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 edu­ca­tion, civ­i­liza­tion dies.”

Note the pur­pose: “To install high-speed broad­band or wire­less inter­net con­nec­tiv­i­ty for schools and com­mu­ni­ties.” Read on.… At the web­site you can down­load the full text in 5 dif­fer­ent languages.