NOVEMBER 25, 2012 |
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Californians United
Against Common Core |
www.CUACC.org
"Common
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Today's guest: Orlean Koehle |
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ORLEAN KOEHLE -
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Orlean Koehle has been serving as the Eagle Forum State President
since 2002. In 2006, when she and her husband, Dr. Kurt Koehle,
discovered their rural property rights were under attack by the
General Plan 2020 (part of Agenda 21), she started a group called
Sonoma County Land Rights Coalition. The group began their battle to
become better educated to try to stop the abuse of power of
unelected officials on property rights in their county.
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Orlean is the author of many articles and several books, the latest
being By Stealth and Deception, USA Transformation and Its Parallel
to the European Union. She also recently completed a booklet
entitled Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meter. She has spoken
about her books for conservative groups throughout Southern and
Northern California and several other states. She and Kurt have six
children—five boys and one daughter—and 5 grandchildren.
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Discussions on our
program today: |
www.CUACC.org
Common Core |
The purpose of this website is: To expose the deception, dangers,
lower standards, and enormous
costs behind the Common Core State Standards Initiative; to educate
and motivate the public
as to why Californians should be opposing Common Core, and why we
should be exerting every
effort to stop California from going forward with the CC curriculum,
standards and Assessment tests. |
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The
Common Core Logo
- shows a map of the USA with the States that have signed onto
Common Core (CC) colored gold. The five States that have not yet
adopted CC are shown in a darker color. They are Texas, Alaska,
Nebraska, Virginia and half of Minnesota.
[Minnesota accepted just half of the standards, those of English and
reading, but not the math.] |
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Why the dark color for the non-compliant States? Does that mean
those States have not yet reached the state of ‘enlightenment’ of
the other “brighter” States? |
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“Why did the creators of the logo choose the symbol of an incomplete
dizzy-looking circle that can’t quite get it together? After doing
the months of research that I have done on Common Core, I think the
logo is a good choice. It shows the effect this curriculum is going
to have on the students of our nation. Their education is going to
be dumbed down, “incomplete.” They are going to be left in a dizzy,
confused state, and won’t be able to get it together well enough to
have a bright future.” |
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What
is Common Core? “The
Common Core State Standards Initiative” is the official name for the
new education program coming down from the Obama administration,
preparing the way for “Race to the Top Assessments,” which will take
place in 2014 when all the computer software is in place to test the
minds of the nation’s children to see how well Common Core (CC) has
been sufficiently taught.
CC pretends to be a benign “State” program, State-written and
controlled. It is touted as being “more rigorous” [whatever that
means] and that it will “better prepare students for college and the
workplace.” |
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However, CC is really a deceptive Trojan Horse, a national program,
written by a national team, supported by President Obama and the
Federal Department of Education, and it is imposing national,
top-down standards and curriculum on all of the 46 States that have
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•What is so Bad about Nationalized,
Top-Down Education?
Those in support of CC say that it will make education standardized
across the nation, so that if a student moves from one state to
another, he will not miss anything. All education will be the same
at the same grade level. That doesn't sound so bad, does it? |
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Yes, it does sound bad if
one looks at other countries that have nationalized education, and
we see nationalized propaganda. When education is top-down, with the
federal government having so much control and power over education,
it is very easy to promote a certain agenda and indoctrination is so
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•Nationalization Disempowers the
People: When there is a
national education program in place, it is almost impossible to have
any influence on changing policy or programs. Your local school
board, state school board, state legislators, and the governor will
be powerless to change it. As Lance Izumi, of the Pacific Research
Institute states, “The further policy making is seated away from
ordinary citizens, the less powerful and influential those citizens
are.” |
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Jay Greene, professor at the
University of Arkansas, testified before the U.S. House of
Representatives Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and
Secondary Education, and left this warning about the dangers of a
national education system: |
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If we discover a mistake or wish to try a
new and possibly better approach, we can’t switch. We are stuck with
whatever national choices we make for a very long time. And if we
make a mistake, we will impose it on the entire country. Izumi adds,
“The most affected will be parents and their children.” |
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REF: The
information above is from CUACC.org. For complete information please
visit www.cuacc.org . |
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Websites and
material mentioned on
today's program: |
www.cuacc.org |
Common Core Talking
Points against Common Core Curriculum.pdf
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