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2004 Updates From Newest to Oldest:
12/29/04: December 2004 Happenings
12/13/04: Children's Mental Health in the 108th Congress: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
12/10/04: 2004 Minnesota State Science Standards
12/02/04: New Minnesota Math Standards Torpedoed by MN Department of Education
12/01/04: Worries Mount on SAT/ACT Essay Questions
11/24/04: Is the Declaration of Independence Unconstitutional?
11/16/04: Change in the Right Direction
11/10/04: Current Info on Mental Health Screening
10/27/04: The New Show and Tell:
How Homosexuality Is Being Promoted In The Classroom
10/25/04: Data Collection in the Schools
10/25/04: The Push for Mental Health Screening
10/18/04: Golden State Proposes Reinventing Government
10/07/04: Senator Bachmann on School-to-Work
10/08/04: The Havoc Wrought by Today's "Modern" Math
09/29/04: Two Views of Education: "Education Summit" and EdWatch
09/27/04: Follow-Up on Universal Mental Health Screening:
Where Do We Go from Here?
09/20/04: International
Baccalaureate Seminar
09/11/04: 9/11 Letter to Lawmakers
09/10/04: Roll Call Vote on Universal Health Screening
09/08/04: Congressman Offers Amendment on Universal Mental Health
8/20/04: More on Screening Kids for Mental Health
8/16/04: An Illusory Math Reform, article by Linda Seebach
8/09/04: FACT:
“School-to-Work” Is Alive and Well!
8/02/04: Mental
Health Merged With NCLB Standards/Tests in Illinois
7/29/04: The GLOBE
Program
7/17/04:
School to Work Moves Forward in Vocational Education
Reauthorization
7/14/04: Universal
Mental Health Screening
7/12/04: Study:
Federal Money no Asset to Education
6/30/04:
International Baccalaureate
6/18/04: Issues and
Action in Education
6/14/04: Radical
Activism in Schools, An Update on Service Learning
6/3/04: D-Day -
Action Alert!
5/27/04: Youth-Led
Social Activism
5/26/04: New
Standards: Improvement Over the Profile but still flawed
5/20/04: Closing MN's
2004 Legislative Session
EdWatch Academic
Standards Website
5/11/04: Progress
Report at the Capitol
5/10/04: Michael
Chapman to Speak at Upcoming Worldview Conference in Hermantown,
MN
5/10/04: Friday, May
21 - An evening with Bev Eakman
5/7/04: What is
"Service Learning," and why should you be concerned about it?
5/2/04:
Edited Transcript of the Confirmation Hearing on Commissioner
Yecke
5/2/04: Testimony in
Support of Commissioner Yecke by Austin School Board Chair, Kathy
Green
4/28/04: Alert:
Senate DFL Committee Votes No to Commissioner Yecke
4/27/04: Civil
Liberties of Nonprofits at Risk?
4/26/04:
Assault on America Continued - A Response to Erich Martel - "Why the
Maple River Coalition is Wrong"
4/22/04: Minnesota
Legislative Report
4/13/04:
Commissioner Confirmation - State standards
4/7/04: Buy
Stillwater! Support Bachmann! Boycott Intends to Vote Bachmann
Out!
4/5/04: Education
Elite Wrote the Kelley Alternative Standards
3/30/04: The Kelley Social Studies
Standards
3/26/04: "National Experts" Review of the
Minnesota Social Studies Standards
3/22/04: House Gives Up Ground on Social
Studies Standards
3/21/04: Drafts "Appear From Nowhere" in
the Senate
3/12/04: Capitol Report
3/12/04: Capitol
Day Photos
Minority
Report - A Call for Common Ground on Evolution (pdf)
Assault
on America: Undermining the Declaration of Independence
Proposed Social
Studies: Excerpts of Review From John Fonte (pdf)
Critics Would
Teach About an Oppressive America (pdf)
Poll - What
Parents Want Their Kids to Learn About America
3/10/04: Substantive
changes made in the “third draft” to the Citizen Committee proposed
Social Studies Standards
3/4/04: EdWatch Urges Senate to Confirm
Education Commissioner Cheri Pierson Yecke
2/28/04: Bachmann Bill to Opt-Out of No
Child Left Behind Passes Senate Education Committee
2/28/04: Zogby poll: Teach scientific
controversy of evolution
2/23/04: Zogby Poll Shows MN's Support
Teaching Scientific Evidence Against Evolution
2/23/04: DFL Leaders Attack Commissioner
Yecke Over the Standards
2/23/04: Committee Hearing on the "Third
Draft" of the Social Studies Standards
2/23/04: Senate committee unanimously
passes MN withdrawal from NCLB
2/22/04: View the
2004 MN Student Survey - Primary Level
2/16/04: Follow-up on the "Third Draft"
Alert
2/6/04: Review of the California Academic
Standards
2/4/04: The facts, ma'am, just the
facts...social activism in standards
2/1/04: Backlash builds against No Child
Left Behind
2/2/04: Parental Consent Now Required for
MN Student Survey (MSS)
1/30/04: Parental Consent Requested for 2004
Minnesota Student Survey
1/29/04: Science Testimony by Dr. Karen
Effrem before the Senate and House Education Committees
1/29/04: Testimony presented by Michael J.
Chapman before the Senate and House Education Committees
1/29/04: The Battle for
Social Studies by Michael J. Chapman
1/28/04: The Minnesota Senate Hearings:
Social Studies
1/25/04: Global Education
1/23/04: Opportunity to Improve Teaching of
Evolution and Avoid Extremes Should Not Be Missed
1/21/04: Professors Support Academic
Standards for History and Civics - Pt2
1/21/04: Professors Support Academic
Standards for History and Civics
1/9/04: What You Should Know About the
Stanford 9
1/19/04: "Cooperative learning can backfire"
1/16/04: The "New" SAT and the Movement
Toward a National Curriculum
1/16/04: To the Legislature: Accept the
Proposed Standards
1/16/04: Senate & House Hearings on Academic
Standards
1/16/04: Sample
Parental Consent Form
1/3/04:
Standards' panel deserves thanks
1/3/04: 'No Child Left Behind' Meets
Resistance
