This post is shared with the permission of the author RJ Barnett, who is a constituent of Senator John Ford’s. Randy is from Bartlesville Oklahoma. Following this post is a copy of his letter to Senator Ford on topic. Please consider calling or writing your own letter on this important topic of stopping the implementation of Common Core in Oklahoma. Mine is here >>> others have written as well. Please share your letter in comments here!]
Many would ask “What can the righteous do if the foundations are destroyed …” Psalm 9
“To be ignorant of history is to forever be a child.” Cicero
THE Question of how Gov Fallin, the NGA and national promoters of Common Core fell under the Collectivist trance of the New World Order will NOT be addressed here. But you can trace the cause to a RINO ( Republican in Name Only ) who penetrated and subverted the Reagan movement. Now, in Common Core, we can see how Obama is running ahead with George Bush’s global education scheme.
Obama’s Education Secretary Arne “Dunk-em” Duncan outlined the following before a recent U.N. gathering
“In March of 2009, President Obama called on the nation’s governors and state school chiefs to “develop standards and assessments that don’t simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century skills like problem-solving and critical thinking and entrepreneurship and creativity… today, 37 states and the District of Columbia have already chosen to adopt the new state-crafted Common Core standards in math and English. Not studying it, not thinking about it, not issuing a white paper—they have actually done it. Over three-fourths of all U.S. public school students now reside in states that have voluntarily adopted higher, common college-ready standards that are internationally benchmarked.. “
Meaning and proper context is essential to break the code in Duncan’s educationist terminology. What is meant by “21 st century”, pray tell?
And be MINDFUL, that the American family and education system was BROKEN Down in order to REBUILD us according to a new ethos. Thorough documentation of this multi-generation breakdown is provided by Ronald Reagan’s #2 Education appointee & POLICY chief sent to reform Jimmy Carter’s NEA pay-off, the federal Dept of Education. Charlotte Iserbyt, a granddaughter of the most elite Ivy League/Yale families was able to discover from covert research in the erly 1980s . (brief testimony here):
“better education through technology … what we at the federal level can control and manipulate”
— pt. 3-, (15 min.) – she exposes the depths of penetration .. as “Marxist” — neo-Conservative-style (soviet-ized) Big Government –
Before she could advance the Reagan agenda, Iserbyt was removed by the Bush people in the bureaucracy: am-Bushed.
Dunk’em Duncan goes on to say:
“The second game-changer is that states have banded together in large consortia to develop a new generation of assessments aligned with the states’ Common Core standards. In September, I announced the results of the department’s $350 million Race to the Top assessment completion to design this next generation of assessments.
Two state consortiums, which together cover 44 states and the District of Columbia, won awards. These new assessments will have much in common with the first-rate assessments now used in many high-performing countries outside the U.S. When these new assessments are in use in the 2014-15 school year, millions of U.S. schoolchildren, parents, and teachers will know, for the first time, if students truly are on-track for colleges and careers.
“I admit that President Obama’s 2020 college attainment goal is ambitious. To meet it, roughly 60 percent of young adults will need to have an earned an associate’s or bachelors’ degree by the end of the decade, up from 42 percent today.
We made a great start in expanding college access this year with the passage of health care reform, which also freed up $40 billion for Pell Grant scholarships for low-income undergraduates. That is the biggest increase in student aid in the U.S. since the 1944 GI bill. And the new law also granted $2 billion to community colleges to help them produce millions more graduates.”
CLASSIC FEDERAL CONTROL TECHNIQUES-
“The four assurances got their name from the requirement that each governor in the 50 states had to provide an “assurance” they would pursue reforms in these four areas—in exchange for their share of funds from a Recovery Act program designed to largely stem job loss among teachers and principals.”
Remembering our HISTORY — what Iserbyt found deep in the 1980;’s agenda for global Marxist education
“better education through technology … what we at the federal level can control and manipulate” — DoEd document
“The first assurance was that states would work toward developing academic standards that truly show if a student is ready for college and a career when they graduate from high school. Under the existing system, many states had dummied down academic standards to make students look proficient. While that helps politicians look good, it was bad for children, bad for education, and bad for states’ long-term economic prosperity. Many states were in effect lying to students and parents, telling them that students were ready for careers and college when they were nowhere near ready.
The second assurance governors provided was in the area of data systems. More robust data systems and a new generation of assessments can assist teachers and principals to improve their practices and tailor their instruction in ways that were largely unthinkable in the past.”
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Let me close for now … but look for more to follow as we watch the RINO Follies of John Ford and the State Chamber –directed Senate plunging Oklahoma deeper into the Bush-Obama dream … the nightmare of a New World Order.
Please feel free to share this with local parents, friend and associates –
A call to Senator Ford would remind him who he is supposed to be serving.
Senator John Ford is Chairman of the Education Com– 918-914-9300 (m) Office- 405 521-5634
[so far he is refusing to even hear the bill SB1146 in his committee]
[From Randy Barnett to Senator John Ford February 25, 2014]
Dear John –
Thank you for the call yesterday. I appreciate your listening attempt— but it seems you don’t appreciate the stakes.
Just a few concerns to share …
Rather than learning the traditional Classical Liberal Arts, as Dr. Piper made clear at OK W U during the Townhall Meeting, students are being subjected to a Common Core program designed for collectivization and regimentation of a worker state,– the key objective of trans-national corporations and global government, as opposed to critical thinking and self-government.
