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Thursday, March 27, 2014

3-27-14 Wait What?

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A Big NO to Malloy’s re-election prospects from Wait, What? Readers
Wait What? readership has been increasing significantly over the past year.  The number of visits have reached as high as 10,000 a day with a total of 27,000 visits over a recent weekend. Daily posts are reaching thousands of readers. Earlier this month Wait, What? readers were asked to participate in an online Gubernatorial Election […] The post A Big NO to Malloy’s re-election prospects from Wai


The war on students who are opted out of the Common Core Test

For weeks the Malloy administration has been engaged in an immoral and unethical campaign to mislead parents into believing they do not have the right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test of a test. Now it appears that some school districts are punishing those students who were […] The post The war on students who are opted out of the Common Core Test
3-26-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: Teachers: Don’t Give Up (Please Don’t Give Up)Yesterday was an especially difficult day for many public school teachers (and students) in Connecticut and across the country.  The  corporate education reform industry’s war on public education and public school teachers took a major step forward with the introduction of the new Common Core Smarter Balanced Field Test of a test. Late in t