Common Core Education And More About Federal Government Control

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PUBLIC SCHOOLS CALLED
'GIGANTIC CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE'

Author: American kids being dumbed down as part of globalist scheme
Published: 18 hours ago

It's no accident that America's education system is struggling, according to international journalist and educator Alex Newman, who believes American children are being intentionally dumbed down so they can be more easily controlled.


"Basically every tyrant in all of history has understood that to control and to enslave a nation, you need to control the education system," Newman said in a recent appearance on "The Alex Jones Show."

Newman extensively researched historical tyrants for his recently published book "Crimes of the Educators," coauthored with Samuel Blumenfeld.

He also dug up a number of primary documents that he says prove socialist utopians are attempting to create a "new world order" of global citizens.

"They tell us they're creating a global government, a global society, a single world religion – basically globalist everything on steroids, and really what they're talking about is planetary totalitarianism," Newman said. "They use nice words and that kind of stuff, but they're very upfront about what they're doing."

However, the globalists understand an intelligent population would never go along with their schemes, said Newman. That's why they need to dumb down Americans, and the rest of the world for that matter.

"Education is really at the heart of it, because if you don't have a dumbed-down population, if you don't have a population that's sufficiently indoctrinated into this nonsense, it'll never fly," Newman said. "And so education, we consider, is really at the heart of this globalist effort to really, to be blunt about it, enslave the world. Without the education system, it would never be possible. Without mass-producing illiterates and collectivists, they could never build something like this."

The host, Alex Jones, added his own historical parallel.

"If you go back to the different banking associations and groups in the 1890s and stuff ... they were saying, 'We've got too many smart people,' and the robber barons said, 'We need to take over education and dumb these people down,' and boy, have they done it," Jones said.

In "Crimes of the Educators," Newman and Blumenfeld argue progressive education gurus have caused dyslexia and other learning disabilities by teaching children to read using the "whole word" method, which asks children to memorize words as whole units. The authors prefer a more traditional phonics-based method in which children learn which letters of the alphabet stand for certain sounds.

As a result of the whole-word method, says Newman, many children are functionally illiterate.

"So you won't even be able to bypass the propaganda and get a book, get the Bible, get the Constitution, get the Declaration of Independence and read it, because they're teaching the children to read using faulty methods that have been known to be quackery since the 1840s," Newman told Jones.

He pointed to a 1993 government study that found as many as 51 percent of American adults were barely literate.

"This is crazy," Newman exclaimed. "My 5-year-old can read after a few weeks of reading lessons using phonics. So something is seriously wrong in the schools, and it all comes together with the globalists and the big government scheming to enslave the American people."

In their book, Newman and Blumenfeld claim "cooperative learning" is evidence of communist influence in the classrooms. Cooperative learning is a teaching method in which students work together in small groups and all receive the same grade for their work, even if they took a quiz or test separately. Such a collectivist mindset will come in handy in the new global society, the authors argue.

They also decry public schools for destroying children's religious beliefs by teaching evolution and secular humanist doctrines. The authors note that lack of religion is a hallmark of totalitarian societies.

Their research also turned up evidence that the U.S. Department of Education is collecting massive amounts of personal information on every public school student in America.

"The Department of Education now, under the guise of improving education, is actually setting up massive dossiers on every student in the country, in the government schools, including information that parents wouldn't imagine in their wildest dreams," Newman told Jones. "We're talking political beliefs, attitudes, values, views."

When you put all of this together, says Newman, it's not only horrifying, but it's a crime against the American people.

"This is a gigantic criminal enterprise masquerading as a government school system, and it's deliberately dumbing down the children," Newman declared.

Although Newman regards the education system as criminal, he does not hold every teacher accountable for the crimes of the education establishment.

"There are plenty of teachers in the system who are very good people, who understand what's going on, and who are defying the federal government and the Common Core and trying to teach students properly," Newman told Jones. "By and large, teachers are just as much victims of this craziness as the students that are being dumbed down."

Jones interjected: "Well yeah, because now they're not humans that are excited about learning and know how to read. Now they're dealing with a bunch of spoiled, rotten, drugged-up kids behaving like a barrel of monkeys."

