Breitbart: The pro-Common Core New Mexico education secretary who once served as a staffer in former Gov. Jeb Bush’s administration in Florida is no longer a candidate for assistant secretary of the U.S. Education Department, reports Politico.
Hanna Skandera’s name was pulled from consideration for the position, the report says, because about a dozen Senate Republicans “were skeptical that they could ever vote yes” to confirm her, due to her support for the highly unpopular Common Core standards.
Skandera was deputy education commissioner under Jeb Bush and also a senior policy adviser and deputy chief of staff at the education department under former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, who served under President George W. Bush. read more
Personally, I won’t be satisfied with any changes at the department of education short of it’s complete elimination.
It’s getting to the point where Trump has to check his underwear every morning to make sure someone elses’ named isn’t written on it.
Thank God for Steve Bannon.
Well, finally a win! I am not tired of winning yet! Keep it up!
Common Core is a developmentally inappropriate curriculum. The PARRC (CRAPP) assessment is even worse. My school will spend two weeks in April giving this test. It is stressful for many of the children, especially those who have learning disabilities or other identified disabilities. Giving them accommodations does nothing to help them. Members of congress (please note the lower case c) should have to come and watch as some of these children take this test. Better yet, let’s have them take this and see how they do. Most seem to have IQs that match their shoe sizes.
Pearson who creates these tests and other CC materials makes a bundle. Follow the money on all of this. From what I understand, only 10 states are still giving this test.
I am not against assessing students. However, the measures need to be based on what is actually being taught and should be used as data to improve the learning for the students, not to rate them as either “college and career ready” or not starting in 3rd grade, or to point fingers at the schools and teachers. How ridiculous. Given the daily reports from our representatives in congress, many of them are not “career ready”
Ergo!!! March 26, 2017 at 9:29 am
Well, finally a win! I am not tired of winning yet! Keep it up!
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I’m not tired of gloating, I’ve got 8 years of gloating left in me and I ain’t stopping now! 🙂
I don’t even trust Breitbart to get it right. Are we suuurrre she was in consideration? Or is this just another set-up to make Trump and his team look incompetent?
@Marq – “only 10 states are still giving this test.”
Not correct. I work for a company that scores these tests. As of last year 100% of the states we have contracts with (about 30) use the Common Core guidelines. NONE of them actually use the Common Core tests – they created their own after spending the first few months in the CC consortium. They broke off with CC because of their bureaucracy but kept the style and idea of the tests. The idea of the writing portion of the test is to push the idea of learning how to do research in order to write thesis papers to prepare them for college.
In summary, they created their own passages for the student to read and made their own questions for the student to answer on their essays.
CC passages and questions had wildly inaccurate history (patriots were bad and loyalists were good), in-the-tank totally for green energy (oil, natural gas, coal, fracking = bad; wind, solar, etc = good) and social justice (tolerance, anti-bullying, PC shit, etc.). Now that the states are creating their own, they still have some of those issues, but not as much.
It still causes kids to have major anxiety and they no longer have any chance to demonstrate that they can actually write other than follow the cookie-cutter formula. No more open-ended questions that allow the students to write creatively.
So sad.