Part 2. 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.
You can find a wealth of downloadable information at her web site, deliberatedumbingdown.com.
Audio tagged by mediamode, June 2012.
Chapter headings for this episode:
How will this happen?
Disconnected from history
Benjamin Bloom
Carnegie's 1934 legacy continues
Mandatory community service - anyone see a problem here?
Mandatory community service - anyone see a problem here?
The Tucker Plan
School choice agenda
Outcome Based Education - Our Brains are Empty
Education For All
United Cities and Local Governments
Bella Dodd's School of Darkness
William Z Foster's Toward Soviet America
Companies putting a value on your kids
Teachers being hoodwinked
Semantic deception
Susan Ohanian's article "Capitalism, Calculus and Conscience"
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