Newman hopes "Crimes of the Educators" will help destroy the globalists' scheme by alerting people to what's going on.

"If this information were more widely known, the entire edifice would collapse because all of it rests on a dumbed-down public that can't read well, that can't do math," Newman said.

From what the author has seen lately, he thinks the globalists are accelerating their plans because they are nervous.

"They know that they've got to get this all done as quickly as possible because people are waking up right and left by the millions, and once we reach a critical mass of people who are awake, this whole thing is going to come crashing down," Newman declared. "They're going to end up in prison, and that's serious stuff."

Newman said it's important for people to educate themselves about what's going on and to organize within their communities, because as more Americans become aware of the globalists' plans, they will be better able to resist.

"We're going to have a great opportunity here to put a stop to all this," Newman promised. "And if we miss it, it's going to be a disaster for humanity, but if we seize it, it would be absolutely wonderful and amazing."

Newman longs for the day when the American people collectively wake up, put their foot down and deliver this message: "Enough of this! We're going to keep our rights. We're going to keep our nation, thank you very much. We're going to educate our children. We're not going to let you dumb them down, and we're not going to have your New World Order. Take a hike, you're a criminal, that's enough."


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/public-schools-called-gigantic-criminal-enterprise/#P1Brek4ytxSIQsQK.99

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Should we support Illegal Imigrants?
Should we support Common Core?

Or should we support Graduating
American College Teachers that need jobs?

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DREAMers Get 'Teach' Jobs

When considering the Teach For America (TFA) program, it is common to think of those accepted to it as the best and brightest American college students, who after graduating from America's most prestigious universities choose to teach for at least two years in urban or rural underserved communities.

Read more at: http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/educate/may15/dreamers-get-teach-jobs.html




Teach for AmericaBut in some instances, schools are hiring TFA college graduates who have questionable immigration status. So-called "Dreamers," illegal aliens who are temporarily free from being deported, are making inroads into the TFA program.

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SEVERAL ARTICLES IN ONE POST FOR YOUR CONVIENCE

Righting the Common Core Fiasco

The Boston-based Pioneer Institute has found more chicanery among Common Core cheerleaders and operatives that have received vast amounts of money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Common CoreBill Gates is the largest private funder of Common Core, having contributed at least $200 million. The belief that money is the root of all evil holds true in the deceptive Common Core trick that has been played on the American public and on public school students in most states.

In what the Pioneer Institute calls a "conflict-of-interest derby," a Massachusetts organization called Teach Plus received over $17 million from the Gates Foundation. This includes stipends for each of 23 Teach Plus fellows who recently released a study recommending that Massachusetts should permanently eliminate its excellent MCAS tests, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, in favor of Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) tests. Teach Plus recommends this despite the fact that other states have been ditching PARCC at an alarming rate.

In fact, concerns about the PARCC tests are so serious that among the 24 states and Washington, D.C. that originally signed on as participants, only 12 members remain. Despite being one of two testing developers to share over $350 million from the federal government to create Common-Core aligned tests, PARCC has failed miserably and is being given the boot in state after state.

http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/educate/may15/righting-the-common-core-fiasco.html

DREAMers Get 'Teach' Jobs

When considering the Teach For America (TFA) program, it is common to think of those accepted to it as the best and brightest American college students, who after graduating from America's most prestigious universities choose to teach for at least two years in urban or rural underserved communities.

But in some instances, schools are hiring TFA college graduates who have questionable immigration status. So-called "Dreamers," illegal aliens who are temporarily free from being deported, are making inroads into the TFA program.

In Denver public schools, eleven TFA instructors hold Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status under a program announced by President Obama on June 15, 2012. DACA, which is based on the DREAM Act that Congress refused to pass, temporarily defers deportations from the U.S. for eligible "undocumented" youth and young adults, and grants them access to renewable two-year work permits and Social Security numbers.

TFA Examined

Teach For America is a non-profit organization that receives financial support from individuals, businesses, and philanthropies. TFA has also won the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation grant competition.

