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“Houston ISD in Direct Violation of Texas Law – HB 462”

Dec 18

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

Yesterday the Obama administration announced that Houston ISD won the $30 Million Race to the Top – Direct to District (RTTT-D2) funds. HarmonY Charters and Idea Charters each won the same amount last year from RTTT-D1.

On 5.27.13, the Texas Legislature passed HB 462 which makes it illegal in Texas for school districts to participate in the Common Core Standards Initiative. HB 462 became effective immediately on 6.14.13 — http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/Text.aspx?LegSess=83R&Bill=HB462

In essence, Houston ISD (and even Harmony and Idea Charters) are in direct violation of Texas law – HB 462 – because they took the Obama administration’s “carrot and stick” and are now legally bound to follow the Common Core Standards Initiative.

What is the Texas Legislature going to do about this? What is Gov. Perry going to do about this? What is the Texas Attorney General going to do about this? What are Texas citizens going to do about this? Surely we are not going to look the other way while school districts blatantly defy Texas law.

In fact, what about all of those Texas school districts that are so proudly displaying on their students’ instructional materials the words “Aligned with the Common Core Standards”? By law, Texas school districts are to align with the Texas curriculum standards (TEKS) that have been passed by the elected members of the Texas State Board of Education – and not with the Obama administration’s Common Core Standards.

Donna Garner

Wgarner1@hot.rr.com

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12.17.13 – HISD Wins $30 Million Race to the Top Grant” – by Ericka Mellon – Houston Chronicle —http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/HISD-wins-30-million-Race-to-the-Top-grant-5072101.php?cmpid=htx

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8.15.13 – “Dilemma for Turkish Gulen Harmony Charter Schools Under SB 2 and HB 462” – by Donna Garner —http://educationviews.org/dilemma-for-gulen-harmony-charters-under-sb-2-hb-462/

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H.B. No. 462 — http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/Text.aspx?LegSess=83R&Bill=HB462

AN ACT

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsections (b-1), (b-2), (b-3), and (b-4) to read as follows:

(b-1) In this section, “common core state standards” means the national curriculum standards developed by the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

(b-2) The State Board of Education may not adopt common core state standards to comply with a duty imposed under this chapter.

(b-3) A school district may not use common core state standards to comply with the requirement to provide instruction in the essential knowledge and skills at appropriate grade levels under Subsection (c).

(b-4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a school district or open-enrollment charter school may not be required to offer any aspect of a common core state standards curriculum.

SECTION 2. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (a-3) to read as follows:

(a-3) The agency may not adopt or develop a criterion-referenced assessment instrument under this section based on common core state standards as defined by Section 28.002(b-1). This subsection does not prohibit the use of college advanced placement tests or international baccalaureate examinations as those terms are defined by Section 28.051.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately…

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http://www.ed.gov/race-top/district-competition?page=2

Race to the Top District Competition Draft

Eligibility Criteria

1. Eligible applicants include only individual local educational agencies (LEAs) (as defined in this document) and consortia of LEAs.

2. Applicant(s) must annually serve a minimum of 2,500 participating students (as defined in this document). (For a consortium, this minimum number may be met by annually calculating all participating students across all participating LEAs.)

3. At least forty percent of participating students across all participating schools (as defined in this document) must be students from low-income families, based on eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch subsidies under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, or other poverty measures that LEAs use to make awards under section 1113(a) of the ESEA. If an applicant has not identified all participating schools at the time of application, it must provide an assurance that within 100 days of the grant that its participating schools (as defined in this document) will meet this standard.

4. Applicants must demonstrate a track record of commitment to the core education assurance areas (as defined in this document), including, for each LEA included in an application, an assurance signed by the LEA’s authorized legal representative that–

a. The LEA has, at a minimum, designed and committed to implement no later than the 2014-15 school year–

i. a teacher evaluation system (as defined in this document);

ii. a principal evaluation system (as defined in this document);

iii. a LEA superintendent evaluation (as defined in this document); and

iv. a LEA school board evaluation (as defined in this document).

b. The LEA has a robust data system that has, at a minimum,–

i. An individual teacher identifier with a teacher-student match; and

ii. The ability to match student level P-12 and higher education data.

c. The LEA has policy and regulatory protections in place that ensure Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) compliant privacy and information protection while enabling access and use by stakeholders.

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http://www.ed.gov/sites/default/files/rttd-executive-summary.pdf

College- and career-ready standards:

Content standards for kindergarten through 12th grade that build towards college- and career-ready graduation requirements (as defined in this document) by the time of high school graduation. A State’s college- and career-ready standards must be either (1) standards that are common to a significant number of States; or (2) standards that are approved by a State network of institutions of higher education, which must certify that students who meet the standards will not need remedial course work at the postsecondary level.

Core educational assurance areas:

• Adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy;

• Building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction;

• Recruiting, developing, rewarding, and retaining effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most; and

• Turning around our lowest-achieving schools.

Donna Garner

Wgarner1@hot.rr.com

Tags: Common Core, DONNA GARNER, Global Encounters, Greg Abbott, HARMONY, HB 462, IDEA CHARTERS, ISD, Obama, Texas, VIOLATES THE LAW

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Texas State Board of Education Member Thomas Ratliff Bullies Texas Mom

Dec 17

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

Texas Parents and Grassroots activist have been extremely effective in fighting the progressive CSCOPE Curriculum in Texas Schools and educating the public about it. This does not seem to set well with a RINO sitting on the State Board of Education, Thomas Ratliff. Ratliff is also a paid lobbyist for Microsoft and though it is illegal to sit on the SBOE and be a lobbyist, Ratliff seems to have no respect for the rule of law. Ratliff is so put out that a major dent has been put in the CSCOPE/Common Core agenda across the state of Texas that he is bullying a Texas Mom, Alice Linahan for her activism in fighting CSCOPE by filing ethics charges claiming she is paid for activism. Ratliff’s initial filed ethics complaint was denied which he could not seem to accept and filed a 2nd complaint.

Ratliff’s 1st ethics complaint that was denied.

Ratliff’s 2nd Ethics Complaint.

THE FOLLOWING IS RATLIFF’S TWITTER PAGE WHERE HE SHOWS IS PROFESSIONALISM ON A REGULAR BASIS.

Tags: Alice Linahan, Cscope, Dinah Miller, Ethics commission, Ethics complaint, State Board of Education, Texas, Thomas Ratliff

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RATLIFFSTHE GOOD GUYS~SERIOUSLY?

Dec 12

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

Thomas, Bill and Bennett Ratliff are well known names when it comes to the money and policy within Texas Education. These names have become so common taxpayers are questioning their activities and agenda. Thomas is a Microsoft lobbyist and sits on the Texas State Board of Education and has been vocal against taxpayers who are exposing the controversial Cscope corruption. Bill Ratliff is the Texas former Lt. Governor and has his name on various education related entities like Raise Your Hand Texas and C-Learning. Bennett Ratliff is Texas House Representative for HD 115.

Friday December 13th Texas Association of Mid Size Schools (TAMS) is having another conference on the Tax Payers dime. It is no surprise that the Ratliff’s are invited speakers but the fact that they would be labeled THE GOOD GUYS on the agenda brought many of us a dose of laughter. Seriously?

There is a movement to impeach Thomas Ratliff from the State Board of Education and if you have not signed the petition please do so HERE.

Texas Association of Mid Size Schools (TAMS) is one of many liberal progressive groups within the State surviving off of tax money. This week’s conference will address the following topics.

Tags: bennett ratliff, Bill Ratliff, Cscope, RATLIFF, TAMS, TASA, TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF MID SIZE SCHOOLS, Thomas Ratliff

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TEXAS ESC EMPLOYEES ARE SPEAKING OUT!!

Dec 12

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

THE DISCOVERY OF THE CONTROVERSIAL CURRICULUM CSCOPE THAT THE ESC’S HID FROM THE PUBLIC HAS OPENED UP A HUGE CAN OF WORMS. ESC’S ONCE AN OBSCURE ENTITY IS NOW UNDER PUBLIC SCRUTINY AS THEY HANDLE MILLIONS OF TAX PAYERS DOLLARS.

TEXAS EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER EMPLOYEES ARE STARTING TO COME OUT OF THE WOODWORK AND EXPOSE THE CORRUPTION FROM WITHIN. MANY EMPLOYEES KNOW THERE IS SOMETHING DEFINITELY WRONG AND WANT TO BE HEARD. I RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT FROM AN ESC EMPLOYEE THIS WEEK.

