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Common Core question soon facing your CA kids
California enthusiastically is embracing the new national Common Core standards for students. Here’s an actual question of the sort that’s going to be facing the students, as posted on a quiz page on the site for the Genesco Commnuity Unit School District
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Fair share politics and universal preschool
A national non-profit organization which promotes “progressive values” plans to deliver 1,000 petition signatures today to U.S. Rep. Ami Bera’s district office today in Rancho Cordova, calling for Congress to pass the “Start Strong for America’s Children Act.” California Fair Share
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Is Jerry Brown eyeing the White House again?
Gov. Jerry Brown’s crack public relations team has been hard at work convincing the rest of the country that he has sparked a California turnaround. The New Republic even recommended to President Obama that, in his second term, he should
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U.S. ranks third-last in 'numeracy'
America's low-scoring public schools are making it difficult for us to compete in future decades. The latest: “The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on Friday released the initial results of an international survey of adult
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Gov. Brown axes 2013-14 school testing for K-12
Most California’s K-12 public schools will go through the 2013-14 school year without standardized testing after Gov. Jerry Brown just signed Assembly Bill 484 into law. The following school year, 2014-15, less rigorous federal Common Core tests will begin. AB484
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Critics charge AB 375 doesn't really protect students
SACRAMENTO –The Legislature still is working on teacher-discipline legislation. AB375 is by Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo. It passed the Senate Education Committee Tuesday and is being heard Wednesday in the Senate Appropriations Committee. Prior to Tuesday’s hearing, all of the
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AB 917 would send charter schools to the back of the class
The popularity and success of California’s 900 charter schools aren’t making everyone happy. Union leaders have tried to organize the non-union schools, but unsuccessfully. New tactic: Hamper the charters’ spread. AB 917, which just passed both houses of the Legislature,
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Video: In CA schools, 3 X 4 = 11
Back in the early 1990s, California schools adopted “New New Math” and “Whole Language” to dumb down the kids. Parents revolted. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the state reformed the curriculum and adopted some decent standards. But in
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LAUSD’s iPad gimmick
Back in 1972-73, my senior year, I took a humanities class from a great teacher at Wayne Memorial High School, my public school in Wayne, Mich. An Italian immigrant whose family had suffered under Mussolini’s fascists, he instilled in me
Read MoreControversial Napolitano coming to UC system
July 12, 2013 By Katy Grimes A startling announcement early this morning caught many Californians off guard: Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano is resigning and moving to California to head the University of California system. This is a real eyebrow-raiser,
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