The TFA program has been criticized for sending teachers into classrooms after only five weeks of training. Teachers unions are especially critical of the program. But in some cases, TFA teachers teach where no one else will.

http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/educate/may15/dreamers-get-teach-jobs.html

Book of the Month

The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way, Amanda Ripley, Simon and Schuster, 2013, $15.99

Amanda Ripley wanted to know why Finland and Korea remain at the top of international test results, and how Poland dramatically increased student achievement in a short period of time.

Her book follows three typical American exchange students from their state-side high schools as they attend school for a year in Finland, Korea, and Poland, respectively. She combines students' anecdotal experiences with research data and information provided by questionnaires given to other foreign and American students and parents to determine what happens in these high-achieving countries that brings about testing success.

Perhaps the most "fundamental theme" that unites the three countries studied in this book is that "everyone — kids, parents, and teachers — saw getting an education as a serious quest, more important than sports or self-esteem."

The most vital part of this book for parents and grandparents might be Appendix I, titled "How to Spot a World-Class Education." In it, Ripley uses what she discovered from her research to provide a list of exactly what to look for and what questions to ask when seeking good schools for children.

Among her suggestions are:

Observe students: Kids should sometimes feel uncomfortable and there should be a palpable sense of urgency in classrooms. There should be a feeling of united sense of purpose and students should be constantly made aware that they are there to learn.

Talk to parents: The best parents act as coaches. They focus on academics, not sports. They read to their children, talk to them about school and the world around them; they give their children enough autonomy to mature and to think and act independently.

Ask principals: How do you hire teachers? How do you train them? Why do you let them go?
Ripley credits Poland's success to reforms. Among them are: standardized tests are only used as measures of what should change and which students need help, not to pigeonhole students, or to rank schools or teachers; teachers choose curriculum from approved options; and educators earn bonuses for professional development.

In Finland, only the best students gain admittance to highly competitive teacher education programs and they must maintain high standards in order to become teachers. Finnish children are allowed unsupervised time and greater autonomy than most American kids.

In Korea, students do well on tests due to relentless study and after-school tutoring.

http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/educate/may15/book-of-the-month.html

Hillary Clinton Found at the Rotten Center
of the Common Core National Standards

Originally published by the Education Action Group Foundation news site, EAGNews.org, on April 8, 2015. Reprinted with permission. The Education Action Group Foundation believes the one-size-fits-all, assembly line government school system requires serious reform.

by Bob Kellogg

A veteran educator says parents can thank Hillary Clinton for the Common Core national standards that have been thrust upon schools across the country.

Even though most people probably believe that Common Core was developed during President Barack Obama's term in office, the foundation of the initiative goes all the way back to the 1980s, reports veteran educator and now-commentator Donna Garner.

Garner tells EAGnews that back then Hillary Clinton worked with other left-leaning education reformers such as Marc Tucker of the National Committee on Education and the Economy (NCEE), Ira Magaziner, and then-Gov. Mario Cuomo, known for his fiery, liberal speeches.

The 'What Is Common Core' website reports that Tucker "has ... openly worked for decades to strengthen the role of the state education agencies in education governance at the expense of local control" and claims that "the United States will have to largely abandon the beloved emblem of American education: local control."

In 1992, Tucker wrote a letter to Hillary Clinton outlining his vision of a building a pipeline from education to the workforce. (It is known as the "Dear Hillary letter.")

Magaziner has a long association with the Clintons. In addition to working with Hillary on radical education reform, he worked with her on the failed Task Force to Reform Health Care during the Clinton Administration, served as senior policy advisor for President Clinton and, as of today, serves in a leadership capacity for two of the Bill, Hillary, & Chelsea Clinton Foundation's international development initiatives.

In the 1980s, Hillary (et al.) laid the groundwork for a School-to-Work plan, better known by the term "cradle-to-grave," according to Garner. The idea was to create a three-legged stool of education, labor, and healthcare whereby the government would direct people's lives from birth until they die.

http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/educate/may15/hillary-clinton-found-at-the-rotten-center-of-the-common-core-national-standards.html

Common Core Public Relations Campaigns

Public relations campaigns aimed at heading off problems that could appear when students take new Common Core-aligned tests are being launched in states including Illinois, New Jersey, Florida, Ohio, California, Hawaii, and South Dakota.

