FEBRUARY 26, 2012 |
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America's Road to
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www.DeliberateDumbingDown.com
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February
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Janurary
13, 2013
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Today's guest:
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt |
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CHARLOTTE THOMSON ISERBYT |
About Charlotte
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Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt served as the head of policy
at the Department of Education during the first
administration of [President] Ronald Reagan. While
working there she discovered a long-term strategic plan
by the tax-free foundations to transform America from a
nation of rugged individualists and problem solvers to a
country of servile, brainwashed minions who simply
regurgitate what- ever they are told. We now present to
you the Secret History of Western Education: the
Scientific Destruction of Minds. |
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THE DUMBING DOWN OF
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THE DELIBERATE
DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA |
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, Revised and Abridged Edition
A WHISTLEBLOWER'S
ACCOUNT
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, former Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S.
Department of Education, blew the whistle in the `80s on government
activities withheld from the public. Her inside knowledge will help
you protect your children from controversial methods and programs.
In this book you will discover:
-how good teachers across America have been forced to use
controversial, non-academic me
-how "school choice" is being used to further dangerous reform
goals, and how home schooling and private education are especially
vulnerable.
-how workforce training (school-to-work) is an essential part of an
overall plan for a global economy, and how this plan will
shortcircuit your child's future career plans and opportunities.
-how the international, national, regional, state and local agendas
for education reform are all interconnected and have been for
decades. |
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A CHRONOLOGICAL
PAPER TRAIL |
The deliberate dumbing down of
america is a chronological history of the past 100+ years of
education reform. Each chapter takes a period of history and
recounts the significant events, including important geopolitical
and societal contextual information. Citations from government
plans, policy documents, and key writings by leading reformers
record the rise of the modern education reform movement. Americans
of all ages will welcome this riveting expose of what really
happened to what was once the finest education system in the world.
Readers will appreciate the user-friendliness of this chronological
history designed for the average reader not just the academician.
This book will be used by citizens at public hearings, board
meetings, or for easy presentation to elected officials.
Publication of the deliberate dumbing down of america is certain to
add fuel to the fire in this nation's phonics wars. Iserbyt provides
documentation that Direct Instruction, the latest education reform
fad in the classroom, is being institutionalized under the guise of
"traditional" phonics thanks to the passage of the unconstitutional
Reading Excellence Act of 1998. |
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PREFACE |
Coexistence on
this tightly knit earth should be viewed as an
existence not only without wars...but also without
[the government] telling us how to live, what to
say, what to think, what to know, and what not to
know. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, from a speech given
September 11, 1973.
For over a twenty-five-year period the research used
in this chronology has been collected from many
sources: the United States Department of Education;
international agencies; state agencies; the media;
concerned educators; parents; legislators, and
talented researchers with whom I have worked for at
least twenty-five years. In the process of gathering
this information two beliefs that most Americans
hold in common became clear:
1) If a child can read, write and compute at a
reasonably proficient level, he will be able to do
just about anything he wishes, enabling him to
control his destiny to the extent that God allows
(remain free).
2) Providing such basic educational proficiencies is
not and should not be an expensive proposition.
Since most Americans believe the second premise-that
providing basic educational proficiencies is not and
should not be an expensive proposition-it becomes
obvious that it is only a radical agenda, the
purpose of which is to change values and attitudes
(brainwash), that is the costly agenda. In other
words, brainwashing by our schools and universities
is what is bankrupting our nation and our children's
minds.
In 1997 there were 46.4 million public school
students. During 1993-1994 (the latest years the
statistics were available) the average per pupil
expenditure was $6,330.00 in 1996 constant dollars.
Multiply the number of students by the per pupil
expenditure (using old-fashioned mathematical
procedures) for a total K-12 budget per year of
$293.7 billion dollars. If one adds the cost of
higher education to this figure, one arrives at a
total budget per year of over half a trillion
dollars. The sorry result of such an incredibly
large expenditure-the performance of American
students-is discussed on page 12 of Pursuing
Excellence-A Study of U.S. Twelfth Grade Mathematics
and Science Achievement in International Context:
Initial Findings from the Third International
Mathematics and Science Study [TIMMS], a report from
the U.S. Department of Education (NCES 98-049).
Pursuing Excellence reads:
Achievement of Students, Key Points: U. S. twelfth
graders scored below the international average and
among the lowest of the 21 TIMSS nations in both
mathematics and science general knowledge in the
final year of secondary school. (p. 24)
Obviously, something is terribly wrong when a $6,330
per pupil expenditure produces such pathetic
results. This writer has visited private schools
which charge $1,000-per-year in tuition which enjoy
superior academic results. Parents of home-schooled
children spend a maximum of $1,000-per-year and
usually have similar excellent results.
There are many talented and respected researchers
and activists who have carefully documented the
"weird" activities which have taken place "in the
name of education." Any opposition to change agent
activities in local schools has invariably been met
with cries of "Prove your case, document your
statements," etc. "Resisters"-usually parents-have
been called every name in the book. Parents have
been told for over thirty years, "You're the only
parent who has ever complained." The media has been
convinced to join in the attack upon common sense
views, effectively discrediting the perspective of
well-informed citizens. Documentation, when
presented, has been ignored and called incomplete.
The classic response by the education establishment
has been, "You're taking that out of context!"-even
when presented with an entire book which uses their
own words to detail exactly what the "resisters" are
claiming to be true. |
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PREFACE CONTINUED AT:
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/pages/book.htm
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