. Terrill Nickerson has written an interesting article on how he approaches...
A growing criticism of the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards is that its a way for progressives to inject their philosophies and ideology onto children and youth in American schools. One reader of this blog made...
The Common Core State Standards (Common Standards) have been implemented for about four years. According to the developers (the folks over at Achieve) and it's billionaire financiers, such as Bill Gates, the Common Standards are benchmarked against high performing...
According to Allan Collins, Professor Emeritus of the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, in this “age of technology,” the very technology which consumes so many of us, has had little effect on mainstream education. As he pointed out in his book, Rethinking...
Technology is viewed by some as the elixir or cure-all for education, and school districts, with lots of money available through grants such as Race to the Top, technology investments from organization such the Gates Foundation, and law edicts, have embraced...
