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Common Core lessons blasted for sneaking politics into elementary classrooms

Mr.Nick said:
For starters the book didn't even accurately print the Second Amendment as it reads...

Do I really need to say anything more than that??
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yes, kind of the way debate works
so, share with us how that second amendment excerpt was in such error and why that is found to be moving our nation's children in the direction of the nazi youth

I don't even see how you find that NOT to be a problem (actually I do because you're a progressive and just don't care)....
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make me care. explain for me - and any other dubious reader - why your allegation should be found other than laughable
 
justabubba said:
by comparing the posts in debate politics forums, there is no comparison
i would hope you would rescind such a challenge
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DD implied that rightwingers aren't educated, so I asked him what his is. The uber-emphasis on education by the left is really misplaced considering it hasn't helped a single Democrat become more than liars.
 
American said:
DD implied that rightwingers aren't educated, so I asked him what his is. The uber-emphasis on education by the left is really misplaced considering it hasn't helped a single Democrat become more than liars.
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thanks for your 'educated' guess
 
justabubba said:
yes, kind of the way debate works
so, share with us how that second amendment excerpt was in such error and why that is found to be moving our nation's children in the direction of the nazi youth


make me care. explain for me - and any other dubious reader - why your allegation should be found other than laughable
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I already stated the answer and gave an explicit citation - which you literally danced around and now you're asking the same question....

Amazing...

What is wrong with you progressives?

It's like you pretend ideas don't exist because inconvenient truths devalue your argument - so you just ignore the ideas and ask the same question like it wasn't already answered...
 
ocean515 said:
Unlike u guys?

Democracy Alliance -

Founding Directors:

Rob McKay, Chair - Mother Jones, Salon, etc.
Anna Burger, Vice Chair, SEIU
Drummond Pike, Treasurer Tides Network, major funder of education based curriculum
William Budinger
Robert H. Dugger
Al Dwoskin
Dr. Gail Furman, ACSW, PhD
Robert A. Johnson
Steven Phillips
Charles Rodgers
Deborah Sagner
Michael Vachon - personal spokesman and advisor to George Soros
Rob Stein, Founder

Annenberg Learner

Part of Annenberg Foundation - Progressive Group partners with Soros and Peter Lewis, billionaire head of Progressive Insurance

Mission and History

Mission
Annenberg Learner's mission is to "Advance Excellent Teaching in American Schools." We have pursued this mission for more than three decades by funding and distributing multimedia resources for teachers (K-12 and college levels) to teach their subjects and to stay up-to-date in their fields. As our name Annenberg Learner implies, we focus on the teacher as a learner, as well as the student as a learner. In fact, all adults who are lifelong learners have enjoyed and benefited from using our resources.


This list of Progressive Machine forces, who are currently inside our Nations Public Schools can go on and on.

Here's a sliver of the list of causes the Progressive Machine support financially

ACORN
Air America Radio network
America Votes
AmericanForeignPolicy, [5]
Catalist, [6]
Center for American Progress
Center for Community Change
Center for Progressive Leadership
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CREW
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, [7]
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, [8]
EMILY's List
Kirwan Institute
Media Matters for America
New Democratic Network, [9]
People for the American Way, [10]
Progress Now
Progressive Majority, [11]
Secretary of State Project
Sierra Club
USAction
VoteVets, [12]
Young People For, [13]
Women's Voices. Women Vote., [14]
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Do you know who the Annenbergs are? That the Annenberg Learner is a division of the Annenberg Foundation, which was founded by Walter and Lenore Annenberg.

Walter_Annenberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Annenberg
They helped elect President Reagan. Walter was an ambassador to Great Britain under Nixon. He knew President Reagan since the 30's.

The Annenbergs conservative bona fides are very strong.
 
Gina said:
Do you know who the Annenbergs are? That the Annenberg Learner is a division of the Annenberg Foundation, which was founded by Walter and Lenore Annenberg.

Walter_Annenberg

Walter Annenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They helped elect President Reagan. Walter was an ambassador to Great Britain under Nixon. He knew President Reagan since the 30's.

The Annenbergs conservative bona fides are very strong.
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I know very well what the Annenberg Foundation is. I also know very well what it was when Walter Annenberg set it up. I also know what became of it when Walters daughter, Wallice Annenberg became Chairman upon her parents death. What it has become would cause it's founder, Walter, to roll over in his grave.

Today, the Annenberg Foundation, along with the Ford Foundation, and other multi-billion dollar trusts are part of the Progressive Machine, who have joined forces with George Soros and other radical Progressives, to push the progressive agenda.

If you want to refute these carved in stone facts, I would advise you get informed, because the facts are strong and irrefutable.
 
ocean515 said:
I know very well what the Annenberg Foundation is. I also know very well what it was when Walter Annenberg set it up. I also know what became of it when Walters daughter, Wallice Annenberg became Chairman upon her parents death. What it has become would cause it's founder, Walter, to roll over in his grave.

