Com­mon Core Roots are NOT Grassroots! A SHORT LESSON IN THE ROOTS OF COMMON CORE Fed­er­al Fund­ing of Com­mon Core (piece by piece over many years) through New Fed­er­al­ism was ini­tial­ly imple­ment­ed under Pres­i­dent Nixon. The fol­low­ing research is so very impor­tant for Amer­i­cans won­der­ing how we end­ed up imple­ment­ing UNESCO’s Com­mu­nist Core in the schools […]

“This is not some kind of com­mu­nist plot to take over America’s schools” From the fol­low­ing arti­cle: “MAINE’S GOV. PAUL LEPAGE: ‘I NO LONGER SUPPORT THE COMMON CORE’ STANDARDS,” by Dr. Susan Berry, Oct 27, 2014, one can read about Maine’s Gov­er­nor Paul LeP­age, who report­ed­ly was “fear­ful”: “LeP­age said he is con­tin­u­ing to eval­u­ate […]

“Leon Trot­sky: father of neo­con­ser­vatism” (Source) Who is Trot­sky and Who are His Followers? And what do they have to do with education? Why do I refer to Trot­skyites (oth­er­wise known as “Trot­sky­ists”) on this blog? The term is inter­change­able with the word “Neo­con­ser­v­a­tive,” or “Neo­con” for short. These indi­vid­u­als are active in Amer­i­ca, work­ing […]

MICROSOFT & UNESCO (Source) Socialist/international edu­ca­tion his­to­ry is repeat­ing itself for the umpteenth time with UNESCO and Microsoft in 2004 extend­ing their non-aca­d­e­mic/­col­lec­tivist womb-to-tomb ten­ta­cles into teacher edu­ca­tion in the Asia Pacif­ic region. Here is an excerpt from the UNESCO web­page you see above: Project « Next Gen­er­a­tion of Teachers » The first oper­a­tional ini­tia­tive was under­tak­en […]

“The elec­tion is over. What next?” Exhib­it A: Let­ter from Nina Rees, 11/6/14 The char­ter school agen­da is crank­ing up into high gear. This quote at the top was in the “Sub­ject” line of an e‑mail from Nina Rees of the Nation­al Alliance for Pub­lic Char­ter Schools sent today (11/6/14). This is the planned agen­da for […]

The Final Nail in the Edu­ca­tion Coffin See Pro­posed Bal­lot Propo­si­tions at the New York Board of Elec­tions website: http://elections.ny.gov/ProposedConsAmendments2.html TAXPAYERS APPROVE TWO BILLION DOLLARS FOR NEW YORK’S SKINNERIAN SMART SCHOOLS (AND COMMUNITIES!). This is the FINAL NAIL in the cof­fin of brain-based edu­ca­tion and true local con­trol. As C.S. Lewis quipped, “When train­ing beats […]