LOOK RIGHT, NOT LEFT for CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN TREASON (THIS DID NOT NEED TO HAPPEN!)
Following are groups involved in thirty-five year boycott of my Back to Basics Reform or… OBE… Skinnerian International Curriculum (1985), Soviets in the Classroom (1989) and the deliberate dumbing down of america, 1999 and updated/revised edition (2011):
Heritage Foundation, Eagle Forum, and Council for National Policy and their state affiliates. All these groups are exempt from taxation.
(Note: delay in publishing of 1985 original Soviets in Classroom due to conservative boycott of original. Finally, the late Robert Morris, newly-named (1989) President of America’s Future, found 1985 article stuffed away in bottom drawer of his desk and immediately published. The former President of America’s Future, Rudy Scott, had decided to do nothing with my article.)
This article relates to latest information taken from Education Week, 1/16/2000 (see below).
The title “Mentoring Minds” and subject matter is, in my opinion, WORLD HISTORY/CULTURE-CHANGING; and FRIGHTENING.
Back to Basics Reform Or… pages 16 and 17:
“For an understanding of what research on human intelligence encompasses let me quote from the July/October, 1981 issue of the Human Intelligence International Newsletter:
“The search for new referential systems and new values modifying existing beliefs should be based on modern microbiology. A scientific approach should be free from doctrinal bias, and its findings applicable to all mankind. Ideological confrontations between East and West, Marxism and Liberalism, Arabs and Jews do have economic, historical and political bases, but no biological basis. These antagonisms have been created by the human brain and could be solved by the wiser brains of future man…” (24)
Mentoring Minds, Education Week, January 16, 2000. No one, not even myself, could predict how sick to my stomach following information would make me…not just due to the content, but mainly due to fact this DID NOT NEED TO HAPPEN. All national conservative groups boycotted my 46-page back to Basics Reform or OBE Skinnerian International Curriculum 1985… the minute it came off the press. Back to Basics included documentation related to brain and conscience-changing critical thinking agenda being implemented today in all schools of America through TECHNOLOGY. The asterisk under “Back to Basics…” title said:
*necessary for United States participation in a Socialist One World Government scheduled for the early years of the twenty-first Century.
Eagle Forum, one of three leading traitor conservative groups, immediately, after Back to Basics published in 1985, spread the word “Iserbyt wrote the book since she was upset about getting fired”.
“Oh, really…I got myself fired for leaking a major technology grant “Project BEST…Better Education Skills through Technology”. No one blew a whistle on me…I blew it on myself!!!!!!”
Conservative traitors also said “Iserbyt should rewrite the book since no one can understand it.” The editor of my big book “the deliberate dumbing down of america” told the President of that very important conservative education group, who had let that lie fly:
“I gave that book to the butcher down the street, asking if he understood it, and after reading it, he said with his Georgian drawl : “I understand that book just fine.”
Taken from Back to Basics, pages 16-17:
INTERNATIONALISTS WANT ‘NEW VALUES MODIFYING EXISTING BELIEFS’. Credit for provision of the following shocking quotes should be given to Cris Shardelman, State of Washington, American patriot and brilliant education researcher, who passed on the following information to me at time I was writing Back to Basics Reform…
“According to the March/April, 1981 issue of Human Intelligence International Newsletter, critical thinking skills research is taking place within the United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Office of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank which plans on “Increasing the Bank’s international lending for education and training to about $900 million a year.” (22)
The Department of Education’s National Institute of Education, possibly in response to a meeting Luis Alberto Machado, the Venezuelan Minister for Human Intelligence, had with former [Reagan]Secretary of Education Terrel Bell and various senators to update them on the progress of his nation’s work in human intelligence, “has awarded a three-year contract totaling approximately $780,000 (of your tax money – Ed.) to Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. to analyze current programs of instruction on cognitive skills.” (23)
For an understanding of what research on human intelligence encompasses let me quote from the July/October, 1981 issue of the Human Intelligence International Newsletter:
“The search for new referential systems and new values modifying existing beliefs should be based on modern microbiology. A scientific approach should be free from doctrinal bias, and its findings applicable to all mankind. Ideological confrontations between East and West, Marxism and Liberalism, Arabs and Jews do have economic, historical and political bases, but no biological basis. These antagonisms have been created by the human brain and could be solved by the wiser brains of future man…” (24)
WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE PUSHING FOR OFFICE OF HUMAN INTELLECT
A good example of Americans jumping on the “thinking skills” bandwagon, not realizing that this old gimmick, dusted off for the eighties, does not teach students “how” to think, but “what” to think, is Senate Bill 3421 before the State of Washington Legislature, the purpose of which is to “establish a state-wide office for the enhancement of human intellect which will work with the state board of education, the superintendent of public instruction, school districts…” etc.