Tags: CAN OF WORMS, Education, ESC, FRAUD, money, Texas, texas education service center

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TEXAS: Taxpayers Paying For Common Core Training

Dec 10

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

This week educators from across the state of Texas will be attending more progressive training in Gaylord, Texas at taxpayers expense. Not only will we be paying conference fees but attendees hotel and meals as well. Learning Forward is one of many progressive educational promoting entities across the country with groups represented in various states. Texas is home to one of the groups. Its board members are employees of various Texas ISD’s. You can go to twitter and use #learnfwd13 and find all kind of info in relation to the progressive conference.

One of the most progressive educators across the Country is Humanist Linda Darling Hammond. Hammond has been behind the implementation of Common Core across the country and is associated with Terrorist Bill Ayers. Hammond has also signed the Humanist TEN COMMANDMENTS: GUIDING PRINCIPALS FOR TEACHING VALUES IN AMERICA’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Hammond will speaking at this conference educating Texas administrators and teachers and some students.

Linda Darling-Hammond

Common Core is illegal in Texas but it doesn’t seem to stop Texas Educators from spending Taxpayers money on Common Core Training.

Stacy Kimbriel is employed by Plano ISD and is a principal at McCall Elementary. Obviously Plano taxpayers paid her way and today she was able to enjoy her morning of leisure.

Mr. Mark Prensky in Stacy’s tweet below is a motivational speaker promoting the idea that educators have to jump on the “digital train” in order to be a successful educator today.

Prensky tweeted teaching students with tools of the past is punishment. Well as a home school mom of two college graduates my girls must of endured some real punishment but I have yet to see any signs of it as of today.

Michelle King is a director & board member of Learning Forward Texas. King is also employed by Coppell ISD. Coppell ISD’s superintendent Jeff Turner a progressive who thinks the Mayor San Antonio is a Statesman!

Seriously “Pursuing Excellence THROUGH Equity”? Sounds like Obamacare to me.

Jaime Donally is employed by Tyler ISD

Tags: Coppell ISD, HUMANIST, Jeff Turner, Learning Forward, Michelle King, Ten Commandements

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CSCOPE BATTLE LEAVES TEXAS EDUCATION SERVICE CENTERS UNDETERRED

Dec 09

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

WatchDog Wire

by LouAnn Anderson

One year ago the swell of parent, teacher and taxpayer concern over CSCOPE, the controversial public school curriculum management program once used in more than 70% of Texas school districts, was rising. A tumultuous 83rd legislative session appeared to take Texas Education Service Centers (ESCs) to task for CSCOPE and a number of related questionable activities. Though spring and summer political theatre promoted CSCOPE as dead and ESCs now planning to be more transparent and responsive, indications keep coming that nothing could be further from the truth.

CSCOPE was problematic on many fronts. Serious taxpayer advocates still legitimately question how this curriculum management system was developed using public funds yet organized to operate outside any normal taxpayer accountability and government oversight channels? The program featured anti-American as well as other impractical and poorly-crafted lessons while those who operate outside groupthink environments found concern with its campus-level implementation seemingly attempting to enforce a regimented, indoctrination-oriented approach to classroom instruction. CSCOPE as a backdoor approach to implementing Common Core was another credible criticism.

Watchdog Wire recently published an article on Common Core’s use in Texas public schools despite legislation specifically outlawing its use. In a post Texas Education Service Centers Welcome Common Core!, Red Hot Conservative gives additional examples that Common Core is alive, even thriving in Texas schools.

Similarly troubling is how it seems ESCs have developed their own in-house program to produce new school administrators in response to the growing number of administration positions the education industry continues creating.

Texas CSCOPE Review recently posted this stunning ESC solicitation of candidates for a Superintendent Certification Program. Besides noting college coursework as no longer a requirement for superintendents seeking advanced “certification,” the site astutely reminds that ESCs now seem to do it all with creating not just taxpayer-financed products (like CSCOPE or its latest repackaged incarnation), but also the superintendents and school board members who then use additional tax dollars to buy these products.

Of the certification program’s major program characteristics promoted, this one was eye-catching as an education industry bonus offering the prospect of a second job or post-retirement income opportunities.

All instruction comes from practicing professionals who are current or recently retired superintendents, assistant superintendents, school attorneys, school finance consultants, school construction experts, school business managers, school facilities consultants, school bond issues consultants, school foundation directors, Certified Public Accounts, and Region 8 specialist.

With the costs of these programs funded by taxpayers and unelected ESC officials having no substantive oversight of their activities, this is a business model of highly unique proportions and one that should deeply disturb Texas taxpayers.

Current numbers on public school finance always seem somewhat elusive. With that, the best data we have is often several years old. Nonetheless, it is telling.

This is an interesting statistic provided by Fortune Magazine in 2009. Note that if it were a private company, the Texas public education industry would be the fifth largest company in the world.

So who are those employees? Information from the Texas Education Agency 2011 Statewide Snapshot shows that for every public school teacher in Texas, school districts have one non-teaching staff member. Many of those are school administrators either at campus levels or central administration staff positions.

Texas local government debt has been tracked to $322 billion although new bonds approved in the November election now put that number more aptly at $330 billion with the greatest portion being school district debt.

And though some may claim enrollment is the cause for new debt and spending, school populations aren’t increasing in any sensible proportion to spending.

Last February during a Texas Senate Committee on Education hearing on CSCOPE, former State Board of Education member Carlos (Charlie) Garza described the ESCs creation and administration of CSCOPE as “a shell game.”

“What you see today is not Enron, but ed-ron – where we are playing this game of hide-and-seek from the people,” he said.

Seems some things haven’t changed.

Lou Ann Anderson

Lou Ann Anderson is an information activist and the editor of Watchdog Wire – Texas. As a Policy Analyst with Americans for Prosperity – Texas, she writes and speaks about a variety of public policy topics. Lou Ann is the Creator and Online Producer at EstateofDenial.com, a web site that addresses the growing issue of probate abuse in which wills, trusts, guardianships and powers of attorney are used to loot assets from intended beneficiaries or heirs. Contact Lou Ann at Texas@WatchdogWire.com with story ideas and for ways to get involved with citizen journalism in Texas.

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Tags: Bill Ratliff Academy, Carlos Garza, Cscope, ESC 8, LouAnn Anderson, SENATE, Shell Game, Texas, Watchdog wire

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Texas Education Service Centers Welcome Common Core!

Dec 06

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

Texas supposedly did not adopt the national Common Core Standards, in fact it was made illegal during the 83rd Texas Legislature through Texas Education Code 39.023 which states the following.

But that has not stopped school district across the state from implementing them in their schools. Parents continue to come forward with worksheets students are bringing home based on Common Core standards. It doesn’t stop there though. With the implementation of the controversial Curriculum CSCOPE, common core is in full force across the state of Texas. Cscope like Common Core has much more to do with a teaching philosophy based on the collective (project based learning) and student data collection with assessments. Who is working non-stop on implementing common core in the Texas? The Texas Education Service Centers (ESC’s). The directors of the ESC’s are the ones who formed the bogus non profit that owned CSCOPE. The ESC’s are have held and continue to hold conferences which focus Common Core Standards.

Texas has 20 Education Service Center that have remained some obscure business entity until the CSCOPE discovery. Parents need to wake up. These ESC’s have created numerous business operating within the facilities and are still funded by the Texas tax payers.

The following is from ESC 11

The following is from ESC 7

Tags: ASSESSMENTS, Common Core, Cscope, ESC, ESC 11, ESC 7, ILLEGAL, K-123, myOn Reader, Progressive, TCEC, Texas, Texas Education Code, Texas Education Service Centers

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BUILDING THE MACHINE – A film about the Common Core

Dec 05

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

December 5, 2013

Dear HSLDA members and friends of homeschooling,

President Barack Obama calls the Common Core State Standards “the most meaningful reform of our public schools in a generation.”

But they are also arguably the most controversial education reform in America’s history. In Building the Machine, Home School Legal Defense Association and Distant Moon Media Group team up to bring you a fast-paced behind-the-scenes tour of the Common Core: how it was developed, who’s paying for it, and how it’s rapidly turning into a set of national standards.

“The federal takeover involved no teacher or parent input,” reports the Huffington Post.

“I’m trying to think of something analogous to this—that slipped through so easily on a national basis—and I really can’t,” wonders Dr. Andrew Hacker, a political scientist at Queens College CUNY.

“The biggest misperception that Common Core proponents push on people is that there is any evidence that a system like Common Core will benefit children,” says Joy Pullmann, research fellow at the Heartland Institute.

“It takes power from the parent,” Pioneer Institute Executive Director Jim Stergios says, “and de-incentivizes the parent from a deep and abiding interest in their child’s education.”

“People need to know about the Common Core,” states Dr. Michael McShane, research fellow at American Enterprise Institute, “because standards undergird everything in the education system.”

