The Gulen schools use US taxpayer money, yet bring in Turkish teachers from Turkey to replace American teachers, and also have construction work done, not by local contractors but by workers brought in from Turkey.
Articles tagged with: International
The recently passed Washington State Charter Schools Initiative creates the potential for foreign owned charter schools. See how this can happen.
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.
“…As we can see, with the exception of Switzerland, the United States spends more than any other country on education, an average of $91,700 per student between the ages of six and fifteen…”