Vermont School Boards Association exec: What consolidation means for schools

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 […]

It’s Official: Americans R Stupid

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

Part 2 of Dr. Den­nis Cud­dy’s “Com­mon Core” arti­cle series was post­ed today at NewsWith­Views: http://newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis307.htm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto 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 […]

Superintendent Confirms Common Core’s Pearson Spying on Kids’ Social Media Accounts

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

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

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. Gates was […]

Parent calls 911 after public school refuses to release child

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. . . .

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 […]

Are we training pigeons or educating children?

No Way, ESEA! A Class­room Teacher Rais­es Hard Questions A 3D com­men­tary by grass­roots teacher Dawn Hoagland Are we train­ing pigeons or edu­cat­ing chil­dren? That is the big ques­tion we need to ask Con­gress as they re-autho­rize ESEA (the Ele­men­tary and Sec­ondary Edu­ca­tion Act)! There seems to be a new idea, which is actu­al­ly old, being […]

Common Core Early History

“…‘National, Rational, Republican Education, Free for All, at the Expense of All, Conducted under the Guardianship of the State,’ apart from the contaminating influence of parents…” Be sure to catch Dr. Den­nis Cud­dy’s fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cle “Com­mon Core” post­ed on NewsWith­Views 3/2/15, in which he divulges some fas­ci­nat­ing ear­ly his­to­ry on how edu­ca­tion began to be […]

Common Core Testing Regime Ruled Unconstitutional

In a devel­op­ment with mas­sive impli­ca­tions for the Oba­ma administration’s ongo­ing attempt at nation­al­iz­ing edu­ca­tion with Com­mon Core, a Mis­souri judge ruled this week that the fed­er­al­ly fund­ed test­ing regime for the con­tro­ver­sial stan­dards was uncon­sti­tu­tion­al. The rul­ing means that the state of Mis­souri is offi­cial­ly pro­hib­it­ed from par­tic­i­pat­ing in the “Smarter Bal­anced Assess­ment Con­sor­tium” […]

BREAKING: Judge Strikes MASSIVE Blow to Obama’s Common Core

One by one, states are rebelling against Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s Com­mon Core. Now a judge in Mis­souri has just ruled that it is ille­gal for the gov­ern­ment to work with an inter­state test­ing com­pa­ny that admin­is­ters Com­mon Core stan­dards on behalf of local schools. Mis­souri Cir­cuit Judge Daniel Green stat­ed that the state’s alliance with a group […]

D-DAY on H.R. 5

No Way, ESEA!  David vs. the Goliath ESEA bills in Congress YOU America’s Grassroots Parents,  Teachers, Voters, Citizens  stood up against the ESEA! Yes, YOU tru­ly grass­roots Amer­i­can cit­i­zens BLEW THE WHISTLE! Guess who caused this uproar over HR 5? The Grass­roots! YOU, YOU, YOU! Don’t let any­body else take the cred­it for it! YOU read­ers of this […]

The Elephant in the Room

No Way, ESEA! What the Con­ser­v­a­tives Won’t Tell You About the ESEA… AND THEIR SNOW JOB ON AMERICANS! (As if we need more snow!)   The Reau­tho­riza­tion of the ESEA Neocon­ser­v­a­tive oppo­si­tion to Rep. John Kline’s H.R. 5 (Stu­dent Suc­cess Act) and Sen­a­tor Lamar Alexan­der’s com­pan­ion bill, is pop­ping up all over, inter­est­ing­ly enough the very day […]

HR-5 Denies Parents Their Right Over Their Own Children

No Way, ESEA! The dis­in­for­ma­tion cam­paign has already revved up The spin doc­tors are going into high gear! Stay informed by read­ing this blog! We will con­tin­u­al­ly be post­ing updat­ed fac­tu­al, well-doc­u­ment­ed information. Ani­ta Hoge’s alert post­ed on this blog, has also now been post­ed on NewsWith­Views HERE. Read the orig­i­nal alert HERE. Fol­low these instructions: […]

ALERT: HR 5, the Student Success Act of 2015

The fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion is crit­i­cal­ly impor­tant. It should go viral imme­di­ate­ly. Send it to every par­ent and grand­par­ent, school board mem­ber, state leg­is­la­tor, vot­er, friend.… Post it on Face­book, web­sites, blogs, etc. Time is very short! This bill is on the FAST TRACK! The vote on H.R. 5 may take place as ear­ly as Tues­day […]

Federal ESEA Reauthorization has its eye on Finland.

