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Lord, I thought I knew you,

   but know the winds have changed.

Tossed away, will you find me?

   Can still , my heart be sustained?

Just me and you when things were new,

then the season's storms blew by.

   Did I forget to worship you?

 

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   I pray not to be ashamed.

I seek you when it's early Lord.

   I pray not to fall away.

 

So come Lord Jesus come quickly-

   The terrible day is at hand.

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   So you may strengthen our spirits ,

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Loree Brownfield

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Friday
May302014

Common Core Issue #1 In Many States

Across the country there is hope that parents and children can regain their sanity as parents across America get ready for elections.  But it has to start with knowing who the people are behind the invalid, untested Common Core Standards Initiative.  Parents are seeing through the speeches that even though Superintendents say we don't have Common Core, the truth is here and yes, we adopted it and are bound to it according the NCLB Waiver Application.

There is a Great Awakening and here's why...

The pain and torture of this past year and from what one Mom has said "School has been tormenting for the past month.  Who am I kidding--all year!" It has made a recipe of angry parents and grandparents who have helplessly watched their child's world (and theirs) get turned upside down and they are ready for change.

From the crazy math

, to the English with highly charged negative words, more parents

get it that education today is no longer about academics--see these pictures of an approved Social Studies Supplement that is coming next year (Ex. in Alabama even though State Board of Ed was asked to not approve all--the majority members did --disapproval coming from Betty Peters and Stephanie Bell).

 

On the example of one very large state where students and their families are guinea pigs read these excerpts:

What exactly is “education?” --for most parents, something very traditional: the three Rs, standardized test performance, college entrance, and teachers happy to teach students eager to learn.  Parents see education as highly individualistic because they understand that at SAT time and ACT time, that child will be required to expound upon the knowledge that he or she has internalized. However, when progressive, socialist constructivist educators speak of “education,” they are not defining their terms. To them, education means something more of a great social experiment where children form opinions about issues in groups, building their ideas as a group. They may not be as concerned about individual factual knowledge as they are about how well children do in groups, how many questions they ask, and how they behave within that group setting.

With all of this in mind, we must be very careful to force pedagogical proponents and experimenters to define their terms, to clarify what “this” or “that” means to them. Parents should remember that, ultimately, they are footing the bill for the education of students and it is THEIR idea of education that must be met. Not the grandiose social experimental musings of ideologues who believe that they know what is best for other peoples’ children.

See these links on the Common Core movers and shakers:

 

  • Bill Gates--Since January 2008, more than 250 Gates grants have targeted causes such as charter schools, testing research, data systems, science and math education and common academic standards. “In total, the four organizations primarily responsible for CCSS – NGA, CCSSO, Achieve, and Student Achievement Partners – have taken $147.9 million from Bill Gates,” Schneider concludes. “Common Core Gates Standards.”  All for big profits of course...
  • Lou Gerstner--He says, "We need more time on task, we need a longer school day, we need a longer school year, and we need accountability and measurement in the system so we can constantly adjust what’s going on....convene the 50 governors, and the first thing they do is they abolish the 16,000 school districts we have in the United States. Sixteen thousand school districts are what we’re trying to cram this reform through."
  • Kevin Jennings--Plans that Common Core "start" with academics but will eventually encompass "school climate" standards.
  • David Coleman--likes partnering with the Obama Administration’s campaign data team members to use techniques on data collection and use of data on your students.
  • Obama Administration--Arne Duncan's speech excerpts: "I want to talk about the Race to the Top fund. I explained that the Recovery Act provides $5 billion dollars in discretionary funding.

    After the set-asides for the Innovation and What Works fund and the money for the new assessments, we will have $4 billion dollars for states to drive education reform.This is your opportunity to be bold, creative, think big and push hard on the kind of reforms that we know will create fundamental change.  But this money will only go to states that are absolutely pushing reform in real and measurable ways..

  • Bill Ayres (former terrorist) and Linda Darling Hammond-Obama Connection:

    "It is shocking that Obama Education Department officials would appear at a conference that also featured someone like Ayers. On the other hand, their boss, President Obama, worked with Ayers in Chicago, and this kind of collaboration is not entirely surprising. We are left, however, wondering about the precise nature of the role that Ayers is playing in the development of this federal education plan."  You see the fruits of their handiwork in Texas CSCOPE.

