Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

Appendix XXII

“The Thief of American Individualism: Total Quality Management and School-to-Work”

“The Thief of American Individualism: Total Quality Management and School-to-Work” by Tim Clem was published in the December 1996 (Vol. 2, No. 11) of The Christian Conscience . Virtually unknown to parents across the USA is the Federal School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA). For the first time in American history, Government and Business have joined together to educate children. Why is this unusual? Government and Business operate together in countries such as China, Germany, Russia, Japan and in third world countries, not the USA. Right now corporations, along with your local school system, are creating partnerships linking the Federal School-to-Work Opportunities Act with your local school district. Understanding the TQM Foundation School-to-Work is based on the foundation of Total Quality Management (TQM), also known as Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI). First introduced and rejected by U.S. companies in the post-World War II era, William Edwards Deming, the father of Quality, presented his theories to Japan and found himself welcomed as a national hero. Japan claimed that their social and economic turnaround came from Mr. Deming’s TQM theory. Since this turnaround, TQM has been implemented almost entirely within corporate America in hopes to mimic Japanese successes. Americans have been subjected to the thought that Japan and other countries such as Germany are ahead of the USA in technology and education. Education and business theorists believe that Americans must “benchmark” their schools and corporate management against the supposed successes of Japan and Germany. Their speculation is dead wrong. For example: ...[T]he American workforce is still 30% more productive than the Japanese. Sixty percent of American high school students are more likely to attend college than Japanese. There is no evidence that Japanese students learn more in school or that Japanese adults

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