Missouri Education Watchdog: "Educational Bureaucracies Operate as if they are the Fourth Branch of Government"

Missouri Education Watchdog: "Educational Bureaucracies Operate as if they are the Fourth Branch of Government":

"Educational Bureaucracies Operate as if they are the Fourth Branch of Government"

by stlgretchen

Below is an excellent article on the Common Core Standards reprinted from The Georgia Public Policy Foundation:

The Georgia Public Policy Foundation is an independent think tank that proposes practical, market-oriented approaches to public policy to improve the lives of Georgians. 

Since 1991, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation has conducted scholarly research and analysis of state public policy issues and worked to educate citizens, policy-makers and the media. The Foundation is state-focused, independent, non-partisan and market-oriented in its approach. Its philosophy is that good public policy is based upon fact, an understanding of sound economic principles and the core principles of our free enterprise system – economic freedom, limited government, personal responsibility, individual initiative, respect for private property and the rule 

Arne Duncan Loses Another Teacher's Endorsement

by stlgretchen

Arne Duncan is having a tough time selling his educational reform as noted by a teacher in Dissident Voice..."a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice":

The terrorist leaders at the Department of Education hate what America stands for. They hate our individualism. They hate our creative thinking.  They hate every red-blooded American Norma Rae and are threatening our very standing in the world.  Our widgets (I mean students) used to be the best in the world. Now they’re outsourced.

These terrorists, led by Duncan, have murderous machines at their disposal; the spreadsheet,