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Brave New Schools.
It provides a practical overview of the global education system
and of the manipulative processes and suggestions used in classrooms
everywhere to produce global citizens for the 21st Century communities.
Most important, it shows how to equip our children with the facts
and truths needed to follow God in a world that demands politically
correct consensus. See special offer for multiple copies of
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Seed of Persecution
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December 2005
What it will take to turn education
around: "While state departments
of education expound loud and long about the rise in 'test' scores, the
test being used to determine those 'rising scores' isn’t a test at all but
an assessment; a subjective measure of whether the child is demonstrating
mastery of equally subjective state exit outcomes....
"...teachers are now being assessed on whether their students are demonstrating
the wanted behaviors (team players, critical thinking, communications, making
decisions, adapting to change and understanding whole systems) as determined
by the state constructed and federally required assessment vehicle.
"...home schools are producing the most highly educated and intelligent
young adults across the nation..."
See
Silencing the Opposition
Strengthening EFA (
Education
for All)
Partnerships: "It
is time for various other UN Agencies to learn from this culture of building
and nurturing partnership with civil society.
Our Global Action Week, a week-long campaign organized by the GCE across
100 countries in the month of April every year, is a concrete example of
the vibrant partnership of civil society,
teachers, children, Government, and UNESCO.
"
...none
of the Millennium Development Goals will be realized without guaranteeing
good quality education for all. This recognition calls for an effective
and true broad-based partnership at all levels and in all
sectors
as an essential pre-requisite."
See
Re-inventing
the World
and
Molding Human Resources
for the Global Workforce
November
The literacy and numeracy crisis
in our classrooms
[Australia]: "Fears about literacy
standards are echoed in the soon-to-be-released national literacy report.
It cites the 1997 national survey that found 27 per cent of Year 3 an
Random thoughts :
d 29 per cent of Year 5 students failed to reach the minimum standard. It
also argues that the present
whole-language approach has failed and
that schools must focus more on phonics....
"
The
assumption, given enough resources and time, is that every child can succeed,
teachers are given hundreds of vague and
confusing outcome statements describing what students should be able
to do, and the curriculum is riddled with
fads such as whole language, fuzzy maths and politically correct
history...." It sounds
like the USA, doesn't it?
See
New Meanings for Educational
Buzzwords
and
Soviet Education in the 1930s
compared to U.S. Education in 2001
October
Computers in college classrooms
- 'A new way to not pay attention': "The study showed that those
who spent just a brief time clicking around different sites during class
were not negatively affected, but the longer students browsed, the lower
their grades."
But computers serve another
purpose in worldwide plan for solidarity.
See
A New Way of Thinking
US school succumbs to paperless madness:
"An Arizona school has dispensed entirely with textbooks and has spunked
its entire book budget on student laptops.... 'We have a library and
we encourage students to use it, but the primary delivery of instruction
materials is being done through the laptops.'
September
Student barred over objection
to 'gay' teacher
:
"When a Washington student objected to having a homosexual teach his sex
education class, the school district attempted to punish the student by
barring his reenrollment, but now a judge has sided with the student."
See
Trading U.S. Rights
for UN
Rules
Progressive Miseducation 101:
"In preparation for the new school year that is set to begin on Monday,
teachers, principals, and even parent coordinators are being subjected to
endless hours of 'professional development.' ... So that us ordinary folk
can keep up with the Bloomberg educational 'reforms,' I humbly submit this
short 'professional development' course to help parents and taxpayers understand
what is really going on....
"
One of the hallmarks of the progressive movement in recent years
has been the clever use of terminology to cast what should be controversial
instructional programs in a more favorable light. Take the case of 'whole
language' reading instruction."
See
Three Sets of Meanings
of Educational Buzzwords
Smart 'problems'
(Thomas Sowell): "High
potential will remain only potential unless it is developed. But the very
thought that high potential should be developed more fully never seems to
occur to many of our educators -- and some are absolutely hostile to the
idea. It violates their notions of equality or 'social justice' and it threatens
the 'self-esteem' of other students.... My old department chairman's
notion that the better students 'can pretty much get it without our help'
assumes that there is some 'it' -- some minimum competence -- which is all
that matters." See
A New Way of Thinking
August
Revolution in Education:
"The plan to get rid of textbooks and to computerize instruction dates back
to at least 1971. ...
"...in
1982... Dr. Elam Hertzler, Secretary of Education T. H. Bell’s top assistant
in the U.S. Department of Education, told the State Superintendents of Instruction:
'One of the elements of an effective school was to monitor, assess, and
feed back…As little as 5 percent of a school budget K-12 would be needed
over a period of 12 years to enable each student to have his own computer....”
"'We've
been absolutely staggered by realizing the computer has the capability to
act as if it were ten of the top psychologists working with one student...You've
seen the tip of the iceberg. Won't it be wonderful when the child in the
smallest county in the most distant area... can have the equivalent of the
finest school in the world on that terminal and no one can get between that
child and that curriculum?' [Dustin Heuston of Utah's World Institute for
Computer-Assisted Teaching]...
"How easy it will be for the government schools to maintain records on every
aspect of your child's personality and behavior: his individuality or willingness
to conform to the group; his tolerance or lack thereof of any and all lifestyles;
his religious beliefs... and to make such information available upon request
to any corporation, government or private 'snoop' agency.... The U.S. Department
of Education already collects such information through the
mandated National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), but the collection
of information will be facilitated when the schools' administrative offices
(central computer data bases) are connected to the content of each individual
student's computer hard drive."
[Emphasis added] See
Brave New Schools, Chapter
3: A New Way of Thinking
Is technology in schools the
future or just a fad?
"Even as schools have stretched to add wiring, expanded their electrical
capabilities, multiplied computer inventories and trained staff, they have
strained to demonstrate that it improves academic performance. In addition,
for as many teachers like Hansen, there are more who only occasionally touch
the technology in their classrooms. ....
"'We don't have a lot
of proof that this works,' said Neah Lohr, the former director of the informational
media and technology team for the state Department of Public Instruction."
It all depends on the intended outcome. While the training in technology
may not "work" for traditional education, it does prepare students for a
global society that already emphasizes attitudes and values (tolerance
and oneness) of global citizens more than traditional learning. Computerized
assessments
and remediation is essential to the planned "lifelong learning." It's also
vital to the planned systems of banking, other financial transaction, health,
surveillance, etc."
Harnessing the Potential of
ICTs for Education: According to the United Nations
ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) Task Force, "ICTs can
provide a practical and enabling solution for improving the quality and
quantity of education. The advent of highly responsive networks of information
and knowledge and the rapid development of smart software, hardware and
the channels of communication have presented a real opportunity to creatively
solve deficiencies within the educational systems around the world."
The UN plan for universal connection
to the Internet can build a common body of selected knowledge and global
values for the "Global Community" far more effectively than traditional
text books. The next generation may not read well, but they embrace "the
new way of thinking."
See
Re-inventing
the World
2015: the year literacy finally
died: "The trivialisation
of the English literature curriculum continues. ... The latest brainwave
is for a core of 10 films, chosen by the British Film Institute, to be given
the same importance in schools as traditional works of literature."
See
Redefining "Literacy" for
a New World Order
Are your kids reading rot?
"We’ve been bombarded by so many messages about how reading expands the
mind, excites the imagination and enhances the vocabulary (all of which
are true) that many parents have forgotten that the benefit of reading for
our children very much depends on what they’re reading....
"
Mom
doesn’t have a clue that her daughter’s innocence has just been molested
in the privacy of her own bedroom. She won’t ever know because Suzi, a bit
stymied by the fact that Mom took her to get a book that her teacher assigned,
will be too embarrassed and confused to ever tell. Yet, she’s just had sexuality,
relationships and acceptable behavior defined for her by some perverted
author.... And the kid was simply trying to get her homework done....
"Moms
and Dads, don’t just naively drive your kids to the library -- you must
be careful to help them choose books that reflect your values. Even if your
kids are in private school, you’re hardly safe -- many of the best schools
blindly use ALA lists."
See How
Toys and Games Manipulate the Imagination
Re-entering and Looking Ahead
-- Remarks for Secretary Spellings at the Annual Conference of the U.S.
National Commission for UNESCO
(6-7-05):
"...as Honorary Ambassador of the UN Literacy Decade, Mrs. Bush is stepping
up her activism to a global level. She is helping rally world leaders and
decision-makers to put literacy... at the top of their agendas.... Because
we believed so strongly in UNESCO's mission, the United States was among
the first to ratify UNESCO's constitution. But we left the fold in 1984
when the organization strayed from its mandate.... Thanks to the reform-minded
leadership of its current Director-General Matsuura, UNESCO is now equipped
to make a real difference....
"
With
these reforms underway, the U.S. and UNESCO are ready to move forward—together.
We're ready to improve literacy throughout the world—to promote high standards
and quality—to ensure social inclusion and access—and to stress the importance
of sound measurement and data. ....We also know that education instills
hope. And a hopeful heart is the best antidote to hatred and extremism."
See
Brave New Schools, Chapter
2: The International Agenda
and
Chapter 7: Silencing the Opposition
July
Children discover magic at Harry
Potter camps: "Fifth-grader Bianca Schultz was eager to discuss
'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' after she finished reading it Sunday
in a marathon seven-hour session. She didn’t have to wait long. Monday was
the start of a popular summer camp run
by the school district and modeled on Hogwarts, the magical boarding
school Harry and his wizard friends attend. 'I’m such a big Harry Potter
fan,' said Bianca.... It’s just amazingcause you actually do things like
in the book. I get to talk to people my age who are just like me.'...
"Campers were required to sign an oath swearing they would talk about
the newest book only with those who had finished it.' "
See
Establishing a Global Spirituality
and
Paradigm Shift
Poor Writing Costs Taxpayers
Millions: "States spend nearly a quarter of a billion dollars
a year on remedial writing instruction for their employees, according to
a new report that says the indirect costs of sloppy writing probably hurt
taxpayers even more. ... Poor writing not only befuddles citizens but also
slows down the government as bureaucrats struggle with unclear instructions
or have to redo poorly written work. 'It's impossible to calculate the ultimate
cost of lost productivity because people have to read things two and three
times,' said Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee."
Students lagging in American
history
: "American students
may lag behind their peers abroad in math and science, but their knowledge
of their own country's past is just plain pathetic, leading educators and
historians told a Senate panel considering legislation that would expand
national testing in US history....
"The legislation -- introduced
in April by senators Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, and Edward
M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts -- would budget $14 million for 10
states to test eighth- and 12th-graders in history next year."
But with Kennedy and
Lamar Alexander pushing this program, what
slant on history will they teach?
See
Brave New Schools: The International Agenda
Give Africa a private schooling:
"Private schools for the poor have emerged in huge numbers in some of the
most impoverished slums and villages in Africa. They cater for a majority
of poor children and outperform government schools, for a fraction of
the cost....
"Parents gave the same litany of complaints about government schools, that
teachers don’t turn up, or if they do they don’t teach. I visited the three
government primary schools on the outskirts of Makoko; although my visit
was announced... I saw the headmistress beating children to get them into
the classrooms, and found one teacher fast asleep at his desk....
In the five government schools serving Kibera, there were 8,500 children
— but half of these were from the middle-class suburbs. The private schools
again were serving a large majority of the slum children.
"Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa concedes that mushrooming
private schools exist, but reports that they 'are without adequate state
regulation and are of a low quality.'”
June
Education.
Immigration and Schools, Part
1: "California is now 35 percent Hispanic. With the Hispanic
birth rate at 1.7 times the national average, more than half of California
newborns are Hispanic. States remote from the Mexican border have also seen
a surge of immigration from Mexico. In the 1990s North Carolina's Hispanic
population quadrupled. Officials estimate from current elementary enrollment
that Hispanics will be one third of North Carolina's high school graduates
by 2013. ...
" Americans
did not vote to Latinize their country. Nor did they knowingly support legislators
espousing that cause. Why is it happening? ... The United States was launched
on this nation-transforming course by legislation and by judicial rulings."
Illegal immigration is sure to change our schools, health systems, culture,
politics and sense of security. But God is also using this economic and
cultural challenge to bring His mission field to us. May He lead each of
us according to His will and ways! Guidance
Ethnomathematics:
"It seems our math educators no longer believe in the beauty and power of
the principles of mathematics. They are continually in search of a fix that
will make it easy, relevant, fun, and even politically relevant.
"In
the early 1990s, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics issued
standards that disparaged basic skills like addition, subtraction, multiplication
and division.... The council preferred real life problem solving, using
everyday situations. Attempts to solve problems without basic skills
caused some critics, especially professional mathematicians, to deride
the 'new, new math' as 'rainforest algebra.' ....
"Now
mathematics is being nudged into a specifically political direction by educators
who call themselves 'critical theorists.' They advocate using mathematics
as a tool to advance social justice. ... One of its precepts is 'ethnomathematics,'
that is, the belief that different cultures have evolved different ways
of using mathematics, and that students will learn best if taught in the
ways that relate to their ancestral culture."
(WSJ, 6-21-05)
See
Social Engineering
for Global Change
Missing: Males on College Campuses:
"From 1992 to 2000, the ratio of enrolled males to females fell from 82
to 78 boys for every 100 girls. The NCES projects that in 2007 the ratio
will be 75 males for every 100 females; in 2012, 74 per 100. ...
"Among those who acknowledge the 'boy crisis,' explanations vary and may
all be true. Some point to the 'feminization' of education over the last
decade, which occurred largely in response to a perceived need to encourage
girls. ... Others point to explicitly anti-male attitudes – that is, political
correctness – within education. The website Illinois Loop lists '22 School
Practices That May Harm Boys.' One of them: 'Modern' textbooks and recommended
literature often go to extremes to remove male role models as lead characters
and examples.'"
Middle schools falling short
in assessment test:
"Blame it on hormones, tougher standards or just the challenge of teaching
rambunctious adolescents: The enviable math and reading scores enjoyed by
elementary schools across the state have eluded middle schools. ...Given
the social pressures they face and the physical and emotional changes they
experience, middle-schoolers need teachers who understand adolescent development,
as well as the subjects they are teaching."
"No,
blame it on educational "change agents" who replaced truth, facts and moral
boundaries with shocking stories designed to undermine Biblical values.
Today's supposed sensual "freedom" has led to emotional bondage and confusion.
See
Charts: Total transformation
Marine gets apology after being
'expelled' from school:
"Marine Corps Sgt. Zach Richardson survived Iraq, but not Carson Middle
School in Greensboro. When Richardson walked into the Greene County school
last week, he expected to meet some of the sixth-graders who had written
to him during his seven-month deployment. Instead, he was shown the door....
