Posted May 23, 2013: by Mary Grabar.

Here is the video from the Schools for Subversion panel discussion sponsored by Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and the David Horowitz Center, held on May 6 at the Luxe Hotel Sunset in Los Angeles.  I am joined by Kyle Olson, Larry Sand, and Bruce Thornton, with Ben Boychuk as moderator.  We had a great discussion with a very engaged audience.  Listen and learn about what is going on in our schools. 

Bygone DaysPosted May 15, 2013, by Mary Grabar: Georgia Senator Fran Millar is hitting the Georgia blogs--Get Schooled and Peach Pundit--promoting Common Core. No surprise.  Sounds like boilerplate sales rhetoric with references to a global marketplace, workforce preparation, standards.

Well-connected vendors are standing by to profit from the new curricula, tests, hardware, and software that Georgia taxpayers will have to pay to be "Common Core compliant." 

Will Senator Millar read today's Townhall column, "Bill Ayers: Bringing Down America, Destroying Education?"  Doubtful. 

Get the bookAppearing tonight with Larry Grathwohl and Tina Trent in Ft. Myers, Florida, to discuss Bringing Down America and Bill Ayers's poisonous education policies...information here.

My book is intended to educate and inform.  But after its publication we learn about another appearance by Bill Ayers, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Common Core test deviser Linda Darling-Hammon at the AERA conference (April 27-May 1); that's the American Educational Research Association.  This year's focus was "Education and Poverty: Theory, Research, Policy, and Praxis." 

Founded in 1916, AERA "is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results."

The website lists "more than 25,000 members," who are "faculty, researchers, graduate students, and other distinguished professionals with rich and diverse expertise in education research." These professionals "work in a range of settings from universities and other academic institutions to research institutes, federal and state agencies, school systems, testing companies, and nonprofit organizations. Based on their research, they produce and disseminate knowledge, refine methods and measures, and stimulate translation and practical application of research results."

Although the organization is based in Washington, D.C., the website claims to be international "in scope," with 5% of its members from outside the U.S.

Arne Duncan bragged about his keynote address at AERA in his mailing from the Dept. of Education, but failed to mention that his sidekicks, Ayers and Darling-Hammond, were probably in the audience, if not right then but at the conference itself.