Dr. Duke Pesta

Dr. Duke Pesta is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and the Academic Director of FreedomProject Education, an online school dedicated to providing students with a classical education delivered through state-of-the-art technology. He received his M.A. in Renaissance literature from John Carroll University and his Ph.D. in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature from Purdue University. He has taught at major research institutions and small liberal arts colleges on a wide variety of subjects at the graduate and undergraduate levels, including classes on Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, the Bible, Russian literature, and C.S. Lewis. He has been active in educational reform, and was instrumental in developing and implementing an elective Bible course which is currently available for public high-school students in Texas.

• FreedomProject (http://www.freedomproject.com/)
• FreedomProject Education (https://www.fpeusa.org/)
• Staff Page at (https://www.fpeusa.org/index.php/about-fpe/fpe-staff)
• Email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Items mentioned in (or otherwise relevant to) the interview

• "Brillian Anti-Common Core Speech by Dr. Duke Pesta", VisionLiberty YouTube Channel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si-kx5-MKSE)
• "Teachers’ unions threaten Common Core implementation", The Washington Post (11 May 2014)
• Stephanie Simon, "Nation's biggest teachers union slams 'botched' Common Core implementation", Politico (19/20 February 2014)
• Dr. Sandra Stotsky testifying against Common Core in Wisconsin (http://vimeo.com/77216361)
• Dr. James Milgram testifying against Common Core in Eau Claire, Wisconsin (http://vimeo.com/78006951)
• Jason Zimba and Sandra Stotsky in discussion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJZY4mh2rt8)
• Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, Vintage; Reprint edition (May 8, 2007)
• Amanda August on "3 x 4 = 11" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW0VxxoCrNo)
• Alec Torres, "The Ten Dumbest Common Core Problems", National Review (20 March 2014)
• Our interview with Beverly Eakman: "Educating for a New World Order ...and how to PUSH BACK!" (March 2014)
• Susie Schnell, "Gates Funds Functional MRI’s for School Children to Measure Brain Activity", Utahns Against Common Core (13 June 2012)
• PBIS (http://www.pbisworld.com/)
• NSA Utah Data Center (http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/)
• James Bamford on Utah Data Center: "Exposed: Inside the NSA’s Largest and Most Expansive Secret Domestic Spy Center in Bluffdale, Utah" Democracy Now ! (21 March 2012)
• James Corbett, "Why Common Core Must Be Opposed" Boiling Frogs Post / The Corbett Report (27 May 2014)
• Woodrow Wilson, "The Meaning of a Liberal Education : An Address to the New York City High School Teachers Association", (9 January 1909)
• US National Sexuality Education Standards : Core Content and Skills, K-12 [external PDF], Future of Sex Education Initiative (2011)
• World Health Organisation, Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe (http://www.oif.ac.at/fileadmin/OEIF/andere_Publikationen/WHO_BZgA_Standards.pdf) [external PDF]
• Our interview with Dr. Paul Cullen: "The Anti-Human Agenda and the Abuse of Science" (March 2014)

Acknowledgements

The podcast theme music, "O.B.E.", is Copyright © Dissident Prophet, all rights reserved, and used here with kind permission. Many thanks to Dissident Prophet for expediting the prodcution of this song for this very interview.

Slide show image sources: "Education" and "maths" by Sean MacEntee on Flickr (CC BY 2.0); composite; distorted