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Pending and Current Legislation and Rulings
MN Senate: Get MN out of NCLB (12/13/07)
Academic Standards
BEWARE-the Delphi Technique!
Assessments, Testing, and the NAEP
Minnesota: Know Your Rights (8/17/06)
Saying NO to the MCAs
Baby Ed and Early Childhood
03/19/08: Evidence of Harm (pdf)
Centralized Workforce System
"The Seamless Web" by Allen Quist
Curriculum
General
International Baccalaureate Testimony
Civics
American Heritage Act Passes
Diversity
MN Session Report, Part III: IB & Others (6/18/07)
MN Session Report, Part II: Psychological Screening (6/06/07)
MN Session Report, Part I: The Good & The Bad (6/04/07)
Capitol Report: The Day After (5/22/07)
Follow the Money on TeenScreen (5/08/07)
House Roll Call Votes (5/03/07)
Freedom & Family Lobby Day a Success (4/27/07)
Groups Urge Legislators to Oppose Education Bill (4/18/07)
Minnesota Battles Mental Screening (4/18/07)
HIDING TEENSCREEN: Where's Waldo (4/16/07)
Roll Call Votes on TeenScreen (4/16/07)
Comprehensive Sex Ed Violates Our Children (4/05/07)
EdWatch President Speaks Out! (4/02/07)
Planned Chaos at the St. Paul Capitol (3/30/07)
MN House Democrats Spurn Parental Rights (3/28/07)
Comp Sex Ed Testimony (3/13/07)
Four Objections to Comp Sex Ed (3/12/07)
TeenScreen Distortions Perpetuated in House Hearing (3/06/07)
Terrorism as taught by International Baccalaureate (2/19/07)
Infant Mental Screening in Minnesota (2/13/07)
Texas Goverrnor orders STD vaccine for All girls (2/03/07)
New Minnesota Math Standards: Public Comment
"The Seamless Web" by Allen Quist
2004 Minnesota State Science Standards
Change in the Right Direction
New Standards: Improvement Over the Profile But Still Flawed
Closing MN's 2004 Legislative Session
Assault on America Continued - A Response to Erich Martel - "Why the Maple River Coalition is Wrong"
Minnesota Legislative Report
Education Elite Wrote Kelley's Standards
Get The Scoop: Who Wrote the Kelley Social Studies Standards
The Kelley Social Studies Standards
"National Expert" Erich Martel Reviews Social Studies Standards
Drafts "Appear From Nowhere" in the Senate
House Gives up Ground on SS Standards - See Roll Call Vote
Testimony Against the Senate-Posted Alternative Social Studies - by Michael J. Chapman
Testimony Against the Senate-Posted Alternative Social Studies Standards - by Julie Quist
Photos - Rally Day!
Substantive changes made in the "third draft" of the proposed Social Studies Standards
EdWatch Urges Senate to Confirm Education Commissioner Cheri Pierson Yecke
Zogby poll: Teach scientific controversy of evolution - Republicans and Democrats agree
DFL leaders attack Commissioner Yecke over the standards
Zogby Poll Shows MN's Support Teach Scientific Evidence Against Evolution
Committee Hearing on the "Third Draft" of the Social Studies Standards
Follow-up on the "Third Draft" Alert
The facts, ma'am, just the facts... by Charles Lewis
Social Studies Testimony by Michael J. Chapman
Science Testimony by Dr. Karen Effrem
The Minnesota Senate hearings: Social Studies
Opportunity to Improve Teaching of Evolution and Avoid Extremes Should Not Be Missed
Professors Support Academic Standards for History and Social Studies - Pt 2
Professors Support Academic Standards for History and Social Studies
Senate & House Hearings on Proposed Standards
'No Child Left Behind' meets resistance
Standards are foundation for building knowledge
Plymouth Day of Mourning; Yecke & Kelley on MPR; Historians Not the Sole Keepers of our Nation's Past
EdWatch Issues Cautious Praise for Final Academic Standards
Is The Curriculum Biased? A Statement of the National Association of Scholars
Haunted by Profile's ghost
Teaching American Values
Commissioner Yecke, tear down this wall (of ignorance)!
Critics would teach about an oppressive America
EdWatch Calls for Academic and Balanced Science Standards
Comments on Draft Science Standards by Karen R. Effrem, M.D.
Public Opposes Anti-American Academic Standards
Come to the Review of Draft Standards
Hearings on New Academic Standards
This and more from the Apple Valley standards hearing...
