Outcome Based Education

A black-and-white cartoon depicting a group of people in ancient attire, with one holding a box labeled "COMMON CORE." Speech bubbles read: "You'd think they'd learn by now!!!", "Move along. This is a new gift!", and "This looks familiar - it's a bad thing!" The scene appears to be set in biblical times, with Catholic themes suggested by the attire and setting."

Is Common Core Unraveling? Or Is It Changing Face?

Now that everyone knows what “Common Core” is, nobody is talking about it except to mock it. But, has it really disappeared from Education administrations?

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The Bellarminf Forum: Stephanie Block reviews "A Match on Dry Grass" by Mark R. Warren, Karen L. Mapp, and the Community Organizing and School Reform Project. The cover features a black-and-white photo of people gathered together, with the title and author names prominently displayed in white text against a blue background."

Controlled Burn, Alinskyian organizing, and Common Core (Book Review)

Controlled Burn Alinskyian organizing and Common Core: A Book Review of A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform By Mark R. Warren, Karen L. Mapp, and the Community Organizing and School Reform Project, Oxford University Press (2011) The title of this book, A Match on Dry Grass, is a…

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A collage comparing Soviet and American school scenes with text criticizing Common Core education standards. The top shows a smiling student in a Soviet classroom with flowers and text about new schools being built in the USSR. The bottom shows an American student in a rundown classroom with text about schools closing. The main colors are red, white, and black. Text reads: "The goal of Common Core: Break the teacher's unions; bring Soviet propaganda full circle to reality. In USSR, there are many new schools being built. In the USA, schools are closing all the time."

Can We Say “Socialism?” Nationalized education imbedded in a workforce-management system? Well, what would you call it?

Opponents of Common Core need to be wary of the Marxist dialectic afoot that may trap them into making the very thing they hate come true by their own hands! Stephanie Block brings some twists to the Common Core discussion. … look for this: “He and other globalist corporate heads want the privatization of ALL education in order to implement the Soviet polytechnical workforce training system called for by Carnegie in 1934”

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A yellow diamond-shaped sign with black text reading "INDOCTRINATION CENTER AHEAD." It features two silhouettes of people walking. The sign has a cautionary tone, suggesting a critical or satirical context about indoctrination."

Explaining Common Core: And why you don’t want this in your schools

Since 1965, states have been given over 118 BILLION dollars (in addition to those supplied at the state/county level) through ESEA [the Elementary and Secondary Education Act] has supported a system in which 1 in 7 adults are functionally illiterate. Are the Marxists pushing new stuff into education (again)? Catholics wouldn’t go along with that, would they? Read Stephanie Block’s exposition.

There is a rather extensive list of “dangers” she sees in Common Core, including the denial of “absolute truth in God,” “making all truth relative and determined by group consensus,AND MORE!

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The Highjacking of America’s Children

Frank Morriss eviscerates the onset of Outcome Based Education (OBE) and its effects on dumbing our children down. An expose of the history even back into the FDR era ans the Fabian socialist roots to create this system of education and its goals.

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