Report: Palin parts ways with Fox News

BTW, in researching Common Core I discovered this:

Palin Was A Prophet About Obama’s Education Takeover

Sarah Palin was the first to recognize the problem: By participating in President Obama’s signature education initiative, the Common Core Standards, Alaska would lose control over its own curriculum.

On May 31, 2009, then-Gov. Palin announced Alaska would adopt a “watch and wait” attitude:

“If this initiative produces useful results, Alaska will remain free to incorporate them,” Gov. Palin said, adding that “high expectations are not always created by new, mandated federal standards written on paper. They are created in the home, the community and the classroom.”

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, to his credit, was the next to recognize a federal boondoggle when he saw one: “I will not commit Texas taxpayers to unfunded federal obligations or to the adoption of unproven, cost-prohibitive national standards and tests,” Gov. Perry wrote in a Jan. 13, 2010, letter to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

In the ensuing two years, it’s become clear that Perry and Palin — two core conservative figures whose intelligence is routinely mocked by liberal “sophisticates” — were brilliantly prescient, indeed prophetic.

Common Core is the progressives’ attempt to nationalize education, even though we have three federal laws forbidding national curriculums. Erne Duncan has been sneaking it in under the radar while Obama was busy implementing other progressive policies.

INC on February 19, 2013 at 8:13 PM

bluefox on February 19, 2013 at 8:44 PM

I don’t think so. Obama had Race to the Top, but Common Core builds on that.

INC on February 19, 2013 at 9:01 PM

Of course, Phyllis Schlafly was on it from the get go as well. Education is one of her specialties. I think literally nothing has been written about it here. Michelle Malkin, however, has done 3 pieces on it so far this year.

It is sparking a grass roots uproar. I’ve been bumping into parent groups and blogs. There are many things in the works across the nation.

http://www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Double-DownGraphic.png

The above is a good graphic from Utah.

http://truthinamericaneducation.com/ is a great clearinghouse site for Common Core.

INC on February 19, 2013 at 9:13 PM

You should also know about the databases and tracking. It’s not a conspiracy theory, either:

As part of Race to the Top, and elsewhere in the 2009 Stimulus bill, the states that wanted federal money had to commit to build massive student databases.

These databases are designed to track children from preschool (or earlier), through college, and into the workforce. The National Education Data Model recommends collecting over 400 data points – academic performance, disciplinary history, family income range, religious affiliation, health history, etc.

In January 2012, USED changed federal educational-privacy law to allow sharing of students’ personally identifiable data with any other government, or even private, entity, as long as the sharing is done to “audit or evaluate” an education program.

This has also been written up in PJ Media:
http://pjmedia.com/blog/arne-duncans-brave-new-world-dept-of-education-wants-your-kids-blood-type/?singlepage=true

But Logue says the feds are now trying to create something entirely different:

The Common Core standards were the vehicle to get the longitudinal database. … They want to get all these systems where they interconnect. … The data sets already exist and are coded.

Indeed PJM has seen the data sets — and they might be accurately described as a brave new world. While not all of the information in these sets is mandatory at this time, the level of detail being asked for is unsettling.

The sets include such things as hair color, eye color, gestational age at birth (whether a child was premature or not), blood type, blood test results, birth marks, and even bus stop arrival time.

INC on February 19, 2013 at 9:38 PM

Also, Jeb Bush has a foundation with its fingers in Common Core. I know in Florida, but I think nationally. I haven’t written that up and so I’ll be doublechecking that.

Jeb is so over. CC came in under the radar, but the more people know, the more they’re motivated to stop it.

CATO had a great piece a while back on CC’s stealth mode.

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/honey-when-did-feds-take-over-kids-school

Unfortunately, there is another, much more disturbing reason that national standards have been flying under the radar: Stealth is essential for its proponents to succeed.

The last national standards push was in the 1990s, and it disintegrated almost the moment proposed federal standards were released. Everyone, it seemed, was paying attention, and every diverse American found something in the very detailed standards to hate.

Avoiding a similar fate explains why the CCSSI furnished only mathematics and language arts standards, and why the latter identify almost no specific works students must read….

The second key to keeping things hush-hush has been to deceive the public about what — and who — is driving the standards. Contrary to proponents’ incessant refrain, standardization has been neither “state led” nor “voluntary,” and it’s the heavy hand of the super-unpopular federal government that’s shoving everything along….

Finally, to keep the public from grasping what’s happening, standardizers have rushed adoption of the Common Core standards. They were released on June 2 [2010], and Race to the Top required adoption just two months later.

INC on February 19, 2013 at 10:05 PM

bluefox on February 19, 2013 at 10:07 PM

One good thing I will say is that the grassroots I’ve read are smart and they are determined. They’re focused like a laser on demolishing CC.

FWIW I think I’m seeing a level of intensity and organization that I think surpasses the Tea Party. That may be because they’re focused on one issue, and because they are parents and teachers who are fighting for their children. That brings an intensity like nothing else does.

The Truth in American Education is posting info about state legislatures who are trying to undo this.

INC on February 19, 2013 at 10:14 PM

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/09/romney-praises-obamas-race-to-the-top-on-wednesday-denies-it-on-thursday-video/

Ha ha.

Jim Hoft found the contradiction.

Romney talked out of both sides of his mouth on other issues. The Romneybots around here infuriated me during the primaries and after the election. He was a good man, but as a politician his principles and policies were flexible to say the least.

He obviously lied about his support.

INC on February 19, 2013 at 10:42 PM