ABEL GRIMMER - FESTIVITIES IN A GARDEN - PAGE 3 Fascists Dumbing Down our Children Kicked out - Included are some samples of what out educators have done to our basic reading, writing and arithmetic from the 1920s to 1995 and the net result is extremely dismal. - Gathered from research by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt. - The list is just appalling and should wake you and make you question how much money these fascists have spent over the years not educating our children but performing nonsense while entertaining themselves? - Also so many leeches are involved like the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, United Nations, and many others who receive huge federal grants and contracts paid for by the U.S. taxpayer. - You should also question why the Council of Foreign Relations is involved, they want to train the American student to work in a robotic international workforce. Outcomes - Iserbyt goes in detail through the entire progression of this dumbing down through the centuries. - Starting in 1762 with Jean-Jacques Rosseau and his book Social Contract where he promotes child-centered 'permissive education' where the teacher avoids strict discipline and tiresome lessons. - In 1832, Wilhelm Wundt, who was the founder of experimental psychology promoted Karl Marx who injected Hegel's theories with economics and sociology developing a 'philsosophical dialectical materialism.' - The first experiment with 'outcome-based education' which was inacted by British legislation in 1862 and was known as 'the Revised Code' which was payments for results, meaning, teaching to the test instead of teaching solid education. Stimuli - By 1874, Edward Lee Thorndike was trained in the new psychology of Wundt and he equated children with the rats, monkeys, fish, cats, and chickens upon which he experimented in his laboratory and was prepared to apply what he found there to learning in the classroom, the art of giving and withholding stimuli to get a response. - John Dewey and his book Psychology was the father of 'progressive education' in 1896 and he viewed the schools as a place to use his theories using new psychology. - By the beginning of the 20th-century the tide was completely turning and by 1902 the General Education Board (GEB) was approved by Congress and endowed by John D. Rockefeller, Sr. for the purpose of establishing an educational laboratory. Federal boards - In 1905, the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) was founded in New York City by Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Clarence Darrow and others and its permanent headquarters was established at the Rand School of Social Studies in 1908. - The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching was founded in 1905 and in 1906 the National Education Association (NEA), a federally chartered organization was founded, - By 1908, Italian education Maria Montessori developed a method of teaching, relying on guidance and training of senses rather than more rigid control of children’s activities which would be very influential throughout the rest of the century. - John Dewey became president of the League for Industrial Democracy in 1939. Dumbing down - In 1913, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was director of the Charity for the Rockefeller Foundation, Frederick T. Gates, set up the Southern Education Board (SEB), which was later incorporated into the General Education Board (GEB), setting in motion 'the deliberate dumbing down of America.' - By 1917, the Congressional record of the U.S. of Senate approved the General Education Board. - William Boyce Thompson, Federal Reserve Bank director and founding member of the Council of Foreign Relations praised Russia in 1918 for their 'sweeping world changes,' - That same year, the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations planned the demise of traditional academic education. We view with alarm the activity of the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations—agencies not in any way responsible to the people—in their efforts to control the policies of our State educational institutions, to fashion after their conception and to standardize our courses of study, and to surround the institutions with conditions which menace true academic freedom and defeat the primary purpose of democracy as heretofore preserved inviolate in our common schools, normal schools, and universities. (Normal School Section of the NEA, 1914) Projections - The Progressive Education Association (PEA) was organized in 1919 by John Dewey with projections about education for the last half of the 19th-century. - In 1921 the League for Industial Democracy changed its name from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) and stated its purpose as: 'Education for a new social order based on production and not for profit.' - The Council of Foreign Relations was also established in 1921 under Woodrow Wilson promoting Karl Mark's socialism and promoted a world government in 1922. - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., penned a tome entitled A Thousand Days in 1965 in which he wrote that the New York financial and legal community was the heart of the American establishment, 'Its front organizations [were] the Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie foundations and the Council on Foreign Relations.' Rockefeller Foundation - The International Bureau of Education, formerly known as the Institute of Jean-Jacques Rosseau was established in 1925 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and became part of the United Nations Educational, Scientifc and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). - Scopes 'monkey trial' in 1925 was an important educational milestone regarding the teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools. - The Christian Science Monitor got involved with the socialist talk in 1927 promoting the new world order. - By 1928, a delierate math 'dumb down was seriously discussed by O.A. Nelson, John Dewey and Edward Thorndike and Nelson was informed that the reason of for 'new math' was to dumb down students which he didn't agree with. Communist Party - 'The builder of this new world must be education, plainly, the first step in the case of each country is to train an elite to think, feel, and act internationally,' the words of Paul Mantoux of Paris, France, are taken from the foreword to International Understanding by John Eugene Harley, published by the Stanford University Press in 1931. - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in 1932 satirized the mechanical world of the future in which technology replaced much of the everyday activities of humans. - Professor George Counts of Columbia University and many other American educators in 1932 traveled back and forth to Russia and were completely convinced that the Soviet Communist system was the ultimate system. - That same year, William Z. Foster published Toward a Soviet America and he was chairman of the Communist Party in the U.S. Changing the goals - President Herbert Hoover appointed a research committee on recent social trends in 1932 to implement the planned society and was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. - In 1932, the National Education Association (NEA) created the Educational Policies Commission (EPC) for the purpose of changing the goals for American education. - In 1944, the EPC prepared a volume of extreme importance entitled Education for All American Youth which talked about federal programs like Head Start and getting pre-school children into the system, and youth systems through a 'poverty program.' - An 8-year study was initiated by the Commission on Relation of School and College in 1932 talking about the progress they had made. Socialized - Beginning in 1933 and continuing through 1941, the 8-Year Study laid the groundwork for many of the education ;reforms; and innovations we are encountering today. - Most of the funding for the 8-year study came from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the General Education Board. Commission and working committee members. - In 1933, the main publication of the American Humanist Association by co-author John Dewey, the noted philosopher and educator, called for a synthesizing of all religions and a 'socialized and cooperative economic order.' - Dr. George Hartmann, professional of education psychology at Pennsylvania State College wrote A New Definition of the Education Man in 1933 for an issue of Progressive Education. Outcome Based Education OBE - By 1934 Conclusions and Recommendations for the Social Studies compiled by the American Historical Association was published and was funded by the Carnegie Association for $340,000 was a report on an educational program for Socialist America. - Adolph Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in 1939 and talked about academic school training and dedicated a chapter on education showing Hitler’s views on education and workforce training and Iserbyt noted how similar they were to those of American government officials implementing Outcome Based Education OBE and school-to-work programs in the 1990s. - B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher, who was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1948 until his retirement in 1974. Skinner developed behavior analysis, especially the philosophy of radical behaviorism, and founded the experimental analysis of behavior, a school of experimental research psychology. He also used operant conditioning to strengthen behavior, considering the rate of response to be the most effective measure of response strength. (Wikipedia) Fomenting in the 40s - U.S. membership in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1946 set in motion the destabilization of our society through the rejection of absolute morals and values. - Legislation authorizing U.S. membership in UNESCO marked the end of U.S. autonomy in a very crucial area: that of education amd from this time on UNESCO would dictate education policy to our government and others. - This legislation was accompanied by President Harry Truman’s remarkable statement: 'Education must establish the moral unity of mankind,.' Truman’s recommendation was bolstered by General Brock Chisholm, a Canadian psychiatrist and friend of Soviet agent Alger Hiss. - The main goal was to instill the concept of  'no right or wrong.' Behavioral science - Kinsey and Bloom, as scientists, were involved in the breaking down of man (taxonomizing) into units of behavior which Skinner, as a behaviorist, could identify, measure and change. - This breaking down or 'deconstructing of Man' was intended to separate man from his God-given, freedom-providing identity. - This opened the door to the study of methods to control man and society: enter B.F. Skinner, representing the Behaviorist School of the non-science 'science' of psychology. - Bloom changed the focus of education from a general, liberal arts education which benefited man as a whole to a narrow training which would be based on the behavioral psychologists’ determination of what changes in 'thoughts, feelings, and actions' would be desirable and, perhaps, necessary for the benefit of society as a whole. Hidden motives - The 1940s and 1950s set all the essential ingredients in place for implementation in the 1960s of a system of education geared to behavior and values change. - In 1941, Dr. B.R. Burchett wrote Education for Destruction which was a fearless and devastating exposé of Communism in America’s schools, its concealed objectives, hidden motives, serpent-like power, and its vicious demoralization of children and adolescents. - Dr. Edwin Broome, under whom Dr. Burchett worked in Montgomery County, Maryland, was deeply involved in curriculum changes favorable to indoctrination of the students in communism. - John Dewey not only came into the classrooms of Montgomery County, but also into all the classrooms of the U.S., since the Montgomery County Plan was a pilot for the nation. Religion - In 1942 ,Time Magazine ran an extensive article in its Religion section dealing with a proposal by Protestant groups in the U.S. for a plan of action toward 'a just and durable peace' for the years following the end of World War II where ultimately, 'a world government of delegated powers' was top of their list. - The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) published the book America, Russia and the Communist Party in the Postwar World by John L. Childs and George S. Counts in 1943 promoting how America and Russia must get along and the implentation of the United Nations. - United Nations Charter became effective in 1945 playing an important role in the creation of the United Nations was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Chamber of Commerce - Some of the ideas out of the Chamber of Commerce were; 1) creation of the United Nations, 2) Regional government or 'New Federalism,' 3) Creation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 4) Medicare 5) Postal reorganization, 6) Organized Crime Control Act, 7) Contracts for school services with private industry, 8) Voucher system for education, 9) Management and human relations techniques for handling personnel in industry, 10) Health care planning councils, 11) Prepaid medical practice (HMOs), 12) Federal land use planning, 13) Federally-imposed career education, 14) Equal Rights Amendment, 15) Cross-town busing for desegregation. Groupthink - In 1946 Major General G.B. [Brock] Chisholm wrote The Psychiatry of Enduring Peace and Social Progress which involved the World Health Organization (WHO) and had a foreward by Abe Fortas, former U.S. secretary of state. - The book emphasized the re-interpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith in the certainties of the old people, these are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. - That same year C.S. Lewis wrote That Hideous Strength with his uncanny ability to predict accurately how society would be manipulated into acceptance of totalitarian control. Community centered - Community-Centered Schools: The Blueprint for Montgomery County Schools Maryland, was proposed by Dr. Nicholaus L. Englehardt and Associates, Consultants, and written by Dr. Walter D. Cocking of New York City in 1946. - That same year, Learning and Peace: UNESCO Starts Its Work by Richard A. Johnson was funded with an initial endowment of $750,000 from the Carnegie Corporation. - National Training Laboratory (NTL) was established in 1947 and began with a session on human relations and group processes and the founders had important connections with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). World War II forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). - The NTL would become with the National Education Association (NEA), a premier agency for human relations training (change agent/brainwashing). Wrong path - In 1946 Higher Education For American Democracy, version 3, Organizing Higher Education was a report of the President’s Commission on Higher Education and pushed the theory that the role which education will play officially must be conditioned essentially by policies established by the State Department in this country and by ministries of foreign affairs in other countries. - Additionally, that higher education must play a very important part in carrying out in this country the program developed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and in influencing that program by studies and reports bearing upon international relations. Pedophilia is harmless!! - Alfred C. Kinsey and Wardell Pomeroy wrote Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948 and the controversial 'research' it represented became a lightning rod around which much social turmoil was generated in this country and abroad. - The book called for legal implementation of Kinsey’s 'grand scheme' to loosen, alter and/or overturn America’s laws concerning sexual behavior and was the first in a series of books. - The following extraordinary statement revealed the depth of some very perverse thinking in the area of human sexuality, thinking which would become institutionalized to the extent that in 1999 the American Psychological Association (APA) felt comfortable publishing in its Journal a study suggesting that pedophilia is harmless and even beneficial if consensual. Many... sex activities, illegal and immoral, but widely practiced, are recorded by both investigators... Guyon speaking as a philosopher, and Kinsey, judging merely by empirical data... [are] upsetting our most cherished conventions. Unless we want to close our eyes to the truth or imprison 95% of our male population, we must completely revise our legal and moral codes.... It probably comes as a jolt to many, even open-minded people, when they realize that chastity cannot be a virtue because it is not a natural state. (Dr. Harry Benjamin) Walled in - Walden Two, a novel by B.F. Skinner was published in 1948 and recommended that children be reared by the state; to be trained from birth to demonstrate only desirable characteristics and behavior and he proposed an 'ideal school.' - In 1948 Alger Hiss was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the publisher of International Conciliation and he wrote the preface to Chisholm’s lecture, which redefined the word 'health.' - Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction by Professor Ralph Tyler in 1949 where he stated that the real purpose of education is not to have the instructor perform certain activities but to bring about significant changes in the student’s pattern of behavior. Militant citizens group! - In 1950 Man Out of a Job: Pasadena Tries Too Late to Hold Onto its School Superintendent was published in Life Magazine talking about criticism of [Willard] Goslin when a militant citizens’ group accused him of permitting Communistic influences in the schools because he continued already established classes in sex education and favored the elimination of report cards. - By 1951 The Greatest Subversive Plot in History: Report to the American People was logged in the Congressional Report protesting the use of spies and traitors to exist in the land we love in reference to UNESCO. - John T. Flynn wrote While You Slept: Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It in 1951 talked about the Cold War treatise on the connections between the American left-wing elite and Communist organizers. Subversive influence - Bertrand Russell wrote Impact of Science Upon Society in 1951 which was about the extensive use of behavior modification techniques on students, causing them to question and reject traditional values, and preparing them to willingly submit to totalitarian controls. - In 1952 there was a Congressional hearing about the Subversive Influence in the Educational Process: Hearings. - Alice Miel wrote a book called Cooperative Procedures in Learning in 1952 which promoted the idea that collectivist philosophy that the group is more important than the individual. - That same year 'Modern Math' was introduced to dumb down math students so that couldn’t apply the math concepts to 'real life situations when they get out of schools,' according to a Dr. Ziegler who served as chairman of the Education Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1928. Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished.... Influences of the home are obstructive; and in order to condition students, verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. (Bertrand Russell) Conditioning - In 1953 Norman Dodd, a Yale graduate and investment banker was chosen to be the research director for the Reece Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives which was formed to investigate the status of tax-exempt foundations such as the Carnegie Foundation. - Science and Human Behavior was written in 1953 by B.F. Skinner and discussed how operant conditioning shapes behavior as a sculptor shapes a lump of clay. - Alfred C. Kinsey with Wardell Pomeroy, Clyde Martin and Paul Gebhard published Sexual Behavior of the Human Female in 1953. - Dr. Lewis Albert Alesen published Mental Robot in 1953 wbich discussed how the Communists, both in Russia, China, and the Iron Curtain countries, have accomplished spectacular changes in the thinking of millions of their citizens. Mental transformation - Alice A. Bailey, an American Theosophist wrote Education in the New Age in 1954 which was funded by the Tibetan Book Fund controlled by Lucas Trust and discussed mental transformation and the steps already taken. - President Dwight Eisenhower called for the first White House Conference on Education in 1955 which was one of the first national conferences to use the manipulative and non-representative group dynamics/Delphi Technique to orchestrate the participants into reaching consensus on pre-determined goals. - In 1956 Taxonomy of Education Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals was written by David Krathwohl and provided the necessary tool for the schools of education to restructure education from academics to values (behavior) change. - In 1957 a California State Senate Investigative Committee exposed the work of Hilda Taba, Jacob Moreno and others but in spite of this exposure, these people continued to receive tax dollars and access to schools nationwide, Hilda Taba’s program has remained in use by key change agents from 1960 to 1999. The Sick Sixties - In 1958, Eisenhower at the peak of the Cold War signed the first U.S.-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) agreements and these agreements included education. - National Defense Education Act was passed in 1958 by Congress which set the stage for incredible federal control of education through heavy financing for behavior modification, science, mathematics, guidance counseling, and testing, etc., involved 'modern techniques developed from scientific principles,' the full weight of which would be felt at the end of the century. - In the early 1960s, Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, while ostensibly concerning themselves with racial injustice, economic inequities, and equal educational opportunities, were, in fact, responsible for installing the lifelong control system; the Planning, Programming, Budgeting Management System (PPBS) into all departments of government. Many agencies and policy devices - Two of the major federal initiatives developed with funding from The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 which have contributed to the 'deliberate dumbing down' of not only students but teachers as well. - Behavior change on such a massive scale necessitated the creation of many agencies and policy devices which would oversee the implementation of the necessary innovations. - Three agencies were: (1) the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which tested students at various grade levels; (2) the Education Commission of the States (ECS), which enabled the states to become unified regarding education and its outreach and (3) the National Diffusion Network (NDN) which served as the transmission belt and advertising agency for federally funded programs, the majority of which were intended to destroy traditional right/wrong absolutist values through psychotherapeutic and behavioral techniques. Soviet Education Program: - In 1960 Soviet Education Program: Foundations, Curriculums, Teacher Preparation by William K. Medlin discussed the pulse of the Soviet Government’s drive to educate and train a new generation of technically skilled and scientifically literate citizens. - That same year Eisenhower received a final report from the Commission on National Goals entitled Goals for Americans and recommended carrying out an international, socialist agenda for the U.S.. - Teaching Machines and Programmed Learning by the National Education Association in 1960 discussed recent improvements in the conditions which control behavior in the field of learning. - In 1961, Programmed Learning: Evolving Principles and Industrial Applications by the Foundation for Research on Human Behavior. Pathway to internationalization - In July 1961, Congressman John M. Ashbrook delivered a speech before Congress entitled The Myth of Federal Aid to Education without Control which documented and exposed the plans for the internationalization and transformation of American education. - In 1961, Congress passed the Arms Control and Disarmament Act which established a U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and involved the UN, NATO and UNESCO. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. wrote Harrison Bergeron in 1961 which provided uncanny insight into the nature of America’s dumbed-down society in the year 2081 and how the elitist 'planners, managers' deal with Americans whose intellects and independence create problems for the smooth functioning of a society controlled for the benefit of all is the focus of the story. Atlantic Partnership - In 1962 The Dan Smoot Report discussed how President Kennedy discussed how the U.S. will be prepared to discuss with a United Europe the ways and means of forming a concrete Atlantic Partnership. - The Role of the Computer in Future Instructional Systems was published in 1963 of the Technological Development Project of the National Education Association and the U.S. Department of Education n the process of building a computer-based device for changing attitudes as a device that would work on the principle that students’ attitudes can be changed effectively by using the Socratic method of asking an appropriate series of leading questions designed to right the balance between appropriate attitudes, and those deemed less acceptable. State assessments - University of Pittsburgh's Learning Research and Development Center introduced in 1963 the Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) model which would allow for the implementation of continuous progress programs necessary for value change and school-to-work training. - In 1963 a national project was initiated which was the forerunner of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and became the model for individual state assessments which have created enormous controversy due to their focus on attitudinal and value change. - James Clavell wrote The Children's Story in 1963 where he explains most eloquently how little children can have their minds manipulated into believing anything the teacher wants them to believe, even to the point of believing their parents are old-fashioned and should go back to school to unlearn bad thoughts, and that God does not exist. End of local control - An article entitled Ethical Education was published in the journal Free Mind in 1964 and discussed how 4 women attended a workshop on humanist family services and began to lay the groundwork for the AHA’s widespread involvement in ethical education for children. - The Behavioral Science Teacher Education Program (BSTE) funded by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was initiated in 1965 at Michigan State University and carried out between the years 1965 and 1969 with the purpose of changing the teacher from a transmitter of knowledge/content to a social change agent/facilitator/clinician. - Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 was passed by Congress and marked the end of local control and the beginning of nationalization/internationalization of education in the U.S. Chaos - The Education Commission of the States (ECS) in 1965 in order to bring some degree of order out of this chaos, wrote Harvard University President James B. Conant in 1964 in reference to education policy making in the U.S. - Roberto Assagioli defined 'psychosynthesis' as the 'formation or reconstruction of a new personality, the transpersonal or ‘spiritual Self' in Psychosynthesis: A Manual of Principles and Techniques in 1965 as psychology began to assert itself as an acceptable science. - Psychology by Wilbert James McKeachie and Charlotte Lackner Doyle described observable psychology in 1966. - The Computer in American Education was published in 1967 and discussed the technology for controlling others, edited by Don D. Bushnell and Dwight W. Allen. Instrument - In 1967, The Computer in American Education edited by Don D. Bushnell and discussed how the technology for controlling others exists and it will be used, given the persistence of power-seeking motives. - Project Follow Through was initiated in 1967 by Lyndon Johnson as part of the War on Poverty and administered by the Department of Education as another example of an attempt to use federal funds to learn how to produce services effectively, in this case, services for young children. - Planning, Programming, Budgeting System (PPBS) was applied to education in 1967 during Ronald Reagan's tenure as governor in California and was installed in the California school system. Project to spend your money - B.F. Skinner: The Man and His Ideas by Richard I. Evans was published in 1968 was a critique of the totalitarian views of Professor Skinner was funded by the National Science Foundation. - 1968 issue of The Educational Journal had an article by Dr. Paul Brandwein, adjunct professor at University of Pittsburgh, entitled School System of the Future which outlined the changes on the horizon relative to the relationship between children, parents and schools. - Learning and Instruction, a Chicago Inner City Schools Position paper presented in 1968 to the Chicago Board of Education was produced by the planning staff in Chicago made up of: Dr. Donald Leu, William Farquhar, Lee Shulman, and the Chicago and Michigan State universities which viewed the child with his defined characteristics as input to a school organization which modifies his capabilities toward certain goals and objectives as output. One World Government - A 1968 speech entitled The United Nations and Alternative Formulations, the hard road to world order by Richard Gardner explaining how the elitist planners would, through the use of gradualism, succeed in their century-long plan to create a One World Government. - Ethna Reid of the Granite School District in Salt Lake City, Utah, received $848,536 in federal grants under Title III wrote a 120-page teacher pre-service training manual from ECRI which was devoted to the training of teachers in stimulus-response-stimulus/operant conditioning techniques (Skinner), and materials on the 'adaptation of birds, monitoring forms before and after instruction.' - John Goodlad's article Learning and Teaching in the Future was published by the National Education Association’s journal Today’s Education in 1968 and discussed the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. Technology of teaching - Technology of Teaching by B.F. Skinner published in 1968 discusses how a technology of teaching will need to be much more powerful if the race with catastrophe is to be won, and it may then, like any powerful technology, need to be contained. - Edith Kermit Roosevelt wrote The Foundation Machine in 1968 which discussed the Carnegie Corporation which was facing protests from parents whose children are exposed to the textbooks financed by the foundation under its Project Read. - Agenda for a Nation edited by Kermit Gordon of Brooklings Institute in 1968 described what is required is a major effort to furnish high school students with significant adult activities; job programs, community service corps experience, work in health centers, apprentice experience in research and development, and in staff studies conducted by public agencies because it will be necessary to redesign the high school in order to open it to the community and to utilize many kinds of persons in education. Planning - Narrative Report of Project Funded Under Title III Elementary and Secondary Act in 1968-69 - Operation PEP a Statewide Project to Prepare Educational Planners for California (U.S. Office of Education Grant A $299,457 to San Mateo County Superintendent of Schools, Redwood City, California), the objectives have been specified with respect for the educational needs of society and the role requirements of professional educators to plan, develop, validate, and implement an instructional program for educational planners and managers featuring a system approach to educational management, California’s teachers’ union was adamantly opposed to its enabling legislation. - Pacesetters in Innovation: Cumulative Issue of All Projects in Operation in 1969 catalog of education programs gives abstracts of innovative programs dealing with humanistic education. Community   - The Rise of Schools in the Community edited by Dr. Howard W. Hickey, Dr. Curtis Van Voorhees, and associates, was written in 1969 to serve as a much-needed textbook for teachers and students in Community Education; and to serve as a handbook for school officials and community education leaders. - Master Plan for Education in Hawaii - Toward a New Era for Education in Hawaii published in 1969 by the State of Hawaii Department of Education describes how the teacher will operate as a manager and will have a ready record of each student’s performance. - Changing Conditions in American Schools by Don Davies in 1969 as part of the Elementary Teacher Training Models, a section of the Behavioral Science Teacher Education Program (U.S. Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare developed at Michigan State University global education/values education). Teaching machines   - Professor Dean Corrigan in 1969 speech before the 22nd Annual Teacher Association Conference at the University of Georgia predicted that teaching machines will pace a student’s progress, diagnose his weaknesses and make certain that he understands a fundamental concept before allowing him to advance to the next lesson. - A report from the State Committee on Public Education to the California State Board of Education in 1969 by Professor John I. Goodlad is about mechanisms that are needed for systematically determining the appropriate responsibilities of local, state, and federal education agencies, mechanisms for systematically determining the kinds of human beings to be developed in our schools. Poised for total takeover of schools   - Improving Educational Assessment and an Inventory of Measures of Affective Behavior by Walcott H. Beatty in 1969 about the function of the school’s teaching to develop young people whose behavior outside the classroom is effective and significant, in appraising the relative effectiveness of curriculum materials or programs. - U.S. Plan to Take Over Grade Schools Intimated by John Steinbacher in 1969 article in Anaheim Bulletin was about the U.S. Office of Education, a division of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, poised for a total takeover of every elementary school in the nation. - The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mandated by U.S. Congress in 1969 monitored the knowledge, skills, and performance of) students aged 9, 13, and 17, as well as various grade levels. Results   - Education for Results over a period of 30 years in 1969 in response to A Nation at Risk, Guaranteeing Effective Performance by Our Schools was conducted by Robert E. Corrigan, Ph.D., and Betty O. Corrigan, the final publication was published in 1983 for the Reagan Administration’s use, rather than being the protection from harmful innovations that concerned parents had been promised, this report actually served as a springboard for implementing OBE. - In 1971 Phi Delta Kappan published a paper entitled Performance-Based Teacher Education [PBTE]: What Is the State of the Art? which spelled out the reason for the transition from teacher education based on knowledge of subject matter to teacher education based on the ability to 'perform' in the classroom. The Serious Seventies   - A Prohibtion Against Federal Control of Education in 1970 General Education Provisions Act provided that no provision of any applicable program shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the U.S. to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, or over the selection of library resources, textbooks, or other printed or published instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, or to require the assignment or transportation of students or teachers in order to overcome racial imbalance. - And it Came to Pass in 1970 in the Sheveport Journal asked if the schools of America to be used as a propaganda agency to mould public opinion into conformity with the policies of the administration. Study   - Report of the Study Title III by California State Department of Education in 1970 by Emery Stoof this is an example of how the Federal government began its takeover of all state and local education agencies, removing any semblance of what could be considered local control. - The International Dimension of Education: Background Paper II Prepared for the World Conference on Education (Asilomar, California, 1970), edited by Norman V. Overly developing internationally minded individuals should be directed to improved behavior. - Education from the Acquistion of Knowledge to Programmed, Conditions Responses was submitted by Assemblyman Robert H. Burke to the California Legislature in 1971 potential use as a tool of fiscal accountability in the field of education. Sex education   - Sex Education—Student Syllabus by sexologist Lester A. Kirkendall in 1971 was one of the first sex education programs to use a mastery learning approach and was published by the National Book Company. - In 1971 the Secretariat of UNESCO outlined a possible model for an education system based on the ideal of a continuous education process throughout the lifetime of the learner, a means of bringing an existing national school system into line with lifelong learning. - Psychology Applied to Teaching by Robert F. Bienter in 1971 said 'Give me a dozen healthy infants, well formed, and my own special world to bring them up in, and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select, doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestry.' Mastery learning is an educational approach ensuring students thoroughly master a subject or skill—typically requiring 90% accuracy—before advancing to more complex content, rather than moving on at a fixed pace. Developed by Benjamin Bloom in the 1960s, this method uses formative assessments and tailored interventions to support all students in reaching high achievement. (Wikipedia) Zero population growth   - The Individualized Learning Letter (TLLL) Administer's Guide to Improve Learning; Individualized Instruction Methods; Flexible Scheduling; Behavioral Objectives; Study Units; Self-Directed Learning; Accountability in 1971 stated that textbooks not only encourage learning at the wrong level (imparting facts rather than telling how to gather facts, etc.), they also violate an important new concern in American education, individualized instruction. - Revised Report of Population Subcommittee Governor's Advisory Council for the state of Michigan in 1971 an optimum goal is to be considered in preference to a maximum carrying capacity, as a starting point, zero population growth is the recommended goal for the citizens of Michigan that the human population on a finite 'space ship' cannot increase indefinitely. - Performance-Based Teacher Education 1971 in performance-based programs, the teacher is held accountable, not for passing grades, but for attaining a given level of competency in performing the essential tasks of teaching. Dismal parental values!!   - Young People Are Getting Dumber, by David Hawkins, editorial staff writer, in 1971 issue of The Dallas Morning News. - A Report to the President’s Commission on School Finance (Schooling for the Future: Toward Quality and Equality in American Precollegiate Education) 1971 by John Goodlad literature on how we socialize or develop normative behavior in our children and the populace in general is fairly dismal because the majority of our youth still hold the same values as their parents. - Classification System for the School Curriculum 1971 from the Tri-County K-12 Course Goal Project very controversial project which provided the goals framework for OBE was illegal and in clear violation of the 1970 GEPA prohibition against federal government involvement in curriculum development. John Gaston, who bosses the Fort Worth branch of the Human Engineering Laboratory, dropped a bomb on me as we discussed aptitude testing. “Do you know,” he said, “that the present generation knows less than its parents?” “You mean to say that young people aren’t smarter than we are—that all we’ve heard about this generation being the last and best isn’t so?” Gaston nodded solemnly: “Young people know fewer words than their fathers. That makes them know less.” He fixed me with a foreboding eye: “Can you imagine what a drop in knowledge of 1 per cent a year for 30 years could do to our civilization?” (David Hawkins) Global society   - Teachers Are Recycled in 1972 issue of the Newport Harbor Ensign of Corona Del Mar, California, education in California is finally going to catch up with the 'innovative' Newport-Mesa Unified School District with the passage of the Stull Bill, all school districts are mandated to evaluate their classroom teachers and certificated personnel through new guidelines. - In 1972 William K. Stevens article entitled The Social Studies: A Revolution Is on—New Approach Is Questioning, Skeptical—Students Examine Various Cultures this article explained the early history of the 26-year controversy which has raged across the U.S. between those desiring education for a global society versus those desiring education in American History and Western Civilization; i.e., the question of 'social studies' versus traditional history, and 'process' education versus fact-based education. Top Secret   - People Control Blueprint by Carol Denton in 1972 was a 'Top Secret' paper from the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, now in the hands of The National Educator, reveals a plan for total control of the people of the U.S. through behavioral modification techniques of B.F. Skinner, the controversial behaviorist author of Beyond Freedom and Dignity. - Mary Thompson speech Planning, Programming, Budgeting Systems (PPBS) in 1972 we believe the time has come to establish private schools to keep our children from falling victim to the behaviorists while there is still opportunity to do so. - Schools to Try New Program in 1972 in the Tallahasse Ledger quoted Florida state education officials as saying that a new program being field-tested in Florida will tell teachers and parents not only why Johnny can’t read, but why the school can’t teach him and how much it’s costing to try. Single world economy   - The Don Bell report in 1972 from the White House Conference on the Industrial World and A Look at Business in 1990 the answer is that increasing economic and business interdependence among nations is the keynote of the next two decades of world business, decades that will see major steps toward a single world economy. - The Field of Educational Technology: A Statement of Definition in 1972 by Donald P. Ely leading specialists in the field of educational technology warn of the potential dangers of computers and the need for ethics in programming. - Chester M. Pierce, MD, Becoming Planetary Citizens: A Quest for Meaning which appeared in a 1972 issue of Childhood Education excerpts included alarming recommendations for 'education.' Behavior modifier   - Models of Teaching by Bruce Joyce and Marsha Weil in 1972 was the product of research funded by the U.S. Office of Education’s Bureau of Research under a contract with Teachers’ College, Columbia University, in 1968 importance lay not only in the fact that the book itself would be used extensively for in-service teacher training in behavior modification, but that the book would serve as the foundation from which Joyce would develop his Models of Teacher Repertoire Training, which has been used extensively (since the 1970s to the present) in order to change the teacher from a transmitter of knowledge (content) to a facilitator of learning (behavior modifier). - National Institute of Education (NIE) created by Richard Nixon in 1972 means that education from that time on would be considered a 'science,' in other words, with education becoming a 'science,' behavioral psychology (Pavlov/Skinner) would be used in the classrooms of America in order to equalize results which would be predictable and could be scientifically measured. Dehumanizing   - In 1973 Schooling in the U.S. by John Goodlad, M. Frances Klein and Jerrold Novotney if American parents understood this dehumanizing method being implemented in the nation’s schools under whatever label, OBE, ML, DI in conjunction with computers, they would see the many dangers to their children. - The Change Agent's Guide to Innovation in Education by Ronald G. Havelock in 1973 contains authentic case studies on how to sneak in controversial curricula and teaching strategies, or get them adopted by naïve school boards, is the educator’s bible for bringing about change in our children’s values. - Foundations of Behavioral Research 2nd Ed. by Fred N. Kerlinger in 1973 the book’s major purpose: to help students understand the fundamental nature of the scientific approach to problem solution. all else is subordinate to this, thus the book, as its name indicates, strongly emphasizes the fundamentals or foundations of behavioral research. T.H. Bell communist   - The National Diffusion Network (NDN) the transmission belt for federally funded and developed innovative and/or behavior modification programs, was established in 1974, this network, which bears much of the blame for the dilution of absolute values of those children and parents exposed to NDN programs from the mid-70s to the present, was created to facilitate the adoption by local schools of innovative programs which had been approved by the Joint Dissemination Review Panel (JDRP), a federal panel of educators. - A Performance Accountability System for School Administrators was published in 1974 T.H. Bell who later served as secretary of education during President Ronald Reagan’s first term in office, 1981–1985 this one man bears much of the responsibility for the deliberate dumbing down of our schools because he set the stage for outcome-based education through his early support for systems management, Management by Objectives and Planning, Programming, Budgeting Systems. Preconceived mold   - Parents Fear 'Big Brother' Aspect of New Concept by Monica Lanza in 1974 questioning the purpose of modern educational goals by parents has brought to light the possibility that a new curriculum ultimately could force all school children to fit a preconceived mold or norm by computerized evaluation. - Individual Rights and the Federal Role in Behavorial Modification in 1974 a report from the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, technology has begun to develop new methods of behavior control capable of altering not just an individual’s actions but his very personality and manner of thinking as well. - A Curriculum for Personalized Education by Robert Scanlon in 1974 talks about the emphasis in schools in 1985 will be to free the individual from subject matter as bodies of knowledge and provide him or her with higher order skills.  Behavior modification   - Dr. Leon Lessinger in 1974 speech recorded by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development called for the implementation of Skinnerian behavior modification in Beverly Hills, California. - Man, Education and Society in 2000 by Grant Venn in 1974 the report of the Institute was sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education in cooperation with the Council of Chief State School Officers, funded by the Office of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare in addition to the three R’s, the basic skills would appear to include group participation, environmental relationships and planning for the future. - Professor Lawrence Kohlberg's Moral Development Approach Curriculum in 1974 developed in the early 1970s and was used extensively in law education courses in public and private schools. Values clarification   - Superintendent Ray I. Powell, PH.D. Minnesota Public Schools spoke out regarding values clarification and sensitivity training in 1975, saying, 'It’s all brainwashing!' - Congressman John Conlon of Arizona issued a press release regarding the controversial federally funded program for ten-year-old children called Man: A Course of Study. - A Declaration of Interdependence in 1975 written by historian and liberal think tank Aspen Institute board member Henry Steele Commager in reference to Kennedy's speech in 1962 said two centuries ago our forefathers brought forth a new nation; now we must join with others to bring forth a new world order. - T.H. Bell U.S. Commissioner of Education press release the study, headed by Dr. Norvell Northcutt, was funded at approximately $l million under Sec. 309 of the Adult Education Act, one out of five American adults lacks the skills and knowledge needed to function effectively in the basic day-to-day struggle to make a living and maintain a home and family, according to a four-year investigation of adult functional competency released today by HEW’s Office of Education. Instruct   - Project Instruct in 1975 modeled along the lines of Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI), was approved for dissemination throughout the nation by the U.S. Office of Education’s Joint Dissemination Review Panel the data would suggest that the reading of the students themselves may not have increased, but the impact of Project INSTRUCT in the Lincoln, Nebraska Public Schools seems to be very extensive and influential. - Childhood in China edited by William Kessen in 1976 reviewed by Kent Garland Burit of The Christian Science Monitor, excerpts from Burit’s review provide insight into the similarities of education in Communist China in 1973 and Skinnerian Effective School Research used in American restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s. - Cuban Children Combine Studies, Work in the Los Angeles Times in 1976 which clearly explained the communist work-study system and the impact of community service, both of which are being implemented in the U.S. in the 1990s. Governance   - School Site Management by Lawrence C. Pierce in 1976 proposals to decentralize school management arises from the desire to increase public participation in school governance policies because local control of the schools, originally instituted to make them responsive to the people, nevertheless proved to be cumbersome, and it frequently obscured the state’s responsibility for providing every child with a basic education. - Lawrence P. Grayson of the National Institute of Education wrote Education, Technology, and Individual Privacy in 1976 the right to privacy is based on a belief in the essential dignity and worth of the individual, modern technological devices, along with advances in the behavioral sciences, can threaten the privacy of students. - UNESCO in Paris, France, published The International Standard Classification of Education in 1976 revealed efforts at the highest international level to set up a classification system which will be available for use by planners assigned to the management of the global economy. Interdependent global community   - Catherine Barrett, President