Posts published on November 4, 2013

Massachusetts Makes Big Bet on Performance Funding

Massachusetts is in the first phases of moving toward performance funding for its community colleges and education leaders hope it will generate a flood of talent to fill local jobs. Massachusetts is setting aside half of its community college funds for that purpose. Tennessee is the only other state that goes that far. Massachusetts also increased its community college funding by $20 million after years of cutbacks. (Governing, 11/01/13)

10 Things To Know About Common Core College Prep

As a rebuttal to critics of Common Core look at the following:

http://msde.state.md.us/cc/pr/22.pdf