The bill says “The ability to reason, solve problems, think critically, exercise independent judgment, and perform other intellectual functions at higher levels can be enhanced in every person;…The community human intelligence project and the applied thinking skills project in Santa Barbara, California, and the nationwide intelligence project in Venezuela have shown good results with promising social and educational benefits.” (25) I understand the substitute bill removed reference to Venezuela!
Fast forward thirty-five years:
Education Week, January 16,2000,
Acquisition integrates standards-aligned resources into comprehensive technology platform
TYLER, Texas – December 10, 2019 – Mentoring Minds, the leading provider of K-12 critical thinking materials, has acquired SchoolSpire, a K-12 software platform that integrates a district’s existing systems, allowing configurable and modular solutions. The companies will join forces to provide school districts with a streamlined way to incorporate the 9 Traits of Critical Thinking™ into curriculum and instruction.
Over the next three months, Mentoring Minds will migrate its ThinkUp! Standards Mastery System™, which offers rigorous and standards-aligned resources, to the new technology platform that hosts all of the same features and capabilities of a learning management system. The solution will enable teachers and administrators to communicate and collaborate with all stakeholders, plan lessons, manage their ThinkUp! curriculum, and deliver assessment. Teachers and administrators will also gain insight through advanced analytics, which can be viewed at various levels of detail – from individual student data to district-wide data.
“By pairing SchoolSpire’s powerful technology platform with our critical thinking, curriculum, and assessment resources, we’re able to provide entire school systems with a more meaningful and practical way to incorporate critical thinking into every aspect of teaching and learning,” said Shad Madsen, CEO at Mentoring Minds. “We believe that critical thinking is absolutely fundamental to standards mastery and student success. SchoolSpire’s team and technology allows us to bring these game-changing benefits to teachers and students everywhere.”
The entire SchoolSpire team will join Mentoring Minds, with SchoolSpire Founder and CEO Muhammad Wasay continuing as Chief Technology Officer for Mentoring Minds.
“Joining the Mentoring Minds team is an excellent way to leverage the functionality of our platform while staying true to our mission to provide the best quality education for students,” Wasay said. “This is an opportunity to bring the value of critical thinking to the classroom by streamlining the teacher experience – which is what we do best.”
For more information about Mentoring Minds, please visit https://www.mentoringminds.com/
About Mentoring Minds, the Critical Thinking for Life company
Mentoring Minds is on a mission to put critical thinking at the center of K-12 education. Founded by teachers, Mentoring Minds provides print and digital resources that empower educators to infuse critical thinking skills into standards-based instruction. Students learn the 9 Traits of Critical Thinking™ through the ThinkUp! Standards Mastery System, which provides rigorous materials that elevate achievement among all students. Mentoring Minds’ commitment to education extends beyond the classroom, as well; the company proudly sponsors forward-thinking administrators across the U.S. and supports community-based education initiatives. For more information, call 800-585-5258 or visit https://www.mentoringminds.com/.
SchoolSpire is a leading K-12 provider of instructional products and services. Our EMPOWER product suite includes a complete Instructional Management System with fully integrated modules for Curriculum, Assessment, Item Banks, Reporting/Advanced Analytics, Professional Development, and Program Tracking. At SchoolSpire, our primary focus is on providing diagnostic and directive solutions for our customers and their constituents. SchoolSpire offers solutions that deliver school districts both the information and the tools needed to meet their ever developing and challenging goals of providing the best quality education for staff, students, parents, and community.
For more information, press only: Kelsea Kierstead, (608) 216-7300, ext. 24, press@mentoringminds.com.
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