Today, the Annenberg Foundation, along with the Ford Foundation, and other multi-billion dollar trusts are part of the Progressive Machine, who have joined forces with George Soros and other radical Progressives, to push the progressive agenda.

If you want to refute these carved in stone facts, I would advise you get informed, because the facts are strong and irrefutable.
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He was nine years from the grave when his personal initiative, the Annenberg Challenge awarded Bill Ayers group a 49.2 million dollar grant for winning the Chicago challenge in 1993. Walter headed the foundation until his death in 2002. One of the core initiatives was the Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting, now the Annenberg Learner.

And it's Wallis.
 
Mr.Nick said:
I already stated the answer and gave an explicit citation - which you literally danced around and now you're asking the same question....

Amazing...

What is wrong with you progressives?

It's like you pretend ideas don't exist because inconvenient truths devalue your argument - so you just ignore the ideas and ask the same question like it wasn't already answered...
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[emphasis added by bubba for the reading impaired]

you offered no answer
only an opinion
and a very stupid one
one which you are unable to support when challenged to do so
why are you wasting our time when you could instead be reading some conspiracy rag
 
Gina said:
He was nine years from the grave when his personal initiative, the Annenberg Challenge awarded Bill Ayers group a 49.2 million dollar grant for winning the Chicago challenge in 1993. Walter headed the foundation until his death in 2002. One of the core initiatives was the Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting, now the Annenberg Learner.
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Annenberg Learner is an attempt to inject a Progressive Agenda into our Public Schools.

Perhaps you should visit the Annenberg Learner website and review the lesson plans and other school literature they provide.

Annenberg Learner - Teacher Professional Development

Google "Annenberg Foundation Tides Foundation Ford Foundation Knight Foundation"

Note how all of them appear on the same list of donors to the same type of liberal progressive causes.

There is no escaping the truth about Annenberg, or any of these other "foundations". What were once multi-billion dollar trusts set up by some of the titans of industry, are now controlled by Progressive ideologues determined to reinvent achievement into their own view of what people are allowed to become.
 
ocean515 said:
Unlike u guys?

Democracy Alliance -

Founding Directors:

Rob McKay, Chair - Mother Jones, Salon, etc.
Anna Burger, Vice Chair, SEIU
Drummond Pike, Treasurer Tides Network, major funder of education based curriculum
William Budinger
Robert H. Dugger
Al Dwoskin
Dr. Gail Furman, ACSW, PhD
Robert A. Johnson
Steven Phillips
Charles Rodgers
Deborah Sagner
Michael Vachon - personal spokesman and advisor to George Soros
Rob Stein, Founder

Annenberg Learner

Part of Annenberg Foundation - Progressive Group partners with Soros and Peter Lewis, billionaire head of Progressive Insurance

Mission and History

Mission
Annenberg Learner's mission is to "Advance Excellent Teaching in American Schools." We have pursued this mission for more than three decades by funding and distributing multimedia resources for teachers (K-12 and college levels) to teach their subjects and to stay up-to-date in their fields. As our name Annenberg Learner implies, we focus on the teacher as a learner, as well as the student as a learner. In fact, all adults who are lifelong learners have enjoyed and benefited from using our resources.


This list of Progressive Machine forces, who are currently inside our Nations Public Schools can go on and on.

Here's a sliver of the list of causes the Progressive Machine support financially

ACORN
Air America Radio network
America Votes
AmericanForeignPolicy, [5]
Catalist, [6]
Center for American Progress
Center for Community Change
Center for Progressive Leadership
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CREW
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, [7]
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, [8]
EMILY's List
Kirwan Institute
Media Matters for America
New Democratic Network, [9]
People for the American Way, [10]
Progress Now
Progressive Majority, [11]
Secretary of State Project
Sierra Club
USAction
VoteVets, [12]
Young People For, [13]
Women's Voices. Women Vote., [14]
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Wtf does any of this have to do with the price of tea in china?
 
You progressives, and liberals in here should watch this, and learn something.

 
j-mac said:
You progressives, and liberals in here should watch this, and learn something.

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Damn. You beat me to it!!!

Just saw this on LiveLeak and immediately grabbed it off YouTube to post here... and then... I see your post. Damn.

Great post by the way. :wink2:

This kid is insightful way beyond his years.
 
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Beaudreaux said:
Damn. You beat me to it!!!

Just saw this on LiveLeak and immediately grabbed it off YouTube to post here... and then... I see your post. Damn.

Great post by the way. :wink2:

This kid is insightful way beyond his years.
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Great minds think alike. :mrgreen:
 
j-mac said:
You progressives, and liberals in here should watch this, and learn something.

