Next-Generation Shop Class: the Undisclosed Merger of Mind and Hand Touted as...
For anyone with a marketing or PR background who is quite aware it is all about the sales pitch, it still may come as a surprise that the much vaunted, recent, $4 billion computer science for all...
View ArticleBringing Every Thought Captive So that Panglossian Visions Appear Real or...
In the early days of this blog we covered psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenners’ Ecological Systems Theory (BEST) and the fact that he acknowledged that all those nesting ‘systems’ starting with the...
View ArticleFoiling False Narratives Amidst Unsupported Cries of Balderdash!
The last post was not designed to ruffle feathers so much as continue to warn that words like Classical or Christian when applied to education, much like what we have already seen with Critical...
View ArticleStrange Bedfellows but All Seeking to Build Unmarked Bridges Between Matter...
Since the last post I have really dug in to figure out why Classical Education as described by the books I have quoted in the previous two posts functioned so similarly to the educational vision I...
View ArticleLocating the Internalized Information Guiding Human Behavior So It Can Be...
Dictating such a transformation via preschool through high school, students would then essentially have a common core of prescribed values, attitudes and beliefs. For our Want-to-Be social and economic...
View ArticleSubjugating the Subjective Factor Via Public Policy Cloaking...
In his book The Flight from Truth, Jean-Francois Revel noted that most people are indifferent to knowledge. It appears that the so-called ‘conservative’ public policy think tanks have been relying on...
View ArticleFuturibles: Seeking the Levers of History by Focusing on the Types of...
Please try not to get whiplash as we move back and forth through the decades. Just this week the OECD conceded openly that instead of focusing on structures and incentives, which both traditional...
View ArticleStraddling the Worlds of Action and Knowledge: Values as the Driving Force of...
Let’s go back to that aspiration for “Rethinking Patterns of Knowledge” from the last post since what has been admitted as being ‘controversial departures from the Western traditions’ is laid out in...
View ArticleOrchestrating an All-Encompassing Conception of the Legitimate Domains of...
If anyone managed to avoid the fury over this past weekend over the Obama Administration’s Transgender Bathroom decrees...
View ArticleRewiring Student’s Brains at a Neural Level to Constrain, Guide, and Motivate...
Part of the reason for the time gap between the last post and this one is my youngest child has now officially graduated. Hallelujah! Knowing what is really going on in American and global education in...
View ArticleResistance-Proof Biosocial Revolution Undisclosed at the Neural Level of...
Let’s start off with a quote I have had since I did the ACES post on April 30. “In social cognitive theory, sociostructural factors operate through psychological mechanisms of the self system to...
View ArticleNot Subtle Enough–Enslaving Us All in the Name of Health, Equity, and Well-Being
That was a longer break than I had intended, but sometimes real life interferes with explaining plans for the future. Luckily it did not interfere at all with documenting those plans so here we go with...
View ArticleHic Sunt Dracones: Decreeing Public Policy as the Boss of All of Us Without...
Hic Sunt Dracones is Latin for the warning phrase “There be Dragons” which seemed a perfect way to end this Trilogy. I have been warning of the coordinated convergence of what can only be described as...
View ArticleStill a Frightening Prospect and No Longer Far Away at All
Why is it that what appears to most people to be innocent phrases of general intent like school choice, social emotional learning standards, the rule of law, or competence (just to cite a few examples...
View ArticleOutlasting Presidential Administrations and Transcending Politics:...
The original title ended with ‘of People and Places’ after I learned that the term ‘governance’ was actually a euphemism for ‘social control.’ That made for too long of a title though. The sudden and...
View ArticleChocolate Cities Strangled by White Nooses: Hacking Out the Rights of the...
Isn’t that the most graphic metaphor you have ever read? I would say it has nothing to do with last night’s riots in Charlotte, but since I am quoting from a 2007 biography of Martin Luther King on his...
View ArticleWhispering in the Ears of Princes and Parents: False Flag Education Narratives
For anyone counting, that would be two different metaphors in a single title, but since they each illustrate our unfortunate facts so well I have pulled them together to make a point. In the last post,...
View ArticleAntithesis of the Briar Patch: School Choice as the Snare Instead of an Escape
This is the beginning of the factual stories behind K-12 educational reform over recent decades that I was saving until after the Presidential election, waiting to see who won. It was my feeling based...
View ArticleLinking School Choice and Third Party Government: Escaping Requires We...
This marks the end of the Trilogy about declarations (insufficiently recognized) to use the powers of governments at every level to close the gap “between the current state of the world and what would...
View ArticlePreemptive Authoritarianism: Governed by Our Monitored and Redesigned Brains
I almost added “21st Century” to Brains in the title, but it made it too long. Please do me a favor though. Every time a politician or anyone else mentions the need to transform K-12 education because...
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