August 27, 2014
President Obama’s and his administration ‘SCHEME ‘ of FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMING AMERICA and its’ History
as Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats transformed our
Health Care system into ObamaCare.
By Oscar Y. Harward
“When broken down on party lines, the numbers shifted. 76 percent of
polled Republicans oppose the standards, while 53 percent of Democrats support
the Common Core.
Of those contacted by Gallup, 17 percent said they knew a “great deal”
about the controversial educational standards, while 30 percent said they knew
a “fair amount.” 34 percent had “only a little” knowledge and 19 percent knew
“nothing at all” about the Common Core.” http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/21/new-poll-spells-some-very-bad-news-for-common-core-supporters/
“New history curriculum standards proposed for top high school students
leave out such American icons as Benjamin Franklin and Martin Luther King, Jr.,
paint colonists as bigots and gloss over the Greatest Generation's fight to
save the world from Nazi Germany, according to conservative education activists
who want the framework delayed — and perhaps scrapped altogether.
An open letter circulated by conservative education activists is calling
on The College Board to delay implementing new Advanced Placement U.S. History
guidelines, saying a “rising tide of opposition” believes the curriculum will
take the nation’s classrooms in a bad direction.”
““The framework ignores the rise of democratic institutions such as the
House of Burgesses and New England town meetings,” reads an open letter to the
College Board, which oversees Advanced Placement testing. “It also omits the colonists’ growing
commitment to religious freedom and the emergence of a pluralistic society that
lacked an entrenched aristocracy.”
“And you’re not going to find Thomas Jefferson and the House of
Burgesses and the cradle of democracy either,” Krieger told Fox. “You’re not
going to find Benjamin Franklin and the birth of American entrepreneurialism.””
“The U.S. Department of Education has used a $4.3 billion grant program
and federal policy waivers to encourage states to adopt uniform education
standards and testing. The Republican governor says that "effectively
forces states down a path toward a national curriculum" in violation of
the state sovereignty clause in the Constitution and federal laws that prohibit
national control of education content.”
“However, Anna Hunderfund, superintendent of the Locust Valley school
district, said the lawsuit reflects local frustration with what many consider
government intrusion.
"The authority of local school boards has been undermined at the
federal level in ways that were never intended," she said. "People
are elected to reflect local values. Over-regulation at the expense of local
government is very troublesome."”
“The “10 Facts” resource explains how the Common Core is rushed,
untested, and experimental, and how Common Core is (ultimately) concerned with
textbooks and curriculum. It explains how Catholic schools are already
outperforming public schools, and how Common Core may hinder students’
education and formation.
The final fact that all Catholics should know about the Common
Core, the “10 Facts” resource states, is that “Our ‘common core’ is the
Catholic faith.””
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