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Stopping Common Core in Our Schools How the new standard for government education will injure your family! 

Hear Dr. Duk e Pe s t a  

discuss the latest initiative to make your children robots for the state.

MondayOctober 28, 2013

7:30 PMMarriott Hotel

189 Wolf RoadI-87 Northway Exit 4, Colonie

For reservations:

(888) 713-8087 or  jbsactivity@nycap.rr.com

PayPal order on www.jbsny.org 

Or write:PO Box 1064

Ballston Lake, NY 12019 

Donation: $6.00 in Advance$10.00 at the Door 

Sponsored by theCapital District Chapters of the

John Birch Society and the American Opinion Education

Committee

What is the Common Core Cur-

riculum to be imposed on all

children?

What people and organizations

are behind the drive for Com-

mon Core?

What are the dangers of a uni-

form nation-wide standard

and the plan for tracking of

all students by a central au-

thority?

What do the planners really

want to do with our children’s

minds, values, careers, and

lives?

Will private, religious-based,

and home schools escape

the effects of Common Core?

How does this scheme fit with

the UN ‘s Agenda 21 desire

to control what our children

learn?

Join with us for Duke’s clear

explanation of this threat to

our freedom, how we can

fight it, and what steps par-

ents can take to protect their

sons and daughters.

Your children and 

grandchildren are 

the target of those 

who wish to 

destroy any 

vestige of biblical 

morality, sound 

classical 

education,

critical thinking,

and a freedom 

loving people. 

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Dr. Pesta received his M.A. in Renais-sance literature from John Carroll Uni-

versity and his Ph.D. in Shakespeare

and Renaissance literature from PurdueUniversity. He has taught at major 

research institutions and small liberal

arts colleges. He is a professor of Eng-

lish at the University of Wisconsin,

Oshkosh, and the Academic Director of Freedom Project Education, a classi-

cal curriculum of internet courses. 

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 The Latest Grab For Schools and ChildrenBy John F. McManus 

Any discussion of the sorry plight of our nation’s education

system must begin with the following realization: There is

no authorization whatsoever for the federal government to

 be involved in the field of education. Nowhere in the much-

abused and increasingly ignored U.S. Constitution can the

word “education” be found. How the feds got started in this

vitally important field, the results of their involvement, and their latest assault on children and on the nation itself needs

a thorough airing.

First, some current facts. A recent study of the educational

systems in 50 “advanced” countries placed the United States

in 17th place. Finland, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan and 

Singapore took the top five spots. Also, Harvard Univer-

sity’s Program on Education and Governance looked at a

14-year period beginning in 1995 and found foreign stu-

dents way ahead of counterparts in America who ranked 

25th in math, 17th in science, and 14th in reading. A new

report released by The National Foundation for AmericanPolicy noted that foreign students occupy 70 percent of the

seats in electrical engineering graduate programs, 63 percent

in computer science classrooms, and more than half in the

fields of industrial, chemical, and mechanical engineering

courses. Descent to such unenviable levels can be blamed 

on several causes – cultural decline, lack of parental influ-

ence, teacher proficiency, etc. – but federal involvement

certainly tops the list.

As federal money and federal direction solidified the fed’s

takeover of the nation’s schools, the quality of the product – 

call it educational excellence – steadily went south. By1983, a federal commission concluded in a report entitled 

“A Nation at Risk” that, if the deterioration of the nation’s

 public school system had been caused by a foreign power, it

might well have been considered an “act of war.” What

then did federal educrats do? Aided by a compliant and 

docile Congress, they shoveled more money into, and im-

 posed more controls on, public schooling .

In 1989, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention

on the Rights of the Child. Wherever it is implemented,

 parents had to cede their rights to control the upbringing and 

education of their children. As bad as national takeover of schools has become, international control has proved to be

worse. In 1990, representatives from 150 countries gathered 

in Thailand for the World Conference on Education for All.

Sponsored by UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank and 

other UN agencies, and their affiliates, the conference’s

 published goals became the U.S. program known as Out-

come Based Education (OBE). Not only did OBE widen thegrowing gulf between parents and their children, the already

sad proficiency of the schools continued to deteriorate.

OBE was followed by No Child Left Behind in 2001 and,

when it demonstrably failed to improve education scoresand ratings, it was replaced by Race to the Top. The names

of these federal programs lead to the belief that the feds are

diligently trying to do what’s needed. But the results of 

these costly intrusions speak otherwise. What’s really

needed is them stepping out of the way and letting the peo-

 ple regain control of their schools

The latest attack on parental rights and the right of each

community to establish its own school program is called 

Common Core (CC). Arising out of the totalitarian mind-

set of veteran Assistant UN Secretary General Robert Muel-

ler (he died in 2010), UNESCO published the World Core

Curriculum in 1984. CC is now spreading rapidly through

the schools of America. Muller wanted a one-world govern-

ment, a one-world religion, and a one-world boss (the

United Nations). His plan for mankind has gained strong

support in recent years fueled by the Bill and Melinda Gates

Foundation, several internationally-minded mega U.S. cor-

 porations, and UNESCO.

Common Core will supply pamphlets about environmental-

ism produced by the Environmental Protection Agency in

order to build reading proficiency. Threats to remove fed-

eral aid will convince school administrators to adopt newinstruction and new standards replacing what students need 

to do well on ACT and SAT exams. Basic math will be re-

 placed by only learning a process, not how to implement it,

and what the process might mean to the student. History

lessons will contain no patriotism and no historical context

to explain why events have occurred. Intelligence and abil-

ity won’t matter; only a proficiency in regurgitating CC’s

 propaganda will count.

There’s a lot at stake in gaining an understanding of 

Common Core and the disastrous entry of the federal

government into education. Americans need a strongwake-up call about all of this, and it better happen soon.

For More Artic les About Common Core:

Go to: www.thenewamerican.com and enter 

Common Core in the search box.

Our future and our chi ldren’s future depend on responsib le citizens becoming better informedand taking action. Join wi th us on Monday, October 28th. Get friends, relatives, educators, par-ents, and fellow activis ts to attend this important seminar.

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