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What is Outcome-Based Education

Education Reform: The Rhetoric, The Reality

The Hegelian Principle in Education

Education Reform: Reframing the Debate

Third Force Psychology in the Classroom

A Citizen's Guide to Restoring Academic Excellence

What Parents Need to Know About Education Reform

What Parents Need to Know About Conflict Resolution and HOTS

The Spider-Web of Federal Discretionary Grants

Federal Grants vs State and Local Control (Excerpt from Challenge to Freedom, Henry R Wriston, 1943)

Hegelian Principle (or the path to dialectical materialism)

Shifting the Paradigm

Psychology, Education and the ESEA's Role (Rebecca Bocchino)

Teaching a Child to Think

The Nature and Purpose of Education (Rebecca Bocchino)

Rules of the Real World (Charles J. Sykes)

Classrooms or Therapy Wards? (Gary Tomak)

Who Controls at the Local Level?

What Parents Need to Know About the STEP•Star Program

Washington State, Education Reform and Special Interests

What Federal Grants Mean for Your State

The Intelligent Student's Guide to the New World Order (Erica Carle)

The New School — The "Community Learning Center" (Fran Rice)

The State of Education in America Today (Doug Gamble, American Heritage Party)

What About Direct Instruction? (Rebecca Bocchino)

Behavioral Education (Rebecca Bocchino)

Back to Freedom and Dignity; a Response to Skinner (Sarah Leslie)

The 9 Assumptions of Modern Schooling (John Gatto)

New Age Religious Practices in the Classroom

Education Reform, In A Nutshell

Straight "A's" Deserves an "F" (Kathleen Flanagan)

Lifelong Learning (graphic)

Education Reform Organization Chart (graphic)

Education Reform Exposed

Information and History of New Age Movement (Willy Peterson)

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Education Reform, Workforce Training, and the Home Schooler

New Rules, Roles and Relationships: Total Quality Schools

School-to-Work; The Cradle to Grave Agenda (Eileen Spatz)

School-to-Work and the Home Schooler (Eileen Spatz)

The United Nations Connection to Washington State

The Education Reform/School-to-Work/Workforce Training Initiative (PDF File)

STW and Jobs in the 21st Century

American Dream or American Nightmare?

Workforce Training and Retraining (graphic)

The Reality of Workforce Training and Retraining (graphic)

State Workforce Development Councils and Agencies

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The Psychological Corporation and Harcourt Brace

This is Math?

This is Math?  Day 2

Parent Testimony Regarding Curriculum

Over-reacting, Overboard or … ?

Student Information and Scavenger Hunt

Multicultural Education in the Classroom (Marda Kirkwood)

This Is Math? Day 2 Follow-up

Division in the Math Ranks (Diana Anderson)

Surveys

1999 Youth Risk Behavior Survey

Trinity Law School Speech (Karen Holgate)

Sex and Sexuality in the Classroom

What About Geography?

Character Education (Debbie Niwa)

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What Parents Need to Know About the WASL

The Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission's Recommendations on Accountability; Citizens' Minority Report (CURE)

Watch Out, America

The Great Test Score Scam (Marda Kirkwood)

State Education Agencies Responsible for Assessment, Testing and Accountability

State threatens parent group

A Parent Asks Questions About the WASL

Donald C Orlich on the WASL and Assessments

Is There Any Longitudinal Effect of the WASL on Student Achievement?

Big Trouble for High-Stakes Tests

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Justifying the Cause

Governor Locke's Validated Research

Debunking the Myths

Requests of I Am Your Child Campaign

Funders for the I Am Your Child Campaign

Governor's Commission on Early Learning

Letter to the GCEL (August 24, 1998)

Letter to the Legislature (September 28, 1998)

NGA Conference

Report on Public Forum in Spokane

The Report of A Citizen (Jim Keefe)

Letter to the Legislature (May 20, 1999)

Letter to the GCEL (June 14, 1999)

Transcription June 15 Public Comments at GCEL

Citizen Letter to the GCEL (Sharon Oldfield)

Letter to the GCEL (July 9, 1999)

Testimony Before the GCEL (Marda Kirkwood)

Children's Bill of Rights (As adopted by the commission)

Local in Flavor or a Bureaucratic Sell Job?

Letter to the GCEL (Sharon Oldfield)

Letter to the Editor (Julanne Burts)

Public Testimony, GCEL

Response to Mr Brunell

It Takes Parents, Not Government, To Raise A Child (Rep. John Koster)

GCEL Public Engagement Campaign

Presentation; Cocker Fennessy

Contract; Cocker Fennessy

Letter to the Legislature (American Heritage Party of Kitsap County)

Address of Governor Locke

Public Testimony, GCEL

Ethics Violation Filed Concerning GCEL

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Does Your Child Need Mental Health?