EdWatch's Academic Standards Website
Education Cartel Weighs in on New Standards
The Public Hearings Begin
Critique of "Minnesota Draft Science Standards" by Ross Olson, MD
View Academic Standards and give comments online
Come July 31st
Securing the Unalienable Rights vs. Promoting the Common Good.
Critique of Virginia Standards for Civics, Economics, History, and Geography
Priority! Minnesota Academic Standards
Academic Standards and The Federal Curriculum
Say no to MSS
MN House Education Hearing on Math Assessments
Two Views of Education: "Education Summit" and EdWatch
"New SAT" Presents Troubling Scenario
View the 2004 MN Student Survey - Primary Level
Parental Consent Requested for 2004 Minnesota Student Survey
What You Should Know About the Stanford 9
The "New" SAT and the Movement Toward a National Curriculum
NAEP Results Confirm Minnesota's Compliance with National "Fuzzy Math" Standards
Example of what the NAEP defines as "achieving" in U.S. History
Parental Involvement in Education
Capitol Lobby Day Huge Success
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND: WHAT IS IT?
Public Has A Right To Know 11th Grade Math Results
Students Assessed for Bias
Do You Support? An Instrusive 10th Grade History Assignment
SAMPLE PARENTAL INFORMED CONSENT NOTICE
Perverting the SAT
Teaching to the Test
Glossary of Testing Terms
The design and purpose of the NAEP
No parental access allowed to the test or its results
Why we can't show you our samples of the NAEP
Exam is Forced Mental Intrusion
Testing and Data Collection
Archived Assessment Material:
Report on "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB)
What state tests are required?
2003 MCA Testing Schedule - Be prepared to take your kids out. (pdf file)
MCAs: Profile Testing Trouble
The lie behind the MCAs
09/19/07: Their Minds Are In Our Hands (2001 Brochure)
06/04/07: MN Session Report, Part I: The Good & The Bad Ed
05/31/07: NAEYC Homosexual Advocacy to National/Baby Ed
02/09/07: All Day Kindergarten Failing as Education Reform
02/07/07: Bad Data Justifies Nanny State Expansion
09/12/06: Early Childhood Standards of Concern
09/12/06: Critique of Art Rolnick proposals
09/10/06: Gov Candidates Early Childhood
09/09/06: Know Your Rights on Preschool Screening
05/04/06: Early Childhood/IB updates and more...
04/04/06: Report from the Capitol
03/27/06: Profile of Learning for Preschoolers
03/24/06: House Testimony against the Governor's Early Childhood bill, HF 3623
03/23/06: Nanny State Assault Continues
03/21/06: testimony by April Selenskikh
03/20/06: Mn Nanny State Assault Returns
11/16/05: Controversy over 2005 Mental Health Screening
11/03/05: False Data in Ready4K Baby Ed Agenda
07/21/05: Minnesota Nanny State Tidal Wave Held Back
06/09/05: No Child Left Behind for Minnesota
Screening the Mental Health of Toddlers (5/11/05)
MN Education conference Comittee Begins on HF872 -- the omnibus education bill (5/11/05)
Post-democratic government inserted in MN education 4/29/05
Response to Ready4K's Misinformation 4/27/05 (pdf)
Child Mental Health Screening and Invasive Surveys 4/25/05
Questions and Answers regarding the Nanny State System 4/25/05
Dr. Effrem's Senate Testimony on Baby Ed, 2/24/05 (pdf)
Minnesota Baby Ed Alert (Parts I, II, III)
Dr. Effrem's Senate Testimony on Baby Ed, 2/24/05 (pdf)
Alice Seagren responds to misleading campaign using readiness study, 2/6/05
More on Screening Kids for Mental Health (Article by Dennis Cuddy)
Kids as Investments
Commentary on Baby Ed
Quotes and References from Early Childhood Testimony
Goal 1 of Goals 2000 Comes to MN legislature
Baby Ed Hearing
Early Childhood References
Brain Development Research
Big-government-as-parent-myth: The School Readiness "Crisis"
HF 3270: Example of What Is Really Meant by Streamlining Government
Central Planning Slips Into Tax Negotiations in St. Paul
Marc Tucker's dream of School to Work
Career Clusters Transform Secondary Schools Into Job Training Centers
Your license to work: Skills Certificates
"The Seamless Web" by Allen Quist
Cinton Education Agenda Being Pushed in Minnesota
Senate Committee Unanimously Passes MN Withdrawal from NCLB
Transformational Education (pdf)
"Links Between Research and Reform" by Beth Aune, Asst Ed Commissioner (pdf)
Comparison of Traditional and Progressive Education Models
Glossary of Goals 2000 terms
Gross, Grosser, and Grossest: How Far Have We Sunk in Children's Literature?
