Obama Ed Department Recommends Reform Organization Created by Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers

By Danette Clark

Describing it as a “highly regarded organization”, Obama’s Education Department recommends the Bill Ayers-founded Small Schools Workshop for use in creating “learning environments that are supportive of perseverance”.

The Small Schools Workshop is currently led by Mike Klonsky, a fellow 60′s radical of Bill Ayers, who once vowed to the communist government of China that he would lead the struggle to topple the U.S. imperialist ruling class. Read more about Klonsky here.

The Department of Education document, Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance: Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century, also recommends the Coalition of Essential Schools, the progressive indoctrination movement behind CSCOPE and Common Core.

This is the same document that has drawn attention in recent months due to content outlining invasive data mining techniques for use on students.

Supposedly for the purpose of improving education, Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance reveals that our government intends to turn children into human guinea pigs whose every expression, emotion, and physiological trait will be read, monitored and evaluated through devices designed to monitor facial expression, EEG brain wave patterns, skin conductance, heart rate variability, posture, and eyetracking.

For our president to have history with these organizations and terrorists is definitely a concern. For these organizations to furtively infiltrate our schools under the guise of raising test scores and graduation rates is another cause for concern. But far beyond disturbing is the fact that our government recommends giving maoist, communist, domestic terrorists control over the ‘structure and culture’ of our classrooms, while also suggesting that grossly instrusive methods be used to collect and store extremely personal information on every child.

Let’s not forget that there are several former Weathermen/Weather Underground Organization members involved with both the Coalition of Essential Schools and Small Schools Workshop, and that those same people were reported to have discussed and planned the rounding up, re-education, and extermination of American citizens.

To read more about the Coalition of Essential Schools, go to the Common Core/CSCOPE/CES Connection page.

To see the other communists and terrorists behind these organizations, go to Name Names.

Name Names — Radical of the Week

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE LARGEST PROGRESSIVE INDOCTRINATION MOVEMENT IN THE U.S.

RADICAL OF THE WEEK

Mike Klonsky

In 1968, as national secretary of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Mike Klonsky wrote an SDS resolution titled Toward a Revolutionary Youth Movement. In the resolution, Klonsky admiringly quoted mass murderer Chinese dictator Mao Zedong, and called for an organized youth movement to engage in a revolutionary struggle against capitalism, “the system… at the root of man’s oppression”.

In 1969, Klonsky started a Maoist organization called the October League, which later changed its name to the “Communist Party (Marxist Leninist)”.

A year after Chairman Mao’s death in 1976, Klonsky became one of the first Americans ever to be invited to China by its communist government. During his visit, Klonsky emphasized his organization’s commitment to “lead the struggle to topple the U.S. imperialist ruling class”.

Today Mike Klonsky is a professor of education at DePaul University and national director of the Small Schools Workshop, an organization founded by communist and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Klonsky has been with the organization since its founding in 1991.

As explained here, the Small Schools Workshop received grant money through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (of which Barack Obama was chairman of the board) for the purpose of transforming existing schools into Coalition of Essential Schools member and affiliate schools.

Klonsky also currently serves on the national steering committee of Save Our Schools, an organization that works in partnership with the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES).

CES is the progressive reform movement behind both CSCOPE and Common Core.

In the video below, Mike Klonsky and Bill Ayers’ wife, Bernardine Dohrn, declare to the media:  “We’re going to be in the streets and in every institution in this country from now on.”  “We’re gonna replace capitalism with socialism.”

 

See the other faces behind the Coalition of Essential Schools at Name Names.

‘The Thaw’ — Youth Call for Us to Join Them in Bringing Christ and Christian Values Back to America

“We’re in a war for the hearts and souls of our generation.”
“Failure is not an option.”

Please go to LetsReachAmerica.org for more information.

#StopCommonCore Rally Draws 9.7 Million

From TownhallFinance.com
(Thanks to Ron for the link)

“Parent Led Reform, in collaboration with Truth in American Education, hosted a second rally via Twitter Thursday May 2nd to stop the implementation of Common Core standards. Common Core standards are national, top-down K-12 education ideology imposed by federal and state government. The #Stopcommoncore Twitter rally reached of nearly 9.8 million Twitter users. The traffic was so heavy and the complaints from liberals so loud that Twitter temporarily suspended the Twitter account of Parent Led Reform.”

