Comments on: If We All Went Swimming in the Mississippi … http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/12/if-we-all-went-swimming-in-the.html Advancing liberty with responsibility by promoting market solutions for Missouri public policy Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:56:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: lajones http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/12/if-we-all-went-swimming-in-the.html/comment-page-1#comment-4543 lajones Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:39:55 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=10588#comment-4543 House Education and Labor Committee School Board member raises concerns about RTT funds coercion of local schools - http://tiny.cc/coercion House Education and Labor Committee
School Board member raises concerns about RTT funds coercion of local schools – http://tiny.cc/coercion

]]> By: lajones http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/12/if-we-all-went-swimming-in-the.html/comment-page-1#comment-4542 lajones Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:30:55 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=10588#comment-4542 Students and parents need to continue to look directly to colleges and universities for entrance requirements and content assessed on placement tests. "students who graduate from high school having taken only math coursework addressing those standards (and presumably having passed a test based on them) will be inadmissible to any four-year college around the country." http://jaypgreene.com/2009/12/11/alternative-needed-to-common-core-an-additional-consortium-for-%e2%80%8ecommon-standards/ "In terms of process, we pointed to the longtime secrecy about who was doing what and the secrecy about the drafts of the standards themselves. We pointed to the tight timeline and asked whether it allowed enough time for public comment." http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/12/problems-with-common-core-national.html Students and parents need to continue to look directly to colleges and universities for entrance requirements and content assessed on placement tests.

“students who graduate from high school having taken only math coursework addressing those standards (and presumably having passed a test based on them) will be inadmissible to any four-year college around the country.”

http://jaypgreene.com/2009/12/11/alternative-needed-to-common-core-an-additional-consortium-for-%e2%80%8ecommon-standards/

“In terms of process, we pointed to the longtime secrecy about who was doing what and the secrecy about the drafts of the standards themselves. We pointed to the tight timeline and asked whether it allowed enough time for public comment.”

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/12/problems-with-common-core-national.html

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