Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

Appendix XII

Excerpts from “The National Alliance for Restructuring Education: Schools—and Systems—for the 21st Century”

A Proposal to the New American Schools Development Corporation by the National Center on Education and the Economy Attn.: Marc Tucker, President 39 State Street, Suite 500, Rochester (Monroe County), NY 14614 Phone: (716) 546-7620 and FAX: (716) 546-3145 and its Partners:

State of Arkansas Apple Computer, Inc. State of Kentucky Center for the Study of Social Policy State of New York Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce Pittsburgh, PA Harvard Project on Effective Services Rochester, NY

Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh San Diego, CA State of Vermont National Alliance of Business State of Washington National Board for Professional Teaching Stan dards White Plains, NY New Standards Project Xerox Corporation

Brandon is a small, rural village in the Green Mountains an hour south of Burlington on Vermont Highway 7. The people here are poor, and the ugly white-brick two-story building looks more like a weather-beaten industrial plant than a school. But, on the inside, Otter Valley Union High School has become a high output academic setting that produces the state’s debate champions, its own literary magazine and a choir that performed Mozart at Carnegie Hall. Bucking bureaucratic rules and winning state waivers from regulations, the faculty at Otter Valley restructured their school over the past six years. They worked with the community

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