ORIGINAL LINK Study Finds 'Historic' Drop In Math, Reading Scores Since Adoption Of Common Core
Reading and math scores in the US have suffered 'historic' declines since most states implemented the Common Core curriculum standard six years ago, according to a new study from the Pioneer Institute.
While Common Core was promoted as improving the international competitiveness of U.S. students in math, our international standing has remained low while the skills of average and lower performing American students have dropped in both math and reading. -Pioneer Institute
The study notes that in the years leading up to common core, fourth and eight-grade reading and math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were rising gradually (2003-2013). After Common Core was implemented, scores for both grades have fallen - with eighth grade falling nearly as fast as it had been rising.
The declines were most severe among the lowest-achieving students, which the Pioneer Institute suggests increases inequality.
Scores for students at the 90th percentile have mostly continued their pre-Common Core trend of gradual improvement. But the farther behind students were, the more substantial the declines, with the biggest drops occurring for those at the 25th and 10th percentiles. -Pioneer Institute
So, Common Core requires more diligence and effort?
"The sustained decline we’re now seeing, especially among our most vulnerable students, simply cannot be allowed to continue," said Theodor Rebarber, author of “The Common Core Debacle.”
According to the Pioneer Institute, Common Core is the product of 'misguided progressive pedagogies and biases of the education establishment that developed it.'
"Several of us allied with Pioneer Institute have been pointing out, ever since it was introduced, the deeply flawed educational assumptions that permeate the Common Core and the many ways in which it is at odds with curriculum standards in top-achieving countries," said the institute in a statement.
According to the report lower scores as a result of Common Core were predicted a decade ago.
"Nearly a decade after states adopted Common Core, the empirical evidence makes it clear that these national standards have yielded underwhelming results for students," said Pioneer Executive Director Jim Stergios. "The proponents of this expensive, legally questionable policy initiative have much to answer for"
"It’s time for federal law to change to allow states as well as local school districts to try a broader range of approaches to reform," Rebarber added. "With a more bottom-up approach, more school systems will have the opportunity to choose curricula consistent with our international competitors and many decades of research on effective classroom teaching"
ORIGINAL LINK UK Warns Doctors About Mysterious New Respiratory Syndrome Appearing In Children
A British trade publication for health-care professionals has just issued an extremely ominous warning. While the world is fixated on battling the coronavirus, a small group of British children have exhibited a mysterious new respiratory syndrome.
According to the Health Service Journal, the Department of Health and Social Care has sent an urgent alert to general practitioners and pediatricians across Britain last week warning about a "serious coronavirus-related syndrome [that] may be emerging in the UK."
The alert comes following a suspicious spike in alarming respiratory cases in children, who typically don't exhibit severe coronavirus symptoms, though children as young as a few months have died due to complications related to the coronavirus.
Though the warning identifies the new syndrome as coronavirus-related, it adds later down that the new inflammatory syndrome could even be an entirely new pathogen.
It adds: “There is a growing concern that a [covid-19] related inflammatory syndrome is emerging in children in the UK, or that there may be another, as yet unidentified, infectious pathogen associated with these cases."
Over the weekend, Health secretary Matt Hancock mentioned during a press briefing he was "very worried" about signs of a new coronavirus-linked syndrome in children, and that these cases are being investigated "as a matter of urgency."
The issue was brought up again during a briefing on Monday, when Chris Whitty, the chief medical advisor to HMG, and his Public Health England colleague Steve Powis, said colleagues were urgently investigating the link, stressing that cases were rare and it was too early to say anything more with certainty.
Scientists around the world are still debating whether children can effectively spread the virus, research that will hopefully inform the debate on when and how to 'coronavirus-proof' schools.
While almost all of the very small number of children (according to the UK gov't) who exhibited the syndrome also tested positive for the coronavirus, some didn't.
The syndrome has the characteristics of serious covid-19, but there have otherwise been relatively few cases of serious effects or deaths from coronavirus in children. Some of the children have tested positive for covid-19, and some appear to have had the virus in the past, but some have not.
The fact that very few children have become seriously ill with the virus or died, compared to adults, remains the case.
The alert was issued to GPs in North London by their clinical commissioning group. It has been sent to doctors more widely and is confirmed in a separate “urgent alert” issued last night by the Paediatric Intensive Care Society.
The alert to GPs, marked “significant alert” states: “Please refer children presenting with these symptoms as a matter of urgency."
