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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“…‘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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]