1/10/1963 – Three months after the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. Representative Albert S. Herlong Jr. (D-FL) read into the Congressional Record the list of 45 modern communist goals (Appendix, pp. A34-A35) from Chapter 8 of Cleon Skousen’s 1958 book, The Naked Communist. Florida had felt the brunt of the communist threats during the CMC.
by Cleon Skousen, 1958
#17 Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
by Howard Zinn, 1980
Howard Zinn (1922 – 2010) was an American historian (Boston University), author, playwright, and (communist) social activist. Zinn joined the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II and was assigned as a bombardier in the 490th Bombardment Group,[7] bombing targets in Berlin, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.[8] As bombardier, Zinn dropped napalm bombs in April 1945 on Royan, a seaside resort in southwestern France.[9] The anti-war stance Zinn developed later was informed, in part, by his experiences.
“The People Speak” is a 2009 American documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans. The film gives voice to those who, by insisting on equality and justice, spoke up for social change throughout U.S. history and also illustrates the relevance of this to today's society. The film is narrated by historian Howard Zinn and is based on his books A People's History of the United States and, with Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States. “The People Speak” was produced by Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove, and Howard Zinn. It was co-directed by Moore, Arnove and Zinn. It was shown on PBS.
Breitbart: Common Core Roots Lie in Ties Between Barack Obama, Bill Ayers
In an article published on 12/02/2013 that advocates for Common Core standards, the Associated Press presents what amounts to the typical talking points for supporters when faced with criticism that Common Core is a federal takeover of education.
The standards were created by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to improve academic achievement and increase accountability. President Barack Obama and his administration embraced them.
Actually, Barack Obama did not simply “embrace” a concept that others developed; instead, the very roots of Common Core are in the early ideas generated by him and his fellow radical community organizer, Bill Ayers. Just prior to the presidential election of 2008, Dr. Stanley Kurtz, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, wrote an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal in which he observed that then-Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s “most important executive experience” was heading up the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), an education foundation that was the invention of Bill Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s.
Obama led the CAC from 1995 to 1999 and remained on the board until 2001. The foundation funneled more than $100 million into community organizations and radical education activists. The CAC’s stated purpose was to improve Chicago’s public schools using funding from an education initiative by Walter Annenberg. As chairman, Obama handled fiscal matters while Ayers co-chaired the CAC’s other key entity, the “Collaborative,” which influenced education policy. Archives from the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago showed that Obama and Ayers worked as a team to advance the CAC agenda.
In his op-ed, Kurtz explained that the Obama campaign at the time said that Ayers had nothing to do with Obama’s “recruitment” to CAC’s board. However, as Kurtz discovered, the Daley archives showed that: …
…along with [Deborah] Leff and [Patricia Albjerg] Graham, Mr. Ayers was one of a working group of five who assembled the initial board in 1994. Mr. Ayers founded CAC and was its guiding spirit. No one would have been appointed the CAC chairman without his approval.
Kurtz continued that the CAC’s agenda channeled Ayers’ educational philosophy “which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism.” Ayers wrote that teachers should act as community organizers whose focus is provoking resistance to American racism and oppression.
“I’m a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist,” Ayers said in an interview in Ron Chepesiuk’s Sixties Radicals. …
YouTube: Parent Forcibly Removed From Maryland School Board Meeting For Protesting Common Core
video run time = 00:02:58 minutes
9/19/2013
Concerned father Robert Small attended the public meeting held by Baltimore County Schools Superintendent Dallas Dance. Smalls stood to ask a question but was immediately confronted by Superintendent Dance's guard that prevented him from asking a simple, civil question, "My question is, how does lowering America's educational standards prepare kids for community college?". He was talking about the new Common Core standards that many schools across America are trying to force down everyone's throat--a policy that is just 1 more way to dumb down our kids and place them further under the control of fascists like Superintendent Dance. When the jackbooted "cop" started ripping at Mr. Small's shirt to forcibly pull him out of the meeting, Smalls began to call out, "Don't stand for this. You're sitting here like cowards. You have questions!"
Addendum: 9/23/2013 - "It was clear that Mr. Small violated the rules of the meeting and disrupted the meeting," a release from the State's Attorney states. "It was also clear that the Officer acted appropriately and did have probable cause to make an arrest on both charges.” "The Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office has just received and reviewed the facts of this case”, the release continues. "In the interest of justice, further prosecution will not accomplish anything more. Therefore, the charges have been dismissed."