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451 30 For more information about the NTL Institute services, or its approach to change, contact: Russell Bong, Marketing Manager, NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, 1240 North Pitt St., Suite 100, Alexandria, VA 22314–1403. Phone: 1–800–777 5227; FAX: 703–684–1256. 31 See entry for 1983 quote from book by Eugene Maxwell Boyce, The Coming Revolution in Education and the New Theory of Schooling. 32 “The Truth Behind Outcome-Based Education” was produced and distributed by Compass and can be ordered by calling: 1–800–977–2177. 33 William E. Brock has also served as a former U.S. Secretary of Labor and as chairman of the Labor Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS), appointed by then-Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole. 34 National Center for Education Statistics. Financial Accounting: Classifications and Standard Terminology for Local and State School Systems . (U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C., 1973) DHEW Publication No. (OE) 73–11800. 35 The Commission on Skills of the American Workforce produced this 1990 report. The commission included Marc Tucker, who wrote the now-famous letter to Hillary Clinton following the election of Bill Clinton as President. It should be noted that Hillary Clinton was appointed to the commission by William Bennett, then-secretary of education. (See 1986 entry dealing with this story.) 36 Please see Appendix XI “When Is Assessment Really Assessment?” and index references for Sticht and Oettinger. 37 America 2000 eventually became Goals 2000. 38 The report from the Second Annual Conference on Model Schools was written by Cynthia Weatherly and published in the January 1995 issue of The Christian Conscience (Vol. 1, No. 1). 39 “Voluntary,” for the time being. 40 The words “forgotten half” are taken from the 1988 W.T. Grant Co.’s landmark report entitled The Forgotten Half: Pathways to Success for America’s Youth and Young Families. (See 1988 entry for more about this report.) 41 Susan Kovalik formed her ITI company in 1982 and has now moved to the state of Washington. If the reader is interested in accessing Kovalik’s materials, her internet site address is: http://www.kovalik.com. This writer in no way endorses the work of Susan Kovalik, but is merely making this information available to provide the reader with original research. 42 Challengers for Insight’s address is: 520 N. State Road 135, Suite M–125, Greenwood, IN 46142. 43 Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith (Basic Books, Inc.: New York, 1980) was written by James H. Billington, librarian of the U.S. Congress in which he wrote in chapter 4, “The Occult Origins of Organization,” the follow ing: “The story of the secret socieites can never be fully reconstructed, but it has been badly neglected—even avoided, one suspects—because the evidence that is available repeatedly leads us into territory equally uncongenial to modern historians in the East and the West.… In what follows I shall attempt to show that modern revolutionary tradition as it came to be inter nationalized under Napoleon and the Restoration grew out of occult Freemasonry; that early organizational ideas originated more from Pythagorean mysticism than from practical experience; and that the real innovators were not so much political activists as literary intellectuals, on whom German romantic thought in general—and Baviarian Illuminism in particular—ex erted great influence.…” (p. 87) It is helpful for serious education researchers who have uncovered evidence similar to that of Billington’s to have an historian of his caliber confirming the influence of these occultic societies on the stability of society in general, and education in particular, over the ages. 44 For more background on the history of the “common ground movement” in education reform, see “Separation of School and State: Why We Cannot Sign,” by Lynn and Sarah Leslie, published in the December 1997 issue of The Christian Conscience, PO Box 449, Ravenna, OH 44266 or posted on the web at http://www.christianconscience.com. 45 Educational Testing Service was created in 1946 and was launched by an initial endowment of $750,000 from the Carnegie Corporation. 46 For a summary report of the Former Pasco Teacher Survey, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: TFAE, 2527 W. Ken newick Avenue, #350, Kennewick, Washington 99336. 47 Ms. Kosiec can be reached by writing: Barbara McFarlin-Kosiec, 635 N. Fisher, Kennewick, Washington 99336. She is also available for speaking engagements/interviews. 48 Order National Issues in Education by calling 1–800–766–1156. The price is $18, plus $3 S&H. 49 A note at the bottom of the article states: “The article was approved by the ACSI Executive Board.” 50 If the reader is interested in reading this article in its entirety, please write: Association of Christian Schools International, P.O. Box 35097, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80935–3509, or call 1–800–367–0798. 51 American Family Association Law Center’s address is: P.O. Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803; and telephone: 1–601– 680–3886. 52 Los Horcones’s e-mail address is: walden@imparcial.comm.mx. 53 John Naisbitt is the author of Megatrends and Megatrends 2000 , required reading for former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s seminars. 54 This is wording found in PPBS/MBO material. 55 Esther Dyson was also a speaker and active participant in the Progress and Freedom Foundation’s meeting in Atlanta in 1994, “Cyberspace and the American Dream.” 56 Refer to the 1984 National Council for Educational Research entry for the history of The Reading Excellence Act . 57 Private conversation with teacher who wishes to remain anonymous due to the political heat generated by these reading discussions. 58 Those interested in the activities of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center can access its website at: http: //www.fpg.unc.edu. The Noxious Nineties : c. 1999