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This past weekend after explaining how Delaware effectively established its strong opposition to Common Core, some significant nationals asked me to consolidate it for other states to study. I decided to collect all info I have written on education and put it in this one spot. Click on any link and it should take you there. The most recent pieces (closest to today) are first, and as time progresses, they move down page. The walk back through time is interesting. Particularly my first pieces as I uncover the deceit of Common Core for the first time, may be the spot where others just beginning this journey of discovering the deceit, should begin… For the rest: if you need something I wrote on education, it is here.
All About Common Core, Charters, and Public Education
Worm Turns… NEA Back Around To Fighting For “Good”
One child’s rigor is another child’s mental breakdown
Wow, Look! You Really Can Force Children To Learn Through Rigor
A Letter For Those Who Still Don’t Get It; Common Core Is A Bore
An Interesting 63 Minutes
As Always, Beware Of Federal Educational Figures
Learning About the Disabilities in Education Act
Does Delaware Have A New Secretary of Education Yet?
New Branches In Education Reform Give Hope
Death Comes to Blogging
Teacher Tenure Court Decision Based Off Erroneous Data
Now DC Is Suspending Use Of Test Scores To Fire Teachers
Big Lesson for Delaware’s Bellatrix Lestrange
Does Delaware Even Have A Democracy???
Delaware collectively groans as House Bill 334 passes to allow Smarter Balanced Testing to take over
Critical Email Your Legislators About 334
Don’t Be Fooled By Common Core; It’$ All About The Money
Delaware: Going The Way Of Philadelphia
Teachers And Parents! You Are Off! It’s Time Now To Call (Email)!
Breaking …. Less Than 20% of Students Are Showing Up For Class Today
Stupidest Idea Yet — Greg Lavelle
SOUTH CAROLINA REJECTS COMMON CORE
Oklahoma Miracle: Common Core Officially Repealed
Delaware Teachers Work Harder, Longer, and More Often
What Happened On Tennessee’s Test And What Will Happen In Delaware
The Horrible Debacle That Common Core Has Wrought Tennessee
Confessions of an Assessment Field-Tester
Education Reformers Proven Wrong Again
Joseph Stalin Makes A Ghostly Appearance At The Christina Emergency School Board Meeting
We Told You So; Student Data Is Not Protected
Christina Brew Ha Ha Takes Time Out For Coffee
Private Schools Fail When Held Up To A Public School’s Standard
Education: The New Line For Patriotism…
Time For Passivity Is Over. Demand How Any Educational Organization Can Support Common Core
Calling On Christina To Ban The Delaware PTA From Soliciting On School Property
All Parents!!! Demand Your Money Back From The PTA
Distraction #1 Killed; Que Up # 2…
Charter Schools Kill 2 Children in Philadelphia
Smarter Balanced Assessment Feedback
Who Says Value Added Method Is Working?
The real effects of HB165 and SB51. Cartoon by the awesome @RobTornoe
Complicated Rebuttal to DelExcel’s Blog Post and John’s Comment There
How Can You Educate The Child Of A Single Mother Who’s Just Had His Brother Blown Away?
New Study; A Teacher Who Is Fired May Generate More Social Value Than One Who Is Retained!
(Elections Are Done So Onward): Oh No! There Is Bias, Bias In Classroom Observations
School Board Election Results May 13 2013
But Why Do I HAVE To Vote In Today (Tuesday May 13th’s) School Board Elections?
Two Trailer Park Girls, Going Round The Outside, Going Round The Outside….
29% of States Dropped Out of Smarter Balanced Assessments Because It’s That Bad
Senator LaValle Renews Push For “Truth In Testing” Legislation
Delaware Needs An Independent Panel To Hold Hearings With The Public and Investigate Common Core!
