TEXAS PAID NCEE $500,000 WHICH PAID HILLARY $100,000 FOR NEW STANDARDS z46\doc\web\2000\11\texhill.txt "Bill and Hillary's Stealth Tactics in Texas" November 1, 2000 by Donna Garner Hillary earned $102,000 in 1991 as a consultant for the National Center on Education and the Economy; its sister organization was the New Standards Project (NSP). To become a member of the New Standards Project, the Texas Education Agency paid between $100,000 and $500,000; this expenditure was never approved by the Texas State Board of Education. Did Texas get its money's worth? You bet. Top level TEA staff and Texas Essential Knowlege and Skills (TEKS -- curriculum requirements in all subjects and in all grade levels) facilitators were trained in the Delphi Technique -- a type of psychological manipulation which through peer-pressure causes a group to arrive at preordained conclusions. The TEKS writing teams were coerced and controlled by these trained facilitators. Meanwhile Sen. Bill Ratliff and Ex-Commissioner of Education Mike Moses (just hired as Dallas ISD superintendent for upwards of $285,000) were both active participants of NSP. Ratliff made sure that the education laws in Texas facilitated the takeover of the Texas schools by NSP, and Moses made sure that the TEA staff was given sufficient support to produce NSP-like TEKS documents. Is this what Texans wanted? Did we want our K-12 curriculum to mirror Bill and Hillary Clinton's philosophy of education? What is their philosophy? Here it is in a nutshell: The way to get control of the next generation is to gain control of the public school curriculum. Therefore, Bill and Hillary's plan is to change the schools from teaching knowledge-based, academic content (objectively graded, right or wrong answers, foundational skills) to that of performance-based assessments (project-driven), subjective scoring (emotions, opinions, beliefs), and social engineering. Through the NSP and its long arm stretching all the way from Washington, D. C. to Texas, the Clintons and Marc Tucker also successfully instigated school-to-work initiatives in our Texas schools which seek to educate only the top 10%; the rest of the student body is doomed to become "worker bees." This is a blueprint for socialism. As a member of the TEKS writing team and the lead writer of the TAD, I walked through this entire process up-close and personal; I am not sharing hearsay. It actually happened right here in Texas, and the only thing that could have stopped it was the Texas Alternative Document (TAD -- http://www.htcomp.net/tad) for English / Language Arts / Reading. If the TAD and its philosophy had been adopted in July 1997, the other TEKS documents would have had to align themselves with the same knowledge-based, academic philosophy. As it worked out, however, the political powers were too great for the TAD. Bill and Hillary's "re-imaging" plan was adopted and is alive and well in every school district in Texas. The problem is that most Texans don't even know their children's public schools have been taken over by the Clinton's stealth tactics. Donna Garner dggarner@swbell.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- Candace de Russy Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2000 NewsMax.com Hillary Clinton nebulously represents her three-decades-plus involvement with education as a long "re-imagining" of education. Although she has no voting record to offer New Yorkers in this area, her present plan for, and past roles in, school reform are anything but nebulous: She has consistently advocated the radical expansion of government's power over schools, at the expense of parental and local control. One of Mrs. Clinton's proposals is the creation of a national teacher corps, which, as even the Washington Post warily acknowledges, "would plunge the federal government into areas of education where it has not gone before," including the recruiting, licensing and payment of teachers. For this and other new federal forays into education Mrs. Clinton advocates spending $175 billion over the next 10 years. But for more than three decades Big Brother has spent more than $150 billion on 760 "education" programs - in reality, self-serving employment programs for educators, who are among her staunchest supporters - which have done virtually nothing to raise academic performance of disadvantaged students. She vowed recently that she and Al Gore would finish implementing all the programs begun in her husband's administration. This would include extending the already powerful influence of the three 1994 federal laws strongly endorsed by President Clinton: Goals 2000, School-To-Work, and the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This legislation set up an insidious system of state standards based not on academics but on attitudes and beliefs as well as merely training children for specific jobs. As these laws have worked their way through state education departments to the local level, schools have increasingly adopted ideological and vocational curricula while abandoning knowledge-based truths found in traditional literature, mathematics and history. Mrs. Clinton's enthusiasm for controlling how other people's children should be educated and what careers they should choose predates her husband's presidency..........................