Some states are taking steps to prepare parents for the possibility that their children won't score as well on Common Core tests as they did on previous state tests. Other states are trying to dissuade parents from opting students out of testing.

States wish to "eliminate or minimize public backlash when the scores — widely expected to be markedly lower than results from previous assessments — are released later this year." (Education Week, 3-18-15) They are using various strategies, ranging from fliers for parents sent home in student backpacks to more sophisticated techniques.

An Illinois Board of Education spokesperson told Education Week that the state hosted 52 webinars to help teachers and administrators understand the PARCC tests that students will take. They produced a back-to-school webinar for parents, but only a few hundred parents participated. They've also created materials that districts can use to discuss PARCC tests with parents and community members.

The South Dakota Dept. of Education offers a website touting the "high quality standards, high quality instruction, and high quality assessments" that Common Core offers to the state. (This despite the fact that the standards are not high quality.) An info-graphic at that website equates the SBAC tests that students will take to a medical checkup, stating that both allow parents to know how their children are doing. It says: "If your child struggles in math or reading, the sooner you know, the faster they can get help. If your child excels, scores can challenge your child to do even better." (CommonCore.SD.gov)

Ohio's Heavy Handed DOE

Ohio wants all districts to stress to parents the importance of the tests, as well as the supposed dire consequences of opting out of test taking. In fact, the Ohio Dept. of Education sounds somewhat threatening when they write, "There is no law that allows a parent or student to opt out of state testing and there is no state test opt-out procedure or form. If a parent withdraws his or her child's participation in certain state tests, there may be consequences for the child, the child's teacher, and the school and district."

Ohio's instructions to schools states that opting out "can negatively impact a district's state A-F report card ratings," indicating that opting out will hurt teachers and other students. (Education.Ohio.gov, 2-4-15)

Despite the maneuvering and manipulation that the department of education may have engineered, the Ohio legislature took action and on March 16, Gov. John Kasich signed a bill that prohibits standardized test scores for the 2014-15 school year from being used to grant or prohibit retention or promotion of students. For at least one year, students whose parents choose to opt them out of the SBAC test should be safe from retaliation.

Who Do Parents Trust?

Whether or not parents believe that Common Core and its mandated tests are relevant, valid, or an improvement in education will likely depend less on public relations campaigns and more on personal experience with the standards and the experience of students taking the federally mandated tests.

Frederick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute says it may come down to who do parents "trust." (Education Week, 3-18-15)

As National Association of Scholars president Peter Wood writes:

What is truly common and at the core of American life is our sense of freedom and self-governance. The Common Core is at war with those ideals.

It was a sneaky idea — and sneaky ideas in American public policy tend to have exactly the life spans that Common Core has had.

The core sneakiness of the Common Core is that it was (and still is) presented as a state-level project when it was from the get-go intended to be a national project. We won't squeeze better education 'performance' from students by imposing a national regimen of standards and tests but will instead breed a deeper alienation and lassitude by taking away — or at least shrinking — the imaginative horizons of students, parents, teachers, and the communities in which they live. (New York Post, 4-11-15)

http://www.cascity.com/howard/forum/index.php?action=post;topic=15765.330;last_msg=225395

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Brainwashing, Indoctrination, Propaganda
yes we can trust our government to do all three.
Common Core is for this same purpose.

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Obama's Tells Teachers
to 'Weave'
Global Warming
Into Science and Social Studies Classes

Ever ready to use "education" as a tool to indoctrinate kids on his socialist ideals, President Obama is now telling teachers to "weave" the religion of global warming into their class work on science and social studies.

You've gotta love that Obama is right up front with his feeling that "education" is really just an excuse for the socialist indoctrination of our kids, eh?

http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/obamas-tells-teachers-to-weave-global-warming-into-science-and-social-studies-classes/

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A Judicial Watch Special Campaign Report

The Obama administration then proceeded unilaterally on all fronts. The Obama Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) began efforts to restrict carbon emissions, restrictions
that Congress had expressly rejected. The Secretary of Education granted states waivers
from federal mandates if states agreed to adopt "Common Core" school curricula created in
secret by the Obama administration.

