I cannot count the times Common Core’s defenders objected whenever I married the United Nations to Common Core. Regardless of the proofs I posted, my opposites swore to high heaven that the United Nations had nothing to do with the so-called education standards CC imposes on American children and their parents. Their best argument was that each one of our states writes their own rules. Presidential wannabe Kasich made that claim:
John Kasich's Common Core lie
By Jason Russell | May 2, 2015 | 5:00 am
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/john-kasichs-common-core-lie/article/2563898
By Jason Russell | May 2, 2015 | 5:00 am
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/john-kasichs-common-core-lie/article/2563898
Nothing is further from the truth. The philosophy driving Common Core originated in the bowels of the United Nations before it was written and forced on the states by the federal government. CC would have gone nowhere without the U.N.’s political muscle needed to ram Common Core down the throats of the American people. These excerpts from Leo Hohmann’s great piece obliterates any defense Common Core supporters offer:
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?146844-Truth-Will-Out&p=3843626#post3843626
If you intend to read Morgan E. Hunter’s great article you will see that she does not mention the United Nation.
Let me start with a reminder that the United Nations got its plans for Common Core from none other than:
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future. Adolf Hitler
When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, Your child belongs to us already. . . . What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community. Adolf Hitler
When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, Your child belongs to us already. . . . What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community. Adolf Hitler
So how in hell is the U.N.’s plans for children any different than Hitler’s?
Common Core clearly lays claim on American children for the United Nations, as well as every child in the world if truth be told:
[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Education.]
By Morgan E. Hunter
Real Clear Education
At every Olympic Games, a 26.2-mile race celebrates Pheidippides’ grueling run back to Athens to bring news of the great Athenian victory over the Persian army at the Battle of Marathon. According to last year’s California-approved ancient-history textbook from McGraw-Hill, however, the Greeks “defeated the Persian navy.” The author of this text also wrote the 2006 edition of the same book, from the same publisher. That earlier edition correctly describes the battle as a clash of armies.
So what changed between 2006 and 2019?
Answer: the Common Core.
Spank a child, do the time!
American ideas of republican, representative government; the dangers of dictatorship; and the tensions between a republic and an empire all come directly from the experience of republican Rome. Our ideas about democracy and a natural law for all human beings come from the ideas and politics of the Greek poleis. More than 2,000 years ago, Greece and Rome wrestled with what citizenship meant, what freedom meant, what justice meant – just as we wrestle with them today. But in order for us to benefit from what they wrote, we must teach it effectively.
In recent years, debates over math and reading instruction have been intensified by the adoption in virtually all states of the federally promoted Common Core standards in mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA). The new standards move in exactly the wrong direction: they systematically neglect the content of history and literature in favor of reading skills. By narrowing the focus to a single state, California, and a single subject, Greco-Roman history, we can see that the Common Core has done harm.
The most compelling evidence is the decline in quality between two versions of a textbook written by Jackson Spielvogel before and after California adopted the Common Core. Both have been California-approved textbooks for the sixth grade. Spielvogel’s earlier book is much easier to read and has fewer errors.
The earlier edition was a California-specific subset of Spielvogel’s History of the World for middle schools (a different subset is used in Florida). That book is itself a simplified version of his widely used World History for high schools; it is used, for example, in Texas. This California edition follows a conventional narrative structure largely based on chronology, but with digressions on relevant subjects. The illustrations are appropriate and reasonably well-chosen. There is only one “reading skills” interruption per section. A study that I conducted with Williamson M. Evers and Victor Davis Hanson found some errors, but a clear narrative. Our main complaint was that the text was not engaging enough for younger readers.
Far from improving the teaching about the ancient world, however, the Common Core has made it more difficult – as shown in the textbook’s later edition, which dispenses with a single clear narrative in favor of a fashionable and confusing hypertext-like structure consisting of a sequence of disconnected units, each with a title and a few paragraphs of text. It appears as if a more continuous text had been broken up into “bites” by a subsequent editor who apparently believed that students cannot absorb a narrative, only short single-topic units. The new edition contains fewer illustrations but many more “reading skills” questions – often one per page.
What is the result of the Common Core changes? The newer text is harder to follow, less interesting, and less well written. More surprisingly, it also has many more errors. We found the same 16 errors in both editions, but an additional 20 errors in the 2019 edition. How do we explain this deterioration? In line with the Common Core focus on “reading skills,” as implemented in 2016 by California’s 855-page “Framework” for history/social-science instruction, textbook publishers now include “reading specialists” in the editorial process. These editors apparently do not know a book’s subject, so their work introduces errors while also seeming to drain life from the text. These changes can be directly attributed to the Common Core.
