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Video: Parents In FL Shut Down When They Criticize Curriculum

Free speech in Jeb Bush’s faux educational utopia, Florida.

Zero Hedge has an article that includes video of parents speaking out at a Naples, Florida schoolboard workshop being shut down by the school board as they spoke out against curriculum and textbooks.

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“But she is informed, super-savvy, and driven by her love for her children.”

Common Core supporters don’t get what is driving the Common Core backlash.

American Principles Project’s Ed Director, Emmett McGroarty, totally gets it. Continue reading

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NC Public Schools Forum ‘Key Education Issues’ Breakfast (Video)

In January, the NC Public Schools Forum held an event called ‘Eggs and Issues 2012’. The forum was slated to address what NC Public Schools forum feels are the ‘Top 10 Issues’ in North Carolina education. NC SPIN was also going to do a live taping after the event, apparently to be released on February 15th. Continue reading

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VIDEO: Mapping The Left

Civitas recently unveiled a new site dedicated to Mapping The Left in North Carolina.

Today, there was a video released highlighting the site:

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Former NC Board of Ed Chair Not Really Keen On 10 Pt Grading Scale

Former NC State Board of Education Chairman, Howard Lee, was asked about the new 10 pt grading system North Carolina is adopting. Lee doesn’t see a “downside to it” but would prefer the grading scale “the way it was”.

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Chapel Hill EWA Seminar On Common Core (Pt II)

Yesterday, I did a short write-up of one of the videos taken at the EWA Seminar in Chapel Hill on January 12th. Today is party two, “The Southern Context Of Common Core”.

“The Southern Context of Common Core“
20 minutes, 17 seconds
Participants: Jill Stancill and Ferrell Guillory

Description: “Education Writers Association conference panel on the Southern context of Common Core. News & Observer Education Reporter Jane Stancill interviews Ferrel Guillory, member EducationNC Board of Directors and professor of the practice at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication.”

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