Obama's "Race to the Top" education program is another illustration of his disregard for
congressional authority. Congress gave the president wide latitude in the 2009 economic
stimulus bill to spend five billion dollars through the Department of Education for
incentive grants to the states, with minimal congressional guidelines attached. Chafing at
even these minimal guidelines, the Obama administration implemented an unprecedented
federal intervention into state education policy. The result was a presidentially-designed
program that dangled large grants to cash-strapped states, provided states first changed
state laws to implement specific policies favored by Obama's Secretary of Education,
namely elements of the "Common Core."

In yet another education gambit related to Common Core, President Obama announced
his intent to grant waivers to states for relief from the requirements of the No Child
Left Behind Act in exchange for states' adopting key components of Common Core as a
precondition of receiving a waiver. This impatient, "can't-wait" preemptive intervention
by the Obama White House occurred despite the fact that Congress was then in the
process of considering legislation to update federal education policy, which however,
would not likely have incorporated all of Obama's agenda.
The California Catholic Daily called Common Core "a stealthy appropriation by the
federal government to take control of the curriculum in the local public schools — and
now, in some private schools also." No wonder. Obama's Common Core scheme is a
centralized, one-size-fits all attempt to anoint out-of-touch federal bureaucrats with
the power to determine what educational material children in every state must learn.
It makes little sense educationally and goes against America's cherished tradition of
local control of education. But it is precisely this long tradition that Common Core is
designed to destroy. Paul Reville, the former secretary of education for Massachusetts
and a Common Core supporter stated it boldly when he appeared as a panelist at an
event hosted by the Center for American Progress on March 31, 2014. Trying to rebut
criticisms of the Common Core national education standards, he called critics a "tiny
minority...fringe voices about federalism and states rights who opposed standards
altogether." It is "unfair," he said in a throwback to Hillary Clinton's it-takes-a-village
mentality: "The children belong to all of us."
The president's monarchial inclinations have directly affected the private sector as well.


Read the full report at:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/obama-overreach/i/POTUS-Will-Wait-Special-Report-PDF.pdf

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Common Core Update:
State and Federal

As the Senate prepares to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), a bill which could have big implications for the American education system, state legislatures and governors have been busy tackling their own reforms to Common Core education standards. Here's what's been going on in several key states.

Louisiana

The Louisiana legislature is currently working on a three bill "compromise package" that supporters are saying would allow for the repeal of Common Core standards in that state. However, there are concerns that this package is toothless, merely calling for review of the standards without clear prohibitions on adoption and implementation of federal mandates.

Governor Jindal, who opposes Common Core, was initially wary of the package, saying that it didn't go far enough, but he has since agreed to support it. Since the State Superintendent of Education supports Common Core, it seems unlikely that the review process will yield any very strong reforms.

New Hampshire

In New Hampshire, a bill prohibiting the state department of education from requiring Common Core standards passed the legislature in May, only to be vetoed by Governor Maggie Hassan. Gov. Hassan is the first governor in the nation to actually sign a veto of Common Core repeal, although the bill in question would probably not have accomplished all that much anyway, as it lacked specific prohibitions on adopting the standards.

Tennessee

Governor Haslam has signed HB 1035 into law, a bill which was being branded as a Common Core repeal. I've written before about how this bill was actually fairly weak, and accomplishes little more than a rebranding of the standards, rather than a meaningful repeal. Let's hope that this is seen as a first step towards better reforms, and not a "mission accomplished" kind of moment. The danger is that the legislature and governor will consider their job done and move on to other issues, when in fact, there is much more work to be done.

The ESEA reauthorization bill, known as the Every Child Achieves Act, currently contains language that would prevent the federal government from being able to coerce states into accepting common standards, and would make it easier for states like Tennessee to pass more meaningful reforms, instead of falling into the rebranding trap to continue to collect federal dollars.

Unfortunately, the Every Child Achieves Act also contains unacceptable federal testing standards and a number of other provisions that undermine state autonomy in education. FreedomWorks opposes any federal involvement in education, having looked in vain for any such authorization in the U.S. Constitution.

http://www.freedomworks.org/content/common-core-update-state-and-federal

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Good post there. 

