Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

92 tional subdivisions. The dissemination process is now carried on by individual offices and their projects. This was done as a result of the “Reorganization of Government according to the Malcolm Baldridge Award criteria” (TQM) under Vice President Al Gore’s supervision. 3 This is another term, used in this publication, for today’s “self-esteem.” 4 The writer recommends that those readers interested in the radical, leftist substance of “Recommendations for Delphi Discus sion Groups,” contact K.M. Heaton whose Road to Revolution contains information on this subject. See Resources for Heaton’s address. 5 The reader should turn to the inside cover of this book for the excellent cartoon by Joel Pett which carries the title “Consolida tion.” 6 “Harrison Bergeron” has been made into a video, available at your local video store. 7 Dan Smoot was a former Harvard professor who served for 9–1/2 years in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 8 Alice Rivlin later became director of the Congressional Budget Office, and presently serves as the chairman of the Board of Control for the District of Columbia. 9 Ethna Reid was quoted in Dennis Bailey’s article “Learning to Read the ECRI Way” for the January 8, 1982 issue of The Maine Times . 10 Audio tape of meeting from personal file of researcher who attended conference. 11 In the January 1969 issue of Today’s Education , journal of the National Education Association, two professors of education at Indiana University refer to schools of the 1970s as “clinics, whose purpose is to provide individualized psychosocial ‘treatment’ for the student.” 12 The Corrigans’ organization is: SAFE Learning Systems, Inc., P.O. Box 5089, Anaheim, CA 92804.