"On
Wednesday, after the incident had gotten attention across the nation, the
superintendent of Greene County Schools apologized to Richardson and 'all
our other military personnel.'"
Planned Parenthood and the homosexual lobby can peddle their agendas in
schools -- but a soldier (who has been corresponding with some students)
can not share his love for his country. What kind of freedom is he fighting
for?
Steps toward Global Mind Control
School district diversity plan
stalls:
"The Safety and Respect for All Committee, which includes district
employees, students, parents and community members who span the political
spectrum, is deeply split on whether to include 'gender identification'
and 'sexual orientation' in a list of protected classes.... The group began
meeting in January after the school board tossed out a previous draft diversity
plan that drew criticism from Christian conservatives."
See
Brainwashing in America
May
Right, Wrong ... What's the
Dif?
"Her reaction is not unusual. In the face of all evidence to the contrary,
my students exhibit an unswerving
confidence in their own abilities.
They earnestly assure me that despite test scores in the single digits and
an inability to answer questions... they really know the material: 'It just
doesn't show in my grades.' The implied fault, no doubt, is mine, for giving
such unfair and inappropriate exams, but it is never clear just why they
do think they understand the material.
"They readily confess to me
that they have not consulted the text and do not remember my lecture....
Maybe it's all that self-esteem
this generation of students was inculcated with as youngsters, or maybe
it's the emphasis on respecting everyone
else's opinion, to the point where
no answer, even a mathematical one, can be truly wrong because that might
offend the one who gave it."
See
John Maxwell & self-esteem
Homosexual Group Admits Obscene
Material Was Handed Out at Conference: "A Boston health clinic
has admitted to distributing pornographic books to middle school students
and others at a Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) conference
hosted by a Massachusetts high school. ... Prior to the health clinic and
the school system confirming the truth, GLSEN Boston's office had maintained
that the allegations of pornographic books at its conference were 'categorically
untrue,' and were nothing more than lies 'from the far right.'"
Depravity
Saran Wrap for ‘Safe’ Teen Sex?
"...right-thinking adults should be outraged by the recommendation in the
latest 'comprehensive' sex-education materials from Planned Parenthood that,
for 'safe' sex, 8th graders should use Saran Wrap as 'protection' when engaging
in oral and anal sex.
"Excuse
me! How did we get to the point where it must be assumed that 8th graders
are going to be 'performing' oral and anal sex and we have to equip them
to do it 'safely'? This wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that
the sex education lobby — in its supposed superior wisdom — has been pushing
to strip kids as young as kindergarten age of their innocence by insisting
that they be taught about every kind of deviant sexual practice long before
they are emotionally ready for such information."
See
Sex Ed and Global Values
Junior High - A new pot-friendly
book for kids: "It’s
the story of Jackie, a young girl who walks in on her parents smoking marijuana....
They visit Farmer Bob, who grows it, and Dr. Eden, her mom’s groovy physician....
Then they run into some guys passing around a spliff in front of a Chinese
takeout joint, who are promptly busted. That’s when she learns that 'a small
but powerful group decided to make a law against marijuana' from one of
the cops.... Jackie decides she’s going to 'vote to make the laws fair'
when she grows up....
"[Author,
Ricardo] Cortes does not have kids but believes he’s doing them a service:
'A lot of drug education uses scare tactics. The latest ads say smoking
a joint leads to terrorism.'
"David
R. Anderson of the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America responds, 'On
the one hand, it’s almost laughable, but beyond that, it’s just irresponsible.
No one would write a book called 'It’s Just a Drink.'”
See
Charts: Total transformation
High schools failing college
students:
"Half of the students entering public
colleges and universities in the state are ill-prepared for college-level
work in math, reading or writing and must therefore take at least one remedial
course.... College enrollment is rising in Texas among those who historically
have not attended in great numbers and who often have weaker academic backgrounds,
including Hispanics, blacks and low-income students.... And so, the demand
for remedial education is likely to increase.
"But the harsh reality is that academic success eludes most students taking
such courses. Just 16 percent of underprepared students in Texas earn a
certificate, a two-year degree or a four-year degree within six years of
enrolling, compared with 47 percent of college-ready students."
8-year-old arrested -- Criminalization
of school behavior a disturbing trend:
"An 8-year-old was arrested, handcuffed and taken to jail last week after
biting an assistant principal, outraging juvenile justice officials who
believe children are too often arrested in behavior cases that could be
dealt with through school discipline.... She was arrested on battery charges....
"Compounding
the potentially traumatic effect of a police arrest on a small child, the
8-year-old spent the night in a holding cell in the booking anteroom to
the detention center....
"Edward
Goldman, the district's associate superintendent for education services,
[said,]... 'Where a criminal act has been committed, the law gives discretion
to policemen. We don't have the right to tell them not to arrest someone
or to tell the principal she can't press charges against this kid.'"
See
The Transformation of America
and
2 Timothy 3:1-14
Schools help little ones keep
the faith:
"'The church historically has always had a very high interest and involvement
in the education of its youth.' [Now it's up to Dads and Moms] Sadly, that
involvement isn't what it used to be, which could help explain why so many
Christian children lose their faith when they get older.... They don't understand
that Christianity is, as Francis Schaeffer taught, 'Truth about total reality,
not just about religious things.'"
Proverbs 22:6
No Child Left Behind and its
hidden agendas:
"Every year, four million students graduate from America's high schools.
This year's high school graduate is next year's voter. So the opportunity
to influence the political thinking of four million new voters every year
represents a huge amount of political power.... Every year, the Congress
directs the Department of Education to appropriate several millions of dollars
to an organization named the Center for Civic Education.... The CCE produces
textbooks for American schools. The problem is that no other publisher is
given the opportunity to bid on this project....
"When one examines
the textbook, We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution, produced
by CCE, one finds right away that it is designed to confuse the student,
regarding the meaning of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution,
and the Bill of Rights.... Leading the students to believe that we should
merge our governmnet into a world government appears to be the main objective....
NCLB (No Child Left Behind) is not about education. It is about indoctrination."
See
Brave New Schools: The International Agenda
April
Chicago Board of Education charters
the Namaste School: "That a public school in Chicago could be
named Namaste with little resistance reflects the extent of American's secular
embrace of the principles of the yogic system. 'People have built an affinity
for the name because they recognize and identify with the mind and body
paradigm,' says Allison. ...
"YogaKids
International is advising the Namaste Charter School on integrating its
yoga-based educational techniques into the classroom.... A large part of
the Namaste mission is to create a lifestyle that embraces an extended community
and educates entire families about healthy habits. Families will be offered
nutrition education, yoga and meditation classes."
See
Establishing a Global Spirituality
and
Paradigm Shift
Students Rewarded for Tattling
at School: "For a growing number of students, the easiest way
to make a couple of hundred dollars has nothing to do with chores or after-school
jobs, and everything to do with informing on classmates.... Critics call
them 'snitch' programs, saying they are a knee-jerk reaction to student
violence. Some education professionals fear such policies could create a
climate of distrust in schools and turn students against each other....
Most schools offer an anonymous phone line or a school drop box for
tips. Rewards range from cash to gift certificates to free parking passes....
Some students fear classmates with a grudge or set on making some quick
money may level false accusations or plant drugs or weapons in their lockers....
'"This idea of surveillance — there's something unsavory there,'
Farley said. 'We're familiar with the history of that in the former Soviet
Union and Nazi Germany.'"
See
Using violence to justify snooping, snitching
and statist control
An ill-bred professor, and a
bad situation (by David Horowitz): "The student who invited me
to the University on behalf of the College Republicans -- I will call him
Jamie -- is a political science major. In anticipation of my visit, Jamie
had asked Professor Hiller if his Department would be one of the sponsors
of my talk and if the Department would host a reception for me. ...
"...the only reason Professor Hiller consented to the first request
was because
Ward Churchill had spoken at the University
weeks before to a very bad press. In fact to propitiate the backlash was
the only reason the university itself put up a modest honorarium for my
speech. The agenda was to show how 'diverse' and 'fair' they were. ...
"Before Churchill arrived professors in political science and other
departments vied with each other for the honor of introducing him, and attended
in droves, and encouraged their students to do likewise. No professors showed
up for my speech. Instead there were about forty protesters who brought
signs saying 'No academic freedom for fascists' and similar slogans.'"
See
Global Socialism
Corruption
&
Education.
Sextracurricular crisis:
"Three female teachers busted for allegedly molesting students this week
shocked the city — but not experts, who say one in 10 students will be sexually
abused by an educator. And the problem in New York City appears to be surging,
with the number of inappropriate relationships between teachers and students
projected to double this year ...
"About
9.6 percent of U.S. students will experience some form of teacher sexual
misconduct between kindergarten and 12th grade...."
Resisting sensuality
Same-sex marriage and the school curriculum:
"Same-sex marriage and the school curriculum: '...proponents of same-sex
marriage, when asked if students have the right to believe that homosexuality
is morally wrong, will universally say no, students do not have the right
to that belief. The school, they say, is responsible for training students
that such a moral belief is bigoted and hateful. ...
"...the governor
of Massachusetts was chastised by the Boston Globe for 'mean spirited politics'
when he stated that every child 'has a right to a mother and a father.'
Praise for the traditional family is bigoted in the new world of gender-free
marriages....
"Where do these ideas lead us? ... 'This is... a debate
about overthrowing a norm; not about reconstruction, but about destruction.'
This is what schools will be required to teach our kids -- that hetero-normative
language is hate-speech."
The same moral erosion is redefining
marriage in Tasmania, a state and
island in Australia, as well as the U.S., Canada and Europe.
See
the next link:
Tassie school reform hailed:
"Tasmania had nothing to fear from
a move toward a national schools curriculum because such reform would be
similar to the Essential Learning curriculum already developed in the state....
Education Department Curriculum Standards and Support executive director
David Hanlon said the state was leading the world in curriculum reform.
He told the Tasmanian Learning and Skills Authority conference in Launceston
that Essential Learning was being looked at internationally as a way of
teaching which promoted the capacity to think."
See
Molding Human Resources
for the Global Workforce
Autism and the Inclusion Mandate:
"Daniel is autistic. He is charming, intelligent, creative, and full of
energy, just like his 18 classmates. However, he is unable to use language
to interact with others. His rare attempts at communication are through
imitation and usually in only one or two words. Teachers and aides communicate
with Daniel using a combination of picture symbols and words, since children
with autism learn best visually.... Autism is the fastest-growing disability
in the country."
Mandated model hampers learning
in secondary schools:
"The Department of Education’s edict, 'the workshop model or else,' is riling
teachers throughout the system. Secondary school teachers, for example,
say that it makes no educational sense to construct every lesson around
small-group work. ...
"'The kids are not capable
of learning from each other what they can learn from their teacher,' said
Washington Sanchez, the chapter leader and a social studies teacher at Newtown
HS. 'They are being cheated out of knowledge.'”
See
Molding Human Resources
for the Global Workforce
March 2005
Culture
&
Lawlessness.
OMG, A TXT MESS:
"Kids spend more time in high school sending text messages than reading
textbooks, a New Jersey father discovered to his horror — after his 16-year-old
daughter rang up a whopping $1,058 cellphone bill. The bill covered a month
and a half... and listed more than 12,000 text messages....
His daughter Ashley had sent and received almost all those
messages while she was in school, where students are supposed to stow their
cellphones in their lockers before classes start.
"Ashley,
a junior at Gloucester City HS, 'no longer has a cellphone,' said Taylor,
who now knows why his daughter has been failing math and social studies....
Her cellphone bill showed messages sent 'at 8:01, 8:02, 8:03, 8:04 — all
the way through to 3 p.m. on some days.... Everyone in school' is doing
it.'" See
Conforming to the culture
and
Human Nature
Education.
Queen Elizabeth issues annual
Commonwealth Day message:
"The key to unlocking human potential, and creating opportunity, is education....
In our association, where around 75 million children lack access to basic
education, one clear objective is the
UN
Millennium Development Goal
of achieving universal
primary education by 2015. ... A third objective is to expand distance education,
through bodies such as the Commonwealth of Learning – based in Canada –
which encourages Commonwealth countries to pool their expertise.... Perhaps
Nelson Mandela put it best when he said,
‘education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world’."
Proverbs 22:6
Urgent EdAction Alert
Charter school won't expel special-needs
10-year-old: "Christel House Academy
wanted to expel 10-year-old Stephen after the boy -- who has the neurological
condition Tourette's syndrome as well as bipolar disorder -- was disruptive
in his third-grade class....
"'When Stephen's out of control, it's scary,' she said. "But you've got
to know how to handle children who are bipolar and who have Tourette's syndrome.'...Schools
can't impose long-term suspensions or expel a special-needs student if the
behavior for which the student is being disciplined is a 'manifestation'
of his or her disability.'"
See
Molding Human Resources for
the Global Workforce
Can Brain-Based Software Help
Kids Read Better? [Scroll down to title] "Can instructional software
based on brain imaging help struggling students read better? That’s the
hope of school administrators who invest in cutting-edge computer programs
like Fast ForWord, a highly respected family of reading-intervention programs
distributed by the Scientific Learning Corporation."
Genesis
11:4-9
February
Teacher ordered to shut up and
pay up - Educators say court ruling is the kind of thing that makes them
afraid to speak out: "A major legal battle is quietly taking
place in the state of Virginia. It involves a special ed teacher who was
sued for slander by a corporation after she contacted the state's department
of education and governor's office to request a special investigation and
intervention at an alternative school owned by the corporation....
"Kandise
Thomas-Humphrey was the instructional specialist and health instructor at
Bermuda Run Education Center.... She then abruptly resigned and, in May
2003, sent an email to the Virginia Department of Education (VADOE) urging
it to investigate her claim that certain administrators at the school were
violating federal laws as well as the school's own guidelines....
"...the corporation
has retaliated by filing two libel suits against Humphrey. In both, it petitioned
Judge Timothy J. Hauler of the Chesterfield County Circuit Court to order
her to pay 1.1 million dollars in damages."
Free
speech applies to liberal college staff such as Ward Churchill (see first
item @
Communitarianism),
but the rights of Christians and those who criticize the new systems are
fading fast. See
Ban truth - Reap Tyranny
Bushwhacking Johnny:
"Technically, cognitive dissonance is 'a stressful mental or emotional reaction
caused by trying to reconcile two opposing, inconsistent, or conflicting
beliefs held simultaneously.' In practice, it is a form of mental coercion.
(I ought to know: I sat through enough workshops as a prospective educator
and practicing teacher. We learned how to disrupt logic, how to make it
difficult for the uninitiated to sustain a train of thought.)
