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Boston University, 219–220 Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character, 312, 351, 421 Bottomly, Forbes, 128

M:ACOS (Man: A Course of Study) , 226, A63–64 In Search of Mind , A57 Bryan, William Jennings, 13 Buckley, Mel, A27 Buckley, William F., 360 Budapest International Seminar on Educational Technology, 147 Buddhism, 22 “Building a Foundation for Life-Long, Self-Directed Learning,” 412–413 Bulletin (National Association of Secondary School Princi pals), 184 Bundy, McGeorge, 141 Burchett, B.R., 30–31 Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), 444 Bureau of Planning and Development of the California State Department of Education, 96 Burstall, Clare, 177, 244, 357 Bush, Barbara, 188, 289, 351 Bush, George, 12, 243, 254–255 administration of, 274 and Education Summit (1989), A73 and Lamar Alexander, 278–279 The National Youth Apprenticeship Act , 301 and New American School Development Corporation (NASDC), 290, 298 Points of Light, 179 School-to-Work Opportunities Act , 357–359 Six Ambitious Goals, 273 support of Edison Project, 299 voucher program, for private schools, 289, 301 Bush, Jeb, 243 Bushnell, David S., 68 Business and Education Reform: The Fourth Wave—A Research Report , 331–332 Business Roundtable (The), 273 Buzbee, Sally Streff, 349–350 Burit, Kent Garland, 135 Burke, Robert H., 97–98 Burkhart, Pat, 248 Burningham, Leland G., 141, 215 Burns, Christine, 412–413 Burns, M. Susan, 212, 417 Burns, Robert, 216

Bottoms, Gene, 307 Bowen, Charles, 177 Bowen, Robert, 398 Bowman, Barbara T., 417 Bowman, Isaiah, 24 Boyce, Eugene Maxwell, 198, 310, 317, 355, 451n Boyer, Ernest L., 80, 217, 226, A46, A51 Boyer, Marilyn, 339–341 brain-compatible learning, 339–341 brainwashing, xiii, 209, 346, A143–145 in Red China, 398 reversing the process in America, 450

and sensitivity training, 131–132 and Tactics for Thinking, 248–249 techniques of, 49 Brainwashing (Edward Hunter), 209, 264n Brainwashing in Red China: The Men Who Defied It (Edward Hunter), 209, 264n, 450 Brameld, Theodore, 11 Brandt, Ronald, 135, 169, 248, 249 Brandwein, Paul, 78 Branscomb, Lewis M., 235–236 Braun, Greg, 279 Braun, William J., Sr., 415 Brave New Schools (Berit Kjos), 348–349 Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), 17, 18, A91 Breasted, James, 206 Breedlove, Carolyn, 409 Bremerton Sun (Washington), 263 “Bridging the Atlantic People-to-People Links,” 411–412 “Brief Description of Intervention,” 116 Brigham Young University, 100 Brighton, Suzanne, 439 British Columbia Teacher’s Federation, 291–292, 451n “Broad-Gauged Research/Reform Plan for Secondary Educa tion—In the Tradition of the Eight-Year Study” (Project on Alternatives in Education (PAE), 169 Broady, Stephen, 203–204 Brock, William E., 327, 330, 451n Brock Group (The), 327 Bronfenbrenner, Urie, 69, A22 Brookings Institution, 299–300, A91

Brooklyn College, 96–97 Brookover, Wilbur, 217 Broome, Edwin C., 31, 38 Brown, Jed, A122–125 Brown, Mary V., 68

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California, 127, 144 California Assembly (The), 76

Browning, Dominique, 297 Brown University, 218, 351 Bruner, Charles, 443 Bruner, Jerome C., 114, 117, 132, A57–59

California Journal on Teacher Education , 264n California Learning Assessment System, 393 California Medical Association, 49 California Republican Women’s Federation, 110