This documentary uncovers truths you won’t be told by the mainstream media.

Will the Common Core State Standards lead to higher achievement or they will dumb down the curriculum—and our students? Where is the research to show they will work? And what impact will they have on not only public schools, but private schools and homeschools as well?

This is a story about American’s future, reform, hidden agendas, and the battle for our children’s education. Don’t miss it!

Watch the trailer >>

Tags: AMERICA, Building the Machine., Common Core, Cscope, Federal Takeover, HOMESCHOOLING, HSLDA, Texas

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CSCOPE-The OBAMACARE of Public Education

Dec 05

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

ObamaCare, CSCOPE both beyond fixing

By Bill Ames

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Americans increasingly realize that Obamacare is not about providing quality healthcare for all Americans. Its creators could care less. Rather, it is about a progressive power grab,structured to gain control over a large chunk of the U. S. economy. Likewise for CSCOPE, a thinly disguised Common Core methodology being used across Texas, despite the fact the Texas Legislature has banned Common Core in Texas.

Obamacare is about a group of elitists who believe they know what is best for us, because we citizens are too dumb to know what is best for ourselves. For this reason, there is no hope to fix Obamacare. Its creators are so determined to reach their goal that the compromises to allow a reasonable health care program are impossible.

Likewise for CSCOPE. It is a thinly disguised implementation of common core methodology, in spite of the fact that the Texas legislature has banned common core in Texas.

And like Obamacare, the CSCOPE juggernaut is comprised of elitists who think they know what is best for our kids, and who much prefer to trashing their opposition than considering compromise.

Recently, chief common core (and its little brother CSCOPE) cheerleader Arne Duncan (below, left,) head of the U. S. Department of Education, trashed his critics, branding them as “angry white suburban moms.” This top-down arrogant attitude permeates through Texas’ education establishment:

The Education Service Center personnel that created and defended their bizarre lesson plans
The liberal-leaning Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) and the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB)
A couple of RINO members of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE,) and
Rogue School Boards, Superintendents and School District Curriculum writers who ignore parents while embracing Mr. Duncan’s arrogance with the attitude, “we’ll teach students whatever we choose, and the tax-paying community be damned”.

obama arne duncan education Due to this deep-seated bias, both Obamacare and CSCOPE are both beyond fixing.

CSCOPE IS NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH SBOE ADOPTED STANDARDS

CSCOPE critics have done admirable work in exposing lesson plans that reveal CSCOPE as anti-American, anti-Christian, and a rogue implementation of the legislatively-banned common core philosophy in Texas.

But CSCOPE proponents publicly claim its lesson plans are aligned with the SBOE-adopted TEKS.

The pro-CSCOPE folks are wrong.

Yes, the CSCOPE lesson plans that categorized Boston Tea Party patriots as terrorists, and Islamic 911 terrorists as freedom fighters, have been quietly removed from the CSCOPE arsenal. But those lessons have been replaced by more subtle and clever ways to indoctrinate Texas’ students.

As a CSCOPE volunteer lesson plan reviewer, I recently reviewed eleven CSCOPE U. S. history lessons. My past experience gives me a wealth of knowledge regarding TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) content and curriculum evaluations.

For more CSCOPE Analysis: SBOE’s Tincy Miller Talks CSCOPE, Politics & Children’s Textbook Fund

The original TEKS standards document proposed by a leftist-biased review panel in the fall of 2009 was so far removed from mainstream Texans to be unacceptable. The balancing amendments adopted by the SBOE in 2010 reversed the bias and defeated the left’s war on history.

Beginning with the first lesson I reviewed, it became evident that the CSCOPE lesson plan authors focused on including the politically correct, biased portions of the TEKS, while omitting those that did not contribute to their leftist ideology.

Quin Hillyer Christmas WWII

A summary of examples follows. In the interest of brevity, only a summary of the most egregious TEKS compliance violations are included.

WORLD WAR II

– Only one 50 minute period, out of a seven period module, was spent covering the key events of WWII: Midway, the Pacific theatre, Normandy, the Bataan Death March, liberation of concentration camps, the development of atomic weapons.

– Nearly as much class time was devoted to the (multicultural) contribution of the Navajo code talkers.

– Japanese internment was well covered (implied American racism), while German and Italian internments (national security) were ignored.

– A referenced biography of President Roosevelt includes the phrase, “Today the Obama Administration continues to protect and ensure Social Security will be there for future generations.”

– The WWII lesson plans are taken to a laughable extreme in classroom time-wasting, by assigning students to write acrostic (look up that one) poems using the last names of WWII leaders and significant groups.

POST-WWII ECONOMIC PROSPERITY

– In a typical example of ignoring America’s positives, this lesson ignores a TEKS requirement to study the growth of agriculture and business, and how both contributed to the emergence of the United States as a world economic power.

– Also missing was the TEKS requirement to address America’s scientific discoveries, technological innovations, and the benefits of the free enterprise system.

– Rather, students were assigned to “create a song, poem, or mural, reflecting the late 1940s and 1950s”. Really!

END OF THE COLD WAR

– There is ample study of divided countries (Germany and Korea), but no comparison of the economic outcomes of West/East Germany and South/North Korea. I suggested adding the famous night satellite photo of North/South Korea be added to the lesson.

– The Venona papers, that revealed communist infiltration of the FDR/Truman administrations, were ignored.

SIGNIFICANT LEADERS, EVENTS, ISSUES AND POLICIES

– This module ignored the unintended consequences of the Great Society programs: Paying welfare mothers to have additional out-of-wedlock babies, and preventing the father from living in the welfare-subsidized home, thus creating the inevitable inner city poverty and crime associated with single parent families.

– Also ignored was the reality that the Democrat Party (Southern Congressmen and state governors) made up the primary resistance to civil rights legislation.

FOREIGN POLICY AND IMPORTANT EVENTS

– The anarchy, violence, and anti-American extremism of Vietnam-era radical protestors is not addressed.

DOMESTIC POLICY AND IMPORTANT EVENTS

– A student handout of icons depicting the Bill of Rights characterizes the 2nd Amendment as protection for hunters’ rights.

SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE, ISSUES, AND EVENTS

– Ignores the “conservative resurgence” of the 1980s and 1990s.

– Ignores discussion of achieving the American Dream.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

– Lesson ignores the TEKS requirement to “Evaluate efforts by Global Organizations to undermine U. S. sovereignty through us of treaties”.

POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL ISSUES

– No mention of the effects of 12-20 million illegal immigrants.

CONCLUSION – LESSON PLANS ANALYSIS

A significant question asked to each lesson plan reviewer reads,

“Does this lesson cover the TEKS indicated therein as being applicable to this lesson?”

My answer to each of the eleven lessons was “no”.

It is instructive to note that each of the other three reviewers who submitted responses for these lessons answered “yes” to this question for each of the eleven lessons. Upon questioning the facilitator for my group, she acknowledged that each reviewer had a lesser knowledge than I of the TEKS involved, and also performed a less rigorous analysis of TEKS coverage of the lessons.

I fear that this defect may be true across all 400 lessons, and if so, casts serious suspicions regarding the validity of this whole CSCOPE review exercise.

IN ADDITION TO CONTENT, THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT FLAWS IN THE CSCOPE INSTRUCTION MODEL

When most of the folks who read this were in 11th Grade, the instruction model included the teacher as the classroom authority, teaching lessons from a textbook that had been thoroughly vetted and reviewed by hundreds of citizens during a textbook review and adoption process. NOcscope This is no longer the case.

The Project Based Learning model, a key element of CSCOPE and common core methodology, has replaced the traditional instruction model.

THE TEACHER IS NO LONGER THE CLASSROOM AUTHORITY

The TASA-produced CSCOPE/Common Core visioning document states, “Students are not just consumers of knowledge, they are creators of knowledge as well.” And from my own district’s visioning document (Richardson ISD), “Students are given choices regarding what they learn”.

For more on CSCOPE’s Project-Based Learning, read Bill Ames: A Series on CSCOPE, Part 3: Common Core, Project Based Learning Damages Texas Students

The Project based Learning model de-emphasizes the presentation of academic facts to the students. The concept of “whole class instruction” no longer exists in the CSCOPE world.

Instead, students reach their own conclusions through the use of Project-Based Learning assignments. The lesson plan includes little or no provision for the teacher to act as classroom authority, to correct any false student conclusions that may be based upon feelings and emotions rather than academic facts.

STUDENT RESEARCH MATERIALS ARE UN-VETTED AND UN-REVIEWED

Un-vetted, un-reviewed information sources are provided for student research. Sources for student research are not defined in the CSCOPE lessons.

