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Decoupling Schooling from the State
On July 27 [2023],, I went to a forum hosted by Americans for Prosperity, focused on fixing the deep problems in K-12 schooling. I had been asked to come and present my perspective by the organizer of the event, even though he knew I opposed one of the three proposals his organization was supporting.
Posted in Education, Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty
Tagged Alex Newman, Americans for Prosperity, children, Christianity, education, Hitler, Homeschool, John Dewey, K-12, Parents, private schools, public schools, School Choice, schools, Teachers, VEOA
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Which Way, America?
If parents continue sacrificing children on the altar of government schools, the future looks bleak indeed. But if they take back the role of guardians, a glorious future of restoration and healing is possible.
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Tagged A BEKA, Alpha and Omega, Apologia, Association of Classical and Christian Schools, Bob Jones University Press, Classical Conversations, Exodus Mandate, Foundation for American Christian Education, Freedom Project Academy, Home School Legal Defense Association, Horace Mann, John Dewey, National Black Home Educators, Public School Exit, RenewaNation, Rod Dreher
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How Communists Used “Public Education” to Kill Us
Communists and “robber baron” super capitalists teamed up to destroy free America using the government school system to turn young Americans against God, country, and family... From the very hatching of the idea that government should educate children to the establishment of the system that exists today, primary-source documents prove the evil agenda.
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Tagged Horace Mann, John Dewey, Robert Owen, The New American
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Debunking “Socialization” Myths About Homeschooling
As it becomes increasingly obvious that homeschoolers do significantly better than victims of government “education” on every academic metric, apologists for the public-school system often fall back on their “socialization” mantra.
But under its true definition, “socialization” is hardly something to be desired. And under the commonly held understanding of socialization — gaining certain desirable social skills — the data show clearly that home-educated children outperform public school students on every key indicator.
But under its true definition, “socialization” is hardly something to be desired. And under the commonly held understanding of socialization — gaining certain desirable social skills — the data show clearly that home-educated children outperform public school students on every key indicator.
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Tagged Auguste Comte, Democracy and Education, Donald Schanzenbach, Dr. Brian Ray, emotional development, Home Education, homeschooling, John Dewey, John Taylor Gatto, Journal of School Choice, National Home Education Research Institute, psychological development, social development, socialization, Soviet Union, Wall Street Journal
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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.
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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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Rise of ‘Fed Ed’ Accelerated Demise of Real Education
The U.S. public school system was collectivist from the start, as this ongoing series on government education has extensively documented. But as the feds got involved, it quickly went from bad to worse, with the slow and steady decline in education turning into a precipitous collapse. Today, the schools are a disaster, even by the government’s own measures.
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Tagged John Dewey, National Assessment of Educational Progress, proficiency standards, Robert Aitken, The Epoch Times, Toward Soviet America, u.s. department of education, William Z. Foster
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How Socialists Used Teachers Unions Such as the NEA to Destroy Education
When examining the hydra that is the collectivist “education” establishment that dominates public schools in the United States, among the most important tentacles have been the teachers’ unions—especially the National Education Association (NEA).
Along with other leading unions, the NEA and its affiliates at the state and local level played a leading role in transforming American education into the dangerous disaster that it has become. The extremism has been getting progressively more extreme for more than a century now. But it’s not new by any means.
The destructive role played by the NEA is so serious, and so widely understood, …
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Tagged American Federation of Teachers, and Cultural Organization, Bella Dodd, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Horace Mann, Humanist Manifesto, J. Elmer Morgan, John Dewey, Los Angeles Tidings, Mark Janus, National Education Association, NEA, NEA Journal, NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education, Rod Paige, Samuel Blumenfeld, Scientific, Stuart Chase, United Nations Educational, Willard Givens
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Frankfurt School Weaponized U.S. Education Against Civilization
Understanding that future generations are the key to building political power and lasting change, socialists and totalitarians of all varieties have gravitated toward government-controlled education since before the system was even founded.
The communist “Frankfurt School” was no exception in its affinity for “educating” the youth.
Almost 100 years ago, a group of socialist and communist “thinkers” led by Marxist law professor Carl Grünberg established the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. From there, they would move to the United States. And from their new home in New York City, the subversive …
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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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John Dewey’s Public Schools Replaced Christianity With Collectivist Humanism
When Dewey launched his crusade to erode the faith and individualism of Americans, the United States of America was among the most devoutly Christian nations that the world had ever known. Church and the Bible were an inseparable part of life and education for virtually everyone.
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Tagged A Christian nation, a New Religion, Ancer Haggerty, Charles F. Potter, Holy Trinity Church v. the United States, Horace Mann, Humanism, Humanist Manifesto, John Dewey, Potter Stewart, Robert Owen, Soviet Union
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How John Dewey Used Public ‘Education’ to Subvert Liberty
Dewey is often lauded as the founding father of the “progressive” education that now has more than 85 percent of American children in its grip. Although he wasn’t alone—he stood on the shoulders of fellow collectivists Robert Owen and Horace Mann—Dewey certainly deserves much of the credit, or blame, for unleashing it on the United States and humanity.
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Tagged Bernie Sanders, collectivism, Edward Bellamy, Horace Mann, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Looking Backward, National Assessment of Educational Prog, public education, Robert Owen, The Communist Manifesto
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The Genesis of Public Schools: Collectivism and Failure
Standardized tests show Americans are getting dumber and dumber with each passing year. And polls now consistently show that more than half of young Americans today prefer socialism over freedom. This is obviously not sustainable—at least if the United States is going to survive as a free society.
It’s also not an accident.
It’s also not an accident.
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Tagged Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld, Federalist Papers, Horace Mann, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Orestes Brownson, Robert Owen, The Communist Manifesto
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Government Schools Are Killing The American Church
Over the last few generations, Christianity has declined at a massive rate in America, with millennials becoming the first generation in American history with self-proclaimed Christians in the minority. Now, the culprit is becoming clear to everyone: Government. In particular, anti-Christian, anti-God indoctrination masquerading as "public education" has been the key driver of those trends.
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Tagged Alex Newman, American Enterprise Institute, Cameron Hildtich, government schools, Horace Mann, John Dewey, Laurence Iannaccone, Lyman Stone, public education, Raphael Franck, Robert Owen
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