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Department of Education Redesign
and inline with the republican "tea party" notion
that the department of education should be dismantled?
K12 FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
IS KILLING PUBLIC EDUCATION
"Just cause you know about something - doesn't mean - it's going to make any difference, you've got to act on it. What's plolitical is personal." ~ KE
SLAVERY FREE K12 EDUCATION DIRECTORY
CAN YOU SAY THIS 5 TIMES IN A ROW?
WHY AN AMERICAN EDUCATION USE TO PRODUCE THE SMARTEST COUNTRY ON EARTH !!!
The "Experts" are all Business Executives, EducRATS, E-CONomists, Administrators, and Politicians, but not the Creatives or Master K-12 Teachers!
EDUCATION IS A 700 BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY !
Foundations often represent the main source of funding for new educational organizations: the philanthropic equivalent of venture capitalists. And because they naturally focus on their “core competencies,” their understanding of education effectively determines what gets innovated or, in the case of curriculum, doesn't. No one is a teacher and no one is highly qualified in their content area.
FACTS:
U.S. Department of Education,
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has a $160 billion budget
and
serves
56 million students.
This King can spend $5 billion any way he pleases!!!
Three out of ten 9th graders fail to graduate High School. Over 100 Billion allocates Stimulate Pckg. for Education. His discretionary 5 Billion is bigger than the whole budget was in 1970. Duncan is a puppet for test prep big business.
Education According to Mike Milken With K12, the largest U.S. operator of taxpayer-funded online schools, and the former junk-bond king has figured out how to make money in education. Is this a good thing?
K12.COM, the country's largest online for-profit virtual middle school, like K12 with its 81,000 students nationwide and $21 million in profit.
Tom Loveless, an education researcher at the Brookings Institution who worked as a paid consultant for K12 in its early years said: "What they keep forgetting is we're not talking about college students here. We're talking about high schoolers and young kids. The idea that parents go to work and leave their kids in front of a computer -- it's absurd."
An analysis shows that students' test scores drop after they enroll in online schools. Department of Education fails to monitor online schools, the lax oversight has continued.
Grading the Digital School: Blackboards, Not Laptops Silicon Valley Digital Elite send their kids to schools with no tech at all.The Waldorf method is nearly a century old, but its foothold here among the digerati puts into sharp relief an intensifying debate about the role of computers in education.
Articles in this series are looking at the intersection of education, technology and business as schools embrace digital learning.
K12.COM INC. and EDUCATION REFORM IS A BRAND:
Psychologists had already determined you choose your favorite products (EDUCATION REFORMS) often not by their inherent value, but because the marketing campaigns and logos and such have cast a spell over you called brand awareness. You start to identify yourself with one marketing campaign over another. The brands hope their marketing campaign has built enough expectation in your consciousness to lead you to their product. All things equal, you refer back to the advertising or the packaging or conformity with your friends and family. Presentation is everything. Actually, just about every retailer depends on this. Presentation, price, good marketing, great service -- it all leads to an expectation of quality. The actual experience at the end of all this is less important. As long as it isn't total crap, your experience will match up with your expectations. Your expectations are the horse, and your experience is the cart. You get this backwards all the time because you are not so smart.
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WRAPS ITS ARMS AROUND THE BIG PICTURE.
IT IS HARD TO CATCH A THIEF WHEN THEY HAVE DONE A MILLION THINGS
BUT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT ALL THE EXAMPLES PROVIDED ADD UP TO THE BIGGEST ROBBERY IN AMERICA ...
MORE THAN MONEY . . . AMERICA HAS LOST AN INFORMED CITIZENRY.
Keeping an independent eye on schools and education.
At last count, there were
245 millionaires in congress, including 66 in the Senate.