"Creating
a disorienting psychological environment doesn't require an expert agitator
or professional provocateur if you can get gullible third parties -- teachers,
factory workers, even parents -- who don't realize what they're doing to
do the dirty work. Educators often think that they are using scientific
methodology to transmit 'thinking skills' or that they are 'empowering pupils
to be decision-makers.'"
See
Brave New Schools, Chapter
3
Ain't Educatin:
"This 11th-grade girl asked me to help her with a class project. The young
lady sounded like a dutiful pupil, in that she was attempting to fulfill
her responsibility to complete an assignment, such as it was.... I present
here, for the reader's enlightenment, the youngster's e-mail verbatim, complete
with misspellings and convoluted verbiage:
"'I am from Banning High School and We are doing a trial
on Lord of the Flies. I was woundering if you could help me with some questions?
One is 'What is the needs of children?' 'To what extreme would dominance
reach?' 'Can any action a child my take be a result in being in these situations
and aren't of the chil's personal will?' 'Could a child control these actions?'
'What happenes to children mentally without adult supervision?' Please E-mail
me back if you can be of any help. Than You....
"The letter from this student speaks volumes about
what is wrong with today's public education system (and a few private ones,
too)."
See
Public schools
and what you are up against
by a 16-year-old student
School Apologizes for Violating
Sex Education Safeguards:
"First, the teacher showed students a video discussing sensitive sexual
topics without obtaining the mandatory parental notification and consent.
Second, after the concerned parents followed the proper procedures to exempt
their son from the sex education, he was required to sit alone in the hall
with no assignments, also in direct violation of California law. Finally,
he was required to take tests covering topics from which he had been lawfully
exempted. As a result, he was penalized with low grades."
See
Sex Ed and
Global Values
Another
Leftist Allowed Promote Sedition and Treason: "During a fiery
speech to his leftist-indoctrinated drinking
students at the University of Colorado...
Ward Churchill literally and definitively called for the violent
overthrow and destruction of the United States....
"...his
claims of American Indian heritage are false. AIM’s (American Indian Movement)
website states: 'Ward Churchill has fraudulently represented himself as
an Indian, and a member of the American Indian Movement, a situation that
has lifted him into the position of a lecturer on Indian activism.'...
"
He
calls the terrorists heroic, as he compares the victims of terrorism to
one of the most iniquitous of Nazi war criminals. In fact, with these reversals
of the truth, he (as are the other radical leftists) is also
redefining words, so that they are
inverted from
their actual meanings. As does terrorist al-Zakarwi, the Left’s
redefinitions now includes ‘freedom is slavery’, ‘oppression is independence’
and ‘tyranny is free-will.' ... Churchill and the rest of our public school
leftist-academia are funded by our tax dollars."
See
Soviet Education
in the 1930s compared to U.S. Education in 2001
Reading Program Didn't Boost
Skills: "The Los
Angeles Unified School District spent nearly $50 million on a computer reading
program that failed to improve student reading skills .... In their 2002
and 2003 reports, the district researchers found that Waterford made no
difference for students who used the program, and that it had a 'negative
impact' on some kindergartners whose teachers were using it in place of
their primary reading lessons."
One "progressive" experiment
after another has attempted to prove that the old ways -- phonics, math
facts and factual history -- didn't work. They all fail -- at huge costs
to tax-payers.
See
Chronology of U.S. Education
Is learning a thing of the past?
(UK, but also true in the U.S.)
"Something very odd is happening in secondary schools. The focus of teaching
is switching from imparting knowledge to preparing pupils for employment
– in, ironically, the 'knowledge economy'.... Called the 'Futures Programme',
it aims to ensure that the national curriculum and assessment methods are
'responsive to the changing demands of work and life in the 21st century'....
"But
what they're really after are "people who can build and maintain relationships,
work productively in teams and communicate effectively.... Teaching history,
in other words, is secondary."
See
Molding Human Resources
for the Global Workforce
January 2005
U.S. Middle Schools to Promote
Tolerance: "Using a young readers' novel called 'The Misfits'
as its centerpiece, middle schools nationwide will participate in a 'No
Name-Calling Week' initiative starting Monday.... The initiative was developed
by the New York-based Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network [GLSEN],
which seeks to ensure that schools safely accommodate students of all sexual
orientations. GLSEN worked with James Howe, the openly gay author of 'The
Misfits'....
"'I
hope schools will realize it's less an exercise in tolerance than a platform
for liberal groups to promote their pan-sexual agenda,' said Robert Knight,
director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute....
"In
Iowa, complaints by scores of parents about the gay themes in 'The Misfits'
prompted the Pleasant Valley School Board to rule that teachers could no
longer read it aloud to elementary school classes...."
See
How homosexuality is
promoted in classrooms
Multicultural Educators - Disciples
of Social Justice: "Advocates of multicultural education from
schools and colleges across the country gathered in Kansas City the week
before the 2004 presidential election to rededicate themselves to
transforming teaching and school systems
into instruments of social justice as they define it. ...
"'The
silent but deadly oppressor of the
ethnic minority child's spirit is a state of injustice that
is imbedded in a systemic society of a one-sided
truth espoused through the Eurocentric lens of American education,'
Uzziel Pecina and Catherine Frazier said....
"...the
institutions should have an assessment system
to ensure that trainers and teachers do not harbor racist, sexist, or homophobic
attitudes. ...the 'minimal
essential elements' of a teacher-education knowledge base must include
'the unique psychological, emotional, and education needs of gay, lesbian,
and bisexual students.'
[Robert Holland, 1-1-05]
See
Justifying
Mind Control &
New Beliefs for
a Global Village
Tommy Lee, racy postcards used
to attract students: "Think sex, skiing and rock 'n' roll.
When it comes to recruiting students for college, admissions officials are
turning to more outlandish stunts than ever to get the attention of high
schoolers in this age of the Internet."
CIM incentive is in the lunch
bag: "Casey Younger was in no hurry to earn his high school Certificate
of Initial Mastery until he found out it would win him a ticket off campus
for lunch. 'When I heard about the lunch pass, I was like, 'I'm getting
it done now,'' said the Oregon City High School senior.
"Convincing
students that the certificates are worthwhile is a challenge across Oregon,
because they are not required for graduation, said Gene Evans, a spokesman
for the Oregon Department of Education.... Many schools have tried their
own incentives, including recognition ceremonies and special cords to wear
with graduation robes."
December 2004
Afghan Students Are Back, but
Not the Old Textbooks:
"A team from Teachers College of Columbia University is writing schoolbooks
for Afghanistan as it emerges from years of turmoil and ideological repression.
... ''One of our tenets is social justice,' added Margaret Jo Shepherd,
professor emeritus.... Financed by the United Nations Children's Fund, the
Teachers College group is rewriting the curriculum and all primary school
textbooks... while introducing a style of teaching new to Afghan teachers
and students that encourages student participation....
"'This curriculum is
free of ideology,' Abdul Nabi Wahidi, of the Ministry of Education, said
of the new books. 'We just have two ideas, peace and stability, and human
rights.' ...
"Mr. Rosen and his team
have already tested the textbooks at some local schools, bringing to teachers
and students methods wholly new in a country used to rote learning. The
new books encourage Afghan students to think and take part in a new way."
These textbooks are not
free from ideology, but because this "new way of thinking" is old and ordinary
to the liberal Teachers College at Columbia, it seems "normal" rather than
revolutionary to its change agents. In short, it's a piece of UNESCO's ed
program being established around the world.
See
A New Way of Thinking
and
Molding Human Resources for
the Global Workforce
U.S. Slips in Attracting the
World's Best Students:
"American universities, which for half a century have attracted the world's
best and brightest students with little effort, are suddenly facing intense
competition as higher education undergoes rapid globalization.... Foreign
students contribute $13 billion to the American economy annually. But this
year brought clear signs that the United States' overwhelming dominance
of international higher education may be ending."
Deuteronomy 8:10-20
Our greatest Christmas:
"One of the unfortunate intellectual developments of the 19th century, principally
in Europe, was the transformation of history into a proper noun. It denoted
a vast impersonal force with its own unfolding logic, governed by iron laws
of social development. Marxism was the most consequential doctrine of historical
inevitability, but there were others."
See
Brave New Schools, Chapter
2
Parents kicked out of 'gay day':
"Two parents who objected to a Massachusetts high school's homosexual-awareness
day were expelled from the campus after a mother began videotaping a session....
Camenker said the event, with assemblies and workshops such as 'Out at the
Old Ballgame'' and 'Color Me Queer,' was intended to make students feel
good about homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism. ... 'To use children's
minds this way without even letting the parents know is horrible....They
took the two of us and pulled us out and gave us one minute to leave and
if we came back on the property we would be
arrested for trespassing.'
"A local
newspaper columnist... also was barred from the assembly 'for the safety
and security of the children.'...
"The
school district also is committed to multiculturalism, stating, 'Effective
multicultural education suggests a re-examination
of the history, social constructs and dynamics related to race, class, gender,
ethnicity, economics, and culture that impact curriculum and instruction.
Multicultural education includes rigorous curriculum and
inclusive teaching that challenges
all students and staff. We are committed to developing a
philosophy of multicultural education
that can be infused across transformed curricula."
See
Brainwashing in America
November 2004
Principals freaked out by students'
dance, dress: "In an era when sexy music videos and scantily
clad pop stars set the standard for many young people, parents and educators
across the country are waging what appears to be an uphill battle over values.
Discord over lewd dancing and dress is hardly new, but the goalposts for
indecency have shifted radically in recent times.... While each generation
pushes the limits, some parents feel that pop culture, fueled by the Internet,
Hollywood and cable television, has prodded teenagers further across the
line of decency than ever imagined...."
See
Sex Ed
and Global
Values
and the first link at
Moral relativism
Cross-dressing day:
"The Illinois Family Institute received a troubling report yesterday of
a grade (and middle) school in Carrier Mills that held an 'Opposite Sex'
Day in which students were encouraged to come to schools dressed as members
of the opposite sex.... One school staffer... said the school had no radical
agenda but was just looking for 'something silly for the kids to do.'
"But
Laura Stanley, who has several children at Carrier Mills, was hardly amused.
'This is not what I want my son taught at school.... Kids are already getting
so many confused messages from the culture. Do they need to be further confused
about sexuality?' ... she saw one boy wearing a pink mini-skirt....
"..school
administrators asked students to bring in a canned good for charity if they
chose not to cross-dress."
See
Sex Ed and Global
Value
Things I learned in the Canadian Public School System
(A Canadian student sent us
this list of observations):
"Some folks are against public education. I don't see why. Let's look at
the many pearls of wisdom passed down to me from my teachers:
1. If it's
in a book, it's got to be true -- unless that book is the Bible....
2. Revisionist
history is the ONLY history that must be learnt.
3. Capitalism
is ALWAYS bad. Communism works if applied properly.
4. Any explanation
that does not rely on purely naturalistic factors is "superstition".
5. Homeschoolers
are indoctrinated, and private schools are 'just in it for the money.'"
See also
Public schools
and what you are up against
by a 16-year-old student
October
Government schools and Muslims
will brainwash your kids:
"In observance of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month will become part of the
curriculum for many U.S. public school students.... Over the last few years,
this practice has been quietly spreading into this nation's government schools
system....
"Prayer rugs are distributed, Muslim prayers are recited, and basically
a 'happy face' is put on the most dangerous and violent religion the world
has ever known. Government teachers and administrators who are overwhelmingly
liberal, no doubt take great pleasure in turning our public schools into
American hadrassas.... Can you imagine the fallout if 4,000 teachers brought
Christian bibles or even a picture of Jesus into their classrooms?"
See
When 'Christian Educators'
prefer Islam
Writing Wrongs:
"Every week, the average American child plunks down in front of the television
for about 20 hours. That same child spends only three hours a week writing.
"...many
of the state’s children are woefully unprepared to fill out a job application,
write a simple letter of complaint or succeed in college.... Four out of
10 county students enrolling at a California State University campus last
year had to take a remedial writing class.... Meanwhile, more than half
of county students taking the state’s writing proficiency test (grades 4
and 7) did not pass last year.
"Video
games and computers compete for their attention. ...boys spend 13 hours
a week playing computer games....
"Some
teachers refrain from heavily correcting papers because they believe students
would get discouraged. That means kids can’t learn from their mistakes.
....
"The
prevailing view, endorsed by the influential National Council of Teachers
of English, is that teaching traditional grammar is a waste of time. ...
The burden of the missed grammar instruction, in many cases, is now falling
upon community colleges where more resources are being directed toward basic
writing skills."
See
Molding Human Resources for
the Global Workforce
National religious education
guidelines published in Britain:
"The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority plan says
pupils should study other faiths alongside
Christianity to help foster understanding
and respect ... However, it recommends studying the tenets of Buddhism,
Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism. Other religious traditions, such as
the Baha'i faith, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, are also mentioned."
See
Establishing a Global
Spirituality
Voter drive using kids draws
fire:
(Registration required):
"Hundreds of public schoolchildren, some as young as 11, are taking time
out of regular classes to canvass neighborhoods in Milwaukee, Madison and
Racine in a get-out-the-vote effort organized by Wisconsin Citizen Action
Fund - a group whose umbrella organization has endorsed John Kerry for president....
On election day, hundreds of students plan to go out into the community
to induce people to go to the polls."
See
Serving a Greater Whole
Regents upset over number in
remedial college classes:
"... nearly half of Ohio high school graduates took remedial courses in
college in 2002.... 'High proportions of students are not fully prepared
for the college experience,' said Darrell Glenn, the regents' director of
Performance Reporting & Analysis. 'You could get better preparation for
college if you could change the course-taking patterns in high school.'"
See
Public schools and what
you are up against
by a 16-year-old student
World eyes reforms
:
"The world is watching Tasmania's education reforms, says Education Minister
Paula Wriedt. Dramatic changes to the state's educational system will start
from next year. But teachers fear they are not ready for the transition,
which will use vastly different assessment criteria from kindergarten to
Year 10.... 'Students don't have to learn everything in the classroom as
they always have.'...
"...report
cards will not list traditional subjects like maths or english, with a grade
for each. Instead teachers will collaborate on each student and mark their
ability to communicate, think and deal with issues of social responsibility."
See
Molding Human Resources
for the Global Workforce
California school's blatant
recruitment to Islam:
"First there was the textbook, full of emotional descriptions of Muhammad's
experience with Allah, presented as fact, along with participation exercises.
Then there is Islam: A Simulation, and nobody believes children are actually
told to 'become Muslim,' take a Muslim name, recite prayers...
"The courts have ruled that these practices are all acceptable, that children
don't actually believe they are Muslim, even though they are mandated to
walk through it and voice the words by heart. ...
"Enter the videotape, 'The Story of Islam,' apparently adopted by California's
Department of Education. ... It boasts that Muslims adhere to their rituals
'more faithfully' than Christians. Arabians are 'transformed' by the word
of God. Our children are taught, point blank, Islam is a 'divine religion.'