’’Duncun’s Flip Makes Markell Into A Liar; Morphs John Young Into A Prophet
Independent Audit Discovers $100 Million In Charter School Fraud
Charlie Copeland’s Academy of Public Safety and Security Is Not So Safe And Secure
Forcing Common Core Upon First Graders
How To Hide Student’s Data In Plain Sight
How To Tell When A Reformer Is Lying……
Ha, Ha, Ha, A Good One, Diane……
Graduation Rates Soar, No Thanks To Common Core
Great Comment Rescue : Markell Busted
Are Standardized Tests Truly The Best Way To Measure Perfomance
Breaking: Local Smarter Balanced Assessments Plagued With Computer Breakdowns
Yeah, What We’ve Been Saying….
Come Into My Lair, Said the Rapist To It’s Prey
What Did Tennessee, Boys? What Did Tennessee?
How Much Did Race To The Top (RTTT) Spend?
Waking Up To The Charter School Threat
Every Day This Week The Date Is The Same Forwards As Backwards
Even STEM Wants To Distance Itself From Common Core
Need Help With This Smarter Balanced Question!
If April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, Why Are We Now Taking The Smart Balanced Assessments?
What? The SBA Test Is Being Administered Now? In the Middle Of DCAS?
New Gallup Study Supports kavipsian Direction On Education
Arne Duncun Came and Went, Only Thing Changed: The Truth Got Bent
Cost of Putting in A Single Charter in Wilmington
Sweeney Trips Over Gigantic Bag Of White Powder
That Answer Markell Is Looking For
Proper Rebuttal To Michelle Rhee
It’s Not What You Know; It Is WHO You Know
Smart Balanced Field Testing Approaches The New Equivalent of Blowing Smoke
THAT Man Who Said All These, Is Coming To Delaware
Charter Schools Get Put Into Their Corner
Everyone Is Talking About This Statement Because…… It’s Just So Dumb…..
Official: Tennessee Will Postpone Common Core 2 years and PARCC For 3; So Why Not Here?
Wanted To Take Advantage Of A Slow Day And Talk About Education
Common Core: Even Hollywood Predicted America’s Greatest Disaster
The Whole Purpose of Common Core Was To Mine Your Child’s Data
Breaking: Delaware Superintendents Request One Year Delay
First Black President Skewers Afro-Americans In Public Schools
Oklahoma Senate Committee Votes To Leave Common Core
Indiana Just Jumped Ship; Bails Out On Common Core
And Now, Billions Are Being Pumped Into Public Education
Common Core is One Messed Up Piece Of Work
Principal Outlaws Teaching Of Holocaust Because of Common Core
Introducing Charter School Financing; A New Formula
Be It Hereby Resolved That Charters Are No Longer Supported By Per-Pupil Funding
Estimated Costs of Implementation of Charter School Inclusive Funding
A Few Thoughts On Red Clay Inclusion
Delaware Governor States That 95% of Teachers Are Solidly Behind Common Core
Tennessee Puts a Hold On Both Common Core And PAARC Testing
Black and Latino Students Are Substantially More Segregated Today Than They Were A Generation Ago.
Facts About Opting Out of Common Core Testing
Common Core: Why Money Trumps Evidence
Tennessee Educational Association (Their DSEA) Files Lawsuit Against Value Added Assessment
How Indiana Is Dismantling Common Core; How Delaware Should Begin To Follow
Is Dumbing Down The SAT To Bail Out A Floundering Common Core Really In America’s Best Interest?
If You Found A Wallet With Money In it, Would You Keep It?
Guess Who Will Be Grading Your Child’s SBA Test?
Should Parents Have Any Control Over Their Child’s Education.
Delaware’s VoTechs ROCK; New DOE Dropout Report Finds
Delaware’s Charter Schools FAIL; New DOE Dropout Report Finds
R U Gonna TELL; Or M I Gonna TELL
Quiet, Quiet, Hush It Down, Please! John Sweeney is Stirring, About To Soon Wheeze….
School Choice Is Not About Parents Choosing Good Schools; It’s About Schools Choosing Good Students.
Privatization Is Inherently Unequal
“In Tennessee They Love The Guv’nor…..” Not!
Merit Pay Is Sham To Destroy The Teaching Profession
Ha! This Should Finally Bring Delaware Liberal Into The Fold….
The Lie That Our Schools Are Failing
If Common Core And Its Tests Are Inseperable, Common Core Has Got To Go
If Passing This Meant You Could Graduate, Would You Graduate?
Darryl Scott (R-Trash) Hates Teachers and Kids….
Florida’s Proposed Common Core Revisions
What The Bottom Half Can Teach Us
Does This REALLY Qualify as Child Abuse? C’mon!
New York Times Reports Common Core Is In Trouble
What Is Good Education and How Can We Pay For It?
The Great Big Hidden Lie Behind Charter Schools…
Markellian Myths About Common Core
What Would Happen If Every Teacher Quit?
Common Core Is Full Of Shoddy Workmanship
Rebutting The Delaware Chamber Of Congress
Brandywine’s Superintendent To Be The Next Mark Murphy
Send Your Child’s Homework To Your State Representative and Senator
Delaware Charter Schools Falling Apart Before Our Eyes
Discovered Discrepencies In Early Childhood Educational Programs
Like Christina, The State of Georgia Forfeits RTTT Money Over Idiocy of Merit Pay
That Oft Repeated ‘College and Career Ready’ Lie
Our Own Christina School District Headlines “Education Week”
kavips’ Periodic Chart of Poverty
Teaching Is An Art, Not A Science…
New Study Undercuts Primary Principle Out From Underneath Common Core
Moody’s Declares Charter Schools Are The Death of Urban Districts
Charter Schools: They Stab It With Their Steely Knives, But They Just Can’t Kill The Beast
Brinkmanship and School Closings
Markell Wants Rock Stars For Teachers
Why “College And Career Ready” Is Bunk
Markell and Murphy Reward The Rich; Take Away From The Poor
Good News For Us; Bad News For JYAKWRAL
Delaware Follows Lowery; Drops Common Core Moniker For JYAKWRAL
Attention Pastors Everywhere: Common Core Is Evil
Reminder: Charter Schools Ruin High Poverty Districts
Learning From The Test As Opposed to Teaching To The Test.
The Folly Of Passing Any Common Core Legislation This Session
And Another Problem With Common Core
Delaware Not The Only State With Extra RTTT Money To Spend
A Most Ridiculous Attempt At Journalism
Common Core: It Was Always About The Money….
Damning Video Against Common Core
Huge Disconnect, Make That A… Gigantic Disconnect!!
Points On Which I Agree With Frederika Jenner
Teaching Children By Common Core Methods…
Hawaii Praised As A Common Core Success
WE (Delaware Students) Need School Districts To Hold The Line On Class Size
The Suck-A$$ Line That Frederika Jenner Swallowed
Fallacy Behind The Whole Push For Common Core….
Why You Can’t Believe Any Poll In Support Of Common Core!
Delaware’s Kicks Student’s Of Low-Income, Further Down A Rung
First Delaware; Now Indiana: Charter Schools Scores Lag Far Behind Public School’s Scores
And At The News Journal, The Wheel Gets Turned….
Errors in Algebra Textbooks Cause Teachers To Get The Blame
Common Core: Points Of Controversy
What We’ve Been Saying All Along
If Common Core Was Around In the 20th Century, None Of This Could Ever Happen
Common Core Is Bad; What’s Good? Education In Japan
Common Core Movie: Building the Machine (trailer)
It’s Impossible To Believe Arne Duncun Any More
The New PISA Scores Are Out And Very Troubling For Common Core
Putting Education In Perspective
In One Sentence, Kilroy Sums Up What Is Wrong With Education
The Flaw Embedded In The Standardized Testing Algorithm
The Ying and Yang of Common Core (Haiku)
Breaking: Massachusetts Just Cut Loose From Common Core…
DE Sec of Ed Murphy Flops At NCC Combined School Boards Meeting
Common Core “IS” Unconstitutional
Proponents of Common Core, Now Scrubbing Data
Facts IN: Common Core Does Not Seem To Be Working
What On Earth Is An “Expectation Gap”
Common Core Tidbits: New Things To Ponder….?
kavips Plan To Eliminate Achievement Gap
The American Bible Against Common Core….
How Documentation For Common Core Stacks Up
kavips speaks: Now Cue McKinsey & Co. . 5,4,3,2,1…..
