Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

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Index

“And You Thought American Schools Were Bad,” 244, 359 “In Littleton, Colorado, Voters Expel Education Faddists,” 318 “Schoolroom Shuffle: Trailing in Education for Years, Kentucky Tries Radical Reforms—Grades 1 through 3 Become One Class with No Texts, Desks, or Report Cards—Some Parents, Prinicpals Balk,” 304–305 Walsh, Kevin, 351 Walter D. Cocking Lecture, 164 Walton, Susan, 196–197 Wanderer (The) , 82 Ward, Frederick Champion, 128 Ward, Jack, A27 Warder, Michael, A140–141 “Ware Students Are Drawn to Swampy Experiment: Magnet School Makes Okefenokee Its Lab,” 317 Warner, Carolyn, 192 War on Poverty, 197 Washington, D.C., 172, 144 Washington Post (The) , 13, 146, 205, 268, A155 “China Orders Manual Labor for Students: Beijing Moves Again to Control Citizenry,” 262 “Competency Tests Set in 26 Schools,” 215–216 “Industrial Policy Urged for GOP,” 328, A51 “Trying to Catch Up on Their Reading: Tutors Find What Students Miss,” 331 “Tying Professional Pay to Productivity,” 268–269 Washington Times (The) , 216, 262, 315–316, A137 “Ahem, about those 100,000 new cops...”, 444–445 “Character Education Catching on at Schools—Respect, Responsibility Emphasized,” 421–422 “Classroom Brain-Watchers?”, 409–410 “Congress to Expand Education Savings,” 401–402 interview with Michael Farris, 437–438 “New Tack Taken on Religion in Schools: Group Seeks End to Secular Bias,” 418–419 “Panel: Make Education Career-Focused,” 402 “Real-Life School Eliminates Books,” 383 “Why the Education Department Must Go,” 350 Watson, Goodwin, 21 Watson, John B., 99–100, A58, A123–125 Watson, Thomas J., 35 Wayne State University, 382 Wealth and Poverty (George Gilder), 303 Weatherly, Cynthia, 305, 317–318, 452n, A44–51 Webber Energy Fuels, 431 “Week in the Subway as Cultural Exchange” (Jacques Stein berg), 280 Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (The) , 158n Weil, Marsha, 114–117, 208 Weinberger, Caspar, 205, 328, A51 Weisberg, Alan, 327 Welcome to the Monkey House (Kurt Vonnegut), 66 Welfare Reform Act , A109

Wellstone, Paul, 415–416 We Must Take Charge , 298

Wertsch, James, A62 Wesleyan University, 4 Western, Richard, 437 Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, 111 Western Reserve University, 4 Westinghouse Learning Corp., 156 Weyrich, Paul, 338 What Is Religion and Other Student Questions (Henry S. Pritchett), 8 “What Is the Market Model?”, 291–292 “What Other Communities Are Doing, National Educational Goal #1,” 300 What Work Requires of Schools (SCANS), 450n What Works in Education , A152 “When Is Assessment Really Assessment?” (Cynthia Weath erly), 452n, A44–51 “When Johnny Takes the Test: How Your Child Is Identified and Tracked to the National Data Bank—and Beyond” (Melanie Fields, Anita Hoge, Sarah Leslie), 451n While You Slept: Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It (John Flynn), 44 White, William S., 176 White House Conference on Education (1955), 52, 59 White House Conference on the Industrial World, 112 White House Workshop on Choice in Education (1989), 299–300 “White Paper” (U.S. Dept. of Education), 298 Whitla, Janet, 290 Whitman, Christine, 430-431 Whitmore, Kay R., A112 Whittle, Chris, 297-298 “Who’ll Teach Kids Right from Wrong—The Character Edu cation Movement Thinks the Answer Is the Schools,” 351–352 “Who’s In, Who’s Out,” 99 Who’s Who in America , 142 “whole child,” 2 Whole language, 270, 325–326, A93–94 versus Direct Instruction, A129–130 versus phonics instruction, A62 set up to fail, 387 Whole Language/OBE Fraud (The) (Samuel Blumenfeld), 6, A57–64 “Why Not Adopt China’s Population Goals?”, 104 “Why the Education Department Must Go” (Gordon S. Jones), 350 Why Things Are the Way They Are (Erica Carle), 53n “Why We Went for Micros and What Our Community Had to Say about It” (Billy Reagan), 174 “Widely Mixed Test Results Leave Some in Kentucky Puzzled” (Lonnie Harp), 316

Wiggins, Grant, 344–345 Wilbert, Karl-Jurgen, xx