Posted on 09/28/2012 7:29:24 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Three years after the Department of Education announced a contest called Race-to-the-Top for $4.35 billion in stimulus funds, some parents, teachers, governors, and citizen and public policy groups are coming to an awful realization about the likely outcomes:
• A national curriculum called Common Core; • Regionalism, or the replacement of local governments by federally appointed bureaucrats; • A leveling of all schools to one, low national standard, and a redistribution of education funds among school districts; • An effective federal tracking of all students; • The loss of the option of avoiding the national curriculum and tests through private school and home school.
Working behind the scenes, implementing these policies and writing the standards are associates from President Obama’s community organizing days. In de facto control of the education component is Linda Darling-Hammond, a radical left-wing educator and close colleague of William “Bill” Ayers, the former leader of the communist terrorist Weather Underground who became a professor of education and friend of Obama’s.
When these dangerous initiatives are implemented, there will be no escaping bad schools and a radical curriculum by moving to a good suburb, or by home schooling, or by enrolling your children in private schools.
How was it that 48 governors entered Race-to-the-Top without knowing outcomes?
(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...
The article doesn’t really give that much info. I’d like to know more about this.
which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”
which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”
which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”
which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,
which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
We have no idea what this radical anti-American socialist has planned, if he gets re-elected. This is just a hint.
The best way to put it, is that he MUST go in November. Priority one to save America and its freedoms.
I’d like to know why they think they can dictate what type of curriculum private and religious schools use, especially if they don’t take federal funds.
Do homeschoolers get federal funding?
Frightening and shocking what HE thinks. Along with promoting gay/lesbian agenda / green garbage and worse things like globalization, one world order stuff...... Vote these radicals out in November, please.
I thought homeschoolers got a federal deduction (I am quite possibly wrong about that though). If they do, then ultimately you have to follow the Fed guidelines if you want the deduction.
I thought homeschoolers got a federal deduction (I am quite possibly wrong about that though). If they do, then ultimately you have to follow the Fed guidelines if you want the deduction.
I’m now under the impression that they will have to use the federal curriculum whether or not they take a federal deduction. I wonder if they’ll have to eat Michelle’s starvation lunch as well.
It is well past time Claire!
When my friend’s Nevada school took the money, their principal was replaced by a Chicago appointee. The teachers had to resign and reapply for their jobs. Big effort to get the older ones to retire. Yes, they are expensive, but they also have memories of things the Feds would like the kids to never know.
Absolutely none.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.