If want to raise your kids to be communists, then send them to a government school.

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WND EXCLUSIVE

'WHITE PRIVILEGE' CHAOS
SWEEPS SCHOOLS NATIONWIDE

Experts slam transition from education to racial indoctrination

Schools in St. Paul, Minnesota, have paid millions of dollars to a secretive consulting company to train children in the theory of "white privilege," only to unleash chaos and massive disciplinary problems. Now, reports indicate such lessons have been taking place at schools nationwide in what some experts believe is a deliberate transformation of education into political indoctrination.

The "white privilege" classes were implemented with the assistance of the Pacific Education Group, a San Francisco based firm that claims to be "committed to achieving racial equity in education."

In a recent appearance on the "O'Reilly Factor," Aaron Benner, a teacher in the St. Paul school system, charged the courses led to a breakdown in school discipline and alleged black students were being held to different standards. (Video on web site)

According to EAGnews.org, 184 other school districts were also listed by the Pacific Education Group as clients before the company took down the list following public scrutiny.

The efforts by Pacific Education Group are not unique. Because of Common Core, American public schools are now pushing politically charged topics including institutional racism, "white privilege" and racism in mortgage lending. Such topics are even discussed as a part of math lessons.

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a civil rights activist, founder and president of BOND (The Brotherhood Organization for a New Destiny), and author of "Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America," in an interview with WND, slammed the teaching of white privilege in public schools as destructive to both African-American students and everyone else.

Peterson stated: "These classes will make another generation of blacks feel like victims and have them believing that whites owe them. It will also continue to divide the races for years to come because whites and other non-blacks know that it's not fair to favor one group over another. Teaching that whites have an unfair advantage based merely on race is a lie and it's destructive. It reinforces the myth that whites are against blacks."

Peterson says the best way to have students of different races work together is to focus less on race to begin with. He also scoffs at the concept of "white privilege" and argues against it being taken seriously.

As he told WND: "'White privilege' is a myth – it only exists in the minds of angry blacks that have been brainwashed into believing it. In reality, blacks and other minorities have the real privilege when it comes to college admissions, government contracts, and many other fields."

Alex Newman, an educational exert and co-author of "Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America's Children," blames what he calls the "educational establishment" for being complicit in pushing these kinds of expensive programs.

Newman slammed "white privilege" theory as "quackery and imbecility" and charged: "This 'white privilege' scheming and the outfit peddling it are typical of the taxpayer-supported industries that prey on students and taxpayers alike through government miseducation. Of course, any reasonable person would instantly recognize this as a scam, but not the educational establishment, which insists on dumbing down and indoctrinating children with outrageous propaganda."

Although some claim "white privilege" theory is designed to promote racial equity, Newman believes it is actually doing more harm than good.

"Holding black students to different standards than whites is inherently racist – by definition, in fact. Plus, the preachers of victimization are doing great harm to those black students by filling their heads with nonsense, hate, and a sense of victimization that could permanently hamper their ability to get ahead."

Peterson also agrees black students are being sabotaged but he says, "Both blacks and whites are hurt by this."

He explained: "The black students feel like victims because they're being coddled and are allowed to use racism as an excuse not to excel. The white kids are hurt because they're burdened with a sense of white guilt and are not allowed to express how they really feel about automatically being labeled a racist."

Newman believes progressives are deliberately sabotaging black students by promoting a cult of victimization.

"The progressive eugenics movement, which used quack pseudo-science to justify its racism and played a major role in shaping policy, deliberately helped to create so many of the problems we see in black communities today, as the late Dr. Sam Blumenfeld and I documented in two full chapters in 'Crimes of the Educators'."

However, Newman says contemporary public schools are deliberately dumbing down students of all races. He alleges programs like "white privilege" training are simply attempts to prevent students from becoming truly educated.

"Most of these behavioral issues being seen in St. Paul would not even exist if schools were doing what they are supposed to do – educate students, teach them to read properly, teach them math, help them become critical thinkers, and so on. Instead, by using the discredited 'whole word' method of teaching reading instead of the proven phonics method, the education establishment is deliberately creating widespread illiteracy."