Both messages said: “The cases have in common overlapping features of toxic shock syndrome and atypical Kawasaki Disease with blood parameters consistent with severe COVID-19 in children.
As Reuters pointed out, during the worst of the outbreak in Lombardy, doctors in northern Italy reported extraordinarily large numbers of children under age 9 with severe cases of what appears to be Kawasaki disease, something that's far more common in parts of Asia.
Whatever it is, it's definitely something to keep an eye on.
Last week, we saw a video featuring Dr Rashid Buttar, in which he reminded us that after a US Federal Case resulted in a moratorium on the weaponization of SARS coronaviruses in the US and in order to protect the CDC’s patent on SARS, Anthony Fauci oversaw a $3.7 million grant given to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for it to illegally develop the very same novel coronavirus that has since culminated in his forceful and repeated recommendations to shut down the global economy.
Dr Buttar also reminded us that Fauci, through the NIAID owns a 50% share in the patent on a protein made from HIV that helps to more efficiently deliver vaccine material throughout the body. This patent is being used by some of the companies now developing vaccines for the coronavirus.
Therefore, NIAID, through Fauci has both financed the development of the virus behind the plandemic, and it will collect half the royalties on its eventual vaccine!
If this isn’t racketeering of the most headspinning and depraved sort, I don’t know what is! When a friend called me up last week to say he and some friends might put together a RICO case, I wasn’t surprised.
It’s time to get legal on their ass – and inventor, author, financier and futurist, Dr David E Martin has done just that by submitting a Request for an Investigation into a possible Anti-Trust Violation to the Office of the Inspector General for the United States Department of Health and Human Services on April 22, 2020 and he has drafted a potential Anti-Trust case against HHS, CDC, NIAID, etc., of which this video is an Exhibit:
Citizens of the United States of America
v.
United States Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Robert R Redfield, et al.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Anthony Stephen Fauci, et al.
Governors of All States Issuing Executive Orders abridging the 1st Amendment of the Constitution
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professor Ralph Baric, et al.
And unknown Parties
Dr Martin writes:
“In this inquiry, it is presumed that the CDC and its associates were: a) fully aware of the work being performed using their patented technology; b) entered into explicit or implicit agreements including licensing, or other consideration; and, c) willfully engaged one or more foreign interests to carry forward the exploitation of their proprietary technology when the US Supreme Court confirmed that such patents were illegal and when the National Institutes of Health issued a moratorium on such research.
“The aforementioned items appear to constitute, “contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy,” as defined under 15 US Code § 1.
“Under 15 U.S. Code § 1 (the Sherman Antitrust Act) ‘Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy hereby declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $1,000,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.'”
His lawsuit additionally points out that on December 31, 2019, the Chinese government informed the World Health Organization (WHO) that many SARS cases were being treated in the Wuhan area and the CDC reported the first US case of SARS-CoV like illness in January 2020 with the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service reporting 650 clinical cases and 210 tests.
There are only two ways this is possible. Either the CDC:
“a) had the mechanism and wherewithal to conduct tests to confirm the existence of a ‘novel coronavirus’; or, b) did not have said mechanism and falsely reported the information in January. It tests credulity to suggest that the WHO or the CDC could manufacture and distribute tests for a ‘novel’ pathogen when their own subsequent record on development and deployment of tests has been shown to be without reliability.
“Notwithstanding, the CDC and WHO elected to commit to a narrative of a novel coronavirus – exhibiting properties that were anticipated in the U.S. Patent 7,618,802 issued to the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Ralph Baric – and, in the absence of testing protocols, elected to insist that SARS-CoV-2 was the pathogen responsible for conditions that were consistent with moderate to severe acute respiratory syndrome.
“On March 4, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom appears to have violated the law of the State of California by issuing Executive Order N-33-20 based on the ‘threat of COVID-19’ with no evidence that such threat existed as confirmed by serology or confirmed immunologic evidence. The Government Code sections cited in the Order (Government Code sections 8567, 8627, and 8665) require that criteria be met which do not include the ‘threat’ of any condition but evidence of said condition. At that time, neither the CDC nor the WHO had sufficient testing in place to: a) confirm and isolate ‘a novel coronavirus’ from other coronaviruses; b) California did not have pathology data to suggest that an epidemic was imminent; and, c) the rest of the United States was equally incapable of making any such assessment as a result of the aforementioned conspiring parties actions. Governor Newsom’s Executive Order, followed by numerous other similar orders, all are based on the threat of a thing that may or may not exist.
