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Educational Issues in Arkansas:
Educational Facilites
Arkansas Facilities Scam Will Cost Taxpayers Billions
Arkansas Facilities Follies $4.5 Billion on Bricks and Mortar
Errors on Arkansas Facilities Assessment Report
Legislative Session 2003
Omnibus Bill Act 1467- Transcript of Ray Simon's Explanation to State Board June
9, 03
Consolidation and/or Regional High Schools:
Consolidation Studies - Small Schools Better
Consolidation Failures in West Virginia - By Dana D. Kelley
Contrast Huckabee's Recent Quotes on Consolidation to Past Quotes
Huckabee's Proposed Education Plan - 2003
Curriculum Concerns in Arkansas
Concerns About Curriculum in Arkansas- Daggett, Reeves, & Math Crusades
National and International Curriculum Being Implemented Through NCLB and Race to the Top by Obama
Teachers, Superintendents, And Educational Reforms:
What Teachers Say About Educational Reforms - 91% respond in survey, "Too much
government control,"
See:
Teacher Survey Summaries on 20 issues
Actual Survey Given to Teachers
Cover letter for Teacher Surveys
Teacher Comments on the Survey - 90% were negative toward reforms.
First Section; Second Section; Third Section; Fourth Section
Superintendent Survey Results and Comments
Superintendnet Survey - Actual Form
New Teacher Survey 2003 Results
Teachers Presentation To State Board on Superintendent and Teacher Survey
Letters to the Editor:
Testing:
State Assessments - Precursor to Total Federal Control of Education
Late Senator Paul Wellstone: High Stakes Tests: A Harsh Agenda for
Tests Don't Teach by Ernest Dumas
About Those Tests by Ernest Dumas (Test Scores Are Deceptive)
Tests - A Campaign To Brainwash Our Kids? by Dana D. Kelley
ADE Sabotages Legislative Efforts on Testing - by Debbie Pelley
Six ADE Executives Control Education in Arkansas, Not the Legislators
Businessmen in Arkansas Want a Nationally Normed Test (Hussman)
Test Scores in Arkansas - Comparison of NRT and CRT (Hussman)
True Transparency - Arkansas Test Scores from 1984 to 2003 (Table Form)
Arkansas ADE Trumps Legislature - Hires Questar Testing Company
Head Start, Pre-K and Early Childhood Education:
Head Start is Over-Hyped (Several topics)
Head Start Manual Promotes Witchcraft & Homosexuality
A Head Start Or A Step Back (Hidden Agenda in Head Start)
Headstart Manual - The Bias Of Anti-Bias
Mandatory Kindergarten Is Unnecessary
Perspective: Early-Years Learning Myth by Jann Flury
Lifelong Learning by Jann Flury
Character Education:
Revealing Quotes from Character Education Director Willard Daggett
Newspaper Outlines Dishonest Characteristics of Daggett, Character Ed. Director
"UNC Consultant [Daggett] Gets Big Bucks for Small Bang, Report Says" from Investors
Business Daily by Tycee Palmaffy http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?forumID=66&threadID=191138&messageID=714116
Home Schools:
Education Standards Spell Trouble for Private and Home Schools
School To Work (STW):*
Flyer Giving Summary of STW (Careers) and the CIM (Gov't Work Certificate)
Detailed Article on Major Aspects of School To Work
Congressman Henry Hyde's Quotes on STW
Marc Tucker's Confidential Grant - Basis for Clinton's Arkansas Act 236
Presentations at the Goals 2000 STW Henry Hyde Conference:
Certificate of Initial Mastery and the NCEE byVirginia Millers
Medicalization of Our Schools - by PA Rep. Sam Roherer
How Foundations Leverage Taxpayers' Money by Attorney Kent Masterson Brown
Oregon Certificate of Initial Mastery (CIM) by Oregon Rep. Ron Sunseri
Marc Tucker's Hillary letter: http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/marc_tucker/marc_tucker_letter.html
or
http://www.eagleforum.org/educate)
Newsletter Alert: AFA of Arkansas Newsletters
OBE Alive and Well In Arkansas
Kentucky's Failed Educational Program
ACT Scores Decrease & Unemployment Rates Soar
Kentucky's Comedy of Errors (Tragedies)
Kentucky No Model For Education
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AR Legislature Session 05 - Voting Records on Family Bills
Votes Cast by Name of legislator on Family Issues
Score Sheet for Scoring Individual Legislator Votes
Why Republican Bisbee Lost Senate Pro Tempore Vote
Missed Opportunity or Victory for Conservatives
ADE Sabotages Legislative Efforts -ADE Doesn't
Like Grades or Tests that Compare to Other States
Pornographic Children Sex Education Books in Arkansas
Six ADE Executives Control Education in Arkansas, Not the Legislators
Arkansas Bombs NCLB Accountability Standards
ADE Says Bad Means Good????
Businessmen in Arkansas Want a Nationally Normed Test
To Compare Students With Rest of Nation - Hussman Transcript
Test Scores in Arkansas - Comparison of NRT and CRT
by Walter Hussman, Publisher of Arkansas Democrat Gazette
True Transparency - Arkansas Test Scores from 1987 to 2003
in Table Form With Amount of Money Spent
Arkansas ADE Trumps Legislature - Hires Questar Testing Company
Why Test Scores Are Lower Now Than Before Accountability Law
(After Billions Wasted)
Arkansas Facilities Scam Will Cost Taxpayers Billions
Arkansas Facilities Follies -$4 Billion on Bricks and Mortar
Large Schools In Arkansas Spent Four Times The Amount
Above Per Pupil Spending Than Did Small Schools
Consolidation Debate Between Senator Jim Argue
and House Speaker Herschel Cleveland
Number of Courses Offered by Small Schools
Ray Simon Appointment For U. S. Dept. of Education
Arkansas Department of Education
False Information About Test Scores
Basis for the Clintons' Arkansas Educational Act 236
Postcards Sent to Legislators -
Summaries of Various Education Reform Issues
Arkansas Accountability Scores from 1984 to 2001
Why Scores Are Lower Now Than When
AccountabilitySystem Was Established
ACT Scores Higher in Small Districts
Teachers' Presentation to State Board
on Superintendent and Teacher Survey
Arkansas Superintendent Survey
Read ACT 236 of 1991 and excerpted quotes;
See Bill and Hillary's educational
plan currently unfolding in Arkansas!
Contrast Huckabee's Recent
Educational Quotes To Quotes From The Past
Contrast Huckabee's Quotes on Consolidation And
Local Control to Quotes From the Actual Lake View School Decision
Arkansas Supreme Court Lakeview Decision
Read The Governor's Educational Plan
The Real Agenda Behind The Consolidation Plan
Consolidation, A vital Step To Government Control of Education and
The Economy - Presentation by Debbie Pelley
Another Deception - Kentucky No Model For Education
National Plot In 40 States For Court Ordered Educational Reform
Ohio Resists and Has Better Scores Than Average
Testing - A Campaign To Brainwash Our Kids?
By Dana D. Kelley
Dismal Record of Court Run Schools
By Dana D. Kelley
5 largest schools in AR spent more above state
average than did the 100 smallest schools.
Act 1467 Rules and Reg. Postcard:
Notes on Meeting with MPO Nov. 30, 2010
History of MPO's, Legislation, and Organizations by Ulkarim
Why I Oppose the Jonesboro MPO Plan
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