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Friday, May 24, 2013

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Pledge Your Support to the Common Core!

New York Education Commissioner, John King, has partnered with Education Reform Now! to start getting private businesses on board with the Common Core State Standards.  Nobody in education really buys any of this garbage, so King has decided to start getting businesses to sign on and wrap a huge media campaign around it.  Hey, Exxon-Mobil […]

Toddler Testing

Ed. Dept. Launches Competition for Kindergarten Entry Assessments “Kindergarten-entry assessments are designed to measure a child’s “essential domains of school readiness,” which include language and literacy development, cognition and general early knowledge, readiness to learn, physical well-being, and social and emotional development.” @the chalkface is developing the “NON essential domains of school readiness” kindergarten entry […]

The new gym class in PA, 112 questions? Really?

A bubble test for gym. Stay classy. But I have to mention the following. I am actually a former ACE-certified personal trainer. I know this stuff. And these are pretty terrible questions about weight training. Leg press is a compound exercise that also works out the hamstrings. Weight training rarely uses the push-pull concept anymore. […]

ANNOUNCEMENT: Launching i2

ANNOUNCEMENT Launching i2: Innovative Innovators FAQs What is i2? i2 is a venture designed to recruit and train educators without any experience or expertise in innovation, entrepreneurship, or cagebusting to serve as consultants for innovators, entrepreneurs, and cagebusters. Who will i2 serve? Innovators stuck in an innovation rut. Entrepreneurs (and Edupreneurs) trapped inside the entrepreneurial […]

A Day of Professional Development…or Professional Discouragement?

Yesterday, I attended a day of Professional Development offered by our local BOCES Center. The title “Math and Technology Integration” sounded fairly benign, and I agreed to attend when asked by my Principal if I would be interested. The day long “training” also included some prizes – an iPad and an iPevo document camera for […]

The Obama Plan to Allow Casino Capitalists to Set Student Loan Interest Rates