Posted on 01/17/2018 11:16:30 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos gave a far-ranging speech today in Washington at an American Enterprise Institute conference, “Bush-Obama School Reform: Lessons Learned.”
She announced the death of Common Core, at least in her federal agency.
DeVos also decried the federal government’s initiatives to improve education. “We saw two presidents from different political parties and philosophies take two different approaches. Federally mandated assessments. Federal money. Federal standards. All originated in Washington, and none solved the problem. Too many of America’s students are still unprepared,” she said.
And she touched on a favorite topic, school choice.
“Choice in education is not when a student picks a different classroom in this building or that building, uses this voucher or that tax-credit scholarship. "
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Well, great day in the morning!
Someone buy Jeb! a guac bowl as he’s not going to like this news.
But it won’t be dead in the state department of education. And if it is outlawed, it will be passed under another name.
State departments of education are snake pits of anti-Americanism.
Thank God. ( And President Trump!)
You have my prayers Sir!
Maybe the leftists need to find a leftist judge to nullify this.
Throwing money and authoritarian programs are not going to fix the education system. The failure of the education system tracks what is happening in society in general — the destruction of the family.
Two strikes against the child who comes from a broken home or a home with one or no parents (raised by extended family). This is the root of the problem and Liberals (and the rest) don’t want to talk about it.
Is that joy descending? Why yes it is!
Common Core was a nightmare. AP, I hope, is the next one to die. It’s a s*itshow.
More voc. More certification-based prep.
Very, very few people need math past Geometry. Only those really going to college need it.
In fact, it is more important to know WHY calculus exists and how it is used, than it is to actually know the fundamental theorem and the rest of it.
W will be disappointed as well.
Good, school reform needs to be front and center this year.
More winning?
“””She announced the death of Common Core, at least in her federal agency.”””
Until I see a tombstone with Common Core buried underneath, I remain a skeptic.
1. Has Devos stopped the Common Core money flow from Washington DC to the States?
2. Has Devos simply renamed Common Core to something else?
We need to keep asking the questions.
Such was not always true in America.
The following is an excerpt from the "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon" (1886) (celebrating America's 100th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence) by a Black Ohio Legislator and A.M.E. Bishop Benjamin W. Arnett on "The Greatness of America" - Note that this Sermon is delivered only a few years after the end of the Civil War by this outstanding scholar/legislator/Bishop.
"Let us see what it is that makes us so great; wherein lies our strength. What has made us one of the greatest powers of the earth, politically and intellectually? Have we come to the conclusion that it is Righteousness that exalteth a nation? We have met to-day at the request of the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and also the Governor of our beloved State, Rutherford B. Hayes. For what? Why call us from our homes? Why come to the house of God? Why not go to the hall of mirth and to the places of amusement to-day? No that is not what they want us to do. We are commanded to go to our 'several places of worship, and there offer up thanks to Kind Providence which has brought our nation through the scenes of another year, and blessed the land with peace, plenty and prosperity.' Then as Americans we have reason to rejoice and congratulate ourselves on the greatness of our beloved country; at this the close of the first hundred years of experimental government of the people, by the people, and for the people. To be a citizen of this vast country is something, and to share in its privileges and duties is more than something." - Dr. Benjamin W. Arnett, 1876 "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon" - Library of Congress - African-American SectionIf current generations of youth in America go to the LOC web site and read this lengthy Address by a remarkable Black scholar of history, Ohio State Legislator, and A.M.E. Bishop, who had lived through the years surrounding the Civil War, then their perspective might be enhanced, enlarged and encouraged by their pride in such an intellectual giant from America's history. Progressives talk a lot about "diversity." By the term "diversity," Progressives mean "diversity" of anything and everything except freedom of conscience, freedom of expression of ideas which differ from the "Progressive" agenda for "changing" America from adherence and devotion to the ideas of liberty outlined in its Declaration of Independence and structured into its Constitution for self-government.
Shame on them and all whom they control through fear!
The things we are witnessing are the consequences of decades of Progressive academic and government "elitists'" indoctrination of America away from its founding principles in the ideas of liberty and toward the cultish and oppressive ideology of Progressivism, an ideology which demands complete submission to "progressive" regressives who believe they are entitled, and were appointed, to rule over everyone else. A society where Progressives rule is a society where the ideas of liberty have been subordinated to the ideas of tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson, only days before his death on July 4, 1826, explaining his inability to attend a gathering to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration, wrote to Roger Weightman:
"I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made. may it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all) the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings & security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. the general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. for ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them." (Jefferson, June 24, 1826, to Roger Weightman, End of Jefferson quotation)
Thomas Jefferson, only days before his death on July 4, 1826, explaining his inability to attend a gathering to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration, wrote to Roger Weightman:
"I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made. may it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all) the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings & security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. the general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. for ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them." (Jefferson, June 24, 1826, to Roger Weightman, End of Jefferson quotation)
Yep, I won’t believe it until they dissolve the Department of Education and remove the State control of “education” and return it to parents and the local government. Just Laws need to be returned to the mother and father and the legal system back to truth and reason—Natural Law (the Natural Family)—basis of our “justice system”. We have a Vice System now which will corrupt and destroy reason in children and normalize evil and vile use of other people along with self (transhumanism/dehumanism of J. Huxley).
That includes parents taking over the ENTIRE curricula-—and the Textbook companies who destroyed the Truth, banned Classical Christian curricula—have to be eliminated. Rhetoric and Classical Christian education has to be returned because it is the only worldview compatible with freedom, Natural Law and true “Justice”.
The textbook publishing agencies were responsible for the destruction of the minds of the masses-—literally—for the Prussian system of mass indoctrination with lies and moral relativism (chaos) which creates satanists and Marxists, and pagans where dependency and socialism are normalized so human beings can be objectified and used in diabolical, vile ways-—like with sodomy and baby-killing and theft of private property (socialism/Marxism).
The Age of Reason and Christian Ethics which founded the scholastic period, the Age of Reason and the Constitution of the USA has to be taught again—not banned. We have to get rid of the Prussian system of mass indoctrination which destroys free will and virtue formation of our children.
We truly live in Orwellian times where Up is Down, Vice is Virtue and Slavery is Freedom. We allow the State or Feds to control the minds of our children-—it is INSANE!!!!! It is more insane than allowing screens to form little children’s Reality and “truth”. EVERY founding father knew that government was evil and even Socrates knew that when the State controls “education” of the masses, they will make slaves only (for the state).
Yes!
I meant PING look at this news.
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