“Around March 12, 2020, in an effort to enrich their own economic interests by way of securing additional funding from both Federal and Foundation actors, the CDC and NIAID’s Dr Fauci elected to suspend testing and classify COVID-19 by capricious symptom presentation alone. Not surprisingly, this was necessitated by the apparent fall in cases that constituted Dr. Fauci’s and others’ criteria for depriving citizens of their 1st Amendment rights…
“After inflicting grave harm to the citizens of the United States of America in economic hardships resulting from their allegation of an ‘epidemic’ or ‘pandemic’, the CDC and the NIAID set forth, and the President of the United States and various Governors in the respective States promulgated, standards for lifting conditions in violation of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution that serve exclusively to enrich them. Both the presence of a vaccine or treatment and, or, the development of testing – both that solely benefit the possible conspiring parties and their co-conspirators – are set as a condition for re-opening the country. This appears to be an unambiguous violation of the Sherman Act and, if so, should be prosecuted immediately to the full extent of the law.”
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Many of my subscribers have written in to ask me what they can do about this awful situation and all I’ve been able to advise is for people to contact their local representatives and to demand an end to the illegal shutdown of their local businesses, freedom of movement, etc.
Well, Dr Martin has some legalese that we can wield, while we’re doing that! (See below).
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Draft a Letter to ACLU, US Attorney for Your District, Congressman/Woman/Senator/Attorney General:
To Whom It May Concern: The Declaration of a State of Emergency and the ensuing lockdown – which exempts persons deemed “essential” without any basis in scientific fact or in Critical Infrastructure definition under the U.S. DHS –violates the legal standard set forth in Jew Ho v. Williamson, 103 F. 10, 26 (C.C.N.D. Cal. 1900).
Due to the facts outlined here: http://www.invertedalchemy.com/2020/04/covid-19-anti-trust-argument.html
1. The Governor of Virginia [change to your state] could not have known that there was a virulent outbreak caused by a single pathogen (reportedly SARS CoV-2) when declaring the State of Emergency;
2. No scientific evidence has been offered justifying the declaration – mere reporting of mortality and morbidity based on pneumonia symptoms does not an epidemic or pandemic make;
3. The Governor failed to provide adequate testing to confirm or deny the presence or absence of “a novel coronavirus” and, based on recent reports from incarcerated persons, it would appear that positive tests COULD NOT have been based on community transmission as 96% of confined persons have tested positive according to Reuters; and,
4. No effort has been made by the Governor or regional health authorities to overturn the established science published in JAMA that facemasks should not be worn by healthy individuals (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762694) and that social distancing that involves the confinement of healthy individuals has neither been tested nor validated with any science whatsoever.
I kindly request that you take this matter up on behalf of the Citizens of Virginia [change to your state]
The Department of Defense released Monday three unclassified videos showing the U.S. Navy’s encounters with “unidentified aerial phenomena” in an attempt to "clear up any misconceptions" regarding whether the videos – which have been circulating for years – are real.
As AP reports, the three videos, the first of which was leaked in 2007 and discovered by the U.S. Navy in 2009, show small, flying objects.
Two of the videos were recorded in January 2015, according to the Department of Defense. The other was taken in November 2004.
In a statement, the Defense Department said the Navy "previously acknowledged" the videos were Navy videos.
"The U.S. Navy previously acknowledged that these videos circulating in the public domain were indeed Navy videos. After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena,” DOD said in a statement.
In one of the videos, a person exclaims, "What the (expletive) is that?!"
Neoconservative publication The Atlantic has published an article authored by two university professors titled “Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal”, subtitled “In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong.”
A dream come true for one non-Power Five college football player -- getting drafted by a perennial NFL winner -- is devolving into a nightmare after leftists on social media have accused him of being a "white supremacist."
Marshall kicker Justin Rohrwasser was selected in the fifth round of the NFL draft, 159th overall, by the New England Patriots on Saturday.
His celebration didn't last long. Rohrwasser was soon hit with accusations that he is a racist connected to an "alt-right" militia group.
Patriots didn't draft a qb, but at least they drafted an alt-right kicker (this is a joke, don't draft nazi's)
Rohrwasser, who is from Troy, New York, has a number of tattoos on his body, many of them with patriotic themes: One depicts an American flag, another reads “Don’t Tread on Me” and a third simply states “Liberty or Death.”
