It seems more and more people are getting on the bandwagon racing away from national standards, Common Core “State” Standards, and the associated high-stakes testing. As the writer of the Tulsa-based education blog Blue Cereal Education states: To be sure, nationalized tests and oppressive curriculum requirements are a disaster. Forget Common Core – ANY standardization of what […]
The Problem With Corporate Education Reform
What went wrong with the CCSS, testing and evaluation systems? According to Curmudgucation: When you fail to anticipate how live human beings are going to react to your program, that is a failure of you and your program, not of those human beings. Italics are mine. I went into teaching with a certain expectation: That […]