TUCKER BOOK SETS STAGE FOR NATIONAL IMPOSED OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION
This exact quote is important by Marc S. Tucker, bottom of p, 62-top
p. 63"The crucial point is that the standards and assessments needed to
begin a program of standards-based reform are at hand.  You can use what is
available until some form of national system emerges," (meaning NCEE
sponsored New Standards)
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Folks, please read very carefully what Gene has quoted below:  "The crucial
point is that the standards and assessments needed to begin a program of
standards-based reform are at hand.  You can use what is available until
some form of national system emerges …"  This is exactly the purpose of
Achieve.  In Washington state we have Frank Shrontz as co-chair of the
Accountability Task Force just releasing their proposals for accountability
in this state.  Shrontz is also on the board of Achieve.  According to
Achieve's own website, states are being "encouraged" to submit their exit
outcomes (essential learnings, standards or goals), also their assessments
to Achieve for assessment and benchmarking.  Any state whose standards and
assessments do not meet the criteria of Achieve, and who does not take
steps to rectify problemns as enumerated by Achieve, will be boycotted by
those companies who have joined Achieve's efforts.  Who has been contracted
to assess and benchmark a state's standards and assessments?  One of the
two is the New Standards Project who has already developed and released its
standards and assessments with Marc Tucker's blessings -- the New Standards
Project being an entity owned by National Center on Education and the
Economy, Marc Tucker president.   This is what Tucker refers to when he
states, "that the standards and assessments needed to begin a program of
standards-based reform are at hand..."  It's all laid out folks.   It
doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the NSP standards and
assessments will be the criteria against which a state's standards and
assessments will be assessed and benchmarked.  We all know how cozy Marc
Tucker and Bill and Hillary Clinton are; how Tucker has bragged that his
agenda is being accomplished through the Clinton's.  We are also aware of
Tucker's connections to Washington state and to Frank Shrontz who has
heavily influenced the direction of ed reform in this state over the
protests of the people.  His money is obviously more important than the
people of this state and the children in this state.  The true essence of
the fascist takeover of education -- not to produce intelligent children --
but to produce the dumbed down "workers" for companies like Boeing.   LynnS


At 08:37 AM 7/7/98 -0400, Gene wrote:
> A new book, Standards for our Schools -1998 by Marc S.Tucker (Pres.
> NCEE) and Judy B. Codding (VP for Programs at NCEE) is out. I checked it
out of the public library for examination before reading it completely (If
I can stand the new-age jargon).
> 
> Here are some points in the book on examination:
> 
> 1. It praises the Paideia and Montessori schools.
> 
> 2. It opposes vouchers for private/religious schools because they are
> outside of "accountability measures."
> 
> 3. Tucker praises Charter schools-expects them to meet state assessment
tests (see!)
> 
> 4. It details/praises the Kentucky -(after which Washington state was
patterned).  It says their site-based management set up statewide has 2
parents, 3 teachers, 1 principal (that ought to eliminate parent control) and
site-base control of their own school budgets (that ought to eliminate
total citizen accountability for the entire district in spending (taxes).
> 
> 5.Mention/support: Comer, Sizer, Romer, Peter Drucker, Finn and the
> moral development expert that frowns on authority figures, Lawrence
> Kohlberg...
> 
> 6. OBE, of course is not identified as such but the alias: Performance
> Based Instruction is the code word.
> 
> 7. Strangely, the present president is called in the index: Clinton, B.
> with no mention of the Hillary connection with Marc Tucker.
> 
> 8. This exact quote is important by Marc S. Tucker, bottom of p, 62-top
p. 63"The crucial point is that the standards and assessments needed to
begin a program of standards-based reform are at hand.  You can use what is
available until some form of national system emerges," (Please read the
last sentence again, and for memorization.)
> 
  "...UNTIL SOME FORM OF NATIONAL SYSTEM EMERGES." (Mark S. Tucker -NCEE)
> 
> The defacto nationalization of our local schools by gradualism state by
> state is to be -on completion - a consensus of a national curriculum,
testing, teaching.
> 
> As you know this junk process is so stupid one hates to waste time on
> studying it-but someone has to do it.  Get the book, read it, and say, "I
> told you so."
> 
> gene malone  


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