Last year, Newman reported in WND on Minnesota schools considering a policy allowing "transgender" students to play on any sports team that fits with their own "perceived" gender. Newman says "white privilege" training is simply the next step in a deliberate program of societal manipulation.

"As the 'white privilege' idiocy in St. Paul shows, the schools are also much more interested in social engineering and indoctrination than actual education. It is time to restore sanity in the schools. Parents need to get involved and put a stop to all of this before more children are destroyed physically, mentally, and spiritually by this lunacy."


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/white-privilege-chaos-sweeps-schools-nationwide/#YxWDj4j4U6LLVtSt.99

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WND EXCLUSIVE

BLACK LEADERS: COMMON CORE
'INHERENTLY RACIST'

Makes kids 'feel America is against them, white people are holding them back'

Among the long list of complaints Americans have leveled against Common Core is the charge that the controversial federal standards will disproportionately harm racial minority students.

The charge comes not from Al Sharpton, but from at least two prominent black conservatives.

"Minority children are going to be hurt first and foremost by Common Core because they are stuck in the public schools, which are government schools," Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson told WND.

"And even as adults, it will keep them in a state of helplessness and hopelessness because Common Core is going to dumb them down. [It] is going to make them feel that America is totally against them and that white people are holding them back. And they're going to feel unprepared as adults to deal with life because they're not going to be properly educated, that's for sure."

Peterson, a WND columnist and founder and president of The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, was referring to the fact that racial minorities are more likely than whites to be poor, thus many of them can't pay their way into private schools that don't use Common Core. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 27 percent of blacks and 24 percent of Hispanics lived in poverty in 2013, versus only 10 percent of whites.

In "Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America," Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson – a true black leader whom many affectionately call "the other Jesse" – shows how the civil rights establishment has made a lucrative career out of keeping racial strife alive in America.

Alveda King, a civil rights activist and niece of Martin Luther King Jr., shares Peterson's worry. On May 22, King penned an open letter to the Alabama Legislature calling on the body to abandon what she called the "one size fits all Common Core curriculum."

In the letter, King quoted a statement from the Chicago Teachers Union that read in part: "We also know that high-stakes standardized testing is designed to rank and sort our children and it contributes significantly to racial discrimination and the achievement gap among students in America's schools."

King then followed up: "This sorting of students in Alabama based on the color of their skin or their parents' income and the setting of lower achievement goals for African Americans than Caucasians has been widely reported. If teachers are told to expect less from minorities, they are likely to get less."

International journalist and educator Alex Newman, a white man but also a staunch Common Core opponent, said he agrees with King and the Chicago Teachers Union that Common Core is inherently racist.

Newman, coauthor of "Crimes of the Educators," told WND he has "no doubt that Common Core will contribute to racial discrimination."

"As we show in our book, many of the architects of today's progressive government education system were in fact proud eugenicists who ludicrously believed blacks and others to be 'inferior,'" he said.

"This is merely a continuation of that sordid pseudo-scientific legacy of racial oppression imposed by the progressive engineers of the government education system and their allies such as Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood."

Two such eugenicist educators that Newman explores in his book are John Dewey and Edward L. Thorndike.

But for Peterson, King and Newman, racial bias is far from the only problem with Common Core. Peterson, author of "Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America," lamented that Common Core attempts to make life and education subjective.

"It makes you believe that there are no rights and wrongs in life, it's only what you think about it or feel about it," Peterson said. "In math, for example, they don't require you to figure out the problem and answer it correctly. They want you to write out how you came to a conclusion about a problem.

"They don't want you to do critical thinking, which would enhance your ability to work out situations in life period, but especially in the area of math. They want no rights or wrongs, everything is the same. That's not the way life is."

Read "Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America's Children," and have your eyes opened about schools today.

In her letter to the Alabama legislators, King wrote: "All children need to and deserve to access their full God-given potential. By design, Common Core treats every child as a statistic to be measured by standardized tests."

Newman concurred but went further.

"Not only does Common Core treat every child like a statistic, it treats them all as animals to be conditioned and indoctrinated with experimental quackery and propaganda, rather than properly educated to be critical thinkers," he said. "This is unacceptable and totally unsuitable for a free people."

