How the new standard for government education will injure your family!

Stopping Common Core in Our Schools

Hear Dr. Duke Pesta

discuss the latest initiative to make your children robots for the state.
Dr. Pesta received his M.A. in Renaissance literature from John Carroll University and his Ph.D. in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature from Purdue University. He has taught at major research institutions and small liberal arts colleges. He is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and the Academic Director of Freedom Project Education, a classical curriculum of internet courses.

What is the Common Core Curriculum to be imposed on all children? What people and organizations are behind the drive for Common Core? What are the dangers of a uniform nation-wide standard and the plan for tracking of all students by a central authority? What do the planners really want to do with our childrens minds, values, careers, and lives? Will private, religious-based, and home schools escape the effects of Common Core? How does this scheme fit with the UN s Agenda 21 desire to control what our children learn? Join with us for Dukes clear explanation of this threat to our freedom, how we can fight it, and what steps parents can take to protect their sons and daughters.

Monday
October 28, 2013
Your children and grandchildren are the target of those who wish to destroy any vestige of biblical morality, sound classical education, critical thinking, and a freedom loving people.

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The Latest Grab For Schools and Children

By John F. McManus Any discussion of the sorry plight of our nations education system must begin with the following realization: There is no authorization whatsoever for the federal government to be involved in the field of education. Nowhere in the muchabused and increasingly ignored U.S. Constitution can the word education be found. How the feds got started in this vitally important field, the results of their involvement, and their latest assault on children and on the nation itself needs a thorough airing. First, some current facts. A recent study of the educational systems in 50 advanced countries placed the United States in 17th place. Finland, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore took the top five spots. Also, Harvard Universitys Program on Education and Governance looked at a 14-year period beginning in 1995 and found foreign students way ahead of counterparts in America who ranked 25th in math, 17th in science, and 14th in reading. A new report released by The National Foundation for American Policy noted that foreign students occupy 70 percent of the seats in electrical engineering graduate programs, 63 percent in computer science classrooms, and more than half in the fields of industrial, chemical, and mechanical engineering courses. Descent to such unenviable levels can be blamed on several causes cultural decline, lack of parental influence, teacher proficiency, etc. but federal involvement certainly tops the list. As federal money and federal direction solidified the feds takeover of the nations schools, the quality of the product call it educational excellence steadily went south. By 1983, a federal commission concluded in a report entitled A Nation at Risk that, if the deterioration of the nations public school system had been caused by a foreign power, it might well have been considered an act of war. What then did federal educrats do? Aided by a compliant and docile Congress, they shoveled more money into, and imposed more controls on, public schooling . In 1989, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Wherever it is implemented, parents had to cede their rights to control the upbringing and education of their children. As bad as national takeover of schools has become, international control has proved to be worse. In 1990, representatives from 150 countries gathered in Thailand for the World Conference on Education for All. Sponsored by UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank and other UN agencies, and their affiliates, the conferences published goals became the U.S. program known as Outcome Based Education (OBE). Not only did OBE widen the growing gulf between parents and their children, the already sad proficiency of the schools continued to deteriorate. OBE was followed by No Child Left Behind in 2001 and, when it demonstrably failed to improve education scores and ratings, it was replaced by Race to the Top. The names of these federal programs lead to the belief that the feds are diligently trying to do whats needed. But the results of these costly intrusions speak otherwise. Whats really needed is them stepping out of the way and letting the people regain control of their schools The latest attack on parental rights and the right of each community to establish its own school program is called Common Core (CC). Arising out of the totalitarian mindset of veteran Assistant UN Secretary General Robert Mueller (he died in 2010), UNESCO published the World Core Curriculum in 1984. CC is now spreading rapidly through the schools of America. Muller wanted a one-world government, a one-world religion, and a one-world boss (the United Nations). His plan for mankind has gained strong support in recent years fueled by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, several internationally-minded mega U.S. corporations, and UNESCO. Common Core will supply pamphlets about environmentalism produced by the Environmental Protection Agency in order to build reading proficiency. Threats to remove federal aid will convince school administrators to adopt new instruction and new standards replacing what students need to do well on ACT and SAT exams. Basic math will be replaced by only learning a process, not how to implement it, and what the process might mean to the student. History lessons will contain no patriotism and no historical context to explain why events have occurred. Intelligence and ability wont matter; only a proficiency in regurgitating CCs propaganda will count. Theres a lot at stake in gaining an understanding of Common Core and the disastrous entry of the federal government into education. Americans need a strong wake-up call about all of this, and it better happen soon. For More Articles About Common Core: Go to: www.thenewamerican.com and enter Common Core in the search box.

Our future and our childrens future depend on responsible citizens becoming better informed and taking action. Join with us on Monday, October 28th. Get friends, relatives, educators, parents, and fellow activists to attend this important seminar.

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