by Carol A. Josel | Aug 20, 2014 | Making Education News
1. Four years ago, about 40 states were interested in the $370 million federally-funded online Common Core assessments. At least 17 have now backed away from them. 2. Of the 35 waiver-monitoring reports reviewed by the U.S. Department of Education, 17 states are...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 19, 2014 | Making Education News
1. Washington is the first state so far to lose its NCLB flexibility, and now the government has rejected all of its requests not to have to notify parents if their schools are not meeting AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) and allowing them to transfertheir kids to...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 18, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “Critics wondered how a competition among states–which would create winners and losers–could create educational equity (given that winners were chosen by how slavishly they bowed to the Education Department’s reform tastes, and that the...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 13, 2014 | Making Education News
1) Lawmakers in 27 states have proposed either delaying or revoking the Common Core; 44 signed on originally. 2) According to a School Improvement Network survey, 62% of parents with school kids support the Common Core; 22% are opposed; and 17% had no opinion. 3)...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 11, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “The U.S. education policy world–the entire country, for that matter–is on a quest to increase the ranks of future innovators in science and technology. Yet the programs that get funded in K-12 education do not support students who are already...