For good and valid reasons, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) has traditionally conducted extensive textbook reviews. Books that go through that process are thoroughly reviewed and vetted: By citizens, parents, teachers, and taxpayers, for errors and biased material. The vetted textbooks then become source materials for student learning.

Conversely, the selection process for CSCOPE research materials appears to be at the discretion of the local school district’s administrators, and subject to the ideology of those individuals. At any rate, the materials are not reviewed nor vetted by the local community. This should be a concern for all.

TEACHER AS FACILITATOR, COMBINED WITH BIASED RESEARCH MATERIALS, LEADS TO STUDENT INDOCTRINATION

The combination of not presenting academic facts, along with providing un-vetted, un-researched, ideology-biased student research materials, is the perfect recipe for an education establishment committed to indoctrinating Texas’ students with its socialist ideology.

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION CSCOPE REVIEW COMMITTEE – NO POSITION ON CSCOPE

Unfortunately, the SBOE Ad Hoc CSCOPE Review Committee has elected to take no position regarding the CSCOPE lesson plans. This position reflects a change from the past … from a mainstream, conservative SBOE institution, to one that provides a platform for leftist encroachment on our students’ curriculum. It is wrong.

Given the absence of classroom academic authority, un-vetted research materials, added to the selective implementation of the TEKS as previously described, the only rational conclusion is that CSCOPE, like Obamacare, should be banned in Texas.

Bill Ames is an education activist who lives in Dallas. His book, “TEXAS TROUNCES THE LEFT’S WAR ON HISTORY” (WNAenterprises.com) tells the story of his experience in developing Texas’ U. S. history standard in 2009-2010. He recently reviewed CSCOPE lessons as part of the State Board of Education’s Ad Hoc Committee Project, and is available to deliver presentations to interested groups. He welcomes reader comments at billames@prodigy.net.

Tags: 81st Texas Legislature, Bill Ames, Common Core, Communist, CORRUPTION, Cscope, Education, esc's, money, Obama, Socialist, Texas Education Service Centers, TEXAS INSIDER

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Reknown Science Author Janice VanCleave on Texas Education

Dec 02

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

Well known Science Author is a former Texas teacher turned science author of 50+ experiment books. Janice VanCleave discovered the controversial Texas curriculum CSCOPE while tutoring children in her local community.

VanCleave was the a guest on Alice Linahan’s Women on the Wall program this morning. She exposes the corruption taking place in Texas School districts today that is costing tax payers thousands to millions of dollars as with the consulting firm “Lead Your School” . She also exposes the fact that teachers are being manipulated and controlled by administrators.

Tags: Alice Linahan, Education, Lead Your School, Mary Ann Whitaker, Mike Laird, Sean Cain, Texas, Women on the Wall

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Texas School Administrators Controlling and Manipulating Teachers! Students Suffer!

Nov 30

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

Who is Leading Your School?

by Janice VanCleave

www.txcscopereview.com

Texas is known for having Independent School Districts. Independent school district is an oxymoron. In the past the community was involved in the schools their children attended. Parents assisted when there were special programs.

As a science teacher, I often asked for parent volunteers if I was going to make a science field trip. In the late 70s, I taught science in Hudson ISD. A small school district near Lufkin, Texas. I was one of two science teachers and we decided to take students on a Saturday field trip to mine for minerals nearby. The school had a free bus but no bus driver. No problem, I took the necessary training and became a licensed school bus driver. So one Saturday we loaded up the bus with interested kids and parents and off we went. The materials we found displayed and discussed in our classes the following week. Not every class was studying rocks and minerals but kids who went on the field trip were allowed to share their experiences with students in their science class. I don’t remember what we found but the kids considered them valuable.

One day a student brought a very large tarantula spider to class. He had purchased it at a pet store. This was a shy student and was not very popular. But the spider may have changed his life. To the amazement of everyone, including me, he put his hand in the cage and allowed the spider to climb up his arm around his neck and down his other arm. The girls squealed. The guys just stood back, but did not offer to let the spider get on them. The boy moved up in the social pecking order that day. The students learned a great deal about Tarantula’s and the administration was supportive. Could this happen today in Hudson ISD ? I doubt it.

The administrators of the majority of Texas Public schools are spending money on programs that have little to do with the basics–reading, writing and arithmetic. Instead, teachers are subjected to different programs designed to fix all education problems; CSCOPE: provide a one-size-fits all program so that every student is equally educated; Lead Your School: The Fundamental 5 provides a formula for quality instruction in every classroom; Capture Kid’s Hearts, claim that if you have a kid’s heart you have the kid’s head.

Each of these programs cost a lot of money –hundreds of thousands and in some cases millions over a short time period. Classrooms are papered, not with educational posters but with posters from each of the different programs, such as what a student should say instead of, “I don’t know that.” If a student is not behaving, the teacher is suppose to ask, “What are you doing?” Student is to stop hitting another student in the head and say, “I am smashing this kid in the face with my fist.” To this the teacher says, “What should you be doing?” In response the student says.”Writing the formulas for chemical compounds.” And so forth——–This is how discipline is handled.

Why are superintendents and school board members using education funds to bring in private consultant groups to train their teachers? Lead Your School is the name of a consulting group that administrators are paying with title funds. As previously mentioned, Marlin ISD has paid over $150 thousand dollars to Lead Your School for professional development. This is interesting since this same school district still purchases the remnants of the CSCOPE managing System, which also has professional development. Both CSCOPE and Lead Your School have specific things that teachers MUST do each school day. In fact, monitors come into classrooms to make sure the teacher is following the regimented plans of CSCOPE as well as the Fundamental Five Formula from Lead Your School. These are two separate organizations with separate dictated programs for teachers to follow. What the public is not being told is that teachers are resigning from public schools–some find positions in private schools, some just get out. The administration in Marlin ISD was not upset when 3/4 of its staff resigned at the end of the 2012-2013 school year. Teachers who were not willing to be submissive to the program were not wanted. Actually, quality teachers are not wanted. Veteran teachers are especially vilified throughout the schools using CSCOPE and Lead Your School program.

I have pondered on why administrators are so blatantly misusing the education money they have been trusted with. Are they supporting each other? By this I mean that administrators are starting consulting groups which hire retiring administrators. “I’ll scratch your back if you will scratch mine.”

The CSCOPE Instruction Material that was purchased by about 80% of Texas Public schools had never been evaluated. The program had no documented results that it was effective, yet Texas school superintendents chose to not purchase text books and payed a subscription fee to the Texas Education Service Centers for CSCOPE materials instead. CSCOPE monitors were hired to make walkthroughs of classrooms to make sure teachers were following the CSCOPE schedule.

Now in addition to CSCOPE monitoring, administrators are paying the Lead Your School group–another group without any accountability–that charges a lot of money to train teachers to use five steps in designing their lessons every day. More monitoring–now the walkthroughs are called POWERWALKS– Teachers are to be on the CSCOPE schedule, have the TEKS for the day written on the board, have the Fundamental 5 objective written in a specific place on the board, etc………….. With the fundamental 5 formula teachers are also to be in the PowerZone. Any teacher caught standing in front of the class giving directions to the entire class would be written up. Any teacher caught sitting at his/her desk without students surrounding the desk would be written up. Teachers are to be roaming around the room, helping individual students who are in groups. There are actual pictures in a book showing where teachers should be when the observer makes his/her powerwalk through the classroom. Some observers bring cameras and take photos to document errors.

The material used by the Lead Your School group is a book written by Sean Cain and Mike Laird calledThe Fundamental Five: The Formula for Quality Instruction. These authors present a formula containing 5 practices that must be used in every lesson every day. It is very possible that many superintendents and principals do not recognize these practices as something that any teacher worth his/her salt is already doing. This is because many superintendents and principals were coaches are athletic directors. In Cain’s book is is a description of teachers sitting behind their desk sending emails or doing something that doesn’t include the students. The student assignment being to read the text book and answer the questions at the end of the chapter. This is the description given of teachers who are not properly supervised–who do not have powerwalkers checking to make sure they are following the five fundamental processes.

The Lead Your School Program as well as the CSCOPE Instructional Program promotes the ideas that:

teachers are lazy and slothful
teachers only do their job if they are constantly being monitored and evaluated
teachers don’t have the skills to provide quality instructions, thus they need CSCOPE scripted lessons as well as the fundamental 5 formula
no matter the success of a teacher, they must switch to the fundamental 5 formula process if they are to be rated as a good teacher

One would think the fundamental 5 formula would be some new revolution. The five steps are below. What is new is that school administrators are being allowed to force teachers to either shape up and follow the steps or ship out.