The video repeatedly congratulates Muhammad and Islamists for their 'bold
expeditions' while they 'expand Islam' by
conquests.
Forcing people to Islam is described as EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS, attributable
to Allah....
"But what is truly astounding and indicative of today is this: 'The violence
of the conquest has been forgotten...For several centuries, the different
faiths have mingled, bringing about the peaceful relationships which are
the only ones that can insure the peace of the world.'"
See
Establishing a Global
Spirituality
September
IB granted $8 million boost:
"Three Wichita Falls schools will create an International Baccalaureate
pipeline for children from kindergarten age through high school, now that
the Wichita Falls Independent School District has snagged an $8 million
grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The funding is now in place
to start the internationally renown program at Lamar Elementary and Kirby
Junior High School. Two other Texas school districts - Victoria ISD and
Longview ISD - were among the 50 school districts that will share more than
$108 million in federal grant money."
See
International Baccalaureate
Organization
August
Subverting the Constitution
in high school: "Parents
of high school students would be well advised to look at We the People:
The Citizen and the Constitution... the federally-mandated text for what
these students learn about the founding and fundamental principles of this
nation.
"
...the 'self-evident truths'
of the Declaration of Independence have been magically transformed into
mere 'ideas' from the eighteenth century. The message is that it can be
cast aside, or changed.... When this textbook looks at the Bill of Rights,
those ten amendments that are the very heart of the protections extended
to individual American citizens, insuring that government cannot run rampant
over them, neither the Second Amendment, nor the Ninth, or Tenth are even
mentioned!" See
Brave New Schools, Chapter
2: The International Agenda
Exploris
:
"...Exploris offers the same stock socialist ideas that have emanated from
the United Nations since 1945. Exploris' support of the United Nations'
agenda is not hidden. As part of a 'United Nations Week' observance,
Exploris Middle School students, accompanied
by their teachers, stood on the Wake County Courthouse steps and recited
all 30 articles of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights
over a pubic address system....
"Thich
Nhat Hanh supports Gorbachev's vision for a single global cosmic spirituality,
or one world religion, with a syncretic desire to merge Christianity and
Buddhism. In Hanh's national bestseller, Living Buddha, Living Christ,
he states: 'When you are a truly happy Christian,
you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa.' At the opening ceremony,
the robed Hanh instructed the crowd how to use 'mindfulness meditation'
and the Buddhist tradition of 'Seven Steps' as they viewed the exhibits
[in the Exploris museum]....
"Maurice Strong, a founder of the World Forum, narrates an Exploris exhibit
theme film.... He is a Canadian billionaire best known for organizing the1992
UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and for his collaboration with fellow
cosmos worshippers, Gorbachev and Steven Rockefeller...."
See
The State of The World According
to Gorbachev
U.S. Senator Clinton Unveils
Plan For Global Universal Education:
"U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today announced a planned legislative
effort designed to provide universal education to children around the world,
saying the United States and other developed countries need to boost efforts
to achieve the U.N. Millennium Development goal of having all children in
school by 2015.... The move would make universal education in developing
countries one of the top U.S. foreign assistance priorities, and is to include
a commitment of $2.5 billion by 2009.
"'We recognize that no country can do this alone and we have to work together,'
Clinton said at a Council on Foreign Relations briefing. She added that
she would be introducing the legislation 'in coming weeks.'
"...educating all children ensures global safety, Clinton said, referring
to the U.S.-led war on terrorism. A government's failure to educate its
youth creates a void too easily filled by the flourishing of extremist groups,
she said."
You may want to seeing
a documentary on education that I just transcribed from the History channels
series of Hitler Youth. While the goals differ, many of the methods of control
are similar or identical.
See
Hitler's Youth
New parent data rules for schools
[Australia -- but it
illustrates a small part of the controlling management behind UNESCO's education
system which is being implemented around the world]: "Parents will
need to show their own report cards when enrolling their children at school...
Socio-economic status of parents is a factor already correlated with how
well children perform."
See
Measuring the Value of Human
Capital and
Brave New Schools, Chapter
7
Fidgeting, doodling and singing
approved as 'aids to learning'
(UK): "Pupils are
allowed to wander around, listen to music and play with balls in the classroom
under new teaching methods endorsed by the Government and school inspectors.
The aim of the approach is to respond to pupils' individual 'learning styles'
by allowing them to adopt personalised ways of studying. ...The techniques,
which are being adopted by an increasing number of schools and local authorities,
were first introduced in America and follow research on brain development....
Among the schools that have introduced "personalised learning" is Blacklow
Brow primary.... [I]t had altered its teaching methods after discovering
that 80 per cent of its pupils were 'kinaesthetic learners'.
In other words, they prefer to "learn" by playing,
moving and using their muscles -- not by sitting, listening and thinking.
But how much math and history will they learn kinesthetically? Not long
ago, just learning to sit still and listen to an adult was an important
part of education. One advantage, of course, is that the focus is no longer
on academics. Grades won't differentiate between good students and unwilling
students.
New Beliefs for a Global Village
and the next two links:
Repeat
Mind Control.
Beware
'personal learning'
(UK):
"...I also thought that the purpose of
an examination was to identify the ablest students. Not for [Mike] Tomlinson,
it isn't.... A decision to grade would motivate students to achieve more,
but, he mutters anxiously, it carries 'a risk of devaluing a diploma pass.'
"Indeed, Mike, it does. An A grade is better than a B grade, a first-class
degree is better than a second. It is a great shame, but there it is. If
you want 'inclusivity,' then you can't grade because the achievement of
the gifted is going to reveal the lesser achievement of the less gifted.
Hard old world, isn't it?"
By God's wise and wonderful
design, we are each uniquely made. To the world, our differences may seem
unfair, but the solution is not to hide our strengths or weaknesses. Instead,
when we give our lives to God, He will use our weaknesses to demonstrate
His amazing strength and sufficiency.
2 Cor 12:9-10
repeat
Communitarianism.
Harrison Bergeron
(by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.): "The
year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal
before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter
than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was
stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the
211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing
vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.
"... the
H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron's fourteen-year-old son, Harrison,
away. It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about
it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she
couldn't think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while
his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio
in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned
to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter
would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair
advantage of their brains."
July
The time is now for exodus from
government schools: "On October 30, 2003, while announcing
his pleasure at the return of the United States to membership in UNESCO,
our global school board, U.S. Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, stated
'Our governments have entrusted us with the responsibility of preparing
our children to become citizens of the world.' ...We're told our children
are taught 'critical thinking' but in fact they are getting Soviet-style
indoctrination."
Soviet Education in the 1930s
compared to U.S. Education in 2001
Music lessons cause faster rise
in children's IQ, study finds
:
"The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, shows that children
who took piano or voice lessons for an entire school year had an additional
gain of almost three points more on IQ tests than the average increase a
child not taking music lessons would experience."
It also means less TV! That alone should
make a difference.
Creation.
New Christian academy rejects
creationism as 'rubbish':
"Asked whether the academy would advocate the teaching of creationism, which
has been taught alongside scientific explanations of how the world came
into being at other academies sponsored by Christian organisations, he [Rev
Steve Chalke] said: 'No. We will develop an open and honest curriculum and
we will not impose our views on anyone."
Instead he will impose evolution
as a world view for his students.
See
What Darwin didn't know
Grading Mistakes Caused More
Than 4,000 Would-Be Teachers to Fail a Licensing Exam:
"The errors may have prevented many from getting full-time jobs as teachers
in the last year. ... 'This particular test is being used to determine who
is a highly qualified teacher, which is a requirement under the federal
No Child Left Behind law,' Mr. Schaeffer said. 'But there is no equivalent
requirement that the test makers be highly qualified. There is more public
oversight of the pet-food industry than there is for test makers.'
"
...the test - the Praxis Principles
of Learning and Teaching for Grades 7 to 12, called the Praxis P.L.T.
7-12 - was given eight times, to a total of about 40,000 people."
See
The 21st Century Church
Teacher has kids tasting flavored
condoms: "The New Mexico Health Department is standing behind
a sex-education teacher in Santa Fe who encouraged ninth-graders to taste
flavored condoms.... Lisa Gallegos said that when her 15-year-old daughter
balked at putting a condom in her mouth, instructor Tony Escudero told her,
'Come on, sweetie, have a little fun.'...
"'What he does, basically, in his classes, depending on the age appropriateness
of the class, is to try to get them ... used to condoms and kind of destigmatize
them." See
Sex Ed
and Global
Values
June
Athens Area offers students
alternative to cyber charter school: "In an effort to offer an
alternative to those students who are homeschooled or enrolled in cyber
charter schools, Athens School Board members recently voted to have the
district become a member of a new initiative called Blendedschools.net.
"'...we hope that we're able to gain, entice the students to come
back to our school district with all that it has to offer and enter
into a more positive relationship, working relationship, a pleasant
relationship with parents of homeschool children for their benefit,' Ulkins
continued. 'This would mean that homeschool children would be able to participate
in extracurricular activities. They haven't been able to in the past, but
online, we see their grades and we have eligibility lists for them just
like we do for all our students."
Sounds tempting, doesn't it? That's the intention of educators who don't
want homeschooling families to escape the control and the standards intended
to mold global citizens around the world.
See
Molding Human Resources for
the Global Workforce
May
Atlantic City schools to recognize
Islamic holidays: "Eid al-Fitr, a festival celebrating the breaking
of the fast of Ramadan, will be observed on Nov. 15. Eid al-Adha, a festival
of sacrifice and pilgrimage, will be observed on Jan. 21."
Four
Faces of Islam
Embedded with the protesters
:
" Expecting to hear at least a few well-thought-out arguments,
on April 18 I passed myself off as just another 60's-era radical, darting
among the noisy sea of aging hippies, student zealots, anarchists, and even
a gay rights activist here and there, asking questions. Behold the composite
results, verbatim...."
Please read this article.
It shows the result of half a century of "dumbing down" education -- and
how easily America's students can be manipulated.
See
Molding Human Resources for
the Global Workforce
Learning:
"Civic education -- including character education and service-learning --is
necessary to the survival of our democracy. We must change the context in
which we view the mission of our schools; their lost purpose, which must
be regained, is 'to make citizens.' ... The overriding question driving
education reform must be: 'What kind of child (person, human being) do we
want to produce?' The answer we offer is: 'A child who can take charge of
his/her learning process so as to: (a) learn for a lifetime, (b) make a
net contribution to the society, workforce/economy, and culture, and (c)
be civically engaged as a citizen and decision maker.'"
In
other words, they are becoming global citizens engaged in "lifelong learning"
to adapt to the plans for "continual change" in the 21st century community
where everyone participates in the dialectic process.
See
Serving a Greater Whole
and
Reinventing the World - Part
2
American culture takes a hit!
"In 1984 Missouri's Educational Objectives, Grade Twelve, contained the
following performance indicator to assess whether students were becoming
adequately 'tolerant': 'Given a description of an individual with a debased
character, such as a child murderer or a person who has set fire to an inhabited
building, students should reject suggestions for punishment which would
detract from the dignity of the prisoner...' Is it a stretch of the imagination
to suggest that this stupid/sick exercise might result in the student concluding
that such criminal behavior might be acceptable?"
See
A New Way of Thinking
Teachers Unions - Are the Schools
Run for Them? "Government school
systems are increasingly coercive and abusive both of parents and students.
Government schools in hundreds of cities, towns, and counties have been
effectively taken over by unions, and children are increasingly exploited,
thwarted, and stymied for the benefit of organized labor."
See
What Happened to Parents' Rights?
Schools target lessons for life
(Australia): "Schools in the ACT
will be refocused to emphasise personal development and lifelong learning
with the aim of turning out well-rounded individuals who can take their
place in a rapidly changing world....
"In a move that affects every Kindergarten to Year 10 student in the ACT,
the Education Department yesterday issued a report outlining the personal
qualities schools should be teaching. The Every Chance to Learn report and
discussion paper, which proposes a framework and principles to guide schools
during the next 10 years, goes beyond specific academic requirements and
sets out the characteristics it wants students to have. 'The curriculum
is based on a clear statement about
the type of people it is aiming to develop
and the capabilities required for life and work in society,' the report
says....
"The
report sets out three key outcomes essential for all students. [1] Understanding
yourself. [2] developing personal identity and well-being, communication
skills, creativity, and developing attitudes such as optimism and resilience.
[3] Understanding the world - learning how the world works at a local and
global level, and values associated with environmental sustainability."
Molding Human Resources for
the Global Workforce
Humanism becomes one of the
new gods of RE
(UK): "The national framework published in draft form yesterday was welcomed
by the Church of England.... Pupils should not just learn about religion
but learn from religion by being taught to 'reflect and evaluate their own
and others' beliefs about world issues such as peace and conflict, wealth
and poverty and the importance of the environment'....They should also promote
personal, social and health education by looking at religious beliefs on
such issues as relationships and human sexuality...."
The International Agenda
April
Islam.
Textbook on Arabs removes blunder: "An Indian tribe has forced
distributors of an Arab studies guide for U.S. teachers to remove an inaccurate
passage that says Muslim explorers preceded Christopher Columbus to North
America and became Algonquin chiefs. ... The 540-page book says the Muslim
explorers married into the Algonquin tribe, resulting in 17th-century tribal
chiefs named Abdul-Rahim and Abdallah Ibn Malik....
"'There was no [scholarly] peer review,' said Mr. DiGangi, who says he was
never contacted after lodging his complaint. 'It was so outlandish. It never
should have gone to press.'
"Jon Roth... said the group has decided to remove the two-page chapter called
'Early Muslim Exploration Worldwide: Evidence of Muslims in the New World
Before Columbus.'"
Charts: Five Types of Religious
Expressions
Global Spirituality.
Religious Education lessons
'to respect all faiths'
(UK): "A national framework for religious
education in schools has been set out for the first time. ....The Qualifications
and Curriculum Authority said its framework would promote 'understanding
and respect' and the ability to discuss ethical issues....
"[It] says: "A central concern of religious education is the promotion of
each pupil's self-worth, enabling them to reflect on their uniqueness as
human beings, to share their feelings and emotions with others and appreciate
the importance of forming and maintaining positive relationships.' As well
as Christianity, the tenets of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism
should be studied, it adds. Other religious traditions, such as the Baha'i
faith, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, should 'also feature particularly in addressing
local needs and circumstances.'... The framework calls for pupils' 'own
world-views', including secular philosophies, to be studied. It envisages
pupils 'appreciating the sense of wonder at the world in which they live,
and their response to questions of meaning and purpose', while 'recognising
that knowledge is bounded by mystery'.
