This seven-part series of interviews
with Charlotte Iserbyt focuses on the intentional decline of public
education in the United States. Find more
Enhanced ReCasts at mediamodepresents.blogspot.com.
Iserbyt served as Senior Policy
Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI),
U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration,
where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative
which would control curriculum in America's classrooms.
Iserbyt is a former school board
director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of
Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She has
also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the
Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and
in the Republic of South Africa. Iserbyt is a speaker and writer,
best known for her 1985 booklet Back to Basics Reform or OBE:
Skinnerian International Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet Soviets in
the Classroom: America's Latest Education Fad which covered the
details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements
which remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer and has
had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The
Bangor Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional
hearings.
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Chapter headings for this episode:
Music intro starts at 00:21 sec
Intro of Charlotte Iserbyt
download the free pdf of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
Why Charlotte became a whisteblower
When did the Sovietizing of our public education begin?
David Hornbeck's book Human Capital and America's Future
Carnegie Corporation recommends schools be used to change America from a free indiviualistic economy to a socialistic collective economy - in 1934
Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy
Leonard Peikoff's Ominous Parallels
John Dewey in Leipzig learned Pavlov's method and brought it to the University of Chicago
New World Order's education system is outcome-based
Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations sanitize american history books on a regular basis
The four-pronged fork
Marxists in our universities
Wrap-up of part 1
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Human Capital and America's Future: An Economic Strategy for the Nineties
by David HornbeckOminous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff
School of Darkness by Bella Dodd
Education For Destruction by Bessie R. Burchett
(free download pdf)
DDD 1 - download it here or listen below:
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