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...Tuesday evening in Greenville, South Carolina, hundreds of parents hurried through dinner and headed for the local school-board meeting. Those who could not find seats flowed into the hallways, where TV monitors captured a heated debate over a proposed program called "Framework for Learning." Supporters argued that this curriculum would strengthen reasoning skills; opponents countered that it was a veiled effort to sabotage home-taught moral and religious values. For many of those in the room and in the hall, the controversy evoked a here-we-go-again feeling that has pervaded every board meeting in town since January...
...even required to win converts and influence agendas. Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum conducts seminars in Georgia to challenge that state's new OBE programs, and not incidentally to publicize the Forum's wider agenda. Opponents of OBE have managed to galvanize concern to the point that parents in suburban Atlanta stick leaflets on car windshields denouncing the "dumbing down" of classes and the substitution of "psychotherapy" for the three Rs. Debi Schwier, an anti-OBE organizer in Gwinnett County, denounces such reforms as "one of the most blatant shifts in the history of the U.S. from what they call...
...been endorsed by CCA and the Lavender Alliance. Lukas is active on a number of civic boards, including Cambridge Citizens for Livable Neighborhoods, and the Cambridge Civic Association. He has also been a Board Member at the Harvard Principals Center, and is in his child's school Parent Teacher's Association...
...main issues are drop out prevention,policy reform, education equity, parent issues,follow-ups on student data reports, and pushingforward our curriculum efforts," she says...
...parent and your kid has "blunt" onhis shirt you may not realize it, but if you'reeducated on the matter, you may know your kid isheaded for trouble," Plante said...