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Several weeks ago, I was sitting in a hotel lobby sipping a Coke and visiting with my friend Michael Reagan who had just given a speech before several hundred people. Mike, as you may know, is a best-selling author, radio talk-show host, Fox News contributor, and eldest son of President Ronald Reagan. A few minutes into our conversation, Mike remembered something he wanted to tell me. “Brannon,” he said, cocking his head in my direction, “I thought of you this morning when I read the newspaper.” I wondered if he were about to crack a joke at my expense but...

Eco-Logic PowerHouse From From EdWatch... FACT: "School-to-Work" is alive and well! By Michael J. Chapman For several years, EdWatch (formerly, The Maple River Education Coalition) has been warning of a coming state-planned-and-managed economy by means of the federal "School-to-Work (STW) System." We've explained how the federal agenda was driven into all 50 states by three federal bills passed piecemeal under the Clinton administration (Goals 2000, STW, and the Workforce Investment Act). On July 19, 2004, the federal House Education & the Workforce Committee posted a "fact sheet" denying that School- to -Work was involved in the pending Vocational Education funding...

A Freeper Home School, Educator, Interested Parent Invitation to come and listen to: A Presentation Mr. Dean Gotcher -  the founder and director of the Institution for Authority Research and author of the booklet Dialectic and Praxis: Diaprax and the End of the Ages, explaining the dialectic process which is the foundation of and justification for Goals 2000, Outcome-Based Education, and School to Work.Courtesy of Arkansas Publik Skulz   WHAT’S HAPPENING TO OUR SCHOOLS, OUR COMMUNITY, OUR FAMILIES, OUR NATION?Date:   Saturday, June 21st, 2003 Time:   6 P.M. Place:St. Joseph’s HospitalMercy – McCall Room300 WernerHot Springs, ArkansasMapQuest Come discover the truth...

"The ultimate problem of all education is to coordinate the psychological and the social factors. ... The coordination demands that the child be capable of expressing himself, but in such a way as to realize social ends." – John Dewey Foundations offer financial and institutional support for a few good causes. On the other hand, most of their efforts in eugenics, population control, education and environmentalism are elitist. Very often they are also counterproductive and do nothing for ordinary citizens – but they do a whole lot for elites and the expansion of the state. It wouldn't be so bad...