Grace Tatter in Nashville has the story of the day – four in five Tennessee school superintendents support sticking with the common core state standards. Today 114 of 141 superintendents submitted a letter to lawmakers asking them to stick with…
Education Committee assignments have been officially made in both the Senate and Assembly here in Tennessee. If you’re not an officiant of the legislative process, committee assignments are vitally important and can make or break legislation, so its vital to…
This week the Governor unveiled the first step in his “full vetting of common core,” an online portal where any Tennessean can provide comments on the standards English or Math in any grade. I took some time to complete the…
Imagine what would happen if our decisions in education were actually made with the well-being of students in mind. This is only appropriate considering that the students are the reason for education. Such policies and reform should center first and…
Key policy makers have been hinting for weeks that we will be comprehensively reviewing Common Core in Tennessee to allow the public to provide input on the standards. This morning, Governor Haslam’s office released two documents that outlined his plan…
I wrote a piece last week about how Governor Haslam’s new stance on Common Core might actually be a tactic to save the core here in Tennessee. Given the Governor’s previous support for the core and the way in which…
Over the past several years, Governor Haslam has been one of the staunchest proponents of higher standards in Tennessee, specifically the Common Core State Standards. But that support seemed to falter this past Wednesday when the Tennessean reported that Governor…
This past week the Tennessee Consortium on Research, Evaluation and Development at Vanderbilt released the results of their 2014 First to the Top Survey of Tennessee Public School Teachers. Notably, their survey data revealed declining support among teachers for the…
Common Core takes geometry out of the realm of mere calculation and into the realm of actual mathematics!
The Gates foundation and PET correctly call for a two-year moratorium on using common core testing in high stakes education decisions.