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This guy is 1,000% correct and said it so much better than I ever could.
 
j-mac said:
You progressives, and liberals in here should watch this, and learn something.

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"If everything I've learned is quantifiable, then I've learned nothing"

Seeing as how this is the core criticism that the left has been making, we don't need to learn anything

The right, on the other, has a lot to learn
 
sangha said:
"If everything I've learned is quantifiable, then I've learned nothing"

Seeing as how this is the core criticism that the left has been making, we don't need to learn anything

The right, on the other, has a lot to learn
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Trying to co opt this young mans message is low.
 
sangha said:
Which is why you should stop doing that.
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Here we go....:roll: Common Core is as wrong today as you thought NCLB was wrong for its time. The only difference? It's being pushed under an Obama administration, even though NCLB was largely written by Teddy Kennedy, most liberals bristle at that charge, and will deny it to their last breath.

I find the young man's message enlightening, refreshing, and right on. And the panel of overpaid administrators sitting there listening to it, with their six digit salaries, and their dismissive attitudes toward in the trenches teachers, and students will be dismissed probably before he was done giving it to them....And yet leaving aside the progressive attempt to subvert the curriculum involved with revisionist history among other things, it is the one size fits all cattle call that has progressivism thumb prints all over it....It should be trashed, and put something together at the local levels.....But that would take top down, centralized control away now wouldn't it.
 
j-mac said:
Here we go....:roll: Common Core is as wrong today as you thought NCLB was wrong for its time. The only difference? It's being pushed under an Obama administration, even though NCLB was largely written by Teddy Kennedy, most liberals bristle at that charge, and will deny it to their last breath.
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Why yes, CC is just as wrong as NCLB and RTTP. You say that as if it was news. It may be news to you, but it hasn't be news to me.

But I like how you pretend that bush* didn't push this. According to you, it was all Obama and Teddy

I find the young man's message enlightening, refreshing, and right on. And the panel of overpaid administrators sitting there listening to it, with their six digit salaries, and their dismissive attitudes toward in the trenches teachers, and students will be dismissed probably before he was done giving it to them....And yet leaving aside the progressive attempt to subvert the curriculum involved with revisionist history among other things, it is the one size fits all cattle call that has progressivism thumb prints all over it....It should be trashed, and put something together at the local levels.....But that would take top down, centralized control away now wouldn't it.
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I find it neither refreshing nor enlightening because for the left, his message is old news. Your continued effort to claim that this is a progressive movement has long since been disproven.
 
sangha said:
Why yes, CC is just as wrong as NCLB and RTTP. You say that as if it was news. It may be news to you, but it hasn't be news to me.

But I like how you pretend that bush* didn't push this. According to you, it was all Obama and Teddy
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Well La De Da for you! :roll: And I am not "pretending" anything....In case this is news to you, I don't think that Bush was a "Conservative"..... But the thing is, that regardless of all of that Obama owns CC, just like he owns the PPACA, Benghazi, NSA spying on Americans, Fast and Furious, and the rest of the absolute **** that he is supposed to be ultimately responsible for....Chew on that.

I find it neither refreshing nor enlightening because for the left, his message is old news. Your continued effort to claim that this is a progressive movement has long since been disproven.
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Nothing has been disproven, other than your own ability to have a civil conversation.
 
Gina said:
There is a 15% rule (guideline, no one is enforcing it) that a state can make changes.
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Yes, that was a fact from the video series I posted that you said was just a conspiracy theory. If you would've watched the series or just read through all the facts I listed for you from the series, you would've learned that pages ago. :)


I'm sorry. I'm on my phone and cannot easily find what rabbit had to say. Could you help me out?
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rabbitcaebannog said:
Again, I wonder how many teachers in third grade would agree having students read several perspective of a topic and critique the differences in POV of each author in composition form??? If they can't pull all these skills together they are deemed below the standard.
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Josie said:
Yes, that was a fact from the video series I posted that you said was just a conspiracy theory. If you would've watched the series or just read through all the facts I listed for you from the series, you would've learned that pages ago. :)
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This is from your post about the video:
1. Parents have no recourse to influence content standards. If parents, teachers, administrators, school boards, taxpayers feel as though a standard is too easy or too hard for students in K-12, they cannot change it. If their state has adopted Common Core, that standard must be taught and must be met by their students.
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Yes the state can add or subtract up to the 15%, and no one is enforcing that. They suggest not going beyond 15%, one direction or the other or the kids may not meet the CC goals. I don't see in that post that you mentioned the ability to add or subtract 15%. If any state won't allow their district to make changes, that's on the state and that's where Rabbit's concern should be addressed.
 
No, they cannot change a standard. Period. The standards are protected by copyright laws. Even if a district or state thinks a standard is too difficult so they aren't going to require their students to meet it, the kids will still be TESTED on it with the PARCC assessments.
 
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