Category Archives: Authors

#DM7 Article: How I Spent Common Core’s 5th Birthday

This is a reposting of my weekly Da Tech Guy column:

How I spent Common Core’s 5th Birthday. Continue reading

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#WBOC’s John Burns Breaks Campaign Promises, Show His Political Biases

One of the biggest campaign promises the “More with Four” Democrats ran on was funding education in Wake County. Apparently they meant funding education ‘over time’. Continue reading

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Common Core Aligned: ‘Teaching Tolerance’ – PT 5

This is a multi-part series on certain Social Activism curriculum claiming to be aligned to Common Core as created by ‘Teaching Tolerance’, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. This is the final edition, part five. [Read: Part one, Part two, Part three, Part four] Continue reading

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#NotAHomeSchool: Leesville High Art Teacher Arrested For Harassing Phone Calls

A little birdie flew in and told me that one ‘Linda Stevens’ should be added to NC Plott Hound’s Not A Homeschool collection: Continue reading

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Re: Teach for America’s Professional Agitators

Yesterday, Michelle Malkin wrote about Teach for America’s Professional Agitators over at Townhall.com.

In the article, Malkin lays out the connections between Teach for America (TFA) and the coordinated protests in places like Durham, Ferguson, Baltimore and now in McKinney, Texas. Continue reading

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Common Core Aligned: “Teaching Tolerance” – PT 4

Last week, I started this series on certain Social Activism curriculum claiming to be aligned to Common Core as created by ‘Teaching Tolerance’, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. I continued this week with part three. This installment is part four.
[Read: Part one, Part two and Part three] Continue reading

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