Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

I–20 “Global Framework for Local Education,” 276–277 “Global Government’s Global Conscience,” xix “global integration,” 411–412 “Global Interdependence: The United States and the Third World,” 321 global skills standards, 412 global workforce training, 458 Glover, Robert W., 326–327, 329 Goal-based education. See Outcome-Based Education “Goal of Hong Kong Schools—Establishing Quality in Its Schools,” 380–381 Goals 2000 (Educate America Act) , 83, 167, 187, 268, 330, 353, 428, A65–66 and Chester Finn, 385 criticisms of, 370 first state to implement (Oregon), 336–338 as framework for H.R. 6, 317–318 Goal 6 as most important, 405–406 history of, 357–359, A73–75 and NASDC, 298 and National Issues in Education: Goals 2000 and School to-Work , 286 programs of, 364 reforms, 338–339 signing of, 323 “Goals and Objectives: Towards a National Curriculum?” (Joan Gubbins), 168, 238–239 Goals for American Education, 19 Goals for Americans, 58–60 Golden, Cecil, 111 Goldenberg, Claude N., 417 Goldman, Jay P., 242–243 Goldmark, Peter C., Jr., 376 Goldsborough, Robert H., 54n Goldseker Foundation, 377 Gollarz, Ray, 420 Gonzalez, Felipe, 359–361 Goodlad, John, 162, 169, 189, 226, A43 “A Cooperative Effort Is Needed: Can Our Schools Get Better?”, 219 A Report from the State Committee on Public Education to the California State Board—Citizens for the Twenty first Century—Long Range Considerations for California Elementary and Secondary Education , 91n “Learning and Teaching in the Future,” 81 Place Called School (A): Prospects for the Future , 151 Report to the President’s Commission on School Finance, Issue #9 “Strategies for Change,” 207 statements made by, 56, 106 Study of Schooling in the United States (A) (1979), 119, 151–152 Study of Schooling (The) (1973), 397 Goodling, William, 66, 415, A75–78 Goodman, John, 299 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 30, 45, 241

and Perestroika, 251, 280, A137 promoting a new world order, 308 U.S.-Soviet Education Agreements, 229–230, 279, 294, A140 Gordon, Kermit, 83 Gordon, Thomas, 117 Gore, Albert, Jr. (Al), 92n, 376, 421, A167 Gore, Bruce, 401 Goslin, Willard, 43 Gossens, Salvador Allende, 237 Gothard, Bill, 437 Gould, Arthur, 11 Gould’s medical dictionary, 49–50 Gould Academy, 38 “Governor with Principle Would Reject School-to-Work” (Paul Mulshine), 430–431 gradualism, xvii, xviii, 447, 455 “Graduates Lack Technical Training, Study Warns—By 1990, 2 Million May Not Have Essential Skills Needed for Employment in ‘Information Society’,” 186 Graham, Frank Porter, 394 Gramm, Phil, 297 Granite Communications, 307 Granite School District, 80 Grant High School, 337 Grasmick, Nancy S., 327, 343 Grasso, Christopher, 250 Grayson, Lawrence P., 137–138 Great American Con Game (Barbara Morris), 149 Great Books Foundation, 417 Great Depression, 23 “Greatest Subversive Plot in History: Report to the American People on UNESCO (The),” 43–44 Great Hall of the People, 104 Green, Andrew, 273 Green, Sharon Knotts, 327 Greenberg, Daniel, A46

Green Cross, A171 Greene, Bert I., 220 Gregg, Alan, 40 Griffin, Gary A., 191 Griffin, Peg, 212 Grisham, Hosea, A27 Groff, Patrick, 182 Gross, Martin, A146 Grossberg, Amy, 29

Grossen, Bonnie, A152 Grossman, Jerome, 344 “Group Supporting Paula Jones Case Sues Pasco Schools” (Wendy Culverwell), 401 Grover, Herbert J., 327 Guangming Daily , 262 Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM), xv, 174 Gubbins, Joan, 168, 238–239, 248 “Guided Affective Imagery.” See “Initiated Symbol Projec-