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The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America and Common Core (2914 hits)

Why is America experiencing a decline in literacy? Why are so many American children afflicted with learning disabilities? Why are our schools promoting Ritalin and s*x and drug education, but vigorously opposing intensive phonics and rote memorization of arithmetic facts?

Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld has written nine books about public education in America over the past 35 years answering these and other baffling questions. Of his best-selling exposé of the National Education Association, N.E.A. Trojan Horse in American Education, which has become a classic in critical educational literature, former U.S. Senator Steve Symms of Idaho said: "Every so often a book is written that can change the thinking of a nation. This book is one of them." How to Tutor and Alpha-Phonics are being used by thousands of parents and homeschoolers to teach their children the 3R's in the traditional manner.

Posted By: Earl Brown
Tuesday, June 3rd 2014 at 10:33AM
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Earl is the phonic system better than hooked on phonics?

Tuesday, June 3rd 2014 at 8:08PM
Jeni Fa

The best system is Alpha phonetics. Beginning sound of the word....and working thru to the ending sound.
Tuesday, June 3rd 2014 at 8:18PM
Earl Brown

Wow,did he go off on a political tangent around 33:02. I can't believe this guy spent like 15 minutes taking about President Obama and Obama's deceased mama?! What does that have to do with dumbing down kids? Is he saying that President Obama isn't intelligent because he was a community organizer... His mother was very educated and so was Obama's father, too. God bless President Obama's mama.... she supplemented his education by teaching him in some subjects while the lived in Indonesia and when he had gone as far as he could with the education in Indonesia / and tiring of her second husband's negative influence(s), she sent him back to the States to live with his grand parents to get a better education.

Tuesday, June 3rd 2014 at 9:14PM
Jeni Fa

Jen, you have to do some due diligence research about Pres. Obama...he is not who the media says he is.
Tuesday, June 3rd 2014 at 9:43PM
Earl Brown

Barry Soweto.
Tuesday, June 3rd 2014 at 9:44PM
Earl Brown

But what does the man's political view about President Obama have to do with what Dewey and the Progressives centuries before President Obama entered the scene have to do with it the demise of Education. Did President Obama start the dumbing down of education or was it predecessors before him? That's my point.

Tuesday, June 3rd 2014 at 11:29PM
Jeni Fa

Racism is what the problem is where Obama us concerned... Plain and simple. I don't know what his comment about President Obama not appearing 'presidential' means?! What he means is that he isn't White.

Listen, don't get me wrong I have issues with President Obama's worldview and his lack of support where Black people are concerned as well as a few other issues (nonchalant standing on the fence regarding Israel) which is why I didn't vote for him his second term; however, this ole dude is at the core of the matter has issues with Obama's Blackness.

Tuesday, June 3rd 2014 at 11:35PM
Jeni Fa

If these politicians are persuasive enough, this country will be the laughing stock of the world. Dumb them down enough and this country will be nothing more than slaves to the whims of those that can READ.

'Governor' Jindal of Louisiana and his cohorts are dumbing down the students in this state by 'conferring' a "Career Diploma" (two-thirds of these public school "students" cannot read well enough to pass the state required standardized tests). Today Louisiana ranks as one of the educationally poorest states in America.
Thursday, June 5th 2014 at 12:15PM
Siebra Muhammad

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

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Why is America experiencing a decline in literacy? Why are so many American children afflicted with

learning disabilities? Why are our schools promoting Ritalin and s*x and drug education

Posted By: Earl Brown
Tuesday, June 3rd 2014 at 10:33AM
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Are we there yet; are we dumb enough yet?

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Is this the dumbDown ERA....2019?

1. 2019 gives US-USA Citizens trump$ette and the amWAY-MAGA betsy DeVoss……russianBOTS

AND at BIA

2. 2019 gives the African American Family deacons and proPHATS of WHAT?

…...Stereotypical Misconceptions to ALL Americans from slaverAmericana and racistIgnorance

http://blackinamerica.com/content/300374/r...

Monday, July 1st 2019 at 8:44AM
robert powell