2002 EdWatch
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2002 Updates from most recent to earliest:
12/9/02: Math "Reform?" - Part II
12/8/02: Math "Reform?" - Part I
11/29/02: A Changed Political
Climate
11/9/02: 2002 Election Review
2002 Election
News
11/02
: The CFL Wishes You a Politically Correct Thanksgiving!
10/7/02: Governor Election - Penny
Politics
10/24/02: Report on "No Child Left Behind"
(NCLB)
9/28/02: Do You Support? An Intrusive 10th
Grade History Assignment in White Bear Lake
9/26/02: Testimony from Restoring America on
the Implementation of the WIA
9/26/02: Testimony from Michael Chapman on
the Implementation of the WIA
09/26/02: Letter Threatens Objecting
Students
9/26/02: Assessed for Bias
9/25/02:
Brochure: Minnesota's Profile of Learning - What is it?
9/25/02: Minnesota Is Plugged Into The Fed's
School-To-Work Blueprint
9/24/02: Staffing Services Industry Under
Fire
9/6/02: Challenging the Profile of
Learning
9/6/02: U.S. Subcommittee on 21st Century
Competitiveness
9/6/02: The NEA's "Diversity Guidelines" for
9/11
8/29/02: Teaching to the Test
8/30/02: Recommendations for Minnesota
Education Standards
8/27/02: Private Schools and the Federal
Curriculum
7/26/02: "Radical IDEAs" on Special
Education from the President's Commission
7/21/02: Minnesota's Profile of Learning:
What Is It?
7/8/02: Hearing on Child Mental Health
Legislation Scheduled
7/5/02: Perverting the SAT
7/1/02: Child Mental Health Legislation:
Part 2
7/02: Legislative Overview and
Update
6/26/02: Child Mental Health Legislation:
Part 1
6/4/02: Star Tribune: Profile of Learning
Brings Graduation Woes
5/28/02: Mere Creatures of the
State?
5/23/02: "Let Our Mothers Go!"
5/22/02: Pro-Profile Senator Loses Party
Endorsement
5/20/02: Drumbeat Grows for Universal
Preschool
5/17/02: Workforce Socialism
5/16/02: Profile Gets Failing Grade
5/9/02: No Graduation for Those Without a
Life Long learning Plan
5/6/02: STW Commentary, Eden Prairie
News
5/2/02: Problematic Profile of
Learning
4/25/02: Forcing Diversity Into the
Classroom and Parents Out
4/23/02: Collecting Personal Data on
Students
4/22/02: MN Senate Votes 33 - 33 to KEEP the
Profile
4/21/02: The Profile Comes Under Attack in
the Minnesota Legislature
4/15/02: No Endorsement For Pro-Profile
State Senator!
4/7/02: HF 3270: Example of What Is
Really Meant by Streamlining Government
4/5/02: Central Planning Slips Into Tax
Negotiations in St. Paul
3/29/02: Textbook Politics
3/18/02: Personal U.S. Student Data to
International Agencies: ALERT #3
3/17/02: After Shocks of the Precinct
Caucuses!
3/14/02: Major Data Collection Bill #2
Alert
3/13/02: ALERT: Major Data Collection Bill,
HR 3801 #1 Alert
3/11/02: Mike Chapman's Overview of the
School-to-Work system
2/23/02: 8th grade careers in St.
Paul
2/21/02: Does the "Repeal" of Goals 2000
Mean Anything?
2/1/02: HR1/S1 is a Continuation of Goals
2000/School-to-Work
1/24/02: MrEdCo Calls Alarm!
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