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situation ethics, 132 Sizemore, Barbara, 362–363 Sizer, Theodore, 24–25, 141, 218, 226, A43 and Coalition of Essential Schools, 344–345 Skills and Tasks for Jobs: A SCANS Report for America 2000 , A134 skills standards, 304 Skinner, B.F. (Burrhus Frederic), 3, 13, 61, 146, 217. See also Direct Instruction; Mastery Learning; operant condition ing; Outcome-Based Education B.F. Skinner: The Man and His Ideas , 77–78 behavioral theories, 122, A12–16 Beyond Freedom and Dignity , 109, 185–186, A26

and America, 24 party of, 23 state of, 148 world government of, 205 Social Science Research Council, 18 “Social Studies (The): A Revolution Is on—New Approach Is Questioning, Skeptical—Students Examine Various Cultures,” 108–109 Social Studies Horizons , 275 Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching (SALT), 427 Society for Effective Affective Learning (SEAL), 427 Socratic method, 67, 226, A7 Soholt, Sylvia, A70 Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, xiii, 339 “Some Responses to the Literacy Problem” (Willard Daggett), 196 Soros, George, 395, 452n Source-Book for New Ways of Thinking in Education: A U.S.- Soviet Guide , A138 South Carolina, 172, 291 “South Carolina Takes to Heart Coach’s Shot at ‘Horrible’ Schools,” 393–394 Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), 66 Southern Education Board (SEB), 9 Southern Education Foundation, 399 Southern Illinois University, 252 Southern Living , 274 Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 187–188, 307 South St. Paul Public Schools, 131–132 Soviet Academy of Science, 30, A137, A139 Soviet Central Committee, 241 Soviet Challenge to America (The) (George Counts), 18–19 Soviet Education Programs: Foundations, Curriculums, Teacher Preparation (William K. Medlin, Clarence B. Lindquist, Marshall L. Schmitt)), 57–58 Soviet Preschool Education (Henry Chauncey), 79 Soviets in the Classroom: America’s Latest Education Fad (Charlotte Iserbyt), 46, 261–262, A136–142 Soviet Union, 134, 136, 150, 161, 227–228 patriotism of, 58 psychiatry of, 49 Spady, William, 125, 134, 141, 160, 183, 240 address to ASCD High School Futures Planning Consortium III, 284–285 association with Willard Daggett, 407 Choosing Outcomes of Significance , 354 “Competency-Based Education: A Bandwagon in Search of a Definition,” 134–144 debate with Michael Farris, 438 “Ensuring the Success of All Students Today for Tomorrow’s Changing World,” 272 Far West Laboratory [for Educational Research and Develop ment], 215–217, 218

and computers, 88, 319, 381 and Direct Instruction, 75 education theories, 196–197 extent philosphies have spread, 447 functions of government, 306 How to Teach Animals , 80 at Indiana University, 35 influences on others, xxvi, 269, 303

Man: A Course of Study (M:ACOS) , 114–115 man and environment, beliefs of, 185–186 and Programmed Instruction, xxvi programmed learning, beliefs of, 99–100 The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching , 60, A8 Technology of Teaching , 81–82 and Walden Two , 28, 35, 40–42, 283, A146 Skinner’s “box” (computer), 69, 88, 319, A124–125, A128 Skinner’s Reading Program, 197 “Skinner’s Teaching Machines and Programming Concepts,” A8 Skinnerian methodology, 4, 69, 94 and evolution, 223 as model for educational accountability, 192 and results-based education, 159 Skocpol, Theda, 372 Slavin, Robert, 224–225, 420, 435–436 “Smartcards Project Forum,” 411 Smith, Eugene R., 21 Smith, Frank, A57, A64 Smith, George W., 146 Smith, Marshall, A96 Smoot, Dan, 92n Snow, Catherine E., 212, 417 Snow, Edgar, 104 Snowe, Olympia, 272 “Social and Philosophical Implications of Behavior Modifica tion (The),” 109 “Social Contract,” 2

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 147 Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia, 147 Socialist Republic of Rumania, 147 socialists, 64 (collectivist) system of, 7

functions of mastery learning, 182 High Success Network, 322, 335, 343