Tag: Common Core

Last week I posted a blog about an email that is making the rounds that was insanely inaccurate in its description of Common Core educational standards. And earlier this week I posted a link and brief quiz from JSOnline that clarified what Common Core is all about. Well today, the…

The state education bill currently under discussion in Madison would create a state education board with FIFTEEN members… Milwaukee County’s supervision of mental health issues will be replaced by a THIRTEEN member panel… Shoot, 28 new jobs and they are just getting warmed up. All brought to you by the…

While researching on JSOnline for another Common Core item for Blogging Blue, I came across Erin Richard’s primer on Common Core titled: Common Core 101: A primer to separate education fact from fiction. Her opening gambit…a cute preliminary quiz on your knowledge of Common Core: (The sender of the email…

I am working on another post related to the opposition of Common Core…but decided to put it aside after I got the email embedded below on Monday. Common Core should be a boon to education in this country. It will set some standards on student achievement that make sense for…

From my email inbox comes a copy of the resignation letter sent by Democratic State Rep. Chris Sinicki to Republican State Sen. Paul Farrow and Republican State Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, the co-chairs of the Select Committee on the Common Core Standards. In her resignation letter, Rep. Sinicki cited the “deeply…