Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “government”
It’s hard to believe that we’re already in February and that the testing season is upon us. In recent months, you may have started hearing words and phrases like “PARCC,” “Common Core,” and “The Third Grade Reading Guarantee.” Yes, you know that these words all pertain to your student’s education, but what do they mean? How are they different and …
Yesterday, the Ohio Department of Education released a report recommending that we decrease the amount of testing in schools. According to the article, students spend an average of 20 hours a year preparing for testing. As expected, third graders and tenth graders spend the most time on tests due to the PARCC Assessment, SAT, and ACT, averaging closer to 28 …
Note: This post was written by a guest author. Last month, I wrote about the Common Core Curriculum and its failings. It is not addressing the “core” problem of our students. The real common core problem is that many students can’t read well, or not at all. And, the “can read” group doesn’t get it … what it really …
Note: This post was written by a guest author. The United States has been struggling with poor literacy, poor mathematics and poor science skills for decades. While we continue to pour billions of dollars into these education problems every year, the needle has not moved appreciably since World War II. Once we were a leader in education, now we …
