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Educational fads or "pop.ed" have been around for close to a
century (all the new stuff came out in 1910, and since 1930 it
all got recycled). You think "Peer Learning Committees" is
anything new? or Site Based Decision Making is revolutionary?
The last real innovation to education was CMI, Computer Mediated
Instruction, some people would argue the WEB 2.0 was the most
recent, and if you buy into flipped classrooms or UTU "You Tube
University" I wouldnt disagree too much with you.

Traditional instruction is just old, anyone can direct teach,
can we save the lecturing for college. Thats basically what your
advocating. There is a LOT of research data to show that passive
learning is inferior to active or interactive learning.

Books, paper is dead, or it should be, and the sooner the
better.

On 9/02/14, I agree wrote:
> Yes, Zoe. I agree. It isn't a political issue. People are
> getting fed up with public schools. The math doesn't make any
> sense, the teaching fads that come and go so fast no one knows
> what they are pushing this year, and the lack of books and
> traditional instruction. People aren't stupid and they get
that
> the public schools are a mess.
>
>
> On 9/02/14, Zoe wrote:
>> << >> fed up with over testing and selling kids out for profit.>>>
>>
>> It's both sides of the aisle in Pearson's pocket. This isn't
a
>> political issue for people as much as common sense. The
people
>> I know taking their kids out of public school are as diverse
as
>> they come with the exception of low-income single moms.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/31/14, wake up call wrote:
>>> Please--PsyGuy does not speak for teachers. I am a teacher
>>> and I certainly will miss your child if you remove them to
>>> home school. If twenty people share your views I will be out
>>> of a job. Last year, we saw many families pull their
students
>>> out mid year to home school. Maybe the public schools could
>>> get out of Common Core, which 6 out of 10 people on the
street
>>> are opposed to, and get out of the business of using kids
for
>>> guinea pigs for every new fad that comes along. Maybe
>>> teachers can stop acting like pushers for the crap that is
>>> being pushed on the public. Yes, people are fed up. And it
>>> isn't just a few. PsyGuy is hung up on the tea party which
>>> he thinks is the villian in his imaginary world. Liberals,
>>> Dems, Repubs, tea party and libertarians are all fed up with
>>> over testing and selling kids out for profit. Wake up
>>> teachers. The STAAR testing and the curriculum is just used
>>> to get you on the same page so you can be replaced easily.
>>> Jump into the resistence movement.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/31/14, PsyGuy wrote:
>>>> Yes it is, its the tea party line. The only link to
>>>> socialism and communism is in the social studies
>>>> curriculum, because those systems of government exist. You
>>>> conservative tea party republicans are all the same if its
>>>> not Jesus and business its communism, and socialism and it
>>>> must be anti american and anti family.
>>>>
>>>> Not my part of Texas we indicted that tea party republican
>>>> of a governor, I hope he doesnt get convicted though
>>>> because Id love him to run for president, Hilary could
>>>> beat him easily.
>>>>
>>>> So dont pay for it, no one is holding a gun to your
>>>> districts head and making them license the product. If you
>>>> dont agree with your schools values then pull your kids
>>>> out of school and home school them or send them to a good
>>>> little christian school. No teacher or admin will miss you
>>>> from your school.
>>>>
>>>> On 8/30/14, Hope wrote:
>>>>> On 8/30/14, and Pearson does wrote:
>>>>>> common core, too? Is that right? So much of what are new
>>>>>> textbooks have is common core?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 8/29/14, 1administrator wrote:
>>>>>>> TEA only jumps when Pearson say how high! Pearson
>>>>>>> prepares the test. Pearson delivers and accounts for
>>>>>>> the test! Pearson grades the test! Pearson prepares the
>>>>>>> results for publication! TEA does nothing without
>>>>>>> Pearson's directions.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 8/27/14, to 1 administrator wrote:
>>>>>>>> Can you explain what you mean when you say Pearson
>>>>>>>> already owns TEA? I would like to understand your
>>>>>>>> observation on that.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 8/27/14, 1administrator wrote:
>>>>>>>>> PsyGuy- I have a question. I am not trying to start
>>>>>>>>> an argument, but on C-scope, Curriculum, and such but
>>>>>>>>> why can't Pearson or textbook publisher write a
>>>>>>>>> textbook that covers the TEKS required. We are
>>>>>>>>> purchasing textbooks, hardcopy or online anyway. Just
>>>>>>>>> a random thought that crossed my mind. With the
>>>>>>>>> number of purchases, the publishers should be able to
>>>>>>>>> produce the needed books.(I only mentioned Pearson
>>>>>>>>> because they already own TEA!) Let me hear what you
>>>>>>>>> think!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 8/26/14, PsyGuy wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Typical tea party rhetoric. If its not about god,
>>>>>>>>>> guns, taxes
>>>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>>>>> profits, its anti-american and anti-family.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 8/17/14, Hope wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/17/14, c-scope is being raised from the
>>>>>>>>>>> dead... wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> I heard that the Texas Resource System is c-scope
>>>>>>>>>>>> revised. Is this true?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, but supposedly without the controversial
>>>>>>>>>>> lessons that were anti-American, anti-family, etc.
>>>>>>>>>>> The region service centers are making a killing off
>>>>>>>>>>> this. They're not about to let it die. It's their
>>>>>>>>>>> cash cow. Forget about it being full of numerous
>>>>>>>>>>> errors. Teachers aren't supposed to be smart enough
>>>>>>>>>>> to see that, or stupid enough to point it out to
>>>>>>>>>>> anyone in authority.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tea Party rhetoric nothing! It is what it is. C-Scope is
>>>>> connected to Common Core. Common Core has been linked to
>>>>> socialism, even communism-typical left-leaning PC garbage
>>>>> that is ruining our country. Texas, for the most part, is
>>>>> still conservative and pro-American and pro-family
>>>>> values. And then there are all the errors it's full of.
>>>>> Schools shouldn't have to pay good money for curriculum
>>>>> that's sub-standard and going against the values of a
>>>>> large percent of our state.

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