1. Frame the Lesson –Write the objective of the lesson on the board.

2. Work in the Power Zone–Where teacher can be within the room—anywhere except in a position that denotes authority.

3. Students in Frequent, Small-Group, Purposeful Talk about the Learning— There is the assumption that students are well disciplined and spend each second of the class period absorbing and giving out information directly related to the objective of the day. That students can form groups and have meaningful exchange of information and then be alert and ready for the next drop of information that they are hungering to receive.

4. Recognize and Reinforce–In other words, sum up the lesson–teach and reteach. An exchange between the teacher and student or even better–a flip class would be that students provide a summary for the class.

5. Students are to Write Critically–Sum up the lesson. Students are to consolidate the information from group discussions and whatever the teacher presents and write up a summary in their own words.

Every teacher in every subject must use this same order to design lessons for every day. Powerwalkers will be around to determine if teachers are doing this. Powerwalkers have to be paid–thus more money spent on making sure that teachers follow the dictated program.

Another premise for the CSCOPE as well as Fundamental 5 formula is that students attend trade schools because they have not been trained by a quality teacher. All students have the ability to learn, it is the fault of teachers that they do not. Lead Your School compares an average teacher with a good teacher. The good teacher uses the fundamental 5 formula consistently, with high-frequency and high-quality every day.

With instructional practices other than the fundamental 5 formula, students are forced to attend trade schools or community colleges or a state university. Following is an excerpt from The Fundamental Five by Cain. Notice that anything less than going to an Ivy League school indicates an education by poor teachers, those not following the fundamental five formula. Also notice that the quality of a students education is decided by teachers and there no mention of student responsibility.

Is Sean Cain a graduate of an Ivy League School? While Cain considers those attending a trade school as being improperly educated, he will not be calling an Ivy League graduate when he needs a plumber.

The Sean Marcus Cain holding the Teaching Certification shown has a lot of managing certifications but his only teacher training is in generic special education. If this is the record for Sean Cain, the author of The Fundamental Five, are we to assume that all of his special education students hold Ivy League degrees?

I object to any program that degrades trade schools or community colleges.

I object to any program that is presented as being the only way a person can be a good teacher.

I object to administrators who purchase and subject their teachers to such programs. These administrators need to justify this expenditure. These administrators need to be accountable for the purchases they make. Is there a reason that school superintendents are moving from one school district to another? Are they purchases materials and moving on? If so, why?

It is time for communities to set up a few powerwalks through the offices of school superintendents and other school administrators offices. There is a new scam in education–technology supervisors. Who is the technology supervisor in your school district? What are their certifications? What is their job description?

Tags: Administrators, Control, CRACK THE WHIP, Cscope, Fundamental 5, Lead Your School, Marxism, Teachers, Texas

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George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

Nov 28

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

Thanksgiving Proclamation

Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789

By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and—Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favor, able interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other trangressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

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ORE CITY ISD Curriculum Director is Progressive

Nov 22

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Ore City ISD Curriculum Director Dr.Ray Deason

The fact that Ore City ISD is still utilizing the controversial curriculum CSCOPE was brought to may attention today via twitter. Ore City ISD curriculum director Dr. Ray Deacon tweeted Sean Cain a thumbs up for costing Texas Taxpayers millions of dollars for his “progressive” indoctrination. You can read about Sean Cain and Lead Your School corruption here Why There is no Money for Texas Teachers.

In the tweets below Deason is tweeting Sean Cain @LYSNATION of Lead Your School. Lacks Professionalism I would say.

For a curriculum director of a Texas school district I found Ray Deason’s tweet to be immature. No only does Deason not give a care that millions of dollars are wasted but he has also shown a lack of concern for parents that are concerned about the progressive Marxist philosophy behind CSCOPE aka TEKS Resource System. Below is a post Deason left on my blog last June. Progressives will stop at nothing in accomplishing their goal and Deason is a prime example.

If you disagree with Deasons progressive ideology in our Texas schools email him and let him know @

Tags: Club, Dr. Ray Deacon, Lead Your School, Million, money, Ore City ISD, Sean Cain, Texas, Tweeter, twitter, Waste

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Why There is no Money for Texas Teachers!

Nov 21

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

You constantly hear that there isn’t enough funding for education. That is a BIG LIE! There is no problem with funding there is a major problem with with how those funds are spent! Your have Texas ISD spending thousands on a yearly bases leasing the controversial curriculum CSCOPE. Combined Texas school superintendents spend millions funding the progressive associations Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) and Texas Association of School Board (TASB), two associations whose agenda is a education reform and implementing radical transformation in Texas Schools! These two groups also have offices a couple of blocks from the Texas Capital and lobby the Texas legislature for more progressive policies and money. Yes they fund these two groups with TAXPAYER MONEY!!

We also have school districts hiring an outside company called “Lead Your School” (LYS) for a great cost. LYS comes in to the school and trains administrators and teachers how to change their teaching techniques along with implementing “Power Walks” aka walkthroughs. These walkthroughs are nothing more than having observers coming into the teachers classroom frequently to assure they are on task of totally transforming the way they teach. Talk about disrupting a classroom!! Teachers HATE IT!!

Marlin Independent School District teamed up with “Lead Your School” in 2011 at a cost of between $53,000 -71,000. How is Marlin doing after this so called wonderful professional development? Marlin ISD is the worst school in the state of Texas. Students are bused off to another local school and teachers have left the school in droves.

Waco ISD hired LYS for a cost of $1.6M Invoices &Checks

Mesquite ISD hired LYS for a cost of $780,000.

Tidehave ISD hired LYS for a cost of $34,400

Manor ISD hired LYS for a cost of over a Million

There are many more district in Texas that has paid these astronomical fees and continue to do so.

Lead Your School owned and operated by Sean Cain .

Lead Your School is the assumed name for “Blue Daisy Consulting” owned by his wife Lesa Cain.

Lead Your School’s official business address is 124365 FM 1960, #124. I drove to see this wonderful office where millions of taxpayer funds are being mailed and found Lead Your School’s official address to be a Postal Center.

Below is a video of what Texas ISD’s are paying up in the millions for. Wake up Texas!!

A comment in a local paper regarding Lead Your School.

Sean Cain is also the author of one of the stupidest propaganda ridden books I have ever read. “Look At Me”

In the book Sean is the “Prince” that has such wonderful news for school districts only if the Ranking Officials (school board) welcomes the Prince.

Below is an excerpt from his book.

Once upon a time a moronic king decided that supporting the schools that educated the children of his subjects would be too much of a burden for himself and his rich friends. And so he closed the royal coffers and school funding slowed down to but a trickle.

Due to the king’s actions, many schools in his land were in despair. The humble teaches and earnest principal’s cried out to the townsfolk and villagers to take up their cause. But the ears of these people were as deaf to the needs of schools and school children as the head of the king was empty.

Most teachers and principals resigned themselves to the fact that the promise of success and reward had withered and died. Many left their schools. Those who remained toiled in misery.

All I can say is, Unbelievable!

Tags: Blue Daisy Consulting, Education, Lead Your School, Lesa Cain, Manor ISD, Marlin ISD, Mesquite ISD, Millions, Powerwalks, Sean Cain, TASA, TASB, Taxpayers, Texas, Tidehaven ISD

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ACTION NEEDED!! Please Call Texas Your Texas State Board of Education Members!!

Nov 20

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Patriots Needed!!

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Please call your State Board of Education Member and tell them to reject the following Textbooks

If you don’t know who represents you go Here

Email Address and Phone Numbers of Board Members

Title: Environmental Science (It has reported to me that this book is horrible and filled with progressive propaganda)
Subject: Environmental Systems
Grade: High School
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt

ALL the Discovery Education, Inc online instructional materials.

Title: Science Techbook
Subject: Science
Grade: K thru 8
Publisher: Discovery Education, Inc.

Title: Science Techbook
Subject: Biology
Grade: High School
Publisher: Discovery Education, Inc.

Title: Science Techbook
Subject: Chemistry
Grade: High School
Publisher: Discovery Education, Inc.

Title: Science Techbook
Subject: Physics
Grade: High School
Publisher: Discovery Education, Inc.

Title: Science Techbook
Subject: Earth & Space Science
Grade: High School
Publisher: Discovery Education, Inc.

I would like to send out a BIG THANK YOU to concerned mom Kara Sands and Becky Berger who is running for Texas Railroad Commissioner for their hard work in investigating the textbooks up for review and a vote by the Texas State Board of Education.

