Decades of Ruining Public Schools

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon Baines Johnson.  Now, although Republicans have vowed to close the US DOE, Lamar Alexander is pushing its reauthorization.

THIS IS WHAT COMMUNIST COMMON CORE/THE REAUTHORIZATION OF ESEA IS ALL ABOUT Posted on April 27, 2015 Written by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, abcsofdumbdown.blogspot.com/

NO WAY ESEA! NO WAY ESEA! NO WAY ESEA!

The US Depart­ment of State, in a tele­phone call from a con­cerned cit­i­zen in the late 1990’s, con­firmed that these agree­ments were still in effect. 

ADVERTISEMENT, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, PAGE A-14/FRIDAY, JULY 1987 (paid for by National Cit­i­zens Alliance, P.O. Box 6347, Wash­ing­ton, D.C. 20015–0347)

LISTEN AMERICA, ‘EDU-GATE’ IS BIGGER THAN THE ‘IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR’ AND‘WATERGATE’ COMBINED

IT IS THE ULTIMATE BRAINWASH OF OUR CHILDREN, AND IF ALLOWED TO STAND, NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WILL BE WORTH FIGHTING FOR. What is “Edu-Gate”? “Edu-gate” is the Sovi­eti­za­tion (inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion) of the Amer­i­can classroom.

In Octo­ber, 1985 “A meet­ing of Amer­i­can and Soviet edu­ca­tional com­puter experts… pro­duced an agree­ment to exchange spe­cial­ists involved in the improve­ment of ele­men­tary and sec­ondary edu­ca­tion.” (The New York Times, Decem­ber 10, 1985)

The meet­ing in Moscow was held under the aus­pices of the Carnegie Cor­po­ra­tion of New York and the Soviet Acad­emy of Sci­ences, and approved by the U.S. State Depart­ment and National Secu­rity advisors.

That meet­ing paved the way for the U.S.-Soviet edu­ca­tion agree­ments signed at the Geneva Sum­mit in Novem­ber, 1985 to pro­mote “Coop­er­a­tion in devel­op­ment of exchanges and software-related instruc­tion for ele­men­tary and sec­ondary school stu­dents.” (The Wash­ing­ton Post, Novem­ber 26, 1985)

EDUCATE IS THE REALIZATION OF WHAT ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN WARNED AGAINST IN 1973 WHEN HE SAID; “CO-EXISTENCE ON THIS TIGHTLY KNIT EARTH SOULD BE VIEWED AS AN EXISTENCE NOT ONLY WITHOUT WARS –THAT IS NOT ENOUGH –BUT ALSO WITHOUT VIOLENCE, OR TELLING US HOW TO LIVE, WHAT TO SAY, WHAT TO THINK, WHAT TO KNOW AND WHAT NOT TO KNOW.” (SEPTEMBER 11, 1973) (Empha­sis added)

Arti­cle IV (d) of the Gen­eral Exchanges Agree­ment printed in the [upper right hand cor­ner] of this page explains that Soviet cur­ric­ula will be used in Amer­i­can class­rooms. Will these mate­ri­als reflect the Soviet view­point on “how to live, what to say, what to think, what to know and what not to know”?
CONGRESS MUST INVESTIGATE PRIVATIZATION OF EDUCATION!

SPECIFICALLY WE CALL FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FOLLOWING:
(1) The Gen­eral Agree­ment Between the United States of Amer­ica and the Gov­ern­ment of the Union of Soviet Social­ist Republics on Con­tacts, Exchanges and Coop­er­a­tion in Sci­en­tific, Tech­ni­cal, Edu­ca­tional, Cul­tural and Other Fields” signed by Sec­re­tary of State George Shultz and Soviet For­eign Min­is­ter She­vard­nadze on Novem­ber 21, 1985.

Although this adver­tise­ment deals specif­i­cally with the edu­ca­tion por­tion of the agree­ments, other por­tions of the agree­ments are equally impor­tant. For exam­ple, Arti­cle XI of the Gen­eral Agree­ment states “The par­ties will encour­age exchanges of rep­re­sen­ta­tives of munic­i­pal, local and state governments…to study var­i­ous func­tions of gov­ern­ment at these levels.”

