So, what is the
Delphi Technique? Let the Chamber of Commerce tell you.
According to
Leadership and Project Management Training with its Chamber Series-- obviously
a technique that one must consider the ethics of using. Possibly unethical?
"The gist
of it is that the technique is used to reach a predetermined conclusion. In
other words, to manipulate the group. It has evidently become popular within
politics to give the impression that public input is actually having an impact
on decisions when in reality, the decision has been made already, and the group
is being guided, unknowingly, toward that end."
That does sound
unethical, and to be sure maybe we should look at the definition of 'ethical'.
I think we all know and understand what is and isn't ethical behavior. It's
doing the right thing for the right reasons. However, the actual definition of
the word places it in the context of the standards of the profession.
There is an old
axiom that the only difference between motivation and manipulation is intent,
and I think that is the issue here. In our world of project management, we
strive to act in the most ethical manner possible at all times. There are
ethical ways to employ the Delphi Technique and there are unethical ways to use
it to manipulate data and people. Therefore, the technique itself is neither
ethical nor unethical. Techniques and tools do not differentiate between right
and wrong, people do!"
Consider the
difference between motivation and manipulation. But of course, the ends justify
the means.
And money was
surely never the motivating factor...
That nearly
$2,000,000 donated by Bill and Melinda Gates to the Chamber of Commerce
Foundation to support the Common Core Standards had nothing to do with it their
support and complicity in the adoption of Common Core!
They didn’t
really process communities to support this agenda without knowing the
results of pilots and knowing the consequences of those Standards,
Curriculum, and Assessments on a trial group. Surely they would not make
the entire nation of children guinea pigs. Would they?
And who funds the US Chamber Foundation?
Notice the Harvard connection of Dr. William McCallum who claims in this Chamber film to be the lead writer of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics and distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Arizona. What does that mean other than connections with Bill Gates...
and the advocates of Radical Mathematics
Dr. James Milgram disagrees with McCallum about his Mathematics "Standards" and refused to sign on to those "Standards" after serving on the committee. Apparently Jason Zimba who also claims authorship of the Math Standards admits Milgram is correct.
What about Bill Gates to UNESCO and the World Core curriculum? Might there be some influence there on Common Core?
What!? The University of Florida might use the Delphi Technique?
The National
Governor’s Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers only have
the best interest of our children at heart and they would surely make sure
there had been enough research done on Common Core before subjecting all
children in this nation to a curriculum. No? Gates money entered even here?
And who is
Florida’s Chief State Officer? Pam Stewart. I assume her B.S. degree in
elementary education, her Masters in Counseling and certification in
Educational Leadership surely qualifies her to determine the curriculum for all
children in Florida. We know she is supported on the Board by the guy (Olenick)
who headed the legal defense for Jeb Bush in the A-Plus (Goals 2000) Education
Plan. (See also: https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/response-to-alcom-article-alabama.html)
In Dothan, we
were processed through Delphi at Northview High School and the eventual
product wound up with hiring someone to rewrite the Board’s Bylaws and changing
education from SEQUENTIAL learning as our local board then required (pre 1990) to
THEMATIC INSTRUCTION. Oh, yes, phonics was banned because it took drill and repetition
to teach children phonemic awareness and as you can see, 21st century learners
“balk at rote learning and memorizing.”
Just in case
you didn't know.
And now, called
"21st-century skills”, and it is generally used to refer to certain core
“competencies” such as “collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and
problem-solving that advocates believe schools need to teach to help students
thrive in today's world.”
What proof they
have of this, I have no clue. Other than as in the Alinsky Rules for Radicals
No. 11, “If you push a negative hard enough it will push through and become a
positive.”
"Skills
based" learning rather than knowledge based would seem to me to rank right
up there with one of those negatives pushed hard enough to become a positive.
You must
believe that “21st century learners” “balk at rote learning and
memorizing…”
This is what they mean by "skills based" rather than "knowledge based."
This is why students do not learn to sound out words after learning Phonics rules or learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division tables. It is now against the rules to use DIRECT INSTRUCTION because they prefer INFERENTIAL-- guessing, estimating and risk taking are considered skills -- and they call that learning. (See also: https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/look-at-this-headline-and-now-according.htmll)
This is why students do not learn to sound out words after learning Phonics rules or learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division tables. It is now against the rules to use DIRECT INSTRUCTION because they prefer INFERENTIAL-- guessing, estimating and risk taking are considered skills -- and they call that learning. (See also: https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/look-at-this-headline-and-now-according.htmll)
Project based
group “learning” is for sociologists to succeed in making us all a part of a
co-operative (socialism) undermining individualism (and capitalism). It isn't
for academic excellence.
