Category Archives: Authors

Common Core Aligned: ‘Scaffolding Apps’

Posted on February 18, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

“…to create just these kinds of tests—next-generation assessments aligned to the common core. When the tests are aligned to the common standards, the curriculum will line up as well—and that will unleash powerful market forces in the service of better teaching.”
– Bill Gates, 2009 Speech To Natl. Conf. of State Legislatures

The goal is to align everything so that students and the money have nowhere to go but Common Core.

9 Apps For Scaffolding… Continue reading →

Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), Common Core | Tagged Common Core Aligned | 1 Comment

Post-Mortem of February NC Common Core Commission Meeting

Posted on February 17, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Due to inclement weather, many were not able to attend the NC Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) meeting yesterday in Raleigh. I listened in to the live stream of the meeting after fighting with RealPlayer for a bit. For those … Continue reading →

Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), Academic Standards Review Commission, Common Core | Tagged ASRC | 3 Comments

Policy Wonks. They Just Don’t Get it.

Posted on February 17, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”

-Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

After reading the latest diatribe, One Size Fits Most, Even in the Suburbs, from Michael Petrilli, I have a feeling the quote above is on a plaque on his desk. In a nutshell, he now has pulled ‘liberal’ and ‘likely atheist’ suburban moms into the insult fold.

Following Alinsky still, in that article Petrilli is trying to “pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it”. Well, he’s doing it wrong.

Your target has to be specific. Mr. Petrilli is just flailing wildly at any parent he can hit with his mud. In most cases, Alinsky is right and ridicule is a potent weapon.

Moms are not ‘most cases’.

KEEP READING…
Continue reading →

Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), Common Core, EDUCATION | 1 Comment

More PR From EducationNC

Posted on February 16, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

More PR from @EducationNC #nced #stopcommoncore Is the debate over education’s Common Core the wrong debate? https://t.co/ncvPlAJioG

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) February 16, 2015

More narrative driving.

KEEP READING… Continue reading →

Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), Common Core, EDUCATION | Tagged EducationNC, NC New Schools | 2 Comments

NC Supreme Court To Hear Opportunity Scholarships Case on 2/17

Posted on February 16, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

According to the NC Supreme Court’s docket list, the Opportunity Scholarships case is slated for Tuesday, February 17th. The Opportunity Scholarships are for low-income children and the vast majority of those who applied are minority students. Continue reading →