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“Seniors’ Church Attendance,” 279–280 sensitivity training, 107–108, 126, 131–132 “Separation of School and State: Why We Cannot Sign” (Lynn and Sarah Leslie), 176, 452n Serageldin, Ismael, A51 “Service Learning Projects Match Students with Needs in the Salem-Keizer Community,” 346–347 “Seven Cardinal Principles Revisited (The),” 140–141 Seven Intelligences (Howard Gardner), 340–341 sex education, 20, 98, 132, 145, 360–361 and The Change Agents’ Guide to Innovation in Educa tion , 280 and Mathtech, Inc., 443 negative effects of, 203 “Sex Education—Student Syllabus No: 216786, correlated with M.I.P. 180800” (Lester A. Kirkendall, Ruth F. Osborne), 98 Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (Alfred C. Kinsey), 48 Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Alfred C. Kinsey), 28, 39–40, 48 Sexual Habits of American Men: A Symposium on the Kinsey Report (Albert Deutsch), 39 Shalala, Donna, 439 “Shamanistic Rituals in Effective Schools” (Brian Rowan), 201, 264n, A159–166 Shane, Harold, 128, 139–140 Shanker, Albert, 81, 236, 256, 301, A130 as President of American Federation of Teachers (AFT), A128 Reach for the Stars: A Proposal for Education Reform in Georgia , 285 Shannon, Thomas, 290 Shaping Educational Policy (James Conant), 73, 210 Shaw, Peter, 307–308 Sheehan, Geralyn, 439 Shepardson, Whitney, 12 Shields, Dorothy, 177 “Shocking Beliefs behind Educational Strategic Planning (The)” (Michael Jacques), 353 “Shocking U.S. Agreements to Let Soviet and Red Chinese Educators Indoctrinate America’s Children,” 230 Shreveport Journal (The) (Louisiana), 95–96 Shrug, Mark, 437 Shulman, Lee, 79–80, 235, 371, A153 Siegelman, Jim, A146 Siemens Corporation, 344 Silber, John, 418 Silber, Kenneth, A35 Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway (Clifford Stoll), 382 Simonds, Robert L., 343, 347–348, 350 Sinclair, Robert, 100 Sinclair, Upton, 8 site-based management, 85 Sitte, Margaret, 348–349

School-to-Work Transition in the United States: The Case of the Missing Social Partners—A Report of the Governance and Finance Team of the Comparative Learning Teams Project (Robert W. Glover et al.), 326–327 Schrag, Peter, A146 Schroeder, Lynn, 156–158, 426–427 Schultz, William, 115 Schwartz, Judah, 382 Schwartz, Robert, A96 Schwarz, Gretchen, 354 Science (magazine), A8 Science, “metaphysical explanations,” 122 “Science and Common Sense,” 122 Science and Human Behavior (B.F. Skinner), 28, 48, 53n, 77–78 Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching (The) (B.F. Skin ner), 60, A8 “scientific pedagogy.” See also Outcome-Based Education Scott, F. Eugene, 327 Scott, Mark, 327 Scott, William E., 21 Sculley, John, 302, A72, A96, A112 Search Technology, Inc., 327 Second Annual Model Schools Conference, 330 and High Schools That Work , 307–308 synopsis of, 334–336 Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) (U.S. Labor Department), 83, 147, 286, 451n, A48 creation of committee, 266–268 National Skills Standards Board, 304 and new approaches to assessment, 330 student resumes, 294 and Thomas Sticht, 215, A155 Secret Records Revealed: The Men, the Money and the Methods Behind the New World Order (Dennis Cuddy), 6n Secular Humanism, 22 Secular Humanism and the Schools: The Issue Whose Time Has Come (Onalee McGraw), 21–22 Seekins, Brenda, 345–346 Seguin, Edouard, 8 self-esteem education. See character education self-hypnosis, 132, 248 self-revelation, 207–208 Selleck, Tom, 351 semantic deception, xvii, xviii, 447 Semenov, Alexey, 250–251 Senate Armed Services Committee, 376 Senate Journal Resolution #214 (U.S.) , 101–104 Senate Republican Policy Committee on Illiteracy (U.S.), 284–285 Senese, Donald, 169–170, 191 Senge, Peter, 310 Schultze, Charles L., 83 Schuster, Donald, 427 Schutz, Mary, 399