(2) The “Pro­gram of Coop­er­a­tion and Exchanges Between the United States of Amer­ica and the Union of Soviet Social­ist Republics Republics for 1986–1988″.

(3) We also call on the Con­gress to inves­ti­gate the role of the U.S. Depart­ment of State in autho­riz­ing the pri­vate, unelected Carnegie Cor­po­ra­tion of New York to nego­ti­ate with the Soviet Acad­emy of Sci­ences regard­ing cur­ricu­lum devel­op­ment and the restruc­tur­ing of edu­ca­tion (the pri­va­ti­za­tion of for­eign pol­icy and edu­ca­tion pol­icy, where there is no account­abil­ity to you, the taxpayer.)

“LIKE PUTTING THE KGB INTO THE CLASSROOM”?

Richard Perle, for­mer Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of Defense for Inter­na­tional and Secu­rity Pol­icy, recently told the House Sub­com­mit­tee on Inter­na­tional Sci­en­tific Cooperation:

“Among the many col­lec­tion agen­cies whose activ­i­ties were revealed in those highly secret Soviet reports which came to us early in the Rea­gan Admin­is­tra­tion, is the Soviet Acad­emy of Sciences…What is sur­pris­ing is the enthu­si­asm with which var­i­ous United States Gov­ern­ment agen­cies should advo­cate renew­ing, enlarg­ing, extend­ing and ini­ti­at­ing sci­en­tific and tech­ni­cal exchanges with an orga­ni­za­tion known to be part of the Soviet intel­li­gence estab­lish­ment. I urge Con­gress to con­duct a thor­ough, search­ing exam­i­na­tion of these exchanges.” (“Like Putting the K.G.B. into he Pen­ta­gon”, The New York Times, 6/30/87).

To our knowl­edge, Mr. Perle, who was involved in the Gen­eral Agree­ment signed at Geneva in 1985, has never objected to the United States Gov­ern­ment and the Carnegie Cor­po­ra­tion Of New York nego­ti­at­ing with the same Soviet Acad­emy of Sci­ences in regard to education.

WHY CARNEGIE?

The U.S. Dept. of Edu­ca­tion, in response to a let­ter from a con­cerned cit­i­zen, said that since edu­ca­tional deci­sions in the U.S. should be made at the local level, “the State Department…apparently deter­mined that it would be more appro­pri­ate for a non-federal orga­ni­za­tion, the Carnegie Cor­po­ra­tion of New York, to rep­re­sent the United States in the exchange.” (Empha­sis added)

The Los Ange­les Times, June 12, 1987 reported that Dr. David Ham­burg, Pres­i­dent of the Carnegie Cor­po­ra­tion and chief nego­tia­tor for the exchange agree­ment “stressed the spe­cial posi­tion of pri­vately endowed foun­da­tions that can oper­ate in areas gov­ern­ment may pre­fer to avoid.” (Empha­sis added)

In other words, it’s ille­gal for the U.S. Dept. of Edu­ca­tion to develop cur­ricu­lum for local schools, but it’s OK for the tax-exempt, pri­vate Carnegie Cor­po­ra­tion act­ing as an unelected “Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion” to coop­er­ate with the Soviet Union, in the devel­op­ment of cur­ricu­lum for local schools. Why was the Carnegie Cor­po­ra­tion selected? Amer­ica must be told.

Rep. Lee Hamil­ton (D. IN), Chair­man of the Joint Com­mit­tee inves­ti­gat­ing the Iran-Contra affair said dur­ing the hear­ings, “The use of pri­vate par­ties to carry out the high pur­poses of gov­ern­ment makes us the sub­ject of puz­zle­ment and ridicule.”

