Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

358 Carnegie’s corporation of the same name and all of its subsidiaries have been the principal organizations in charge of American education. Through funding of the most important entities controlling American education—the Educational Testing Service, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the Education Commission of the States—and through its most important exchanges with the “former” Soviet Union, Carnegie’s power, influence, and point of view have been strongly felt throughout this century. Lenin would be pleased indeed with the accom plishements of the Carnegie Corporation in promoting what Lenin referred to as international socialism through the creation of individual regions and later through the amalgamation of those regions into an international socialist system; i.e., one world government. The following quote from Andrew Carnegie’s Triumphant Democracy or Fifty Years’ March of the Republic (Charles Scribners Sons: New York, 1886) is thought provoking: Time may dispel many pleasing illusions and destroy many noble dreams, but it shall never shake my belief that the wound caused by the wholly un-looked for and undesired separation of the mother from her child is not to bleed forever. Let men say what they will, therefore, I say, that as surely as the sun in the heavens once shone upon Britain and America united, so surely is it one morning to rise, shine upon, and greet again the reunited state, the Brit ish-American union. The governors and the President had agreed on national goals for education in 1989, but they had not proposed national standards for education. Therefore, Bush’s second reform plan moved national involvement in education to a more advanced stage…. A Republican president proposing such national standards in education was the edu cation policymaking equivalent to the reshaping of foreign policy when President Nixon went to China. Richard Nixon had made a career out of attacking Communism and calling liberals sympathizers of that ideology; and then he—not a liberal—opened the doors to “Red” China, the same doors that he had spent 25 years locking. [Ed. Note: It was also under Nixon’s watch that the National Institute of Education was created and it was he who carved the nation into ten regions, facilitating the change in our constitutional governance from a constitutional republic to a participatory democracy—through the regional government process necessary for world government. The late Senator Edmund Muskie (D.- Maine), referred to as “Mr. Metro” by those opposed to regional government, said Nixon had accomplished what several democratic administrations had been unable to accomplish!] Democratic Presidents Kennedy and Johnson had proposed a major expansion of federal aid to education in the 1960s and had achieved the enactment of historic legislation that created the current array of federal programs. But they were dogged along the way by criticism from conservatives who asserted that the liberals were really trying to nationalize education. Now, 25 years later, it was a self-proclaimed conservative Republican, not a liberal Democrat, who was advocating a monumental movement away from local control of education. Despite the importance of the second Bush legislation, it ran into the same problem as the first. A Democratic Congress reluctantly passed the bill in the House and the Senate, but the conference report again was filibustered by very conservative Republican senators who were not as impressed as were Bush, Alexander, and Finn with the accomplishments Jennings’s revelations from National Issues in Education continue below: Jennings continued his fascinating account as follows: