This past weekend’s post about Common Core not rhyming with Individual Educational Plans brought over 1,000 Facebook likes. For a relatively new Blogger this jumped out at me as a sure sign that people, especially parents with students who have special needs and their teachers, are fed up with Common Core State Standards which have […]
Nashville Showdown on the Common Core State Standards
Today senators in Tennessee are meeting to determine the fate of the Common Core State Standards. Some are calling it the Nashville Showdown. Seven speakers on each side of the debate get to speak. Five of the fourteen are from the conservative group the Tennessee Eagle Forum. Here is a list of the speakers and […]
Narrative Writing—Why We Should Give a [Expletive]
It’s been a year since David Coleman, president of the College Board and architect of the Common Core State Standard initiative, gave a speech to a New York audience, shocking many when he, while discussing narrative writing, said “as you grow up in this world you realize people really don’t give a [expletive] about what […]