Education
Comments by Richey regarding the formulation of John Goodlad’s involvement in the future of education in the US. “American education is changing so rapidly and on so many fronts that analyses of change from the perspective of today are based upon data that...
Education
Anita Hoge has done it again with a superb critique of education restructuring; this time coming to the assistance of the public school teacher in the trenches being required to change his/her teaching methods, etc. to suit the international corporate agenda. Hoge...
Education
Dynamite review of “The Leipzig Connection”, probably the most important, and short, book explaining the adoption by American educators of the Wundtian/Pavlovian/Skinnerian method of teaching, necessary NOT for education but for training...
Education
U.S. Congress testimony of the late Dr. Bella Dodd, former head of the Education Department of the Communist Party, USA, after her expulsion from the party in 1949. See her book “School of Darkness”, an entry on this website. An important excerpt from the hearings...
Education, Government
Excerpt from those involved in this program. In 1989, building on projects completed in Florida and Texas, work began on the development of a national (eventually, an international) standard for exchanging student records more efficiently. This system would tap into...
Education, Government
U.S. Office of Education report on government educators’ visit to Soviet schools, 1960. Very important in light of implementation in USA in 2006 of same Russian polytech education (training) system based on Skinnerian/ Pavlovian methodology (mastery...