The last point is a sobering
reminder that Christian children may not communicate Biblical truth as an
absolute. It's just an opinion or view, like all other religious views.
To see how this is played out in US classrooms, read
Brave New Schools, Chapter
1: New Beliefs for a Global Village
and
Chapter 4: Establishing a
Global Spirituality
A Simulation of Islamic History
and Culture
(
used as a curriculum manual
for history teachers in grades 6 through 12): "The 'History' handout
thus reflects the grand indoctrination strategy that Interact's writers
use throughout ISLAM: A Simulation. Their strategy is to turn students into
true believers... who will be unable to recognize the difference between
a fact and a superstition, unable to distinguish a statement that is supported
by evidence from a statement that isn't, and unable to distinguish a claim
that can be tested from a claim that can't. This strategy pervades the writers'
efforts to recruit converts for Allah....
"The
students pick their new names from a list given on page 1:14.
"Here
is the prayer: In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Praise
be to God, The Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds; Most Gracious, Most
Merciful; Master of the Day of Judgment; Thee do we worship, and Thine aid
we seek...."
The Textbook League
(the source of the above warning) has no more love for Christianity than
it does for Islam. While it criticizes the promotion of fundamental Islam
in U.S. schools, it -- like the ACLU -- fights authentic references to Biblical
truth as well.
See
Four Faces of Islam
In Cities, a Battle to Improve
Teenage Literacy
(registration required): "Thousands
of high school students are held back each year because they cannot read
well enough to absorb information from their textbooks. Many spend several
years in 9th and 10th grade before dropping out, never becoming fluent readers.
"...nationwide, 25 percent of the students arriving in ninth grade
are unable to read well enough to take high school courses, let alone rigorous
courses to prepare them for college."
See
Redefining "Literacy" for
a New World Order
and
Early experimentation in California
schools
School board vetoes anti-discrimination
policy: "The majority
of an Orange County school board refused to implement a
state-mandated anti-discrimination policy
[to strengthen
"gay rights" in the school]
following a raucous
meeting where hundreds of parents and teachers protested. Trustees Judy
Ahrens, Blossie Marquez-Woodcock and Helena Rutkowski argue that
adopting the state's definition
of gender for the Westminster School District would be immoral and promote
transsexuality....
"Richard
Sturges, a former principal, applauded their courageous position. Ahrens
has previously said she doesn't believe there will be any financial impact
on the district, calling the suggestion 'blackmail' by the state to accept
its agenda. 'Morality is not for sale, at
any price,' she said."
Judy Ahrens
is a personal friend, and I thank God for her faith and courage. She has
faced unthinkable hostility and slander for her stand against the homosexual
agenda, which -- like Brock Chisholm, the first head of the Word Health
Organization, equates Christian faith with hate.
See
Clinton's War on Hate Bans
Christian Values
March
Middle class caught in college-aid
squeeze
: "Bryn Tracy, a fisheries biologist with the state,
started buying U.S. savings bonds for his eldest daughter's college education
when she was in diapers.... He thought it would be enough. But as tuition
bills get larger in North Carolina, Tracy and his wife, a nurse, almost
certainly will run out of savings before their daughter, Erin, graduates
from N.C. State University. Because the Tracys socked away cash all those
years, Erin isn't eligible for need-based financial aid."
But
this unfair system serves a government purpose: it helps eliminated social
and economic inequality.
See
Solidarity
and the next link:
Homosexual book for 1st-graders:
"A North Carolina couple is outraged by a book their first-grade daughter
brought home from the school library in which a prince finds his true love
– in the form of another prince. The leading character in 'King & King,'
Prince Bertie, waves off a bevy of eligible princes before falling for Prince
Lee, Associated Press reported. The book ends with the two 'marrying' and
sharing a kiss....
"A follow-up,
'King & King & Family,' was recently published. The publisher says the book
is intended for readers age 6 and up."
Romans 1:22-32
&
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Wall Street Blues:
"Today, parenting strategies like chaperones are laughed at and condemned
as 'overprotective.' School counselors are often the first to inform parents
that 'children must be allowed to make their own mistakes.' Much better,
I suppose, to go to court and take out a restraining order on a daughter's
manipulative boyfriend or to play grandmother to a 13-year-old's illegitimate
baby. ....Health and physical education teachers, under the auspices of
'sex education,' shower elementary students with a panoply of sex toys and
surveys, birth control devices, HIV campaigns, even bringing in 'reformed'
prostitutes and drug addicts to 'raise the awareness' of children who, in
their innocence, still equate sex with love. School policymakers legitimize
grade-school-age girls coming to school dressed like streetwalkers."
See
Sex Ed and Global Values
Bill would offer resources to
battle bullying in schools:
"From taunting in the cafeteria to starting fights during recess, school
bullies have caused problems for years.... 'Girls are much more malicious
and vicious to each other (than boys). They do it more by trying to besmirch
their character and by gossiping.'
"In Peterson's study, more than 45 percent of students were bullied in some
way in sixth-grade -- the worst grade for bullying incidents.... Most of
the incidents were related to teasing or name-calling."
Zero Tolerance For Non-Compliance
Teacher in military told to
pay for sub: "A western Michigan school district told a teacher
activated for military duty that he must cover the cost of a substitute
during part of his absence and give the district some of his military pay."
February 2004
Resistance growing to 'No Child
Left Behind': "The school district in Reading recently filed
suit contending that Pennsylvania, in enforcing the federal law, had unfairly
judged Reading's efforts to educate thousands of recent immigrants and unreasonably
required the impoverished city to offer tutoring and other services for
which there is no money....
"The law,
known as No Child Left Behind and signed in January 2002, seeks to raise
achievement by penalizing schools where test scores do not meet annual targets.
It is the most sweeping plan to shake up public education in a generation,
as well as the most intrusive federal intervention in local schools."
Like America 2000 (former
Bush administration) and Goals 2000, it expands the national education system
which works hand-in-glove with UNESCO's global "Education For All." Top-down
standards and federal grants now hold all states accountable to the global
system. See
The International
Agenda
(click on Education for All)
and
Reinventing the World
Sex-ed will start earlier for
NYC schoolkids: "Adolescent
health education should probably begin before the eighth grade," said schools
health director Dr. Roger Platt. ...Conservatives and religious groups opposed
prior attempts to teach younger kids about sex. Klein insisted decisions
on what will be taught — particularly AIDS and pregnancy prevention — will
be based on sound advice from professional health and education experts."
See
Sex Ed and Global Values
Children should learn more about
atheism and less about Jesus:
"The teaching of religious education in schools should be renamed spiritual
education, with children being taught more about atheism and less about
the life of Jesus and the 10 Commandments, according to the Government's
favourite think-tank.... It calls for equal weight to be given to agnosticism
and humanism as is given to Christianity. Children should also be taught
about cults such as the Baha'i... paganism and even environmentalism. The
report, What Is Religious Education For?, is being considered by education
ministers as they draw up the first national curriculum guidelines on religious
instruction.....
"Rather than referring to God, they should be taught that there is a 'divine
being whose moral judgments are significantly more reliable than ours....
From the age of five, children should learn that there are people who do
not believe in God, the afterlife or the power of prayer or that the Universe
was created,' the report says.
"They should also be told from an early age of the alternatives to marriage....
A heavy emphasis would also be given to educating children about Islam....
'Pupils would be actively encouraged to question the religious beliefs
they bring with them into the classroom, not so they are better able
to defend or rationalise them, but so they are genuinely free to adopt whatever
position on religious matters they judge to be best supported by the evidence.'"
Who
would provide that 'evidence'? Educators determine to "disprove" the claims
of Christianity. Such guidelines became mandatory in South Africa this year
-- and Christian schools and educators face agonizing choices!
Psalm
27:1-4
Klein's educrats undermine good
teaching: "The Education Department...
discredits any educational practice that has worked in the past. For example,
spelling tests are disallowed because they supposedly strike fear.... Teachers
are warned not to correct errors with red ink because that color is 'aggressive.'
Grammar is not taught because it is 'dull.' Children are encouraged to invent
their own spelling so that they can discover the delights of creativity.
Dictionaries are frowned on...."
See
A New Way of Thinking
Homework fails to make the grade:
"Children have long suspected it, and now research confirms it: homework
is a waste of time. Anxiety, boredom, fatigue and emotional exhaustion are
all side-effects of bringing schoolwork home.... Even those who believe
homework improves their performance in the classroom resent the encroachment
on their spare time. ... And the best place for extra study may not, in
fact, be at home. The report by the Institute of Education makes a case
for out-of-hours study to be done in after-school
learning clubs, away from the potentially disruptive influence of
parents."
In fact, traditional
parents are viewed as enemies.
See
Silencing the Opposition
So you want to be an 'Education'
candidate: "'Thought
disruption,' a technique launched in 1940s Germany, means interrupting the
train of thought so that logic cannot proceed. The continual interruptions
built into the school day impede a child's ability to concentrate. ... 'Cognitive
dissonance' means an unresolvable conflict resulting from attempts to reconcile
two opposing 'truths' simultaneously. When educators discredit parental
teachings, youngsters cannot choose between two opposing 'authorities.'"
These same techniques are part of the dialectic process
used to conform people to the new "purpose-driven paradigm."
See
"Spirit-Led or Purpose Driven
- Part 2
January 2004
Learning globally:
"The Bush administration has begun issuing grants to help spread a United
Nations-sponsored school program that aims to become a
'universal curriculum' for teaching global
citizenship, peace studies and equality of world cultures....
"The
U.S. Education Department has issued its first $1.2 million grant to implement
the European-based International Baccalaureate....
The IB curriculum has been adopted by about 1,450 schools in 115 countries,
including 502 schools in the United States....
"George Walker, IB's director-general in Geneva, said in June that the program
remains committed to
changing children's values so they
think globally, rather than in parochial
national terms...."
For more information, you
might want to browse through our notes on
International Baccalaureate
Organization
Why Our Schools Teach Socialism
: "'Democratic socialism' became
the battle cry for socializing the United States. The goal was to 'permeate
and penetrate,' then control from within.... There were no badges or socialist
labels; followers described themselves as 'liberal,' 'progressive,' and
even 'moderate.' Words were the weapon of choice in this new war. By
changing the
meaning of words,
socialists concealed their true purpose. This massive social engineering
was carried out under the banners of 'reform' and 'social justice."
Colossians 2:8
Traditionalist in bovver boots
gives schools a lesson
(France): "Pupils
were always referred to as 'learners' and teachers were told that they should
on no condition consider themselves role models for their children. Their
job was solely to encourage the children to discover themselves and their
own skills. Giving children hard facts and grammar drills was regarded as
outmoded. Mlle Boutonnet describes how she was told to teach geography:
she should cut out pictures of geographical features and foreign countries
from magazines and give them to children to start them 'thinking about geography',
rather than teach them what a mountain or river was, let alone what it was
called....
"Government inspectors have expressed their displeasure with Mlle Boutonnet's
teaching methods. The desks and chairs in her class are all in rows, unlike
the other classrooms where they are clumped in groups, reflecting her traditional
methods."
Sounds like the battle over the old and the new education philosophies in
the U.S., doesn't it? That's because most nations are following the UNESCO
pattern, planned by globalist educators decades ago."
See
Chronology
of the NEA
and
A New Way of Thinking
December 2003
Child abuse in government schools
:
"This 'Scramble for Wealth and Power' is an exercise designed by Shiman
to show your children how wealth and power is 'distributed' in our society.
Once the exercise is completed the children with shovels will have more
pennies (the rules also allow the use of candy or peanuts), the kids wearing
mittens will have less. ...
"The single most prevalent form of child abuse in this country is the act
of sending a child to a government school. We worry incessantly about the
separation of church and state. We would do well to devote half as much
attention to the separation of government and education."
Brainwashing in America
Twisted history
(Thomas Sowell): "...much time is spent in American
classrooms twisting our history for ideological purposes. 'How would you
feel if you were a Native American who saw the European invaders taking
away your land?' is the kind of question our children are likely to be confronted
with in our schools. It is a classic example of trying to look at the past
with the assumptions -- and the ignorance -- of the present.... Today's
child cannot possibly put himself or herself in the mindset of Indians centuries
ago, without infinitely more knowledge of history than our schools have
ever taught. Nor is understanding history the purpose of such questions.
The purpose is to score points against Western society. In short, propaganda
has replaced education as the goal of too many 'educators.'...
"...although slavery was a and White people were still being bought and
sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were
freed. Among those who turned against slavery in the 18th century were Ges
Jefferson, Patrick Henry and other American leaders. You could research
all of 18th century Africa or Asia or the Middle East without finding any
comparable rejection of slavery there. But who is singled out for scathing
criticism today? American leaders of the 18th century....
"...the September issue of National Geographic had an article about the
millions of people enslaved around the world right now. But where is the
moral indignation about that?"
Brave New Schools, Chapter
2: The International Agenda
Judge rules Islamic education
OK in California classrooms:
"Requiring seventh-grade students to pretend they're Muslims, wear Islamic
garb, memorize verses from the Quran, pray to Allah and even to play 'jihad
games' in California public schools has been legally upheld by a federal
judge.... While public schools prohibit Christian students from reading
the Bible, praying, displaying the Ten Commandments, and even mentioning
the word 'God,' students in California are being indoctrinated into the
religion of Islam....
"Byron Superintendent Peggy Green defended the program: 'Dressing up in
costume, role-playing and simulation games are all used to stimulate class
discussion and are common teaching practices used in other subjects as well.'"
A New Way of Thinking
Reading loses magic for young
despite Potter:
"Dr Sainsbury said that under the literacy strategy 'children are learning
skills, reading material that has usually been chosen by the teacher rather
than the children themselves.' She added: 'There may have been less emphasis
on the sheer pleasure to be gained from books.' The report's findings support
calls from teachers' leaders for ministers to abandon their concentration
on tests, targets and league tables - which they claim has put pupils under
more pressure and undermined their ability to learn."
In
the early 20th century, over 90% of American children learned to read. The
downhill slide began in the 1930s -- the beginning of "progressive" education.
See
Early experimentation
and
Chronology
of Education
Failing parents face more than
a trip to the principal's office:
"Parents will be expected to spend half a day in their child's class, pay
for damage caused by their kids, and supervise students during break at
least once a year, under tough new school rules to be unveiled by [Bermuda]
Government. The new requirements are part of Government's drive to ensure
deadbeat parents at public schools start to take an active involvement in
their children's education."
That may sound good to responsible parents, but the new global education
program rules out traditional values as well as "deadbeat parents." Well
trained children who take a stand on God's truths are no more welcome to
the educational establishment than the young rebels who cause problems.
