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Churchill, Andrew M., 327 Church Universal and Triumphant, 9 Circles of Learning: Cooperation in the Classroom, Rev. Ed. (D.W. Johnson, R.T. Johnson, Edith Johnson Holubec), 239 “Circular Causal and Feed-Back Mechanisms in Biology and Social Systems,” 50 Citicorp, 344 Citizen’s Handbook (A): The Kentucky Education Reform Act— Historical Background, Provisions, Time Line, Questions and Answers, Court Cases, Overview , 263 civic renewal, 373 Civil War, 307, 318 Clark, Joseph S., 66 Clark, Kenneth B., 83 “Classroom Brain-Watchers?” (Kathleen Parker), 409–410 Classroom Management, 81 Clavell, James, 70, A149 Clay, William, Sr., 415 Clem, Tim, A132 Clements, Barbara S., A82 Clemson University, 393–394 Clendenin, John, 344 Cleveland, Sarah H., A112 Clinic Service/Family Counseling Center of the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 441 and character education programs, 421–422 and Charter School Expansion Act of 1998 , 424 and Community-Oriented Policing (COP), 444–445 and computers, 381 and education legislation, 402 endorsement of New Transatlantic Agenda (NTA), 359–361 Goals 2000 Act (Educate America Act) , 323 as Governor of Arkansas, 268 and Mikhail Gorbachev, 308 plan to prevent school violence, 410 School-to-Work Opportunities Act , 330, 357–359 signing of Workforce Investment Act (H.R. 1385), 416 visit to Tiananmen Square, 391 “Clinton Charm Gets Rio Workout,” 386 Club of Rome, A169, A174 “Clusters Promote Community Growth,” 439 Coalition of Essential Schools (CES), 24–25, 141, 217–218, 326, 435 Common Principles of, 333 reports of failure of outcome-based education in, 355 and Theodore Sizer, 344–345 Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 85, 235, 302 Clinton, William Jefferson (President), 28 AmeriCorps, 179 Citizens for Excellence in Education, 343 Citizenship Assessment (1969–1970), 178 “City’s Dream Unfulfilled (A),” 219 Civic Practices Network, 374

Cocking, Walter D., 38, A5 cognitive psychology, 247 Cohen, Alan, 173, 197, A127 Cohen, Michael, 172, A56, A96 Coker, Homer, 193, A27 Cold War, A63 treatise on, 44 Cole, Michael, 262, A139 Cole, Paul F., 330 Cole, Thomas W., Jr., A112 Coleman, James S., 300 collaboration, to effect reform, 331–334 Collaborative Design and Developmental Program, A103–104, A108 collectivism, 24, 33 College Entrance Examination Board, 91 Collins, James, 310 Collins, Kathy L., 241 and Dale Mann, 243 and Harold Rugg, 64 and “Knowing: How We Come to Know Things,” 322– 323 and Preservice Teacher Education Program, 114 and Sue E. Berryman, 244 Columbia University, 188, 443 Business School, 447 Columbine High School (Colorado), 319 Columns (University of Georgia), 425 Coming Revolution in Education (The): Basic Education and the New Theory of Schooling (Eugene Maxwell Boyce), 198 Comings, John, 290 “Coming Soon to a School Near You: Forced Labor” (Paul Mulshine), 427–428 Commission for the Blind (Texas), 384 Commission on the Year 2000, A24 Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Educa tion, 416 Commission on Education and Public Policy, 211 Commission on Excellence (Terrell H. Bell), 190, A29 Commission on International Cooperation in Education, 96 Commission on National and Community Service, 377 Commission on Reading (U.S. Dept. Of Education), 211–212 Commission on Skills of the American Workforce (U.S. Dept. of Labor), 329, 452n, A73 Commission on the Relation of School and College of the Progressive Education Association, 20–21 Commission on the Social Studies, 18 Commission to Study the Basis of a Just and Durable Peace, Colorado, xxvi, 29, 144, 318–320 Columbia Broadcasting System, 12 Columbia Teachers College, 4, 197 and Alice Miel, 46 Commager, Henry Steele, 132–133 Commerce Department (U.S), 384