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Teheran conference, 12 Tempus, Kent, 253 Ten Commandments, 21–22 Tennessee, 144 Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes (Scopes Monkey Trial), 13 Terman, Lewis M., A61 “Test Board Tackles Secrecy Stigma” (Jeff Olson), 349 tests, 159, 432–433, A154, A164–165 Texas, 124, 144 Texas Alternative Document (TAD), 417 Texas Association for Supervision and Curriculum Develop ment, 227 Texas Christian Alert Network (TCAN), 383–385 Texas Education Agency, 105, 178, 384 Texas Objectives for Total Academic Learning (TOTAL), 227 Texas Study of Adult Functional Competency, 183 Texas Workforce Commission, 384 T-Group Training, 132 Thatcher, Margaret, 358 That Hideous Strength (C.S. Lewis), 37 T.H.E. Journal , 250–251 Thelen, Herbert, 114 “Theobold’s Eight Driving Forces,” 272 Theosophical Publishing House, 9 “There Has Been a Conspiracy of Silence about Teaching: B.F. Skinner Argues that Pedagogy Is Key to School Reforms” (Susan Walton), 196–197 “Thief of American Individualism (The): Total Quality Manage ment and School-to-Work” (Tim Clem), A132–135 Third Wave (The) (Alvin Toffler), 180 Thirty Schools Tell Their Story: Each School Writes of Its Par ticipation in the Eight-Year Study , 21 “33 Religious Groups Join Riley in Seeking Greater Family Role in Schools” (Robert C. Johnston), 345 Thomas, Augustus, 13–14 Thomas, Clarence, 15n, 243 Thomas, Donald, 188, 189, 256–257, 394, 451n “Education 90: A Framework for the Future,” 275 The Empowered Educational System for the 21st Century— Establishing Competitiveness, Productivity, Accountabil ity and Equity in South Carolina Education , 306–307 visit to Russia, 290–291 Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 385 Thomas Jefferson Research Center (TJRC), 228–229, 375, 389 Thom McAn Shoe Company, 344

Time (magazine), 32, 104, 299 Time for Results: Governors’ Report on Education , 239 “Time to Overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965” (Nina Shikraii Rees), 428–429 Time-Warner, 297–298 “To B.F. Skinner and James G. Holland,” 109 Toch, Thomas, 73, 209–210 Today’s Education (National Education Association), 81, 92n, 140–141, 172, 182 Toffler, Alvin, 128–129, 179, 180, 303, A49–50 Toffler, Heidi, 303 Together We Can: A Guide for Crafting a Pro-family System of Education and Human Services , 439, 447–449 Toledo, Alejandro, 99 Tomorrow’s Educator: An Alternative to Today’s School Person (Ron Barnes), 181 “Tomorrow’s Technology in Today’s Schools” (Dexter Fletcher), 174 “To OBE or Not to OBE?” (Marjorie Ledell), 322 Torcaso v. Watkins , 22 Torkelson, Gerald, A35 To Secure Our Future: The Federal Role in Education (NCEE), A73 “Total Educational Governance System for Lifetime Learning, Structural Features and Highlights,” 167 “Totalitarian Data-Gathering System Prepared by U.S. Depart ment of Education” (Samuel Blumenfeld), A81–89 “TOTAL Presentation Set for Educators,” 227 Total Quality Education (TQE), 283 Total Quality for Schools: A Suggestion for American Education (Joseph C. Fields), 305–306 Total Quality Management (TQM), xvi, 88, 119, 124–125, 451n, A41. See also Management by Objectives (MBO); Plan ning, Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS) based on operant conditioning, 269 and ISO 9000, 399 need to denounce, 457 and W. Edwards Deming, 283 Toward a New Sustainable Society: An Economic, Social, and Environmental Agenda for Our Children’s Future (James Garbarino), A167–176 Toward a Soviet America (William Z. Foster), 17, 19 Towards a Conceptual Model of Life-Long Education , 98 Toward World Understanding , 44 Transatlantic Co-operation in International Education: Projects of the Handswerskammer Koblenz with Partners in the United States and in the European Union (Karl-Jurgen Wilbert, Bernard Eckgold), xx “Transforming American Education: Reducing the Risk to the Nation,” 233–234 transpersonal psychology, 74 Traverse City Record-Eagle , 284–285 Tremaine, M. Maxine, 10 Tri-Cities Foundation for Academic Excellence (TFAE), 355 Tri-City Herald (The) , 401

Thompson, Mary, 110–111 Thompson, Tommy, 300 Thompson, William Boyce, 10 Thoreau, Henry David, 41

Thorndike, Edward Lee, 5, 13, 14–15, 75, 89 Thousand Days (A) (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.), 13

“Three Kinds of Knowledge,” 224 Tiananmen Square, 262, 391, A141 Tibetan Book Fund, 51