Category Archives: Loss of Local Control

Parent Voice: Persistence

Posted on July 23, 2019 by J.R. Wilson

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In April, I wrote two articles about Parent Voice: Parent Voice: Bumps in the Road and The Rising Parent Voice.  The Rising Parent Voice addresses the squabble taking place over the math curriculum in Wake County North Carolina.  After parent … Continue reading →

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Who Knows? Who Decides? Who Decides Who Decides?

Posted on June 23, 2019 by J.R. Wilson

I was recently reading a section of the book “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power” by Shoshana Zuboff.  This is an eye opener and an excellent book about surveillance … Continue reading →

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Parent Voice: Bumps in the Road

Posted on April 22, 2019 by J.R. Wilson

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Last night I read the The New York Times’ article Silicon Valley Came to Kansas Schools.  That Started a Rebellion.  For some reason as I read this article a song kept coming to mind.  The song was The Devil Came … Continue reading →

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Directions in Education?

Posted on November 28, 2016 by The Undergroundparent

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President Elect Donald Trump has appointed Betsy DeVos as the U.S. Secretary of Education. A lot was said on the campaign trail. With a Trump-DeVos administration what direction will they take education? Trigger warning: be aware that the following is … Continue reading →

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Introduction to data mining our kids

Posted on February 28, 2016 by The Undergroundparent

Moms Alyson Williams, Jenni White, Alisa Ellis and Christel Swasey, of Utah and Oklahoma, chat in a Google Hangout about their concerns and experiences with government data mining children without parental consent. This also appears on Common Core: Education Without Representation.

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Making Big Ideas Into Small Ideas: The GOP Tendency

Posted on September 2, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

This is the seventh in a series about the report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action.  Permission has been granted for text from Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates to be published … Continue reading →

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The Common Core Pushback

Posted on September 1, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

This is the sixth in a series about the report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action.  Permission has been granted for text from Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates to be published … Continue reading →

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The Common Core Standards Lock Children Into an Inferior Education

Posted on August 31, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

This is the fifth in a series about the report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action.  Permission has been granted for text from Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates to be published … Continue reading →

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Common Core System

Posted on August 30, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

This is the fourth in a series about the report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action.  Permission has been granted for text from Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates to be published … Continue reading →

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The Public-Private Partnership: How Private Entities Developed the Common Core and Enlisted the Federal Government to Drive It Into the States

Posted on August 29, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

This is the third in a series about the report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action.  Permission has been granted for text from Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates to be published … Continue reading →

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