Second-Order Change, Why Reform is a Misnomer for the Real Common Core
This is the definition of Second-Order Change used at a January 2012 presentation by Peter Senge and the Waters Foundation to the Nevada Department of Education. Second-order change: “is doing...
View ArticleUsing Teacher Evals To Coerce Irreversible Change in the Drive Towards...
One of the ways I deal with all the Schemes and Blueprint reading it has taken to pull together this story of the Common Core’s real aims or the CAGW hyping to cover all the meddling to gain a Crony...
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 ArticleThrowing an Invisibility Cloak Over the Classroom to Get to Dewey’s...
The IHDP report from 2011 laying out the use of education “reforms” all over the world to shift all of us towards Societal Change talks about the need of a “positive vision for the future” to mobilize...
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 ArticleDescending to a Connected Kleptocracy Via the Digital Learning and Climate...
In the continued reality where the truth involves far more official coordination than anything Agatha Christie ever imagined, the UNESCO global aspiration for media/digital education as the be all and...
View ArticleTurning All of Us into Piggy Banks or Dependents Who Need Direction and Aid...
Following up directly from the presentation discussed in the previous post, do you believe that the “best way to prepare students for the future is to equip them to invent it?” Can we in fact design...
View ArticleAccomplishing One of the Biggest Transformations in Human History Largely Out...
The problem with having an experienced Due Diligence lawyer figuring out what is really going on in an industry is we do tend to blow through ordinary barriers. It is just reflex to figure out who...
View ArticleWillingness to Make Personal Sacrifice for the Good of the Whole to Become an...
After last year’s stealth release of the hugely troubling C3-College, Career and Civic Ready Framework over Thanksgiving week to avoid anyone noticing what was actually changing under the invisibility...
View ArticleObscuring the Reinvention of All Education Around Envisaging New Ways of...
I am afraid All really does mean all. No matter how hard that graduate school is to get into or how high the tuition is, there really are deliberate plans laid out to shift graduate business, law, and...
View ArticleTranslating the Off-Putting Term Dialectical Materialism and Discovering the...
And if ALL classrooms, preschool through graduate school, is not sufficiently alarming, how about in ALL students and teachers and professors and administrators? Plus with a little luck, and using...
View ArticleEvolution to a Holos Consciousness Is Certainly Not My Idea of Education...
Take a deep breath and hold on to your hat if you have one on. The amount of evidence I have on the story I am about to tell is overwhelming, but in a blog format I cannot really cite all of it. Those...
View ArticleStanding Still As the Yoke Is Fastened: Student Codes of Conduct to Now Build...
Now I considered making that title a bit longer with the addition of the phrase ‘as a State of Mind.’ People grasping the essence of what I have been describing in my book or this blog will frequently...
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 ArticleMalleable Minds Fit for an Affirmative State Designed to Meet Needs and...
We actually do not have to infer what kinds of minds and personalities and beliefs are suitable for these new visions of tomorrow. One advocate tellingly used this quote from Napoleon that “There are...
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...
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