Education Transformation

By Cherie Zaslawsky, 5/31/2013 -

The much touted Common Core Standards (CCS) Initiative that is being pushed as a silver bullet to improve our schools is not simply the latest fad in education: CCS is actually an unprecedented program that would radically alter our entire K-12 educational system, affecting content (i.e. curriculum), delivery (largely via computer), testing (also via computer), teacher evaluations (connected to test scores), as well as creating an intrusive database of sensitive information from student “assessments.”

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By Elry Falkenstein III, 9/12/2012 -

In 2007, George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13434, called "National Security Professional Development," a military-industrial cartellization dressed as security. Section 1 states: "In order to enhance the national security...it is the policy of the United States to promote the education, training, and experience of current and future professionals in national security positions in executive departments and agencies." Barack Obama, the first US President to chair the United Nations Security Council, said in a 2008 speech, "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve gotta have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." The "education, training and experience" of "current and future" professionals is rooted in Ch. 36 of the United Nations "global to local action" plan, Agenda 21 and is brought to us by both Republican and Democrat Presidents.

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By Robert F. Beaudine, 6/6/2011 - When new ideas become popular, words are created to express the changes, while others are modified or discarded. Words change naturally, but sometimes they change deliberately to further a cultural agenda. [...]

By EdWatch, 5/8/2007 - This is an enormous conflict of interest: National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) fronts for and is funded by drug companies as an "advocacy" group for the mentally ill; NAMI pushes government programs and grants that lead to the wildly increased use of dangerous, ineffective, and expensive drugs on children...

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By Freedom Advocates Staff, 9/27/2006 - Aptos High School (AHS) violated the families of 360 students when it conducted a secret behavioral control exercise that compelled the students to publicly confess their sexual behaviors, personal thoughts, and family secrets, according to "Crossing the Line crosses the line" in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. AHS dismissed its violation of law and family autonomy as an "oversight" and expects the story to stop there. It doesn't. [...]

By Michael Chapman, 5/9/2006 -

In this writing and in his galvanizing new DVD, education expert Michael Chapman, proves how the United States and UNESCO's goals for education are one in the same. Chapman explains how programs like The Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) have more to do with controlling the economy and society than sustaining the environment.

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By Jay Lehr, Ph.D., 2/10/2005 - When textbooks preach Sustainable Development "science" rather than teaching the facts, children are being indoctrinated. Heartland's Jay Lehr reviews the recently-released The Future of the Earth: An Introduction to Sustainable Development for Young Readers.

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By Alan Caruba, 9/10/2004 - SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey -- The federal government has no business underwriting the publication of a book that deliberately subverts key elements of the US Constitution.

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4/20/2004 - George Archibald reports on United Nations International Baccalaureate (IB) schools operating within the United States. UNESCO maintains that the IB curriculum promotes human rights, social justice and the need for "sustainable development".

Parents who send their children to these schools have a responsibility to understand that Article 29 Section 3 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights stands in sharp contrast to the essence of the American experiment. Under the United States Declaration of Independence each individual has an unalienable right to life, liberty and property. Under Article 29 section 3 of the United Nations Declaration for a new global order, man's rights will not be unalienable, but rather decreed and rescinded by a ruling elite.

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3/3/2004 - Students taking the new SAT will be required to report personal opinions on sensitive subjects - opinions that they may understandably wish to keep private, Charles Lewis argues. Will personal and political views be used to judge who can attend college?

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