But it is a tattoo on his left outer forearm, a Roman numeral III, that some on the left have seized upon as proof that the kicker is a racist extremist.
Patriots kicker Justin Rohrwasser says he has had his white supremacist 3 percenter tattoo since he was a teen. At some point he claims he figured out what it stood for & did nothing about it, but now has decided to cover it after being drafted https://t.co/VelDOQV8kT
The III is a symbol of the Three Percenters, a pro-Second Amendment organization that has been labeled an anti-government militia by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“We are NOT a militia. ... We are NOT anti-government. In fact, we are very pro-government, so long as the government abides by the Constitution, doesn't overstep its bounds, and remains ‘for the people and by the people.' Our goal is to utilize the failsafes put in place by our founders to rein in an overreaching government and push back against tyranny,” the group says on its website.
The website explains the origin of Three Percenters' name:
"It is a rough estimate that only 3% of the colonists were actively fighting in the field against British forces at any given time. Today we recognize with this 3% in being that we will be the last defense to protect the citizens of the United States if there ever comes a day when our government takes up arms against the American people."
After the backlash, Rohrwasser said he will cover up the tattoo, according to Fox News.
“I got that tattoo when I was a teenager and I have a lot of family in the military. I thought it stood for a military-support symbol at the time,” he said.
“Obviously, it's evolved into something that I do not want to represent. When I look back on it, I should have done way more research before I put any mark or symbol like that on my body, and it's not something I ever want to represent. It will be covered."
If the far left can’t connect Rohrwasser to alleged white supremacy through his tattoos, it will try to do so through his social media accounts.
A Twitter account calling itself Resist Programming combed through the 23-year-old’s past posts and shared several screen shots, which largely seem to prove the kicker is guilty of being a conservative.
The Marshall alum, who also played at Rhode Island before transferring, has liked and retweeted comments by President Donald Trump and a number of conservative media personalities, and praised another NFL draftee for standing during the national anthem.
On Twitter, Justin Rohrwasser recently liked a tweet praising Joe Burrow for standing during the national anthem. #NFLDraftpic.twitter.com/90tprdweRx
Justin Rohrwasser liked when Trump was acquitted of impeachment articles and liked criticism of Nancy Pelosi ripping up Trump’s speech. #NFLDraftpic.twitter.com/ubCHmGxldy
Justin Rohrwasser has liked Tweets from a variety of right wing, Trump defending personalities including Charlie Kirk, Dinesh D’Souza, Terrance K. Williams, and Steven Crowder. pic.twitter.com/SrhT24t8IZ
The account responded to criticism of the thread by attacking the Founding Fathers.
Some people above are trying to defend the Three Percenters as not racist.
Pro Tip: appealing to the “founding fathers” doesn’t help your case because they were all slave owners. Jefferson Owens 600+ slaves. pic.twitter.com/7KSMZbceDo
Former ESPN "SportsCenter" host Jemele Hill retweeted the Resist Programming thread Sunday and declared the Pats’ new kicker is “a white supremacist" before adding, "My bad, he tends to like white supremacist things."
Patriots kicker is a white supremacist. My bad, he tends to like white supremacist things. Carry on, nothing to see here. https://t.co/CQE0S7LKO8
Hill, who has also called Trump "a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists," also complained that Rohrwasser has an NFL job while former San Francisco 49ers quarterback and national anthem protester Colin Kaepernick remains unsigned.
For those scoring at home, a white supremacist found a job in the NFL, but Colin Kaepernick isn’t welcome.
The kicker's explanation for the tattoo wasn't good enough for Hill.
"I don’t know who needs to hear this but covering up your white supremacist tattoos doesn’t really matter if you still think like a white supremacist," she tweeted.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but covering up your white supremacist tattoos doesn’t really matter if you still think like a white supremacist
All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right ("America is headed to communism") and the left ("It can happen here" – referring to fascism). It's not that I've ever believed liberty was guaranteed. Being familiar with history and a pessimist regarding the human condition, I never believed that.
But the ease with which police state tactics have been employed and the equal ease with which most Americans have accepted them have been breathtaking.
People will argue that a temporary police state has been justified because of the allegedly unique threat to life posed by the new coronavirus. I do not believe the data will bear that out. Regardless, let us at least agree that we are closer to a police state than ever in American history.
