ROPE Finds the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies to Be Essentially National

Social Studies Standards

One of the biggest "truth embellishment" Oklahomans have been told of late is the fact that Oklahoma has “Oklahoma

Academic Standards” instead of Common Core. To kill both the lie that these (the Common Core) are “state led”

standards and that our Social Studies standards are NOT National standards (as in Common Core), I put together a brief

slide presentation to cover BOTH issues. This is the printed version of that slide presentation.

Below are the slides with captions. Nearly every one of them is a screenshot from either the Common Core or OSDE

websites.

Our RoadMap To the Common Core

showing the "four pillars" of education

'reform'. 1. Common Core State

Standards (in blue), 2. a State

Longitudinal Database System, 3. Using

the Turnaround model on failing schools

(created by Bill Gates and used in

Chicago while Arne Duncan was

superintendent there! - also in blue)

and, 4. Teacher accountability

measures (yellow). All four have been

dictated by the USDE to state who took

the SFSF funds (all 50), Race to the Top

grants and/or a No Child Left Behind

Waiver. Gosh, the feds didn't want

states to use them, did they?

The Common Core website shows

that the CCSS are licensed and

copyrighted by the NGA and

CCSSO. They also provide a liability

waiver in case you hate them so

both the NGA and CCSSO can say,

"Too bad, so sad, we're not to blame

for them." If, however, you want to

sue for damages done by using the

standards, you'll have to do it in

DC! very local - VERY Oklahoma!

So, business leaders met with state

governors to create the standards because

businesses were complaining they couldn't

find any good workers. What happened to

OJT? Why pay for OJT yourself, if you can

get governors to pay for it FOR you

through a series of public/private

partnerships, tax breaks and a complete

overhaul of the nation's education system

from a learning model to a workforce

training model?

But aren't we led to believe

that the CCSSI movement was

an 'organic', 'grassroots'

education movement that

filtered UP from the states in

2010? This is not the case,

obviously. The CCSSI were

being discussed by governors

and business leaders for

years!

Here is David Coleman - the

'architect' of the CCSSI. Yes,

he worked 5 years in health

care, in financial institutions

and did PRO BONO (?) work in

education? HE'S writing

educational standards?

Interesting.

Dr. Barresi hired John Kramen

out of Achieve. His CV is

available for download in the

State's NCLB waiver

application which can be

found here;

http://www2.ed.gov/policy/e

seaflex/ok.pdf.

Just a couple screen shots of Ed.gov

showing the four pillars of

education reform for the Race to

the Top grant. Consequently, many

states adopted the Common Core

simply to be competitive for the

money. Oklahoma put CCSSI in

state law in 2010 via SB2033, but

Brad Henry put English/LA, Math,

Social Studies and Science 'common

core' standards into state law via

executive order to increase the

states chances of winning a RTT

grant.

Mary Fallin - against the wishes of the

Republican Party via a Resolution Against

the Common Core State Standards - is

advocating for the Common Core as NGA

Chair. The RNC resolution was written by

Oklahoma's own State Committeewoman

Carolyn McClarty and signed by the State

Committeeman and Committeewoman of

each state.

So, we've gone from Reading,

Writing and Arithmetic to

Accountability, Achievement and

Alignment?

Here, we're told that the OSDE is

using Common Core. CCSSI is

being portrayed as an umbrella

covering every aspect of

Oklahoma Standards.

Letter from Brad Henry indicating

that ALL Common Core State

Standards were adopted by

Oklahoma in order to get a Race to

the Top Grant. The left screen shot

is of the OSDE website where the

school code is found. This is a

screenshot of that page. The right

is the letter that can be found in

Oklahoma's RTT grant on the

Ed.gov website.

Screen shot showing that when you

click on the URL for the English/LA

standards, they go directly to the

CCSSI document.

Here are some combined

screenshots showing where every

link to the English/LA standards go

on the OSDE OAS page.

Here are the links to the OAS math

standards page. Note that the link

to the Math standards themselves

go directly to the CCSSI document.

Here is the screenshot for the OAS Social

Studies. The underlined language and

the box in the lower left shows that the

Oklahoma Academic Standards for

Social Studies include the Common Core

State Standards.

This is a comparison of the National

Council for Social Studies webpage

about the national Social Studies

standards and the FAQ page of the CCSSI

webpage showing that the CCSSO

worked on both standards and they are

"state led".

The left is a screen shot from the Oklahoma

Academic (C3) Standards Implementation

Guide that shows that the OSDE is teaching

our Oklahoma children that we live in an

"American Constitutional Democracy". I have

asked Constitutional scholars about this term

- they do not know what it means. We live in

a Republic - as I have written before. The

right side are screen shots from the National

Social Studies standards. Please note that

they ALSO refer to America as a

Constitutional Democracy.

The left side of this slide contains screen

shots from the National History

Standards. The right side contains screen

shots from the Oklahoma Academic

Standards for History. Please NOTE: C3 is

the same (one c is Citizen, the other is Civic

Life), they BOTH have the four main areas as

shown. The national standards have

something called an Inquiry Arc and the OAS

have something called a 'coherency storyline'

- these are essentially the same thing.

Written and prepared by Jenni White, President of Restore Oklahoma Public Education. www.RestoreOkPublicEducation.com jenni@RestoreOkPublicEducation.com