The Publisher | March 10, 2010
AAAAw, Jeez - here we go again! How dumb can we go? Everytime we touch the system - it goes further downhill - even though they promise it will make things better. (Ed.)
A panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents proposed a uniform set of academic standards on Wednesday, laying [...]
The Publisher | March 9, 2010
Last week, in Teachers were warned, I touched on the fact that teachers were warned that the results of the assessment of students would affect them; that if students did not demonstrate the wanted behaviors, as determined by the behaviorally oriented assessment, the teachers would suffer the consequences which could come in several forms, including [...]
The Publisher | March 7, 2010
If a manufacturer produces sub-standard or unsafe products, as in the current Toyota debacle, you can take your sub-standard or unsafe product back for repair or a complete refund, but when a public school district produces sub-standard students, there is seemingly no recourse. You cannot send your kid back to school, even if s/he cannot read [...]
The Publisher | March 7, 2010
A Rhode Island school board’s decision to fire the entire faculty of a poorly performing school, and President Obama’s endorsement of the action, has stirred a storm of reaction nationwide, with teachers condemning it as an insult and conservatives hailing it as a watershed moment of school accountability.
The decision by school authorities in Central Falls [...]
The Publisher | March 2, 2010
There has been a growing controversy — in Rhode Island and across the nation — about the firing of the teachers at Central Falls High School.
Teachers are in an uproar, the union is “outraged”, the parents are “outraged”, the students are surely “going to be traumatized” (But then, that seems easy to accomplish these days. [...]
The Publisher | February 23, 2010
I have reported many times in the pages of the DeWeese Report about how public school classrooms are being used, not for the teaching of academic knowledge, but for behavior modification to change the student’s attitudes, values and beliefs. Barack Obama is now driving to control classroom curriculum based on United Nation’s Globalism. Many parents [...]
The Publisher | January 13, 2010
The following essay was originally published in the Fall ‘91 issue of Whole Earth Review. It finally clarified for many, why American school is such a spirit-crushing experience, and suggested what to do about it.
Before reading, please set your irony detector to the on position. If you find yourself inclined to dismiss the below as [...]
The Publisher | December 31, 2009
Hear ye, hear ye! The 2009 award for the most Stupid Educational Fad goes to… all schools where spelling is no longer being taught; with special “Fickle Finger of Failure” prizes to administrators, school boards, state school boards, departments of education, and all others who believe that teachers should officially “stop teaching spelling”… as [...]
The Publisher | September 5, 2009
It is now a major issue across America with folks finally saying NO to AKA and his indoctrination efforts toward our kids.
I have scanned over many of my news sources - have rec’d many emails from folks around the country - all being related to the UPROAR over AKA’s attempt to sway our Children to [...]
The Publisher | September 3, 2009
~Foreword ~
You can now see that if we STAND UP and not back down we CAN BRING CHANGE - no the kind of *change* that AKA wants to push down our throats but the *change that brings back a Constitutional AMERICA.
Use this lesson to defeat this Government Health ACCESS plan. Get Government OUT of our [...]