Read the rest here.

Encouraging News – Indiana Passes Common Core ‘Time-Out’ Bill

By Danette Clark

The Indiana House passed HB 1427, the Common Core ‘time-out’ bill by a vote of 53-42.

Find out how they did it at Indiana’s Historic Vote to Review Common Core.

Common Core Partner Organization Employs Author of Anti-Semitic Book Used in Tennessee Schools

By Danette Clark

Pearson, the education service company widely known for publishing textbooks, partners with the Council of Chief State School Officers to provide training and other resources to states implementing the nationally proposed Common Core State Standards.

In addition to employing Grant Wiggins, a curriculum ‘expert’ who had a hand in the design of the pro-communist CSCOPE curriculum, Pearson also employs James Rubenstein, author of The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography.

The Blaze.com reported Wednesday that parents in Tennessee’s Williamson County School District are calling for the removal of Rubenstein’s book because of its anti-semitic content.

As reported by TheBlaze:

“…the book… contains the question, “If a Palestinian suicide bomber kills several dozen Israeli teenagers in a Jerusalem restaurant, is that an act of terrorism or wartime retaliation against Israeli government policies and army actions?”

The book also describes Hamas and Hezbollah as ‘political parties’ rather than terrorist groups.

Pearson’s website offers free virtual conferences for Social Studies teachers and live access to ‘experts’, including James Rubenstein, whom Pearson says “will help high school teachers understand best practices for teaching the economic geography component and cultural elements of a human geography course”.

Rubenstein’s book is used as a resource for Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography courses. The Advanced Placement program is administered by College Board and was intended to provide a pathway for students to attend college.

College Board, which has leaned to the far left for many years, recently appointed the ‘architect’ of Common Core, David Coleman, to be its 9th president.

As an affiliate organization of the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES), the radical  indoctrination movement behind both CSCOPE and Common Core, College Board posted job announcements on CES’s website in search of teachers for several College Board Schools opened in New York City.

College Board Schools are social justice schools created in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.

When an organization or school posts a job announcement on the CES national job board, it means they are looking for progressive educators who abide by the principles and practices of the Coalition of Essential Schools.

Read about CES indoctrination practices at CSCOPE Curriculum Designer Employed by CCSSO Partner to Aid in Implementing Common Core and ‘Was George Washington Any Different From Palestinian Terrorists…?’.

As publisher of books authored by the likes of James Rubenstein and Grant Wiggins, Pearson knows exactly what kind of material they are endorsing and distributing.

Likewise, on the receiving end, Williamson County Schools Assistant Superintendent Tim Gaddis also knows exactly what content his district uses and what purpose will be served by students ‘critically thinking’ about questions like the one found in Rubenstein’s book.

Gaddis, who defended the text, formerly served as Chief Operating Officer of  Modern Red Schoolhouse in Nashville, Tennessee.

Modern Red Schoolhouse is one of seven organizations that make up the Coalition for Comprehensive School Improvement (CCSI). All seven  organizations closely partner with the Coalition of Essential Schools.

For example, CCSI member, ATLAS Communities, was created through a  partnership between progressive reformers, James Comer and Howard Gardner, and Coalition of Essential Schools founder, Theodore Sizer.

See the faces behind the Coalition of Essential Schools (thereby also behind CSCOPE and Common Core) at Name Names.

Action Plan for Parents and Teachers Fighting CSCOPE

By Donna Garner:

TWO ACTION STEPS TO TAKE AGAINST CSCOPE

ACTION STEP #1: The House Public Education Committee will layout Rep. Steve Toth’s HB 760 on Tuesday, April 30, Texas Capitol E2.036, 2:00 P. M. 

Please contact your Texas Representatives and tell them that you support both HB 760 and SB 1406 because these bills would give the elected members of the Texas State Board of Education oversight and direction over curriculum products, including CSCOPE, generated by the Regional Education Service Centers.