Tags: Becky Berger, Discovery Education, Education, Enviromental Science, Harcourt, Houghton, Inc., Kara Sands, Mifflin, Railroad Commissioner, SBOE, Texas

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A Series on CSCOPE, Part 4: Common Core is Cumulative of 100+ Years of Old Ideas

Nov 20

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Digging Deeper For The Sake of Texas Children

By Cathy Wells & Ms. Mac (Jeanine McGregor)

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Got a shovel? During the September SBOE meeting, a pro-CSCOPE lackey credited Dr. Jim Barufaldi, a UT professor, for the “invaluable” 5E formula wrapped around CSCOPE lessons. 5E is defined as: Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend/Elaborate, Evaluate. Sounds good, but …

Let’s Up the Ante. Have you witnessed the best Texas teachers? They:

Capture their students’ attention;
Connect for deeper understanding;
Clarify words, items, steps when needed;
Challenge students to reach higher;
Communicate the need for common-sense;
Champion individual merit;
Commit to common courtesy for all;
Collaborate, first, with the student and parent;
Condemn ignorance;
Confirm truth, sources and accuracy;
Congeal ill-defined goals;
Conquer red-tape;
Contact experts;
Captivate listeners;
Counterbalance disrespect;
Crave learning as an example for others;
Crown each student’s improvement and drive;
Coach the hesitant;
Curb inefficiency;
Cycle reinforcement;
Contribute true American & Texas values;
Cultivate the best opportunities;
Correct when needed; and
Continue digging!

That’s 24 C’s and counting!

Our digging reveals that behind Prof. Barufaldi, who is also known for his collectivistic classroom approach, stands the progressive behaviorist, John Dewey, the first “E” promoter. The following article by Cathy Wells reveals how deep the CSCOPE roots go!

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Dewey Back from the Grave?

By Cathy Wells

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Since the inception of our nation, there has been a push to use public education to indoctrinate our children with socialist ideals. From Robert Owen, the father of socialism, to the current CSCOPE and Common Core standards, socialist philosophy is front and center in the pedagogical world.

John Dewey, a secular humanist and leftist who is rightly called “The Father of Modern Education,” was no different. Dewey’s philosophies and ideas, like those before him, were grounded in behavioral psychology and a break from traditional values in education. Dewey wrote the following in his 1898 essay, “The Primary Education Fetish:”

“There is… a false education god whose idolaters are legion, and whose cult influences the entire educational system. This is language study…it is almost an unquestioned assumption…that the first three years of a child’s school life shall be mainly taken up with learning to read and write his own language…the great importance attaching to literature seems to me a perversion.”

Clearly, Dewey took issue with the traditional “ 3 Rs” instruction model. Similarly, Dewey had a disdain for the typical role of the teacher in a classroom. Dewey saw the teacher not as an older and wiser person from whom a student could glean wisdom but as a facilitator and guide.

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Sound familiar? It should. Because what we are now seeing in the educational realm, particularly in CSCOPE and Common Core, is merely a regurgitation of ideas that are over 100 years old.

It is also interesting to note Dewey’s ideas about the purpose of education. Any of us who purport to educate a child ought to ask ourselves, after all, what it is we hope to achieve. Here are Dewey’s thoughts, taken from “My Pedagogic Creed:”

“The school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends.”

I personally cannot think of a better example of socialism finding a comfortable home in education.

In terms of economic philosophy, Dewey was extremely left-leaning. He headed up several leftist, socialist organizations and clubs and had a definite focus on the child as a function of a larger social unit. The focus that we see today in CSCOPE and Common Core on socialist philosophy and thought is no accident. It has been quietly fomenting for a century.

As William Brooks notes in his article Was Dewey a Marxist?,

“Dewey asserted that in the school “individualism and socialism are at one” and it was “especially necessary to take the broader view” over the narrow and acquisitive course. Like Marx, Dewey informed his readers that inevitable changes were forthcoming in the “modes of industry and commerce” and, again like Marx, Dewey was convinced that his predictions were based on scientific laws generated through the methods of dialectical materialism.

Indeed, in one of his later works, Dewey was very forthright in declaring that “we are in for some kind of socialism, call it whatever name we please, and no matter what it will be called when it is realized, economic determinism is now a fact not a theory.”

In the light of his convictions, Dewey sought to conceive a new philosophy of education. Dewey’s school would be intricately connected with the unfolding of materialist history or as Dewey put it “part and parcel of the whole social evolution.”

Another aspect of Dewey’s background that greatly influenced his educational strategies and, thus, ours today, was his close association with behavioral psychology.

Dewey had been mentored by G. Stanley Hall who in turn had studied the burgeoning new field of behavioral psychology in Leipzig, Germany, the birthplace and nucleus of behavioral psychological theory and research and home of Wilhelm Wundt, the father of behavioral psychology.

What is behavioral psychology and what has it to do with education? Paolo Lionni notes the following in his book The Leipzig Connection, about Wundt’s views on “education:”

“…the individual will learn to respond to any given stimulus, with the “correct” response. The child is not, for example, thought capable of volitional control over his actions, or of deciding whether he will act or not act in a certain way; his actions are thought to be preconditioned and beyond his control, he is a stimulus- response mechanism.

“According to this thinking, he is his reactions. Wundt’s thesis laid the philosophical basis for:

the principles of conditioning later developed by Pavlov (who studied physiology in Leipzig in 1884, five years after Wundt had inaugurated his laboratory there)

American behavioral psychologists such as Watson and Skinner;

for laboratories and electroconvulsive therapy;

for schools oriented more toward socialization of the child than toward the development of intellect;

and for the emergence of a society more and more blatantly devoted to the gratification of sensory desire at the expense of responsibility and achievement.”

Lionni notes that Dewey, as a true behavioral psychologist, “believed that learning occurred only through experience, that the stimulus-response mechanism was basic to learning, and that teachers were not instructors, but designers of learning experiences.”

Dewey adherence to the principles of behavioral psychology greatly influenced his views on the purpose of school. As Charlotte Iserbyt notes in her excellent book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America,

Charlotte Iserbyt “Dewey’s recommendation was indeed radical: build the curriculum not around academic subjects but around occupational activities which provided maximum opportunities for peer interaction and socialization. Since the beginning of Western civilization, the school curriculum was centered around the development of academic skills, the intellectual faculties, and high literacy.

Dewey wanted to change all of that. Why? Because high literacy produced that abominable form of independent intelligence which was basically, as Dewey believed, anti-social.”

In short, Dewey’s behavioral psychology background not only influenced schools of his day but stretches forth to the present, causing students to be looked at not as autonomous human beings but as malleable cogs in a greater societal wheel.

Finally, we will examine Dewey’s views on faith, God and man. In 1897 in My Pedagogic Creed, Dewey wrote,

“The teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usher of the true kingdom of God.”

Despite his strict religious upbringing, Dewey had, like many philosophers of his day, abandoned his belief in a deity. In fact, Dewey co-authored the Humanist Manifesto I which stated, in part,

“The basis of humanist belief is that there is no Almighty God, the Creator and Sustainer of life. Humanists believe that man is his own god. They believe that moral values are relative, devised according to the needs of particular people, and that ethics are likewise situational.”

As we lament the lack of ethical instruction or emphasis in today’s schools, the moral relativism and secular humanism, we can look backward at the “father” of our educational system and give a nod to his influence.

Lest we think that Dewey is simply a dead philosopher whose ideas don’t matter, it is important to note that commentators confess that his ideas have figured most prominently in American education for the last century. No other ideologue has had as much influence as Dewey. And while the philosophies might be renamed or repackaged, they remain static.

There is now, and has been for a long time, a move to creating “global citizens,” “social thinkers,” and “teacher guides.” Cathy Wells, CSCOPE Article Common Core and CSCOPE are merely the culmination of a century of honing an idea that rejects traditionalism and faith and tries to implement instead a progressive notion of man as God and the state as a family.

Cathy Wells (right) is a NorthTexas wife, mother, educational historian, private tutor & school instructor, freelance writer and Constitutionalist.

SERIES EDITOR Jeanine McGregor (left,) known to most in the Texas Education Debate as ”Ms. Mac”, is an Award-Winning Teacher, an educational researcher, and an author-publisher as CEO of Character of American Productions. She is also producer of Ms. Mac’s Schoolhouse, and the innovative “Ms. Mac TV” Program.

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A Series on CSCOPE, Part 3: Common Core, Project Based Learning Damages Texas Students.

Nov 20

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Students indoctrinated with false, biased information

By Bill Ames & Jeanine McGregor

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – CSCOPE creators have used their original “buzz words” over and over, as well as a few borrowed in order to either intimidate or establish their expertise with ‘new and progressive’ approaches. As you read the following article on Project-Based Learning, reflect on your own group experiences in school. Most had someone doing all the work, while uninterested, unmotivated and uninformed freeloaders shared the ~~wealth~~ grade.

An Introduction: by Jeanine McGregor:

A book entitled “Winning Through Intimidation” discusses a very powerful tool – the establishment of your own terminology. Throw uncommon words around. People, in fear of revealing their ignorance, will rarely ask for a clear definition.

