Biden Education Lead: Chinese Communist Party Has Done ‘Magical Work’

freebeacon ^ | DECEMBER 2, 2020 | Chrissy Clark

[MarvinStinson]

Joe Biden's education transition team lead has a long history of praising China's school system—a system the Chinese Communist Party designed to indoctrinate students.

Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford University professor and the president of the California State Board of Education, has praised the Chinese Communist Party's education system for its "magical work" in establishing a strong teacher-government presence in student life. In her 2017 book Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World, she explained the centrality of the teacher to Chinese students' lives.

"Teachers in China are revered as elders, role models, and those whom parents entrust to shape the future of their children," Darling-Hammond wrote. "In the Tao traditions of ritual, the phrase ‘heaven-earth-sovereign-parent-teacher' is repeated and becomes ingrained in how people see themselves holistically governed and supported."

The Stanford educator failed to mention that any other teacher-student "relationship" could result in imprisonment. The Chinese government continually cracks down on "Western values" in the classroom by sending state-sponsored inspectors to monitor teachers—particularly in higher education—for "improper" remarks. Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has said that China's schools and teachers must "serve the Communist Party in its management of the country."

Not serving it can carry steep consequences. In July, for example, Chinese professor Xu Zhangrun was placed under house arrest after he criticized Xi's handling of the coronavirus crisis. He was subsequently fired from his teaching position at Tsinghua University—one of China's most elite institutions—after he spoke out against Xi's removal of presidential term limits.

In her book, Darling-Hammond also praised China for dramatically increasing spending on education. But that money has been unevenly distributed, resulting in persistent inequalities. Sixty percent of rural students drop out by the time they reach high school, and of the remaining 40 percent, only a small fraction take college entrance exams.

Similar disparities apply to teachers—yet in a 2011 Washington Post article, Darling-Hammond lauded China for boosting spending on teachers' professional development. She also took a "detailed statement" from the Chinese minister of education at face value, in which he claimed that China had allocated "billions of yuen" to improving teachers' "working … and living conditions."

Such omissions appear in Darling-Hammond's Twitter feed as well. In 2018, she tweeted that the United States had 71 times as many school shootings as China, but declined to note that Chinese crime statistics are notoriously inaccurate. She also ignored the numerous stabbings that plague Chinese schools. In October 2018, a woman stabbed 14 children in a kindergarten class. In April 2018, nine students were murdered at a middle school.

Darling-Hammond has spent nearly her entire life entrenched in Ivy League institutions, beginning at Yale University in 1969. In 2008, she served as the lead for Barack Obama's education transition team. Darling-Hammond had been under consideration to be Biden's secretary of education but claimed she was "not interested" in the position, citing her desire to continue working with California governor Gavin Newsom.

The Biden team did not respond to requests for comment.

[unixfox]

Hell they don’t need an “education transition” team. They have already succeeded in doing that with the public schools.

[kearnyirish2]

“Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has said that China’s schools and teachers must “serve the Communist Party in its management of the country.”

Our teachers’ unions share that view; when the lockdowns started in the spring teachers were bemoaning how they couldn’t really promote their agenda with online learning (since parents might be listening).

[mewzilla]

Speaking of China...

Murderer fled the country while a string of prosecutors made cops jump through hoops, records show

Chicago. China.

[eyeamok]

the president of the California State Board of Education, has praised the Chinese Communist Party's education system

And some people wonder why the Education System in California is so F$CKED UP

[RetiredScientist]

My wife teaches science and math at a Christian high school. For many years they had Chinese exchange students (not this year because of covid19). The Chinese students pick up the language quickly. All made friends quickly. They have a work ethic that is far superior to most of the American students. One memorable student went on to a US university for a 4 year computer science degree. He finished in 2 years. When he came back for a visit he shared his experience with my wife. He said he was able to finish that quickly because the American students in the program had a poor work ethic and were more interested in partying.

[ETL]

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Obama’s Little Blue Book and the Egg of Power

By Michelle Malkin, January 26, 2009

Tons of people have e-mailed about the Little Blue Book of Obama sayings that a firm called the History Company is hawking on its website. Yes, they really are selling them in 10-packs for $49.50 — and yes, the resemblance to Mao’s Little Red Book is striking. Weirdly, “Pocket Obama” has a plain blank cover and smacks of a gag — especially the last line [it was not a gag -etl]:

"Printed in a size that easily fits into pocket or purse, this book is an anthology of quotations borrowed from Barack Obama’s speeches and writings. POCKET OBAMA serves as a reminder of the amazing power of oratory and the remarkable ability of this man to move people with his words. His superb and captivating oratory style has earned comparisons to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and this historic collection presents words that catapulted his remarkable rise to the American Presidency. It is an unofficial requirement for every citizen to own, to read, and to carry this book at all times-The History Company [the book is no longer listed on the History Company's web site -etl].

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/26/obamas-little-blue-book-and-the-egg-of-power/
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"From May 1966, student members of the Communist Party were encouraged to carry copies of Mao's Little Red Book of quotations. Acting under Mao's leadership, these "Red Guards" used his quotations in their mission to weed out intellectuals. With themes such as Correcting Mistaken Ideas and All Reactionaries are Paper Tigers, the quotations became the standard by which all revolutionary efforts were judged."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report/1999/09/99/china_50/little.htm
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Mao Tse-Tung

AKA Chairman Mao, AKA 'The Great Helmsman'. (Tse-Tung can also be spelt Zedong. Translated the name means 'To Shine on the East'.)

