October 15, 2013 - A Key: Bramante on Innovation in Our Schools

Fred Bramante, Chair of New Hampshire State Board of Education under Gov. Craig Benson, offers a key - a simple community plan for the infusion of creativity, new energy, excitement, and innovation in education.

New Hampshire received a 2012 State Innovation Award from the Education Commission of the States that proves that we, ourselves, can lead, in a direction of innovation, instead of pursuing a questionable "Collectivist", socialist system called "Common Core."

Common Core is Collectivism. Collectivism is Communism!! http://m.dictionary.com/synonym/collectivism

The Common Core is not, as inferred, the fruit of federal mandates. It's a scheme cooked up by private interests that intend, with carrots, to buy their way into our areas, only to undermine our autonomy and control over our own schools.

Common Core: A Scheme to Rewrite Education - The New American, Aug 8, 2013 ... Common Core — new national education standards that the federal government is bribing and coercing states to adopt — will harm students ...www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/16192-common-core-a-scheme-to-rewrite-education

Note too, widespread concerns for children's safety, amidst cozy side deals contained in Common Core for for-profit, private data-mining and liberal sharing of student information among public and private agencies and individuals:

Privacy Outrage: Expert Explores Link Between Federal Data Mining [for fun and profit] and Common Core...www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/16647-expert-explores-link-between-federal-data-mining....

Widely-exposed as a Trojan horse, Common Core seeks consent from our communities to impose, long-term, slavish, dubious standards. But, the standards were designed to set our teachers, students, and administrators up to fail, such that unnamed outsiders with vague intent can, while claiming "failure", conveniently then move in to fire teachers, dismiss officials, and fully take over our schools.

Is this what we choose?

There's more to the story I haven't said here.  Let's be sure to read the fine print and not be too quick to take the bait when it comes to dangled carrots from so-called "Common Core."

With a heart for learning, Bramante offers a key to how to infuse *true* innovation in our schools, and still stand firm for our autonomy in NH. Hear what he has to share about innovation in this video:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GI1xQkpYTH4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGI1xQkpYTH4

If we take up this key to creativity, and place faith in proven, excellent, qualified standards already securely in-hand - INSTEAD of Common Core - well, let's just say we'll dodge a great big b u l l e t.

Rest assured, our schools and students will turn out great and our teachers and children will thank us.

Courage,

Sharona Merel
Writer-Researcher
Hidden History & Underbelly
Nashua, New Hampshire, USA