ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM SEMINARS AND PRESENTATIONS

Advocates for Academic Freedom will visit your group to present information on any educational issue you wish. We are most eager to discuss the inextricable relationship between America’s educational system and its political and social policies.

You may select a Seminar running thirty minutes to two hours or a presentation of ten to twenty minutes. All of the following topics can be addressed under any of the above formats and timelines. Feel free to request a topic of your choice.

PARTIAL LIST OF TOPICS FOR SEMINARS AND PRESENTATIONS:

1.      Teaching to The Test and Biometric Data Collection

2.      America’s Current Civil War and the New Social Studies Standards

3.      Common Core turns Citizens from Patriots to Activists

4.      Stop Common Core and the Federalization of Education

5.   Common Core Standards Myths and Solutions

6.    Escape the Grip of the Feds by Exercising Local Control of Schools

7.   The Government Knows Data Mining Undermines Learning

8.   Teachers, Recreate Students into Federally Approved Image

9.      Replacing George Washington with “Fighting Bob LaFollette”

10.   Capitalism and Math Curriculum in the Progressive Classroom

11.   “Socialism Means to Like People and To Care About Them”

12.   The Intended and the Current Role of Religion in Education

13.   The Charter School and Your Tax Dollars

14.   LaRaza, Islam, Hezbollah, and America’s Republic in the Classroom.

15.   Teaching Methods that Discourage Academic Excellence

16.   The Attack on Individualism and Academic Excellence through Social Justice Curricula

17.   America, the Republic?

18.   Educational Experts from Horace Mann to Bill Ayers.

19.   Changes in Teacher Preparation from 1960s to Today

20.   Who is Really Sabotaging Accountability in Education?

21.   The Northwest Ordinance and Federal Educational Standards

22.   Social Policies that Impact Academic Excellence

23.   True Sexual Freedom vs Current Sex-Education Curriculums

Most Seminars are free but in some cases, reimbursement for travel and materials will be required. You may book a seminar or presentation by contacting Karen Schroeder at 715-234-5072 or e-mail her at [email protected].

Action Items

Visit the Web: advocatesforacademicfreedom.org

• Sample letters
• Step-by-step procedure
• Education resolutions

Join a political group

Organize neighborhood groups

Speaker

Karen Schroeder

·        CEO of Advocates for Conservatism in Education

·        Thirty-six  years of  teaching experience in the elementary and middle school

·        Negotiated teacher contracts in the 1980s

·        M.S. Degree, the College of St. Thomas

·        B.A. Degree, Augsburg College

Who Should Attend:  parents, teachers, administrators, school board members, legislators, education policy experts, and every taxpayer