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Study (ACCELS), 419 American Council of Learned Societies, A139 American Council of Teachers of Russian, A140 American Council on Education, 91 American Educational Computer, A37–38 American Educational Research Association, 198, 326, A159 and persons involved with, 201, 220, 236 writing to clarify values, use of, 223 American Enterprise Institute, 176 American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc., 344 American Family Association Journal , 418 American Family Association Law Center, 369, 452n American Federation of Labor/Council of Industrial Organiza tions (AFL/CIO), 177, 330, A137 American Federation of Teachers (AFT), 81, 290, 327, A128–A130 and Albert Shanker, 236, 256, 285 and An Educator’s Guide to Schoolwide Reform , 434–436 Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, 302 and Reach for the Stars: A Proposal for Education Reform in Georgia , 287 American Flag Committee, 43 American Historical Association, 18, 23 American Humanist Association, 21, 71, 192–193 Free Inquiry , 241 American Institute for Character Education (AICE), 229, 375, 389–390, 419 American Institute for Research, 434–436, A7, A12, A48 American Law Institute Model Penal Code Committee, 40 American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), 338 “American Malvern,” 32–33 American Personnel and Guidance Association, 145, 203 American Psychological Association, A152–153 American Road to Culture (The) (George Counts), 18 American School Board Journal , 414 American Sexual Behavior and the Kinsey Report (Morris Ernst and David Loth), 39 American Stock Exchange, 176 American Volunteer, 1981 (The): Statistics on Volunteers , 179 Anacostia High School, 331 Anaheim Bulletin , 90–91 Anderson, John, 376 Anderson, Karen, 299 Anderson, Robert, 100 Anderson, Ronald, 422 Anderson, Tucker, 299 “And It Came to Pass,” 95–96 “And You Thought American Schools Were Bad” (Theodore Dalrymple), 244, 359 Anita Hoge/Pennsylvania case, 221, 348–349 Annenberg, Walter H., 218, 355 Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 218 Annual National Convention of Professors of Educational Administration (34th), 164 Anrig, Gregory, 152, 177

Apple Computer, Inc., 290, 302, A112 Applied Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Inc., 147 Appraising and Recording Student Progress: Evaluation Records and Reports in the Thirty Schools (Eugene R. Smith, Ralph W. Tyler), 21 apprenticeships, 437–438, A97, A104 history of, xx “Appropriate Education in the Primary Grades: A Position State ment of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC),” 258 Aramony, William, 175 A.R.A. Services, Inc., 235–236 “Are Basic Skills a Casualty of KERA?—Are state tests causing teachers to underemphasize basic skills?”, 274 Aristotle, xiii Arizona, 132, 144, A130–131 Arizona Federation of Teachers, 81, 191–192

Arizona Forum (The) , 191–192 Arizona Republic (The) , 424 Arkansas, 29 Armco Steel, 176 Arms Control and Disarmament Act , 65

Armstrong, Andrew C., 4 Armstrong, Jane, 270–271 Arthur, Corey, 29 Arthur Andersen & Co., 268

Arts and the Schools (Jerome J. Hausman), 152, 397–398 “Arts Education: A Cornerstone of Basic Education,” 397– 398 Ash, Roy, 112 Ashbrook, John M., 56, 62, 66 Ashland Oil, 333 Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 136, 281 Assagioli, Roberto, 73–74, 229, 264n, 427 assessment, 235–236, 298, 329, A44–51 authentic, 159 need for statewide, 286–287 needs, A39–40 use of tests in, 124–125 Assessment Framework for the Michigan High School Profi ciency Test in Reading, 325–326 Association for Educational Computing and Technology (AECT), 93–94, 113, 170–171, A35–38 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), 311–312, 350 “21st Century Report Card,” 284–285 and agreements of William Spady and Robert Simonds, 347–348 Annual Conference (1978), 148 Celebration of Neurons (A): An Educator’s Guide to the Human Brain , 341 Curriculum Update , 397–398 Educational Leadership , 135, 148, 155, 204 Education Update , 202, 248 “Elementary Education for the 21st Century: A Planning