Luetkemeyer Addresses Common Core Concerns With Arne Duncan
Via Missouri Coalition Against Common Core:
Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) has written, and is gathering co-signers in Washington for, a letter expressing serious concerns with the manner in which the US Department of Education has involved itself with Common Core standards. The letter also notes the highly irregular process used to change the Congressional FERPA allowing the sharing of individual student records. The letter was written with the oversight of the House Education & Workforce Committee and already has interest from republican representatives in UT, IN, KS, MN, MI and even a democrat in IL.
Here is the letter:
Please contact your member of Congress and ask them to cosign this letter. We also need to encourage our members of Congress to work to strip any Common Core funding with upcoming House appropriations bills.
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Peacefully Surrendering Our Republic
As Americans surrendered their educational system to the federal government, they also surrendered their republic.
During the 1960s, educational expert Benjamin S. Bloom wrote a set of Handbooks I through III which shaped ten educational goals for public schools. Nine of those goals focused upon changing the values and belief systems of American children so they would embrace Bloom’s vision of a “world view”. I remember that history textbooks used in my classroom in the 1970s typically provided only two sentences about America’s republic. One contained a superficial definition and the other stated that America was a republic. The rest of the chapter praised democracies.
We teachers had the freedom to provide supplemental materials that informed students that America’s founders were historians who were well informed about governments. Many teachers explained that our founders created a republic which provided God-given freedoms that cannot be taken away. Students read the writings of our founders which identified the many dangers inherent in democracies.
Those students would usually correctly answer questions about the type of government formed by the American Constitution. Students of dedicated teachers who diligently taught exactly what the textbook provided would remember wonderful things about a democracy and assume that America was a democracy.
Common Core State Standards and the International Baccalaureate curriculum share the same ten educational goals advanced by Bloom but with greater emphasis on transforming America. CCSS and IB focus on teaching