It took me almost a year of researching to find out why there was such a veil of secrecy surrounding CSCOPE. I discovered it has been the implementation of a radical change in the way Texas students will be educated. This radical change is not new though it’s name changes with the times. Presently it is called “Project Based Learning”. Project Based Learning is built around the collective and not individual achievement. American Sovereignty is not taught. Globalization and Diversity are promoted. The Texas Education Service Centers along with school Superintendents have worked deceptively in implementing this progressive philosophy in the school system since 2006. After much research the implementation of PBL can be traced back to the United Nations.
Texas schools through grant money and state funds have purchased millions of dollars of computers so students can be electronically engaged. Become more a part of the global society.
IRINA BOKAVA, the Director General of UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations, (UNESCO) was quoted as saying….
In 2011 Ms. Bokava at Effat University in Saudia Arabia for the Learning and Technology Conference. In her address she is quoted as saying…..
Ms. Bokava is the author of NEW HUMANISM FOR THE 21st CENTURY which promotes diversity, globalization all on the promise of world peace.
UNESCO along with international education bureaucracies goal is to Internet Communication Technology (ICT) coupled with Project Based Learning . That is why we are seeing Texas schools districts spending an enormous amount of money on IPAD’s and laptop for students.
Various publications…..
The Underutilization of Internet and Communication Technology-assisted Collaborative Project-Based Learning Among
International Educators: A Delphi Study
UNESCO ICT TRANSFORMING EDUCATION
Bringing PBL Washington
Below is the Alliance For Excellent Education. It is to no surpise that Humanist Linda Darling Hammond sits on the Board of Directors. CSCOPE also credits it’s teaching philosophy to Hammond.
Bring PBL Home to TEXAS
Newly Discovered Eighth Grade Exam From 1912 Shows Just How Far Our Education System Has Fallen
It’s not only the CSCOPE lessons that are troublesome, it’s the methods that our schools are using to teach our children and the philosophy behind it. One word kept popping into my mind as I was reading the descriptions, and that word is … collectivism.
My children, like yours, are unique, wonderful individuals with different talents and gifts. Like me, you probably celebrate their individuality and are raising them to be independent thinkers and self-sufficient. If so, how can we allow them to be taught the opposite at school? How can we allow our children to be lumped into a collective group where they learn to rely on the group for answers and the teacher is merely a “guide”? And how can these schools that continue to use CSCOPE do so when parents and lawmakers have overwhelmingly come out against it?
The superintendents & school board members that allow any part of CSCOPE into their schools should be ashamed of themselves. I encourage parents to run against these school board members and then once your elected you can fire the superintendent and the administrators. It’s time to clean house in Texas public schools.
I am not backing down and I will not stop until these liberal-progressive teaching methods are out of Texas schools — our children deserve better.
School districts are using taxpayer money to send various teachers and administrators to this conference. This money would be better utilized in the classroom. ~~~
*****Get involved and file Public Information Request on your local school districts and find out who all attended the conferences and what the district expenses are the conference, food and hotel.*********
I find it amazing how many school board members across the state of Texas support a progressive education for our children, as in the case with Rockwall School Board President, Chris Cuny. Rockwall uses the controversial curriculum called CSCOPE which is based on a Progressive philosophy of education called Project Based Learning (PBL) With Project Based Learning (PBL) American Exceptionalism is not taught and their is no “absolute truth”. Students come to class with their own knowledge called “schema” build upon their knowledge while working in groups. PBL is based on the collective and not individual achievement.
Rockwall News released the article below. In the article Cuny is noted for saying the “state acted in haste”. What he fails to comment on, is Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC) who owns CSCOPE (really the tax payers do) are the ones who volunteered to remove CSCOPE lessons. The state DID NOT mandate the removal of CSCOPE lessons.
I found this comment buy Cuny absurd…
“The district’s review of CSCOPE lesson plans being used in RISD found the claim that CSCOPE was anti-American to be baseless,” he said. “Regardless, the lesson plans are being removed.”
Seriously? Asking Students to draw new communist flags is not Anti American? Calling the Boston Tea Party a Terrorist Act isn’t Anti American? Telling elementary students what a great American Obama is while the man continues to lie to the American people isn’t Anti American? Compose a NewsPaper article on Communism, isn’t Anti American? Portraying Paul Revere as someone who hides drugs in his house, isn’t Anti American? The list goes on and on.. CSCOPE and any Project Based Learning curriculum needs to be abolished from every school district.
Administrators and representatives at the Texas Education Service Centers are working together to transform the Texas Education system to a progressive education system. This will only change when parents get involved and find out what your district is doing with your tax dollars.
