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#NCED Updates: USED takes on sexual assault in K-12, CMS’ illegal survey, Guilford busing and more
This installment of NCED Updates includes the U.S Dept. of Education investigating sexual assault in K-12, local Quiet Epidemic updates and news from the State Board of Education. Also, Policy Watch gets per-pupil spending wrong, more on Guilford busing kids to the polls, CMS’s lawbreaking survey and Leandro updates. Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, Higher Ed, LL1885, NC Ed Updates, Quiet Epidemic
Tagged CMS, Cursive, Gender Identity, Guilfprd County Public Schools, KEA, Kindergarten Entry Assessment, Leandro, Multiplication, NC Policy Watch, NC State Board Of Education, Quiet Epidemic, school to prison pipeline, Southern Coalition for Social Justice, voting
NC State Board Of Ed Meeting Slated for August 3-4
The next North Carolina State Board of Education (NCSBE) meeting is slated for August third and fourth. The agenda for the upcoming meeting can be found on the NCSBE website under the ‘meetings’ tab.
The NCSBE meetings are live streamed for those who cannot attend in person. Whose wishing to listen in will need to download RealPlayer if they do not already have it on their device.
Nowhere in the two-day agenda is the revision of Common Core math for High school or Elementary and middle school grades mentioned.
See some of the highlights…. Continue reading
Contract for KEA Still Including All 5 Domains
In the March contracts update at the State Board of Education meeting, the first contract on the list is for the KEA — Kindergarten Entry Assessment.
DPI scaled back the implementation of all five domains, but from the looks of it, DPI is back on track to implement all five domains at some point anyway. But what is concerning is that the contract now mentions “writing learning progressions for eight domains”. Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, LL1885, NC Board Of Education, NC DPI, The Articles
Tagged KEA, Kindergarten Entry Assessment
KEA Pilot Cost: $511,360
The Kindergarten Entry Assessment pilot conducted in half of North Carolina’s elementary schools in the 2014-15 school year apparently cost $511,360.
KEEP READING… Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, NC DPI
Tagged Data collection, KEA, Kindergarten Entry Assessment, P-20W, SLDS
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See What $69,157,850 In Education Contracts Buys For NC
Next week is the NC State Board of Education’s monthly meeting. It’s going to be an expensive one. John Locke Foundation’s Lindalyn Kakadelis has noted that at this Board meeting, contracts totaling $69,157,850 are on the agenda. Go read it and … Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, LL1885, NC Board Of Education, NC DPI, The Articles
Tagged Contracts, K-3 Assessments, KEA, Kindergarten Entry Assessment, NC DPI
What They’re Saying About Education In NC (7/24/15) #NCED
Yes, I’m still on blog vacation, however I have an update on some NC Education issues and an update HB13 (Health assessments).
I’d like to take a moment and apologize if I upset the apple cart with my article the other day. I was particularly hard on Senator Soucek — Sorry about that, but being the voice for ‘we the people’ at times means I have to play bad cop.
Having said that, I might have to play worse cop now, again given what I see restored in HB 13 today. Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, LL1885, NCGA, School Choice, The Articles, Wake County School Board
Tagged Bill Fletcher, BYOD, Dan Souc, HB 13, Health assessment, KEA, Kindergarten Entry Assessment, SB 561, WBOC, WCPSS
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Is It Time To #OptOut In North Carolina?
In New York, 190,836 students opted out of the state’s Common Core ELA aligned test.
The Opt Out rate at Nathan Hale High school in Seattle, Washington for the SBAC test was 100%.
The entire 11th grade glass didn’t show up.
There is test dumping going on In Jeb Bush’s Florida. Miami-Dade, which is the fourth largest school district in the nation, has just announced cutting the state assessments to the bone, including end of grade assessments or EOG’s in elementary schools.
So where is North Carolina in the Opt Out Movement? Do Parents know the EOG is Common Core aligned?
KEEP READING — SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR STATE ON TESTING Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, EDUCATION, LL1885, NC Board Of Education, Testing, The Articles
Tagged EOG, KEA, Leandro, NC State Board Of Education, Opt Out
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