Originally published on: http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/marc_tucker/
In 1995 I attended the National Governors Association Meeting for Governors’ Education Advisors in Chicago. The top education “reformers” of the day were there to bring all the states together to support their plans. One of the presenters was Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, funded by the Carnegie Foundation. Marc Tucker worked hand-in-hand with Hillary Clinton in the 80s when she was First Lady of Arkansas and then when Bill Clinton was elected President in 1992. Their group also included Michael (Mike) Cohen who later became head of ACHIEVE, which wrote the Common Core State Standards for the NGA.
Hillary Clinton has strategic plans for controlling education and the economy. They were outlined in some detail in a letter written to her from Marc Tucker in November 1992, following Bill Clinton’s election to the Presidency.
The following is page one of the information provided by Education Reporter and concludes with a copy of the letter:
“On Sept. 25, 1998, Rep. Bob Schaffer placed in the Congressional Record an 18-page letter that has become famous as Marc Tucker’s “Dear Hillary” letter. It lays out the master plan of the Clinton Administration to take over the entire U.S. educational system so that it can serve national economic planning of the workforce. The PDF of this letter as entered in the Congressional Record (starts in the lower right-hand corner of page): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
The “Dear Hillary” letter, written on Nov. 11, 1992 by Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), lays out a plan “to remold the entire American system” into “a seamless web that literally extends from cradle to grave and is the same system for everyone,” coordinated by “a system of labor market boards at the local, state and federal levels” where curriculum and “job matching” will be handled by counselors “accessing the integrated computer-based program.” Tucker’s plan would change the mission of the schools from teaching children academic basics and knowledge to training them to serve the global economy in jobs selected by workforce boards. Nothing in this comprehensive plan has anything to do with teaching schoolchildren how to read, write, or calculate. Tucker’s ambitious plan was implemented in three laws passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in 1994: the Goals 2000 Act, the School-to-Work Act, and the reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act. These laws establish the following mechanisms to restructure the public schools:
- Bypass all elected officials on school boards and in state legislatures by making federal funds flow to the Governor and his appointees on workforce development boards.
- Use a computer database, a.k.a. “a labor market information system,” into which school personnel would scan all information about every schoolchild and his family, identified by the child’s social security number: academic, medical, mental, psychological, behavioral, and interrogations by counselors. The computerized data would be available to the school, the government, and future employers.
- Use “national standards” and “national testing” to cement national control of tests, assessments, school honors and rewards, financial aid, and the Certificate of Initial Mastery (CIM), which is designed to replace the high school diploma.
Designed on the German system, the Tucker plan is to train children in specific jobs to serve the workforce and the global economy instead of to educate them so they can make their own life choices.
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