Sen. Bachmann's Letter of Congratulations Rejected by Some Graduates
Is The Curriculum Biased? A Statement of the National Association of Scholars
A New Alert on the "New Civics" - H.R. 1078
Who is the CCE Coordinator for your state?
DC Conference Pushes "New Civics": Who represented Minnesota?
Securing the Unalienable Rights vs. Promoting the Common Good.
Traditional v. Radical: Two Competing Worldviews
Urgent Alert on "The New Civics"
Beware The New Civics
DCFL: A Politically Correct Thanksgiving
Do You Support? An Instrusive 10th Grade History Assignment
Forcing Diversity Into the Classroom and Parents Out
Information on the Center Civics Education (CCE)
Testimony on the American Heritage Act
Ignorant, But Full of Self-Esteem
Hate Crimes Legislation and Schools
S.E.E.D. Report
DCFL: A Politically Correct Thanksgiving
Mahtomedi Students Assessed for Bias
Big Lake Forces Diversity Into the Classroom and Parents Out Return to civil debate on Marriage Ammendment
Environmentalism / Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (DESD)
When the Monkeys Came Back: Educating Environmentalists
The Earth Charter
"Sustainable Development" Defined
Economic growth is sustainable development
Comments by U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige:
The UN Proclamation for the DESD
UN plan for teaching sustainable development: Curriculum Rationale
UN plan for teaching sustainable development: Across the Curriculum
UN plan for teaching sustainable development: Curriculum Themes
UN plan for teaching sustainable development: Teaching and Learning Strategies
Environmentalists Water Bill Surges in Minnesota
Health and Sex Ed
2007 MN Session Report: Mandated Comprehensive Sex Education (6/18/07)International Education
2007 MN Session Report: International Baccalaureate (6/18/07)Math
Parent Involvement in Everyday Math (6/11/07)
New Minnesota Math Standards: Public Comment
MN House Education Hearing on Math Assessments
Handberg Testimony before the Minnesota House Education Policy Committee, January 24, 2005 (pdf)
Dr. Gray's Testimony before the Minnesota House Education Policy Committee, January 24, 2005 (pdf)
The Havoc Wrought by Today's "Modern" Math
Math Scores by Charles Lewis
From the DC Trenches: Worse Than Our Nightmares
Math "Reform?" - Part II
Math "Reform?" - Part I
EP math curriculum topic of Dec. 2 meeting
What do MCA Math tests test?
False Rumors in Minnesota
Public Has A Right To Know 11th Grade Math Results
University of Minnesota Professor Speaks Out
Core Plus Math Dumped in Austin
Phonics and Math Wars
Connected Math Doesn't Add Up
Parents, Are You Ready to Teach Your Kids Arithmetic?
Parents Testify in Congress About Math Programs
Lead Wall Street Journal Editorial: Math Wars
Phonics
Replacing Phonics With Word Bingo and Politics
Science
Impact of Darwin on Education (11/21/07)Social Studies
Teaching Religion in Public Schools (10/16/07)Data Collection System
9/26/02: SAMPLE PARENTAL INFORMED CONSENT NOTICE
Chapter 13 from The Seamless Web
Public Collection of Private Data on Students
Collection of Private Student Data
The Minnesota Student Survey
Public and Parental Access
Elections
S/B Questions (10/11/05)
Senator Michele Bachmann will run for Congressional Seat in 2006
Mental Health and Special Education
MN Session Report, Part II: Psychological Screening (6/06/07)
Follow the Money on TeenScreen (5/08/07)
Minnesota Battles Mental Screening (4/18/07)
HIDING TEENSCREEN: Where's Waldo (4/16/07)
TeenScreen Distortions Perpetuated in House Hearing (3/06/07)
Infant Mental Screening in Minnesota (2/13/07)
Minnesota Introduces Legislation to fund TeenScreen (2/09/07)
Join EdWatch support for North Side families (10/18/06)
Minnesota: Know Your Rights (8/17/06)
Using Minorities for MH Research (8/14/06)
Minnesota secretly screens (4/26/06)
State Attempts to Gut Parental Rights (3/16/06)
Dr. Harley Statement (3/15/06)
Ethically Challenged Mental Health Screening Bill (3/13/06)
Mental Health Screening for Preschoolers (3/09/06)
