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“People Control Blueprint” (Carol Denton), 109 People for the American Way (PAW), 349–350 People Shapers (The) (Vance Packard), A146 People Weekly , 29 Pepperdine University, 274 Perelman, Lewis, 139, 179, 303, A49–50 Perestroika, 251 Perfetti, Charles A., 417 Performance Accountability System for School Administrators (A) (Terrell H. Bell), 124–125, A35–39 Performance-Based Teacher Education (PBTE), 214, A32–34 Performance-Based Teacher Education: What Is the State of the Art? (Stanley Elam), 94, 105, A32–34 “permissive education,” 2 Perot, Ross, 227 “Perpetuation of Our Political Institution,” 44 Perpich, Rudy, 299, 300, A42 Personal Ethics and the Future of the World , 252 Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 2 Pett, Joel, 92n Pew Charitable Trusts, 371 Pew Partnership for Civic Change, 374 Performance-Based Education (PBE), 119 performance-Based systems, 94, 105, 159 Phi Delta Kappan , 94, 139–140, 154, A42 Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, 302 Philadelphia Record , 31 Philbrick, Herbert A., 49, 50 Philip Dru: Administrator (Edwin Mandell House), 12 Phillips Display Components, 344 Philosophy of Mankind (The) , xvi phonics instruction, 172, 181–182, A156 and Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Prin t (Marilyn Jager Adams), 417 and Whole Language, A62–64, A93–94 Physician’s Responsibility as a Leader (The) (Albert Lewis Alesen), 49 Piaget, Jean, A59, A63 Picadome Elementary (Kentucky), 305 Pictor, John, A27 Pierce, Chester M., 113 Pierce, Lawrence C., 136–137 Pierleone, Robert G., 101 Pietersen, William, 447 Pines, Marion, A46 “Ping Heard Round the World (The),” 104 Pino, Edward, 100 Pintner, Rudolph, 6n Place Called School (A): Prospects for the Future (John Good lad), 151 Planchon, Paul D., A82 “Plan for Action (A),” 451n Phelps, L. Allen, 429, 453n Phi Delta Kappa, 220, A32 Phi Delta Kappa Publications, 105

Plan for Evaluating the Quality of Educational Programs in Pennslyvania (A): Highlights of a Report from Educa tional Testing Services , 69–70, A17–22 Planned Change in Education: A Systems Approach (David Bushnell, Donald Rappaport), 68 planned economy, 205, 345–346. See also school-to-work “Planning Is Socialism’s Trademark” (Morris Zeitlin), 134 Planning, Programming and Budgeting Systems (PPBS), xvi, 65, 76, 84, 87–88, 142, 453n, A41–45, A152. See also Management by Objectives (MBO); Total Quality Man agement (TQM) and Elementary and Secondary Act (ESEA) of 1965 , 72 in “Georgia Schools OK Tracking Systems,” 407–408 and Management by Objectives (MBO), 124–125, 168 Mary Thompson’s speech regarding, 110–111 State Educational Records and Reports Series (NCES), 328 in use throughout all departments of federal government, 55, 73 Plattner, Andy, A96 Pluimer, Harold, 173 Points of Light, 179 “Policies on Missions for Educational Research and Develop ment Centers,” 210–213 “Policy about Policy: Some Thoughts and Projections” (Luvern Cunningham), 164–167 policy issues, 164–167 Policy Studies Associates, 443 Politics of Change (The) (TPOC), 200 Polytechnical Education: A Step (Robert H. Beck), 272, 451n polytech system, 94, 272, 317 Pomeroy, Wardell, 39, 48 Pool, Bob, 279 Pool, Ithiel deSola, 303 Pope Pius XII, 138 Population and Family Planning in the People’s Republic of China, 1971 , 104

population control, 101–104, 388 Population Crisis Committee, 104 Porteous, David, 250–251 Port Huron Manifesto , 111 Portland Public Schools, 337 Portugal, 219–220, 237 Positive Attitude toward Learning , 124

positive reinforcers, 186 Powell, Ray I., 131–132 Power, Philip H., A112 Powers, Stephanie, 404 Practitioner’s Implementation Handbook [series]: The Outcome Based Curriculum, 2nd Ed. (Charlotte Danielson), 107, 158n, 159, 168, 264n prayer, 70 Precision Learning, 81 “Preconditioning for Acceptance of Change” (K.M. Heaton), 199–200 Preliminary Models of Governance for Kentucky, 167