Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

Appendix VI

Excerpts from Education for Results

Education for Results: In Response to A Nation At Risk, Vol.1: Guaranteeing Effective Performance by Our Schools by Robert E. Corrigan, Ph.D., and Betty O. Corrigan (SAFE Learning Systems, Inc.: Anaheim, CA, 1983). This particular paper was published in 1983 for the Reagan Administration’s use, and actually served as a springboard for implementing OBE. Most of the experimentation history (pilot OBE/ML/DI) programs, including one in Korea discussed in this paper, were implemented in the 1960s and 1970s. The Education for Results Project, which basically called for using Corrigan’s Model (mastery learning/outcome-based education/management information systems) had the support of the following twenty key education change agents: D R . L EON L ESSINGER , Superintendent, Beverly Hills School District, Beverly Hills, CA; D R . J ACK W ARD , Associate Superintendent, Mendocino County, CA; D R . R OBERT K ANE , Consultant, Teacher Preparation & Licensing Committee, State of California; D R . N OLAN E STES , Professor of Education, University of Texas; D R . J AMES M C P HAIL , Chairman, Department of Educational Administration & Supervision, University of Southern Mississippi; D R . H OSEA G RISHAM , Superintendent, North Panola County School, Mississippi, President, Mississippi Association of School Administrators; D R . H INES C RONIN , Superintendent, Moss Point School District, Moss Point, MS; D R . M EL B UCKLEY , Superintendent, Newton Public School, Newton, MS; D R . R OBERT M ORGAN , Director, Learning Systems Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; D R . R OGER A. K AUFMAN , Professor of Education, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; D R . H OMER C OKER , Teacher Corps Program, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA; D R . A NNETTE K EARNEY , Assistant Director, National Council for Negro Women, New York City; D R . J OHN P ICTON , Beaverton, OR; D R . L OUIS Z EYEN , Deputy Executive Director, American Association of School Administrators; D R . W ILLIAM S PADY , Director, Center for the Improvement of Learning, Arlington, VA; D R . G ENE G EISERT , Professor of Education, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY; D R . A L H OYE , Minneapolis Unified School District, MN; D R . W ILFRED L ANDRUS , Chapman College, Professor of Education, Orange, CA; D R . R OBERT C ORRIGAN , Corrigan and Associates, Anaheim, CA; and M RS . B ETTY C ORRIGAN , Corrigan and Associates, Anaheim, CA. Lessinger, Estes, Kaufman, Coker, Spady and the Corrigans are among the key proponents

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