In his book "Crimes of the Educators," coauthored with Samuel Blumenfeld, Newman chronicled some of the "experimental quackery and propaganda" being used in public schools.

For example, many teachers are using a teaching method called "cooperative learning" in their classrooms. The teacher divides the class into groups of four or five and holds each student responsible for the learning of the entire group. When the students do an assignment, the teacher takes one group member's paper and assigns that grade to each group member. The students all take quizzes and tests separately, but the teacher averages the group members' scores and assigns each member the average. Newman contends this teaching method mirrors communist practice.

Also, according to Newman, public schools are now teaching children to reject the religious beliefs their parents taught them. The schools are teaching that evolution is settled science and thus life has no spiritual dimension with any transcendent meaning.

"Basically, the children are taught to think of themselves as no better or more important than their pets," Newman and Blumenfeld claimed.

But to Newman, the most important form of "quackery" going on in government schools is the way in which schools are teaching children to read. The "whole-word" method encourages children to memorize words by sight as whole units, rather than sounding them out based on the letters that constitute them. Newman argues the whole-word method causes literal brain damage in children, while the traditional phonics-based method is the best way to teach children to read.

Newman has long contended that Common Core was designed to intentionally dumb down America's children, and Peterson agrees.

"The children are going to be brainwashed, because Common Core is not about educating the kids, reading, writing and arithmetic, and the good, true history of this country," Peterson declared. "It's really about dumbing down, brainwashing and demoralizing the kids. That's why the federal government should not be involved in education. It should come from the states – a local issue, not a federal issue."

Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly, author of "Who Killed the American Family?," concurred that education should be a local issue. In fact, she told WND, the federal nature of Common Core is its biggest problem.

"It federalizes what is taught and not taught to our children, and we do not want federal control of what they are taught and not taught," Schlafly said. "What we've learned from the tests that we've seen on American history, they have distorted the whole early period, the colonial period as our mistreatment of the Indians, and somehow they didn't find George Washington and James Madison and the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence very important."

Newman, echoing King's letter, also cited loss of local control over education as a chief drawback of Common Core.

"We know competition works and one-size-fits-all models are a failure," Newman said. "It is simply outrageous that parents and local communities are being stripped of their right to self-government and to control the education of their children. Alabama and every other state ensnared by federal bribes into this Common Core nightmare must, for the sake of the children and the future of this nation, toss these absurd and terrible standards into the trash where they belong."


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/black-leaders-common-core-inherently-racist/#3peYQu13fCEjvbvP.99

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Penn. School Administrators
Hold Staff Training at Islamic Mosque,
Makes Them Pray to Allah
in Prayer Session

by Warner Todd Huston

Here we have another example of how our fetid public schools are going off track. Administrators in a Pennsylvania school district forced their staffers to go to sensitivity training in an Islamic Mosque and then made them join in a prayer service to Allah.

The training event was held in the Lebanon School District in the Harrisburg-Lancaster-York metropolitan area.

Imagine the uproar that would have happened if this school district were to have held its training session in a Christian church. The wild-eyed atheists who lay in wait for this sort of thing would have lost their tiny, Christian-hating minds if that were to happen.

Dozens of teachers and administrators in Pennsylvania's Lebanon School District recently attended a taxpayer-funded in-service workshop at a local mosque to learn about Islam and Arabic culture.

About 50 staffers from the district attended an in-service workshop Monday led by former district Arabic translator Mohamed Omar, who "took time off from his new job as a case worker for the Department of Human Services in Philadelphia to share his knowledge of Islam with the staff, which included Superintendent Marianne Bartley and several other administrators," the Lebanon Daily News reports.

The workshop started off at the high school where Omar discussed the differences and similarities between the education systems in the U.S. and Arab countries. Afterward, they headed to the nearby Lebanon Valley Mosque to delve into the Islamic religion and join a prayer service with the congregation, according to the news site.

This is intolerable. Why are our schools paying money to support terrorism like this?

http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/penn-school-administrators-hold-staff-training-at-islamic-mosque-makes-them-pray-to-allah-in-prayer-session/