Testimony Against Preschool Socioemotional Screening (3/09/06)
Controversy over 2005 Mental Health Screening (11/16/05)
Huge Mental Health Victory for MN Families(7/18/05)
New law: School can't force meds on kids(7/5/05)
No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
MN Senate: Get MN out of NCLB (12/13/07)
MN Senate Passes NCLB Resolution (1/18/07)
Planned Economy
"The Seamless Web" by Allen Quist
Audit Faults Oversight of Career Program Effectiveness
First-Hand Experience With a Planned Economy
Alert! Right to Vote Their Consciences
Tax Free Zones: Twilight of the Free Market
Alert! Tax Free Twilight Zones
Workforce Socialism: What Washington and Tallahassee Have in Store Florida Businesses
Marc Tucker's dream of a planned economy
Our Governor's Big Plan: Government Control of the Workforce
Council of Great Lakes Governors
Minnesota Economic Leadership Team (MELT)
Biomedical Innovation and Commercialization Initiative (BICI)
Profile of Learning
"The Seamless Web" by Allen Quist
Grandstanding about Profile doesn't help
Session Update
View photos from Profile Elimination Celebration
Text of Profile Repeal Bill
Profile of Learning: Rest in Peace
Rally to Celebrate the Defeat of the Profile!
Profile of Learning Repealed!
Kersten Reviews MN Senate Standards
DFLers in Senate Pass Profile Clone
Profile Showdown this Friday!:
Chamber Backs Profile of Learning:
Should Minnesota Repeal or Tweak the Profile of Learning?
More on Senator Kelley's Profile Clone
Senate File 639: View the "Profile Clone" for Yourself
Senate Offers Profile Clone
Same Book, Different Cover? or, "No, Thanks" to a Profile Clone
House File 2: Bill to Eliminate the Profile of Learning
Profile Repeal Passes House in Landslide
Anti-Profile Group Sees Victory Ahead. What Are The Elements of Success?
Repeal the Profile of Learning Lobby Day at the Capitol
Brochure: Minnesota's Profile of Learning: What is it?
Recommendations Minnesota Education Standards
Private Schools and the Profile of Learning
Minnesota's Profile of Learning: What is it?
What Makes Up The Profile of Learning?
Q & A on Minnesota's Education and Workforce Development
Profile of Constructing Reality
U of M Study: The Impact of Minnesota's "Profile of Learning"
A Teacher's Experience With the Profile of Learning
Star Tribune: Profile of Learning Brings Graduation Woes
A Humorous State House Debate About the Elimination of the Profiles of Learning A Sample Project From the Profiles of Learning
Letter to the Editor from the Star Tribune: Profile Gets Failing Grade
Pro-Profile Senator Loses Party Endorsement From a Student: Problematic Profile of Learning MN Senate Votes 33-33 to KEEP the Profile The Profile Comes Under Attack in the Minnesota Legislature No Endorsement Pro-Profile Senator So What Were the North Star Standards all About?
Profile of Learning: The 10 Myths of the Grad Standards
CFL: "Profile is a federal mandate"
School-to-Work
Senator Bachmann on School-to-Work
FACT: “School-to-Work” Is Alive and Well!
What is "Service Learning," and why should you be concerned about it?
STW Commentary, Eden Prairie News
Background Materials
What is School-To-Work?
Assigned Carrier Clusters Minnesota
Small Learning Communities
"Cooperative learning can backfire"
FedEd in MN Classrooms: Smaller Learning Communities Preparing Workers for a State Planned Economy
Deadline Looms Mpls. 8th Graders
Decoding St. Paul's "Education Blueprint"
8th Grade Careers in St. Paul
Superintendent Pat Harvey's Small Learning Communities
Career Clusters
Small Learning Communities and False Advertising!
"Small learning communities" and HR1
Career Tracking in Small learning communities
forced on St. Paul Schools
Marc Tucker Curriculum
Teaching
Minnesota's 2005 Teachers' Conference
View Minnesota's Teacher Licensure Rules
Outcome-Based Education for Teachers
Important Historic Events and Milestones
2002: After Shocks of the Precinct Caucuses!
Capitol Hearing on the Basic Skills
Renee Doyle's Resignation Letter