See
Comments
and
A New Way of Thinking
November
The Possibilities Schools Model:
"Everything is a System. Resource inputs are transformed into results outputs
by procedures or processes. All of this occurs within a context or conditions.
All of this is measured by assessments to feedback to the system’s operations."
"Schools
are Systems, Too! ... Curriculum information are inputs. Instructional methods
are processes. Learner skills are outputs. Learning conditions are contexts.
Learning assessments are standards."
This is a good summary of
the new global management system.
See
Reinventing the World
Schools help to dress, feed
kids they teach:
"Felicia McCray's daughter came home last year from Carstens Elementary
School on Detroit's east side with a new burgundy coat. Kayja, now 9, also
showed her mother her new hat, gloves, shoes, uniform, hair accessories
and a voucher to Payless ShoeSource to get another pair of shoes. McCray,
a stay-at-home mother of two, doesn't remember filling out any forms asking
for help. But she gladly took the freebies. 'It's not like we're a charity
case,' she said. 'But if you're willing to help me, I'm willing to be helped.'"
Justifying Mind Control
Higher education meets girl
power: "...more women
than men have applied to go to medical school, dramatizing a decades-long
trend that has women dominating nearly all areas of higher education....
Indeed, some education experts argue, it may be boys, not girls, who are
at a disadvantage in the typical classroom."
It's true -- and it
was planned by UN feminists years ago.
See
Mine is the Power!
City's educrats can't get it
write: "Highly paid
educrats at the Education Department shocked the city's 80,000 teachers
this week by handing out barely literate curriculum guides riddled with
grammatical gaffes, spelling errors and misused words. Aghast teachers reeled
in disbelief as they were: - Urged to 'crate [create] a balance bean [beam]
with masking tape'.... - Identify 'student strengthens and weaknesses.'...
"The authors used 'sited' when they meant 'cited' and portrayed George Orwell's
'Animal Farm' - a cautionary tale about communism - as a story about the
importance of rules."
Redefining "Literacy" for a New World Order
Education in America
: "During World War II, the military forces of the
U.S. tested over 18 million young Americans, from all social levels, and
found, at that time, there was only a four percent (4%) illiteracy rate.
... ninety six percent could read, write and calculate effectively....
Just ten years later during the Korean conflict, the military tested another
three million young men and found that, in spite of MORE formal education,
the illiteracy rate had jumped from 4% to 19%.... [During the Vietnam War]...
the illiteracy rate was now up to 27%."
Molding Human Resources for
the Global Workforce
Public schools and what you
are up against
(by 16 year
old Ashley Anderson):
"When people are fed little bits of propaganda a bite at a time, global
government and other outrageous ideas would eventually sound good.... After
they become adults, the things their parents may have taught them will no
longer have impact on their lives because school taught them that complete
tolerance and acceptance is a good thing. This progresses further and further
until eventually, they are taught that not only should all things be tolerated,
but it is even desirable. Diversity, it's called. This includes the belief
systems and pagan cultures from around the world. So, instead of singing
the National Anthem, students will be singing the Earth Anthem (which is
already sung in public schools in the U.S. and the world), celebrating man
and worshiping the earth."
Proverbs 22:6
October 2003
'New Civics' means Global Governance
(H.R.
1078): "Our Bill of Rights, so vital in the establishment of the
American Constitution, is now depicted as 'negative rights.' The American
model of rugged individualism where citizens are free to pursue their own
wants, needs and dreams, but without direct involvement of the government,
is considered a 'negative' in the New Civics. Never mind that it was that
system that created the greatest economy and standard of living the world
has ever known....
"According to
the New Civics curriculum, Socialist democracies like Estonia and Lithuania
have 'positive constitutionalism in regard to human rights.' That means
that the government is required to provide a broad array of social and economic
entitlements.... The human rights model used in the New Civics is not the
U.S. Bill of Rights, but the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human
Rights."
See
Trading U.S. Rights for UN Rules
The math wars - 1960's revisited:
"In my experience it has not been the children who have drilled and learned
the facts who hate math, but the ones who have not. They, therefore, find
every simple problem requires tremendous effort; and more often than not
answers are wrong because of a lack of ready control of the facts."
Special Education Students treated
like Trash-Pickers: "The Evergreen School District in Vancouver,
Washington has been having special education students sort trash and perform
janitorial duties. The District calls this activity part of their 'Work
Experience Program' and defends the practice as 'trying to give them job
skills.' Meanwhile, the students who are told to perform these tasks are
subject to ridicule by other students. That these students are told to perform
such menial tasks speaks volumes about how school district officials perceive
special education students."
See
Molding Human Resources
for the Global Workforce
.
Washington state shows far more
generosity toward
its alcoholics. Of course, if
the poor unpaid child janitors
were to become drunkards, they
might get a free ride:
Seattle to build apartments
for drunks: "A project
by Seattle city officials to house chronic alcoholics in a 75-unit apartment
building where they can drink together has been approved by the Washington
state Court of Appeals. The $8.6 million project near downtown Seattle will
offer tenants meals and support services.... Local businesses are
opposing the project, contending it will drive away business and residents."
Gov. Davis signs controversial
sex-ed bill: "Embattled
California Gov. Gray Davis, facing a recall vote next week
[Davis lost], signed
a controversial bill allowing public schools to teach and survey students
on sexual topics without written parental permission.
"...a 'Heterosexuality Questionnaire' distributed by the Gay, Lesbian
and Straight Teachers Network can be given to California public school children.
Some of the questions are: When and where did you first decide you were
heterosexual? Is it possible heterosexuality is a phase you will grow out
of? Is it possible you are heterosexual because you fear the same sex?"
Notice the suggestive questions,
then read
Sex Ed and Global Values
September
NAMBLA - Coming to a campus
near you! "...the university's Women's Center website provides
a link to a gay website that is loaded with religious writings and advertisements
for gay churches. One of the writings is called 'Christ on a Rainbow.'...
"One
of the advertisements for a local gay church reads, 'Whatever you believe,
we embrace you!' All this, despite the center's refusal to provide a link
to a crisis pregnancy center
because it is, in the director's words,
'overtly religious.'...
"I now
realize that this movement really seeks to promote moral relativism
[not, as they claim, diversity]
.
In fact, all of the speakers, organizations, programs, and readings your
office promotes are geared towards abolishing
the notion of absolute truth and any accompanying form of moral judgment....
"NAMBLA doesn't claim that sex
with children is the only legitimate sexual orientation or alternative
lifestyle. It merely helps people to be understanding and supportive
of those who have sex with children and, of course, to free them from unfair
prejudice and persecution at the hands of an oppressive and judgmental criminal
justice system."
They have been all too
successful.
The myth of socialization:
Every time I run into a public school
teen it happens. 'Hi, Ryan.' Unintelligible grunt response. 'Whatcha doing?'
'Nuthin'. 'Anything happenin?' 'Naw.' Whereafter Ryan hurries off to pursue
his active life of nothing happening with his friends.... So tell me, where
is this socialization the government school crowd always promotes as a reason
for not home schooling?"
Not only are teens socialized
to the postmodern teen culture and collective, they are also socialized
to a global community that clashes with all the values that made America
strong and free.
See
The Three Myths of Homeschooling
Prejudice melts at diversity
camp: "...high schools...
are borrowing a page from Corporate America and paying $165 a student to
send teens to this camp, hidden among towering redwood trees... But at least
one think tank derides the concept as 'unnecessary social retraining.' It's
'ludicrous' and 'absurd' to devote class time and public school funds to
diversity camps when students are still struggling with literacy, said Matt
Cox, an education policy fellow with the San Francisco-based Pacific Research
Institute. ...
"The National Conference for
Community and Justice holds Camp Anytown in 40 cities across the country..."
See
comment
Worldwide responses to teenager's
article exposing public schools:
"Never in her wildest dreams did 16-year old Ashley Anderson expect the
worldwide responses she has been receiving for her recent article
[see next item]
exposing the government education system.....
"A conspiracy is something done in secret but responses from Japan, Australia,
Peru, Germany and Hungary confirm that educators all over the world have
been following the United Nations master plan and have been gradually programming
their students to accept the abandonment of their nation's sovereignty while
training them to become compliant citizens in a one-world government with
an eventual one-world dictator which they are being falsely taught to believe
is the only type of government which will bring that elusive 'peace' throughout
the world."
repeat
Education.
America's failing public school
system (by a 16 year old girl): This is for all the parents and
their children who attend public school. I attended public school all my
life, until September 2002 when I began attending a private, Christian school.
The differences are incredible!"
See
The Three Myths of Homeschooling
and
Does your "mental health" meet global standards?
Fuzzy math flunks test again:
"It happened to me again a few days ago. I ran out of an item in a recipe
necessitating a quick trip to the nearby tiny market where pricing stickers
instead of bar codes are still used but the cash register is programmed
to determine the change.
"I
bought a $3.59 item and gave the clerk a $50 bill. He proceeded to pull
the change from the drawer and plop it in my hand. He was a young man -
the son of the owner who was standing nearby... I asked him to count the
money back to me. He was stunned. He didn't have a clue!"
A New Way of Thinking
and
2 Timothy 4:3-4
America's academic tyrants:
"Many of America's colleges and universities have become the modern leaders
of racism and intolerance. ...Liberals are free speech advocates because
it's crucial to their propaganda agenda for control. But liberals have contempt
for most freedoms, and once they're running the show, that contempt will
extend to free speech....Texas Tech bans 'communications (that) humiliate
any person.'"
Would such a ban include the Bible? God's high standard would humble
anyone who took it seriously -- and offend those who don't. But it also
shows us the only way to victory.
2 Cor 2:14
Transformational Education -
The New Mission of Schools :
"Minnesota, like every state
in the nation, is in a battle with the federal government for control of
education. The National Content Standards dictated through Federal Goals
2000 did NOT go away with a change of administration. President Bush's 'No
Child Left Behind' continues to name and fund, for example, the Center for
Civic Education (CCE)... mandated by Goals 2000 as the standard for America's
Civics and Government curriculum.
"... the model Civics textbook ("We the People; the Citizen
and the Constitution") ... opens declaring: 'The primary purpose of this
textbook is not to fill your head with a lot of facts about American History
and Government.'
"What then, is it for?
"The CCE answers that question in a report posted at their
web site entitled, 'Teaching Democracy Globally, Internationally, and Comparatively:
The 21st Century Mission of Schools':
"'In the past century, the civic mission of schools was
education for democracy in a sovereign state. In this century, by contrast,
education will become everywhere more global.. And we ought to improve our
curricular frameworks and standards for a world transformed by globally
accepted and internationally transcendent principles.
"In other words, education is no longer about teaching American principles
for the MAINTENANCE of freedom, but teaching internationally accepted principles
to TRANSFORM America for the 'global village.' To help reach this new goal
of education, the CCE's textbook, 'We the People,' promotes 'universal principles'
while demoting the Bill of Rights as an outdated relic."
See
New Beliefs for a Global Village
Have public schools become a
criminal enterprise?
"'The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded
by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation
and as a people ... If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose
on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might
well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this
to happen to ourselves.' [The National Commission on Excellence in Education,
1983]
"When
President George Bush and Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts re-authorized
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, they simply extended
the life of the conspiracy for another six years, calling it the 'No Child
Left Behind Act.'....
"Millions
of children are thus condemned to lead lives as intellectual cripples, stunted
in mental growth, spiritually empty, open to vicious temptations without
a moral code to protect them."
See
The Three Myths of Homeschooling
p>
Parents have raised worst generation
yet
(UK): "...too
many children were receiving a 'disrupted and dishevelled' upbringing. As
a result, the verbal and behavioural skills of the nation's five-year-olds
were at an all-time low, causing severe difficulties for schools.
"Mr. Bell said that one
of the key causes was the failure of parents to impose proper discipline
at home, which led to poor behaviour in class. Another serious concern was
the tendency to sit children in front of the television, rather than talking
and playing with them. This meant that many were unable to speak properly
when they started school."
See
Proverbs 22:6
the next link:
Man must first learn to be human:
"In the late eighteenth century a child of eleven or twelve was captured,
who some years before had been seen completely naked in the Caune Woods
in France, seeking acorns and roots to eat. The boy was given the name Victor
and is often referred to as the Wild Boy of Aveyron.
"The
simple truth is that children DO come with instructions. In the past, the
knowledge and experience needed to raise and educate children were passed
on among families and communities and down through the generations... Many
of these traditions were founded on the Manufacturer's Manual (the Bible).
These traditions were aimed at teaching a child to be unselfish rather than
selfish... and of being able to control one's actions sufficiently to live
up to one's ideas of good behavior and to accommodate the ways of others.
"....psychology
and its medical equal, psychiatry, have succeeded in replacing these time-honored
traditions of childcare with — as Burrows calls them — ideas that are 'ridiculous
and outlandish.' These ideas, sold to parents as 'child-centered' educational
styles, have confused parents and stripped them of their ability to take
the lead in their own homes and produce healthy and secure children."
See
The Re-establishment of Peacetime
Society
Someone
sent this comment: "While
I'm sure that there are too many kids diagnosed with ADHD and similar disorders,
that doesn't mean they doesn't exist, or that the child hasn't been raised
Biblically." Thank you. We agree with you.
A Campus Fad That's Being Copied:
Internet Plagiarism:
"Thirty-eight percent of the undergraduate students surveyed said that in
the last year they had engaged in one or more instances of 'cut-and-paste'
plagiarism... without citing the source. Almost half the students said they
considered such behavior trivial or not cheating at all. Only 10 percent
of students had acknowledged such cheating in a similar, but much smaller
survey three years ago.... Twenty percent of the faculty members said
they use their computers, such as the turnitin.com site, to help detect
student plagiarism....
"When I work
with high school students, what I hear is, `Everyone cheats, it's not all
that important,' Professor McCabe said."
2 Timothy 3:1-14
and the next link:
August
'How to be Gay' course draws
fire at Michigan
:
"[Professor] Halperin wrote that 'lesbian and gay studies scholars' were
leaders in lobbying universities and governments 'to adopt and enforce anti-discrimination
policies, to recognize same-sex couples, to oppose the U.S. military's anti-gay
policy, to suspend professional activities in states that criminalize gay
sex or limit access to abortion, and to intervene on behalf of human rights
for lesbians, bisexuals and gay men at the local and national levels."
Romans 1:22-32
Schools should report on obesity:
"Schools are being advised to weigh and measure their pupils, in an attempt
to tackle the problem of childhood obesity. ...Professor Julian Peto believes
teachers should include a child's body mass index in their annual reports
on a pupil."
No Place to Hide?
