THE HIGH COST OF IGNORING SKEPTICISM (By Ann Policelli Cronin)
What if the People are right and the Education Reform Industry is wrong! THE HIGH COST OF IGNORING SKEPTICISM (By Ann Policelli Cronin) A recent UConn poll reported that most people (59% of...
View ArticleIT’S ABOUT THE SUBSTANCE (By Ann Policelli Cronin)
In this guest post, educator Ann Policelli Cronin provides a clear-cut explanation of some of the problems with the Common Core. Now if our elected officials would just take the time to learn the...
View ArticleConnecticut, a Jim Crow state? [A must read by Ann Policelli Cronin]
This commentary piece by Ann Policelli Cronin first appeared in the CT Mirror – Op-Ed: Connecticut, a Jim Crow state? Unless Connecticut changes direction in what has been packaged and sold as...
View ArticleMore on Common Core – Truth Is Truer Than Fiction (Guest post by Ann...
Ann Policelli Cronin provides Wait, What? readers with another powerful commentary piece! Ann writes, The old adage “If something seems too good to be true, maybe that’s because it is” came to mind as...
View ArticleSay No to SBAC (by Ann P. Cronin)
If you don’t follow Ann Cronin’s new blog entitled Real Learning CT you need to go bookmark the site and make a daily stop to read her latest pieces. Ann is a Connecticut educator and has posted a...
View ArticleA Must Read from Ann Policelli Cronin- SBAC: Failing most Connecticut...
First published in the CT Mirror, SBAC: Failing most Connecticut children in more ways than one fellow public educator advocate and columnist has a great article that provides important information to...
View ArticleCommon Core SBAC testing – Big Cost, No Value
Over the past two years Connecticut taxpayers have dropped $32 million on the Common Core SBAC tests and another $12.4 million for implementation of the Common Core. The Connecticut state budget...
View ArticleWhile Team Malloy says full steam ahead on the Common Core and Common Core...
Veteran Connecticut educator Ann P. Cronin says that in this new post No Child Behind Act (NCLB)Environment, “CT Must Reject The Common Core.” Educator, public education advocate and education blogger...
View ArticleReaders Need Not Apply (by Ann Policelli Cronin)
Connecticut educator and fellow education blogger Ann Policelli Cronin recently posted a great article about how the “education reformers” and their Common Core and Common Core testing scheme are...
View ArticleMoving The Goal Post (By Ann P. Cronin)
Educator and education blogger Ann Cronin has a powerful piece on the corporate education reform industry’s fixation on measuring “student achievement.” She takes on the education reformers’ notion...
View ArticleHow The Common Core Hurts Kids As Readers And Writers by Ann Policelli Cronin
Educator, public education advocate and fellow education blogger takes on the notion that the Common Core is good for children in her blog entitled, P.S. How The Common Core Hurts Kids As Readers And...
View ArticleREQUIRING THE SAT GETS CONNECTICUT LESS THAN NOTHING (By Ann Cronin)
Repost from Ann Cronin’s blog… Big News! It was on the front page of the The Hartford Courant, reported on in all the other state newspapers, and featured on the Connecticut State Department of...
View ArticleRelay Is A Very Bad Joke-One That Hurts Kids (By Ann Cronin)
Writing on her blog, Real Learning CT, educator, education advocate and education blogger Ann Cronin explains; The Relay Graduate School of Education recently applied to be a graduate school of...
View ArticleWhen you ask the wrong questions, you can’t possibly get the right answers....
The Mastery Examination Task Force, whose report about student assessment in our public schools is due to come out soon, has asked all the wrong questions. We, therefore, can’t have any confidence in...
View ArticleBetsy DeVos — A clear and present danger by Ann Policelli Cronin
First published in CT Mirror, educator and advocate Ann Policelli Cronin highlights what she learned from watching three hours of the Senate confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos as Secretary of...
View ArticleSomething Is Rotten In The State Of Connecticut by Ann Cronin
In her latest blog post, educator and education advocate Ann Cronin reports on Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy and his administration’s loyalty to the charter school industry and their latest attack on...
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