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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Missouri Education Watchdog: Economics Assignment Questions Educational Local Control and Radical Far Right Wingers

Missouri Education Watchdog: Economics Assignment Questions Educational Local Control and Radical Far Right Wingers:

Economics Assignment Questions Educational Local Control and Radical Far Right Wingers

What are your college students learning?  This is from an Economics Assignment at Lansing (MI) Community College :




What do you think the aim of these questions are?  Will these questions lead to true critical thinking or are they disguised as indoctrination?  Who are the present day radical far right wingers who are trying to transform countries into fascism?  In America, did those radical far right wingers cause the bankruptcy in Detroit, the failure of public/private partnerships using stimulus money (Solyndra and Fiskar), and the phony scandals of:
  • Benghazi
  • Data mining on select political groups from the IRS
Look at question 3.  Some would argue that control over education policy should be heavily controlled by local