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Supt. Candidate forum highlights divide between support for systems versus students
Through the questions asked, a stark difference between the two candidates became clear: Mangrum, backed by the N.C. Association of Educators (NCAE), supports systems and the status quo, whereas Truitt consistently seemed back whatever choice best fit students. Continue reading
Left-Leaning ‘Education Non-Profits’ Step Up Attacks On #SchoolChoice Kids, Families
Left-leaning groups like the NC Public Schools Forum and very left of center groups like Public Schools First NC have stepped up their attacks on school choice students and families. These type of groups can’t see the forest for the trees. They don’t want to. More importantly, they don’t want anyone else to either. Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, LL1885, Parental Rights
Tagged NC Public School Forum, PEFNC, Public Schools First NC, School Choice
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Here Comes The Teacher Resignation Narrative… Again.
Over at WBTV, the headline looms: Nearly 1,000 CMS Teachers Resign As Educators Lobby Lawmakers.
The thrust of the article is that teachers are resigning in “unprecedented” numbers in Charlotte Mecklenburg schools. Note the article does not include a breakout of the data or the reasons for resignation.
KEEP READING… WE’VE SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE. Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, LL1885, Media Bias, NCAE, NCGA, Protests, Random Musings
Tagged CMS, MeckEd, Public Schools First NC, Public Schools Forum NC, Resignation, Teacher Turnover, teachers, Yevonne Brannon
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Another Common Core Potemkin Village Exposed By A “Parent”
Earlier this week the NC Common Core commission or Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) met and allowed for parents to comment. See my earlier article, NC Common Core #ASRC June Meeting Update for reference. In my prior article I mentioned a particular “parent” … Continue reading
What They’re Saying About Education In NC (5/8/15) #NCed
Here are a couple of quick hits in NC Education news, mostly dealing with Wake County. 1. New Principal appointed at Lead Mine Rd Elementary after parents complained about Principal April Hill. Kenneth Branch will take over for Hill. About mid-way down in … Continue reading
Posted in BlueprintNC, Charter Schools, EDUCATION, School Choice, Wake County School Board
Tagged Public Schools First NC, WCPSS, Yvonne Brannon
A Response To Public Schools First’s Common Core Propaganda Piece
I found this article at the Common Core pushing Public Schools First NC site linking to my site. In the article, they quote me on Common Core:
2. and 3. “The standards are dumbing down the kids”/ “The standards are too hard for the kids”
According to Glenn Beck’s website, “Many teachers, educators, and parents believe Common Core is dumbing down America’s children.” At the same time, some find the standards too hard. In a piece for WUNC, Reema Khrais featured parent Andrea Dillon who “says Common Core is not developmentally appropriate for her son. ‘Just for an example, they’re doing persuasive writing pieces in first-grade where he has to have an opening sentence, three supporting sentences and a closing argument for a text he’s read, and he has to do that on his own – he’s seven,’ she said.”
So which is it? Too simple or too difficult?
All due respect, it’s both.
The authors is gonna hurt herself trying to make parents, teachers and students who have proven this look dumb.
Teaching kids the finer points of the English language in K-3 instead of getting them reading proficiently first is age and developmentally inappropriate.
The later grades shift to more “informational texts”. This shift is not supported by current research or opinion and does little to nothing to promote ‘critical thinking’ as the standards claim.
As an English teacher, Ms. Whitley should know all of that. Then again, why should Whitley be concerned with the facts about what happens to Elementary kids under Common Core when she teaches High school? Hers are doing so well:
Making grammar practice for the kids, I used the word “wretched”. “Don’t you mean #ratchet?” they asked. “Pretty sure u misspelled ratchet.”
— Alicia Whitley (@AliciaWhitley) September 12, 2014
KEEP READING.. There is more. A lot more. Continue reading
