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Standards or Curriculum, Curriculum or Standards?
Over at ASCDedge (a professional networking community managed by, of course, ASCD), Steven Weber reflects on recent Education Week coverage on the topic of Common Core State Standards and how it...
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So You Say You Want a National Curriculum?
In case you missed it, about two weeks ago the Pearson Foundation announced that it was receiving funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to create a national K-12 curriculum. Gates ponied up...
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Injecting Tech Into Assessment
As we all well know, last year the U.S. Department of Education awarded $350 million to develop new assessments to go with our Common Core State Standards. Those assessment consortia — the Partnership...
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The First Day of School
Today is a very special day in the Eduflack household. This morning, the edu-son started kindergarten. As we walked up North Oak Street toward his elementary school, he was getting a little...
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Blame Common Core!
In the terrific movie South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, the Colorado town is faced with a scourge of extreme potty mouth. The solution? Blame Canada! After all, Canada was responsible for...
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“Common Sense on the Common Core”
With states, districts and educators working to ensure that all students graduate from high school “college and career ready,” we are hearing more and more about Common Core State Standards and their...
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Maybe More Federal Role in Our Schools?
We’ve all seen it. Those cute photos that pop up all over Facebook with someone saying something important, but a misspelling or grammatical error ruins the whole thing. Not to get too political here,...
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Common Core Test Camp?
One of Eduflack’s favorite streams on Twitter these days is @ThanksCommonCore (also with #thankscommoncore hashtag). With each passing day, it seems more and more that leads to the potential downfall...
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Parents, to the #CommonCore Barricades
I find I have to be more and more careful when talking with local parents in my community about education policy questions. A few weeks back, I got into a long an drawn out fight on how horrible state...
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After a short travel hiatus, we are now back and at it on BAM! Radio Network. On the latest episode, I opine on how important history education is, and how it it just as meaningful as efforts to...
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