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Thursday, March 20, 2014

3-20-14 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 Fingerprints on Florida’s New High-Stakes Tests and His Sudden Arrival to the Common Core Wars

Scathing Purple Musings wrote yesterday that the next FCAT is going to parachute in just like the last one. Only this time, fresh off a field test of predominately white kids in Utah. Brevard Federation Teachers President Dan Bennett adds more in a letter to the editor in Florida Today: It’s no surprise that Florida Secretary of Education Pam Stewart chose the American Institute of Research (AIR)
3-19-14 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: Florida’s New Tests to Be Field Tested….in UtahIn an odd opinion piece on Common Core from the Tampa Tribune - more on that later - this tidbit of  incredulity is sure to be rolling eyes in district offices across the state: Also unhappy are many of the educators who are