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What is in a Name?
A rose but by any other name may smell just as sweet, but just like Wyoming’s progressive minded elected officials -overrunning our legislature and Governors office- calling themselves Republicans, Common Core by any other name still stinks. There are a few states that are debating as to whether or not they should change the name […]
Let the Common Core Games Begin, and May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor
The Hunger Games, many view it as an intriguing work of fiction…but is it? There is not a reaping ceremony throughout every region of the United States, choosing one boy and one girl to be put into an arena with 11 other boys and 11 other girls to fight to the death, but there is […]
Why are little kids coming home from school in tears?
“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.” -Carl Marx There was a vote to provide funding to add an addition to the Wyoming Capitol to house the preschool administrators as well as other expansions (told to me by the WDE […]
Data Collection and the Common Core part 2
Data collection and education… Our elected and appointed officials down play the creepiness of it all, parroting the same tired lines “Data collection is necessary for growth and improvement… it has been done for decades.” To which I can only say “Slavery, the Salem Witch Trials, treating black people as second, even third class […]
Data Collection and the Common Core part 1
If you have written to an elected official, or appointed State Board of Education member, or the Department of Education with concerns about the data mining that comes with Common Core you were probably told something like this: “The Common Core Standards are just academic standards, there is not any data collection in the […]
More and More Teachers Are Saying “Good-bye”
In October of 2013, a beloved teacher from Hulett, WY said her emotional good-byes to her students. The added stress that the Common Core Standards* were adding, was simply too much. Before that, in May of 2013, Green River, WY teacher Christy Hooley handed her resignation in, because of the Common Core Core Standards*. Don’t want […]
Common Core Math Fails…Is This OK With You?
Many people are very upset with the [Common Core*] math their children are bringing home. Instead of teaching traditional algorithms, students are taught to “break apart” numbers to make them “easier” to work with and then explain how they came up with the answer. For example: Another huge complaint is the Lattice Method for multiplying. […]
Proof that Common Core is Not State Led Part 2
Our elected officials and the appointed State Board of Education, and well as the Wyoming Department of Education, have perpetuated a lie. When any questions about the Common Core Standards are asked they parrot the same, tired response: “It’s state led”. But they are lying to you. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also […]
Where is Wyoming? Proof that Common Core is Not Truly State Led Part 1
If you have heard about the Common Core “State” Standards, you have probably heard our legislators, governor, Department of Education, and State Board of Education parrot the same lines like: “They are not curriculum, they are just academic standards” and that “They are state led”. But like the “Affordable” Care Act, the Common Core “State” Standards […]
Select Committee on Statewide Education Accountability Mtg. Oct. 23
I was at the Select Committee on Statewide Education Accountability meeting on Wednesday, October 23, 2013. I witnessed [Former Arizona State Senator], newly appointed [to the newly created position] Director of the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE), Richard Crandall, and two of his sidekicks, Deb Lindsey, WDE Unit Leader for Assessment and Scott Marion National Center of […]
