Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

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Connecticut, 144 Connecticut Assessment of Educational Progress (CAEP), 178 Connecticut State Board of Education, 178 Connecting Learning Assures Successful Students (CLASS), 339 Connections and Conflicts of Interest (Or, There Ought To Be an Investigation!) (Billy Lyon), 297–301 Consolidated and Reformed Education, Employment, and Rehabilitation Systems Act (CAREERS) (H.R. 1617), 355, 370, A72–80 Conspiracy of Good Intentions (A): America’s Textbook Fiasco (Harriet Tyson), 400–401 Constitution of the United States of America , 27, 176, 226 “Content of Our Kids’ Tests Shouldn’t Be Secret” (Margaret Sitte), 348–349 Continuous Development—Mastery Learning, 79 Continuous Progress, 315 Coontz, Stephanie, 103 Cooper, William, 104 Cooperating School Districts of the St. Louis Suburban Area, 234 “Cooperation in Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training between the European Community and the United States of America,” 390, 402 “Cooperative Effort Is Needed (A): Can Our Schools Get Better?”, 219 cooperative learning, 233, 239, 247 Cooperative Procedures in Learning (Alice Miel), 46 “Cooperative Umbrella (The),” 239 Copen Foundation, The, A139 Copperman, Paul, A146 “Cop Swap: His Beat Is Leningrad but He’s on Loan to LAPD— His Local Host Will Visit U.S.S.R” (Bob Pool), 279 Core Knowledge Sequence (E.D. Hirsch), A127–130 core learning standard, 298 Cornell University, 75, 351, A22 Correll, Shirley, 84 Corrigan, Betty O., 91, 193, 217, A27–31 Corrigan, Dean, 88 Corrigan, Robert E., 91, 193, 217–218, A27–31 Corrigan, Ward, 217 Cortes, Ernesto, Jr., 371, 376 “cosmic education,” 9 Cotliar, Sharon, 366 “Cottage Grove Endures Trials, Triumphs as It Tests New School Plan,” 343–344 Council of Chief State School Officers, 128, 169, 184, 306, 328, A81–82 “Contract with America,” 179 Control Data Corporation, 176 “Controlled Environment for Social Change,” 109 Conway, Flo, A146 Cook, Desmond, A35 Cooke, Terence Cardinal, 176

Council of State Governments, 77 Council on Foreign Relations, 12, 183, 232, A155 endorsing of world government, 13, 18 establishment of, 12

and Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., 376 and William Boyce Thompson, 10

Council on Foundations, 252 Council on Intergovernmental Relations, 200 counseling, effects on students, 202 Country School of Tomorrow (The): Occasional Papers No. 1 , 9 Counts, George, 18–19, 24 Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky), 273, 320–321, 389 Course Goals Collection (Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory), 167–168 Cox, E.E., 48 Crampton, Stephen M., 369 Craven, Avery O., 24 Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave (Alvin and Heidi Toffler), 303 “Creating Cultural Change: The Key to Successful Total Quality Management (Philip E. Atkinson), A135 “Creating Learning Organizations: Growth through Quality,” 310 “Creating the Twenty-First Century,” 284–285 Cremin, Lawrence A., 152 criterion-referenced testing, 286–287, A154, A164–165 critical thinking, 249 Cronin, Hines, A27 Crossete, Barbara, 388 Crowder, Norman, 217 Cruel and Usual Punishment: Forced Labor in Today’s USSR (AFL/CIO), A137 “C.S. Lewis on Liberal Arts Education” (Gregory Dunn), 140 “Cuban Children Combine Studies, Work,” 135–136 Cuddy, Dennis, 3, 6n, 15n, 210, 298, 410–412 Cueter, Barbara, 232 Culverwell, Wendy, 401 Cumming, Doug, 407–408 Cunningham, Luvern, 141, 164–167, 263, 287, 437 Cunningham, William, 107–108 Cuoco, Al, 396–397 Cuomo, Mario M., A73, A112 Curran, Edward, 118, 125, 161, 192, A41 Current Biography , 142 curriculum development, A136–139 Curriculum for Meeting Modern Problems (The New Model Me) , 124 Curriculum for Personalized Education (A) (Robert Scanlon), 127 “Cyber High School,” 260 cybernetics, 49–50, A25 Cybernet Systems Company, 344 “Cyberspace and the American Dream,” 303, 452n, A49