New Indiana standards will be voted on without an analysis of final draft

April 17, 2014 3 Comments
New Indiana standards will be voted on without an analysis of final draft

The Associated Press reported that Indiana will not do an analysis on the final draft of standards released April 15th before being voted on by the Indiana Education Roundtable on April 21st: The governor’s special assistant for education innovation and reform, Claire Fiddian-Green, said the more than 6,000 hours spent revising the standards and including […]

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New draft standards- a few of my favorites

April 17, 2014 4 Comments
New draft standards- a few of my favorites

All sets of standards have a few good ones in them and I love how supporters of Common Core or, whatever we are going to call the new standards, always point to a few of them and pretend the whole document is just like that. I’m going to post  few that I found in the new draft […]

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Fuzzy Common Core math standards remain in Indiana’s “new” standards

April 17, 2014 1 Comment
Fuzzy Common Core math standards remain in Indiana’s “new” standards

The instructional practices embedded into the K-5 math standards were the largest complaint from parents regarding Common Core. After the first two drafts of Indiana’s “new” standards, the “fuzzy math”  pedagogy embedded in the Common Core was still present – word for word. Unfortunately, the Common Core’s worst math standards remain intact in the latest […]

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Judgment Day Rally at the Statehouse!

April 12, 2014 8 Comments
Judgment Day Rally at the Statehouse!

It’s Judgment Day! The public comment period may be over, but Hoosiers have more to say! Join us April 21st at 1:00pm at the Indiana Statehouse for the Judgment Day Rally. Let the Indiana Education Roundtable see that parents care! Hillsdale College Professor Dr. Terrence Moore will speak and answer your questions! March with us […]

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Knewton holds more data on students than Google holds on users

April 12, 2014 0 Comments

“What if your math syllabus could tell you what to eat for breakfast to score higher on your quiz tomorrow?”  Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton, shares his vision for a future where every student receives a truly personalized curriculum best suited to his or her needs. Knewton collects millions of data points about student users […]

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