Gates Foundation and Scholastic Corporation report that teachers love the Common Core!

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Friday October 03, 2014 · 10:24 AM PDT

2014/10/03 · 10:24

Teachers, parents and public school advocates way want to play the YouTube video of Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy song while reading this blog post.

The USA Today headline reads, “Survey: Common Core standards working well.”

In other words, the USA Today and other “main stream media outlets” are telling the Common Core naysayers to sit down and shut up with all this anti-common core mush.

How do we know the Common Core standards are working well?

Because the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the driving force behind the Common Core and its unfair, inappropriate and expensive Common Core Testing Scheme, along with one of the companies that will profit most from the implementation of the Common Core, have a new public opinion survey showing that public school teachers love the Common Core.

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Monday February 17, 2014 · 9:47 AM PST

2014/02/17 · 09:47

David Sirota’s recent series of investigative articles about the extraordinary conflict of interest displayed by the Public Broadcasting Service and WNET has sent shock-waves through across the country.

Sirota’s articles include;

The Wolf of Sesame Street responds to Pando – much bark, no bite, still stonewalling

The Wolf of Sesame Street: Revealing the secret corruption inside PBS’s news division

Why won’t PBS release details of its $3.5m deal with a billionaire? Here’s a possible answer.

BREAKING: PBS to return John Arnold’s $3.5 million, following Pando exposé

How PBS is becoming the Plutocratic Broadcasting Service

The articles revealed that the Public Broadcasting Service accepted $3.5 million from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to pay for a series called The Pension Peril. John Arnold being the billionaire, former Enron trader.

The PBS series appeared to be slanted in such a way as to represent the conservative, anti-public employee sentiment of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.

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Sunday February 02, 2014 · 2:30 PM PST

2014/02/02 · 14:30

What happens when a superintendent of schools stands up and speaks out!

For more than two years many Connecticut teachers, public school advocates, parents of public school students and others have been warning about the dangers that will result from Governor Malloy’s corporate education reform industry initiative.

When public school teachers recently gathered in large groups at events sponsored by their teacher unions, legislators started to take notice.

When West Hartford Teach Elizabeth Natale wrote her Hartford Courant commentary piece entitled, “Why I Want To Give Up Teaching,” the fundamental message went “viral” and even Governor Malloy, the one who introduced the most anti-teacher, anti-union, pro-charter school, anti-public education reform bill of any Democratic Governor in the country was forced to lower his arrogance a bit and come down from on high to pretend to address teacher’s concerns.

In a letter that is equally as powerful, the Superintendent of Schools in Madison, Connecticut, Thomas Scarice met with local officials and state legislators in his area and read them a letter he had written about the environment surrounding public education in Connecticut.

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Wednesday January 22, 2014 · 1:38 PM PST

2014/01/22 · 13:38

The "elite" say the darndest things...

According to the cover of the most recent issue of Yale Alumni Magazine: “Yale College seeks smart students from poor families. They’re out there—but hard to find.”

The cover of the January/February issue of Yale Alumni Magazine is a drawing of what appears to be a man in a suit precariously standing on the top step of a ladder trying to pick a piece of fruit from a large fruit tree. His arm is outstretched as he reaches past the “low hanging” fruit to some of the fruit higher in the tree.

The headline reads: “Reaching beyond the low-hanging fruit.”

The subtitle reads: “Yale College seeks smart students from poor families. They’re out there—but hard to find.”

Smart students from poor families… They’re out there—but hard to find?

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A CT superintendent speaks: Madison’s Thomas Scarice and the Power of Truth

“Yale College seeks smart students from poor families. They’re out there—but hard to find.”