Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, has sent a letter to Secretary of Education DeVos praising the managed economies and “seamless”
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“My Child Is Not Common” are the words on the attention-getting signs carried by a group of white and African-American mothers protesting the adoption of the aggressively promoted Common Core standards. Common Core is scheduled to take over the testing of all U.S. kids, pre-K to 12, but parents are saying “no way” in every way they can.
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Barack Obama has now revealed that he unilaterally plans to use executive orders to “bypass” Congress. His shocking words were: “We are not just going to be waiting for legislation. … I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone. And I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions.”
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Marc Tucker’s New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has just received national publicity for a verbose report called “Tough Choices or Tough Times.” It’s larded with criticisms about our “expensive elementary and secondary education system” that produces “only mediocre results.”
Continue reading →Behind frequent protestations by public officials about local control of the schools, a federal curriculum has been quietly imposed by law.
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Tests, standards and accountability are the watchwords for public school education reform. Such good words! Can they do the job?
Continue reading →“School-to-Work” (STW) is bureaucratic jargon for imposing a new paradigm on public schools that de-emphasizes traditional academic studies and replaces them with vocational-technical (Vo-Tech) courses for all students.
Continue reading →Congress is about to pass legislation that will federalize every local school district and spell the end of local and state control of America’s public school classrooms. Mindful of Ronald Reagan’s words, “You can’t control the economy without controlling the people,” Bill and Hillary Clinton have found the way to control the economy by controlling America’s schoolchildren.
Continue reading →When Hillary Rodham Clinton charged that Bill Clinton’s impeachment was caused by a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” she displayed the typical paranoia of liberals.
Continue reading →Cut taxes across-the-board to put money in the pockets of all taxpayers. Cut rates — the proven way to keep the economy moving. Americans are overtaxed.
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On Sept. 25, 1998, Rep. Bob Schaffer placed in the Congressional Record an 18-page letter that has become famous as Marc Tucker’s “Dear Hillary” letter. It lays out the master plan of the Clinton Administration to take over the entire U.S. educational system so that it can serve national economic planning of the workforce.
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President Clinton has been bragging that the current budget deal, agreed to by the Republican Congress headed by Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott, includes the largest increase in federal spending on public schools in 30 years and the largest increase in federal spending on colleges in 50 years.
Continue reading →The Clinton Administration learned a big lesson from the defeat of its plan to take over the entire U.S. health care industry. Releasing its plan as a single 1,342-page bill in 1993 gave conservatives a large target to hit at and enabled them to identify at least a dozen fearsome features against which Americans could rally.
Continue reading →School-to-work (STW) is the most recent “reform” that is “restructuring” the nation’s public schools.
Continue reading →The phrase “New World Order” was not invented by President George Bush, but it was popularized by him in 1990 in order to resuscitate the then-moribund United Nations and make it a sponsor of his Gulf War. Like Saddam Hussein, the New World Order concept survived the Gulf War intact.
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