Bah! Humbug! Those of us educated before the Common Core will know what literary work is referenced by that exclamation. Okay, so those who watch movies may also know…but they will understand that the movie was made from the book. All that is changing. The Common Core English Language Arts standards will require 50% of […]

Have you been hearing about the “Common Core State Standards”? Here is a video which explains the frightening concept and which explains that this is just one component of a larger agenda. The speaker, Jane Robbins of the American Principles Project, begins the explanation with the Race to the Top program, but the roots of transformation of education began decades ago. A significant year was 1965 when federal moneys were first given to states bringing federal mandates to local districts, and another critical year was 1994 when Goals 2000 and the School-to-Work Opportunities Act were passed. President Obama’s Race to the Top program is the most recent step in the destruction of American education. Local control has been systematically destroyed. Please watch all five parts of this video.

This is a Federal School-to-Work document explaining the new education system which would have as it’s goal the training of human resources. Education would no longer be for the benefit and enrichment of the student; it would no longer be to equip the student with information and knowledge to meet life’s challenges.

The student would be subject to government-defined career tracks, and an obstacle course of assessments and certifications. Different certificates would be needed to enter the workforce. The government becomes the gatekeeper between citizens and their jobs.

This Federal publication gives a government job description of a large list of jobs, and explains how the government thinks this job is done. I doubt if a bureaucrat, sitting in Washington D.C. is familiar with all these jobs…such as manure-spreader, for example….yet here are the government specifications for these tasks.
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Hear Dr. Shirley McCune 1989 speech describing her ideal education system that would cure society’s ills. Now more than twenty years later….do we have the utopia she envisioned?

HR 1385, The Workforce Investment Act, was passed in 1998. It was just one more piece of the puzzle creating the School-to-Work system.

A letter from Marc Tucker, President of the NCEE to Hillary Clinton in 1992, sent soon after the presidential election.

December 10, 1996. Report by Diana Fessler, originally prepared for the Ohio State Board of Education, but also later presented to the Washington State Legislature because School-To-Work affects Washington and every other state as well.

From the testimony made by Lynne Cheney before the House Appropriations Sub-committee on Labor, Health, and Human Services and Education, February 3, 1998.

Speech given at a conference entitled “What Goals 2000 Means to the States,” February 12, 1997