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National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), 91 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 64, 91, 186, 238 and Educational Testing Service (ETS), 210 forerunner of, 69 Measuring the Quality of Education: Conclusions and Sum mary , 176–179 and North Dakota student scores, 348–349 and Roy Forbes, 187 testing of students, 56, 286 test items, 227–228, 349 work with England, 244, 357 National Assessment of Vocational Education, 245 National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), 258, 264n National Association of Counties (The), 77 National Association of Directors of Education Research (American Educational Research Association), 12 National Association of Elementary School Principals, 434–436 National Association of School Psychologists, 410 National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), 180, 184, A140 National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, 378 National Board for Professional and Technical Standards, A103–107 National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, 235, 256, 269, 417, A55 National Board for Student Achievement Standards, A104, A110 National Book Company, 98 National Center for Children in Poverty, 443 National Center for Citizen Involvement, 176, 179, 202 National Center for Educational Outcomes, 311, A93 National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), 64, 295-296, 430, A45, A76 Educational Records and Reports Series , A37 Financial Accounting: Classifications and Standard Termi nology for Local and State School Systems, Handbook II , 451n and SPEEDE Express, 306, A47 National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, 377 National Center for Policy Analysis, 299 National Center for Privatization, 202 National Center for Reconciliation and Educational Reform, 343 National Center for Research in Vocational Education, 272, A78 National Center for Services Integration (NCSI) of Mathtec, Inc., 443, 441 National Center for Student Aspirations, 431 National Center on Adult Literacy, 440 National Center on Education and Employment, 245 National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), 83, 218

America’s Choice: High Skills or Low Wages! , 271 Board of Trustees, A112 and Human Resources Development System, 279, A72–80, A96 and Marc Tucker, 302 “The National Alliance for Restructuring Education: Schools and Systems for the 21st Century,” 269, A52 National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators (NCITE), 387, 417, A91–92 National Citizens Alliance (NCA), 249–250 National Civic League, 374 National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education (NCPIE), 189 National Commission on Civic Renewal, 371–378 National Commission on Excellence in Education, 196–197 National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, 377 National Committee for Citizens in Education, 188 National Convention of Women for Constitutional Govern ment, 10 National Convocation on Pre-College Education in Math and Science, 182 National Council for Educational Excellence, 145–146 National Council for Educational Research (NCER), 210, 248 National Council for the Social Studies, 149 National Council of Churches, 144 National Council on Educational Research, 98, 168, 238–239 national curriculum, development of, 176–179, 251, A70 National Defense Education Act , 53, 62 National Defense Education Act Amendment of 1961—Addi tional Views , 63–65 National Diffusion Network (NDN), 189, 207, A91, A144– 147 catalog of, 130–131, 158n function of, 91n funding of ECRI, 81 and National Education Goals, 268 as “transmission belt” for federally funded programs, 56, 123–124 National Education Association (NEA), 113, 144, 156, A128–129 “A Broad-Gauged Research/Reform Plan for Secondary Edu cation—In the Tradition of the Eight-Year Study,” 169 “A Declaration of Interdependence: Education for a Global Community,” 133 agency for human relations training (brainwashing), 38 Bicentennial Idea Book, 140–141 and Catherine Barrett, 139 Department of Education (U.S.), 151 Educational Policies Commission (EPC), 19–20 and An Educator’s Guide to Schoolwide Reform , 434–436 as a federally chartered association, 8 funding of projects/organizations, 96, A60 and Mary Hatwood Futrell, 236 Mastery in Learning Project, 222–223, 226–227