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Thursday, January 23, 2014

1-23-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida

Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education:














Jeb Bush’s Idaho Chief For Change Compromises AND Field Tests Common Core Assessments

From the editors of the Idaho Press-Tribune: When Idaho’s public school educators and Emmett Sen. Steven Thayn agree that something is a bad idea, that’s the very definition of “broad opposition.” And when you’re the superintendent of Idaho’s school system, it behooves you to acknowledge and respect that level of broad opposition…..When Thayn and many school district superintendents both expressed
1-22-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Revisiting Florida Tea Party Influence on Common CoreFrom Peter Schorsch’s ever useful Sunburn morning mail comes this William March story in the Tampa Tribune which revealed that Florida leads the nation in Tea Party membership: A study by a liberal advocacy group says