They say that
Interdisciplinary project-based, inquiry-based learning is evident throughout
the school. Interpreting Eduspeak that means THEMATIC INSTRUCTION, with
subjects INTEGRATED into the lessons not SEQUENTIAL, yet sequential learning,
direct instruction and old methods of Mathematics got us to the moon. (See Also: https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/look-at-this-headline-and-now-according.html
Just so you see
this is nothing new. The same complaints as met Walter Johnson and his Project
Method are coming forth from conservatives today. They then claimed that the
specter of collectivism was sneaking into the schools and they had to be
“sentinels” to protect capitalist America.
Enter Bill
Gates. Bill Gates was the de facto organizer, providing the money and
structure for states to work together on
common standards in a way that avoided
the usual
collision between states' rights and national interests that had undercut
every previous
effort dating from the Eisenhower administration
And what are his credentials other than also being a Harvard graduate?
"The idea that the richest man in the U.S. can purchase and --working closely with
the
U.S.Department of Education--impose new and untested academic standards
on the nation's
public schools is a national scandal."
The funding of
the NGA (National Governor's Association) and CCSSO (Council
of Chief State
School Officers) suggests where their accountability lies. Since 2007,NGA and
CCSSO have accepted approximately $100 million from the Gates Foundation alone
to advance the standards and the connected data-collection and assessments.
These organizations do not answer to the people, they answer to an enormously
powerful funder with a definite agenda. NGA and CCCSO also get substantial
funding from the federal government for CCSSO, about half its operating funds).
Did Bill Gates
agreement with UNESCO and aligning with the World Core Curriculum have anything to do with Jerry Parrish promoting Common Core to Florida? Does he know? Does he even care? Or could it be money? Power?
UNESCO was formed with the
intention to serve as the world's school board.
The Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation didn't just bankroll the development of what
became known as
the Common Core Standards. With more than $200 million, the foundation
also built
political support across the country, persuading state governments to make
systemic
and costly
changes.
Bill and
Melinda Gates, Obama and Arne Duncan are parents of school-age children,
although none of those children attend schools that use the Common Core
Standards. The Gates and Obama children attend private schools in Virginia, one
of four states that never adopted the Common Core. Gates has said that one of
the benefits of common standards would be to open the classroom to digital
learning making it easier for software developers--including Microsoft--to
develop newproducts for the country's 15,000 school districts.
The
Florida and Alabama Chamber of Commerce are the PR arm of this agenda.
Jerry Parrish,
Harvard graduate, Microsoft representative, find inspiration promoting a
national curriculum that coincides with the World Core Curriculum Gates
signed on to with UNESCO.
Where do you
think this man's loyalties lie?
Much money is
coming into the Florida Chamber Foundation through the Bill
and Melinda
Gates Foundation. Certainly that is not considered an investment
for future
gain. Do you think?
Surely sales
opportunities would have nothing to do with his advice.
...Microsoft
announced that it was joining Pearson, the world's largest educational
publisher
to load
Pearson's Common Core classroom materials on Microsoft's tablet, the Surface.
That product allows Microsoft to compete for school district spending with
Apple, whose iPad is the dominant tablet in classrooms.
And how about
the sales of that data on your child collected through those computers?
With the
national curriculum (COMMON CORE) in place, worker bees will be trained
according to their vision. Plato's vision of the ELITE among us ruling is set!
Who are
you going to believe?
Bill Gates or your lying eyes?
Thank you Goals 2000. Thank you A Plus. Thank you, Chamber of Commerce. Your PR and Delphi got the bylaws for our local schools rewritten and there went traditional education.
Thank you Goals 2000. Thank you A Plus. Thank you, Chamber of Commerce. Your PR and Delphi got the bylaws for our local schools rewritten and there went traditional education.
Education
FREE OUR CHILDREN FROM THE OPPRESSION OF COLLEGES OF EDUCATION. CHICAGO. TWO DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES.
Common Core, Sylvia Plath, and Death Education
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/common-core-sylvia-plath-and-death.html
The Truth about Phonics that will Help You Help Your Child! Whole Language: A Fraud Perpetrated upon Our Students. One of Many?
