Category: Education – Change and Development
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My Handout For Peregrine Books Presentation
Dear 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 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…
INTRODUCTION: 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…
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Get rich! Your Guide For Distorting Education To Access Tax Dollar$$$
At this time in American history anyone with gumption and a disregard for children and their futures, or the future of America, can obtain wealth, help destroy public district schools, and gain access to the education tax dollars citizens pay. Here’s how You can become wealthy: Get rid of locally elected boards of education. Many…
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Part I: The Dismantling Of Comprehensive Education: A Case Study.
(3 parts combined in this blog) Decades, ago, Arizona along with most other states, set standards for public education curricula. The state’s educational leaders defined what children need to know and be able to do in at least ten interdisciplinary content areas: mathematics, reading, writing, the sciences, social studies and civics (local, state, and national…
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A Plan Of Action To Save A Cohesive Union
“One Nation” cannot exist if its citizens do not have common language, culture, and understanding of freedom and how it is preserved. Recent attempts to destroy the American public educational system that has provided this cohesiveness may result in the end of our freedom and greatness. The success of those who are destroying public education…
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A Horrible Manifestation Of A Cultural Lag
All that befalls education today is caused by disconnected assumptions about unproven ideologies. Garbage thinking accepted as truth. Fact-adverse mentalities running their undisciplined stupidity as if they know what they are doing and where the rest of us need to go. I no longer discount the dirty, ugly forces of greed that sacrifice the American…
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What We Do To Our Children
What we think we do to and for our children is quite different from what we actually do. What we think is happening for our children and the future of America, is based upon lack of knowledge about how education and our schools work and what a whole or complete school should be. As we…
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DIGITALS ARE CREATING A NEW UPPER CLASS.
Everyone talks about education’s problems now and back when. We react to things that have already happened. We are so caught up in the past and trying to understand the present that we fail to acknowledge major forces of change that make knowledge of where we are now of little value. We fail to recognize…