Category Archives: EDUCATION

Dispatches From The Common Core Potemkin Village: Another Hope Street Grp Op Ed

Posted on January 11, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

Edu Potekmin Village again.
The Hope Street Group is an outfit largely backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The main purpose is to recruit teachers who will advocate for their brand of education programs and agendas, including Common Core.

One of the tactics of this group is to blanket news organizations with Op Ed’s that further the Gates education agenda.

Here’s another ‘Hope Street Group Fellow’ with a rather poorly thought out and hypocritical Op Ed at the Citizen Times, titled Guest columnist: When everything old shouldn’t be new again.

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Common Core Oddly Missing In NC Supt List For 2016 – #StuffAtkinsonSays

Posted on January 8, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

Add this to the #StuffAtkinsonSays file:

NC keeping Common Core isn’t on @DrJuneAtkinson’s list for 2016 in an election year? SHOCKING https://t.co/GdxIbGLaIT #NCed #StopCommonCore

— A.P. Dillon – LL1885 (@LadyLiberty1885) January 8, 2016

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WRAL: Low Performing Teachers Hired At Low Performing Schools

Posted on January 8, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

An article at WRAL says low performing schools “hire” more low performing teachers. The report never delves into why.

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ICYMI – What Matters for Thursday, January 7, 2016 – #NCpol #NCed

Posted on January 8, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

ICYMI – I was on the Freedom Action Network radio’s What Matters show yesterday with Chad Adams. You’ll find me at just after the 34 minute mark.

We talked about charters, Lt. Gov Forest, Common Core and Unhinged Jere Confrey.
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News and Observer Prints Another Jere Confrey Screed – #ncga #nced #stopcommoncore

Posted on January 7, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

File this one under: Sit down and shut, up citizen.

Jere Confrey is an “expert”. She was on the Common Core invalidation committee. She knows what is best for your children.
Gimme a break.

The News and Observer has printed another one of her little screeds. The News and Observer even let her ramble on as long as she wanted, per this text at the bottom, “The length limit was waived to permit a fuller response to the issue.”

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Parents, On gun control teach your kids about reality, not rhetoric

Posted on January 7, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

A look at the Reality and the Rhetoric around gun control, background checks and mental illness.
Who decides what illnesses are used? What criteria?

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Like most parents with children in school, I worry about what they are learning and doing all day. I also worry about their safety. Violence and crime in schools is on the rise and I’ve written about the troubling fight incidents going on in my own school district.

Like other parents, I also worry about the idea of a shooter coming into my kid’s school. Schools are the ultimate soft target. They are largely unguarded, especially elementary schools and middle schools.

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