{"id":1098,"date":"2014-08-04T14:07:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T18:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2019-01-04T14:27:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:27:26","slug":"there-is-nothing-new-under-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/2014\/08\/04\/there-is-nothing-new-under-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"There is Nothing New Under the Sun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Early Days of the U.S. Dept. OF Ed-Funded Common (COMMUNIST) Core<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9ncWjY7vcy4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1989 Governors Conference-Shirley McCune <\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<em>&#8220;Governors Conference on Education, Wichita, KS 11-2-1989 &#8220;Schools, Goals &#038; the 1990s&#8221; In addition to her credentials as an authority in public education (she was Asst Supt of Public Instruction in Washington State), Shirley McCune co-authored &#8220;The Light Shall Set You Free,&#8221; a book on New Age spirituality to pass on the Universal Laws of the Ascended Masters of the Ancient Wisdom. Her book teaches that mastery of their precepts allows an individual entry into the &#8220;Fifth Dimension&#8221;. Enlightened individuals will collaboratively building [sic] the Seventh Golden Age of the Earth.&#8221;<\/em><\/ul>\n<p>I wrote about Shirley McCune in my book DDD:<\/p>\n<p>THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FUNDED TWO IMPORTANT PROJECTS IN 1983: 1) \u201cFraming a Future for Education\u201d for Kansas; and 2) \u201cStrategic Planning and Furthering Excellence in Millard Public Schools\u201d for Nebraska, both of which were assigned to Dr. Shirley McCune of the MidContinent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) as project director. These two projects, based on the work of the New Age Naisbitt Group founded by John Naisbitt who authored Megatrends, served as national pilots for OBE restructuring of America from a \u201crepresentative democracy\u201d to a \u201cparticipatory democracy\u2014moving from a left versus right politics to a politics of the radical center,\u201d in Dr. McCune\u2019s words. McCune became famous (or infamous) during the National Governors\u2019 Association conference in Wichita, Kansas in 1989 when she said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<em>&#8220;What we\u2019re into is the total restructuring of society. What is happening in America today and what is happening in Kansas and the Great Plains is not simply a chance situation in the usual winds of change. What it amounts to is a total transformation of society&#8230;. Our total society is in a crisis of restructuring and you can\u2019t get away from it. You can\u2019t go into rural areas, you can\u2019t go into the churches, you can\u2019t go into government or into business and hide from the fact that what we are facing is the total restructuring of our society.&#8221;<\/em><\/ul>\n<p>[Ed. Note: In the 1996 entry regarding McCune\u2019s book, The Light Shall Set You Free (Athena Publishing, Alpha Connections: Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1996 ), McCune expressed her belief that \u201ceach individual is a co-creator with the Divine.\u201d] (p. 194)<\/p>\n<p>IN 1989 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/73849731\/141-Who-is-Dr-Shirley-McCune\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SHIRLEY MCCUNE<\/a>, SENIOR DIRECTOR OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-funded MidContinent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL), told the teachers in South Kitsap, Washington: <em>\u201cThe school of the future must be far different than that of today to meet the changing needs of society.\u201d<\/em> The following excerpts are taken from an article entitled \u201cSchools of the Future\u201d which was published in the Bremerton [Washington] Sun on October 14th, 1989:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<em>When you walk in the building, there\u2019s a row of offices. In one are drug counselors. One is for social security. Another, family and child psychologists. Yet another has a doctor and nurse who do well-child exams.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    <em>In the cafeteria, senior citizens mingle with students having lunch. Oldsters and youngsters are sometimes paired for school projects, like oral history.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    <em>There\u2019s a child-care center, and tied into it are classes for teenagers where they learn the importance of child-nurturing skills.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    <em>In the gym, homemakers are taking exercise classes. After work, more men and women will show up for their fitness workout.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    <em>These are \u201ccommunity learning centers, not just schools.\u201d \u201cSchools are no longer in the schooling business\u201d but rather in \u201chuman resource development,\u201d she said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    D<em>r. McCune was in South Kitsap to talk about something everyone\u2019s hearing a lot about these days\u2014\u201drestructuring\u201d schools. Her speech kicked off a full day of teacher  training. Across the state, most teachers were taking part in local or state-sponsored training.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    <em>In South Kitsap, workshop choices reflected the wave of the future Dr. McCune described. They dealt with topics such as celebrating differences in learning styles, using whole language approach, using cooperative learning, and integrating technology with curriculum. (p. 263)<\/em><\/ul>\n<p>For more information, read Berit Kjos&#8217;s article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroad.to\/articles2\/TwistingTruth.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Twisting Truth through Classroom Consensus&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Early Days of the U.S. Dept. 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