Comments on: Cannot Support Shea’s Big Step Forward http://www.rochestertaxpayers.org/rochester/2010/02/01/cannot-support-sheas-big-step-forward/ City of Rochester NH - Strafford County Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:50:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Teacher http://www.rochestertaxpayers.org/rochester/2010/02/01/cannot-support-sheas-big-step-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Teacher Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:41:11 +0000 http://www.rochestertaxpayers.org/rochester/?p=179#comment-41 These programs are the creations of people like Dennis Litkky and his friend William Ayers.. you all remember who that is? These are the people who are running our schools today! Check out this editorial by education reporter Lisa E. McLoughlin IB - Improvement or Indoctrination? http://truthaboutib.com/breakingnewsopinions.html These programs are the creations of people like Dennis Litkky and his friend William Ayers.. you all remember who that is? These are the people who are running our schools today!

Check out this editorial by education reporter Lisa E. McLoughlin

IB – Improvement or Indoctrination?
http://truthaboutib.com/breakingnewsopinions.html

]]> By: Teacher http://www.rochestertaxpayers.org/rochester/2010/02/01/cannot-support-sheas-big-step-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Teacher Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:56:55 +0000 http://www.rochestertaxpayers.org/rochester/?p=179#comment-40 I am glad that taxpayers have done their homework. For many many years I have seen these fads come, suck the money out of a system and then fail. This is the same system as was used with the failed Thayer Academy. It uses all the failed methods of Outcome Based education, Goals 2000; collectivist learning, constructivism and the discovery method. It is not skills based. It is merely another iteration of Theodore Sizer's CES, a failure. In addition to fuzzy methods, revisionist history and a political agenda are rife within these systems, especially in the UN program called "IB". Everyone should read this website to find out what these new age fuzzy terms really mean: http://www.illinoisloop.org/lingo.html I am glad that taxpayers have done their homework. For many many years I have seen these fads come, suck the money out of a system and then fail.

This is the same system as was used with the failed Thayer Academy.
It uses all the failed methods of Outcome Based education, Goals 2000; collectivist learning, constructivism and the discovery method. It is not skills based.

It is merely another iteration of Theodore Sizer’s CES, a failure.

In addition to fuzzy methods, revisionist history and a political agenda are rife within these systems, especially in the UN program called “IB”.

Everyone should read this website to find out what these new age fuzzy terms really mean:

http://www.illinoisloop.org/lingo.html

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