Added by The Rockwall News on July 12, 2013
Saved under Education, Featured
Tags: Chris Cuny, CSCOPE, Rockwall ISD
(By Jessica Huseman) ROCKWALL – While the beleaguered school curriculum tool, CSCOPE, caused a lot of controversy in its initial rollout in Rockwall Independent School District, School Board President Chris Cuny feels the new conception of the tool will prove popular with school officials and parents.
“The Board understands that our community wants us to provide an education that is consistent with the moral values of the community, and that’s one of the reasons they elect us as school board members,” Cuny said in an interview. “We also have a responsibility to our students to provide them with different viewpoints so that they can become critical thinkers and are ready for the world once they leave RISD. I believe our district is meeting both of these objectives of our community and our students.”
Cuny said many parents have been vocal about their disapproval of CSCOPE, and that he wants them to understand that their concerns have prompted this restructuring.
In a response letter to a concerned parent, which Cuny released to The Rockwall News with the parent’s name withheld, Cuny said parental concerns were taken seriously, and that the Board and administration had “made major modifications that address the concerns, while maintaining key beneficial elements that will enhance our students’ education.”
Cuny said the majority of parental concerns could be broken into three categories: First, the number of assessments and tests; second, the lack of transparency; and third, that the lessons provided through CSCOPE didn’t match the “values” of the community.
In order to address the concerns over the number of tests, the school board will now allow teachers to determine when and how tests are given and for school leaders to determine whether the tests will affect student grades.
Second, Cuny said transparency concerns will be addressed the same way the district has always addressed these concerns: by making lesson plans and tests available online for parents to review.
“All of the TEEKS, lessons, and tests are available to parents and students in accordance with district policy as adopted prior to C-Scope and are available online,” read the letter.
The complaint that CSCOPE’s lesson plans were “anti-American” was the most controversial, and was largely confined to the social studies curriculum. RISD was saved from making a decision in this area, as an agreement led by state Senator Dan Patrick (R-Houston) with the CSCOPE removed all of the lesson plans from the tool, making lesson plans unavailable statewide.
While this decision was out of his hands, Cuny feels the state may have acted in haste.
“The district’s review of CSCOPE lesson plans being used in RISD found the claim that CSCOPE was anti-American to be baseless,” he said. “Regardless, the lesson plans are being removed.”
In order to replace these lesson plans, the district will they’ll allow teachers to develop their own lesson plans, use lesson plans they have used previously or collaborate with other teachers.
While the lesson plans have been removed, the school district will continue use the framework provided in CSCOPE, which will help the school district arrange the curriculum in a way that is most effective for succeeding on the state standardized testing.
“The part of CSCOPE we liked, and that the teachers and principals liked, was that it had a component that showed what and when certain things needed to be taught that were in alignment with the TEKS,” Cuny said. “Because of the new STAAR testing mandated by the state of Texas, this gave us a really clear idea of what our kids would be tested on and what and when they were expected to learn the material. Our principals were united in the fact that this was an excellent system that kept this consistent throughout the district.”
Ms. Young is a candidate for the Rockwall Indepedent School District school board in Rockwall, Texas. I heard Ms. Young address a crowd of parents a couple of months ago and I immediately knew she had a left leaning political agenda.
I have worked tirelessly for the last year exposing CSCOPE: the Marxist Curriculum in over 875 Texas Schools. I would like to say it surprises me, but you always seem to find some individual that sticks their head in the sand and doesn’t see the truth or if they do, they could care less, such is the case with Ms. Shana Little Young. She has gone on the attack mode of claiming that those who have exposed CSCOPE have a financial interest in doing so. What a LIE this is!! If anything it has cost us all money and time in hopes of protecting all children and our country.
I am very pleased to say that the Texas Attorney General now has CSCOPE under review. How sad for those students who have sat under it for the last 6-7 years.
After reading this I could not believe she was running for public office but then again Obama is President.
How sad it is that our education system is no longer about learning, but INDOCTRINATION. Any parent who is privileged enough to see the Texas’s Marxist curriculum, CSCOPE, you will realize their agenda is to indoctrinate your child with a global agenda. In a High School Biology class they have the students complete CSCOPE’S GLOBAL FOOT PRINT QUIZ. The quiz ask questions about personal family issues that I personally think is none of their business. One of the questions ask how many siblings the student has. The more children in the family the larger their Global Footprint is and there must be changes to minimize it. What is Sally or Bobby going to say to mom and dad? “My global footprint is to large so please don’t have anymore kids, I have to save the earth”. This green/global/enviromental/ agenda has become a religion of its own. Please learn and read how anti-christian this agenda is at http://green-agenda.com/. Get involved in your schools and ask for your children’s homework and test. The time of complacency is over if we are going to save our country.
