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The
Deliberate Dumbing Down of America If you live outside of the United States, please read this important information about a shipping surcharge for all international orders. Price: OUT OF PRINT
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The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America reveals changes that were gradually brought into the American public education system work to eliminate the influences of a child’s parents (religion, morals, national patriotism), and mold the child into a member of the proletariat in preparation for a socialist-collectivist world of the future. If you think there’s nothing wrong with America’s educational system, you will probably dismiss this book as the rantings of a right-wing conspiracy theorist who sees danger at every turn. If you’re a back-to-basics reformer, you won’t like it either, because Iserbyt finds fault with virtually every program being used in America’s schools. That includes character education, core curriculum, and Direct Instruction, all supported by conservatives as ways to bring morality and rigor back into the classroom. Charlotte Iserbyt presents a clear chronology of educational restructuring and brings compelling evidence that school reform, supported by all political stripes, to be a totalitarian plan using Skinnerian behavior modification and other equally manipulative psychological techniques to subjugate future generations in a state of ignorant bliss. This is a straight shooting book that tells the whole truth and should be mandatory reading for elected officials, who should give serious consideration to her proposals in order to turn the situation around. If you have already made the decision to home school, this book will reinforce the idea that you have made the correct decision for your children. It can also be a psychological lifeboat for teachers who feel trapped in the educational system. Since the original publication, some readers have requested a smaller version. This revised and abridged version is the response to those many requests. The afterword, glossary, resources, appendices and index have all been removed from the 2011 version. Of utmost importance is the addition of “Update” which covers the final, but long-planned, institutionalization, since publication of the original book in 1999, of three activities, relatively new to the reader: (1) the use of unconstitutional tax-supported (public/private partnership) charter schools run by unelected boards. These schools use non-graded Skinnerian computer instruction to train for the planned economy (school to work); (2) global values-changing education, including International Baccalaureate programs and (3) restructuring of our nation’s representative governmental structure, using regionalism (socialism) with its unelected councils (soviets), and communitarianism. Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt served as the Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first term of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and was an employee of the U.S. Department of State. She blew the whistle in the 1980’s on government activities withheld from the public. Iserbyt was relieved of her duties in 1982 after leaking an important technology grant for computerized learning (Project BEST: Better Education Skills through Technology) Similar items:
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