HOW TO STEAL $63.7 BILLION DOLLARS
Surveillance Is A Brand: In K - 12 schools, "new military and corrections technologies are quietly moving into the classroom with little oversight." It's making our schools a "fertile ground for prison tech," Mother Jones reported. "For millions of children, being scanned and monitored has become as much a part of their daily education as learning to read and write." All of this surveillance is supposed to keep students safe, but there are some states that would like to dump public school surveillance data into federally-funded fusion centers. In fact, KC Education Enterprise reported that the "Kansas Fusion center wants to gather intelligence in public schools." At a Kansas Safe and Prepared School conference, Jeremy Jackson, who is associated with the Kansas Intelligence Fusion Center (KIFC), spoke on how schools could participate in and benefit from KIFC's "intelligence analysis and information sharing capabilities." Idea being pitched to universities as a "crystal ball" to stop future violence by data mining and analyzing all college students' online activities.
GUARD YOUR PRIVACY: the fuel that powers the engine of Internet commerce is the personal data that belongs to YOU and YOUR CHILDREN.
How the Reform Game Works 27 million no bid contract.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3JbpnsCops
NYC's former Chancellor, Joel Klein, now works for Murdoch, and has been put in charge of his "internal investigation" of this scandal. At the same time questions have been raised surrounding several no-bid contracts that the NY State Education Department and the NYC Department of Education intend to award Wireless Generation, the company that Murdoch bought immediately after Klein announced he would run Murdoch's new online learning division.
What does educRAT Bill Gates know about education?
- WHAT DOES BILL GATES KNOW ABOUT IT? THIS RICH MAN NEVER WENT TO A PUBLIC SCHOOL IN HIS LIFE!
- |FINANCIAL LITERACY| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Race to the Bottom
- THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE has its own Wikipedia entry. Bill Bennett predicted this in 1987.
K12 READING PROGRAMS DESIGNED
TO PUMP THE PRISON SUPPLY CHAIN PIPELINE
THAT PROVIDES SLAVE LABOR
FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.
HOW TO EMPLOY A CONVICT THAT TAKES JOBS AWAY FROM AMERICANS
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
"You can't depend on your judgment
when your imagination is out of focus."
~ Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Best Advice is that you must make your own decisions and think for yourself.
"The published price of college continued to climb in 2010-11, according to "Trends in College Pricing 2010," the newest installment in a series of annual reports issued by the College Board. To explore tuition trends at a particular college or university, start by choosing an institution type and a state, and then select an institution. You will then be able to compare its tuition and fees with those at other institutions, stretching back to 1999."
Not Everyone Needs College
The Elite Admissions Game. Where are our Vocational Training Centers that we use to have? EducRATS chasing slave labor around the world so who needs training when there are no jobs, right?
The Chronicle of Higher Education: “The portrait that emerges is of a culture that's insanely obsessed with pedigree,” Its story highlights this quote from a hiring manager at a top investment bank: If someone from Rutgers, for example, sends a resumé, “I'm just being really honest, it pretty much goes into a black hole.” NY Times story about whether it's worth the extra dough to go to an expensive, elite school. Do grads from such joints make more money post-graduation than if they'd gone to less-selective institutions?
The short version: No and why It's a losing Game.
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study matematics and philosphy, geography, natual history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture....."
A college education was meant only for White Boys who were Sons of the Boston Brahmins Elite, who grew up in private schools and didn't have to work for a living.
What are the biggest money makers in the world today? The same as always Drugs, Slavery, Banking, War, and Politics.
2011-2012 PayScale College Salary Report.
PayScale survey confirms engineering degree holders are top earners. The annual PayScale survey results show that for those looking for the quickest financial return on their degree, engineering can be the way to go.
Research shows Children from Shanghai, China are the Smartest in the World and even if Communist China controls all media 24/7 - 360 at least the people can read !!!
The U.S. is currently 21st, 23rd, and 25th among 30 developed nations in science, reading, and math, respectively.
The challenge of preparing students for college and, once they are there, IS TO FINISH.