Is Con­gress equally con­cerned about the State Department’s des­ig­na­tion of the pri­vate unelected tax-exempt Carnegie Cor­po­ra­tion to nego­ti­ate with the Soviet Union in the devel­op­ment of edu­ca­tional mate­ri­als and in the restruc­tur­ing of Amer­i­can edu­ca­tion? Is Con­gress equally con­cerned about the United States Infor­ma­tion Agency (USIA) use of tax money to man­age pri­vate orga­ni­za­tions’ par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Gen­eral Exchanges Agreement?

Is Con­gress equally con­cerned about the role of pri­vate cit­i­zen Armand Ham­mer in the pri­va­ti­za­tion of for­eign pol­icy? (The 1986 Annual Report of Hammer’s Occi­den­tal Petro­leum Cor­po­ra­tion states “Dr. Hammer’s unceas­ing encour­age­ment helped bring about the Geneva Sum­mit between the Soviet Union and the United States and the result­ing new cul­tural exchange agree­ment between the two coun­tries.”)(Empha­sis added)

SOVIETS HAVE NOT MELLOWED

Ambas­sador Mal­colm Toon, a career for­eign ser­vice offi­cer and for­mer Amer­i­can Ambas­sador to the Soviet Union under Pres­i­dent Carter, said in a speech at the Hotchkiss School on Novem­ber 1, 1985, “We must rec­og­nize the Soviet Union for what it is – a ruth­less and bru­tal power…its lead­er­ship is con­spir­a­to­r­ial in nature and its for­eign pol­icy inher­ently aggressive…The Sovi­ets will extend and con­sol­i­date their power wher­ever they think they can do with impunity. ” (Empha­sis added)

SOVIET CHILD STEALING AND TORTURE

Toon’s state­ment is sup­ported by the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion in an arti­cle “Sovi­ets Try to Reshape Afghan Cul­ture” pub­lished in The Wash­ing­ton Post, Jan­u­ary 13, 1986:

“The Sovi­ets are tak­ing chil­dren out of the schools and send­ing them to be brought up in the Soviet Union,” and “The teach­ers in the schools help the Sovi­ets, and if peo­ple go ask where the chil­dren were taken, the teach­ers will not talk to them… the par­ents after­ward received let­ters from their chil­dren mailed from the Soviet Union.” One spokesman asked, “Do Amer­i­can peo­ple know about this?”

“…the Sovi­ets are using– from kinder­garten to the uni­ver­sity level, cul­tural exchanges, reli­gious insti­tu­tions and the mass media…” to bring about cul­tural and polit­i­cal change in Afghanistan. It was fur­ther reported that “Sovi­ets have retooled the Afghan sys­tem – installing Soviet teach­ers, a Marxist-Leninist cur­ricu­lum and a rein­ter­pre­ta­tion of Afghan history…”

The Wash­ing­ton Times, Decem­ber 11, 1985 reported that Pres­i­dent Rea­gan accused the Sovi­ets of load­ing toys with explo­sives in Afghanistan. As a result, count­less Afghan chil­dren had their hands blown off when they picked up “the toys.”

WHAT DOES AMERICAN EDUCATION HAVE TO GAIN FROM COOPERATION WITH A NATION WITH SUCH A “RUTHLESS AND BRUTAL” TRACK RECORD?

THE GOAL: MERGER OF U.S. AND U.S.S.R?

The late Nor­man Dodd, a Yale grad­u­ate, served as the research direc­tor for an unusual Con­gres­sional inves­ti­ga­tion of the tax-exempt foun­da­tions in 1954. Dur­ing the course of the inves­ti­ga­tion, Mr. Dodd was told by Rowan Gaither, Pres­i­dent of the Ford Foun­da­tion that “We oper­ate here under direc­tives which emanate from the White House, the sub­stance of which was that we shall use our grant-making power to alter life in the United States so that we can be com­fort­ably merged with the Soviet Union.” (Empha­sis added)

In light of this offi­cial evi­dence, shouldn’t we ask: Upon which con­sti­tu­tion – U.S. or Soviet – will coop­er­a­tive devel­op­ment of social stud­ies, his­tory, or other value-sensitive pro­grams be based? Could the result of the pro­posed con­sti­tu­tional con­ven­tion facil­i­tate a United States-Soviet merger?