Electronic registration has been implemented as a requirement for providing testimony at House committee hearings.  Please go to this website to learn how to register electronically to testify:  House Witness Registration

 PARKING NEAR THE CAPITOL [ Beware that the DPS both tickets and tows in Austin]

Please read and print this before you go to Austin so you will be on time.

The CSCOPE hearing will be held in Room E2.036 in the Capitol Extension.

It is suggested that you plan to arrive at the entry to the parking lot at least one hour before you want to arrive at Room E2.036. The lot could be full and you may have to seek alternate parking, as indicated below. Also, it takes a long time to get from the parking garage/s to Room E2.036 in the Capitol Extension.

Plan lots of time to park, to walk two (or maybe 4)  blocks to the Capitol, to go through security, and walk the long way to Room E2.036 in the Capitol Extension.

Note that the Capitol Visitors Parking Garage could be full and then you will have to drive several blocks to the underground parking garage at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, and then walk four blocks to the Capitol.

Note: Due to security, the only entrances to the Capitol are at the North, South, East, and West sides of main Capitol building. The Capitol Extension is all underground and there are doors at the street level. However, these doors are locked from the inside and you cannot enter the Capitol Extension through these doors. The CSCOPE hearing will be held in the Extension in Room E2.036. You must allow enough time to go through security at any of the Main Capitol entry doors and then walk a long ways to the Capitol Extension. There is an underground passageway from the main Capitol to the underground Extension, which has two levels, E1 and E2. Note that level E1 sits on top of level E2.

Note: All rooms with the capital letter “E” before the numerals are in the Capitol Extension. All rooms with the capitol letter “E” after the numerals are on the East Side of the main Capitol building.

Parking is available in the Capitol Visitors Parking Garage at 1201 San Jacinto located between Trinity and San Jacinto Streets (it’s a One Way street heading South)  at 12th and 13th streets. Parking is free for the first two hours and $1.00 for each half hour thereafter (maximum daily charge: $8.00); accessible parking is available with accessible routes to the Capitol.

If the Capitol Visitors Center Parking lot is full, go North on Trinity (it’s a One Way street heading North) to a left on 18^thSt (it’s a One Way Street heading West).  When you get to Congress St., go across Congress and directly on your right is the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. Continue up 18^th St. for about 40 feet and turn right into the entrance to the museum’s underground parking garage. Cost to park is a flat rate of $8.00. You pay an attendant when you enter – they accept credit cards and cash only. For more information about museum parking please visit: http://www.thestoryoftexas.com/visit/parking_and_directions_general.html

When you walk out of the museum parking at street level, look to your right and you will see the Capitol four blocks south of you.

Note: The parking garages never close, so your car will never be locked in if you have to stay until late at night at the Capitol.

Parking meters:

It is suggested that you not use the parking meters on the street near the Capitol because you can only deposit enough money for three hours of parking at a time. Note that it costs 25 cents for 15 minutes, or $1.00 per hour. If the CSCOPE public hearing lasts longer than three hours, you may lose your turn if the clerk calls your name to testify and you have had to go feed your meter with more quarters.

 *This information has been provided to us by Merry Lynn Gerstenschlager, a long-time volunteer activist with Texas Eagle Forum.

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ACTION STEP #2 – Send this citizen action letter to your school superintendent and curriculum officials:

Dear Superintendent _______________:

In light of growing statewide criticism of CSCOPE, over issues of substandard instructional material, illegally plagiarized lessons, anti-American sentiments, and financial impropriety, I am respectfully requesting that teachers in the (insert the name of your school district) be released from the mandated use of this curriculum, effective immediately, until a full investigation is completed by state authorities.

Neighborhood meetings will be hosted to inform concerned parents and local taxpayers about the serious implication of lessons which have not undergone legitimate scrutiny.   We, the citizens of (insert the name of your town) have placed trust in our school board and administration to protect our children.   CSCOPE lacks academic integrity and has resulted in a serious breach of public trust.

I support a return to the use of textbooks and materials which are approved by the Texas State Board of Education.  Full transparency in the use of future Instructional Material Funds is warranted to assure the purchase of materials that have been thoroughly reviewed and given final approval  by parents, taxpayers and teachers.

Respectfully submitted,

______________________

______________________ (date)