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I–28 Marxist-Hegelian dialectic, 176 Maryland, 37–38, 144, 204–205 Maryland State Board of Education, 217 Maryland State Department of Education, 347 Maryland State Teachers’ Association, 207 Maryland Teacher , 31 Maryland Values Commission, 419 Marzano, Robert, 248

McDonnell Douglas Corporation, 377 McFarlin-Kosiec, Barbara, 401 McGill University, 417 McGraw, Onalee, 21 McGraw-Hill, 156 McGuire, Susan, A96 McKeachie, Wilbert James, 75 McKeon, Howard P. “Buck,” 415, A75 McKernan, John B., Jr., 272, 327 McLean, Paul, 340 McLemore, Judith, 287–288 McMurrin, Sterling M., 62 McMurtry, John, 292 McNary Area Service Learning Project, 347 McPhail, James, A27 McPherson, Robert, 327 McVey, Larry, 344 McWalters, Peter, A112

Maslow, Abraham, 228–229, 375–376, A60 Massachusetts Board of Education, 418 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), 392–393 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 382, A57, A58, A60 Massie, Bertram, 29, 52–53, 65, 69, 187, A22 Master Plan for Public Education in Hawaii—Toward a New Era for Education in Hawaii , 85–88, A55 Masters, Joan, 359–361 Mastery in Learning Project, 222, 264n Mastery Learning, 81, 197, 215, 234, 286, A43. See also Direct Instruction; Outcome-Based Education adaptations of, 313–314 and B.F. Skinner, 13 behavior modification method behind, 240–241 and Benjamin Bloom, 4, 124–125 components of, 198 and A Course Goals Collection , 168 definition of, 367–368 linked to Programmed Instruction, xxvi and Outcome-Based Education (OBE), A27–28, A38 and Planning, Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS), 84 removal of Carnegie Unit, 21 “Mastery Learning: The Current State of the Craft” (James Block), 118, 155–156 Mastery Learning Reconsidered (Robert Slavin), 224–225 Mastery Teaching, 233 math, 14–15, 46, 447 Matheson, Scott, 188 “Math Exam Rationale Doesn’t Add up: Simple Questions Are Often Posed in Unnecessarily Complex Ways,” 396–397 Mathtec, Inc., 443 “MCAS Tests Undermine Rights of Parents,” 395–396 McAuley, Joanne, 145–146 McCarthy, Bernice, 341 McCord, Joan, 202 McCune, Shirley, 171, 194, 261, 263 and GOALS 2000 /restructuring of schools, A65 The Light Shall Set You Free , 366–367 and Midcontinent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL), 377, A38 and “the radical center,” 349–350 McDonald’s USA, 344 McDonnell, Sanford, 377

Means, Barbara, 433 Medicaid, 154–155 Medicare, 35 Medlin, William K., 57 Meese, Edwin, 205, 328, A51 “Meeting the Future,” 173

Megatrends (John Naisbitt), 194, 452n Megatrends 2000 (John Naisbitt), 452n Meierhenry, Wesley, A35 Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler), 24–25 Melz, Barbara, A174 Mental Robots (Albert Lewis Alesen), 49

Merriam, Charles E., 24 Merton, Robert K., 152 metaphysics, 122 Metro United Way, 439 Michigan, 144, 405–407, 451n

Michigan Governor’s Advisory Council on Population, 109 Michigan High School Proficiency Communications Arts Frameworks, 311 Michigan Reading Association, 324–326 Michigan State Board of Education, 323–326, 405 Michigan State University, 72 and Behavioral Science Teacher Education Program (BSTEP), A23 Michigan Strategy Proposal for Drug and Violence Free Schools and Communities, 405 “Microcomputers in Today’s Schools,” 174 Midcontinent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL), 263, A38 and IMTEC, 312–313 and Shirley McCune, 194 Tactics for Thinking , 248–249, 261 Miel, Alice, 46 Mielke, Keith, A35 Mikhatshwa, Sangaliso, 399 Miller, Donald R., 83