Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

291 reform and educational management in the state of South Carolina and the evaluation of schools in South Carolina. I am sure your experience will be very helpful for us.... There are many teachers and school principals who are very interested in taking part in different projects. But, we would like to have our own project—”Rostov-South Carolina-Utah.” Me and my boss had a very long and promising talk with our city authorities about our possible contacts. And they promise to undertake sponsorship of the international teacher training and school management program. Now some words about goals of the project. The first is—to exchange our experience in school management and especially in evaluation of school activity. The second is—to transfer your experience of using computer systems in both teaching and school manage ment. The third goal—exchange of teaching experience. Now we begin to work with groups of teachers who are ready for actions in this project. Mr. Thomas, I’ll be very happy if you send a letter and tell me your vision on points I have described. If there is no objection and difficulties to start this project then we need to find time and place we could meet and discuss details. It might be either your town in South Carolina or our native city Rostov-on-Don. At that meeting we’ll be able to work out a pro gram or project and sign something like an agreement on form and the matter of the project. Our city’s authorities are ready to take part in this business. I hope we could organize this meeting this winter or early in spring time. Mr. Thomas, I have a big favor to ask of you... papers and some tests for accreditation of schools. The Noxious Nineties : c. 1991 B RITISH C OLUMBIA T EACHERS ’ F EDERATION 20 IN 1991 PUBLISHED “W HAT IS THE M ARKET Model?” Excerpts from this interesting flyer made available to Canadian teachers follows: AIMS: The Market Model aims to reduce learning to an instrument serving social power. More specifically public education is enlisted in the Market Model to serve the needs of corporate capital in an information age of global production. FEATURES: 1. In Canada the market model started in higher education, and is now moving to secondary schooling. 2. Cuts in government funding, with corporate funding targeted to particular proj ects. 3. Purpose of education—to compete economically in the international marketplace. 4. Demands that public education be redesigned to serve as a knowledge producer for private corporations in the national economic competition. 5. Textbook production and distribution under control of private corporations. 6. Academic teachers are conceived as “business persons” who provide goods and services under Free Trade Agreement and NAFTA. Signed Victor Nouja, 344103 Stz Sodzujestva NeF, ap 170, Rostov-on-Don, USSR, Russia

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“New Reality” Competition, Market Discipline “The Campus as Corporation” (Strangeway, 1984) Curriculum Products Resource Units or Resource Packages