Category Archives: EDUCATION

With Common Core Under Review, Why is DPI Entering into an ELA Contract with Wisconsin?

Posted on November 13, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Via the NC Board of Education website, the latest batch of contracts has one regarding ELA testing for ELLS. (ELLS means English Language Learners; i.e. children whose primary language is not English.)

Under purpose, here is the first item:

Develop an alignment study between North Carolina’s state academic standards and the World Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consortium English Language Proficiency (ELP) standards

North Carolina has a commission still in progress who is reviewing the Common Core ELA standards currently in use.

Why would DPI be engaging in a contract such as this with Common Core still under review? Moving the goal posts at the end of the game?

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For $40,658 a Year, Your Child Can Learn to Play Dead on a Quad

Posted on November 12, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Last night I tweeted out that for $39, 532 a year, your child can play dead on a college quad. I was talking about Ithaca College students, who held a die-in on the quad in ‘solidarity’ with University of Missouri students.

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What In The Actual Hell Is This? Is It Common Core Aligned?

Posted on November 11, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

What in the actual Hell is this?

WATCH: Teacher Uses the “Whip/NaeNae” to Help Kids Learn Vocabulary

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#StuffAtkinsonSays: How Do We Determine What Academic Standards To Use?

Posted on November 9, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

2013: NC Superintendent June Atkinson tells the NC Legislative research committee that standards are determined by ‘important groups’ like higher education officials and businesses.

Parents are not mentioned.

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What They’re Saying In NC Education – WE 11/6/15 #NCed

Posted on November 6, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Some education news from around North Carolina and beyond.

Included this week, but not limited to: Bus driver walk out, hacking, student safety, transgender push, and faulty logic on education issues from a political non-profit.

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#WCPSS Lets Kid Who Threatened Another Kid With A Gun Back To SAME School

Posted on November 5, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Did any Apex parents hear about this incident last year? I’m thinking no, since I can’t find coverage of the original incident anywhere in our local media. In Oct. 2014, a boy brought a firearm to Apex Middle School and … Continue reading →

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