FA Note: Please critically examine this article in lieu of the warnings of Charlotte Iserbyt, Anita Hoge, and others about proposed education “reform” in our nation. As the House Education Committee’s consolidation bill gets ready to move over to the Senate, Vermonters are wondering what a statewide restructuring would mean for schools and school boards. In the first of […]
Vermont School Boards Association exec: What consolidation means for schools
Posted on March 17, 2015 Written by
It’s Official: Americans R Stupid
Posted on March 17, 2015 Written by
As Americans, we tend to be pretty full of ourselves, and this is especially true of our young people. But do we really have reason for such pride? According to a shocking new report from the Educational Testing Service, Americans between the ages of 20 and 34 are way behind young adults in other industrialized […]
Common Core, Part 2
Posted on March 17, 2015 Written by
Part 2 of Dr. Dennis Cuddy’s “Common Core” article series was posted today at NewsWithViews: http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis307.htm. In today’s installment, Dr. Cuddy writes, In 1848, the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO was published, including Plank No. 10, which provided for a “Combination of education with industrial production” (a type of school-to-work approach). Nine years later in 1857, the National […]
Superintendent Confirms Common Core’s Pearson Spying on Kids’ Social Media Accounts
Posted on March 16, 2015 Written by
The superintendent of the Watchung Hills Regional High School District in New Jersey has confirmed that she sent an email to fellow superintendents Tuesday about her concern that education publishing giant Pearson is “monitoring” children’s social media accounts for possible leaks about the Common Core-aligned PARCC tests. On Friday, Bob Braun, a former leading columnist for […]
The Walking Core: Standards Won’t Die In SC
Posted on March 16, 2015 Written by
Officially, Common Core is dead in South Carolina, wiped out Wednesday by a vote of the state board of education. However, leaders of the state’s anti-Common Core movement are anything but happy, saying the state is being tricked by a bait-and-switch tactic that replaces the standards with something nearly identical. Sheri Few, the head of […]
Social Experimentation on the Poor
Posted on March 13, 2015 Written by
No Way, ESEA! Frederick T. Gates is “alive and well” in 2015 This blog has detailed Frederick T. Gates and his early 1913 advocacy of social experimentation on poor and rural people. One hundred years later we are still battling his terrible agenda. Some of his ideology is reflected in current legislation in Congress.
Parent calls 911 after public school refuses to release child
Posted on March 10, 2015 Written by
WINTER PARK, Fla. – A Florida parent was forced to take drastic measures when her public school refused to release her child during a dispute over standardized testing. Jacqui Myers says another mother with a child at Winter Park’s Brookshire Elementary School called her after she arrived at the school to opt her fifth-grade daughter […]
THEY are coming for your children.…
Posted on March 8, 2015 Written by
NO Way, ESEA! THEY want our babies. THEY want our children. THEY want our country. THEY, the federal government, are closing in upon us on all all sides. THEY have declared war on our families, and on our freedoms. WE fight for our freedoms by wielding our Constitutional liberties. WE publish the truth and disseminate it. WE win […]
