ISIS's Harsh Guide to Education

Do not let an Exam Result decide your Fate

This video addresses the issue of an everchanging society with advancements in technology and interest and schools preparing students the same way they did years ago with no adaptation to today's world. His point is that our generation is worth more then what grades we receive and no matter what it's possible to create our own destiny. Obviously education is important but most schools don't teach us what we really need to thrive in today's world.

American Schools

Chomsky: How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey

Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have recently been held in Britain, Canada, Chile, Taiwan and elsewhere.
California is also a battleground. The Los Angeles Times reports on another chapter in the campaign to destroy what had been the greatest public higher education system in the world: "California State University officials announced plans to freeze enrolment next spring at most campuses and to wait-list all applicants the following fall pending the outcome of a proposed tax initiative on the November ballot."

Similar defunding is under way nationwide. "In most states," The New York Times reports, "it is now tuition payments, not state appropriations, that cover most of the budget," so that "the era of affordable four-year public universities, heavily subsidized by the state, may be over."

Noam Chomsky on AlterNet

In school we are led to believe that we are all living in an ideal vision of what society should be...

This video is actually about how government-run schooling contributed to the rise of socialism, imperialism and eventually fascism in Germany between the 1890s and 1940s. Critical Thinking Question: In school we are led to believe that we are all living in an ideal vision of what society should be... But who's vision is it? And what were their ideals? 

Elitism In Schools Needed To Mend Broken Society

David Cameron has insisted there will be "no more excuses" for failure in schools and that discipline and "elitism" must prevail to mend the country's "broken society". Speaking at the opening of a free school in Norwich on Friday, the prime minister hit back at critics of the new system, saying academies, independence and choice "really works".


"We've got to be ambitious, too, if we want to mend our broken society. Because education doesn't just give people the tools to make a good living - it gives them the character to live a good life, to be good citizens," he said.

The prime minister also said he had asked the government's social policy review to look into whether the benefits of parents whose children frequently play truant should be cut.

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Chilean students demand education reform

Tens of thousands of students demonstrating in the capital against their country's education system. Al Jazeera

Parent 'Trigger Law' in New York would allow Parents to fire Teachers and Principals

A proposed state law would give New York parents significantly more power over their children's schools.

The so called "trigger law" would allow parents who gather a majority at any persistently failing school to either fire 50 percent of the teachers, fire the principal, close the school or turn it into a charter school.

From TIME:

When people first hear about the radical-sounding law, they are almost always taken aback. But what they might not know is that failing schools can already be shut down by school districts under the No Child Left Behind law. The parent trigger simply takes the option provided to the school board and hands the power to the parents

Carl Korn, a spokesman for New York State United Teachers, said parents should be involved in education decisions, but their participation should come before the school is failing.

"We think the time to involve parents is before a school is identified [as persistently lowest-achieving]. Allowing a petition by parents would ignore the research, the other stakeholders, and leave the decision open to politics. Would we have an election-style campaign where we have advertising and mailings and money being spent on both sides, lobbying parents?"

huffingtonpost.com

History of Education, Social Engineering & Indoctrination in the School System

John Taylor Gatto was born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. Don't miss this excellent interview with John Taylor Gatto as he discusses the school system both past and present, social engineering, and the dumbing down of our children. Topics discussed: history of education, industrialized schooling, justification, religion, protestant reformation, John Calvin, Calvinism, Spinoza, Johann Fichte, coercion, Pavlov, brainwashing the masses, Charles Darwin, "The Descent of Man", conspiracy, third world countries, the school ranks, China, world wide monoculture, collage degree, Francis Collins, LSD, creativity, creative technology, continuous boredom and more.

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