The Medicaid Connection

A Brief Chronology

What Does Medicaid Mean For Your Child? (Marlene Tobin)

Seven Oaks

Mental Health: Science as Propaganda (Rebecca Bocchino)

1948 London International Congress on Mental Health (Rebecca Bocchino)

A Personal Testimony Regarding School-Based Clinics (Marcella Melendez)

Parents Protest California School Health Clinic Bill (Karen Holgate)

School-Based Health Clinics

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Tying It All Together

The Politics of Compliance

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Block Scheduling; Personal Observations (G Gerald Nika, PhD)

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Ecology

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Multi-Culturalism (Joan Masters)

Multi-Culturalism in the Classroom

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Year Round Education

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What's In Your Dangan?

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What Citizens Need to Know About Choice and Charter Schools

Vouchers — Panacea or Plague?

Vouchers and Christian Schools (Cris Shardelman)

Charters and the Washington State Constitution (Cris Shardelman)

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Letter to the Joint Select Committee

Schools for the 21st Century

Pasco and Bremerton

The unanswered questions

Senate Hearing; January 29, 1998

Part I:  The Law (Cris Shardelman)

Part II:  The Final Report (Lynn Stuter)

Part III:  Foundation for Education Reform (Roxanne Sitler)

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Budgeted Expenses; Actual

Cost/Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Student

Certificated and Classified Personnel

Breakdown of Basic Education, Program 01

Maintenance and Operations Levies

Current District Indebtedness

Points to Ponder

Mil Rate Schedule

Creating the Future History

The Community of Sixty

Effective Schools Survey

Discipline Contract

Test Scores – CTBS and CFAS

Profiling NMFSD Schools

The DFYIT Program

Security

SUCCESS Program (Readiness to Learn)

SUCCESS Team (PDF File)

Summary of Services (PDF File)

Articles (PDF File)

Learn and Serve America (LSA)

Request for Proposals; 1995-96 (PDF File)

Grant Application; 1995-96 (PDF File)

Miscellaneous

Contract with NWREL (PDF File)

Contract with Gonzaga University (PDF File)

Readiness to Learn (RTL)

Grant Application; 1994-95 (PDF File)

Grant Application; 1995-97 (PDF File)

School to Work (STW)

Request for Proposals; 1996 (PDF File)

Grant Application; 1996 (PDF File)

Contract with ESD101; 1996 (PDF File)

Student Learning Improvement Grants & Competitive Grants (SLIGs)

Grant Application; 1994 (PDF File)

Request for Proposals; 1995-96 (PDF File)

Request for Proposals; Addendum; 1995-96 (PDF File)

Grant Application; Education Exchange Network; 1995-96 (PDF File)

Grant Application; Washington League of Schools; 1995-96 (PDF File)

Technology

Request for Proposals; 1996-97 (PDF File)

Grant Application; 1996-97 (PDF File)

Youth Risk Factors

Request for Proposals; 1995 (PDF File)

Grant Application; 1995 (PDF File)

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Youth Safety Summit, Report of the People

Cover Letter to Legislators

Report of the People

Kids Killing Kids; A Different Perspective

Were Harris And Klebold In An Altered State? (Gloria Clark)

Children, Rules and Guns (Doug Fiedor)

Information Pertinent to Columbine High School

Youth, Computers and Video Games, and Violence (Charlotte Iserbyt)

A Compilation of Comments Relative to the Columbine High School Tragedy

Children of the Therapeutic Society (B.K. Eakman)

Reflections Of A Survivor (Anonymous)

How to Create a Violent Student (Dan Lietha)

My "Here's Why" List (Joan Battey)

From Where I Stand: A Teenager's Voice from Inside the Culture of Death (Sarah Roney)

Not All Should Say "I Like ME!" (Joan Battey)

Cause and Effect:  Littleton, Colorado

Shootings Reveal Adult Rebellion (Jeanette Faulkner)

Littleton and the Judgment of God (Dr. Kendall S. Harmon)

Columbine High School (Littleton, Colorado)

Media Advisory; May 5, 1999; Governor's Office

Media Advisory; May 17, 1999; Governor's Office

Why All the Killing? (Roxanne Sitler)

Columbine High School and OBE (Donna Garner)

Is Youth Violence Linked to Education? (Pam)

What Were These Children Taught? (Cris Shardelman)

SECULAR SUCCESS: Legacy of Jonesboro & Columbine (William Federer)

School Violence: Is Conflict Resolution an Answer or Part of the Problem? (Karen Holgate)

Governor Locke's Youth Violence Agenda

Media Advisory; May 17, 1999; Governor's Office

Constituent Letter to Congressmen (Marda Kirkwood)

Known Incidents of Youth Violence Since 1990

Killing at Columbine High – What Happened? (Karen Anderson, The Napa Sentinel)

Testimony of Darrell Scott (Father of Rachel Joy Scott)

A Recipe For Violence (Charles Richardson, P.E.)