The Tragedy of the Math Mess and Another Way
MATH WARS. ONCE AGAIN INTO THE FRAY
COMMON CORE MATH
The Reality of Bay District Schools. Only Fifty Percent Read Proficiently. Is there hope?
The Four Period Day: Students as Guinea Pigs and Professional advancement for "innovators"
The Tale of Last Hope for Local Control
DEMONIC ROOTS TO COMMON CORE? VISIT YOUR CHILD'S THERAPEUTIC CLASSROOM.
THE GENEALOGY OF COMMON CORE: BILL GATES/UNESCO/ROBERT MULLER//ALICE BAILEY/LUCIS TRUST
THE CHICAGO CONNECTION TO COMMON CORE
does anybody really believe anymore? does anybody really care?https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/does-anybody-really-believe-anymore.html
Sounding the Alarm! Today's Therapeutic Classroom. What are you going to do about it?
Spalding Writing Road to Reading and John Winston of Parks Elementary Natchitoches, Louisiana
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/spalding-writing-road-to-reading-and.html
RETARDING AMERICA THE IMPRISONMENT OF POTENTIAL
NOTE FROM ROBERT SWEET OF THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO READ FOUNDATION
The DARE PROGRAM 20 years later.
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-dare-program-20-years-later-more.html
Merry Christmas! Meet Alliwishus, The Elf Mother Met at the Battle of the Bulge
My Mother. My hero who won a Battle Ribbon at the Battle of the Bulge. December 16, 1944. A SCRAPBOOK LOOK FROM JEAN BRONSON GILLIS BURSON.
LEONARD COHEN HALLELUJAH PROJECT AT BAY HIGH SCHOOL AND ESTABLISHMENT RELIGION, SECULAR HUMANISM, IN OUR SCHOOLS
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/leonard-cohen-hallelujah-project-at-bay.html
WHY SHOULD CONSERVATIVES, CHRISTIANS AND THE THE FAITH COMMUNITY BE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS? SUBSCRIBE TO THE PANAMA CITY NEWS HERALD AND GET WASHINGTON POST FREE
PEACE EDUCATION? CONFLICT RESOLUTION? TEACHING TOLERANCE? COMMON CORE
TRADITIONAL OR PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION. DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE? HAS POLITICS AFFECTED YOUR CHILD'S MATH EDUCATION?
RETARDING AMERICA THE IMPRISONMENT OF POTENTIAL
NOTE FROM ROBERT SWEET OF THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO READ FOUNDATION
DELPHI TECHNIQUE, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT CONVINCED A GULLIBLE PUBLIC TO BUY INTO COMMON CORE
COMMON CORE: PORNOGRAPHY 101
MIDDLE SCHOOL AGENDA FOR SEXUAL ORIENTATION AS A PART OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
BEHAVIOR MODELS ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS
CULTURE WAR AND COMMON CORE
SOCIAL STUDIES AND COMMON CORE
TEACHERS AS LIBERATORS PRODUCE STUDENTS AS REVOLUTIONARIES: Whole Language Live On!
RADICAL POSSIBILITIES: YOUR CHILDREN
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/radical-possibilities-your-children.html
Response to AL.Com article "Alabama Superintendent Proposal to Raise Academic Standards."
SECULAR HUMANISM IS NOW THE RELIGION OF OUR SCHOOLS
COMMON CORE: THE EMPEROR IS WEARING NO CLOTHES
COMMON CORE=PETRI DISH FOR RADICALS
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/common-core-petri-dish-for-radicals.html
REVOLUTIONARY PEDAGOGY
Revolutionary Pedagogy: Or, so you thought reading, writing and calculating were why you sent your child to school?
EDUCATION TODAY:
Politics, Profits, Position, Power, and Prejudice published 1995
CAPSTONE EDUCATION (UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA) AND MY CONCERNS
CONFLICT RESOLUTION OR POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION?
DELPHI TECHNIQUE, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AND THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT CONVINCED THE GULLIBLE NATION TO BUY INTO COMMON CORE
WHO DO WE HOLD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE FAILURE OF OUR SCHOOLS?
PUBLIC EDUCATION SHOULD EMPOWER PARENTS
CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN EDUCATION
THE CIVIL WAR IN EDUCATION
SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
TAKE A KNEE
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