When you own the terminology, you own the conversation. When you own the conversation, you own the argument.

A few include:

21st Century Skills
Rigor
5E’s
Inquiry-Discovery
YAG
VAD
IFD, and of course
Project-Based Learning

Most are a new coat of paint on what we all observed in past classrooms: Skills that matched the times, challenging work, research papers, teachers’ lesson plans, and group work. The difference is, these new terms hide objectives of the liberal-nature … social engineering.

When experts (resourced textbooks and experienced teachers) standards (well-defined high expectations) and individual effort and merit are eliminated then it is easier to push equal outcome; a drone society.

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Common Core, Project Based Learning damages Texas students

Students indoctrinated with false, biased information

By Bill Ames

A front page headline on the October 3, 2013 Wall Street Journal reads, “U. S. Rises to No. 1 Energy Producer”.

The article text includes:

“U. S. energy output has been surging in recent years, a comeback fueled by shale-rock formations of oil and natural gas that was unimaginable a decade ago. A Wall Street Journal analysis of global data shows that the U. S. is on track to pass Russia as the world’s largest producer for oil and gas combined this year – if it hasn’t already.”

Unfortunately, this positive message, thought by many to be of equal importance to America’s future as was President Reagan’s ending of the cold war, is not taught in the Dallas-area Richardson ISD. Rather, RISD seems content to Arne Duncan obama2 indoctrinate students with the tired, radical environmentalist view that promotes the leftist ideology that fossil fuels are evil.

Such a campaign of misinformation and indoctrination is the result of a methodology called “Project-Based Learning”, an approach promoted by the proponents of the infamous, one-size-fits-all common core national education curriculum foisted upon America’s unsuspecting citizens by President Obama’s Department of Education.

In project based learning, the classroom teacher is no longer the authority for academic facts. Rather, according to the Richardson ISD “vision”, “students are given choices regarding what they learn”.

Project based learning is a concept clearly called out for “continued implementation” in Richardson ISD’s district improvement plan for the 2013-2014 school year.

What is the impact of ”Project-Based Learning” on our students?

On April 22, 2013, I attended an event for citizens who live in the Richardson ISD area. The intent was to promote the district to its residents. One stop was a visit to the 4th grade class at the Brentfield elementary school.

The students were busy, working alone with their IPODS. I sat down with a little guy who was studying energy policy SBOE1 and the environment.

I noticed that his source for the lesson was a liberal-biased publication, Time magazine for Kids. Unlike state-approved textbooks, that traditionally have been reviewed and vetted by hundreds of citizens, parents, taxpayers, and teachers, and then approved by the Texas State Board of Education for use in public schools, sources such as Time Magazine for Kids are simply chosen by administrators in the school district.

The menu of “choices” for student research in the district becomes nothing more than a function of the ideology of those making the selection.

I asked the child, “What do you think of oil companies?”

His 9-year-old knee-jerk response was, “Oil companies are bad. They extract oil from the Earth”.

Further, he volunteered , “All fuel in our gas tanks should be 100% ethanol.”

Another visioning document, this from the common core-promoting Texas Association of School Administrators, tells us, “Students are not just consumers of knowledge, they are creators of knowledge as well.”

So this little guy, who is being exposed to incorrect, biased, and unvetted information, is allowed to believe the information that is being fed to him.

Remember, in the common core visioning environment, teachers are simply facilitators, rather than the classroom authority and presenter of facts. So no one will tell this child the facts: that energy costs to produce a gallon of ethanol exceed the energy available from that gallon.

And, no one will tell this child the economic realities as revealed in the Wall Street Journal, that due to rapidly improving technologies of fracking, and in general locating and extracting oil and gas, the United States is poised to not oil & gas texas fields only surpass Middle East and Russian production, but to create domestic reserves for the foreseeable future.

In short, this child is being indoctrinated with biased information, that is unvetted and unreviewed. What is the potential damage to this nine year old child?

Let’s fast forward this little guy’s life by about 11 years.

On May 28, 2013, I attended Congressman Pete Sessions town hall meeting in Richardson, Texas. Outside the meeting hall, I was approached by a young woman in her early twenties.

Her distinguishing characteristics were wrist to shoulder tats, and a prominent nose ring.

The young woman was carrying a “Stop Fracking” sign. I engaged her in conversation. She was adamant that fossil fuel exploration is destroying the Earth’s biodiversity.

The tragedy is that this young woman, due to being brainwashed in some radical academic environment, is virtually unemployable as a professional in mainstream America. Our Brentfield 4th grader is being guided down the same path.

This scenario about common core’s ideological mischief is not an isolated incident.

Recently, a Denton, Texas parent caught the Denton ISD teaching students that the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution gives the right to carry firearms only to members of a state militia. My own review of the CSCOPE 11th Quin Hillyer Christmas WWII grade World War II lesson (CSCOPE is Texas’ educators first step towards common core) reveals undue classroom attention to social engineering subjects such as the Navajo Code talkers, the Tuskegee Airmen, and the Japanese internment.

Only one 50 minute period of the seven period WWII module is allocated for ALL of the key campaigns of the War: the Battle of Midway, the U. S. advancement through the Pacific Islands, The Bataan Death March, the invasion of Normandy, fighting the war on multiple fronts, the liberation of concentration camps, and the development and use of atomic weapons.

Meanwhile, students are assigned a laughable, time-wasting “project” of creating an acrostic poem using the name of events and leaders.

Project based learning, indeed. On January 13, 2010, Texas governor Rick Perry wrote to the U. S. Department of Education, rejecting the implementation of the Common Core curriculum in Texas.

Further, common core was banned in Texas public schools during the 2013 Texas legislature session (House Bill 462).

In spite of opposition by the governor, the Texas legislature, and mainstream Texans, superintendents in the Richardson ISD and across Texas are nevertheless implementing the principles of common core, via the adoption of TASA and local “visioning” initiatives.

The superintendents arrogance represents a war on a broader front….local control.

Local control, a recently much-abused definition, really means that the local community dictates school district policy, and the superintendent and administration are hired to implement that policy.

Local control does NOT mean that local superintendents and administrators teach whatever they please, and the community be damned.

It is time for citizens, parents, and our legislators to step up against school districts that indoctrinate our kids with false ideology, while ignoring the rule of law and academic facts.

Hint for the next legislative session: School districts that insist on implementing common core and project based learning should be denied state funding.

Bill Ames is an education activist who lives in Dallas. His book, Texas Trounces the Left’s war on History (WNAenterprises.com) tells the story of his experience in developing Texas’ U. S. history standard in 2009-2010. He is currently reviewing CSCOPE lessons as part of the State Board of Education’s ad hoc committee project, and is available to deliver presentations to interested groups. He welcomes reader comments at billames@prodigy.net.

SERIES EDITOR Jeanine McGregor, known to most in the Texas Education Debate as ”Ms. Mac”, is an Award-Winning Teacher, an educational researcher, and an author-publisher as CEO of Character of American Productions. She is also producer of Ms. Mac’s Schoolhouse, and the innovative “Ms. Mac TV” Program.

Tags: Bil Ames, Bill Ames, Education, Jeanine McGregor, Ms. Mac, Texas

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Thomas Ratliff the Loser!

Nov 19

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

The Ethics Complaint by Thomas Ratliff against Alice Linahan

May very well have been prompted by this Women On the Wall.org conference call the night before the complaint was filed.

On this call it seems we were hitting the nail on the head.

From exposing what is happening to teachers and students because of the Common Core philosophy of education coming into every classroom in Texas- Public, Private and Charter schools to the financial corruption within the education bureaucracy led by the Ratliff family.

It is a Federal Take Over of Education marketed as 21st Century Learning/Common Core. Some like the Ratliff’s are raking in the money, while our schools are broke and wonderful teachers are leaving. Reports are in Tyler ISD over 45 teachers have left due to CSCOPE.

Over the weekend I received notice that Thomas Ratliff’s ethics complaint against me was Rejected.

While this is a great victory the question becomes what was the motive behind the complaint. Was it to silence a Texas Mom from working to organize other Moms and Dads against CSCOPE Texas’ version of Common Core.

An interesting tactic we have seen from folks like Ratliff is to file an ethics complaint to marginalize opposition in coordination with the mainstream media.

Let’s see if the Fort Worth Star Telegram covers the “Rejection” part of the story. They put this article out on Saturday mentioning myself, Voices Empower and Women On the Wall.

The Ethics Commission vs. Empower Texans: Who’s so nuts?

Here a a copy of the Thomas Ratliff Ethics complaint Rejection letter.

