Tag: inBloom
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Nuremberg Revisited
“A SELLOUT TO TYRANNY” by Tabitha Korol, TPATH Contributor, ©2013 (Dec. 5, 2013) — The other night I watched a PBS special on Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on November 9-10, 1938. These were carried out by Hitler’s forces and non-Jewish civilians…
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‘Gates’ Unhinged
BILLIONAIRE A MAJOR PLAYER IN DEVELOPING “COMMON CORE” CURRICULUM by Tabitha Korol, ©2013, blogging at TPATH (Nov. 26, 2013) — The Northeast Ohio Media Group featured in its Sun Press/Sun Messenger local paper a double opinion piece on Common Core Standards on November 14. Absent from the favorable assessment were the particulars that expose the damaging aspects, namely…
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Rotten to the Core
THE APPLE WITH A RAZOR INSIDE by Joan Swirsky, ©2013, from TPATH (Sep. 21, 2013) — In July, the state of New York announced the results of its first tests based on the Common Core: The region hasn’t been this battered since Superstorm Sandy. Just 26 percent of students in third through eighth grade passed…