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32 Committee for Economic Development (CED), 273, 308, 352, 377 Committee on Assessing the Progress of Education, 72 Committee on Coordinating Educational Information and Research (CCEIR), 169 Committee on Education and Labor (U.S. House of Representa tives), 356–359 Committee on Mission and Organization (Dept. of HEW), 62 Committee on Performance-based Teacher Education, A32 Committee on the Emergency in Education, 22–23 Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, 172, 212, 416 Committee to Frame a World Constitution, 280 Common Sense of Politics (The) (Mortimer Adler), 280 Communication Arts Framework for the High School Proficiency Test , 323–326 Communism agenda of, A171 in America’s schools, 30–31 and connections with America, 44 and Hegelian Dialectic, xvii ideology of, 198 “Communism Comes to Texas Public Education,” 383–385 Communist China, 104, 135 Communist Party, 294, A47, A138, A140 Communist Party of the United States of America, 17, 19 Communist Youth League, 294 communitarianism, 85, 405 Communitarian Network, 374, 376 Communities and Their Schools (Don Davies), 88, 151 Community Action Toolkit , 315, 338–339, 359, A65–71 Community-Centered Schools: The Blueprint for Montgomery County Schools (Maryland), 31, 37–38, A5–6, A140 Community Cluster Care Teams, 439 Community Education, 85, 253, 443 Community Learning Information Network, Inc. (CLIN), 296–297, 338–339, 451n Community-Oriented Policing Services Program (COPS), 444–445 Community Partnerships, 448 Together We Can: A Guide for Crafting a Pro-family System of Education and Human Services , 439, 447–449 Community Research Associates, 445 Community Schools of Rochester City School District, 441 Community Update , 438 “company schools,” 287 Comparative Education Review , A137 Comparative Human Relations Initiative Consultation, 399–400 Comparative Learning Teams Project, 327, 329 competency-based admissions, 430 “Competency-Based Education: A Bandwagon in Search of a Definition” (William G. Spady), 143–144 Competency-Based Education (CBE), 73, 134–144, A41,

A44–45 competency-based teacher education, 154 “Competency Tests Set in 26 Schools: New Curriculum Shifts Teaching Methods in District,” 146, 215–216 “Competitiveness Illusion (The): Does Our Country Need to Be Literate in Order to Be Competitive? If not, Why Read?” (Peter Shaw), 307–308 Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian World view, Volume One: A Christian View of Philosophy and Culture , 185–186 computer-assisted instruction, 174, 251, 381–383, A127–128 “Computer Delusion (The)” (Todd Oppenheimer), 381–383 Computer in American Education (Don D. Bushnell and Dwight W. Allen), 75 computers, 75, 213, 424, A176 aspects of use, 273 “Can Computers Teach Values?”, 184–185 “Children, Computers, and Education,” 250–251 Computers in Education: Realizing the Potential , 196 games for, xxvi as an operant conditioning machine, 319 as replacement for textbooks, 400–401 “The Computer Delusion,” 381–383 and U.S.-Soviet Education Agreements, 229–230 Computers in Education: Realizing the Potential (U.S. Depart ment of Education), 196 ComSpeak 2050: How Talking Computers Will Recreate an Oral Culture by Mid-21st Century (William Crossman), 264n Comstock, Ada, 24 Conant, James B., 73, 210 Concept Attainment Strategy (Jerome Bruner), 226 Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM), 151, 191 “Conclave of the Change Agents” (Barbara M. Morris), 144 Conclusions and Recommendations: Report of the Commission on the Social Studies (American Historical Association), 18, 23–24 Conclusions and Recommendations for the Social Studies (Carnegie Corporation), 17, 265 Conditioned Reflex Therapy (Andrew Salte), 49 conditioning, 196–197, A20, A122–123. See also behaviorism; operant conditioning explanation of, 115–116, 119–120 “Conditioning of America (The)” (Dennis Cuddy), 3 Condition of Education (The) , xxi Conference Board (The), 333–334, 447 Conference of Allied Ministers of Education, 38

Congressional Budget Office, 92n Congressional Digest (The) , 36 Congressional Record , 410–412, 415, A156

Congressional Record of the United States Senate (1917), 10 Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 82nd Congress, First Session , 43–44 “Congress to Expand Education Savings,” 401–402 Conlan, John, 132