"Let's Make Texas Public Education Public"
Hello, Where Did Knowledge Go? http://www.publiceddread.com/2009/05/hello-where-did-knowledge-go.html It is not necessary to know facts in order to reason about those facts. So say the progressive education movers and shakers who continue to implement bad ideas and a few good ideas badly. They say they’re concerned with bigger things like higher-level thinking skills, so little interest is paid [...]
Parents, you cannot trust educators to teach your children: Christian Values When I started teaching at Lamar H.S. in Houston, Texas (1966) the school secretary ask me to raise my right hand and pledge that I believed in God (understood to be Jesus Christ) and that I was not nor ever had been part of [...]
Hudson’s Superintendent , Mary Ann Whiteker Attacks Texas Education Patriots. Texas Education Patriots, made up of teachers, parents, and other patriots have been investigating CSCOPE. This group has found enough evidence that has warranted the senate education committee to investigate the CSCOPE lessons and to have the Texas Attorney General investigate any illegal actions by [...]
The following is correspondence from a school administrator to a parent concerned about CSCOPE. The parent has asked questions because he is concerned. After all, CSCOPE has been on Fox National News as well as other media for months. But, administrators pretend they know nothing about this and give the same ”rubber stamp” responses.One [...]
Are You a Parent Fed Up With Schools Deciding What is Best for their children. Things Parents Need to Know 1. Education is a big business. For example, the company who is contracted to prepare the STAAR tests receives almost $100 million dollars each year. This company has been paid to product Texas state tests [...]
CSCOPE Curriculum Designer Employed by CCSSO Partner to Aid in Implementing Common Core Posted on March 19, 2013 By Danette Clark Grant Wiggins, one of eight designers of curriculum, standards and instruction of the pro-communist Texas CSCOPE curriculum, also provides professional development to aid educators in implementing the national Common Core State Standards. Pearson, the education [...]
CSCOPE executive director condemns the Use of Text Books Following, in red type, are comments from Anne Poplin, CSCOPE TESCCC director and executive director of Texas Education Service Center, Region 9 reported by Ann Work Timesrecordnews.com. Poplin is explaining why text books in schools using CSCOPE are necessary. While Ms. Poplin promotes the idea of [...]
Lesson system garners critique Teacher speaks against CSCOPE study By Ann Work Sunday, March 3, 2013 One Texas teacher has thrown off her cloak of anonymity and is speaking openly about CSCOPE because she is afraid its curriculum will be whitewashed and recycled instead of kicked out of Texas schools. Mary Bowen, a 30-year master’s [...]
CSCOPE Directors Against Textbooks Before the CSCOPE supplementary instructional material used in many Texas Schools was exposed to the public, CSCOPE was promoted as being inexpensive because it was such as comprehensive, vial, online curriculum program. Superintendents supported their purchasing CSCOPE instead of text books because textbooks were considered not to be rigorous enough to [...]
Ten shocking lessons a huge Texas conglomerate has foisted on public school students Most — though not all — of the critics of CSCOPE are politically conservative. They charge that the controversial curriculum is a radical, backdoor way for progressives to circumvent both the Texas legislative process and the desires of local school boards and [...]
Teacher Speaks Out