of the National Education Association (NEA) my 5th and 6th grade teacher! speech at the 1976 NEA Annual Conference concerning the change in the role of the teacher the school will be the community, the community, the school, students, parents, and teachers will make certain that John Dewey’s sound advice about schooling the whole child is not confused with nonsense about the school’s providing the child’s whole education. - America's Next Twenty-Five Years in 1976 of Phi Delta Kappan cross-cultural understanding and empathy have become fundamental skills, as have the skills of human relations and intercultural rapport. - Today's Education in The Journal of the National Education Association in 1976 focus on the next 100 years of education in an interdependent global community. - Foundations of Lifelong Education UNESCO 1976 Henri Janne described accurately the how, what and why of decentralization (site-based management, charter schools, choice, unelected school councils, etc.) being sold to naïve school boards and citizens as 'local control.' Economics   - Essays in Economics: Theories, Facts and Policies Volume II, 1977 by Wassily Leontief the use of the Input-Output method in educational planning was already discussed and has been practically employed in France. - Competency-Based Education: A Bandwagon in Search of a Definition by William G. Spady in 1977 the Oregon State Board of Education passed new minimum graduation requirements for students entering ninth grade in 1974 and new minimum standards for local school districts focused on the new requirements. - Conclave of the Change Agents by Barbara M. Morris in 1977 issue of The National Educator extremely important article which proves that the federal government has been deeply involved in the funding and implementation of moral/citizenship (values) education. Admission   - The School Counselor publication of the American Personnel and Guidance Association in 1977 a remarkable admission regarding the results of sex education was made which explains clearly the purpose of these controversial humanistic programs: to create the problems sex ed, values ed, drug ed, and death ed were supposed to solve. - Joanne McAuley's National Council for Educational Excellence 1977 issue of her newsletter, The School Bell, is proof that the National School Boards Association was, at one time, a strong proponent of local control, not a 'sell out the locals' organization that in the 1990s would support site- and school-based management (taxation without representation) and charter schools. - Competency Tests Set in 26 Schools: New Curriculum Shifts Teaching Methods article which appeared in The Washington Post in 1977 precise predicted treatment that leads to a predicted response. Eastern European communist   - Development of Educational Technology in Central and Eastern Europe Studies in 1977 UNESCO so that the reader will see how America 2000/Goals restructuring is identical to education in the former Eastern European communist countries. - Professor Benjamin Bloom, the 'Father' of Mastery Learning and Developer of the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in 1978 throughout the world, the instruction and curriculum in the schools is being studied to determine its long-term contribution to continuing learning throughout life and the Edgar Faure (UNESCO) report Learning to Be has had great influence on this thinking. - In 1978 issue of The National Educator Barbara Morris author of many books related to education including her most recent book, The Great American Con Game, reported on a speech given at the University of Illinois by Mary F. Berry, assistant secretary in the U.S. Office of Education (1977) about how the U.S. is rapidly going the same route as Red China where testing is being downgraded and scoffed at, and grades, where they do exist are just about meaningless. Ministers of education   - Fifth Report of the National Council of Educational Research 1978 the University of Pittsburgh has developed instructional mastery of learning programs providing individualized instruction in math, science, reading, and early learning skills. - Georgia Basic Life Process Skills prepared by Lucille G. Jordan in 1979 curricular programs which received funding under Title II were jointly funded by Exxon Corporation and the U.S. Department of Education and why Exxon, who was in the early 1980s one of the major corporations complaining about illiteracy and workers who are not educated in basic academics, have funded a program guaranteed to water down basic academics. - President Jimmy Carters's 1979 promise to the National Education Association the U.S. which, had been represented at international conferences as the unenlightened member of the crowd (no ministerial/socialist status), could join the 'big boys' of the international community: the 'big boys' being those countries who, since World War II, had been represented at these policy-planning conferences by ministers of education. Illusion of change   - A Study of Schooling in the U.S. by John Goodlad in 1979 trained investigators went into communities in most regions of the country, the sample of schools studied was enormously diverse in regard to size, family income, and racial composition of the student body and the result of the landmark report was A Place Called School: Prospects for the Future. - Senator Jacob Javits of NY requested that Mr. Arthur Lipper's address to the World Council on Gifted and Talented Children be printed in the Congressional Record 1979. - K-12 Competency Based Education comes to Pennsylvania by John H. Sandberg director of teacher education for Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, was published in 1979 issue of Phi Delta Kappan the Pennsylvania Department of Education has already demonstrated, with competency-based teacher education, its competence to effect change, or at least the illusion of change, on a large scale. Health services   - 1979 issue of Nation’s Schools Report which, under the section Schools Can Offer Health Services, stated 'Schools with concentrations of Medicaid-eligible students can qualify for federal money if they set up screening and referral programs, a joint effort by the Office of Education and the Health Care Financing Administration could make available to schools some of the $46 million that will probably be spent on screening Medicaid children.' - Big School Changes Proposed in Bangor Daily News in 1979 futuristic plans for Vermont public education. - 1979 issue of Educational Leadership the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Mastery Learning: The Current State of the Craft by James Block with the help of dedicated practitioners and administrators, innovative teacher training institutions, progressive national and international educational organizations (ASCD, NEA, NASA, UNESCO, IEA), leading educational publishers (McGraw-Hill, SRA, Westinghouse Learning Corp., Random House), and powerful news media (The New York Times, CBS), Mastery Learning has helped reshape the face of contemporary educational practice, research and theory. Fast-learning methods   - Super-Learning by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder in 1979 new stress-free, fast learning methods you can use to develop supermemory and improve business and sports performance. - Steps to Better Writing: A Systematic Approach to Expository Writing by Gene Stanford in 1979 said parents, while they may have the good of the child at heart, are nevertheless making a grave mistake by trying to compel him to act or think in certain ways, what the teen needs instead is a type of love which gives him the freedom and confidence to develop his own opinions in matters such as religion, morality, and choice of friends. - Whether Effective Schools Research applied to education has been truly 'effective' lies in the eye of the beholder and in the beholder’s definition of the purpose of education and disturbing reports continue to surface regarding steep declines in academic test scores in schools which have restructured using the various components of Effective Schools Research. Global perspective   - Schooling for a Global Age edited by James Becker in 1980 parents and the general public must be reached also [taught a global perspective], otherwise, children and youth enrolled in globally-oriented programs may find themselves in conflict with values assumed in the home. - Educational Goals: Studies and Surveys in Comparative Education 1980 prepared for for the International Bureau of Education, UNESCO, the crisis of education, about which so much has been written since the early 1960s, may be seen as the source of the need for change and innovation which has been felt and expressed since the early 1970s. - Policy About Policy: Some Thoughts and Projections by Luvern L. Cunningham in 1980 issue of The Executive Review (Institute for School Executives: The University of Iowa) local and state authorities will soon have to develop fresh policies in regard to: the first 4 years of life; life-long learning; secondary education; equity; classroom control and discipline; global education; languages; human resource development; incentives; testing; and resource acquisition and allocation. Mastery Learning   - Course Goals Collection 1980 U.S. Department of Education’s Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory in Portland, Oregon, having been initiated in 1971 as the Tri-County Course Goal Project blatantly recommends the use of Mastery Learning. - A Broad-Gauged Research/Reform Plan for Secondary Education proposed by The Project on Alternatives in Education (PAE) in 1981, was submitted for consideration and received funding from the U.S. Department of Education and the National Education Association. - In 1981 Office of Educational Research and Improvement: an overview was prepared by staff members of the U.S. Department of Education for Assistant Secretary Donald Senese’s use at Congressional budget hearings. Today   - 1981 issue of Today's Education, the National Education Association carried an article entitled Effective Schools: What the Research Says by Michael Cohen, senior associate and team leader of the Research on Instruction Team of the National Institute of Education, U.S. Department of Education. - 1981 Alaska Governors Task Force Report on Effective Schooling  in regard to mastery learning and direct instruction (highly structured learning activities). - Two important conferences for School Improvement were sponsored by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (U.S. Department of Education) in 1981 Improving Secondary Schools with Goal-Based Approaches to Instruction, Portland, Oregon. major addresses: Alternative Futures for Our Society and Implications for Education by Dr. Harold Pluimer, Futurist and Educational Consultant, Minneapolis, Minnesota and School Effectiveness and Implications for Secondary School Improvement by Dr. Alan Cohen, Professor of Education, University of San Francisco. Technology   - The National Education Association (NEA) Special Committee on Instructional Technology Report 1981 in its coming involvement with a technology of instruction, the profession will be faced again with the challenge of leadership, by example and by effective communication, the challenge of convincing the public that education is much more than treating students like so many Pavlovian dogs, to be conditioned and programmed into docile acceptance of a do-it-yourself blueprint of the Good Life. - Families and Schools: A System of Mutual Support a speech delivered in 1981 Secretary of Education T.H. Bell before a Freeman Institute audience in Utah, included Bell’s recommendation that schools should use Professor Lawrence Kohlberg’s Ethical Issues in Decision Making to teach values. - In 1981 Maine's State Capacity Building Grant from the National Institute of Education (NIE), U.S. Department of Education, was examined and verbatim notes taken by this writer from the file at NIE as the same Capacity Building Grants were made to all 50 state departments of education. Task force   - 1981 President's Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives was installed and membership listed on The White House letterhead read like a Who’s Who of individuals in government agencies, universities, tax-exempt foundations, non-governmental organizations, business, media, labor unions, and religion. The names of some individuals on the task force follow: William Aramony, president, United Way; William J. Baroody, Jr., president, American Enterprise Institute; Helen G. Boosalis, mayor, City of Lincoln, Nebraska; Terence Cardinal Cooke, archbishop of New York; Governor Pierre S. Dupont, Delaware; Senator David Durenberger; Luis A. Ferre, former governor of Puerto Rico; John Gardner, chairman, Independent Sector; Edward Hill, pastor, Mt. Zion Baptist Church; Michael S. Joyce, executive director, John M. Olin Foundation; Edward H. Kiernan, president, International Association of Police; Arthur Levitt, Jr., chairman, American Stock Exchange; Richard W. Lyman, president, Rockefeller Foundation; Elder Thomas S. Monson, The Mormon Church; William C. Norris, chairman and CEO, Control Data Corporation; George Romney, chairman, National Center for Citizen Involvement; C. William Verity, Jr., chairman, Armco Steel, Inc.; Jeri J. Winger, first vice president, General Federation of Women’s Clubs; Thomas H. Wyman, president, CBS, Inc.; and William S. White, president, C.S. Mott Foundation. - Do you really want these creeps running your schools? Tax-exempt   - National Assessment of Educational Progress Report (NAEP), in galley stage, entitled Measuring the Quality of Education: Conclusions and Summary, was provided in 1981, shedding light not only on the responsibility of major tax-exempt foundations in the development of a national curriculum, but also on the role of the federal government in setting standards/goals for American education. - The American Volunteer: Statistics on Volunteers by the National Center for Citizen Involvement in 1981 the major effort related to volunteerism was, and is, to convince the 44% who are, in effect, 'doing their own thing,' to join in the government-private sector Points of Light volunteerism partnership initiated by then-President George Bush, as well as President Bill Clinton’s AmeriCorps because that way they will work only on politically correct and government-approved projects. Socialization   - Malcolm Davis, Director of the Office of Libraries and Learning Technology, Office of Educational Research and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education, in response to this writer’s comment in 1981 that computer courseware could allow children to learn at home, responded, 'In essence, in the future all education will take place in the home, but the school buildings will be used for socialization purposes.' - Profiles in Excellence 1982-1983 Secondary School Recognition Program Resource Guide (Office of Educational Research and Improvement of the U.S. Department of Education: Washington, D.C., 1982) listed the Kennebunk, Maine High School as one which schools across the nation might wish to emulate, a major goal of the school’s curriculum is to individualize the learning process for the student. . Propaganda to the hilt   - From Schooling to Learning: Rethinking Preschool Through University Education by Don Glines was published in a 1982 issue of the National Association of Secondary School Principals’ Bulletin about the implications of global concerns for schools, educators, and education, are monumental if the views of most future writers are correct and early recognition of this came in the 1974 book, Learning for Tomorrow: The Role of the Future in Education by Alvin Toffler (Random House: New York, 1974), and The Third Wave (William Morrow: New York, 1981) because American education is obsolete; it produces people to fit into a reasonably well-functioning industrial society and we no longer have one. Sociological bullcrap   - Outcome-Based Instructional Management: A Sociological Perspective by William Spady in 1982 supported by a contract from the National Institute of Education provided a complete overview of the philosophy behind OBE, the organizational dimensions of outcome-based practice, the operational character of outcome-based practice, etc., also carried some interesting comments regarding OBE’s relationship to Project Follow Through. - Learning to Read the ECRI Way by Dennis Bailey was published in The Maine in 1982 in supporting this legislation Professor Patrick Groff’s organization has indicated support for the 'scientific, research-based' reading method used in ECRI, the very technique which he says “has not presented the empirical evidence necessary to convince reasonable-minded teachers that all students have the same aptitude for learning every subject' and ECRI is the mirror image of Siegfried Engelmann’s DISTAR direct instruction, the Skinnerian operant conditioning-based reading program promoted in Right to Read newsletters. OBE outcome-based education   - William Spady the 'Father' of OBE statement in 1982 at a conference held at the U.S. Department of Education said two of the four functions of Mastery Learning are: Extra: whole agenda of acculturation, social roles, social integration, get the kids to participate in social unit, affective; and Hidden: a system of supervision and control which restrains behavior of kids; the outcome of the hidden agenda should be the fostering of social responsibility or compliance. - State of Precollege Education in Mathematics and Science 1982 by Paul DeHart Hurd, professor emeritus, Stanford University, for the National Convocation on Pre-College Education in Math and Science, National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering in Washington, D.C. in the Communist countries there are comprehensive examinations at the end of the primary, middle, and secondary schools to assess a student’s actual progress. Extremely elitist   - Regulated Competition in the U.S. speech before the top 52 executives in Northern Telecom’s Worldwide Corporation meeting, for which the edited proceedings were published in a 1982 issue of the Innisbrook Papers, and Harvard Professor Anthony Oettinger of the Council on Foreign Relations made the following extremely elitist statement the present 'traditional' concept of literacy has to do with the ability to read and write, but the real question that confronts us today is: How do we help citizens function well in their society? - Public Service, Public Support, Public Accountability by Chester Finn 1982 issue of the National Association of Secondary School Principals’ Bulletin short of scattering money in the streets or handing it out to everyone who wants some, the funding agency must define eligible recipients, this means, in a word, 'regulation,' the inevitable commitment of public financial support. Closed to the Public!!!   - 1982 Closed to the Public annual meeting of the Council of Chief State School Officers, Secretary of Education T.H. Bell’s top assistant, Elam Herzler, told the assembled 50 state superintendents of education 'One of the elements of an effective school is to monitor, assess, and feed back.' - Can Computers Teach Values? by Joseph A. Braun, Jr. and Kurt A. Slobodzian assistant professors in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction of the Northern Illinois University School of Education in Dekalb, Illinois, was published in a 1982 issue of Educational Leadership in helping children learn how to inquire and examine their own emerging value systems, most educators agree that unintentional negative reactions by teachers are deleterious to youngsters’ self-concept. Spawned   - The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian Worldview Volume I, 1982 a noted Christian scholar and theologian warned of B.F. Skinner and his methods and he reported that after the publication of Beyond Freedom and Dignity [1972], when he [Skinner] was at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, he said 'The individual does not initiate anything.' - An article Graduates Lack Technical Training, Study Warns by 1990, written in 1982 issue of Education Week this article clearly placed the responsibility for the transformation from traditional academic education to workforce training at the feet of the Carnegie Corporation-spawned Education Commission of the States (ECS) and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Involvement   - The International Conference for Parent/Citizen Involvement for Schools 1982, Salt Lake City, Utah, letter to Secretary Bell dated in 1982 requesting conference funding contained an impressive list of supporters on its letterhead, including: Scott Matheson, governor of Utah; Mrs. Barbara Bush, honorary chairperson, National School Volunteer Program; T.H. Bell, U.S. secretary of education; Dr. Don Davies, Institute for Responsive Education; Dr. Carl Marer, National Committee for Citizens in Education; Dr. M. Donald Thomas, superintendent of schools, Salt Lake City, Utah, and education representatives from Canada and Australia. - Memo sent to Secretary of Education T.H. Bell from the Assistant Secretary, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, regarding 'upcoming events' 1982, President Reagan is scheduled to hold a press conference in which he will announce an initiative involving the National Diffusion Network and the National Health Screening Council for Volunteer Organizations, Inc., this collaboration, called PARTNERSHIP, links schools with the media, local businesses, government and hospitals in a school improvement effort. Hype and propaganda   - 1982 U.S. Department of Education Memorandum to T.H. Bell President Reagan is scheduled to visit P.S. 48, an elementary school in the Bronx, New York City and during his visit the President will meet Dr. Ethna Reid, Director of the Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction, a program in the National Diffusion Network where Dr. Reid will be to train staff members in the use of ECRI, scheduling Reagan to meet with the developer of the 'chosen' teaching method which incorporates Skinnerian mastery learning and direct instruction. - U.S. Secretary of Education T.H. Bell's Commission on Excellence published A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform in 1982 where this report laid the groundwork for the controversial restructuring Americans face today, initially, the commission engaged in a slick, expensive propagandistic roadshow, intended to mobilize American opinion in favor of the umpteenth reform since the federal government seized control of education in 1965, causing steep declines in academic test scores. What cost?   - The Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) which is attached to o the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France, held an International School Improvement Project (ISIP) conference in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1982 many of the key components of the U.S.’ education reform movement (effective schools movement) were discussed by delegates from member countries. and he main topic appeared to be a subject entitled 'CBAM' which no one heard of, until it appeared in the U.S. Department of Education-funded project Changing Teacher Practice, Final Report of an Experimental Study the application of 'behavioral science for systems improvement.' - Between Classes, What Cost, Accountability by Terry L. Fortham, teacher and editor of the state newspaper of the Arizona Federation of Teachers, published in 1982 issue of the The Arizona Forum stated if accountability becomes the ultimate goal of education and all areas of education are reduced to 'components' measurable by standardized testing, education will no longer be a learning process but a cloning process for both the teacher and the student. Communist   - Edward Curran, Director of the National Institute of Education was dismissed by communist Secretary T.H. Bell in 1982 due to Curran’s recommendation to President Reagan that the National Institute of Education, the research and development arm of the U.S. Department of Education be abolished. - 1983 Religion for a New Age by John Dunphy for The Humanist 'I am convinced that the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being.' - Education for Results: In Response to a Nation at Risk Volume 1, Guaranteeing Effective Performance by our Schools 1983 by Robert Corrigan 500-page how-to manual, Corrigan’s S.A.F.E. [Systematic Approach for Effectiveness] model was described. - Robert Spady's Newsletter Outcome in 1983 'Four Phases in Creating and Managing an Outcome Based Program' by John Champlin of the Department of Educational Administration of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, the fact that mastery learning is outcome-based education is made clear. More spin   - U.S. Department of Education founded two more projects in 1983 Framing a Future for Education for Kansas; and Strategic Planning and Furthering Excellence in Millard Public Schools for Nebraska, both of which were assigned to Dr. Shirley McCune of the MidContinent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) as project director who said 'What we’re into is the total restructuring of society.' - A Call for a Radical Re-examination: Education Should Reflect a New Economic Order by Michel Debeauvais from France was published in 1983 issue of The Education Digest relates to the transformation of the world’s education systems from traditional academic emphasis to workforce training. - 1983 Functional Literacy and the Workplace proceedings of National Invitational Conference was published (Education Services, American Council of Life Insurance): Defining Functional Literacy by Paul Delker, Director of the Division of Adult Education in the U.S. Department of Education who was involved with the Federal Adult Basic Education Program since its beginnings in 1966. Communist ideology   - Computers for Education Realizing the Potential published by the U.S. Department of Education 1983 recent studies in science education have revealed that students approach learning with many prior conceptions based on their life experiences, which can be obstacles to learning. - There has Been a Conspiracy of Silence About Teaching B.F. Skinner argues that Pedagogy Is Key to School Reforms by Susan Walton was published by Education Week in 1983. - 1983 Maine Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development In-Service Training with Dr. S. Alan Cohen led the training who taught research and curriculum design in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of San Francisco, California. - The Coming Revolution in Education: Basic Education and the New Theory of Schooling 1983 by Eugene Maxwell Boyce, former professor of educational administration, Bureau of Educational Studies and Field Services, College of Education at the University of Georgia 'In the communist ideology the function of universal education is clear, and easily understood, universal education fits neatly into the authoritarian state.' Diffusion confusion   - The Maine Facilitator Report on Current National Diffusion Activities reported in 1983 that ECRI [Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction] Consortium Winds Down. - Northwest Regional Education Laboratory published Effective Schooling Practices: A Research Synthesis, Goal Based Education Program 1983 a federally funded laboratory whose role has always been to develop goals for American education states that 'Systems are set up in the classroom for frequent and consistent rewards to students for academic achievement and excellent behavior.' - K.M. Heaton, researcher and writer, Preconditioning for Acceptance of Change explained in 1983 how radical change in our republican form of government has been brought about at the local level through the use of psychopolitics. - Iserbyt in 1984 with the help of grassroots activists and several officials in the U.S. Department of Education organized witnesses and testimony to be presented at the U.S. Department of Education Hatch Amendment hearings held in seven cities and these hearings were held 'pursuant to the notice of proposed rulemaking to implement Sec. 439 of the General Education Provisions Act (The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment).' Effectiveness?   - Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association New Orleans, Louisiana in 1984, Brian Rowan, Ph.D. in sociology, presented a paper entitled Shamanistic Rituals in Effective Schools, the work on this 'curious' paper was supported by the National Institute of Education, U.S. Department of Education, the importance of Rowan’s paper willingness to bring to the debate table a discussion of the legitimacy of claims of 'effectiveness' made by those associated with the Effective Schools movement (William Spady, et al.), including promoting outcome-based education, mastery learning and direct instruction. - Office of Educational Reseach and Improvement of the U.S. Department of Education n in 1984 approved a grant from the Secretary’s Discretionary Fund in the amount of $134,459 to Vanderbilt University to implement Vanderbilt’s proposal entitled National Network for Educational Excellence. - Willard W. Garvey, Executive director of the National Center for Privatization, letter to President Reagan 1984 'Privatization is now an idea whose time has come, the knowledge, communication and computer industry can make political representatives obsolete.' Negative results   - Education Update from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development 1984 where the results of this study match the negative results discussed in a 1977 issue of The School Counselor, American Personnel and Guidance Association’s Special Issue on Death, which said, 'Death education will play as important a part in changing attitudes toward death as sex education played in changing attitudes toward sex information and wider acceptance of various sexual practices.' - Stephen Broady, Missouri farmer, presented testimony in 1984 at the U.S. Department of Education’s Region VII hearing on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to further implement Section 439 of the General Education Provisions Act, his statement exposes the controversial nature of the two leading mastery learning programs—Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI) and Project INSTRUCT, both of which use Skinnerian operant conditioning and both of which submitted claims of effectiveness which have been questioned by persons involved in implementing and evaluating the programs. New World disorder   - David W. Hornbeck, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Maryland’s state school superintendent, oversaw the implementation of Project BASIC in 1984. - Should the elitist power brokers, for whatever reason, feel they need the expertise of the Hornbecks of this world, please spare those least able to protect themselves, the minorities and disadvantaged, from the change agents’ experimentation. - Industrial Policy Used for GOP article in The Washington Post 1984 an industrial policy accepted by both political parties and by business and labor to revitalize America’s dwindling clout in the world economy, according to the study’s editor, Professor Chalmers Johnson of the University of California. - 1984 Press Release U.S. Department of Education, Secretary of Education T.H. Bell today announced planned missions and geographic regions for a nationwide network of educational research laboratories and centers in preparation for the largest discretionary grant competition ever conducted by the U.S. Department of Education. Prior education no longer   - 1984 Jacqueline Lawrence testimony before the Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources which held hearings on Senate Joint Resolution 138, a bill establishing a commission on teacher education where she said 'It is public knowledge that since the 1960s academic standards have declined. Why? Quite simply, over the past 20 years our schools have not placed emphasis on academic achievement, there has instead been a shift toward psychological development and social adjustment of students in the affective domain, that is, their feelings, attitudes, and opinions.' - Jacqueline and Malcolm Lawrence had just returned from their Foreign Service assignment in Europe and were appalled to encounter what had happened to American education in their absence. Multi-million dollar contracts to Carnegie   - E.C. S. at 20, The Compact's Potential is Still to be Realized by Thomas Toch because the multi-million dollar contract to operate the National Assessment of Educational Progress, awarded to the ECS in 1969, was transferred to Educational Testing Service (ETS) in 1983, this move was significant due to Carnegie’s deep involvement in establishing, funding, and directing ECS’s and ETS’s activities and essentially, this move gave Carnegie Corporation and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching extensive control over the direction and content of American education as a whole and individual state policy making in paticular with regard to education. - National Council for Educational Research (NCER) Presidentally appointed in 1984 in the past two decades, federally funded research and curriculum projects have frequently provoked considerable controversy, primarily a result of deeply divergent philosophical views on the nature and purpose of public education in this country. Deception   - In 1984, Schooling and Technology Volume 3 Planning for the Future: A Collaborative Model An Interpretive Report on Creative Partnerships in Technology, An Open Forum by Dustin H. Heuston, World Institute for Computer-Assisted Teaching (WICAT) was published (Southeastern Regional Council for Educational Improvement: Research) under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education, HEW, National Institute of Education. - How to Measure Attitudes by Margaret E. Henderson, Lynn Lyon Morris and Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon, Center for the Study of Evaluation of the University of California, Los Angeles, 1984 funded by the National Institute of Education how to measure and collect attitude information. - 1984 Teaching as a Moral Craft by Professor Alan Tom literature on behavioral professional development for teachers and research on 'effective teaching.' Trap   - Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development 1984 Grant Application to the U.S. Department of Education for Excellence in Instructional Delivery Systems: Research and Dissemination of Exemplary Outcome-Based Programs was approved by T.H. Bell and known as the Utah Grant. - David Hornbeck, Superintendent of Maryland's Public Schools in testimony before the Maryland State Board of Education in 1984 attempted to 'mandate community service at state-approved places.' - 1984 issue of Effective School Report article Effective Schools for Results by Dr. Robert E. Corrigan and Dr. George W. Bailey stated 'Over the past thirty years there have been three primary programs related to the design and implementation of effective schools and successful learning results. Each of these research efforts focused on different aspects or variables in the following areas: behavioral change and the application of learning theory to produce successful learning results; the identification of sociological factors operating in effective schools; teaching strategies to effect learning, and the combination of these variables and practices in a systematic approach to achieve learning and management results.' Less is more?   - Dr. Theodore Sizer's Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) 1984 focus on helping adolescents to learn to use their minds well, less is more: each student should master a limited number of essential skills areas of knowledge. - In 1984 John L. Goodlad stated that how a student feels about school is more important than test scores in an article entitled A Cooperative Effort Is Needed: Can Our Schools Get Better? originally published in Phi Delta Kappan, in 1979 when Dr. Goodlad was dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. - Stephen M. Hersey, Executive Director of Maine Christian Schools, in personal letter to Iserbyt 1984 where he enclosed portions of a testimony by Kevin Ryan, professor at Boston University, regarding Boston University, the country of Portugal and the World Bank. - Article Observing the Birth of the Hatch Amendment Regulations in 1984 issue of Educational Leadership, this act was supported by Iserbyt. They all drop-out   - 1985 article Half of Chicago Students Drop Out, Study Finds: Problem Called Enormous Human Tragedy in Education Week. - Effective Schools Development in Education Act introduced in Congress 1985, there are public schools in this Nation which evidence continuous improvement and growth in the academic achievement levels of their students, for each day that these students are in the school, this act which called for $230 million did not pass. - Teacher's Group to Develop New Curriculum 1985 issue of The Dallas Morning News by Karel Holloway states The National Education Association is beginning an 18-month program to develop a new school curriculum designed to assure that students master basic skills. - This article proves the extensive use by Christian educators of the same Skinnerian mastery learning used and recommended by the National Education Association, how can Christian educators, opposed to the teaching of evolution, support a teaching method based on Darwin’s theory of evolution? Brainwash   - Education Daily 1985 Teachers Influence Students Values through Writing Assignments stated 'But teachers can also use writing to manipulate a student’s viewpoint and attitude on controversial issues, said a researcher who has studied how writing changes attitudes.' - 1985 Education Update article Promising Theories Die Young from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Madeline Hunter advised educators to move toward dialectical thinking, which means, she said, that with empathy, you embrace the most convincing argument, against your own conclusion because dialectical thinking will move us from right and wrong to better in this set of circumstances. - The Effective Schools Report 1985 article Principal’s Expectations as a Motivating Factor in Effective Schools states 'The principal expects specific behavior from particular teachers which should then translate into achievement by the students of these teachers; because of these varied expectations, the principal behaves differently toward different teachers; i.e., body language, verbal interactions and resource allocations.' World government   - Sweeping Overhaul of Minnesota Education 1985 Education Weekly the Minnesota Business Partnership, an organization of 60 corporations, commissioned an education consulting firm to study the state education system and plan improvements, the result is the Minnesota Plan, the business community’s proposals to radically restructure the state’s education system. - North Carolina's Compentency-Based Curriculum: Basic Education Program was introduced in 1985, a few of its more unusual 'basic' competencies, involved students entertaining allegiance to a world constitution and a world government rather than to the U.S. Constitution. - 1985 National Education Association (NEA) Press Release explained that Masterly Learning, a concept first proposed a generation ago by Harvard psychologist Jerome Bruner shows a growing body of research and educational reform proposals came from such respected educational analysts as Mortimer Adler [developer of the Paideia Proposal and long-time advocate of a one-world government, ed.], John Goodlad, Theodore Sizer, and Ernest Boyer who have all sought to translate Bruner’s work into classroom reality. Rejected   - Proponents of Mastery Learning Defend Method after Its Rejection by Chicago 1985 Education Weekly which quoted Benjamin Bloom, often cited as 'the father of Mastery Learning,' as saying that some 50 million children around the globe are taught with a mastery learning approach. - 1985 TOTAL Presentation Set for Educators article in Tyler (Texes) Morning Telegraph where some 1,500 teachers and 100 administrators in 75 districts of Region VII’s Northeast Texas area were involved [in producing] the 5,000 pages of materials to aid school districts in complying with the law and Ross Perot never responded to their call. - 1985 Maine Facilitator Center flyer regarding a teaching training seminar for Models of Teaching by Bruce Joyce how fascinating that Joyce used the label 'Direct Instruction' instead of mastery learning, which proves that the two labels are rightfully applied to the same method. - 1985 U.S. Department of Education, William Bennett Secretary's Discretionary Fund approved the promotion of and funding for development of a character education program by the Thomas Jefferson Research Center (TJRC) of Pasadena, California. U.S.S.R. Loop   - President Reagan and Soviet President Gorbachev signed an agreement in 1985 calling for cooperation in the field of science and technology and additional agreements in other specific fields, including the humanities and social sciences; the facilitation of the exchange by appropriate organizations of educational and teaching materials, including textbooks, syllabi and curricula, materials on methodology, samples of teaching instruments and audiovisual aids, and the exchange of primary and secondary school textbooks and other teaching materials, the conducting of joint studies on textbooks between appropriate organizations in the U.S. and the Ministry of Education of the U.S.S.R. - At the same time, the Carnegie Corporation signed agreements with the Soviet Academy of Sciences which resulted in 'joint research on the application of computers in early elementary education, focusing especially on the teaching of higher level skills and complex subjects to younger children.' - The U.S.-Soviet education agreements were discussed in an article entitled U.S. and Soviets to Share Insights on Computers by Fred M. Hechinger, education editor, in an 1985 issue of the New York Times. U.S.-Soviet   - The Fact Finder of Phoenix, Arizona, 1986 an article entitled Shocking U.S. Agreements to Let Soviet and Red Chinese Educators Indoctrinate America’s Children. - Edwin Fuelner, President of the Heritage Foundation 1986, chaired the U.S. Information Agency’s (USIA) Commission on Public Diplomacy which urges USIA, the Department of State, and the relevant private sector organizations to move quickly to develop specific programs for U.S.-Soviet exchanges pursuant to the General Exchanges accord, other exchange initiatives undertaken at the Geneva Summit, and the agreement by Reagan and Gorbachev to review these programs at their next meeting, the foundation later opened an office in Moscow. - National Academy of Education, Harvard, 1986 sent out an informational letter in 1986 entitled ACLS American Council of Learned Societies-USSR Ministry of Education Commission on Education describing joint U.S.-Soviet education activities. - 1986 Effective School Report 12-part series entitled Implementing Effective Schools: Commitment,The First Step which was an accurate description of the Pavlovian/Skinnerian methods. Awareness   - 1986 The National Forum for Educational Awareness held a ceremony and reception in Washington DC to honor Iserbyt and others held by Jesse Helms who began again the investigation of activities of the foundations. - Carol Barber, Outcome-Based Education/Masterly Learning consultant from Houston 1986 wrote Outcome-Based Education/Mastery Learning: What Is It? Why Do It? How Do You Do It? - Report to the Secretary of Education, William Bennett 1986 Transforming American Education: Reducing the Risk to the Nation was issued by the National Task Force on Educational Technology. - School Officials Upset by New State Plan 1986 St. Louis Globe Democrat reported that local educators objected vociferously to a new state plan that required them to give standardized tests in seven core subjects to students in the third, sixth, eighth, and tenth grades. - 1986 Secretary Bennett names study group to evaluate student assessment and lists Chairman Lamar Alexander, Governor of Tennessee and Chairman, National Governors Association, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of Arkansas and partner in the Rose law firm amongst members of the study group. Grants   - Carnegie Teaching Panel Charts New Framework 1986 Grants Totaling $900,000 Made to Press Reforms written by Lynn Olson 1986 issue of Education Week announced new framework, amongst other things, carved in stone the methodology which teachers would be required to use in order to obtain board certification where The Carnegie Corporation of New York announced that it has awarded two major grants, totaling nearly $900,000. - Researchers Leery of Federal Plans for Collabaration, Fear Cooperative Link a Path to Intervention 1986 issue of Education Weekly by James Hertling discussed possible federal control of education research. - Radical Blueprint for Change Carnegie Report on Education 1986 published in the Bangor (Maine) Daily News said American industries will lose ground if schools cannot produce employees with skills useful in those industries. Radical Theorist   - Brazilian educator Paulo Freire's Influence on World Education, Including Education in the United States 1986 New York Times article Radical Theorist Takes His Message to the World. - Study Says 33% of Young Adults are Illiterate 1986 New York Times the most recent Federal study was conducted by two private groups, the Educational Testing Service and the National Assessment of Educational Progress, at a cost of $1.8 million. - 1986 George Roche, President of Hillsdale College in Michigan and Chairman of the National Council on Educational Research requested an investigation into the controversial Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory’s (NWREL). - Norman Dodd's Obituary in the Charlottesville, Virginia, The Daily Progress 1987 voiced his earlier suspicions of a political and economic conspiracy when during his research for this committee [the Reece Committee], the president of the Ford Foundation, H. Rowan Gaither, Jr. told him that some of the giant foundations, including Ford, were working under directives from the White House to so alter life in America as to make possible a comfortable merger with the Soviet Union. Outcomes   - North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), Michigan Committee's Outcomes Accreditation was published in 1987. - National Outcome-Based Education Conference 1987 in Tempe, Arizona, a notebook was distributed which contained a flow chart describing how mastery learning works by communists such as William Spady. - Education Daily in 1987 covered the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching award of $817,000 to Lee Shulman of Stanford University, formerly involved in Chicago’s Mastery Learning failure, for his forthcoming work on assessments for new teachers. - Kathy L. Collins legal counsel for the Iowa Department of Education 1987 wrote Children are not Chattel for the American Humanist Association’s journal. Gorbachev keynote speaker   - 1987 two years after the signing of the U.S.-Soviet education agreements, Mikhail Gorbachev was reported by Novosti Press Agency Publishing House in Moscow to have said in his speech to the Soviet Central Committee, 'We are moving toward a new world: the world of communism. We shall never turn off that road,' even so, after the Berlin Wall came down (1989) Gorbachev was a keynote speaker at a major Republican Party fundraiser. - David W. Hornbeck, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and Maryland’s state superintendent of instruction, whose credentials lie in theology rather than in education, presented his proposal for a new public education system for the nation in a 1987 issue of The Montgomery County [Maryland] Journal. - 1988 Clarence Thomas, Chairman of the Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC), shortly thereafter appointed by President George Bush to the U.S. Supreme Court, signed off on an EEOC Policy Notice regarding protection from mandatory New Age training in the workplace. World’s schools   - The Effective School Report's 1987 International Congress for Effective Schools Draws Participants from 13 Nations to London which heralded Effective School Research as representing the chosen organizational and pedagogical vehicle for the operation of the world’s schools. - Dr. Sue E. Berryman, Director of the Institute on Education and the Economy 1987 presented a paper entitled Education and the Economy: A Diagnostic Review and Implications for the Federal Role. - East Gibson County, Indiana, 1987 known as 'Jeannie's Group' opposed the use of Tactics for Thinking, developed by Robert Marzano in 1988. - 1988 Education Update published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), carried an article entitled Tactics for Thinking Attacked in Washington, Indiana by critics who argue that it 'brainwashes' children and advances a 'New Age' agenda of one-world government. Stop funding mind control   - 1988 Education Daily covered the National Citizen's Alliance Press Conference held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. where the group asked federal government to stop funding 'mind control' and the alliance with the U.S.S.R Soviet exchanges. - The Forgotten Half: Pathways to Success for America's Youth and Young Families 1988 was published by the W.T. Grant Foundation’s Commission on Work, Family and Citizenship in a 1988 issue of Education Week report which stated that service projects and community service were recommended as a requirement for graduation. - Recap of 1988 Invitational Conference in the U.S.S.R. entitled Children, Computers and Education, written by David Porteous, contract coordinator for the School of Social Work, University of Connecticut, Dr. Alexey Semenov of the Soviet Academy of Sciences said algorithmic thinking is embedded in the Soviet’s educational system and fundamental to their understanding of cognition, this fits with the Soviet schools’ high regard for mathematics and physics. National curriculum   - 1989 issue of Education Week by Chester E. Finn, Jr., former head of the U.S. Department of Education’s research branch, told business leaders in Washington that he favored the development of a 'national curriculum.' - 1989 Bushworth Kidder, President of the Institute for Global Ethics wrote Reinventing the Future: Global Goals for the 21st Century, published by The Christian Science Publishing Society which covered the dialogue between 35 notables from 12 nations gathered at 'Wingspread' in Racine, Wisconsin. - Kent Tempus wrote Education in the Future: 21st Century Schools Will Offer Learning for all Citizens 1989 according to the director of the Iowa Department of Education. William Lepley says future schools will be centers for family and social services as well. - Barry Bear, mildly retarded 11-year-old Indian boy living on a reservation and home-schooled by his mother, 1989 was declared a 'child in need of assistance'(CINA) by a landmark Iowa Supreme Court decision and was removed from his home when the court cited 'his parents’ failure to exercise a reasonable degree of care in supervising him' because he was not in school.   