Rockwall ISD, in Rockwall Texas feels at liberty to attack parents and taxpayers that are greatly concerned about the district’s use of the Marxist curriculum CSCOPE. On April 11, 2013 Hudson ISD’s liberal superintendent and TASA’s legislative chair, Mary Ann Whitiker has written and posted an article on TEXAS ISD calling the parents and taxpayers MaCarthyist and their actions comparable to the false allegations of those of the Salem Witch Trials. In reading Ms. Whitikers description of the Salem Witch Trials she pretty well quoted the details of the event in her article, from Wikipedia verbatim.
Wikipedia definition……
Ms. Whitikers’ definition
Ignoring the facts that there is controversial material riddled though out CSCOPE which has been presented to State Senators and Representatives which is now under the review of the Texas Attorney General, Mrs. Whitiker can’t except the truth if you laid in right in front of her. I am glad my children or grandchildren are not in Hudson ISD or Rockwall ISD for that matter.
Rockwall Superintendent Jeff Bailey obviously finds Ms. Whitiker’s accusations appropriate. Rockwall ISD has linked Ms. Whitiker’s article to the school website. As I have stated in an earlier blog: Superintendent Jeff Bailey is not doing his job!!
Not So Fast Mike Villarreal and Dan Branch~ HB 2103 Must be Stopped!
Texas Representative Mike Villarreal and Rep. Dan Branch have introduced HB 2103.
Bill has been Placed on General State Calendar for
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Interested parties assert that student data collected by the Texas Education Agency should be made more accessible to researchers so that it can be used to improve the state’s education system. C.S.H.B. 2103 aims to provide for this increased accessibility and also seeks to establish an education research center advisory board and set limits on who can request research, which would allow the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to sift through fewer requests and approve researchers in a more timely manner.
I called Cathy Adams President of Texas Eagle Forum and she said quote:
“This would deepen the impact of “school-to-work” which is the German / Prussian education system.”. Ok Moms and Dads are you really ok with this?
What is a P20 Workforce Council ~
The P20 Council is to create a State DATA Base for Education Researchers.
Alice Linahan with Women on the Wall poses a question to Robert Spencer of www.jihadwatch.com about the possible National Security Threat posed by Obama’s Common Core Education Standards and Texas’s Progressive Curriculum CSCOPE.
‘LET GO OF THE SYSTEM’: HOW CAN PARENTS &
TEACHERS STOP CSCOPE?
By Tiffany Gabbay
On Thursday TheBlaze along with The Glenn Beck Program delved deeply into the controversial curriculum system sweeping Texas schools known as CSCOPE. From issuing gag orders on teachers to bar them from talking about lesson plans, to preventing parents from obtaining information about what their children are being taught, the way CSCOPE operates almost seems like a work of fiction. Disturbingly, it is not.
Following up on issues covered by his panel the night before, Beck on Friday discussed what teachers and parents can actually do to stop the effects of what’s being called an “oppressive” curriculum management system.
“The best thing is to educate yourself as a teacher on what it [CSCOPE] is,” Beck said. “As a parent, get your kids out of the public school system… Do not let another day go by with kids being indoctrinated.”
Historian and Texas native David Barton said parents should broach the subject with the curriculum directors of their children’s schools and engage the school superintendent.
“Teach kids what is right,” Barton said.
Barton and Pat Gray both said it’s important for parents and teachers to focus on their school boards and, more pointedly, the local election process, because citizens are most effective at the local level.
Barton explained that CSCOPE is operating outside of Texas, typically under the generic Common Core standards name and that there are variations of CSCOPE in other states.
The public education and traditional university system is “killing our ingenuity,” Beck said.
He noted that there have been many successful people, including famed CEOs and entrepreneurs, who did not go the route of traditional education. Beck qualified that wasn’t saying education is not important, but that the system by which it’s sometimes delivered can be inherently flawed.
“Don’t let go of education, but let go of the system,” Beck said. “You can think out of the box.”
Bloom’s Taxonomy, Lower Order of Thinking in Texas Schools
By Cathy Wells
Social constructivist philosophy tries quite hard to produce what is deemed “higher order
thinking skills.” Another semantical game is being played here because, honestly, what parent
is going to say, “I don’t want my child to have thinking skills!” Indeed, I can also say that I
certainly want my children to graduate from high school with some critical thinking skills (we
used to call that common sense). But how are these thinking skills to be achieved? What
makes them “higher?” What is meant by “higher order thinking skills?” Again, let us begin by
defining terms.
