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Brainwashing Americans for Extremism, Power and Profit: part 2 of 3
The use of brainwashing techniques is used by the Right-to-Life crowd when they claim that “Abortion is murder, because it kills babies.” Read more
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Brainwashing Americans for Extremism, Power and Profit: part 1 of 3
An extremist is a person who holds extreme or fanatical political or religious views that are very far from what most people consider correct or reasonable. Read more
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Pearson Created the International PISA Test for 2015
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Pearson conquers the world! It holds contracts for Commin Core testing, for textbooks and curriculum Ligned to the Common Core, it owns the GED and a program for assessing would-be teachers (the edTPA), and it owns online charters called Connections Academy. Students are likelier to get higher scores on… Read more
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An example of a Financial World run by Milton Friedman Economic Thinking by looking at the Hunger Games
Three GOP presidents since 1945 are responsible for 62% of the federal National Debt of $17.9 Trillion—because of Milton Friedman economic thinking. Read more
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The Lack of Common Sense in the Common Core—rank and yank punishment—Agenda
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Its Black Friday and time to look closer at the corporate war against public education that’s supported by the neo-liberal Common Core agenda out of the Obama White House. The Common Core agenda mandates that all high school graduates must be college and career ready by… Read more
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Structural Racism: A Bleak Educational Future for Poor Children in America’s Metropolitan Areas
Originally posted on janresseger: In one of the essays in Twenty-First Century Color Lines (2009), Andrew Grant-Thomas and john a. powell, of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University, confront the idea that our greatest social challenges are the result of the attitudes and behaviors of individuals. … Read more