Join Us To Remove Arne Duncun As Secretary of Education
Attention Parents….. of School Aged Children….
New York Moms Make Delaware’s Look Like A Bunch Of Pussies
Like Christopher Wheeler, Common Core May Look Allright On The Outside
How Delaware Charter Schools Wean Out Blacks And The Poor
So Who Says Our Education Is So Bad?
Delaware And The Nation’s Report Card
Who Puts All Their Eggs In One Basket?
Teach … Your Children Well….. Then You Can Tell…..
Boycott ExxonMobil, Chevron gas, Hostess cakes, Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo and FedEx,
Common Core Just Gets More Insane As We Go Forward…
Is Rand Paul Talking About “Dueling” As In Dueling Banjos? He’s From Kentucky, You Know?
The Four Pillars Of Common Core
What You Must Know About Common Core
Mark Your Calendars…. November 4t
Diagnosis: Schizophrenia At Delaware’s Department of Education
New Venue’s Of Funding Are How Delaware Can Close The Achievement Gap
Common Core = Dumbing Down Of American Education
Despite Government’s Blah, Blah, Blah, Teachers Are Not Following Through With Common Core
Value Added Teacher’s Assessments Are Not Working….
Paraphrased From A Kansas’s Judgment Against Reformers
How A Union Is Supposed To Act…..
Why Is It Always The “Teacher’s Fault”
How To Answer the Charter School’s Argument of Choice…..
DSEA Teachers? Does This Sound Like You?
Lack Of Educational Privacy, Damages Your Kid For Life
Common Core Standards Are??? State Led?
Why Does Everything In Common Core Sound Like It Came From A Communist Chinese Propaganda Machine?
Applying Business Practices To Education: The Right Way
Important Message For Delaware’s HB 90 Panel: Kim and Nicole? You Listening?
Common Core Dumbs Down; STEM Raises Children Up
Opt Out… The Movement is Growing…
Dissecting Markell’s Education Speech At Education Nation
We Do Know Now What Doesn’t Work In School Reform
How Can This Common Core Curriculum Be Good For Our Kids?
Using The Constitution To “Civilly Disobediently” OPT Out Of Common Core
Example of Common Core In Action
Common Core Is Crumbling At The Top…..
What Exactly Is “School Reform?”
Who Benefits When Charter Schools Are Formed?
Brief Reminder Why Charter Schools Are All Breaking Bad
Why YOU Can Not Trust American Media To Give You Any Truth….
CEO’s Scramble To Save Arne Duncun’s Ass
Attention General Assembly: We Can Do This
Core Meltdown In CCSS (Common Core State Standards)
New Educational Ruling Could Spark Big Changes In Testing
Big, Giant, Educational, Turning Point Opportunity Meeting This Thursday!
Common Core: Someone Poisoned The Waterhole
Smoking Gun! Common Core Dumbs Kid’s Minds
I Pledge Allegiance, To The Best Education Possible
The Art Of Making Our Education Look Worse Than It Really Is
Learning About the Quality of Education Through Violent Rape
All Parents Tune In Tonight To Mark Murphy Speaks….
Ahem… 26% Is Not An Overwhelming Majority
So, You Support Common Core? Then Tell Me What THIS Means…
Firing Jack Markell and Mark Murphy For Last Years Drop In Test Scores
Making Sure This Does NOT Get Missed!
It Will Be Up To The Parents To Fight For Their Children
Expect HUGE, HUGE Drop In Test Scores Next Year
When It Comes To Education, News Journal Totally Fails The Delaware Public
Mark Murphy Signals A Turn Away From Common Core
Virtual Learning Is….. Not Real
Your DOE… What No One Else Will Tell You….
PA Charter Magnate Indicted By Feds
Charter School Law May Be Declared Unconstitutional
Charter’s Are A Sham I Tell You!
Republicans and Charlie Copeland Responsible for Demise of Delaware’s Education
What? Poverty Impacts Educations? Who’d Of Ever Thunk!
A Significant Negative Percentage
Was Delaware’s DSEA Head… “Bought Off”?