Country: China

Kill tally: 14 to 20 million deaths from starvation during the 'Great Leap Forward'. Tens of thousands killed and millions of lives ruined during the 'Cultural Revolution'.

http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/mao.html

[ETL]

You’d think the communists in the Democrat party and those running the “peaceful protests” in our streets would learn from history, yet they never seem to.

Meanwhile...

The long bloody FAILED history of COMMUNISM...

And you can now add to the following totals the ONE MILLION PLUS (worldwide) already dead from the communist China virus that they KNOWINGLY set loose upon the world. .......

“The Black Book of Communism, a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone [65+ million for communist China under Mao Zedong]), and some say that number is too low.”

Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
by Jonah Goldberg, August 2008

[Little Ray]

Let’s be fair, the Chicom education system can’t be any worse than our own.
Real solutions is to get rid of the Department of Education and take steps to destroy the state education bureaucracy. If we can get it down to local control again, at least some schools are likely to do well.

[I want the USA back]

One finger joe is indebted to the chicoms who helped him get elected. He will be repaying them royally.

[ETL]

“Biden has said China isn’t a threat and has downplayed their ongoing campaigns to undermine the U.S. geopolitically, militarily and economically.

“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” Biden said during an Iowa campaign stop last summer. “I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what? They’re not competition for us.” “The fact of the matter is we can do all we need to do without punishing anybody,” he continued.

Biden’s position on China is dangerous and not based in reality. For years the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been sending Chinese students to America’s top doctorate programs in order to gain access to university research labs. There, they steal intellectual property from the highest levels of U.S. science.

Now, we know China’s dangerous handling of viruses in its own labs has led to one of the most devastating and fastest economic destructions in global history.”

The Hill, Katie Pavlich, opinion contributor — 04/29/20
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The troubling reason why Biden is so soft on China

—Peter Schweizer, New York Post, May 11, 2020

In 2013, then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden flew aboard Air Force Two to China. Less than two weeks later, Hunter Biden’s firm inked a $1 billion private equity deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China. The deal was later expanded to $1.5 billion.

In short, the Chinese government funded a business that it co-owned along with the son of a sitting vice president.

If it sounds shocking that a vice president would shape US-China policy as his son — who has scant experience in private equity — clinched a coveted billion-dollar deal with an arm of the Chinese government, that’s because it is. ...”

Without the aid of subpoena power, here’s what we know. The businesses of Hunter Biden and his partners created a series of LLCs involved in multibillion-dollar private equity deals with companies owned by the Chinese government.

The centerpiece of these deals is Rosemont Seneca Partners, an investment firm controlled by Hunter Biden and his associates: Chris Heinz, who is John Kerry’s stepson, and Heinz’s longtime associate Devon Archer. The trio founded Rosemont Seneca in 2009 and quickly began making deals through a series of overlapping entities under the Rosemont name. ...”

Less than a year after opening Rosemont Seneca’s doors, Hunter Biden and Archer were in China meeting with top Chinese officials. ...”

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Re: Devon Archer

Wall Street Journal, Oct 9, 2020...

Judges Revive Conviction of Hunter Biden’s Ex-Business Partner

Devon Archer to be sentenced on securities fraud and conspiracy charges.

A federal appeals court reinstated the conviction of a former business associate of Hunter Biden on securities fraud and conspiracy charges, ruling a lower-court judge erred last year in vacating a jury’s verdict. ...”

Devon Archer, ‘knew at least the general nature and extent of the scheme and intended to bring about its success,’ the judges ruled. ...”

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Devon Archer (left), Joe and Hunter (on right)

[MarvinStinson]

bmp

[ETL]

In the 2014 photo, Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, are seen golfing with Ukraine gas company executive, Devon Archer, in the Hamptons

At the time, Archer and Hunter served on board of Ukraine’s Burisma Holdings

The photo emerged just a week after it was revealed that President Donald Trump prodded Ukraine’s president to help him investigate Biden

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has urged Ukrainian officials to investigate Bidens

Biden has accused Trump of trying to ‘hijack’ the campaign with unfounded assertions that he and Hunter had corrupt dealings in Ukrainian business

Earlier this month, Biden denied speaking to his son about his overseas dealings

But Hunter said the opposite in July, claiming he had spoken to his father ‘just once’ about his work in Ukraine"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7523253/Photo-reveals-Joe-Hunter-Biden-golfing-Ukraine-gas-company-executive-2014.html

[Texas resident]

Looks like Biden’s team has to meet China’s approval first.

[ETL]

“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” Biden said during an Iowa campaign stop last summer. “I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what? They’re not competition for us.” “The fact of the matter is we can do all we need to do without punishing anybody,” he continued."

[ETL]

“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” Biden said during an Iowa campaign stop last summer. “I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what? They’re not competition for us.” “The fact of the matter is we can do all we need to do without punishing anybody,” he continued."

[hanamizu]

“Teachers in China are revered as elders, role models, and those whom parents entrust to shape the future of their children,”

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She could have said the same thing about Japan, a non-Communist dictatorship. I wonder why she didn’t. If you don’t know, after the war Japan modeled its public education system on the U.S., but theirs actually works.

[The Toll]

What percentage of Chinese students are black?

Is that number proportional to the comparative failure of “American” education?

Asking for a friend, of course.

[CtBigPat]