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Common Core
Who is behind Common Core?
Can be described as somewhat of an incestuous relationship of sorts
The three groups, NGA, Achieve, and CCSSO were very instrumental in creating the standards. They’ll tell you that the states wrote the standard and there was a whole group of people from the states that participated. Evidence of this not being the case - read Florida Commissioner Tony Bennett’s Unsuccessful Attempt to Defend Common Core.
NGA - “National Governor’s Association”
Sounds government, like the Federal Reserve, but it has nothing to do with the government, it’s a trade association. NGA, along with CCSSO, owns the copyright to the standards. No one can change anything about those standards. The copyright on Common Core held by CCSSO/NGA – The fact that there are “terms of use” and a copyright shows that states have no local voice in altering the national standards, which were written behind closed doors in D.C. and which can be altered by their creators at any time without representation from the states governed by them.
- NGA – National Governors' Association (Trade association not a government agency) NGA along with CCSSO own the copyright to the standard. Gov. Haslam is on the Finance Committee.
- Achieve – organization created by NGA (primarily responsible for writing the standards).
- CCSSO – "Council of Chief State School Officers" (another trade association/organization)
Tennessee's Governor Haslam (for example) sits on the Board of Directors for "Achieve". (Cozy)
- Obama administration – Arne Duncan (Education Secretary)
- Rupert Murdoch/Joel Klein – Wireless Generation
- George Soros (Founder of Open Society)
- Pearson Foundation - UK publishing company
The Obama Children
Sidwell Friends in Washington, D.C. (where the children of Barack Obama go to school) and the University of Chicago Lab School (where the children of former White House Chief of Staff and now Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel go to school) reject straight jackets like the "Common Core" and promote the reading of children, young adult, and real literature.
Since 1988, the Pearson Foundation (sometimes called the “Pearson Education”) has been buying up all the educational publishing companies like McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin, but they allow these companies to keep their own name so it doesn’t appear to be what it really is- a monopoly.
– Sir Michael Barber (a radical left-wing Globalist - Pearson's chief education strategist)
Linda-Darling Hammond was Obama’s first choice for Secretary of Education. She was so radical the even the progressives in Washington DC would not accept her. We got Arne Duncan as choice #2.
- Jeb Bush – Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE) and “Chiefs for Change”
- Marc Tucker – long time associate of Bill and HIllary Clinton. (Education radical)
- David Coleman – His “Student Achievement Partners” played a leading role in developing Common Core Standards for math and literacy. He now sits as the head of the College Examination Board ($30M from Gates). Coleman said he will align the SAT with Common Core.
Think about how will that effect Home School, Private School? If you homeschool your children for the reasons that most people do and you want them to take the SAT, if they’re not taking CC, they will not be able to pass the SAT.
ACT is already aligned “What children need,” asserts Coleman, "is a close reading of 'informational text.' That’s what he calls non-fiction. No opinion, no flights of fancy. No creation of new worlds. The teacher’s job is to make sure kids stick just to the text, informational text,”pronounces Colman, “is what will give students the world knowledge necessary to complete as workers in the Global Economy” ... Coleman insists that teachers must train students to be workers in the global economy.
ACT is already aligned
“What children need,”
asserts Coleman,
"is a close reading of 'informational text.' That’s what he calls non-fiction. No opinion, no flights of fancy. No creation of new worlds. The teacher’s job is to make sure kids stick just to the text, informational text,”
pronounces Colman,
“is what will give students the world knowledge necessary to complete as workers in the Global Economy” ...
As though literacy is to prepare children only for a working environment. And as though personal opinion isn’t vital in a working environment.
Coleman insists that teachers must train students to be workers in the global economy.
This man now sits at the head of our College Examination Board and he was very instrumental in writing the standards. That’s another thing you’ll find as you research. It’s an incestuous relationship of sorts, all these people just keep moving from place to place as they work for Gates, and as they work for NCEE, and … See, over and over, as the same names keep re-emerging
- UNESCO – United Nations Education, Scientific Cultural Organization.
- The Big Three –
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Major funder for just about every facet involved in Common Core. (They have money all the way from the PTA to the president. They paid $1M to the PTA just to support CC.)
- Walton Family Foundation
- *Eli & Edythe Broud Foundation (Superintendent of Knoxville Schools (Mr. McIntyre) is a 2006 graduate of Broad Superintendent Academy).
The Superintendent Academy is a company that takes people from the business world, from military, from law, and trains them to get into the education field as improvisers and leaders. They pay for all their training, travel expenses, to implement the Brode philosophy and agenda for education.
- Nov. 11, 1992 Marc Tucker (President – National Center of Education and the Economy - NCEE) sends the infamous “Dear Hillary” letter.
Find out more about HIllary and her connection to the education agenda HERE.
Dear Hillary Letter Download "The Marc Tucker 'Dear Hillary Letter' "(pdf)
This letter clearly laid out a plan "to remold the entire American system" where curriculum and "job matching" will be handled by government functionaries controlled primarily by the President and others in the United States executive branch who form partnerships with selected private corporate companies and foundations. This is now the blueprint for the Common Core plan.
From Marc Tucker - Nov. 11, 1992
"Dear Hillary" Letter
18 page letter lays out a plan to
"Remold the entire American System" into
"a seamless web that literally extends from Cradle to grave and is the same system for everyone."
Coordinated by
"a system of labor market boards at the local, state and federal levels"
where curriculum and
"job matching"
will be handled by councelors
"accessing the integrated computer-based program.
Tucker's plan would change the mission of the schools from teaching children academic basics and knowledge to training them to serve the global economy in jobs selected by workforce boards. Very little in this comprehensive plan has anything to do with teaching school children how to read, write, or calculate.
Tucker's ambitious plan was implemented in three laws passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in 1994: the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, the School-to-Work Act, and the fifth reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. These laws establish the following mechanisms to restructure the public schools throughout America:
1. Bypass all elected officials on school boards and in State legislatures by making federal funds flow to the Governor and his appointees on workforce development boards.
2. Use a computer database, a.k.a. "a labor market information system," into which school personnel would scan all information about every schoolchild and his family, identified by the child's social security number: academic, medical, mental, psychological, behavioral, and interrogations by counselors. The computerized data would be available to the school, the government, and future employers.
3. Use "national standards" and "national testing" to cement national control of tests, assessments, school honors and rewards, financial aid, and the Certificate of Initial Mastery (CIM), which is designed to replace the high school diploma.
Designed on the German system, the Tucker plan is to train children in specific jobs to serve the workforce and the global economy instead of to educate them so they can make their own life choices.
For more about Hillary involvement in America Education, go to News and Issues, Saul Alinsky, Education
"But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the information of the people. In no country, is education so general - in no country have the body of the people such a knowledge of the rights of men and the principles of government. This knowledge, joined with a keen sense of liberty and a watchful jealousy, will guard our constitution and awaken the people to an instantaneous resistance of encroachments."
Noah Webster - 1790
"Father of American Scholarship and Education"
Common Core is clearly unconstitutional. - "Nullification" is the "Rightful Remedy"
More: The People Behind Common Core & CSCOPE
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