Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

Appendix XIX

“Taxonomy”

Excerpts from a newsletter from an Education Researcher, 1 written in 1980.

1980: Mrs. Margaret Oda of the Hawaii Department of Education mentioned that much help had come in Hawaii’s curriculum from Madelyn Hunter’s Elementary Laboratory School at the University of California, at Los Angeles. The Publisher of this newsletter wrote Madelyn Hunter and obtained data on her teaching concepts. In the material which she sent to us, the elusive term “Taxonomy” surfaced once again. On page 2 of “Audio Visual Materials” which she sent, two films are listed: Item 2: “Objectives in the Cognitive Domain.” In a clear and comprehensive language Dr. Hunter teaches the 6 levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy Of Educational Objectives: Handbook I: Cognitive Domain. Once again, as Taxonomy emerged, the Publisher of this newsletter decided it was time to see what the educational Master Planners had in mind for America’s children. In the material which follows, we will focus our attention mostly on the Affective Domain since space does not allow us to consider all three domains. And, because from a relevant standpoint, it is the Affective Domain which should receive our immediate attention, since that is one of the domains which [our state’s] own Accountability Resolution embraces. We have read many descriptions from many articles of Taxonomy , but after reading the plan itself felt actual excerpts were the only way to do justice to a plan which otherwise might have been cast off as a figment of our imagination. Excerpts from [ Taxonomy of Educational Objectives ] Handbook II follow: Item 3: “Objectives in the Affective Domain.” With remarkable clarity Dr. Hunter teaches the Krathwohl Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Handbook II: Affective Domain .

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