Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

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Index

Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities, 417 Center for Workforce Preparation, 377 Center of Advanced Mastery, A42 Center of the American Experiment Breakfast and Luncheon Forum Series, 385–386 Center on Education and Work, 429–430 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 38 Certificate of Initial Mastery (CIM), 242, 286, 294 National Center on Education and the Economy, 271

drop-out rate as result of, 362 “Chicago Statement on Education (The),” 276, 282 Chicago Sun Times , 362–363, 366 Chicago Tribune , 361–362 “City Schools Dropping Iowa Skills Tests,” 362 Child Abuse in the Classroom (Phyllis Schlafly), 124, 158n Child and Family Policy Center, 443 Child Development and Behavior Branch (CDBB) of the National Institute of Health, 386 Childhood Education , 113

in Oregon, 343–344, 355, A131 used as assessment, 329, A47 Challengers for Insight, 339–341, 452n Chamber of Commerce (United States), 377

Childhood in China (William Kessen), 135 “child in need of assistance” (CINA), 253–254 children gifted, 152–153, A9 as human “capital,” xxv, A44–51 as human resources, xi retarded, 8 Children’s Resources International, 395

Champlin, John, 193, 314 “change agent,” 207, 263

John Goodlad, 56 meaning of, 39, 55 Thomas A. Kelly, 160 Change Agent’s Guide to Innovation in Education (The) (Ronald G. Havelock), xvii, 120, 280, 296, 353, A65–A66 “Changing Admission Procedures in Four-Year Colleges to Support K-14 Reform,” 429–430 “Changing Conditions in American Schools” (Don Davies), 88 “Changing Teacher Practice: Final Report of an Experimental Study,” 191 Chao, Elaine, 376 Character Counts! Coalition, 351, 374 character education, 252, 351–352, 419 basis of, 228-229 “Character Education Catching on at Schools—Respect, Responsibility Emphasized,” 421–422 “Interest in Character Education Seen Growing,” 311–312 states involved in, 351 Williamsburg Charter Character Education Project, 377 Character Education: Lessons from the Past, Models for the Future , 252 “Character Education Catching on at Schools—Respect, Respon sibility Emphasized” (Anu Manchikanti), 421–422 Character Education Partnership, 374, 376, 377 Charles Schwab Corporation, 344 Charles Warren Center (Harvard University), 49 Charner, Ivan, 403 as unconstitutional (Utah), 422–423 Charter Schools Act (1998) , 422–423 “Charter Schools Bill Now Law,” 424 Chase Manhattan Bank, 299 Chauncey, Henry, 79 Chevron Conference on the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences (1995), 49 Chicago Board of Education, 78 Chicago Conference on Holistic Education (1990), 276 Chicago Mastery Learning Project, 79, 235, 241, A153 charter schools, 290, 317, 336, 352, 362–363, 448 and Charter School Expansion Act of 1998 , 424

Children’s Story (The) (James Clavell), 70, A149 “Children Are Not Chattel” (Kathy L. Collins), 241 “Children, Computers, and Education” (David Porteous), 250–251 Childs, Michael, 425 China, A171 China International Intellectual Resources Development Center for Children (CICC), 335 “China Orders Manual Labor for Students: Beijing Moves Again to Control Citizenry,” 262 “China Says Educators Sowed Seeds of Unrest,” 262 Chisholm, Brock (General), xix, 28, 42 choice, educational. See vouchers Choice in Education: Opportunities for Texas , 299 Chomsky, Noam, A57–58 Choosing Better Schools: Regional Strategy Meetings on Choice in Education , 300 Choosing Outcomes of Significance (William Spady), 354 Christian Coalition, 315, 349–350 Christian Conscience (The) , 405–406, 452n, A44, A90 Christian Legal Society, 438 Christians attacked by Green Utopians, A172–173 criticisms of, 418 and LIFEPAC curriculum, 222–223 and Mastery Learning, 367–368 morals of, 21–22 opposition to outcome-based education, 343, 347–348 traditions of, 27 utilizing Skinnerian methods of education, xxvii Christian Science Monitor (The) , 13–14, 135, 251 Christian Science Publishing Society, 251 Chronicles , 301–302 Chronology of Education with Quotable Quotes (Dennis Cuddy), 6n Chubb, John, 298–300, A91–92 Chugani, Harry, 382