Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

A–66 Agents’ Guide to Innovation in Education by Ronald G. Havelock, Program Director, Center for Research on Utilization of Scientific Knowledge, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, portions of which were originally developed as part of Contract No. OEC–0–8– 080603–4535(010) with the Office of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, under the title “Diffusion of Utilization Research to Knowledge Linkers in Education.” The copyright is 1973 (Educational Technology Publications, Inc.: Englewood Cliffs, NJ), LC 72–87317. The Guide contains authentic case studies of how change agents manipulate their communities into accepting controversial curricula, methods, etc. Some freedom-loving education researchers have taken the course on how to bring about change and how to “identify resisters,” etc. (themselves!). Ronald Havelock has strong connections to UNESCO (United Nations). That the National Goals Panel, which includes elected officials (governors, legislators, etc.), could condone the use of manipulative change agent tactics (the above described National Goals Panel Community Action Kit reads like Ronald Havelock was the Project Director) is difficult to fathom. Do they know what is in this Kit? Do they feel that the restructuring of our nation a la Shirley McCune and Naisbett, i.e., the changing of our political/economic system from free enterprise/capitalist to corporate fascist/planned economy (merger of public and private sector) and from a constitutional representative republic to a participatory democracy (for proof see federally-funded education restructuring projects implemented in many states during past ten years) is so important that totalitarian methods must be used to reach consensus and approval? Don’t citizens have the right to make such important decisions related to the future of their children and nation at the ballot box, rather than having themselves subjected to a tax-funded manipulative brainwash in order to come to phony consensus? Opposition to OBE, Goals 2000 has been so intensive and effective that the education bureaucracy, in collusion with multinational corporations, has openly sunk to this incredibly totalitarian level in order to get acceptance at the local level of its international socialist lifelong dumbdown education/job training agenda. The Do-It-Yourself Kit for Education Renewal consists of four parts: (1) “Community Organizing Guide”—57 pages; (2) “Guide to Getting Out Your Message” [better titled “How to Manipulate the Media and the Taxpayers,” ed.]—74 pages; (3) “Resource Guide”—66 pages; and (4) “Guide to Goals and Standards”—38 pages. CALL NATIONAL GOALS PANEL AT 202-632-0952 TO REGISTER YOUR CONCERN OVER THE CONTENTS/METHODS RECOMMENDED IN THE PANEL’S COMMUNITY ACTION TOOLKIT . TELL THEM YOU WILL ASK YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES TO CALL FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S ACTIVITIES WHICH ARE WORKING AGAINST THE BEST INTERESTS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS, USING PSYCHOLOGI CAL MANIPULATION (DELPHI TECHNIQUE, GROUP PROCESS BRAINWASH METHODS, ETC.) TO GET COMMUNITY APPROVAL OF GOALS 2000. ASK THEM TO STOP DISTRIBUTION OF THE ACTION TOOL KIT UNTIL CONGRESS HAS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXAMINE ITS CONTENTS. ASK FOR A WRITTEN RESPONSE TO YOUR CONCERNS. CALL OR WRITE YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS REQUESTING A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF THE GOAL PANEL’S TOOLKIT DEVELOPED WITH YOUR TAX MONIES. Excerpts (verbatim quotes from the Tool Kit ) follow:

…Step 3: Describe Allies and Opponents; Identify Change Agents….

Step 1: Identify a Leadership Team. This section provides suggestions on how to find