I received this shocking email yesterday on many reasons for the failure of our public schools. Be sure to click on Center for Civic Education and read it!
Have you heard of The Federal Curriculum and/or any of these Federal laws--
Goals 2000: Educate America Act;
School-to-Work Opportunities Act;
and the appropriations bill (HR6).
Have you heard of the Center for Civic Education -- www.civiced.org/, an organization that I think is as powerful and as bad or worse than the Nature Conservancy? They wrote the standards, for implementation of the above laws.
Have you ever wondered any of the following?
How is the federal government taking control of the curriculum in our schools?
How are states being forced to adopt the new curriculum?
Why are all textbooks and national tests being rewritten to measure performance on the new federal curriculum?
How much of a disadvantage will nonpublic students face on the new national tests?
A hint on the standards in this program to be taught to the children, water is our mother, the trees are our brothers and sisters, The education is pushing for a world with no borders and much much more.
3 web sites with information from the standards for this program.
http://www.edwatch.org/index.html and
http://www.edaction.org/ The new Federal Curriculum and How it is enforced (a four page paper)
http://www.edwatch.org/pdfs/FedEd%20_%20Quist%204pg%20w_form.pdf go to
http://www.edaction.org/mailinglist.htm to sign up for information on this program.
Review of FedEd from Townhall.com
The New Federal Curriculum and How It's Enforced
By Allen Quist
Review by Sunni Maravillosa:
Let me say first that I am not a conspiracy theorist advocate. In my experience such theories tend to rather easily collapse from their own weight; when they don't, the hushed references to an always-nebulous "they" as the perpetrators (how can "they" be so powerful and still be so unidentifiable, I always wonder) push my skept-o-meter into the red zone. I will admit to that meter bouncing around a bit when I first picked up Fed Ed: The New Federal Curriculum and How It's Enforced.
However, that soon stopped. Allen Quist has done his homework on the subject of the legislation that has given the United States a federal education curriculum, which every school district must accept under force of law. He delivers a solid indictment of the legislation in a slim (just 137 pages), highly readable text that is likely to leave any parent with children in school nauseated at the thought of what is being shoveled into those vulnerable minds. There's no conspiracy to dumb down America's children, unless federal law now counts as conspiracy. Given the way some of the law relevant to this topic has been crafted, that's probably a valid view.
Fed Ed is divided into three parts: the nature of the federal curriculum; its content; and enforcing it. Although they do cover similar ground -- the emphasis on multiculturalism and environmentalism over natural rights, for example -- redundancy is rather low. Each chapter is brief and to the point. While Quist does seem to be a bit overly sensitive to potential slights (e.g., taking affront at a description of Amish culture), he's generous with examples that point to a radical departure in the way American children are educated.
Quist begins by identifying the three bills that have given federal agencies control over the education curriculum: Goals 2000: Educate America Act; School-to-Work Opportunities Act; and the appropriations bill (HR6) in support of them. As a specific example, he cites language from HR6 authorizing the Secretary of Education to carry out a program educating students on U.S. history. The program created to accomplish this is called "We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution," and it is to be administered by the Center for Civic Education. CCE is a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization -- unaccountable to the voters whose tax funds support their allegedly educational efforts. (It's telling that no listing of staff, nor any mention of authors of executives summaries, reports, nor materials can be found on the CCE web site.) Quist then documents some of the "academic information" to be presented to students: references to the environment and multiculturalism far outnumber the references to the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution ... yet which is the most relevant civics topic? The right to keep and bear arms isn't mentioned even once.
Quist highlights other very disturbing results of these so-called education laws. One is the finding that, even though the curricula are not mandatory, most schools do choose to use them. The reason seems to be that increasingly, standardized tests are based on these curricula and materials. Since the primary means of accountability for teachers and other educators has shifted to performance on such tests, it isn't surprising that childrens' educations are focused on the material that will be on the tests. Lest one take comfort in thinking that the tests are open to examination or review by parents, Quist reveals that they are not. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also widely referred to as "the nation's report card," is mandated by federal law to be given in all fifty states. The same law makes it a felony to disclose any NAEP questions. (Other key tests, such as the SAT, used by colleges to compare prospective students, is shifting to reflect NAEP standards and practices as well.)
If you're interested in genuine education and meaningful educational reform, reading Fed Ed will turn your stomach. The federal curriculum seems to be nothing more than further dumbing down of American children, and turning them into malleable clay for the state's grasping hands to mold. Yet the message that Allen Quist has carefully crafted must be digested, and shared, if it is to be successfully fought.
Sunni Maravillosa is editor of Sunni's Freedom Book of the Month.
How can you put down something you have no inside knowledge about? We are doing what must be done to improve our schools, to allow our people to start up businesses without the federal government finding 50 reasons for not allowing it. No white Ayrian groups that I have met and I have been speaking for the FSP for over a year. How can you equate us with religious cults? We have no religion but are made up of many religious people as well as Atheists.
To allow the federal government to misuse your tax dollars and give you instead the Center for Civic Education and the other federal programs is absolutely immoral! We in the FSP have higher standards and values.
The whole point of the FSP is to develop a community where the federal government cannot contaminate us. We all waited for Clinton to do something about the education mess and Bush even promised to do something about it. It is clearly not an option or priority for anyone in DC to do anything about the low reading scores or math scores that our kids are going to have to be saddled with for the rest of their lives.
Assuming you all have read Atlas Shrugged you should have some idea of what we are doing.
I love it that you have stated so clearly that we won't be welcomed into your states. How foolish you are! We will bring new businesses, new cluster home schools and a brand of freedom you haven't seen in years. You will see a renewal of the Constitution that you should welcome.
The state of choice is absolutely determined by the membership. We have no dictator or ruler to tell us where, when and how we move. We have researched many states for our needs which include the freedom to open our own schools, the freedom to start new businesses and the freedom to elect some of our own candidates for office starting in the cities and all the way to the state.
This is the way Vermont was taken from a free and open state to a totally Liberal bunch of socialists. Would you all prefer that invasion?
Sunni Maravillosa is editor of Sunni's Freedom... Sunni Maravillosa is also, if I'm not mistaken, also intimately connected with "LibertyForum", a board that claims to be "Libertarian" but is in reality heavily slanted towards a neo-nazi userbase with a sprinkling of rabid communists. Its most popular article sources seem to be outlets such as:
Carol on the web
Strike the root
CODOH
Stormfront
Overthrow (Bill White)
Vanguard News Network (Alex Linder)
Aryan Nations
International A.N.S.W.E.R
AlJazeera
Zundelsite (Texoma channels Ingrid Rimland and Ernst Zundel)
In fact, Sunni is what they laughingly call a "Moderator" on that board, a function that seems to entail nothing but help ensure that the few non-nazi voices on there are censored by a nifty little mechanism involving "fame points". Simply explained, if you do not bow to the gods of Ernst Zundel and Adolf Hitler you become a social outcast and your posts cannot be read unless the reader perform some extra acrobatics to get at them.