No Way, ESEA! Fin­land Fables: What Tony Rob­bins does­n’t tell you… Fin­land heroes fight­ing the Sovi­et Union in WWII (Source) Fin­land and her peo­ple are no strangers to war. How­ev­er, all these events pre­date the so-called “wel­fare state” that lat­er emerged. This change turned a once strong and proud nation to a shad­ow of its for­mer self.(Source) […]

Do We Want the Military Involved in Common Core?

UP TO THEIR SCRAMBLED EGGS IN ALLIGATORS! Read Part 1 The Unit­ed States mil­i­tary has been involved in U.S. edu­ca­tion for many years. In fact, much of the Indi­vid­u­al­ized Edu­ca­tion research (Skin­ner­ian Mas­tery Learning/Direct Instruction/OBE/Effective Schools) used by the U.S. Dept. of Edu­ca­tion in the 1980s came from the U.S. Depart­ment of Defense (espe­cial­ly the […]

EVEN BEFORE ESEA HAS BEEN REAUTHORIZED—

No Way, ESEA! Rub­ber-Stamp­ing Char­ter Districts By Cyn­thia Weath­er­ly, 3D Research Group Last week it was my dis­tinct dis­plea­sure to open our local paper, The Athens Ban­ner-Her­ald of Feb­ru­ary 10, 2015, and read “Draft of Clarke char­ter plan calls for school­health clin­ics, stream­lined teacher eval­u­a­tion, local gov­er­nance teams—andbetter per­for­mance.” Clarke County’s recent­ly elect­ed “Out­stand­ing School Super­in­ten­dent […]

‘Top teacher’ winner quits due to Common Core

Announced to stunned audi­ence: ‘I can’t do it anymore’ Sta­cie Starr reacts to win­ning the Top Teacher con­test (Bruce Bishop/ Chronicle-Telegram Hon­ored as the “Top Teacher” by ABC’s “Live with Kel­ly and Michael” show, Sta­cie Starr was speak­ing at an edu­ca­tion forum ear­li­er this week when she dropped a bombshell. The vet­er­an teacher at Elyr­ia […]

Watch Out For Opt Out!

A “Seis­mic Shift” In Assess­ing Students “The group calls for what’s called “assess­ment lit­er­a­cy” for teachers,  but also admin­is­tra­tors, school boards, par­ents — and students.” (Source) A 3D Research Report by Mari Caplan Many par­ents, under­stand­ably fed up by the aggres­sive test­ing asso­ci­at­ed with Com­mon Core Stan­dards or now Career and Col­lege Ready Stan­dards, are […]

HOW TRADITIONAL ACADEMIC EDUCATION WAS KILLED!

No Way ESEA! How Cor­po­ra­tions Prof­it from Hyped Up Edu­ca­tion Crises (Source)   “Pear­son wields enor­mous influ­ence over Amer­i­can education. It writes the text­books and tests that dri­ve instruction in pub­lic schools across the nation.” POLITICO report­ed on Stephanie Simon’s arti­cle “No prof­it left behind: In the high-stakes world of Amer­i­can edu­ca­tion, Pear­son makes mon­ey even […]

Perhaps you didn’t know… Schools across the country are literally building solitary confinement cells for children.

What is “nor­mal”? Is nor­mal­cy a con­di­tion of pub­lic accep­tance to com­mon trends & cul­ture? Per it’s def­i­n­i­tion, nor­mal is defined as con­form­ing to a stan­dard: usu­al, typ­i­cal or expected. If you accept nor­mal­cy by that def­i­n­i­tion then… -it is nor­mal for kids in our pub­lic school sys­tem to be locked in soli­tary con­fine­ment (4×4 padded […]

Anita Hoge Tells All About Testing Attitudes

No Way ESEA!  WATCH & LISTEN to a riv­et­ing pre­sen­ta­tion by Ani­ta Hoge! (Start lis­ten­ing about the 23 minute mark) The Feb­ru­ary 5th inter­view Ani­ta Hoge did with John Wells of Car­a­van To Mid­night radio is now post­ed on YouTube. This is a “must watch.” Maybe you are a per­son who has trou­ble read­ing and digest­ing all of […]