Taking 'college protest' to
a new level -- San Francisco school will offer a degree in activism:
"'Students can shape their own (activist) program at other schools,' said
Michael Baer, senior vice president at the American Council on Education
and former provost at Northeastern University. 'But to have it all together
-- the theoretical and the practical -- under one roof and labeled as such
is somewhat rare.'
"Almost
as rare is New College's eclectic lineup of activist instructors, a progressive
all-star team that includes tree-sitting environmentalist Julia "Butterfly"
Hill, "ecofeminist witch" and author Starhawk....
[See
A Twist
of Faith,
Chapter 4]
"Ultimately, school officials
would like to build the program into a progressive think tank....
'We want people to learn how they can be activist and not just someone who
is angry and against the system," said Peter Gabel, president emeritus of
New College.... He is now director of the Institute for Spirituality and
Politics. ...
"'We're not training rabble-rousers,' said Michael McAvoy, a longtime activist
and New College's academic vice president. 'What we want to do is give people
the skills to build sustained social change movements.'"
See
Reinventing the World
Germans address problems in
school systems:
"It sounds like every child's dream: only four-and-a-half hours of school
a day, no attendance taken, a free day if a teacher is sick, no punishment
for playing hooky. But this is no dream... it's the sorry state of their
schools.... The real wake-up call came last year when an international test
of 15-year-old ranked Germany 21st out of 32 leading industrialized nations
in reading, mathematics and science. South Korea, Japan and Finland led
in all three fields.... U.S. students came in 15th."
See
A New Way of Thinking
A New International Policy for
the U.S. Department of Education
(PDF file): "... to fulfill that mission in today’s global environment,
the Department increasingly needs to be engaged in a broad range of international
programs, activities, and relationships, involving nearly every one of its
principal offices....
"Americans
and the world are interested in education in a sustained and visible way
that has rarely, if ever, been evident in the past....From the G-8 Summit
meetings to Leaders’ and Ministers’ Meetings in Asia and the Pacific, Europe,
the Americas, and Africa, education has taken its place alongside trade,
security, migration and other global issues as a topic to be discussed by
world leaders....
"The
United States is seen as a world leader in promoting equal access to education,
and in areas such as decentralized governance, student assessment and accountability,
effective family/community engagement in education...."
See
The International Agenda
July
Schools urged to teach ‘21st-century’
skills: "The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a public-private
organization whose members include the AOL Time Warner Foundation, Apple
Computer, Cable in the Classroom, Cisco Systems, Dell, Microsoft, the National
Education Association, and SAP. Its efforts are supported by the U.S. Department
of Education (ED)....' Today’s students need to demonstrate knowledge of
core subjects such as reading, math, and science—but they also must learn
additional skills, including critical thinking, decision making, problem
solving and communication, and the ability to adapt to a changing
world.'...
"Using
different terms—such as 'digital literacy,' 'media literacy,' or 'screen
literacy'—for the same skills confuses policy makers at the local, state,
and federal levels, Bailey said.... Many educators have questioned how it
is possible to teach information literacy skills when there is already limited
time to address basic skills such as reading and math—but the MILE Guide
shows educators how to integrate these two types of skills...."
See
New "Literacy" for a New World
School tests breach UN convention
?
"The government is breaching the United Nations
convention on children's rights by imposing a targets and testing regime
in English schools that ignores their needs, a UN representative has warned....
Article 29 says education should be 'directed to the development of the
child's personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to their
fullest potential'. She said that the current system of tests at seven,
11, 14 and 16 for children in England was designed to fulfill government
objectives rather than meet the needs of children."
That's
what happens when a nation ratifies the UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child. See
The UN Plan for Your Mental Health
Socialist Ecology at UC Irvine:
"What exactly is 'social ecology? Perform a quick internet search of the
term and you might get the impression that it’s what you get when you mix
socialism, anti-modern utopianism, and environmentalist fear-mongering.
The 'Institute for Social Ecology' offers this definition: 'Social Ecology
n
1: a coherent radical
critique of current social, political, and anti-ecological trends.
2: a reconstructive,
ecological,
communitarian,
and ethical approach to society."
See
Local Agenda 21 - The U.N.
Plan for Your Community
National Education Association
Fails Tolerance Test:
"Class, let’s match wits with the NEA. Answer the following multiple-choice
question: Tolerance can best be defined as: a. the acceptance of
the differing views of other people and fairness toward the people who hold
different views b. active suppression of objectionable views in favor
of other preferred ideas and opinions.
"The
NEA bills itself as 'the nation’s largest professional employee organization,
representing 2.7 million' school personnel. It also claims to be a most
diverse and tolerant group. But is it? Last week (July 1-6), during its
annual conference in New Orleans, the NEA was tested on the subjects of
tolerance and diversity. Alas, it failed the test."
See
Chronology of the NEA
E-mails and Net replace books
for British children:
"Secondary school pupils in Britain spend less time reading than almost
any others in the world, according to a study published yesterday. However,
they do well in international literacy tests for 15-year-olds because they
spend more time browsing through magazines, e-mails and websites - and enjoy
it more than reading books...."
Keep in mind, literacy
is not just reading. It also involves learning global values and politically
correct attitudes
.
See
Redefining "Literacy" for a New World Order
and the next
link:
Information Literacy Standards:
Literacy standard
for grade 8 includes:
"Explains the differences between accurate and inaccurate information and
complete and incomplete information for decision-making.... Brainstorms
a range of sources of information that will meet an information need."
The
key is choosing the "right" sources of information. Harry Potter and Washington
Post would pass -- but many teachers disqualify or frown on Christian books
or conservative sources that challenge their views on political correctness.
See
New Beliefs for a Global Village
A High School International
Affairs Program Crosses the Line to Propagandizing:
“A perfect example comes from the Farmington, Michigan, Public Schools.
At a school board meeting this month, the board approved (4-3) a curriculum
change that eliminates the requirement for 12th grade American government,
replacing it with an International Affairs program that includes
on its menu of courses a class on terrorism, with the strong implication
that the U.S. is the terrorist....
"
It
is surely not the business of the Farmington Public School Board to shape
students’ views in such a transparently provocative manner."
Since social
change is a major goal of global education, propaganda has replaced facts
in curricula around the world.
See
The International Agenda
June 2003
Saving quotas
(by Thomas Sowell): "Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's majority decision upholding
affirmative action in admissions to the University of Michigan Law School
was her classic split-the-baby formula... [Her] argument is hard to summarize
because it consists largely of repeating unsubstantiated claims about the
'educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body' and the need
for a 'critical mass' of minority students.... She uses the phrase 'compelling
interest' to get around the 14th Amendment's requirement of equal treatment....
"Verbal
pieties and cynical realities have thoroughly corrupted affirmative action
from the beginning.... Justice Thomas cited empirical studies indicating
that the much vaunted diversity 'actually impairs leaning among black students.'"
See
Reinventing the
World
See
Comments- News
for another view from
a visitor.
Are
Campus Pornography Courses Sexual Abuse?
(by Dr. Judith Reisman): "More and more campuses are offering 'academic'
courses on pornography, in which boys and girls must jointly watch X-rated
films, view Internet porn and visit sex shops. At Wesleyan University, Prof.
Hope Weissman requires students to do a pornography performance, make a
sex film, or write a pornographic story....
"Pornography not only coarsens viewers’ feelings, it endangers
others on whom users act out their delusions. Pornography literally reshapes
the human brain."
Sex Ed and Global Valuesn
School Board to delay vote on
reading requirement: "Upset parents, teachers and school administrators
told the Petersburg School Board last night that a proposal to remove reading
from the list of must-pass classes as a grade promotion requirement is a
'slap in the face' for a school division that 'already has a bad reputation.'"
See
Workforce Development Means
Life-Long Indoctrination, skip down
to "The Literacy Deception."
Literary lynch mobs hang on
every word: "Diane Ravitch... cites publishers dropping children's
stories about dolphins or in which it snows because they display 'regional
bias'; replacing 'huts' with 'small houses' and 'fairy' with 'elf'; references
to Jews, Gentiles and Poles deleted from an exam question on Isaac Bashevis
Singer's In My Father's Court (about growing up Jewish in Poland); the sorry
history textbooks that declare 'Islam spreads' but 'Christian Europe invades'
or that one cannot speak of the 'growth of democracy' in the same breath
as US history. ...
"What will surprise many is her equally trenchant criticism of the
US fundamentalist Right.... Parents' groups have had references to
paganism, satanism, even Hallowe'en, deleted. Some districts have banned
Harry Potter."
See
Brave New Schools, chapters
4
and
3
for examples of what
parents criticize. These are not trivial complaints.
Students shouldn't have to read
explicit 'Cedars': "A student's
letter to her teacher expressing her revulsion at reading the sexually explicit
passages and a sense of a loss of innocence was read aloud.... A teacher
tried to explain the necessity of using such books. Particularly revealing
was her portrayal of our children as TV-addicted, headphone-wearing, sexually
bombarded, hyper youth who would not sit still...."
Good
reason to pull our children out of government schools.
See
Sex Ed and Global Values
and
A New Way of Thinking
May
Teach-attacks surge in schools
of hard knocks: "Attacks
against school staffers have skyrocketed this year - especially in elementary
schools, where kids as young as 6 are now assaulting their teachers....
The teachers union said that since September, there have been 53 percent
more attacks on grade-school staffers than in the entire 2001-2002 school
year." See
The Fall and Rise of Human Violence
A sign of the times:
"They say a picture is worth a thousand words. That was certainly true of
a recent photo of a little 7-year-old boy holding a sign demanding more
money for the schools and holding his fist in the air. He was part of a
demonstration organized by his teachers ... There was a time when
taking children out of classes to fight the political battles of adults
would have been considered a shameless neglect of duty. But that was long
ago."
Chronology of the NEA
The uses of history:
"...does history possess sufficient value to warrant an extensive formal
program of history instruction in the schools? 'Probably not' was the view
of progressive educators whose philosophy gained ascendancy at about the
time that compulsory public education was being adopted in Western societies....
"Furay and Salevouris
think of history as 'society's collective memory. Without that collective
memory,' they say, 'society would be as rootless and adrift as an individual
with amnesia.'"
These views of history are
interesting, but we don't fully agree with all of them.
The UN knows the importance
of history, but it is building a digital revisionist history that serves
its own vision.
See
The Memory of the World
Words have meaning:
"Take for instance what children should know and be able to do as a result
of their first ten years in the public or government school setting. They
should have demonstrated mastery or proficiency of team work, critical thinking,
problem solving, communications, adapting to change and understanding whole
systems. Well, what parent wouldn't want their child to be able to get along
with others, think analytically...?"
These two charts
illustrate this change:
Three Sets of Meanings of
Educational Buzzwords
and
Paradigm Shift
School violence on the increase
in lower grades:
(Scroll down to title)
"...children as young as kindergarten are attacking teachers and each other.
An article in USA Today noted the horror stories, like the eight-year-old
in Maryland who threatened to burn down his school, and the Philadelphia
kindergarten student who punched a pregnant teacher in the stomach.
"'Some
of my most violent kids have been in kindergarten, first and second grade,'
an elementary school principal in rural Wisconsin told USA Today. 'They
simply lose control, and it comes out in extremely violent manners.'”
See
The Fall and Rise of Human
Violence
Parent Hires Attorney Over Alleged
H.S. Hazing (5 Girls Hospitalized): "...a homecoming tradition
between senior and junior girls became rough and ugly when, witnesses said,
the seniors forced the junior girls to eat dirt, fish guts and pet food.
Then the video showed that the juniors were kicked around and had human
excrement poured on top of them....
"Some of the girls who
were present at the alleged hazing told Vatis on Tuesday morning that they
thought this year's event got out of hand but was 'not that different from
previous years.'"
Desensitized to evil? Disregard
wrongs because they seem "normal"? See the last six words in this
passage:
Romans 1:32
April
A couple of clues:
"Two unrelated events last week provide some clues as to why our education
system is failing. First, Canada College in San Mateo, California, held
a job fair -- for kindergartners!"
Molding Human Resources for
a Global Workforce
Global ethics and world government:
"...if the power elite are to accomplish their objectives, traditional values
would, of course, have to be undermined. In that regard, education has played
a critical role for many years, and a typical example can be found in The Tenth Yearbook of the National Education Association's Department of
Superintendence, published in February 1932, and titled Character
Education, in which one reads: "Relativity must replace absolutism in
the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology....
"...If
the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded
with respect to new values and new arrangements. "...Loyalty to the family
must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into
loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind.
The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world."
See
Character Training for Global
Citizenship
Teachers, students in poll call
violence major concern: "More than four in ten [teachers] say
that teachers in their school spend more time trying to keep order than
actually teaching.... ....More than 80 percent of teachers surveyed said
"parents who fail to set limits and create structure at home for their kids
[and who] refuse to hold their kids accountable for their behavior or academic
performance are a serious problem."
Yet, for decades, public schools have been training students in "critical
thinking" which implies criticizing traditional beliefs and values, prompting
rebellion against parents and freedom to follow group and self-made values.
See
Three Sets of Meanings of
Educational Buzzwords
and
Sex Ed and Global Values.
The next link illustrates
the consequences:
Tardy machine' spurs students
to get to class: "Late students everywhere,
beware. The tardy machine might be watching. The Orwellian-sounding device
is really just a piece of software hooked up to a computer, a pint-sized
printer and scanner similar to the ones used by retailers...."
The Campus Blacklist:
"The chief effect of this harassment is to discourage conservatives from
pursuing academic careers. Leftist professors think nothing of intruding
their political passions into the classroom in a manner that is inappropriate
and abusive, and an unprofessional attempt to politically indoctrinate their
charges."
Brainwashing in America
US seeking complete overhaul
of pro-Saddam Iraqi education system: USAID said the educational
system in a post-war Iraq must 'lay a foundation for democratic practices
and attitudes among children and educators.'"
Molding Human Resources for
a Global Workforce
'Small learning communities'
meeting goals: "What can initially sound like fuzzy concepts
- 'helping students find relevance in their education' and 'establishing
relationships between students and caring adults'... has produced relatively
quickly, measurable results, Gelsinger said. ...
"'There are people who have questioned it,' he said. 'Some people
think it's taking away from the education of kids to do something that's
fluffy. It's not. ...There's all kinds of research out there that shows
one determining factor in a kid being successful in school is that the
student has an adult to hook up with.'....Other Carroll high schools
have ... introduced more career-focused courses...."
What about caring
Christian parents? Would they qualify? Maybe not, in spite of Education
Secretary
Paige's appreciation for traditional values. The opening quotes to
The International Agenda
show why. Then, see the real meanings behind the new education propaganda
at
Molding Human Resources for
the Global Workforce
and
Educational Buzzwords
.