THE TEXT OF THE U.S. SOVIET EDUCATION AGREEMENTS READS IN PART:

ARTICLE II of the gen­eral exchanges agreement:

“The par­ties will encour­age the con­clu­sion, when it is con­sid­ered mutu­ally ben­e­fi­cial, of agree­ments on coop­er­a­tion in the field of sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy, and also addi­tional agree­ments in other spe­cific fields. INCLUDING THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES within the frame­work of this agree­ment.” (Empha­sis added)

ARTICLE IV (d) com­mits the United States and the Soviet Union to the ‘facil­i­ta­tion of the exchange by appro­pri­ate orga­ni­za­tions, of edu­ca­tional and teach­ing mate­ri­als (includ­ing text­books, syl­labi and cur­ric­ula), mate­ri­als on method­ol­ogy, samp­les of teach­ing instru­ments and audio­vi­sual aids.”

ARTICLE II OF THE PROGRAM OF COOPERATION states in part: “The Par­ties will encour­age the exchange of pri­mary and sec­ondary school text­books and other teach­ing mate­ri­als, and, as is deemed appro­pri­ate, the con­duct­ing of joint stud­ies on text­books, between appro­pri­ate orga­ni­za­tions in the United States of Amer­ica and the Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion of the Union of Soviet Social­ist Republics.”

A CALL TO ACTION !!!!!!! ASK PRESIDENT REAGAN AND YOUR CONGRESSMEN TO CANCEL THE U.S.-SOVIET AGREEMENTS

WRITE TO: Pres­i­dent Ronald Rea­gan, The White House, Wash­ing­ton, D.C. 20500.  Your Con­gress­man, House Office Build­ing, Wash­ing­ton, D.C. 20515. Your Sen­a­tor, Sen­ate Office Build­ing Wash­ing­ton, D.C. 20510

Write to your local and state offi­cials and to the edi­tor of your local and state papers. Get on call-in radio pro­grams. Inform friends and orga­ni­za­tions. Use what­ever means open to you to expose the dan­ger­ous U.S.-Soviet edu­ca­tion agreements!

Obtain the “Pro­gram of Coop­er­a­tion and Exchanges Between the United States of Amer­ica and the Union of Soviet Social­ist Republics for 1986–1988″ and the Gen­eral Agree­ment Between the United States of Amer­ica and the Gov­ern­ment of the Union of Soviet Social­ist Republics on Con­tacts, Exchanges and Coop­er­a­tion in Sci­en­tific, Tech­ni­cal, Edu­ca­tional, Cul­tural and Other Fields” Ask your Con­gress­man or write to:

U.S. SOVIET EXCHANGE INITIATIVE
UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY (USIA)
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20547

Get the full story. Send $10 to NATIONAL CITIZENS ALLIANCE for our INFORMATION PACKET. Use the form below. You will receive a chart com­par­ing the “Con­tra Affair” and “EduGate” and two books that clearly explain the impli­ca­tions of the U.S.-Soviet edu­ca­tion agree­ments and how U.S. chil­dren are being pre­pared to become con­trolled “world citizens.”

This ad may be repro­duced “as is” for posters, fly­ers, or for pub­li­ca­tion in local newspapers.

HELP INFORM YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS! PLEASE FILL IN THE FORM AND MAIL IT NOW!

NATIONAL CITIZENS ALLIANCE P.O. Box 6347
Wash­ing­ton, D.C. 20015–0347

Count me in. You are right, the Sovi­ets have noth­ing of value to offer U.S. chil­dren or our nation. The agree­ments harm U.S. sovereignty.

I want to help expose the U.S.-Soviet Edu­ca­tion and Gen­eral Agree­ments. Enclosed is my check for $10___$20___$5-___$100___ (other)

I want to be bet­ter informed. Please send your infor­ma­tion packet. Enclosed is $10.00.

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(Con­cerned Cit­i­zens raised $5000 dol­lars to place this ad in The Wash­ing­ton Times) in 1987.

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