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Florida and Beyond Assessment Snookering: CBE, Common Core, and Embedded Online Testing, No Teacher Required!

September 16, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

Florida’s Governor DeSantis just announced the end of the Florida State Assessment (FSA), and many Floridians are thrilled, just thrilled, thinking this will be the end of the horrible testing cloud that has hovered over children since NCLB. And they’re being led to believe that Common Core is done, but they’re still using iReady and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Competency-Based Education (CBE), Florida, Florida State Assessment, iReady, Online Learning, School Transformation, state assessment

CBE Online is Neither Personalized Nor Higher-Order Thinking!

January 23, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 15 Comments

The issue of Competency-Based Education is very much in the news, so I thought I would revive this post. Competency-Based Education (CBE) is being promoted as the way to “personalize” education, but it is a cold impersonal method of teaching on the computer. It fails to teach to the whole child and merely provides fragmented […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Competency-Based Education (CBE), high-stakes testing, Higher-Order Skills, Online Learning, Personalized Learning, standards, Technology, testing

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