"This website has been constructed as a tool for parents and citizens who want to learn about systems education, otherwise known as education reform, also known as performance-based education, standards-based education, competency-based education, outcome-based education and a plethora of other names....
This website is not for the faint of heart or those who wish to construct their own reality. It is not intended to assuage parents worst fears, but will, in most cases, confirm them..."
About Consensus and Facilitation
"Citizens often arrive at what has been slated as a public hearing or a public forum to find that things don't seem quite right; that there is suddenly this new way of conducting meetings that somehow doesn't seem right. Instead of chairs set up for the audience with microphones where they can give input; there are now tables with chairs where people sit in circles and are facilitated by a pre-chosen facilitator.
The links below will take the reader through this facilitated process of consensus building, what it is, and why it stands diametrically opposed to the foundations upon which this nation was founded."
The Delphi Technique. What Is It?
"The Delphi Technique was originally conceived as a way to obtain the opinion of experts without necessarily bringing them together face to face. In recent times, however, it has taken on an all new meaning and purpose. In Educating for the New World Order by B. Eakman, the reader finds reference upon reference for the need to preserve the illusion that there is "…lay, or community, participation (in the decision-making process), while lay citizens were, in fact, being squeezed out." The Delphi Technique is the method being used to squeeze citizens out of the process, effecting a left-wing take over of the schools...."
The Delphi Technique: How to Disrupt It
"Ground rules for disrupting the consensus process (Delphi Technique) — when facilitators want to steer a group in a specific direction...."
See the following links at Lynn's Education And Research Network (LEARN):
About Consensus and Facilitation