Anthony Cody (Living in Dialog) and Mercedes Schneider (deutsch29) wrote articles on their blogs about the Arne Duncan - Bill Gates - Common Standard's triumvirate. Cody commented that Duncan and Gates are trying to woo teachers to support the floundering rollout...
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 that have any glimmer of association...
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 Standards in mathematics and English language...
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 Senate is major step backwards for education...
Latest Story Mercedes Schneider, on her EduBlog, wrote several articles documenting a growing movement against the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by describing legislative action, and citizen protests in 23 states. I've used her observations to create a map...
Why is Standards-Based Teaching a Hopeless Way to Educate Youth? That is the question to be explored in this post. At the end of this post is a YouTube video of a high school student's speech in which he provides research evidence that the Common Core State...
