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Order Voter Guides For 2024 Primary Election
We are currently taking orders, in any amount, for our 2024 Primary Election Voter Guide. The non-partisan IFI Voter Guide helps voters know more about the positions of candidates who are seeking their vote on March 19, 2024. It will also soon be available online at illinoisfamily.org/2024voterguide.
Posted in IFI News, Illinois Politics
Tagged Common Core, Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt
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Hasidic Schools – A Lesson Regarding School Choice
The first compulsory attendance laws in America were introduced by Horace Mann in Massachusetts in 1852. This created a shift from what I consider to be true “public schools,” which were open to the public, but controlled by parents in local communities, to “government schools,” which we have had ever since. Today’s schools are funded by the government, regulated, and controlled by the government, and all of the standards are set and enforced by government dictates.
Posted in Education
Tagged A BEKA, ACE School of Tomorrow, Amish, Bob Jones Press, Christian Law Association, Common Core, education choice, ESAs, Hasidic schools, Homeschool Legal Defense Association, Horace Mann, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, Protestants, Rutherford Institute, virtual charter schools, Vouchers, Wisconsin v. Yoder, yeshivas
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It Is Time to Exit Illinois Public Schools: A Businessman’s Perspective
Business leaders are tasked with developing and executing strategies that lead to desired results, namely, to maximize shareholder value in a manner that is honest, moral, and upright. Successful businesses measure their performance in a myriad of ways and use these results to implement changes, if needed, to achieve desired results... Why is this not the case for the Illinois Public School system?
Posted in Education
Tagged Common Core, Comprehensive Sex Education, Critical Race Theory, Illinois Public Schools, proficiency standards, SB 818, The 1619 Project
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Pushing Parents Out, Biden Administration Further Weaponizes ‘Education’
When it comes to education policy, the Biden administration is making the radicalism of the Obama years look mild by comparison.
The goal is to ultimately replace parents with bureaucrats and “experts” to facilitate the indoctrination of America’s youth. That transformation is accelerating.
Not only are the education system and America’s children being weaponized against America, federal law enforcement is now being weaponized against parents who speak out about it.
If left unchecked, catastrophe awaits. However, the more monstrous the federally directed abuses in schools become, the more outraged Americans join the fight.
The future of the nation is literally …
Posted in Education
Tagged Arne Duncan, Biden Administration, Common Core, COVID–19, Critical Race Theory, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Justice, Hillary Clinton, Kevin Brock, Merrick Garland, Miguel Cardona, Mike Braun, National Association of School Boards, Obama Administration, Ron DeSantis, Scott Smith, Terry McAullife, The 1619 Project
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Trading Academics for Far-Left ‘Social-Emotional Learning’
The facts are now clear: The Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) craze is an extreme threat to America’s youth—and to individual liberty.
The scheme isn’t about helping children at all. Instead, it’s about manipulating and conditioning America’s youth to hold the values and beliefs that the education establishment wants to instill.
The scheme isn’t about helping children at all. Instead, it’s about manipulating and conditioning America’s youth to hold the values and beliefs that the education establishment wants to instill.
Posted in Education
Tagged Adam Stone, Alice Bailey, Bill Gates, Black Lives Matter, Brian Wilson, class struggle, Common Core, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Critical Theory, David Rockefeller, David Sluyter, E.L. Thorndike, EdTech Magazine, Fetzer Institute, Howard Zinn, Humanism, Humanist Manifesto, hyper-racialism, Ivan Pavlov, James McKeen, Jennifer McWilliams, John Dewey, Kamilah Drummond-Forrester, Larry Grathwohl, Lev Vygotsky, LGBTQ-plus, Linda Darling-Hammond, Lucifer Publishing Company, Lucis Trust, Marxism, population control, radical environmentalism, radical feminism, Robert Muller, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Social and Emotional Learning, Social Justice, Socialism, The Epoch Times, u.s. department of education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Weather Underground, Wendy Turner, William Ayers, Xi Jinping, Zinn Education Project
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Big Brother Schools Using Big Data to Manipulate and Spy on Kids
Using data primarily gathered through the public-education system, Big Brother and the collectivists running the government schools now know more about American children than their own parents do. The awesome powers offered by “Big Data” will blow your mind.