Education Summit   - The National Governor's Association (NGA) Education Summit convened in 1989 by President George Bush at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, 6 national school goals increased to 8. - Edward B. Fiske 1989 article in the New York Times, Lessons, in the quiet world of schools, a time bomb is set for 1993 on certifying teachers. - Long-Awaited National Teaching Certificate Detailed 1989 Associated Press which described the so-called 'voluntary' national teacher certification system first called for in 1986 by the Carnegie Forum on Education and Economy report, A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century. - The Decade of the Nineties 1989 by Donald Thomas, executive director Network for Effective Schools, was published in The Effective School Report, leaving aside the focus on political correctness, one should be concerned over the total lack of emphasis on, or even mention of, academics. Position statement   - 1989 Appropriate Education in the Primary Grades: A Position Statement of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, appropriate and inappropriate actions. - Renewal of the US-Soviet Educational/Cultural Agreements in 1989 called for placing statues of Soviet cultural figures on United States territory. - 1989 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Elementary Global Education Framework entitled Elementary Education for the 21st Century: A Planning Framework Based on Outcomes. - 1989 issue of the 2020 Newsletter published by IMTEC, a Norwegian education association, revealed the fact that as they push forward with their own International Learning Cooperative, Europeans were embracing the American Tactics for Thinking program developed by the U.S. Department of Education’s MidContinent Regional Laboratory (McREL). Education Fad   - Soviets in the Classroom: America's Latest Education Fad by Charlotte Iserbyt in 1989. - China Says Educators Sowed Seeds of Unrest 1989 Washington Times placed blame on teachers for the student democracy protests which resulted in the Tiananmen Square massacre. - China Orders Manual Labor for Students: Beijing Moves Again to Control Citizenry 1989 Washington Post latest in a series of measures taken by the government to punish, restrict and reeducate Chinese students, particularly those in the capital, since the democracy movement was crushed by the army in early June. - Kentucky Supreme Court ruled on Rose v. Council for Better Education Inc., 1989 the ruling in this case cannot be over emphasized since it called for a redistribution of wealth (equalization) plan for Kentucky, the same plan was recommended by communist David Hornbeck for all the states in 1987 and declared unconstitutional and called for a new school system. The Noxious Nineties   - 1989 Shirley McCune, senior director of the U.S. Department of Education funded MidContinent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL), told the teachers in South Kitsap, Washington: 'The school of the future must be far different than that of today to meet the changing needs of society.' - The one entry this writer believes best illustrates this plan and how it would be implemented throughout the remainder of the 20th-century and into the 21st-century is taken from Conclusions and Recommendations for the Social Studies (Charles Scribner’s Sons: N.Y., 1934) after this study was funded to the tune of $340,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, quite a sum of money in 1934 dollars. - Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) U.S. Department of Labor 1990 conceived by Roberts T. Jones, assistant secretary of the Employment and Training Administration (ETA). William Jefferson Clinton   - Arkansas Governor William Jefferson Clinton 1990 pushed through a major statewide reform measure, Act 236, which was a forerunner of Goals 2000. - Tying Professional Pay to Productivity 1990 Washington Post article by Elizabeth Spayd covered the use of behavior modification in the workplace in order to increase productivity. - The National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) 1990 issued a proposal to the New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) entitled The National Alliance for Restructuring Education: Schools and Systems for the 21st Century. - 1990 World Conference on Education for All, sponsered by World Bank and UNESCO and held in Thailand. - A Road Map for Restructuring Schools re-published in Education Weekly 1990 a one-page list of principles of restructuring and steps for policy makers to use. Developed by the Education Commission of the States (ECS) and the National Governors’ Association (NGA) and signed by Jane Armstrong, director of policy studies for ECS. Low wages   - 1990 Marc Tucker's National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) of Rochester, New York published America’s Choice: High Skills or Low Wages! - State of Maine Leadership Position in the Implementation of a School-to-work system in 1990 by Lynn Olson. - Polytechnical Education: A Step by Robert H. Beck, University of Minnesota, 1990 Beck was under contract to the National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California, Berkeley and was supported by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education through a U.S. Department of Education grant for $4 million. - William Spady presents Ensuring the Success of All Students Today for Tomorrow's Changing World 1990 ” for the U.S. Department of Defense, Mediterranean Region. - David W. Hornbeck, Carnegie Corporation Board of Trustees 1990 paper entitled Technology and Students at Risk of School Failure at the Council of Chief State School Officers’ (CCSSO). Slave school   - 1990 Lamar Alexander, former governor of Tennessee, Secretary of Education in President Bush's administration, quoted 'I suggest we create a brand-new American school, as different from today’s schoolhouse as the telegraph was from The Pony Express, such a school would probably start with babies and go through the eighth grade and it would be all year long, open 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Every child would have his or her own computer and workstation.' - Blumenfeld Education Letter 1990 included a Vital Quote from Professor George Reisman’s The Intellectual Activist: 'I believe that the decline in education is probably responsible for the widespread use of drugs.' - Dr. M. Donald Thomas article in Effective School's Report 1990 Education 90: A Framework for the Future, literacy has meant the ability to read and write, the ability to understand numbers, and the capacity to appreciate factual material, the world, however, has changed dramatically in the last 30 years with the introduction of technology in information processing, the compression of the world into a single economic system, and the revolution in political organizations are influences never imagined to be possible in our lifetime. World Class education   - World Class Schools and Social Studies by Cordell Svengalis from Social Studies Horizons, Iowa Department of Education, reveals a significant definition of World Class education, one of the popular 'buzz words' used to describe and promote education reform during the early 1990s/ - 1990 Outcomes, An Educational Journal, discussion of Outcome-Based Education and the problems associated with its implementation (teachers’, administrators’ and community resistance) published an article entitled Paradigm Change: More Magic than Logic by John C. Hillary. - America 2000 Plan written in 1991 to implement the Carnegie Corporation's restructuring agenda, was presented to the American people by President Bush’s Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, the plan proposed to radically restructure American society and was prepared by, amongst others, Chester Finn, former assistant secretary, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, and associated with Education Excellence Network (Hudson Institute). Church attendance   - 1991 Educational and Cultural Exchanges signed between President Reagan and President Gorbachev, and those negotiated since 1985, would result in Russian “cops” from the recently disintegrated 'Evil Empire' flying American police helicopters as described in the article Cop Swap: His Beat Is Leningrad but He’s on Loan to LAPD. - Seniors' Church Attendance 1991 article in Education Weekly high school seniors in 1990 were much less interested in, and involved with, organized religion than were their counterparts in the 1970’s, according to data compiled by the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan. - Week in the Subway as Cultural Exchange by Jacques Steinberg 1991 The New York Times activities resulting from the exchanges signed between Reagan and Gorbachev, a hapless fare-beater was arrested today in the Chambers Street subway station, and he was suddenly surrounded by six Moscow police officers, this was not a scene out of a Cold War nightmare, the Soviets were not taking over the United States. Tragic upheavals   - Haves without Have-nots: Essays for the 21st-century on Democracy and Socialism 1991 by Mortimer Adler, imminent approach of the year 2000 and the tragic upheavals in former communist countries, some of which seem to be reverting to communism. - 1991 Global Alliance for Transforming Education (GATE) published in Education 2000, successful innovative schools around the world, grades and standardized tests have been replaced by personalized assessments which enable students to become inner directed. - Sample of 21st-Century Report Card 1991 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Network conference in Traverse City, Michigan entitled Creating the Twenty-First Century. - Virginia Birt Baker, Education Choice, The Education Voucher, Tax-credits and Non-public schools 1991 explains that educational 'choice' is a Trojan Horse carrying government control of all schools and schooling. Activity   - 1991 The U.S. Coalition for Education for All (USCEFA) 1991 an outgrowth of World Conference on Education for All, Thailand, hosted in Virginia where President Bush’s wife, Barbara, was named honorary chairperson. - New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) 1991 President George Bush requested that the business community raise funds to support development of 'radical, break-the-mold' schools (one in each Congressional district) which would in the future be known as 'charter schools' (public school 'choice' schools). - The Effective Schools Report 1991 A Letter from Russia, the illustrates the extent of damage resulting from the 1985 U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie education agreements and other exchange agreements. - British Columbia Teacher's Federation 1991 published What is the Market Model? aims to reduce learning to an instrument serving social power. Yoked for life   - Free Education in a Free Society 1992 The Effective School Report's, by Nick Zienau of England’s Educational Consultancy, discusses possibilities for projects between East and West which might assist the process of educational reform in Russia and the other republics formerly of the USSR. - Beijing Journal 1992 Personal File and Worker Yoked for Life, by Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, described the Chinese dangan as part of a web of social controls that ensures order in China. - Community Learning Information Network, Inc. (CLIN) incorporated in 1992 a bi-partisan 'Blue Ribbon' board of directors to implement a community-linked learning technology and information delivery system. - Texas researcher, Billy Lyon 1992 Connections and Conflicts of Interest, Or There Ought to be an Investigation, discusses in detail the private, for-profit design team projects selected by the New American School Development Corporation (NASDC) and the connections of those involved, also presented new information on vouchers (educational 'choice'). Legislation   - The National Youth Apprenticeship Act 1992 delivered by President George Bush, this legislation would establish a national framework for implementing comprehensive youth apprenticeship programs. - Laura Rogers, In Loco Parentis, Part II, The Parents as Teachers' Program Lives On, (PAT) 1992 issue of Chronicles. Rogers rendered all Americans a great service by providing a seminal work on this totalitarian program, the program pivots on assigning to all parents and children a 'certified parent educator.' - 1992 Marc Tucker, director of the National Center on Education and Economy, Rochester, New York, wrote a letter to Hillary Clinton on NCEE letterhead in which he outlined a lifelong, (socialist) workforce agenda, most of which had no problem being approved by a Republican-controlled Congress within three years, I still cannot believe you won! But utter delight that you did pervades all the circles in which I move as I met last Wednesday in David Rockefeller’s [Jr.] office with him, John Sculley [Apple Computer executive] et al. It was a great celebration. Revival   - American Federation of Teacher Affililate, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers stated its opposition to Outcome-Based Education (OBE) in a 1992 letter to Pennsylvania state senators.  - School's Out: A Radical New Formula for the Revival of America's Educational System by Lewis J. Perelman 1992 a vital new paradigm for technology and learning. - 1993 Annual Report of the Heritage Foundation, the idea of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) originated with Heritage Fellow Richard Allen and has long been advocated by Heritage policy analysts and was the idea of creating a North American free trade zone from the Yukon to the Yucatan was first proposed in the late 1970s, refined by then Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, and further developed in a major 1986 Heritage Foundation study. - Schoolroom Shuffle: Trailing in Education for Years, Kentucky Tries Radical Reforms 1993 where Grades 1 through 3 Become One Class with No Texts, Desks or Report Cards, Some Parents, Principals Balk by Suzanne Alexander published in The Wall Street Journal. American culture   - Total Quality for Schools: A Suggestion For American Education by Joseph C. Fields 1993, states that educators must confront this age-old question of whom to serve and resolve this question in favor of the customer and the American culture, political system, and economic system. - 1993 U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), described in a handout a joint project between NCES and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to develop an electronic data link between education and the “world of work” called “SPEEDE Express. - M. Donald Thomas's Plan for Action, The Empowered Educational System for the 21st-century establishing Competitiveness, Productivity, Accountability and Equity in South Carolina Education was presented to the South Carolina legislature in 1993, included among other radical recommendations in Thomas’s plan was: 'Board authority to require parents (guardians) to provide services to schools which their children attend.' Illusion   - Peter Shaw, The Competiveness Illusion: Does our Country Need to be Literate in Order to Be Competitive? If not, Why Read? for the 1993 issue of The National Review, the technological society does not particularly depend on education, provides an excellent explanation of why large multinational corporations such as BMW’s owner, Mercedes-Benz, etc., are settling in those states which have for many years been used as national pilot/experimental laboratory states for Skinnerian mastery learning/training in leisure and life/work skills and produce the lowest standardized test scores in the nation. - Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, quoted in the 1993 issue of The Cape Cod (Massachusetts) Times as recommending that President Bill Clinton make America the creator of a new world order based on consensus, such a choice would narrow the independence many believe the United States now enjoys. Behavioral Science   - U.S. Coalition for Education for All (USCEFA) 1993 in EFA Today, Russell Bong of the National Training Laboratory’s Institute for Applied Behavioral Science (NTL) wrote an article entitled Overcoming Resistance and Facilitating Change: The NTL Institute’s Approach, extraordinarily blatant, and some might consider frightening, explanation of the purpose of the National Training Laboratory. - 1993 Dr. Beau Fly Jones, senior director of the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) in Oak Brook, Illinois and a strong advocate and practitioner of Skinnerian mastery learning, wrote The Unfolding of an International Partnership: A Story of Russia and the U.S. - James Collins and Martin Haberman echoed Eugene Boyce 1993 issue of The Journal of Associating Teacher Educators in an article entitled The Future of the Teaching Profession where he said schooling is now seen as primarily job training and, for this reason, quite comparable to schooling in non-democratic societies. Perspectives   - The Reading (Pennsylvania) Eagle Times 1993 article Deming Lashes out in Live Teleconference on Quality by Don Spatz, where Dr. W. Edwards Deming said they were 'digging as deep a pit for education as they have for business.' - 1993 Draft of the Michigan High School Proficiency Communications Arts Frameworks, to reshape students’ thoughts by having them interact with other people and cultures who may have diverse perspectives. - Interest in Character Education Seen Growing 1993 issue of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s (ASCD) Education Update, regarding the move to develop programs which will be acceptable to the public while hopefully not resulting in lawsuits filed under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution over separation of church and state.  - The Effective School Report's 1993 Dialogues in International Education by Nick Zienau which discussed a conference in Sochi, Russia organized by the Ministry of Russia and a Norwegian network known as IMTEC which works with the U.S. Department of Education’s Midcontinent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL). President’s Council   - Sustainable America: A New Consensus for Prosperity, Opportunity and Healthy Environment for the Future was published in 1993 by the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, Information and Education, under a subtitle Reforming Formal Education. - Interview with Ken Hazlip and James Brock 1993 issue of Outcomes, the Outcome-Based Education movement’s Journal this movement, this idea set, has made several choices of labels, at one time it was called Mastery Learning, another OutcomesBased Education, and now Partners for Quality Learning. - Letter from Lawrence W. Lezotte, publisher of Effective Schools Research Abstacts 1993 whether or not you have been engaged in this debate as yet, you need to become familiar with the concerns and issues of the Christian Coalition and you must be prepared to respond to its challenges, which are often based on half truths and misinformation. Education Restructuring   - The Impact on Education of the U.S. Signing the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) discussed in an article entitled USIA’s Grants Go to Schools in NAFTA Nations published in the 1993 edition of The Washington Times. - Letter from Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt and his State Superintendent of Public Instruction Scott W. Bean, in 1993, gave a clear picture of the role of the governors of the individual states in implementing United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) lifelong learning ;cradle-to-grave; agenda in the U.S. - Lonnie Harp, Widely Mixed Test Results in Kentucky Leave Some Puzzled, appeared in Education Week’s 1993 issue, the problems with the national reform leader’s implementation of its widely-acclaimed restructuring, Kentucky Education Restructuring Act (KERA) were outlined. - 1993 The Atlanta Constitution article entitled Ware Students Are Drawn to Swampy Experiment: Magnet School Makes Okefenokee Its Lab, outlining what could be interpreted as the use of magnet/charter schools in a school-to-work scenario. Soviet/German   - 1993 School to Work Opportunities Act passed the House of Representatives this legislation called for Soviet/German full employment/quota-type system, incorporating the Danish model for polytech education, anyone familiar with this legislation will recognize the similarity between its wording and the late Professor Eugene Boyce’s definition of communist polytech education. - The Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act 1993 Cynthia Weatherly wrote in a memo. the first and last paragraphs of this 901–page tome are the only parts of the original bill which remain. 886 pages are printed in italics, which means that there are 886 pages of new language, otherwise known as 'new law.' - In Littleton, Colorado, Voters Expel Education Faddists, concerning OBE 1993 issue of The Wall Street Journal. - Eddie Price, social studies teacher wrote A Reign of Terror, Impressions of KERA which appeared in the 1993 issue of The Hancock Clarion of Hawesville, Kentucky. Goals and action   - U.S. Coalition for Education for All: A History 1994 by The U.S. Coalition for Education for All based in Washington, D.C. U.S. delegates from government agencies and non-governmental organizations participated in the 1990 World Conference and helped to prepare the Education for All (EFA) goals and action plan. - To OBE or not to OBE question by Marjorie Ledall, Associate of William Spady's in his High Success Network, in her article for Educational Leadership’s 1994 issue overdue national debate about whether public education should exist or be replaced with publicly funded private education. - Alternative Assessment of Student Achievement: The Open Book Test by Thomas A. Kelly, Ph.D. 1994 Effective School Report's which stated that all classroom tests should be open book tests. - 1994 Back to the Future with Funding from NASDC and Direction from the Hudson Institute, the Modern Red Schoolhouse Updates an American Icon for the 90’s by Lynn Olson, William J. Bennett, a U.S. Secretary of Education under President Ronald Reagan, served as chairman of the design team. Radical restructuring   - 1994 President Clinton signed Goals 2000 legislation that laid the groundwork for radical restructuring of the nation’s schools from the teaching of academics to workforce training. - Michigan's State Board of Education, The Communication Arts Framework for High School Proficiency 1994 representative of standards adopted throughout the country intended to assist students in entering the workforce or in pursuing higher education. - The National School Board Association (NSBA) 1994 recommended radical changes for local school boards at its annual meeting in New Orleans. - School-to-Work Transition in the U.S.: The Case of the Missing Social Partners a Report of the Governance and Finance Team of the Comparative Learning Teams Project (Center for Learning and Competitiveness, School of Public Affairs of the University of Maryland: College Park, Md., 1994) was prepared by Robert W. Glover, team leader for the Center for the Study of Human Resources, and Alan Weisberg, Foothill Associates. Seed money   - Issues for Designing a System of Skill Standards and Certification for the American Workforce: On What Basis Should Occupation/Skill/Industry Clusters Be Organized? by Robert W. Glover of the Center for the Study of Human Resources, University of Texas at Austin, was prepared for the U.S. Department of Labor in 1994. - President Bill Clinton signed the School-to-Work Opportunities Act 1994, this law provided seed money to states for development of local partnerships of business, labor, government, education and community organizations to develop school-to-work systems. - Trying to Catch Up on Their Reading; Tutors Find What Student's Miss 1994 Washington Post, students are selected for the program by English teachers, counselors, and principals. Sykes said the D.C. school system will establish 'gates,' or assessments at grades 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9. Educational reform went astray   - The Conference Board published Business and Education Reform: The Fourth Wave, A Research Report 1994 the board strives to be the leading global business membership organization that enables senior executives from all industries to explore and exchange ideas of importance concerning business policy and practices. - KERA has become a case study in how educational reform went astray in a state that 'was on the leading edge of the school restructuring and reform movement,”' and how it brought grief to parents, students, teachers and legislators. It was also a case study that involved a key, if not the key education change agent, who is not even an educator, David W. Hornbeck, who took his marching orders from Marc Tucker’s National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE).   - Stephanie Ebbert in Reading (Pennsylvania) Eagle/Times 1994 School Exams Likely to Have Russian Origin. Model Schools   - 1994 Model Schools Conference sponsored by The International Center for for Leadership in Education, Inc. (ICLE) whose director is Dr. Willard R. Daggett, previously employed as a co-trainer with William Spady at Outcome-Based Education training sessions sponsored by Spady’s High Success Network, representatives of the educational systems of China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, and Russia were included as presenters at the conference. - Schools: Into the Future in The Oregonian 1994 Oregon’s school-reform plan is one of the country’s most ambitious, and this year it really kicks into gear, since Oregon was the first state to implement the Goals 2000 Act. - Viewing Reform Partnerships as Big Brother’s Intrusion 1994 letter to Education Weekly Don Davies (Partnerships for Reform, Commentary, 1994) just doesn’t get the message: Smart Americans don’t like partnerships with the governmentt; and if public schools aren’t 'government,' what are they? Insights   - Challengers for Insights Newsletter 1994 Susan Kovalik’s Integrated Thematic Instruction which enables the average parent or teacher to understand a new teaching model based on 'brain compatible learning' for outcome- /performance-based education. - John Omicinski, Garrett News Service wrote Multiculturism is a Worthy Goall, but America Still Needs Americans 1994 Detroit News, will America lead the world into the 21st century? not the way things are going, says Librarian of Congress James Billington. [Not] in a country afflicted with a lazy, ill-defined multiculturalism filling up with African Americans, Korean Americans, Japanese Americans, he suggests and his bottom line is simple: America doesn’t work without Americans. - Education, Religious Groupss, Seek Common Ground 1994 Education Week leaders of several national education associations and conservative religious and citizens’ groups have been meeting behind the scenes in an effort to find common ground on school reform and end their increasingly hostile debate. High Success Not Working   - Letter 1994 from William Spady of the High Success Network to Dr. Nancy Grasmick, Maryland state superintendent of schools, a copy of which was very likely sent to the 49 other state school chiefs, with both the federal government and state bodies pushing harder than ever to improve the focus and effectiveness of what happens at the local level, major educational reform seems inevitable, except for one new factor: the open resistance by citizens’ groups to a host of 'progressive' reform ideas and initiatives. - Cottage Grove, Oregon's South Lane School District nation's certificate in mastery pack leader, according to an article entitled Cottage Grove Endures Trials, Triumphs as It Tests New School Plan in the 1994 issue of The Oregonian. - School-to-Work Programs Promoted by Business Leading Business Executives Create Council to Promote S-T-W Programs in the 1994 issue of Education Week.  Transformation of education   - The Wall Street Journal 1994 article Critical Thought entitled Acclaimed Reforms of U.S. Education Are Popular but Unproven, Ted Sizer’s Methods Stress Reasoning over Rote: Gains Aren’t Measurable, Ambiguity and Faculty Battles. - Robert C. Johnston 1995 in Education Week, 33 Religious Groups Join Riley in Seeking Greater Family Role in Schools. - Russian Teacher Reviews Work in SAD 53, published in the 1995 issue of The Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Brenda Seekins explains  the extent of cooperation between Russia and the U.S. in school-to-work (planned economy) activities, according to Seekins’s research these activities were not confined to ivory tower musings, but had penetrated education at the local level. - Machiavel Pedagogue ou le Minstere de la Reforme Psychologique by Pascal Bernardin (Editions Notre-Dame des Graces: Paris, 1995) was published. this book deals with UNESCO role in the transformation of education worldwide from a system based on academic instruction to one in which the purpose is nothing but conditioning for acceptance of world government (New World Order). Led the fight   - Salem, Oregon's The Statesman Journal 1995 article Service Learning Projects Match Students with Needs in the Salem-Keizer Community. - Maryland State Department of Education MSDE Bulletin 1995 entitled Keeping You Current on Education Reform in Maryland William Spady, a leading proponent of outcomes-based education, and Robert Simonds, head of a Christian group that has led the fight against OBE, made a joint presentation before the State Board in February to discuss their 10-months’ dialogue of reconciliation. - Content of Our Kid's Tests Shouldn't Be Kept Secret by Margaret Sitte, 1995 issue of The Bismarck (N.D.) Tribune. - The Board Tackles Secrecy Stigma 1995 by Jeff Olson The Bismarck (N.D.) Sunday Tribune. - Educators, Religious Groups Call School Truce, They Agree to Disagree on Hot Issues of 90s 1995 by Sally Streff Buzbee was 1995 issue of The Atlanta Constitution, the left and the right will meet at the middle (common ground, or what Shirley McCune refers to as 'the radical center'), this is an excellent example of the Hegelian Dialectic at work. Right from wrong   - Why the Education Department Must Go by Gordon S. Jones, former under secretary of Education n in Secretary T.H. Bell’s department of education, was published in The Washington Times in 1995 primary reasons for abolishing the U.S. Department of Education is to cut down to size the bloated and dictatorial state departments of education which receive their marching orders from Washington. - Who'll Teach Kids Right From Wrong, The Character Education Movement Thinks the Answer Is the Schools 1995 Sunday New York TImes, ” by Roger Rosenblatt. - Looking Back, Thinking Ahead, American School Reform 1993-95 Hudson Institute’s (Indianapolis, Ind.) Educational Excellence Network (Chester Finn, William Bennett, Lamar Alexander, Diane Ravitch) in 1995 decries the backlash against outcomes-based education.  - Committee for Economic Development (CED) 1995 Putting Learning First: Governing and Managing the Schools for High Achievement was publishedm this 60-page report called for school choice, charter schools, and social services delivered through schools or in collaboration with schools. Toolkit   - The National Education Goals Panel, Community Action Toolkit distributed by the U.S. Department of Education in 1995, was to be used for brainwashing, coercing and coalescing communities into accepting Goals 2000, UNESCO’s lifelong learning. - The Shocking Beliefs Behind Eductional Strategic Planning by Michael Jacques, 1995 issue of The Interpreter. Jacques, a concerned parent from West Allis, Wisconsin, has provided some very 'hard-to-come-by' information regarding The Cambridge Group, an international strategic planning center for education reform. - The Language of OBE Reveals its Limitations by Gretchen Schwarz, 1995 issue of Educational Leadership, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s (ASCD) journal. - A Reaffirmation of Faith in Maine's Public Schools edited by Margaret L. Stubbs, Ph.D of the Maine Department of Education 1995 revealed the extraordinary thrust towards a partnership between religious institutions and the public schools. Rehabilitation   - The Careers Act, Consolidated and Reformed Education, Employment and Rehabilitation Systems Act) passed the U.S. House of Representatives in 1995, the law calls for four consolidated job training programs to replace formerly existing programs: youth development and career preparation; adult training; adult education and literacy; and vocational rehabilitation. - 1995 Reports of OBE Continue to Surface, Marc Tucker/ David Hornbeck pilots, the dismal test score scenario will be a thing of the past, as a result of the proposed 'quality' teach-to-the test measures of educational achievement being put in place. - Tri-Cities Foundation for Academic Excellence (TFAE) 1995 entitled Survey of Former Pasco, Washington Teachers Gives Outcomes-Based Education Insights and 68% responded children did not benefit from Outcomes-Based Education, 86% responded Outcomes-Based Education divided teachers and created polarized camps. Voluntary national standards   - National Issues in Education: Goals 2000 and School-to-work, edited by John F. Jennings, general counsel for education for the Committee on Education and Labor of the U.S. House of Representatives (Phi Delta Kappa: Bloomington, Ind.), 1995, there is a measure of national agreement that there should be voluntary national standards. - Joan Masters of of Bowie, Maryland, 1995 U.S. Information Agency internet sources, U.S. President Bill Clinton, president of the European Commission Jacques Santer, and Prime Minister of Spain Felipe Gonzalez, who is also president of the European Union’s Council of Ministers, formally endorse a New Transatlantic Agenda (NTA) which would enable the two sides, the US and the EU, to join forces to deal with a wide range of international, political and economic issues. Grimmer

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