Oklahoma’s ‘Bounty System’ Pays
Schools to Push Healthy Kids Into Special Ed: "As Congress considers
revising special education laws, the issue of education for disabled children
is being shaped by an alarming increase in special education enrollments....
The funding system used in Oklahoma and most other states, which some education
officials candidly refer to as 'the bounty system,' pays school districts
more for each additional student diagnosed with a disability. This provides
a perverse financial incentive for schools to diagnose more students."
A similar 'bounty system'
pushes the "child protection" services across the country." Both increase
government control over children and families. See the next two links:
Homeschooling
.
"NCES
Future Research Plans: "NCES plans to collect and report data
about homeschoolers with future Parent and Family Involvement in Education
Surveys (PFI).... Future Parent and Family Involvement in Education Surveys
will provide a comprehensive set of information that may be used to estimate
the number and characteristics of homeschoolers in the United States."
Reinventing the World
repeat
Homeschooling
and
Control.
Home-schooler Must Submit to
Evaluation: "'This is the epitome of a bureaucratic power play,'
said HSLDA Litigation Counsel, James R. Mason, III. 'The school wants to
force an evaluation to see if Sean needs services his parents don't want....
Parents must have the right to reject such services.'....
"The hearing officer acknowledged that forcing an evaluation on unwilling
parents created significant privacy and parental rights concerns, but he
refused to interpret the statute or consider the constitutional ramifications....
"This case goes to the heart of parents' right to homeschool," said [HSLDA
President, J. Michael] Smith. "Because it involves a federal statute, this
ruling could potentially affect homeschoolers in every state."
See
What Happened To Parents'
Rights?
NEA challenged on political
outlays: "As much
as one-third of the tax-exempt National Education Association's yearly $271
million income goes toward politically related activities.... The documents
show that the 2.7 million-member teacher's union spends millions annually
to field what one critic calls an 'army of campaign workers,' while maintaining
that it spends nothing on politics."
See
Chronology of the NEA
Learning to Give:
"Teaching the importance of voluntary action for the common good in a democratic
society, 'Learning to Give' seeks to perpetuate a civil society by: educating
children about the independent sector (knowledge), developing behavior and
philanthropic experience (skills), and, stimulating private voluntary citizen
action for the common good (behavior)."
Please read about "service
learning" in
Serving a Greater Whole
Teacher Zone (Peace Trek Curriculum):
"Focusing on Peace and Conflict Resolution, we will highlight the work of
individuals and organizations committed to creating alternative solutions
to war or other forms of violence and injustice. Providing a general introduction
to conflict resolution and non-violence, the section will move to focus
specifically on the current issues between U.S. relations with Iraq and
the aftermath of 9-11....
"Opportunities to contact elected officials, local newspapers, and to take
part in national and international campaigns will be highlighted. The ultimate
goal is to empower students to think critically and creatively, make
responsible decisions, and take meaningful action."
The
goal? Turning students into political activists for the envisioned global
village. It's a good reason to home school your children.
See
Three Sets of Meanings of
Educational Buzzwords
Artificial stupidity:
"It is bad enough when someone takes the position that he has made up his
mind and doesn't want to be confused by the facts. It is worse when someone
else makes up his mind for him and then he dismisses any facts to the contrary
by attributing bad motives to those who present those facts.
"Creating mindless followers is one of the most dangerous
things our public schools are doing. Young people who know only how to
vent their emotions, and not how to weigh opposing arguments through
logic and evidence, are sitting ducks for the next talented demagogue
who comes along in some cult or movement, including movements like those
that put the Nazis in power in Germany.
"...they are at the mercy of events, as well as at the mercy of those
who know how to take advantage of their ignorance and their emotions."
See
A New Way of Thinking
March 2003
Columbia Prof's Remarks Spark
Furor: "Angry callers flooded phone lines at Columbia University
Friday, denouncing a professor who called for an Iraqi victory over U.S.
troops and said he would like to see 'a million Mogadishus.' The Mogadishu
reference recalled the Somali city where 18 U.S. soldiers were killed 10
years ago."
See
A
History Professor's Irrational Rage
Mother says son was bullied
for pro-Iraqi war position: "The mother of a Prairie Grove sixth
grade student told a national radio talk show host Thursday that his school
teacher forced her students to choose up sides on the Iraqi war. The mother
said supporters of President George W. Bush were put on one side of the
room, while the teacher and her twelve year-old anti-war supporters stood
on the other side of the classroom. This sounds like the old strategy used
by Sidney Simon to transform values in the classroom.
See
Values Clarification
Parents fail to give children
skills, say teachers: "Half of the five-year-olds starting school
lack the speaking and listening skills needed to cope in the classroom,
says a survey published yesterday....
"Mr
Wells, who said the findings applied equally to the rest of Britain, has
described poor communication within families as the 'daily grunt'. He blamed
parents who bought children expensive games and computers. Solitary pursuits
had replaced board games and shared activities between parents and children,
he added. ...He called for parents to be
trained in how to develop their children's skills and for more support
in primary schools to help pupils catch up."
All parents? Will governments control
how everyone raises their children? Will no parent escape participation
in the dialectic process? Actually, this is part of UNESCO's plan for "lifelong
learning."
See
Silencing the Opposition
Maine Teachers Warned on Iraq
War Talk: "Maj. Peter
Rogers quoted parents as saying their children have come home upset or depressed
because of comments in class and on the playground. 'They were hearing comments
like, 'The pending war in Iraq is unethical' and 'Anybody who would fight
that war is also unethical,' Rogers said. 'So children who are already losing
family members to deployment were understandably upset.'"
The International Agenda
February
'Follow
the Lord Jesus':
"It’s Black History Month—and in classrooms around the country, children
have been learning about famous African Americans and their contributions
to our culture. That’s a good thing. But there’s one thing most kids have
not been learning about many of these famous men and women: that is, their
Christian faith and how it motivated their lives and their work."
To understand why their faith
is censored, read
The International Agenda
Cheaters:
"A new examination of grading at Virginia's public colleges confirms what
many have suspected: Grade inflation is rampant....
"Anecdotal evidence supports that contention: One Norfolk State professor
says most of his students 'are not prepared for college reading.'
"...the
higher grades are not uniformly distributed. Military science, music, and
education hand out the most A's; math and science courses - where, as one
professor put it, 'You either get the answer right or you get it wrong'
- hand out the least."
Matthew
24:12
President Bush Celebrates One-Year
Anniversary of No Child Left Behind Act: "In combination with
the President's budget, the No Child Left Behind Act enables America's public
schools to receive record levels of funding from the federal government,
and creates unprecedented levels of accountability to ensure that those
funds are producing real results to help every child in America receive
a quality education."
Molding Human Resources for
the Global Workforce
Parent
report cards? "Remember
when the 'partnership' concept was pushed: parents in partnership with the
school? So, is this how 'partnership' is defined: the school sending home
a report card on how well parents are doing in providing to the school a
child deemed by the school to be ready-to-learn?....
"A child that is deemed
not ready-to-learn is considered to be 'at risk for failure.'...
[This includes readiness
to accept the pluralistic values of a global citizen. In other words, Christian
parenting can put a child "at risk".
See
Silencing the Opposition
and read section on "at risk".]
"While the 'USA Today'
article tries to downplay the authority the school has been given over the
parent, the implications are very clear: '... parents who do not live up
to any of their responsibilities would be contacted by an outreach worker
who would try to help them become more involved. And parents who cannot
or will not cooperate would have an 'adult mentor' assigned to their child.'
...
"...parents and citizens
need to understand that in dealing with the government schools, they are
dealing with a system that sees the child as a 'resource' or 'human resource'
to be conditioned to the perceived environment... If the parent gets in
the way, the child will simply be removed to an environment more conducive
to the conditioning process."
See
Reinventing the World Part
2: The Mind-Changing Process
Education.
Academic
Facilitators of Eco-Terrorism: "This evolution from violence
against property to violence against people -- terrorism -- is the natural
consequence of radical environmental ideology.
"Radical environmentalism is
at heart a species of anti-humanism: it regards human beings as just another
life-form inhabiting the planet, one no better than trees or dogs...."
See
Is Earth Our Mother?
Ohio Teachers' Union Agrees
to Respect Religious Rights of Teachers: "The National Education
Association has once again been ordered to accommodate employees who have
religious objections to union affiliation. After learning that the Ohio
Education Association (OEA) had a pro-abortion and pro-homosexual agenda,
Donna Barnes and Frances Phillips made known their objections to supporting
such causes." See
Chronology of the NEA
Mixed School Record for Edison
Foes: "Acorn does not run the schools, but it consults
on teacher hirings and offers a curriculum guide and training sessions for
teachers. It also participates in principal selection and has representatives
on the School Leadership Team, which takes part in budget discussions with
the school administration and teachers. "We're not educators, we're organizers,"
Ms. Speliotis said."
January 2003
The Truth about Grade Inflation: "Stuart Rojstaczer of Duke University
admitted that he no longer gives any grade lower than a B. If he were to
do so, he wrote, fewer students would sign up for his courses and his teaching
career would suffer. Not wishing to be deemed a failure, Rojstaczer simply
gives students what they, their parents and the university all want: high
grades, regardless of merit."
This is the natural outcome
of the social process started a century ago.
See
Chronology of the NEA
Teachers forced to leave TV
on: "Odd as the accusation was, it was made even odder by the
fact that my students were reading when the principal caught them not
watching television. She had walked in, and there they were, sitting as
silently as a group of 3rd graders can, every one of them absorbed in a
book. What they were supposed to be doing was watching our school's morning
news show.... Channel One, a news program that reaches 8 million children
in 12,000 schools across the nation, is particularly insidious because it's
peppered with commercials..."
See
A New Way of Thinking
President Seeks $53 Billion
for Education Programs : President Bush wants $53.1 billion in
federal taxes to spend on public education for fiscal year 2004 as part
of the record $2.2 trillion budget."
High schoolers study less, but
grades rise: "The best interpretation we can make is that grade
inflation has been increasing because of all the pressure on teachers from
students and parents...."
See
Silencing the Opposition,
then skip down to
"world-class education"
Race case set off by liberal
professor: "One of the most stunning revelations, the one that
turned him from a gadfly into a crusader, was the point system used. The
university's admissions policy awards applicants 12 points for a perfect
SAT score, but 20 points for simply being a non-Asian minority. About 100
points on a 150-point scale are needed for admission."
The 'new' University of Michigan
application: "African-American, Hispanic and Native-American
undergraduate applicants get 20 points added to their scores just for being
members of their groups....
"Because the university is an institution of higher learning,
its focus is on minds. Therefore the 'diversity' it wants -- the law school
speaks of diversity of 'perspective' -- is presumably diversity of thinking....
In any case, the university's assumption appears to be that race or ethnicity
is a reliable predictor of an individual's inner landscape--of his or her
mental makeup.
"This assumption might seem to involve the sin of racial and ethnic
stereotyping, or even the scarlet sin of profiling. However, it obviously
cannot involve either, because the university is famously progressive, and
hence abhors both sins. Furthermore, the university is liberal and hence
surely on the cutting edge of Michigan
Postmodernism. So it probably
more or less believes that all ideas are equally worthy, or unworthy.
Whatever." See
Reinventing the World - Part
1
Parents press board to cancel
sex survey: "'Some of these questions are asked in such a way
that they give tacit approval to some of these behaviors. Kids will read
these questions and think if they're not engaging in this, 'What's wrong
with me?' [said Karen Budd, a mother].... The survey... poses about nine
questions about sexual habits, including: 'How old were you when you first
had sex?'" Such suggestive
survey are designed to desensitize students and change attitudes as well
as to assess their current values.
See
Sex Ed and Global Values
Anger over 'louts guide'
(Australia):
[This link has expired, but
the summary shows the postmodern
disregard for traditional values] "Taxpayers have funded a booklet
that tells children how to dodge drug charges. It also offers students advice
on keeping abortions secret from their parents and provides excuses for
carrying weapons. More than 225,000 copies of Am I Old Enough? have
been sent to 546 secondary schools.'"
2 Timothy 3:1-14
Hip-hop hogwash in the schools:
"The Los Angeles Times reports this week that teachers across the country
are using rap music to 'make classical literature relevant.'...
"Welcome to the morass
of self-absorbed multiculturalism, where urban 'relevance' is the be-all
and end-all of the intellectual experience. Where teachers are listening
partners, rather than imparters of knowledge. Where Fat Albert and Prince
Hamlet are equals. Where education has been reduced to the false art of
'feelin' it' and 'keepin' it real.'"
A New Way of Thinking
Holistic Education:
"By introducing students to a holistic view of the planet, life on Earth,
and the emerging world community, holistic strategies enable students to
perceive and understand the various contexts which shape and give meaning
to life. ... values spiritual literacy (in a non-sectarian sense).
"Spirituality is a state
of connectedness to all life, honouring diversity in unity...."
Notice that
today's "spirituality" implies a pantheistic connectedness and fits the
vision of a global spirituality -- in contrast to Christianity, which is
rejected by global leaders as a "separative" and exclusive "religion."
Yet this new spirituality is
even transforming God's churches.
See
Our Father in Heaven or Our Mother the Earth?
and the next link:
Education.
Spiritual Intelligence:
"...logical intelligence (IQ) is about rational, logical, rule-bound
thinking. Emotional intelligence (EQ) is about associative, habit-bound,
pattern-recognising, emotive thinking. Spiritual intelligence (SQ)
is about creative, insightful, rule-making, rule-breaking, transformative
thinking.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
School sued for banishing Bible
club: "...the school
allowed the formation of a group called the Gay/Straight Alliance Club,
but won't allow a Bible discussion group. The suit also contends that the
school district permitted other student groups to form, including the Multicultural
Club, Peace Jam and Amnesty International."
See
Clinton's War on Hate Bans
Christian Values
Bill Clinton heads Oxford's
wishlist for new Chancellor:
"Debate about possible contenders will be intense... Conceivably, Tony Blair
could stand.... Mr Clinton is a more realistic prospect, however. If he
indicates that he would like the post he would be a hot favourite among
younger graduates and dons dazzled by his star appeal. The former US President,
56, has said that he spent two of the happiest years of his life while a
Rhodes scholar at University College."
See
From the Littleton CRISIS
to Government CONTROL
Study Reveals Five Decades of
'Dumbing Down' in American Education: "A new poll finds that
American college seniors today are just slightly more knowledgeable than
high-school graduates of half a century ago. ... 'One of the phenomena we've
seen, and in part it's been due to 'progressive' education -- what John
Dewey and his colleagues launched back at the beginning of the twentieth
century -- is a retreat from the idea that people should learn specific
facts,' Balch says. 'And as far as it's been taken, [it has been] quite
damaging.'" See
A New Way of Thinking
For previous Education News links,
click on Education News 2001
or
2002
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