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Spatz), 310 Democratic Leadership Council, 376 Denton, Carol, 109 Department of Education (U.S.), 77, 95, 124, 211–213, A46 and America 2000 , 278–279 and Charlotte Iserbyt, xix, A65 and development of character education, 228–229 funding of projects/organizations, 105, 150, 169, A37 and Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 107, 167 and Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children , 416–417 proposal to abolish, 192 and Reach for the Stars: A Proposal for Education Reform in Georgia , 287 and Research for Better Schools, 127 and Together We Can: A Guide for Crafting a Pro-family System of Education and Human Services , 439 “Totalitarian Data-Gathering System Prepared by U.S. Department of Education,” A81–89 Department of Education’s Joint Dissemination Review Panel (JDRP), 81 Department of Health and Human Services (U.S), 443 Department of Health, Education and Welfare (U.S.) (HEW), 155, 170, 213, 236, and Behavioral Science Teacher Education Program (BSTEP), 72, A23–26 Catalog of Assistance , 126 Federal Education Agency for the Future (A) , 64 funding of projects/organizations, 120, 128, A66 and Project Follow Through, 75 and Together We Can: A Guide for Crafting a Pro-family System of Education and Human Services , 439 Designs for Change, 79 Des Moines Register , A46 “Despite Heavy Funding Public Schools Showing Marks of Internal Crumbling,” 418 Detroit News , 341–342 Deutsch, Albert, 39 Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik, 18 Developing a System of Skill Standards for the State of Texas , 329 Development of Educational Technology in Central and Eastern Europe Studies , 142, 147 Dewey, John, 1, 29, 99, A61 “Father of Progressive Education,” 3 Humanist Manifesto , 17, 21 influence of, on others, 31, 345 literacy, beliefs about, 8 and math “dumb down,” 14–15 Department of Justice (U.S.), 445 Department of Labor (U.S.), A48 Department of State (U.S.), A137 DePaul University, 362–363 DePencier, Ida B., 6n Derthick, Lawrence G., 146, 57

Daggett, Willard, 196, 260, 306 and Effective Schools Conference (Sixteenth Annual), 420 and International Center for Leadership in Education, 307–308, 406–407, 451n and Model School systems, 319, 334–336 and school-to-work, 413–414 Daily Progress (The) (Charlottesville, Virginia), 239 Daily Record (The) (North Carolina), 411–412 Daily Worker (The) , 134 Daily World (The) , 134 Dallas Morning News (The) , 105–106, 222 Daly, John, 223 Dalryrmple, Theodore (Anthony Daniels), 244, 359 Damon, William, 351 Danforth Foundation, 152, 284–285 dangan, 294 Danielson, Charlotte, 159, 168 Dan Smoot Report (The) , 67 Danziger, Sheldon, A46 Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (George Counts), 18–19 “Darling Center Hosts UNESCO Conference,” 409 Darrow, Clarence, 8, 13 Darwinism, 57, 368 Davis, Malcolm, 179–180 Dawson, Dorothy, 31, 38 Day, Edmund E., 24 Day, Jim, 415–416 Dean, Beverly, 304–305 death education, xxvi, 145, 203, 280 Debeauvais, Michael, 194–195 “Decade of the Nineties (The)” (Donald Thomas), 256–257 Declaration of Independence , 67, 140–141 “Declaration of Interdependence (A): Education for a Global Community” (NEA), 133 “Declaration of Interdependence (A)” (Henry Steele Com mager), 132–133 “Decline of Textbooks, Change,” 101 Decroly, Ovid, A62 “Defining Functional Literacy” (Paul Delker), 196 Defino, Maria E., 191 deFosset, Shelley, 394–395 delayed reinforcement, 116 Delker, Paul, 196 Della-Dora, Delmo, 288 Delphi Technique, 52, 59, 166, A66 Delta Consulting, 447 Deming, W. Edwards, 283, 310, 314, 451n, A132 “Deming Lashes Out in Live Teleconference on Quality” (Don David Douglas High School, 337 Davies, Don, 88, 152, 188, 338–339