Tag Archives: Arne Duncan

Pushing Parents Out, Biden Administration Further Weaponizes ‘Education’

Posted on October 30, 2021 by David E Smith

When it comes to education policy, the Biden administration is making the radicalism of the Obama years look mild by comparison.

The goal is to ultimately replace parents with bureaucrats and “experts” to facilitate the indoctrination of America’s youth. That transformation is accelerating.

Not only are the education system and America’s children being weaponized against America, federal law enforcement is now being weaponized against parents who speak out about it.

If left unchecked, catastrophe awaits. However, the more monstrous the federally directed abuses in schools become, the more outraged Americans join the fight.

The future of the nation is literally …

Posted in Education | Tagged Arne Duncan, Biden Administration, Common Core, COVID–19, Critical Race Theory, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Justice, Hillary Clinton, Kevin Brock, Merrick Garland, Miguel Cardona, Mike Braun, National Association of School Boards, Obama Administration, Ron DeSantis, Scott Smith, Terry McAullife, The 1619 Project | Comments Off

Big Brother Schools Using Big Data to Manipulate and Spy on Kids

Posted on May 19, 2021 by David E Smith

Using data primarily gathered through the public-education system, Big Brother and the collectivists running the government schools now know more about American children than their own parents do. The awesome powers offered by “Big Data” will blow your mind.

Posted in Education | Tagged Arne Duncan, Big Brother, BrainCo, Common Core, David Coleman, Ecological Momentary Assessment Robot, Education Week, Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics, Every Student Succeeds Act, Hillary Clinton, Social and Emotional Learning, u.s. department of education, UNESCO | Comments Off

New Trier High School Needs Accounting, Diversity, and Logic Lessons

Posted on February 27, 2017 by David E Smith

Much virtual ink has been spilled, money wasted, and fallacious arguments spewed by supporters of the bias inarguably present in the sessions offered on New Trier’s All-School Seminar Day titled “Understanding Today’s Struggle for Racial Civil Rights,” which takes place tomorrow Feb. 28. A closer look at the money spent and diversity ideology promoted—often through fallacious logic—may lead parents to do two things: 1. Keep their children home on “progressive” dogma day. 2. Pursue changes in future seminars with the doggedness and passion (if not the fallacious reasoning) of “progressives.”

Posted in Education | Tagged All-School Seminar Day, Andrew Aydin, Arne Duncan, Colson Whitehead, George Fornero, Glenn Singleton, Highland Park High School, Linda Yonke, New Trier High School, No Child Left Behind Act | Comments Off

National Takeover of School Curriculum

Posted on February 27, 2014 by David E Smith

Many people said Ho-Hum when Barack Obama threatened to change any law with his pen or phone, and even used that power to personally alter Obamacare and the welfare law, and to “legislate” the Dream Act that Congress refused to pass. But Americans are rising up by the tens of thousands to stop Common Core...

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Concerns About Common Core (Part 1)

Posted on August 27, 2013 by David E Smith

Most Americans have heard the term Common Core Standards (CCS), but many have little idea what those standards are, who created them, or what is troubling about those standards, which are a significant step in the movement toward nationalizing public education. What’s remarkable is that this governmental overreach is managing to achieve the nearly impossible: unify the political left and right. Even the extreme leftwing Wisconsin-based Rethinking Schools says that the process by which these standards were developed involved “‘too little honest conversation and too little democracy.’” CCS with their yawn-inducing name are anything but innocuous. Americans best turn off …

Posted in Education | Tagged Arne Duncan, Barack Obama, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Common Core, Common Core Standards, Diane Ravitch, Greg Forster | Comments Off

Arne Duncan New Education Secretary

Posted on December 16, 2008 by David E Smith

Obama searched the nation for the best candidate to serve as Secretary of Education, and, lo and behold, he found just the person right here in Illinois: Arne Duncan, current CEO of the Chicago Public School system.

To be fair, Duncan has earned praises from some quarters for his support of charter schools, his willingness to close failing schools, his support for greater student accountability, and his promotion of merit pay for teachers. Even conservative educational policy expert, Chester Finn, president of the non-profit Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, is pleased with …

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Vote on State-Subsidized Homosexual High School Looms

Posted on November 13, 2008 by David E Smith

Next week, the Chicago Board of Education will vote on the proposed Social Justice High School-Pride Campus that Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan has endorsed. Rumors are circulating that, despite Mayor Richard Daley’s explicit opposition to the school, the board intends to vote in favor of it.

The Windy City Times, a Chicago newspaper serving the homosexual and “transgender” population, explains that “the school will exist as a training hub on LGBT issues and social-justice curricula for teachers, both locally and nationally. Social-justice history, practices and discussion will be embedded in the curriculum, allowing for all students, including …

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A “Gay” High School for Chicago?

Posted on October 14, 2008 by David E Smith

Next Wednesday, October 22nd, the Chicago Board of Education will consider a proposal for a “gay”-friendly high school for homosexual and gender-confused students. The proposal already has the recommendation of School CEO Arne Duncan.

Despite the fact that 70 percent of Chicago high school students are testing below state standards and the sad reality that almost half of Chicago high school students fail to graduate, Chicago Public School (CPS) officials are seriously considering investing time, energy, and hard-earned tax dollars toward social engineering and the promotion of controversial views of homosexuality.

TAKE ACTION: Contact CPS Chief Arne Duncan and the …

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