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and “America 2000 Plan,” 278–279 and Anita Hoge, 221 biography of, 376

Abdela, Daphne, 29 Abeene, Pat, 347 Academy for Educational Development, 290 accelerated learning. See Superlearning Accelerated Schools, 435–436 Accomplishing Europe through Education and Training , 360–361 accountability, 4, 55, 191–192, 355 based on measurements of teacher quality, 296 damage resulting from, 429 Accountability in American Education: A Critique , 3–4 Acevedo, Jeronimo Saavedra, 360 ACHIEVE, 411–412 Achieve, Inc., 446 achievement, 295–296 Achievement Skills programs, 228–229 “ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies)—USSR Ministry of Education Commission on Education,” 231 Act 236 , 268 Action for Excellence , 73, 210 “Action Plan to Deal with Violence,” 453n Active Teaching, 226 Adams, Marilyn Jager, 172, 212, 417 Adler, Mortimer, 226, 280–281 adult education, A101–102 Adult Education Act , 133, 387 Adult Performance Level (APL) Study, 183, 196 Advanced Systems in Measurement and Evaluation, Inc., 274, 392–393 Adventuring, Mastering, Associating: New Strategies for Teach ing Children (Alexander Frazier), 288 Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 338 Agenda for the Nation (Kermit Gordon), 83 Aikin, Wilford M., 20–21 Akron (Ohio) Forum of Regional Collaboration to Develop Learning Strategies for the Global Economy, A127– 128 Akron Regional Development Board, 267–268 Albanese, J. Duke, 378, 431–432 Alber, Louis, 95

and Educational Excellence Network, 352 education restructuring with Russia, 188, 290 as Governor of Tennessee, 239, 274 and national curriculum plans, 244 and National Governors’ Association, 299 and national standards for education, 357–359 Alinsky, Saul, 376

Alioto, Robert F., 136 Allen, Adrienne, 363 Allen, Dwight D., 101 Allen, Richard, 304 All Our Children Learning (Benjamin Bloom), 171 Allport, Gordon, A60 Allyn, David, 49 “Alternative Assessment of Student Achievement: The Open Book Test” (Thomas A. Kelly), 322–323 “Alternative Futures for Our Society and Implications for Edu cation” (Harold Pluimer), 173 alternative life styles, 132 America, as socialist democracy, 59–60, 280–281 America’s Choice: High Skills or Low Wages! , 271, 329, A73 “America’s Next Twenty-Five Years: Some Implications for Education” (Harold Shane), 139–140 America 2000 , 147, 300, 334. See also Goals 2000 (Educate America Act) and Chester Finn, 385 and NASDC, 298 unveiling of, 254–255 America 2000: An Education Strategy (Rev.)—Making This Land All That It Should Be , 278–279 “America 2000 Plan,” 278–279 American Academy of Political and Social Science, 18, A24 American Assembly, 60 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 14, A112 American Association of Enterprise Zones, 377 American Association of School Administrators (AASA), 270, 290, A38 with Citizens for Excellence in Education, 347–348 and An Educator’s Guide to Schoolwide Reform , 434–436 American Association of School Librarians, 339 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 13, 350, A21 American Council for Collaboration in Education and Language

Albright, Madeline, 36 Alesen, Lewis Albert, 49 Alexander, Lamar, 235

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