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		<title>By: JeromefromLayton</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/mary-grabar/common-cores-little-green-soldiers/comment-page-1/#comment-5390105</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JeromefromLayton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 04:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last winter in South Africa, the entire country got dusted with snow. This is warming? Back in the 1970s, a fellow wrote a book called The Cooling in which he blamed the advance of the desert into the Sahel on climate change. Brazil is roughly at the same latitude. There is an oscillation in the Pacific called La Nina - El Nino that causes a lot of this change.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last winter in South Africa, the entire country got dusted with snow. This is warming? Back in the 1970s, a fellow wrote a book called The Cooling in which he blamed the advance of the desert into the Sahel on climate change. Brazil is roughly at the same latitude. There is an oscillation in the Pacific called La Nina &#8211; El Nino that causes a lot of this change.</p>
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		<title>By: JeromefromLayton</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JeromefromLayton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 04:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the way, see if &quot;Little Johnny&quot; is comfortable with phonics. If you see an aversion reaction, that means the school is actively discouraging phonics in favor of John Dewey&#039;s &quot;look-say&quot; method. The last buzz-word I saw was &quot;Whole Language&quot;. This practice is particularly devastating in boys. Here&#039;s where it gets really interesting: Today&#039;s parents are the third generation subjected to this pap. At age 75, I recall being one of the victims. What saved me was moving from Swarthmore, PA to a little town in Illinois where they didn&#039;t play those games in 1946.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By the way, see if &#8220;Little Johnny&#8221; is comfortable with phonics. If you see an aversion reaction, that means the school is actively discouraging phonics in favor of John Dewey&#8217;s &#8220;look-say&#8221; method. The last buzz-word I saw was &#8220;Whole Language&#8221;. This practice is particularly devastating in boys. Here&#8217;s where it gets really interesting: Today&#8217;s parents are the third generation subjected to this pap. At age 75, I recall being one of the victims. What saved me was moving from Swarthmore, PA to a little town in Illinois where they didn&#8217;t play those games in 1946.</p>
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		<title>By: herb benty</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[herb benty]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, creating little Red Soldiers has been such a success, they just had to start creating little Green Soldiers, as these two ideologies are intertwined. I thought the States were responsible for Education. You do realise they are manipulating our beloved children, and ruining their lives.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, creating little Red Soldiers has been such a success, they just had to start creating little Green Soldiers, as these two ideologies are intertwined. I thought the States were responsible for Education. You do realise they are manipulating our beloved children, and ruining their lives.</p>
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		<title>By: USARetired</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 16:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona State Senate has voted to ban this crap in our state and I think all other States should follow our lead!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Arizona State Senate has voted to ban this crap in our state and I think all other States should follow our lead!</p>
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Common Corpse.  &quot;We don&#039;t care about you, we have your children&quot;. I believe Adolph said that.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Common Corpse.  &#8220;We don&#8217;t care about you, we have your children&#8221;. I believe Adolph said that.</p>
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		<title>By: frodo</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[frodo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, that would be silly.  Context means what it says, and in the context of the quote above, it means application rather than only memorization--and that doesn&#039;t imply any lack of trying to teach facts too.

Now, please don&#039;t misunderstand, I think a lot of the talk about standards and the edu-speak is deeply silly.  But the idea of teaching facts with applications isn&#039;t a bad one.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, that would be silly.  Context means what it says, and in the context of the quote above, it means application rather than only memorization&#8211;and that doesn&#8217;t imply any lack of trying to teach facts too.</p>
<p>Now, please don&#8217;t misunderstand, I think a lot of the talk about standards and the edu-speak is deeply silly.  But the idea of teaching facts with applications isn&#8217;t a bad one.</p>
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		<title>By: SCREW SOCIALISM</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SCREW SOCIALISM]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Move the al aqsa mosque to Al Aska.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Move the al aqsa mosque to Al Aska.</p>
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		<title>By: Marlene Weingart</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/mary-grabar/common-cores-little-green-soldiers/comment-page-1/#comment-5379031</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Weingart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the ruination of our country by way of Global Education, Education for the 21st Century, Common Core, et al, there is a MUST READ and SHARE book.  It is a sweeping look at Common Core, it roots, and it is not just about education.  Ties to the economy, politics, and an explanation of why anyone would promote this is made clear in this book.  It is self published by a Lawyer by profession, and curious researcher and a most excellent dot-connector, Robin S. Eubanks.
