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Bill Proposed in NC House Literally Replaces Common Core
Last year, the Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) was created by the North Carolina General Assembly to get rid of Common Core failed in their task.
A new bill would literally fix what the commission failed to do.
Posted in Am Lens, Common Core, NC Board Of Education, NC DPI, NCGA
Tagged ASRC, Common Core, HB 417, HB 657, Hope Street Group
Common Core Cheerleading Group Gets Mult-Million Dollar Gates Foundation Grant
An education non-profit known for recruiting teachers to promote Common Core in the political arena has received a large grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In June of 2016, Hope Street Group received a grant for $2,650,003 for the purpose of ‘training teachers on policy’ and working on ‘perception improvements’. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Bill Gates grants, Common Core, Demitri Melhorn, Hope Street Group, Potemkin Village
Anonymously Registered Website Fear Mongers On #HB657
Parents, the same forces that came out to kill the Academic Standards Review Commission’s (ASRC) math recommendations have now come back out to try to kill HB 657.
CC ED Potemkin VillageIt’s basically the same groups who pressured various members of the ASRC to attack the Math work group leader, Dr. Scheick.
GET YOUR COFFEE.. THIS IS A LONG ONE… Continue reading
EducationNC Promotes Gates Backed Hope Street Group
Surprise, surprise. EducationNC has an article up about the Bill Gates backed Hope Street Group. This dovetails nicely with the article I published earlier this morning on yet another Hope Street Group Fellow writing a pro-Common Core Op Ed.
Hope Street Group and outfits like them are an attempt to combat the fact that Common Core was NOT state-led, but in fact Fed-Led and Gates-led. Continue reading
Posted in Common Core
Tagged EducationNC, Hope Street Group, Teacher Voice Network
Dispatches From The Common Core Potemkin Village: Another Hope Street Grp Op Ed
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.
KEEP READING Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, LL1885
Tagged Elliot Lunsford, Hope Street Group, Potemkin Village
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Common Core Potemkin Village Update: Ben Owens, Hope Street Group Fellow – #ASRC #NCed
An article from the Asheville Citizen Times was put in my inbox over the weekend titled, “Veteran engineer sees the value of Common Core field testing”.
It’s penned by a man named Ben Owens.
At the bottom of the article is this text:
“Benjamin C. Owens is a 2014 Hope Street Group National Teaching Fellow and math and physics teacher at the Tri-County Early College in Murphy.”
Hope Street Group. AGAIN. Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, LL1885, The Articles
Tagged Ben Owens, Hope Street Group
Professional Lobbyist Pens ANOTHER Letter to NC Common Core Commission – #nced #asrc
Back in March, I reported on a professional lobbyist and PR consultant named Andrew Meehan who penned a letter to the NC Common Core Commission (ASRC) in support of the controversial Standards.
Mr. Meehan has struck again it seems. The Common Core Potemkin Village is well looked after.
This time a group of teachers, that includes members of the Gates backed Hope Street Group, has sent the commission a letter which failed to mentioned Meehan also penned the letter.
KEEP READING…. Continue reading
