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Governor Gregoire wants just one state education agency

Governor Gregoire announced her plan for consolidating all the state education agencies under one head, whom she would appoint.  According to a Seattle Times Article, “…. Gov. Chris Gregoire’s proposal...

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Research Disputes Benefits of Early Education

Pull Quote: “…Fundamentally, the preschool and kindergarten debate is not about the effectiveness or expense of the programs. At heart is the question of in whose hands the responsibility for young...

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Intrusive data collection on every citizen….a side effect or the real goal of...

The latest federal education initiatives have educators and policy-makers concentrating on charter schools, early learning, teacher and principal evaluations, and other weighty topics. However no one...

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North Carolina Preschooler’s homemade lunch deemed unacceptable by lunch...

It once would have been unthinkable that a lunch agent would police children’s homemade lunches and approve or reject them, but it happened in North Carolina, under the regulations of their Division of...

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Kindergarten kids must be made college and career ready??!

Kindergarten used to be where youngsters did finger-painting and made shapes out of clay.  Children learned valuable lessons  about being polite, sharing, and taking turns. They learned to be creative,...

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Common Core standards for K-3 written by people with no K-3 teaching...

Common Core Standards are causing much concern among parents of school-age children. Parents of young children should also know that there are Common Core Standards for younger children as well....

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Florida kindergarten teacher takes a stand against a kindergarten assessment

Kindergarten used to be a place to paint pictures, play with clay, make friends, and learn a few social graces. Now it is a place to be assessed and started on the path to be molded into human capital....

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Child Psychologist Megan Koschnick: Common Core is not age-appropriate

Research increasingly shows that young children are not ready for the types of questions presented in the Common Core Assessments and practice exercises. At a conference held at Notre Dame in September...

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Presentation: Social Emotional Learning – Creating the “Perfect” 21st Century...

Come to our presentation Social Emotional Learning: Creating the “Perfect” 21st Century Child Sponsored by Research Mom and Citizens United for Responsible Education Date:   Saturday, July 28, 2018...

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Government Nannies at Your Door

Government Nannies at Your Door “We’re from the Government and we’re here to help you.” Do those words give you a warm, fuzzy feeling? The sponsors of the “Welcome to Washington Baby Act” think so. “A...

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