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My name is Clyde Gaw.  I have been a teacher for 30 years now.While there are many reasons to vote for you, the education platform you have embraced, predicated upon high stakes standardized testing is not one of them. Let's be clear. There are two kinds of education in this World. The first is to provide children with experiences that will educate them for greatness by optimizing the development of their talents, gifts and innate capacities endowed to them through the forces of the Universe. The second form of education can be seen in oppressed societies where totalitarian states imprint onto the minds of children a narrow, select curriculum valued by the state. The keystone of current U.S. education policy, Race to the Top and the proposed Common Core State Standards that will be accompanied with high stakes standardized tests, promotes such a narrowed curriculum. Children will be forced to comply with non-consensual learning experiences and an intensification of high stake...

How are parents who are concerned about the corporatization and de-funding of public education viewed by plutocrats?

I make the argument that compelling 25-35 children to sit still in cramped desks in an 800 sq. ft room and forcing children to participate in non-consensual selected response assessments psychologically structured through radical behaviorism borders on the criminal.  After a hundred years of empirical research in cognitive science, it should be quite obvious to any and all education policy makers that learning experience and cultures of learning will affect or negate intellectual growth based on the genetic endowment of an individual. This question must be considered and education policymakers who ignore human genetics must be held accountable as they are responsible for the development of children's mental development via educational experiences they have created by mandating compulsory standardized high stakes tests. Apparently Arne Duncan doesn't understand metaphor. I took much delight in reading this article yesterday. Apparently I am whacky because I have been using robo...

  Yesterday's Indiana State Board of Education meeting portends of things to come. Apparently Pence and his cohorts at the Center for Education and Career Innovation didn't understand the voter's wanted change last election. It is by no accident that politicians and education deform technocrats are ignoring parents and teachers. They have received their marching orders from the corporate establishment. Here is the plan: Turn children into homogenized, standardized passive recipients of knowledge and prepare them for career ready roles as passive, obedient corporate widget workers. That is the plan.

The CCSS is an abusive micro-managing apparatus that guarantees teachers will teach to the test and mandates an educational pedagogy of fear, coercion and punishment. Despite slick subterfuge and propaganda to the contrary, the architects of the CCSS, backed by wealthy billionaires, are soft peddling an apparatus of mind control. “Career and college ready,” is a slogan that once deconstructed, reveals an educational structure that undermines creativity and freedom and while institutionalizing obedience and control. The CCSS imprints upon the minds of children an experience based on radical behaviorism without their consent. Like pawns in a massive chess game, as early as KDG, children are denied experiences that enhance their love of learning and instead forced to participate in massive amounts of high stakes testing and an education that emphasizes "informational text," over classical literature. There are two forms of education in this World. The first is to provide childre...

Common Core is the corporate establishment's attempt at coercing obedience and control into children's character while denying them an educational experience based on creativity and their innate capacities which require expert professional teachers. Of course expert professional teachers is something the corporate state would like to do without. CC micro-manages what teachers will do in the classroom. NO child will escape the fragmentation of the mind because they will be outside the decision making processes central to the experiences they will participate in. NO child will be able to engage in individual flights of development. The child's mind will be treated as a blank slate. The CC is totalitarianism and an attempt at soft control of the cognitive development of American children pure and simple.

One way to evaluate a society's civility to it's citizens is to qualitatively assess the degree to which it's young citizens are educated. From a pedagogical view, there are fundamentally two forms of education in this World. The first form is to provide children with opportunities to develop to their optimum potential. That means taking into account their innate capacities, interests and passions, providing them with democracy in education. The other form of education can be observed in totalitarian states. This form is an experience that negates individual's innate qualities and creative capacities. One that values standardization, homogenization, compliance and control. In totalitarian states, rulers do not want a dynamic populace. It is much easier to control individuals who cannot think for themselves, are susceptible to propaganda, who will obey authoritarian messaging and not ask questions. What are the affects of standardized learning experience and incessant hi...

Chris Christie berates NJ Public School Teacher Melissa Tomlinson after she asked him why he referred to NJ public schools as "failure factories" at the Rutger's University football rally on 11/2/13. Chris Christie believes he knows what's best for teachers. They need to be put (bullied) in their place! Problem is, when teachers who are on the front lines of public education classrooms speak out about higher class sizes, excessive testing, narrowing of the curriculum, influence of poverty on children's cognitive development and cuts to fine arts learning opportunities that exist in public education today, they are told by policymakers to sit down and shut up. Michael Cohen is the president of Achieve. He is a guy who has little empathy for children. Like Chris Christie, he believes a quality educational experience is one where children are to sit down, shut up and be compliant. Educational experience is a one way street. It doesn't matter if your circumstance...