Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

TABLE OF CONTENTS

xi

foreword

xiii

preface

xxiii

acknowledgments

xxv

introduction

1 THE SOWING OF THE SEEDS:

1

late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

2 THE TURNING OF THE TIDES:

7

early twentieth century

3 THE TROUBLING THIRTIES

17

4 THE FOMENTATION

27

of the forties and fifties

5 THE SICK SIXTIES: psychology and skills

55

6 THE SERIOUS SEVENTIES

93

7 THE “EFFECTIVE” EIGHTIES

159

8 THE NOXIOUS NINETIES

265

455 461 G–1 A–1

afterword resources glossary appendices

I–1

index

ix