     

  • Pearson--Paving the wayf for profit...“They want to offer products and services in all areas of school practice: assessment, pedagogy, curriculum and management, and they want to create the possibility for that through policy work. They want to have indirect influence in policy to create opportunities for business expansion. It’s a very well thought-out business strategy.”  Their method in Great Britain--"In many ways the strategy for promoting academies in Great Britain is similar to the strategy for promoting charter schools in the United States. Working class and poor families are told the academies are a solution to educational inequality. The academies are also exempt from following national curriculum and are not answerable to local governments. According to one British commentator who has carefully documented the history of the academies, “When threats don’t work, the department resorts to bribery. Schools receive up to an extra £65,000 or over $100,000 in state funds, if they become academies. As a result, the academies program exceeded its budget by £1 billion ($1.6 billion) from 2010 to 2012."
  • State Superintendents and Key Elected Officials devising new bills such as the "Systems of Reduction" where there is a shift from using seniority as major factor in teachers retained.  I say teachers please wake up..
  • Alabama Example:  “This plan supports Dr. Bice’s plan 2020.”  Dr. Joe Morton representing the Business and Education Alliance spoke for the bill SB 353, sponsored by Senator Pro Tem Del Marsh (R) from Anniston, Alabama in past session.   Morton said the state needs to develop a plan to retain the best teachers.  Morton said this is a major shift, in that the seniority of a person can not be a major factor in why they are retained during a Reduction In Force...Hope we get the right candidates in.  Teachers please look at Dr. Morton's BCA candidates while you still have your job...

More resources for you to know who are also concerned about Common Core and why...

This is an excellent resource to share with those who want to catch up--Common Core 101

In close remember God's Word and his warnings and a story from the past:

 "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."  2Chron 7:14

"It would be better to be thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around your neck than to cause one of these little ones to fall into sin."  Luke 17:2


Will Christians heed the cries of the children today and remove the blight called Common Core?? An elderly German man who lived through the Holocaust tells the following story:
I always considered myself a Christian. I attended a church since I was a small boy. We had heard the stories of what was happening to the Jews; but like most people in America today, we tried to distance ourselves from the reality of what was really taking place. What could anyone do to stop it?
A railroad track ran behind our small church, and each Sunday morning we would hear the whistle from a distance and then the clacking of the wheels moving over the track. We became disturbed when one Sunday we heard cries coming from the train as it passed by. We grimly realized that the train was carrying Jews.
Week after week that train whistle would blow. We would dread to hear the sound of those old wheels because we knew that the Jews would begin to cry out to us as they passed our church. It was so terribly disturbing! We could do nothing to help these poor people, yet their screams tormented us. We knew exactly at what time that whistle would blow, and we decided the only way to keep from being so disturbed by the cries was to start singing our hymns. If some of the screams reached our ears, we'd just sing a little louder until we could hear them no more.
Years have passed, and no one talks about it much any more; but I still hear that train whistle in my sleep. I can still hear them crying out for help. God forgive all of us who called ourselves Christians, yet did nothing to intervene.

 

Here's Common Core Tool box of resources you may find useful:

 

Friday
Oct142011

October 2011 Guests Schedule

Schedule of Guests for October 2011 City On A Hill

Please remember show airs M-F at 1:30 pm ct (player is on home page of www.cityonahill.tv) and programs are recorded and available on player on home page (within 10 min after) and day later on podsite.

Oct 3- Hear interview with Mrs. Annette Griswold--student/teacher of Bible Prophecies.

Oct 4-Hear an interview with John Bernard as he gives his perspectives on the latest on the war on terror.   We are always so grateful for his continued sacrifice and those of others such as his son Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard. 

Oct 5-Hear an interview with Dawn Wildman of Tea Party in California and National Co-ordinator of Tea Party Patriots along with Kaylon Jones of the Wiregrass Tea Party group. What makes for a great Tea Party?

Oct 6-Hear interview with Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt and what chaplains are facing (prayinjesusname.org) also about what is going on in the middle-east specially in Israel. He was the former U.S. Navy Chaplain who made national headlines by standing up for the rights of military chaplains to pray publicly "in Jesus' name."  

 Oct 7-Hear the latest on Common Core Standards and Race To The Top and the No Child Left Behind Waiver-inducement from Obama Administration.  Hear perspectives from Peyton Wolcott (peytonwolcott.com), Dawn Wildman (California Tea Party and National Co-ordinator of Tea Party Patriots) and Lou Campomenosi (Common Sense Campaign). They are specialists in following the money trail.  Why is the Obama administration pouring all this money to get states to accept Common Core Standards and so fast?  Get to know the truth before it is too late--if you value  parental input in childrens' education.

Oct 10-Hear perspectives from State Board Member, Mrs. Betty Peters on the Common Core Standards and Race To The Top and NCLB waivers.  She is one of the leaders fighting for quality education and parental input.  She is determined to inform the people of what Common Core Standards is all about so that all can make better decisions for the future of our children.

