Tag: Achieve
Common Core’s Revisionist History
Common Core was a state-led effort. Right? The problem with the internet is nothing truly disappears. EAGnews.org used the Wayback machine (an internet archive site) to capture this quote off of Corestandards.org from March 5, 2010: “The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a state-led effort coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA […]
What is Achieve, Inc., and Why You Should Care
Last January I stood in front of the House Education Committee and expressed my concern about Common Core. One of the things I mentioned was Acheive. Dr. Carissa Miller, Deputy Superintendent at the Idaho State Department of Education and Co-Chair of the SBAC, told the committee that Achieve had nothing to do with Idaho and […]
That pesky 15%
At one point Superintendent Tom Luna referenced a letter Utah got from Secretary Arne Duncan as evidence that states, including Idaho, had not lost control of their standards. He was trying to obtain a similar letter for Idaho. However, timing is everything. It needs to be noted Utah’s letter was received after Race To The Top but before […]