"Police state" does not mean totalitarian state. America is not a totalitarian state; we still have many freedoms. In a totalitarian state, this article could not be legally published, and if it were illegally published, I would be imprisoned and/or executed. But we are presently living with all four of the key hallmarks of a police state:
No. 1: Draconian laws depriving citizens of elementary civil rights.
The federal, state, county and city governments are now restricting almost every freedom except those of travel and speech. Americans have been banned from going to work (and thereby earning a living), meeting in groups (both indoors and outdoors), meeting in their cars in church parking lots to pray and entering state-owned properties such as beaches and parks – among many other prohibitions.
No. 2: A mass media supportive of the state's messaging and deprivation of rights.
The New York Times, CNN and every other mainstream mass medium – except Fox News, The Wall Street Journal (editorial and opinion pages only) and talk radio – have served the cause of state control over individual Americans' lives just as Pravda served the Soviet government. In fact, there is almost no more dissent in The New York Times than there was in Pravda. And the Big Tech platforms are removing posts about the virus and potential treatments they deem "misinformation."
No. 3: Use of police.
Police departments throughout America have agreed to enforce these laws and edicts with what can only be described as frightening alacrity. After hearing me describe police giving summonses to, or even arresting, people for playing baseball with their children on a beach, jogging alone without a mask, or worshiping on Easter while sitting isolated in their cars in a church parking lot, a police officer called my show. He explained that the police have no choice. They must respond to every dispatch they receive.
"And why are they dispatched to a person jogging on a beach or sitting alone in a park?" I asked.
Because the department was informed about these lawbreakers.
"And who told the police about these lawbreakers?" I asked.
His answer brings us to the fourth characteristic of a police state:
No. 4: Snitches.
How do the police dispatchers learn of lawbreakers such as families playing softball in a public park, lone joggers without face masks, etc.? From their fellow citizens snitching on them. The mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, set up a "snitch line," whereby New Yorkers were told to send authorities photos of fellow New Yorkers violating any of the quarantine laws. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti similarly encouraged snitching, unabashedly using the term.
It is said that about 1 in every 100 East German citizens were informers for the Stasi, the East German secret police, as superbly portrayed in the film "The Lives of Others." It would be interesting, and, I think, important, to know what percentage of New Yorkers informed on their fellow citizens. Now, again, you may think such a comparison is not morally valid, that de Blasio's call to New Yorkers to serve a Stasi-like role was morally justified given the coronavirus pandemic. But you cannot deny it is Stasi-like or that, other than identifying spies during World War II, this is unprecedented in American history at anywhere near this level.
This past Friday night, I gathered with six others for a Shabbat dinner with friends in Santa Monica, California. On my Friday radio show, I announced I would be doing that, and if I was arrested, it would be worth it. In my most pessimistic dreams, I never imagined that in America, having dinner at a friend's house would be an act of civil disobedience, perhaps even a criminal act. But that is precisely what happens in a police state.
The reason I believe this is a dress rehearsal is that too many Americans appear untroubled by it; the dominant force in America, the left, supports it, and one of the two major political parties has been taken over by the left. Democrats and their supporters have, in effect, announced they will use state power to enforce any law they can to combat the even greater "existential" crisis of global warming.
On the CNN website this weekend, in one of the most frightening and fanatical articles in an era of fanaticism, Bill Weir, CNN chief climate correspondent, wrote an open letter to his newborn son. In it, he wrote of his idealized future for America: "completely new forms of power, food, construction, transportation, economics and politics."
You cannot get there without a police state.
If you love liberty, you must see that it is jeopardized more than at any time since America's founding. And that means, among other things, that at this time, a vote for any Democrat is a vote to end liberty.
The intention of the monetary and fiscal bailout plans was to bring liquidity and function to financial markets, while simultaneously providing pecuniary assistance to businesses and individuals during the economic slowdown.
By Chris Menahan The FBI on Thursday raided a Detroit-area medical facility for reportedly treating non-hospitalized coronavirus patients with intravenous vitamin C, which the FBI appears to be claiming is a “fraudulent treatment.” Allure Medical Spa, which is owned by Dr.
The statistics surrounding the Covid-19 crisis have always been unreliable, yet msm and other sources use these numbers without qualifications. To qualify the numbers would be to dismantle the Lie.
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