A Writer’s Blog

  • The Fake Education Reformers “Smoking Gun” that leads from Arne Duncan to the White House: Part 1

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: How do you deceive a nation? The answer is simple—by loading the dice, stacking the deck and dealing off the bottom. It’s called deceit! It’s called fraud! It’s called treason! And it’s a crime! This “Smoking Gun” leads from Arne Duncan to the White House because… Read more

  • Glenn Beck’s Angry and Ignorant Book About Common Core

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Over the years, we have seen a steady dumbing down of American culture, especially in the mass media. Whether newspapers, radio, or television, we have lost many of our well-educated, cultured, well-informed thinkers. Often they have been replaced by shock jocks, ranting talk show hosts, and an entire cable… Read more

  • The facts (and the truth) behind China’s #1 International PISA Test Scores

    Originally posted on iLook China: On December 4, 2013, a New York Times headline shouted: “Shanghai Students Again Top Global Test”, and once again, America’s vocal critics of the U.S. Public Schools called for more reform. Not so fast. In fact, maybe not at all. In China, the first nine years of education is compulsory… Read more

  • Veteran Medical Care through VA Neglected by Obama Administration and Congress

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: What’s going on? First the public schools and now the VA! First:Under President Clinton and a Congress dominated by a GOP majority, the Glass Steagall Act of 1933 that was meant to protect the United States from another Great Depression was repealed in 1990 leading to… Read more

  • I was never a POW but what about the next American War?

    Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: Two things happened in the last few days. First, I was shopping at Wholefoods and while waiting in line to buy dinner, I saw the cover of a May 2014 Economist Magazine with an Eagle sitting on a desktop globe and the banner headline asked: What Would America… Read more

  • President Obama’s Failure of Leadership

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Recently, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing reported on the release of a dozen years of 12th grade NAEP scores revealing the test-based accountability era of G. W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind and Obama’s Race to the Top with its seriously flawed and… Read more