Author: EdwardBerger
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The Only Effective Way To Change Our Educational System
What do we do to change the effectiveness of our schools? In loco parentis we guarantee every child the same care and opportunities that we good parents provide for our children. What does that mean? Take Bill Gates as an example of the dichotomy between what he does for his children while ignoring the basic…
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Organizing Communities To Save Good Schools
Destroy the good to reform the weak? What can communities that have good schools do to stop the destruction of their schools and the weakening of their societies? Is the movement to reform education driven by educators working for children, or forces determined to destroy the American Dream and establish a new type of feudalism?…
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Good People Don’t Lie. The Intentional Omission Of Facts Is Lying
Another community meeting. Our state politician stands in front of two-hundred concerned and ready- to-help citizens. The meeting was called by concerned parents and teachers; people who believe that open, honest discussion and examination of facts will help save our public schools. The meeting progresses and all of the information given by the organizers about…
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The Free Enterprise System Of Slavery
At this time in our history, We The People have lost rights we assumed we have: 1) The right to a fact-based secular education in publicaly supported schools with elected boards and elected representatives who wisely enforce policy and distribute tax dollars; 2) The right to vote for candidates of our choosing, not those selected…
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Saving Your Community Means Saving Our Nation
Ask any of the present education reformers who are set upon destroying our schools how education works. Ask what our schools do for our kids, their families, our communities, and our nation. Ask any of them what actually happens in classrooms: The socialization, and the mastery of foundation skills for individuals to use to be…
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My Handout For Peregrine Books Presentation
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in Amassed wealth, Charter Schools, Community Education, Corpocracy, Corporate for-profit schools, Education, Education – Change and Development, Educational Leadership, Educational solutions, For profit education, For Profit Schools, National Education Dialogue, On-Line Schools, Private Education, Public Education, teacheer evaluation, teacher evaluation, Uncategorized, Virtual Schools, Whole Schools CurriculumDear Friends, The intent of Vital Lies is to provide a format for local and national discussion. Vital Lies took over 10 years to research and write. It was released in eBook format in 2012 and is available globally. In January, due to intense pressure from friends, the first printing as a paperback was released.…
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It’s The Economic System, Stupid!
I like the expression, “Light at the end of the tunnel.” When there is no place to go into the future, the futility disease kicks in and human beings crash with no hope of achieving the American Dream. When a political/economic system fails and people are piled-up in economic morasses, no teacher or school or…
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The Damage Ideologues Do
Ideologues assume that they can move society forward. They are usually attractive, charismatic, able to sell themselves and ideas they support. They are useful to politicians, and to those who want to exploit others to enhance their personal wealth and power. One of the most disturbing characteristics of ideologues is their belief that they have…
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The Corpocracy Destroying The American Dream
When the few are able to amass the wealth of the many, freedom ends and totalitarianism begins. Maybe it is a universal law? In every human organizational structure, be it religious or political, a few are able to create ways of amassing the wealth. These few then determine how it will be distributed, if at…
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Please Read This Excerpt From Vital Lies…
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in Charter Schools, Community Education, Corporate for-profit schools, Education, Education – Change and Development, Educational Leadership, Educational solutions, For profit education, For Profit Schools, National Education Dialogue, On-Line Schools, Private Education, Public Education, teacher evaluation, Virtual Schools, Whole Schools CurriculumINTRODUCTION: SETTING THE STAGE. (Footnotes deleted for this WP blog) This book explores areas of weakness in our schools, provides examples of what needs to be changed, and gives examples of how this change can occur. It discusses the historical basis of the current system, political obstacles to change, and examples of re-structuring instructional delivery…