June 8th, 2011
Many high school graduates now enter college ill-prepared to tackle the coursework. Nationwide, about 1/3 of 1st year college students require one remedial course. At two-year public colleges, the number rises to 42%. And for those students who do enroll in those "catch-up" classes, many do not complete the requirement and tend not to return to school. Last year, colleges spent about $33 million on remedial education, twice as much as they did 10 years ago. Should colleges offer remedial courses? Why do so many high school students need help? And how can high schools work more closely with colleges to assure graduates are prepared? We talk with two experts in the field — THOMAS BAILEY of Columbia University's Teachers College and JOSEPH MERLINO, ( Not THAT Joey Merlino) Listen to the mp3
Study recommends an interdisciplinary approach: skills in context to skills needed for the job or in concert with what an employer needs. Degree's or Certs designed to deliver skills needed by employers.
President of the 21st Century Partnership for STEM
(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
101 West Elm Street Suite 350 Conshohocken, PA 19428
Phone: 610.825.5644 info@21pstem.org
$10 million grant over five years from the Institute of Education Sciences within the United States Department of Education to establish a national center called, The 21st Century Center for Research and Development in Cognition and Science Instruction.
FAIL: NO ACCOUNTABILITY ! !
They waste the 10 million of tax payers money on something we already know which should be spent making sure every child learns to read.
Contact Great Guy Rich Thoma Space Enthusiast G+ Circle - Memorial Day Weekend 2012 - May 26, 27 & 28 Space Festival follows throughout the First Week of June 2012
We need DESIGN ARTISTS not more "University Partners" in the education management pipeline stealing tax payer money for telling us what we already know.
AND whose PH.D's have never taught in an elementary, middle, or high school ONE SECOND of their lives!!! What do they know? FAIL: NO ACCOUNTABILITY ! !
THERE IS NO PROOF THAT FOR PROFIT
K12 VIRTUAL CHARTER SCHOOLS
GET BETTER RESULTS THAN YOUR LOCAL DISTRICT SCHOOL
YOU
CAN HANDLE
THE TRUTH!
3 national studies that now show no discernible benefits for children attending charter campuses relative to their peers in regular public schools.
ACCOUNTABILITY
$chool "Reform" Rhetoric
"$chool Reform"
3 national studies that now show no discernible benefits for children attending charter campuses relative to their peers in regular public schools.
WHY The Federal Department of Education must be Redesigned!
America's system of public schools is a bedrock of the Republic whose mission is to serve the commons for the good of the country not private enterprise and the corporation.
We show you why the Federal Department of Education needs to redesigned, which of course means all State Departments of Education would fall inline which they do now. No one seems to understand what these institutions are really set up to do' and that what they do is not in our interest - our public interest - the common interest for the common good of the country - but in the interest of business. Unless this is explained in simple understandable language no one can talk about it.
We are furious about it, that is why we put all this information in one place.
It's Your Turn
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Show them you agree - Make them nervous.
You can be just like James Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington.
A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down. 1939
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CALL TO ACTION!
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
YOU CAN
SPEAK TRUTH
TO POWER
"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
~ Bill Vaughan"
Call your Representative
Call your Congress Person
Call your News Station
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There is
No Magic
when politicians
and their friends are involved.
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IDENTIFY THE EDUCATION LOBBIESTS PUSHING THE AGENDA TAKING YOUR MONEY
STOP officials from giving your money away to their friends.
During the 2008 election cycle, more than $5.2 billion was spent by candidates, political parties and interest groups, according to data compiled by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics In 2010 -- a year that did not include a presidential election -- $3.6 billion was spent. Of course, 2012 has the potential to break all records. Only 0.04% of Americans give in excess of $200 to candidates, parties or political action committees -- and those donations account for 64.8% of all contributions.
Q. What do these Regional Educational Laboratories contribute?
Answer: nothing but make work jobs.
FAIL: NO ACCOUNTABILITY ! !
They waste the tax payers money that should be spent making sure every child learns to read.
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English Folk Poem, circa 1764
Redesign the Federal Department of Education and Save Public Education
They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.
The poor and wretched don't escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common'
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back.
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