Reading classes should emphasize reading skills; history classes should focus on content – namely, history. We should make the history and literature of the classical world more memorable – more stories, less hypertext – and we should tie them directly to the American republican experiment. Before 1776, before 1619, before 1492, before AD, there was 490 BC and the Battle of Marathon, which freed Athens to found our civilization. To adapt Milton’s advice, we should “justify the ways of America to her children.” We can’t do that with the Common Core standards, which take exactly the wrong approach to reforming history education.
Morgan E. Hunter is a postdoctoral fellow at the Independent Institute. She is a co-author of the Independent Institute Policy Report, "Is It Time for a '490 B.C. Project?'"
How Common Core is changing history
By WND News Services
Published November 14, 2020 at 4:13pm
https://www.wnd.com/2020/11/common-core-changing-history/
Before anybody cites this crap: “There would have been no World War Two had the U.S. Senate ratified membership in the League of Nations.”
Consider this:
On this day in history, [December 14, 1939] the League of Nations the forerunner of the United Nations expelled the Soviet Union. The League had been formed in the aftermath of WWI in order to prevent another international war. Many countries belonged to the League and they voted unanimously to expel the Soviets. This was in response to the Soviet invasion of Finland. On October the 30th 1939, the Soviets had launched an unprovoked attack on the Finnish nation. Stalin had ordered the bombing of Helsinki and ordered tens of thousands of troops across the border. The USSR had been aggressively seizing territories in Eastern Europe. It had partitioned Poland with Nazi Germany. They had done this in order to ‘protect’ the Poles from the brutality of the Nazis. The Soviets also seized two provinces of Romania and occupied the Baltic States.
This Day In History: The League Of Nations Expels The Soviet Union (1939)
By Ed
https://historycollection.com/day-history-league-nations-expels-soviet-union-1939/
By Ed
https://historycollection.com/day-history-league-nations-expels-soviet-union-1939/
In fact, worldwide Communism guarantied World War Two.
Note that Hitler walked out of the League while the USSR was booted out:
On this date in 1933 German Chancellor Adolf Hitler announced that his coun-try was pulling out of the League of Nations, pred-e-cessor to today’s United Nations. Germany had been a League mem-ber since 1926. Hitler, who had been in office less that nine months, had recently asked the League for “equal-ity of sta-tus”—meaning he wanted the League to grant Germany the right to build up its mili-tary to a level equal to those of the other major powers.
GERMANY EXITS LEAGUE OF NATIONS
TODAY
Berlin, Germany • October 14, 1933
https://ww2days.com/germany-exits-league-of-nations.html
Most importantly, the U.N. is too smart to disarm the U.S. The U.N. wants to control the U.S. Military.
Without this country’s military under U.N. control that anti-America ORGANIZATION would be what it should be —— A DEBATING SOCIETY —— with only enough annual dues to pay the monthly utilities bill. (Where would U.N. bureaucrats be without the tens of billions they take in every year?)
I often said “No American can be ordered to SERVE the U.N.” if the Universal Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) is amended so that no American can be punished if he refused to fight for the U.N.
Lay my UCMJ suggestion on Democrats and you will hear so much caterwauling you will need earplugs to drown it out. Democrats do not oppose the war against terrorism when it means America defending itself unilaterally, while they preach Americans dying for the U.N.
Lay my UCMJ suggestion on Democrats and you will hear so much caterwauling you will need earplugs to drown it out. Democrats do not oppose the war against terrorism when it means America defending itself unilaterally, while they preach Americans dying for the U.N.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...%92-Is-Omar%92s-Message&p=3003287#post3003287
One final question. Why does President Trump refuse to pardon Michael New?
Trump can send an unmistakable message to NATO, to the United Nations, and to the American people by pardoning Michael New. Nobody should be pardoned until Michael New is pardoned. New’s arrest, court-martial and conviction remains the biggest miscarriage of justice in this country’s military history; on par with France’s Alfred Dreyfus although Specialist New was not sent to Devil’s Island or even to prison. Alas, Michael New is the forbidden pardon. I doubt if he could buy a pardon for any price.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...-For-The-United-Nations&p=2779843#post2779843