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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 Fight For? The question haunting…
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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 draconian Common Core Standards has…
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Who Crowned Bill Gates the Emperor of Education?
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Over on Mercedes Schneider’s Blog, she tackles and criticizes Bill Gates view of the Common Core State Standards. “Bill defines standards as a ‘list of what kids are supposed to know’ at each grade level.” But Mercedes, Bill Gates is correct in his thinking—for computer programs stored on hard drives—not children.…
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Cherry picking facts without lying to make the bad look good or the good look bad
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: It’s easy to manipulate facts. The fake Ed reforms do it all the time to make the public schools look bad, and even some public schools cherry pick facts to look good. Technically what both sides share with the public are not lies, but they don’t paint a holistic and/or honest…
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Brainwashing Americans for Extremism, Power and Profit (Viewed as Single Page)
Beware of extremists of all types and those who worship at the altar of Milton Friedman’s greed and power.
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The Mad Dash Toward Oligarchy and the end of the People’s Democracy in the United States
If the United States loses its public schools to corporations owned and controlled by billionaire oligarchs, then the United States will no longer be the people’s democracy.
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Divorcing AT&T and breaking up with Yahoo!
Why would anyone stay with AT&T when their faster Internet connection is slower?
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David Brooks’ Amateur Cheerleading for the Common Core
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: The pundits of the New York Times are united in their love of the Common Core standards, and none seem to understand why anyone questions the standards. In order to explain a point of view, one must make the effort to hear the voices of critics without caricaturing them. Unfortunately, David Brooks has no…
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The more things change, the more they stay the same
Without public pressure, the wealthy will rule this country through the corrupting influence of their money and power just as they did before Theodore Roosevelt put a stop to that abuse.
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FULL COMMON CORE DOCUMENTARY MOVIE NOW ONLINE
Originally posted on COMMON CORE: Breaking News: The HSLDA has just released its Common Core documentary movie on its website. It is free to watch and can be viewed in full here: http://commoncoremovie.com/ –Or here: Please watch and share! ? ?
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