Self-efficacy, Cultural Proficiency Training, Critical Reflection, and Change...
That’s what Success for All under the Common Core actually embodies. Tucked away in a 2010 Framework for Equity and Transformative Improvement in Education we have a statement on why “deeper learning”...
View ArticleThe Need to Know as We Understand It Today May be a Lethal Cultural Sport
That needs to be radically restricted if not abolished root and branch. So said anthropologist Bernard James in his 1973 book The Death of Progress in a passage so reminiscent of Paul Ehrlich’s...
View ArticleMandating Global Citizenship Mindsets by Assessing Whether Students Adopt...
The out in the open version of education reform in the US never got over that 99-0 Senate vote on the National History Standards in the 90s. Much of the reason today’s Common Core implementation looks...
View ArticleNothing As Practical As a Good Theory For Gaining Access to Action Research
If a political theory gets you grant money or a job at a foundation, it “works” whether it is true or not. And puts its creator in a position to drive social change. The same is true with a learning...
View ArticleAspiring to Create New Habits of Mind and Mental Models Suitable for A New...
As far as I know no one from MIT or Harvard stood on the banks of the Charles River holding a rally to jettison what the Systems Thinkers on both campuses call the “dominant rational/experimental...
View ArticleCan an Education Degree Authorize Bait and Switch Political Insurrections...
No I am not talking about a car loan. And I am also not picking on teachers. Truthfully we could substitute a psychology, sociology, anthropology, or even a legal degree in the place of the education...
View ArticleWell No Wonder No One Listens to Common Core Complaints if It is Tied to...
A New Vision for Federal Revenue Sharing with state and local governments to drive future economic and workforce development being cleverly marketed as “Race to the Shop.” That’s a play on the...
View ArticleTreating Western Society and its Economy as a Train in Need of Rebuilding and...
When you get down deep into the aspirations on using education to shift the West away from its historic focus on individuals and economic freedom to considering new, untried forms of organizing...
View ArticlePulling Up the Moorings Once Again to Transform Reality into the History of...
If you want to “create a world where individuals will work even when they know that much of the fruit of their labor will go to those who are less fortunate,” you are going to need to use education to...
View ArticleExperimenting on People and Places via the Rockefeller Process of...
In case anyone is concerned that the description ‘experimenting’ seems a bit harsh, the 2001 book Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal...
View ArticleOpenly Admitting Global Coordination to Impose Behavioral Programming Using...
I thought about using the word Conspiracy in the title but I was afraid readers might be confused and think we are merely theorizing. Oh no, turns out that in 2012 there was another of those Movers and...
View ArticleCensorship Before the Fact: Prescribing What the Child Does and Believes...
The problem with censorship, apart from the loss of personal liberty not to have governments intervene in what we think and how we must act, is two-fold if you are a wanna-be Steerer of Human Keels in...
View ArticleStructuring Minds and Hearts to Quietly Gain Power to Act Directly on the...
You may have noticed that first I figure out what is really planned for K-12 classrooms and then I figure out why. It helps when I discover that certain foundations, like Rockefeller or Carnegie, have...
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Rejecting Reading to Avoid the Magic Elixir Bolstering of the Independent...
We are making a pit stop in our discussion of the actual global vision of how to use K-12 education to create revolutionary transformations in our social, economic, and political systems without...
View ArticleShaped and Sculpted Young People Ready to be Governable Participants in a New...
Remember that catchy Peter Paul and Mary song “Leaving on a Jet Plane”? Well, I am practically humming it in my head this afternoon. After reading revelations in the last few months that have me...
View ArticleSneaking Into the Cracks to Instill the Outlined Characteristics of the New...
Once again what may seem like just a graphic means for me to try to grab attention to the level of sought intrusion turns out to actually be a quote of declared intentions from someone who matters. In...
View ArticleRulers, Regimes, Managed, Governed: Public Policy Demands Democratic Equality...
Those descriptions are just a few I pulled from the 2015 book of the Roadmap co-creator called Smart Citizens, Smarter State. Its view of the role of governments, at all levels, is that they are in...
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