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Common Core Fights Brewing in Statehouses Across the Country
West Virginia State Capitol Building – Charleston, WVPhoto credit: O Palsson (CC-By-2.0) The Washington Post gives a preview of state house fights over Common Core that are on the horizon after the GOP...
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Nevada District Bullies Mother Over Opt-Out Notification
Claudia Kintigh a mother of five in Clark County, NV notified her children’s school that she would not be giving permission to, “subject my children to any statewide assessment, tests or...
View ArticleNevada Legislature to Consider Anti-Common Core Bills
Two bills were filed recently in the Nevada Legislature to fight to stop Common Core in the Silver State. AB 303 was introduced in the Nevada Assembly on Friday. The primary sponsors are Assemblyman...
View ArticleSmarter Balanced Roll Out Has Been a Disaster
Smarter Balanced has been plagued with technical glitches that have led to Montana telling its schools that the assessment was voluntary for it’s local schools. The Wall Street Journal reported last...
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Nevada Common Core Opposition Roadblocks
Taking my gloves back off I return to naming names of road blocks to solid anti-Common Core legislation in different state legislatures. Today, we turn to Nevada. Activists pointed out to Truth in...
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Nevada Falls Short of NCLB’s Testing Mandate
Nevada fell short of the 95% testing threshold required of states by No Child Left Behind. Falling short would be an understatement. Nevada’s roll out of Smarter Balanced was an epic disaster. The...
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Changing the Test Vendor Won’t Improve the Test
Nevada announced that it was dumping Measured Progress because of the bang-up job it did implementing Smarter Balanced in the state. The testing vendor is losing $51 million dollar contract… ouch....
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Nevada to Receive $1.3 Million Settlement from Measured Progress
Measured Progress is giving Nevada almost $1.3 million back for their botched implementation of the Smarter Balanced Assessment last Spring. Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt’s office put out...
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Nevada Opt-Outs Increase, Downplayed By the Media
The headline of an article in the Las Vegas Sun today is more straightforward than the article itself. The headline reads “Opting out of Common Core slightly up statewide, despite drop in Clark...
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