Posted in Education
Tagged Arne Duncan, Big Brother, BrainCo, Common Core, David Coleman, Ecological Momentary Assessment Robot, Education Week, Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics, Every Student Succeeds Act, Hillary Clinton, Social and Emotional Learning, u.s. department of education, UNESCO
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Common Core, Still in Place, Nationalized Educational Quackery
Perhaps nothing has done more to rouse Americans from their slumber on government education than the so-called Common Core standards, which were quietly imposed on the nation by the leftist Obama administration using tax-funded “bribe” money and arm-twisting. People were furious. Trump called the standards “a total disaster.” But the anger only scratched the surface of the problem.
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Tagged Common Core
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Socialists Used Public Schools to Destroy Literacy in America
Widespread illiteracy and the ignorance it produces represent an existential threat to the United States today. But it wasn’t always this way.
And it can be fixed.
Fortunately, neither the cause of this crisis nor the solution to it is a mystery—at least to anyone who has studied the issue.
And it can be fixed.
Fortunately, neither the cause of this crisis nor the solution to it is a mystery—at least to anyone who has studied the issue.
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Tagged Arthur Gates, Blue Back Speller, Boston Globe, Boston Review, Common Core, Cultural Marxism, Du Pont de Nemours, dyslexia, Federalist Papers, Horace Mann, Joel Perlmann, John Dewey, Kenneth Lockridge, literacy, National Assessment of Educational Progress, New England Primer, Noah Webster, Old Deluder Satan Act, phonics, Rudolf Flesch, Samuel Blumenfeld, socialist, Stanislas Dehaene, State Education Agency, The New Illiterates, Thomas Gallaudet, Why Johnny Can’t Read, William Gray
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How Trump’s 1776 Commission Can End America’s Zombie Education Apocalypse
The 1776 Commission and the executive order signed by the president of the United States are the last things being discussed right now, and understandably so. However, the 1776 Commission is more than what meets the eye. The executive order is committed to restoring an education about the founding of our nation to the frontline of the information war: our nation's schools.
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Tagged Common Core, The 1619 Project, The 1776 Commission
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Larry Burkett Was Right–About A Lot of Things
If you remember the late, great financial teacher Larry Burkett, your life is likely the better for it. I worked with Larry for several years in his Gainesville, Georgia headquarters of Christian Financial Concepts (and continued to work for the organization from home for many years after my children started coming along). In my mind, he ranks right up there with some of our Founding Fathers in his wisdom, love for this country, and amazing foresight in economic and political issues.
Posted in Education, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Common Core, debt, economy, healthcare, Larry Burkett, Michelle Fitzpatrick Thomas, The Coming Economic Earthquake
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Common Core: School Test Scores Are Nosediving
In 2013 Michael Cohen of Achieve, Inc. (an organization integral to developing and marketing the Common Core national standards) testified in New York that Common Core is a long-term education experiment on our children: “The full effects… won’t be seen until an entire cohort of students, from kindergarten through high school graduation, has been effectively exposed to Common Core teaching.” Four years later we may not be seeing the full effects, but heaven help us when we get there.
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Tagged betsy devos, Bluegrass Institute in Kentucky, Common Core, David Coleman, Emmett McGroarty, Jane Robbins, Jason Zimba, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, Richard Innes, Sue Pimentel
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Decentralizing Education in America
American education has become more and more centralized over the past 100 years. While this consolidation is associated with a great deal of expense, there has been little evidence that it has improved outcomes. Instead, the evidence points to, but does not yet prove, that decentralizing education offers more benefits, first in outcomes, and second in lower cost.
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Tagged Common Core, Federal Education, Home Education, Jay P. Greene
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Every 12 Years: A Review of the Book ‘Saving K-12’ (Part One)
Every 12 years another set of children progress through America’s government-run school system. Those that graduated this past spring started twelve years before that as first-graders in 2005.
In 2005 I had the honor of serving as the president of the Family Taxpayers Foundation (FTF), a non-profit focusing chiefly on school reform -- both curriculum and finance…a to z, soup to nuts.
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Tagged Bruce Deitrick Price, Common Core, government schools, Jack Roeser, k-12 education
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