Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

Glossary G–29 of the principal promoters of outcome-based education, Spady et al., which includes Skinnerian operant conditioning and effective schools research, are for the most part sociologists, not educators.) stimulus (Any action or agent which causes a change in activity in an organism, organ, or part, as something that excites an end organ, starts a nerve impulse, activates a muscle, etc.) succeed, success (Meet the required criteria) systems, systematic, systems theory (Basis for current restructuring of education. [See Glos sary for Planning, Programming and Budgeting Systems , Systems , Systems Design and Systems Approach] ) taxonomy (See Glossary for Taxonomy of Educational Objectives ) teaching practice (Teacher performance, not necessarily academic or knowledge-based) technology (Any form of instructional media) theory into practice (The late Madeline Hunter’s Mastery Teaching: Instructional Theory into Practice (ITIP). Translating into practice in the classroom the theory teacher has learned; experimentation on the students) threshold (Baseline, in operant terms, where subject can be conditioned) Total Quality Management (Management technique which uses behavior modification [See Glossary for Systems and Total Quality Management ])