Oct 11-Hear truths about Christopher Columbus most people have never heard.  Seeing history through the world Columbus lived in helps get this nation on the right focus.  God's hand is evidenced by the life of this great man and here we come to terms that it is not about religion but about a relationship that can make a difference in our lives.

Oct 12-Hear perspectives of Tea Party Italia's Luca Bocci and Tea Party Patriot's Dawn Wildman with Judge Roy Moore on the right foundation.  Hear  a  conversation about basics that affects not just America's economy but also the world's.  Can we learn from our mistakes and are countries willing to make changes ? Will nations continue to be led by those who hide the truth using mainstream media and the powers money can buy?

Can citizens make a difference today in these economies?  Get informed and share truths that has proven itself trustworthy.

Oct 13-  Hear from our two historians talk about God's hand upon man and freedom.
Oct 14-Hear our teachers, historians-Mr. Wayne Wood and Mrs. Barbara Moore on the sermon that changed America and really the entire world.  The sermon by Jonathan Edward which he gave to the congregation of Enfield, Massachusetts (later Connecticut) in July 1741 known as  Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God .  It was a sermon for a particularly hard-hearted congregation. It covered-the magnitude of sin, the wrath of an infinitely holy God, and that unknown time when God "will" execute justice.  It sparked an awakening then and may it do the same in our hearts today the world over...

Oct 17- Hear perspectives from Don Simmons, author of The Unborn Series as we remind America of the price of lack of knowledge--it has meant the death of innocents.  Please get informed and help the most beautiful of God's creation--innocent tiny human beings--receive what we have---"life"...

Oct 18- Hear latest from our war on terror expert--USMC Sgt. (ret.) John Bernard.  He spent 26 years in the USMC, both active and reserve and have spent 47 years in the trade.He is a political conservative. He has been married for 27 years and have one daughter and one son (KIA Dahaneh 08/14/09)--Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard.  He will be sharing with us his perspective on the latest in the middle east specially with the death of Osama bin Laden.  His hard work is because he knows freedom isn't free and he hopes you feel the same...Visit his blog and get informed as your help is needed to help our defenders fight well.

Oct 19- Hear perspectives Pastor Tom Anderson, Alabama State Senator Scott Beason and Al Eagle Forum Pres. Mrs. Eunie Smith about the battle for the mind of a child going on throughout this nation.  All three are taking a stand in places many fear to tread and it is making a  difference for the state of Alabama.

Oct 20- Hear interview with a woman who was born to unmarried teenagers in what was then communist Yugoslavia, Radica Quackenbos.  As an infant, she was left in the care of her alcoholic father. Later, Radica was sent to live on her mother's farm, where she was forced to forage for herself and sleep with the animals in the barn. Dirty and ragged, she began stealing food and clothing.  As a teen, Radica was raped and lived with an alcoholic.  She had a baby girl and moved to Florida for an arranged marriage. Badly abused, she had had four more children by the time her husband left her for another woman. With five dollars in her pocket and limited English skills, she had nowhere to live and no way to support herself and her children. Where does a woman in those circumstances find help?  Listen and find out...

Oct 21 - Hear perspectives from Dawn Wildman of Tea Party Patriots and Pastor Cary Gordon of Iowa(helped oust Iowa judges) about the latest concerns in the culture clash in the halls of Congress.  Both are dedicated leaders trying to help lead this nation back to the right foundation and they are proof that indeed with God "all things" are possible.  The incredible hand of God is very clear in the amazing things that their perseverance has helped pave the way.  Hear and be encouraged in the fight to shine the light of truth...that sets men free.

Oct 24- Hear perspectives from Mr. Dan Parker of CI Agents Solutions as he talks to us about the latest in the future of energy and regulations.  His company is a global leader in solutions for oil and fuel spill cleanup and containment.

Oct 25- Hear perspectives from Col. John Eidsmoe and Ben Dupre (Foundation for Moral Law).  Col Eidsmoe is also a constitutional and historical scholar, a law professor at the Oak Brook College of Law and Public Policy, and former professor of Regent University School of Law, and the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. Ben Dupree is another of the Foundation's great attorneys and is a leader in the Personhood Movement that is gaining attention throughout.  They will be informing us of the latest in their defense of our rights and freedoms.

Oct 27- Hear perspectives from Finn Laursen who serves as Executive Director of Christian Educators Association International. CEAI (www.ceai.org) is a professional association for Christian Educators in both the public and private schools.  Hear us talk about the latest concerns for teachers.

Oct 28- Hear an interview with Michael Young, leader of The Peoples Constitution Coaliton of Ohio (PCCOH), a project to promote governmental compliance with and accountability to our state and federal Constitutions.  There is too much over-reach from the Obama administration and they are one of the voices trying to make a difference for their state.