The United Nations has declared the years 2005 to 2014 to be the decade for Education for Sustainable Development.
According to the UN Bruntland Commission: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
In reality, it is a philosophy of redistributing wealth and destroying freedom.
A graduate school professor and clinical psychologist analyzes …and criticizes…the post-modern and post-national philosophy underlying the International Baccalaureate program
Instilling International Baccalaureate values in children starts at the elementary school level. “…the anti-American teaching in the primary years program is done in a very subtle way. It’s more about the “right way to be or the “right way to do things” or the “right way to think” and a lot of it is not the American Way.”
What are Middle School teachers saying about the “Middle Years Program” of International Baccalaureate? One teacher says, “Most teachers grimly accept MYP and quietly pay lip-service to it. If you sign a contract to work in an MYP school, you have to play the game….” Read more …
“This [International Baccalaureate] seminar opened my eyes to the fact that IBO [International Baccalaureate Organization] is more ideological than educational,” says one high school teacher in Maryland. Read what this and other high school teachers are saying about IB.
School Board members across the United States are debating the wisdom of adopting the International Baccalaureate program. Read some of their comments.
The promotional brochures and parent information meetings for International Baccalaureate emphasize the good features of the program. Now read what students are saying about their negative experiences with IB.
School District administrators who adopt the International Baccalaureate program describe it in flowery terms. However, read the comments of parents and taxpayers who actually know first-hand about the program.
Whatever happened to reading, writing, and arithmetic as the focus of teaching in public schools? This is what happens when the school feels the need to teach “Higher Order Thinking Skills” instead. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announces his push for “green” education. See the press release.