Parents might say that “thinking skills” would be something akin to common sense, scrutiny,
discernment, or ability to think under pressure. What does this term mean to the social
constructivist? This will take awhile. Higher order thinking skills theory is based on Bloom’s
Taxonomy. Who is Bloom? Benjamin Bloom was a behavioral psychologist (I hope you are
noticing how much behavioral psychology is popping up in education) who developed a
taxonomy or “breaking down into small units and naming” of what he considered to be typical
and necessary thinking skills or educational objectives. So, when we ask what is the point of
education, to social constructivists, the point is to achieve all of Bloom’s taxonomilogical goals.
Just so you know, just about all modern educational theory is based on this taxonomy and every
teacher is familiar with it. (Consequently, it is very difficult to get teachers to think outside this
paradigm thought we did very well without it for most of educational history and it seems to
have led us down a very rocky path.)
Bloom listed six separate levels of thinking skills: knowledge, comprehension, application,
analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The last three of these are the “higher order” thinking skills.
Now let me pause a moment to say that, if you study this list, it seems rather logical. In any
area, we must first acquire knowledge, then understanding, learn how to apply those, analyze
any mistakes we make, fuse all of that knowledge together, and ultimately become expert at it
and be able to teach it to someone else. The problem comes in with this: In 1987, the National
Research Council announced that these skills don’t need to be acquired IN ORDER and should,
in fact, be acquired out of order. They suggested that we begin implementing higher order
thinking skills in elementary school.
As a classical educator, I immediately see the folly of this approach. We used to have what
were called “grammar” schools because those were the buildings in which we loaded basic facts
into children: their “knowledge.” As they moved into middle schools, they began to acquire
comprehension and application. In high school, we moved them toward “higher thinking
skills.” This is, coincidentally, how the brain is hard-wired. The concrete stage of development
comes first during those first six years of school. Then the abstract stage begins where students
start synthesizing the facts they’ve learned and applying them to life. Finally, they move on to a
stage in which they can discuss, argue, or teach a point as needed. That is a traditional/classical
approach to education.
What CSCOPE and other curricula have managed to do is completely confuse students by
trying to jumble all of the different levels of skills as per the recommendations of the NRC and
other research. The end result is akin to tasking someone with making a croissant dough by first
evaluating the end product, the process, and the dough itself without giving you a recipe or
ingredients list.
I very much doubt that any parents of Texas students would approve of this methodology if they
knew about it. And as those of us left here in Texas who still have a modicum of common
sense know, “That dog won’t hunt.”
After reading the above article I googled Cscope and Blooms Taxonomy and found the Cscope power point below created by Paula-Pemberton-Kelm from Texas Education Service Center VI.
CSCOPE POWERPOINT ON BLOOMS TAXONOMY
Revisionist History has become the norm in Texas schools with the use of a curriculum called Cscope. Does your school district use it? Check HERE.
One of the Cscope lessons takes the liberty of removing excerpts from Christopher Columbus’s journal entries where he admires God’s creation and beauty to use them in support of the environmentalist goals of the United Nations Agenda 21.
Below is the exact title to Christopher Columbus’ journal entries and one of the entries that Cscope reps have cherry picked words out of to support their environmental agenda for the purpose of indoctrinating Texas students. The highlighted areas are the cherry picked words removed as you will see below.
IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
lesson with attachments.
CSCOPE’S REVISION
Cscope has found it acceptable to track Islamic Scholar Ibn Battuata pilgrimage to Mecca. Learn more about that lesson HERE.
You can learn more about Cscope @ www.txcscopereview.com
More on the United Nations Agenda 21 @ FreedomAdvocates.org
Glenn Beck on Agenda 21
GLENN BECK’S BOOK ON AGENDA 21, though fictional it is thought provoking and makes wonder what our world will one day become if we don’t change course.
Agenda 21
THE FOLLOWING ARE A FEW TEST QUESTIONS THAT ARE ON THE CSCOPE ASSESSMENT TEST.
TEXAS CSCOPE TEST QUESTIONS….
Which of the following has been a benefit of globalization?
A pandemics
B increased standard of living (correct answer)
C loss of local culture
D widespread environmental impacts
Which of the groups used protest strategies unlike the other groups to
achieve equal rights?
F Black Panthers (Correct Answer)
G SCLC
H NAACP
J CORE