I would like to suggest you join me in REJECTING Thomas Ratliff and the Common Core philosophy of Education that is coming in every corner of Education in America by giving our children back the ”Gift of American Exceptionalism” support Women On the Wall’s latest campaign. #CanISee.

Now is the time to go into your child’s classroom and say……..

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Headline in Longview News-Journal Sunday Morning 11/17/2013

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Tags: Common Core, Cscope, David Dewhurst, Education, Ethics, RATLIFF, SPRING HILL ISD, Texas

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“Bias in School Lessons: Common Core’s Global Warming”

Nov 17

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

CSCOPE & Common Core are riddled with Global Warming Propaganda.

“Bias in School Lessons: Common Core’s Global Warming”

Countered by Henry W. Burke (with introductory comments from Donna Garner)

11.16.13

Instructional materials such as the ones attached to this e-mail have been popping up in Texas elementary classrooms. The content reflects the intent of Common Core Standards — to bias the way children think and to indoctrinate them at an early age to believe in such concepts as environmental extremism, global warming, and climate change.

In a few schools, parents have found that teachers have cut off the bottom part of the worksheets in question so that parents will not see the words “Common Core Standards” printed at the bottom.

When one mother went to her child’s school and said, “#Can I See… my child’s textbook and worksheets, she was told that the above attachments came from MentoringMinds. [For documentation the mother then took a screenshot of the worksheets with her iPhone.]

When the parent contacted MentoringMinds, she was told that the worksheets in question are aligned with the Texas State Board of Education curriculum standards (TEKS) for science. This is incorrect information as explained by Henry W. Burke further on down this page.

(FYI: Here is the contact information for the employee at MentoringMinds: Brittany Dickey, Inside Sales Support, [direct] 855.780.9892 * [p] 800.585.5258 * [f] 800.838.8186
[cid:image007.png@01CCF0B2.A14684E0]<http://www.mentoringminds.com/social> )

Below is Henry W. Burke’s response to the worksheets in question. Please feel free to share this information widely so that people will be prepared to counter the bogus arguments from such publishing companies as MentoringMinds.

Donna Garner

Wgarner1@hot.rr.com

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Response to Mentoring Minds Worksheet on Global Warming

by Henry W. Burke

11.16.13

I will start with the TEKS requirements. In Brittany Dickey’s 11.15.13 letter, she said the “Fuel Facts” page was written to address the following TEKS:

5.7(A) explore the processes that led to the formation of sedimentary rocks and fossil fuels;

5.7(C) identify alternative energy resources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, and biofuels

4.7(C) identify and classify Earth’s renewable resources, including air, plants, water, and animals; and nonrenewable resources, including coal, oil, and natural gas; and the importance of conservation. (tested in 5th)

5.1 (B) make informed choices in the conservation, disposal, and recycling of materials.

The Texas TEKS for Science do not state that global warming exists and is caused by human activities. Of course, students should have a good understanding of renewable and non-renewable resources. Likewise, citizens need to appreciate how to conserve energy and protect our environment.

One of the Mentoring Minds cartoons says the following:

Fossil fuels are not good for the environment. They produce carbon dioxide when burned. Many scientists believe this is causing the Earth to get warmer.

Mentoring Minds has injected their mindset and bias toward global warming into the subject matter. To address their statements, I need to explain some scientific facts.

I am a Civil Engineer who depends upon real, proven science not “junk science.” I served as a Sanitary Engineer in the National Air Pollution Control Administration (NAPCA) from 1968 to 1970.

The global warming proponents needed to create a future catastrophe to gain people’s attention and support. They had to convince enough people that the earth is getting warmer and that man is causing this warming. This is their false reasoning. When man-made global warming raises the earth’s temperature, the earth’s ice would melt and cause catastrophic flooding of the coastal cities.

They started with a known scientific fact (the greenhouse effect) and coupled it with human-caused carbon dioxide to produce a false conclusion. We know that fossil fuels produce carbon dioxide (and other products of combustion) when they are burned. Air pollution control measures have drastically reduced the amount of harmful air pollutants emitted into the atmosphere. America’s air is cleaner as a result of our air pollution control efforts.

The greenhouse effect is real and it helps to regulate the temperature of our planet. The Earth’s greenhouse effect is good because it keeps the Earth warm and makes our planet habitable. Without a natural greenhouse effect, the temperature of the Earth would be about zero degrees F (and look much like Mars) instead of its present 57 ºF.

The basic premise (first assumption) behind global warming is that increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) are causing the Earth’s atmosphere to become warmer. The National Center for Policy Analysis determined:

Over long periods of time, there is no close relationship between CO₂ levels and temperature. The Earth’s average temperature has risen a little less than 1^oC over the past century. Although almost half of this warming occurred before 1940, greenhouse gas emissions began to rise substantially only after the 1950s.

http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/GlobalWarmingPrimer.pdf

The second assumption with global warming is that CO₂ is a poison. I have never seen a health effect study that showed CO₂ was a poison and was harmful to humans. When we were developing air quality criteria documents in NAPCA for the various air pollutants, we would have ridiculed anyone who suggested that carbon dioxide was an air pollutant! CO₂ is not an air pollutant and it is not a poison!

We exhale CO₂ and much of it is taken up by plants. Actually, about 40 % of CO₂ is reabsorbed by plants and trees. The statistics on carbon dioxide emissions usually disregard the percentage that is reabsorbed by plants.

The key to the global warming alarmists’ work is to tie increasing atmospheric temperatures to higher levels of CO₂, but not just any CO₂; it must be CO₂ produced by human activities (anthropogenic).

Temperatures are increasing somewhat as we recover from the “Little Ice Age” that occurred in the early 1800s. It may become warmer without any human assistance.

The (U.S.) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operates the National Climatic Data Center. The recent report, “Global Climate Change Indicators,” stated:

Global average temperature is one of the most-cited indicators of global climate change, and shows an increase of approximately 1.4°F since the early 20^th Century.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/indicators/

The NOAA “State of the Climate-2012” report indicated:

The global annual temperature has increased at an average rate of 0.06°C (0.11°F) per decade since 1880and at an average rate of 0.16°C (0.28°F) per decade since 1970.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/na.html

NOAA determined that the Contiguous United States temperature trend is 0.09 ºF per decade, for the full period from 1895 to 2012. For the much shorter recent period from 1997 to 2012, the temperature trend is (a declining) – 0.71 ºF per decade. Instead of getting warmer (as the global warming advocates claim), the earth may actually be cooling.

Many environmentalists are using the term “global climate change” instead of “global warming.” Apparently they haven’t decided whether the earth is getting warmer or cooler; with the new term, they are covered either way.

When the textbook companies produce instructional materials (IM) for the Texas schools, they should stick with the TEKS and avoid introducing their Common Core-driven biases. Global warming (a.k.a. “climate change”) is not proven science!

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Bio for Henry W. Burke

Henry Burke is a Civil Engineer with a B.S.C.E. and M.S.C.E. He has been a Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) for 37 years and has worked as a Civil Engineer in construction for over 40 years.

Henry Burke has experience in the air pollution control field through employment with the National Air Pollution Control Administration (NAPCA).

Mr. Burke had a successful 27-year career with a large construction contractor.

Henry Burke serves as a full-time volunteer to oversee various construction projects. He has written numerous articles on education, engineering, construction, environmental issues, politics, taxes, and the economy.

Henry W. Burke

E-mail: hwburke@cox.net

Tags: Common Core, Cscope, DONNA GARNER, Education, global warming, GLOBAL WARMING HOAX, MENTORING MINDS, TEKS, Texas

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Common Core in Texas @ Spring Hill ISD

Nov 14

Posted by Ginger in Featured Post

Texas is one of five states that did not adopt the Obama’s Progressive Common Core Education Standards. The 83rd legislature passed HB 462 prohibiting the adoption and use of Common Core in Texas. Despite the law numerous school districts across the state are ignoring the law. I wrote about Waco ISD and its use of common core and now we have been alerted to Spring Hill ISD using Common Core stands. Below are homework papers one 1st grade student brought home.

I have been begging parents across the state to please wake up and pay attention to what is going on not just in your child’s classroom but the ideology that administrators are trying to implement district wide across the state; which is a progressive one. It is called Type 2 in education establishment and it is built around the collective and not individual achievement, often referred to as Project Based Learning (PBL). Parents and taxpayers need to pay close to the financials as well. Despite the millions of dollars running through your local school district the education establishment still lobby for more funds.

****The same progressive educators behind Common Core are the same behind Cscope. It is the same Marxist philosophy built around the collective to create diversity, equity and globalization. ****

Who is behind Common Core and the progressive ideology across the Country?

Tags: Common Core, Cscope, HB 462, Project Based Learning, SPRING HILL ISD, Texas, Waco ISD

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