Markell & Murphy Are Wrong; John Young Is Right 🙂 Test Scores Are Meaningless!
Cooking The Books; Arguments To Watch Out For
How To Cheat On Standardized Tests
The Top Of Mr. Sweeney’s Head Sinks Slowly Disappearing Over The Horizon
Common Core? WTF? NYC Scores show 74% Failed English; 70% Failed Math
Trickling In Of Common Core Scores….
Spew To Spew Inside The Big Apple Because Of Common Education’s Rotten Core
The Achievement Gap Ignored By RTTT and Common Core Testing
Educational Charts You Need To See
Will Florida Torpedeo Common Core And Cause the Necessary Implosion?
Common Core: Is It Really Living Up To It’s Hype?
Kilroy Hits Cow Dung Out Of Park
Smart Balance Comes Under Critical Review
Anomaly in Delaware’s Test Scores
Poverty’s Influence on Delaware’s Education And Those Schools and Districts That Overcome It
Goals… How Far We’ve Come… How Far We’ve Got To Go
The Entire Educational Profession’s Open Letter to Mark Murphy and Governor Jack Markell
The Real Question Is Not Whether You Know This; The Real Question Is “Why” You Don’t Know This!
Quirks Of Using Test Scores To Evaluate Teachers
Is National Corporate Eductional Reform Petering Out?
Let’s Talk About Getting Rich Off Charter Schools…
TELL SURVEY: Results Successful?
Why We NEED Local Control Over Our Local Schools
Oh, Geez! How Hard Can Common Core Possibly Be?
OH GREAT! Now We’re Back To The Sliding Grade Controversy….
Townsend’s 147 and 148 Pass House
Time To Unplug “Teach For America”
Oh Brave New World That Has Such People In It…
Some Serious Concerns About New Charter Schools Entering Delaware (HB 165)
Educational Bond Bill Snippets….
HB 165 Charter Schools Appropriation Bill Back on The Docket This Tuesday!
Greasing The Wheels For The Private Takeover of Public Schools
Breaking HB 165 Passes Senate Committee, Just Barely
Free Building-Funds For Charters: The Other Side Of The Story
Overwhelming Evidence Compounds Daily; Charters Don’t Improve Education, Killing Poverty Does
FOIA To Mark Murphy/ Delaware Department Of Education
Problems With The Methodology Behind SB 51, Which Is Passed Already
Build a Charter: Get A Green Card
It’s About Investment; Not Children
How To Invest In A Charter School
Why HB 165 Is The Exact Same As Welfare
Discretionary/ Competitive Grants SB 27
Backlash… Comment Rescue from Del Liberal on HB 165
How To Vote On Amendments HB 165
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE REWRITE THIS BILL? HB 165!
Addendum: What Else HB 165′s Fiscal Note Exposes
Smoking Gun: Fiscal Note Attached to HB 165
Public Schools Rule; Charter Schools Drool…
Ha, Ha! Get A Load Of “OUR” Talking Points, Suckers!
Why, If You’ve Never Done It Before, You Need To Contact Your State Legislators Now
Rodel: Going Upstream Fast In the Eddy
HB 165 Is Not Needed At All: Look At Pike Creek Charter’s Application
So What Happens If HB165 Doesn’t Make It?
This Jacques Not At Home Under Water…
HB 165: Rush, Rush, Rush. 21 Days! 21Days
Fixing HB 165 and Delaware’s Charter Schools (Riding Dirty)
Pros And Cons of Standardized Testing
Colonial Passes Referendum; Wrong People’s Taxes Now Go Up
Questions That Need Asked At Wednesday’s Hearing ON HB 165
Take $2.3 Million From Christina And Give It To Charter Schools
Comment Rescue: How Charter’s Corrupt The Process
If You Shoot Pool With Some Employee Here….
Final Testing Scores Are Not Real; They Are Made Up, Seriously.
Dishonest Use Of Labels By So Called Educational Reformers
S.B.51 Will Be An Unmitigated Disaster!!!