The stress on younger students and families has proven to be overwhelming— no dispute of this. Common Core does not cultivate a love for learning. You and Sen. Stanislawski heard the testimonies and experience of both teachers and families in Owasso. (and there are many stories not told. )
This revealing item from Obama’s Ed. Sec. Arne Duncan– address to a UN group in Paris:
“In March of 2009, President Obama called on the nation’s governors and state school chiefs to “develop standards and assessments that don’t simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century skills like problem-solving and critical thinking and entrepreneurship and creativity.” Virtually everyone thought the president was dreaming.
But today, 37 states and the District of Columbia have already chosen to adopt the new state-crafted Common Core standards in math and English. Not studying it, not thinking about it, not issuing a white paper—they have actually done it. Over three-fourths of all U.S. public school students now reside in states that have voluntarily adopted higher, common college-ready standards that are internationally benchmarked. That is an absolute game-changer in a system which until now set 50 different goalposts for success.
“The second game-changer is that states have banded together in large consortia to develop a new generation of assessments aligned with the states’ Common Core standards. In September, I announced the results of the department’s $350 million Race to the Top assessment completion to design this next generation of assessments.”
[WHO orchestrated and funded this group of states education bureaucrats, John? ]
“Two state consortiums, which together cover 44 states and the District of Columbia, won awards. These new assessments will have much in common with the first-rate assessments now used in many high-performing countries outside the U.S.”
Meaning and proper context is essential to break the code in Duncan’s educationist terminology. (What is meant by “21st century”, pray tell? )
And we must be MINDFUL, that the American family and education system was BROKEN Down in order to REBUILD us according to a new ethos. Thorough documentation of this multi-generation breakdown is provided by Ronald Reagan’s #2 Education appointee & POLICY chief sent to reform Jimmy Carter’s NEA pay-off, the new, expanded Federal Dept of Education. Charlotte Iserbyt, a granddaughter of a most elite Ivy League/Yale family was able to discover much from covert research in the early 1980s.
(brief testimony here): http://youtu.be/E5Ogb2zBWJw
“better education through technology … what we at the federal level can control and manipulate…”
— pt. 3-, (15 min.) – she exposes the depths of penetration .. as “Marxist” — neo-Conservative-style Big Government –
Please see her website for extensive evidence of the long-term plan-
“Charlotte Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration.” — career review and findings:
Before she could advance the Reagan mandate for parental control and minimizing the Dept.’s control, Iserbyt was removed by the George Bush Establishment moles in the bureaucracy ( the elite Senior Executive Service) :
CLASSIC FEDERAL CONTROL TECHNIQUES-
Duncan in Paris: “The four assurances got their name from the requirement that each governor in the 50 states had to provide an “assurance” they would pursue reforms in these four areas—in exchange for their share of funds from a Recovery Act program designed to largely stem job loss among teachers and principals.” [ Did Oklahoma ever get all that was promised, Senator Ford? ] What have we learned from history …
“To be ignorant of history is to forever be a child.” — Cicero
Remembering our HISTORY — what Iserbyt discovered back in the 1980’s (an agenda for global Marxist education) went far back in the early 20th century – funded by Carnegie, and especially the Rockefeller Foundations (GEB)
“better education through technology … what we at the federal level can control and manipulate” — DoEd document
JOHN– the Common Core review board you mentioned will be dominated with advocates for the nationalized program — uninformed people who are ill-equipped by training to recognize the hidden agenda and futility of command-oriented conditioning of young minds. ( a la BF Skinner – documented by Iserbyt, a former school board member who studied this close up in the 1970s )
It gives me no cause of hope for this generation of students.
The data security aspects have been addressed by experts in I.T. who say the identity of students cannot be separated from their data– and cannot be protected from federal bureaucrats, as some would tell us. This is another step to the Surveillance State described and warned of by George Orwell in 1984.
The real shame for many members of the GOP is that elected politicians such as yourself are taking us down the Road to Serfdom. Perhaps you’ve heard of that classic economic work on economics and liberty? It’s obvious that you have not read it, John. You are a traitor to the cause that was championed by Ronald Reagan, in my considered opinion. But you can change that, if you still have a mind that is open.
The destruction of American heritage, culture and families is advancing according to plans by globalist institutions that support the UN Agenda 21 and fund the organizations behind Common Core and previous schemes for conditioning students.
UNLESS YOU DELAY AND REVIEW THIS PROGRAM, you are making the recovery of American heritage, culture and freedom a far more difficult challenge for the next generations. Will your name bear a black mark, should you fail to heed the warnings of parents, traditional American authorities, and your own Republican Party, (e.g., the State Committee that issued its statement against Common Core.)?
One last time, we are asking that you HEAR the Bill presented by Senator Eddie Fields, SB—1146.
Allow your fellow Senators, representing the people of Oklahoma, an open deliberative exchange to hear and decide on the best course of action.
PLEASE, John — Stand up for the People , not the lobbyists, special interests and “change agents”.
We are your neighbors and friends.
Sincerely,
RJ Barnett
Licensed Bartlesville teacher
MA, Pubic Policy
USMC, Aviation/Intel
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