Come Meet Marsha Enright

Posted by khalling 9 years, 3 months ago to Education
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for those of you in the Chicago area, Marsha and two other speakers will critically address Common Core
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  • Posted by sfdi1947 9 years, 3 months ago
    Everybody has begun recoiling in disgust from the term Common Core. They should not, they should be recoiling from the shots they've fired that killed the Special Interest Driven Federal Department of Education .
    As a simple statement of fact, Common Core, where every school district of every state should require passing scores determined by the state, in certain commonly required skills before a student is awarded a diploma from that district.
    All the Federal Testing, Federal Reporting, Computer Driven Teaching on Microsoft Based Machines, and other Obscure requirements, such as reading Government Speak, Sex Education, and similar matters must not be Federalized, but should be decided at the local school board level.
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    • Posted by 9 years, 3 months ago
      sfdi, I don't understand any of your points. Please restate.
      Your first statement I disagree completely with. Your second statement I do not understand. Your final statement I kind of agree with, if I am interpreting it correctly
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      • Posted by sfdi1947 9 years, 3 months ago
        Is this any better? More directly stated, without getting put on some watch list. The idea of Common Core, a basic requirement of certain specific basic knowledge to graduate is necessary to success for most people, and as in everything else, there can and will be exceptions. It being up to the local Board, as Schenectady NY. did for George Westinghouse, awarding him his high school diploma after he designed the air brake at age 19.
        We need to shut down the US Department of Education.
        Control of Education must be at the most local level with only the states setting the standards. There can be no arbitrary standard, because we will develop situations where smarter people take advantage of less advantaged persons.
        Finally all the Testing, if any must be locally done, locally recorded and locally reported, that no special interest, which bought and paid for a politician should have access or be involved in the collection processes, unless they have a private contractual business relationship with a particular school board, then being restricted from keeping or using any data for any purpose other than reporting to that board, and then only, in accordance with the specific the specific contract.
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        • Posted by 9 years, 3 months ago
          There have been reasonable standards testing for decades. Then came no Child left behind and we moved from taking a snapshot of where students fell in learning to grade to testing all of the time and learning to the test. On the most basic level it's just inefficient to learning. On more complicated levels this has involved whole new national curriculum guidelines and confusing math and re-written History. Many of the flaws have a coherent theme-even if what they are teaching is not-and that's an agenda. Performance of students is on the decline and High school students cannot properly tell you what's in the Constitution much less perform at a pre-calc level-which most HS students should be able to do. Students are frustrated, stressed and parents are disillusioned. IT's a fail all around in my opinion
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          • Posted by sfdi1947 9 years, 3 months ago
            The whole mess became a basket case on the day Jimmy Carter signed the bill creating the US Department of Education, exploding when it opened its doors in March 1979.
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          • Posted by sfdi1947 9 years, 3 months ago
            The testing standards you are speaking of were too localized, there was no multi-state, non federal standards. Consequently we had people in some states who needed detailed instruction for insignificant tasks and couldn't do ordinary work. This is repeating itself in the Union controlled education states.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 3 months ago
    Marsha is a contributor to a new collection of essays: "Common Ground on Common Core:Voices From Across The Political Spectrum Expose the Realities of The Common Core Standards." http://www.resoundingbooks.org/books/com...

    "Marsha Familaro Enright holds a Master of Arts in Psychology from the New School for Social Research as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Northwestern University. President of The Reason, Individualism, Freedom Institute, Marsha is a 40-year advocate of a free society. An education entrepreneur, writer, and speaker, she developed the Great Connections Seminars, an innovative educational program for high school and college students, implemented in Chicago, Buenos Aires, and San Jose. In 1990 she co-founded Council Oak Montessori School for ages 3 to 15, named one of the best private schools in Chicago by Chicago Magazine in 2009 and 2011. Her writing, much of which is on view at the her Fountainhead Institute website, includes research papers on neuropsychology, psychology, philosophy, and education, reviews of novelists, political and historical commentary. She also served as editor of Ayn Rand Explained: From Tyranny to Tea Party (Open Court, 2013), which includes her own original material."
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