Slamming The News Journal, Again
Delaware’s DOE Saves Point Three Million
Nashville Charters Expulse Bad Students Just Before Testing
Why Delaware’s Scores Will Go Down
Common Core Math Standards Bogus
Want To Improve Math? Reprint Textbooks From The Thirties
Are You Smarter Than A Fourth Grader?
What? We’ve Been Schmoozled? DC Didn’t Happen?
The Lie Behind Educational Reform
So… We Are Rating the University of Delaware By Common Core
Inside The SB51 Delibrations……
Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three
Exposing Common Core To The Public
RTTT And The Board Of Education
It’s Over… SB51 Squeaks By 37-2 (2 Abstentions)
Potter’s Amendment Defeated. 33-7
Alas, Delaware’s Parents Just Got Screwed
Paul Baumbach Comes Through For Delaware Parents
Is SB51 The Kinder Morgan Of Education?
Afternoon Reminder: Go Vote In School Elections!
Cherry Picking Is Great If You Love Cherries
News Journal Tooting Tootle’s Tooties?
98% Of Us Were Geniuses Once…..When We Were 5 Years Old
Why We Should All Be Against Raising Teacher’s Standards
Rebuttal To News Journal Piece Promoting Charters
Student Loans: Next Financial Crash?
Uncle Tom Talks To News Journal
How Our Government Is Failing Our Students
Testing Children Till They Cry!
For My Friends At Delaware Liberal: To Bring Them Up To Speed On the Educational Crises
SB 51 The Cuts and Stitches…..
Shattered From the Core, Common Core That Is…..
China’s Role In Fostering America’s Educational Crises
Has The News Journal Awakened Yet?
The Giant Hole In Rodel’s “New” Plan
Juxtapositions Create Angst In Delaware’s Department of Education
Children! Sit Down! Time For Today’s Quiz!
What Happens When A Silly Test Is More Important Than Your Child!
New Reforms Deliver Few Benefits And In Some Cases Harm The Students
Sweeney Smokes Crack A Second Time In Blindly Following Corporate Education’s Assessments
On Charter Schools: I Agree With These Guys
Is Our Entire Educational System Being Based Off Cheating?
Brew Ha Ha At Christina School District…..
Where the (Jea) Streets Have No Name
Delaware’s “Broad” View of Education….
Hmmm. The Fix For Delaware’s Education.
“Hi, I’m jea street, And I Approve This Message”
Why Grading Schools To Test Scores Is Bogus
Who’s Done Vouchers? Wisconsin Has Done Vouchers!
What The News Journal Gets Wrong When It Deals With Education In Delaware
More On Philly School Closings….
Refusal To Surrender and the Non-Abdication of Responsibility
Mr. Principal’s Amorphous Catch-22
How Charters Close Public Schools
DCAS is rotten to the (Common) Core
“The Promise Of ‘Common Core’ Is Dying”
Delaware’s Education: Because It Is Important
There Is A Good Reason Our Children Are Failing In Schools.
Why We Were Led Astray On Education
Pencader Wastes $1,282,188 of Delaware’s Money.
Because Caesar Rodney Is Always Wrong
How Well Did Common Core Work In The USSR?
Uncommon Dismay For A Common Core
News Journal SLAMS Caesar Rodney Institute of Education
Thoughts On The Teacher/Corporate Divide
Who Dares Fire Minerva McGonagall
How Common Core is Depressing America’s Intellect! NOT Making It Brighter!
As If Business Leaders Wrote The Standards For Surgeons……
Caesar Rodney Again Pushes Their Narrow Profitable (for them) Agenda
In Order To Form A Better Consistent Partnership In Education
The Travesty Of Teaching To The Test
School Vouchers and Hurricane Sandy
Tennessee Lays Out Their Educational Agenda
Moritorium On Too Much Testing
One Person’s Personal Mistake Sets Back Delaware Education for One Full Year
Parents, Administrators, and Politicians….
The Corporatization of Little Kids
As I went back and compiled this, I realized that I only got into this fight over merit compensation. I bet those pushing reform wish they never picked that battle… It alone caused me to delve into Education and everything else you see above, is the result…..
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