Skinner Curriculum-Washington Post-1977

“Competency Tests Set in City Schools”, The Washington Post, E-4, 8/1/77 tells more about the behaviorist method of teaching, Direct Instruction and Mastery Learning, than most any article ever written and is especially important since this experiment on minority children in D.C. was a disaster. Assoc. Supt. Guines enthusiastically said of this experiment “The new curriculum is based on the work in behavioral psychology of Harvard University’s B.F. Skinner… If you can train a pigeon to fly up there and press a button and set off a bomb, why can’t you teach human beings to behave in an effective and rational way?”

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