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and B.F. Skinner, 13, 105, 190 and Competency-Based Education (CBE), 73 connection to Effective Schools Research, 168 dangers of, 339, 340 definition of, 233 “driving force” of, 353 emphasis on outputs, 37, 142 first experiment with, 3–4 and funding of H.R. 6, 286–287 linked to Programmed Instruction, xxvi and Mastery Learning, 193–194, 370 National Conference of (Second Annual), 240–241 opposition to, 302, 352 and Outcomes , 193, 277–278, 313–314 and removal of Carnegie Unit, 21

277–278 Parent Action, 441 “Parental Involvement In Education” (James S. Coleman), 300 parent education programs, 433–434 parenting, 113 “Parent Report Cards,” 433–434 Parents as Teachers (PAT), 301–302, 417, 448 “Parents Fear ‘Big Brother’ Aspect of New Concept” (Monica Lanza), 125–126 “Parents Turn to Tutors: Rebellion against Whole Language” (Rosalind Rossi, Sharon Cotliar), 366 “Parents Who Care,” 209 Parker, Alan, 299 Parker, Kathleen, 409–410 Parkyn, George W., 98 Participatory Democracy, 85, 111 Partners for Quality Learning, 313–314. See also Mastery Learning PARTNERSHIP, 189 Partnership of Kentucky School Reform, 333 Partnerships in Character Education Pilot Projects Program, 421 “Partners in a Global Economy Working Group,” 411–412 Pascarelli, Joseph T., 125–126

reports of failures of, 355–356 school violence as result of, 319 and Terrell H. Bell, 124–125 in Utah, 161, 215 and William Spady, 201 Outcome-Based Education Conference, 240–241 Outcome-Based Instructional Management: A Sociological Perspective (William Spady), 181 Outcomes , 193, 233, 277–278, 313–314 Outcomes Accreditation, 240 Outcomes-Driven Developmental Model (ODDM) (John Cham plin), 217, 218 Outline of Educational Psychology, Revised (Rudolph Pintner et al.), 1, 6n Out of the Night: A Biologist’s View of the Future (Hermann Muller), 35 Ovard, Glen, 100 “Overcoming Resistance and Facilitating Change: The NTL Institute’s Approach,” 309 Overhold, George E., 3–4 Overly, Norman, 96 Pacer Systems, Inc., 344 Pacesetters in Innovation , 56, 126, 207 Pacesetters in Innovation: Cumulative Issue of All Projects in Operation as of February 1969 , 84 Pacific and Manhattan institutes, 202 Packard, Vance, A146 Packer, Arnold, 266–268, A46 Paidea Proposal (Mortimer Adler), 281 Paideia Proposal, 226 Palermini, Anthony, 338 Paley, William, 12 “Panel: Make Education Career-Focused,” 402 Papert, Seymour, 251, 382 “Paradigm Change: More Magic than Logic” (John C. Hillary), P

Pasch, Marvin, 220 Passow, Harry, 197 Paton, William, 33 Patrick Henry College, 437–438 Patterson, Chris, 383–385 Pavlov, Ivan, 3, 13, 75 and behavioral psychology, 118, A58–60 and classical conditioning, A123 and operant conditioning, 2 and Soviet psychiatry, 49 theories of, 50, 58, 99 “Payment for Results,” 4 Pease, Marilyn, 395–396 Peavey, Melia, 344 Peavey Electronics Corporation, 344 Peccei, Aurelio, A169 Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire), 237

Pederson, Barbara, 339 Pedamorphosis, Inc., 152 Pennington, Hilary C., 327, A96 Pennsylvania, 133, 144, 399 Pennsylvania’s Contemporary Life Competencies, 134 Pennsylvania’s Ten Quality Goals, A18–22 Pennsylvania Educational Quality Assessment, 348–349, 393 Pennsylvania State Board of Education, A17–22 Pennsylvania State College, 23 People’s Republic of Bulgaria, 147 People’s Republic of China, 296–297, 338–339, A47

People’s Republic of Hungary, 147 People’s Republic of Poland, 147