Youth Violence and Drugs

Twelve Rules for Raising Delinquent Children (Houston Police Department)

Education Reform and Youth Violence

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Sexually Explicit Material in the Classroom (RaeLynn Gill and Jean Foster)

The Teaching Atmosphere (Gene Malone, Teacher)

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Education Or ???? (Jerry Nika)

Teacher/Parent/Student Contracts ("Miss Dove")

Visiting International Faculty Program ("Sarah")

Teacher As Facilitator (Susan)

Collaborators in Snooping (Rich Depres)

Role Models (Charlene)

Resistance Isn't Futile! (Heather)

Student Tracking (Kathy)

School-to-Work Promoted Via Cartoons (Cyndi)

Supposed Gifted Program (Consuelo)

A Visit With My Teen to an Amerikan Publik High Skhool From Hell; the Observations of a Mad Dad! (Robert W Baral)

A Teacher Speaks Out

Arizona Workforce Development System (Debbie Niwa)

Telling It Like It Is (Charlene Sanders)

A Message of Hope (Michael)

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The Social Security Number

Protection of Pupil Rights (Hatch Amend.)

FERPA

Relevant RCW's and WAC's

Testing — Standardized and Assessment

Religious Expression in Public Schools

Letter of Pres. Clinton and SOE Riley

Court Cases Helpful to Parents

Organizations Helpful to Parents

Child Abuse and Neglect Laws (the Christine case)

The O'Dell Case (Cindy Wade)

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Freedom of Conscience Legislation

State Education System Inconsistent With State Constitution (Roxanne Sitler)

Are Government Schools Constitutional?

Christians and Education (Roxanne Sitler)

Defining "Agency-Based" Education (Rebecca Bocchino)

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I'm Glad I've Turned My Home Into A School (Eileen Spatz)

Home School Charters (Eileen Spatz)

Are Private Schools Selling Out? (Eileen Spatz)

Breaking Out of the Education "Box" and Finding Freedom (Eileen Spatz)

Home Schooling Spells Success (George Abraham Thampy, Wall Street Journal)

Testing the Boundaries of Parental Authority ... A Response (Roxanne Sitler)

Home Schools Utilizing Public Schools

States Begin Crack Down on Home Schooling

The Web of Deceit – K12®

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Who Is Marc Tucker?

Who Is the IAF and WROP?

Who Is Dr Shirley McCune?

Who Is New Horizons for Learning?

What About Abraham Maslow?

Who Is Ervin Laszlo?

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The Delphi Technique. What Is It?

The Delphi Technique:  How to Disrupt It

What's Wrong With Consensus

What American Citizens Need to Know About Consensus and Facilitation

Dean Gotcher on Consensus Building

The Process (graphic)

My First Experience With the Delphi (Cynthia)

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What Are Democratic Societies and Participatory Democracies

The Restructuring of America

It's All In The World View

Systems Thinking

Communism vs. Capitalism in the New Millennium

The Fallacy of Systems Thinking

Systems Philosophy (graphic)

Business and Industry Under Systems Philosophy (graphic)

The Systems Approach to World Order (graphic)

Accountability Under Systems Philosophy (graphic)

Data Flow Under Systems Philosophy (graphic)

Data Usage Under Systems Philosophy (graphic)

Organizational Flow Under Systems Philosophy (graphic)

Decentralized Decision Making Under Systems Philosophy (graphic)

The Community Learning Center Under Systems Philosophy (graphic)

A Strategy for the Future .... Out of the Past

The Derailing of America (graphic)

Alinsky for Teacher Organizers (Arisman, 1972)

Albert V Burns on the restructuring of America

The Hegelian Dialectic in the Media

Those Unanswered Questions

A Republic, Not a Democracy (Anthony K. Pritchard)

Sustainable Environment (graphic)

Citizens Constitutional Protections vs. Zeitgeist in Legislation (Cris Shardelman)

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Chilling Similarities

Congressional Record, 1963

Goals, "Communist Manifesto"

Communist Strategy Captured at Dusseldorf; 1919

Creating Chaos to Foment Frustration

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The Global Perspective

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Law Enforcement

Why Crime Pays

The Real Tragedy of Waco and Ruby Ridge

Community Oriented Policing Programs

The Stuter Case

The Brame Case

SCSO Deputies Shoot Up Suncrest Neighborhood

Disposition of Case, Brian Cravens

Letters Appearing Elsewhere

Disposition of Case, Clark and Spurlock

Disposition of Case, Jeffrey Cravens

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Humanist Manifesto I (1933)

Humanist Manifesto II (1973)

Humanist Manifesto III (2003)