The book&#039;s title Credentialed to Destroy: How and Why Education Became a Weapon.  You can buy it on Amazon.  I highly recommend it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the ruination of our country by way of Global Education, Education for the 21st Century, Common Core, et al, there is a MUST READ and SHARE book.  It is a sweeping look at Common Core, it roots, and it is not just about education.  Ties to the economy, politics, and an explanation of why anyone would promote this is made clear in this book.  It is self published by a Lawyer by profession, and curious researcher and a most excellent dot-connector, Robin S. Eubanks.<br />
The book&#8217;s title Credentialed to Destroy: How and Why Education Became a Weapon.  You can buy it on Amazon.  I highly recommend it.</p>
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		<title>By: mmichlin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mmichlin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 20:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So maybe it&#039;s not a Global Warming but Temperature Redistribution:)
On a more serious note: globally there is an increase in average annual temperature; however, there is no increase in average annual temperature in, for example North America, while there it does exists in northern Siberia. How CO2 emissions can create that - I don&#039;t know.
Worth researching - but indoctrination is not research...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So maybe it&#8217;s not a Global Warming but Temperature Redistribution:)<br />
On a more serious note: globally there is an increase in average annual temperature; however, there is no increase in average annual temperature in, for example North America, while there it does exists in northern Siberia. How CO2 emissions can create that &#8211; I don&#8217;t know.<br />
Worth researching &#8211; but indoctrination is not research&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Context,&quot; correct, not &quot;content.&quot;  You are right.  I was wrong.

My question remains the same, however.  Can you answer it?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Context,&#8221; correct, not &#8220;content.&#8221;  You are right.  I was wrong.</p>
<p>My question remains the same, however.  Can you answer it?</p>
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		<title>By: frodo</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[frodo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 20:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Context was the word.  It helps to read.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Context was the word.  It helps to read.</p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NAHALKIDES]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 19:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A hot summer is not proof of global warming, much less &lt;i&gt;man-made&lt;/i&gt; global warming.  We need to educate our young so that they understand that, not so they can be indoctrinated into the cult of global warming.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A hot summer is not proof of global warming, much less <i>man-made</i> global warming.  We need to educate our young so that they understand that, not so they can be indoctrinated into the cult of global warming.</p>
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		<title>By: jburack</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jburack]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To put it mildly, this is a very sloppy effort to tie this NGSS project to Common Core, when in fact the blog entry on which the article is based says pretty much the opposite. Lerner and Gross in that blog entry ask “Do the NGSS, in fact, call effectively for science-relevant math, and do those calls align, grade-wise, with CC-Math?” Their answer is NO, and in their view that is a bad thing. Bad that is that NGSS does not align with Common Core, not as this article states that it does align with Common Core. It is not surprising that a blog entry on the Fordham site would criticize a program for not being consistent with Common Core, as the Fordham Institute is a champion of Common Core.



