Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

65 education process—a clear departure from academically oriented educational pursuits into intrusive areas totally unrelated to education. Even taking into account the collectivist direction taken by radical educators in the first half of this century, this movement could not have borne fruit had it not been for President Dwight Eisenhower’s Commission on National Goals which produced Goals for Americans in 1960. These goals, along with the implementation of PPBS and Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, seem to have provided the catalyst for the “planned economy” being implemented in the United States in 1999.] The Sick Sixties : c. 1961

O N S EPTEMBER 2, 1961 THE 87 TH C ONGRESS PASSED THE A RMS C ONTROL AND D ISARMA ment Act (P.L. 87–297, H.R. 9118) which established a United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Following is the statement of purpose for this important Act :

Public Law 87–297 87th Congress, H.R. 9118 September 26, 1961

AN ACT To establish a United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, TITLE 1—SHORT TITLE, PURPOSE, AND DEFINITIONS SHORT TITLE SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the “Arms Control and Disarmament Act.” SECTION 2. As used in this Act— (a) The Terms “arms control” and “disarmament” mean the identification, verification, inspection, limitation, control, reduction, or elimination, of armed forces and armaments of all kinds under international agreement including the necessary steps taken under such an agreement to establish an effective system of international control, or to create and strengthen international organizations for the maintenance of peace. As partial fulfillment of the provision to take “the necessary steps… to establish an effective system of international control, or to create and strengthen international organizations for the maintenance of peace,” President John F. Kennedy’s U.S. Department of State simultaneously issued State Department Publication 7277: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World . The following are excerpts from Publication 7277: [a] world in which adjustment to change takes place in accordance with the principles of the United Nations. In order to make possible the achievement of that goal, the program sets forth the fol lowing specific objectives toward which nations should direct their efforts. • The disbanding of all national armed forces and the prohibition of their reestablish ment in any form whatsoever other than those required to preserve internal order and for contributions to a United Nations Peace Force. • The elimination from national arsenals of all armaments including all weapons of mass destruction and the means for their delivery, other than those required for a