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Sunday, September 29, 2013

9-29-13 @ THE CHALK FACE

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“Stupid” #commoncore Comments debunked: @WiStateJournal
Last week Wisconsin governor Scott Walker agreed that the common core might not be the best standards in the Milky Way Galaxy.  So he decided to allow for hearings and public comment.  This of course fired up the common core supporters that already had “common core or die” tattooed across their hind quarters. Shrieking and […]


Required viewing for all #edtech enthusiasts
Seriously. Minimize screen time, especially for the youngest. It’s a sad habit.


Petrilli’s Embarrassing Post about Poor Mothers Being “Bad”
This post is embarrassing—both for the content and the fact that Petrilli appears unaware how embarrassing it is. Single-mothers are not “bad”; they are overwhelmed. Education is not to create economically self-sufficient people (that serves the privileged who feed off the economy). Education’s goals are much BIGGER than that—self-awareness and complete autonomy, within which economic […]


All Week 9-28-13 @ THE CHALK FACE
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: All Week 8-10-13 @ THE CHALK FACE This is why the Tea Party can shove their anti #commoncore sentiment #tcotTea Party zealots have been rather late to the party, actually. In only the last few months or so have they sought fit to propose anything related to education other than abolishing all public schools and the Department of Education. The latter of the t