As are the best conservative education writers around - Sol Stern of Manhattan Institute being one of the best of the best, for example. Common Core in fact is a rigorous yet limited set of standards that conservatives ought to embrace. That so much of the right has dumped CC into a bizarre koolaid mix of paranoia about data collection and unsubstantiated rants about communist propagandizing is a very big mistake on their part. It makes them appear foolish in the eyes of a great many people who favor rigor in curriculum, teacher accountability, limits to teacher union power and other conservative reforms.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To put it mildly, this is a very sloppy effort to tie this NGSS project to Common Core, when in fact the blog entry on which the article is based says pretty much the opposite. Lerner and Gross in that blog entry ask “Do the NGSS, in fact, call effectively for science-relevant math, and do those calls align, grade-wise, with CC-Math?” Their answer is NO, and in their view that is a bad thing. Bad that is that NGSS does not align with Common Core, not as this article states that it does align with Common Core. It is not surprising that a blog entry on the Fordham site would criticize a program for not being consistent with Common Core, as the Fordham Institute is a champion of Common Core.</p>
<p>As are the best conservative education writers around &#8211; Sol Stern of Manhattan Institute being one of the best of the best, for example. Common Core in fact is a rigorous yet limited set of standards that conservatives ought to embrace. That so much of the right has dumped CC into a bizarre koolaid mix of paranoia about data collection and unsubstantiated rants about communist propagandizing is a very big mistake on their part. It makes them appear foolish in the eyes of a great many people who favor rigor in curriculum, teacher accountability, limits to teacher union power and other conservative reforms.</p>
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		<title>By: John Davidson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Davidson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only reason to join the Liberal movement has too much to do with receiving favorable treatment. Some offer up their children to further that cause.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only reason to join the Liberal movement has too much to do with receiving favorable treatment. Some offer up their children to further that cause.</p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A solar-powered, null-weight/anti-gravity backpack!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A solar-powered, null-weight/anti-gravity backpack!</p>
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		<title>By: logdon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[logdon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Move to Alaska.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Move to Alaska.</p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, &quot;memorization of facts devoid of content&quot; is not a good way to teach science.  So I guess my question is, what is the &quot;content&quot; they&#039;re referring to, if it&#039;s not knowledge of specific things as opposed to ideology or pre-determined goals?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, &#8220;memorization of facts devoid of content&#8221; is not a good way to teach science.  So I guess my question is, what is the &#8220;content&#8221; they&#8217;re referring to, if it&#8217;s not knowledge of specific things as opposed to ideology or pre-determined goals?</p>
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		<title>By: Clare Spark</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clare Spark]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &quot;deep ecologists&quot; (who enjoy a masochistic Nature religion) have penetrated the culture and especially the Democratic Party. It is yet another attempt to undermine science and mathematics, tools for upward mobility for ordinary people. See http://clarespark.com/2011/04/14/darwin-and-the-climate-change-debate-the-greens-have-it/. &quot;Darwin and the climate change debate: the Greens have it.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The &#8220;deep ecologists&#8221; (who enjoy a masochistic Nature religion) have penetrated the culture and especially the Democratic Party. It is yet another attempt to undermine science and mathematics, tools for upward mobility for ordinary people. See <a href="http://clarespark.com/2011/04/14/darwin-and-the-climate-change-debate-the-greens-have-it/" rel="nofollow">http://clarespark.com/2011/04/14/darwin-and-the-climate-change-debate-the-greens-have-it/</a>. &#8220;Darwin and the climate change debate: the Greens have it.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: RightVote</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[RightVote]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Math and Science  are Universal Languages.  
Through the Monopoly of Government Control Schools and Public Money Union Enforcers he are falling away educationally.
Those &#039;in charge&#039; ARE the product of Our Government Control Schools.
This problem is NOW Generational.
You wonder about the Parents?  They are the Product of the SYSTEM!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Math and Science  are Universal Languages.<br />
Through the Monopoly of Government Control Schools and Public Money Union Enforcers he are falling away educationally.<br />
Those &#8216;in charge&#8217; ARE the product of Our Government Control Schools.<br />
This problem is NOW Generational.<br />
You wonder about the Parents?  They are the Product of the SYSTEM!</p>
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		<title>By: Tina Trent</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tina Trent]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eliane, no matter what the future holds, it is still better to teach children science than propaganda.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eliane, no matter what the future holds, it is still better to teach children science than propaganda.</p>
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