Department of Education

http://www.viddler.com/explore/RazrHog4Life/videos/1/
this is a good follow-up by angry teachers unions:
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1701265&page=1

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"It is your duty as loyal Americans to Shut up."– Bill O'Reily

http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html

Note how little the Fed contributes (9%) and yet they mandate everything about how our education system is run. That is in the first paragraph. Deconstruct this whole page - use the Department's own words to show how far wrong they have gone. I just love this one:
"History
The original Department of Education was created in 1867 to collect information on schools and teaching that would help the States establish effective school systems."

"HELP THE STATES" seems to have become "force compliance from the states."

Good luck!

Listen to chapter 7 of Murray Rothbard's: For a New Liberty on education. Best argument I've ever heard for the government to get out of education. http://mises.org/media.aspx?action=category&ID=87

Have her read The Gulag Archipelago. If she's still a Marxist after that, write her off as either an idiot or someone who is truly depraved.

-jcr

Unfortunately, I cannot point to any websites, but from my experience in college, only "academic" and "credible" resources can be used for credit. Good luck with that. Most of these that qualify are toothless propoganda socialist pieces. You might get lucky if you use some .edu resources aimed at Soviet Union propoganda in schools and the results thereof. Then draw some parallells.

mises.com or org, i cant remember, if you dont know that site already. ithas tons of audio and video seminars, and digital books for free. it is a great site for learning.

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

Here is another link to a speech given by John Taylor Gatto called The Shocking Origins of Public Education (all of which is contained in his books, but the speech is a shorter read):
http://4brevard.com/choice/Public_Education.htm

Also, here is the link to the Alliance for the Separation of School and State (notice Ron Paul has signed their proclamation):
http://www.schoolandstate.org/home.htm

And finally, this site has a ton of great articles relating to public education:
http://educationconversation.wordpress.com/

John Stossel's Stupid In America is a must see.

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/stossel/story?id=1500338

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4pN-aiofw

Both have search, just type department of education. Great.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/

http://www.mises.org/

your objective. Thomas Sowell wrote a book in 1993 called: Inside American Education - The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas. It's a good starting place to discover what has become of the education (indoctrination) system in this country, as well as the "contibutions" made by the U.S. Dept. of mis-Education.

I don't want to discourage your efforts but a logical presentation of facts is not the stuff that is normally likely to change the mind of a Marxist. To them, logic is the real enemy and truth no more than an everyday nuisance. At the risk of making a collectivist observation, I think most Marxists make excellent mainstream historians; they normally have a profound contempt for fact.
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