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Education and the Cult of Efficiency by Raymond Callahan 1962

The most important book for our age was written fifty years ago. It is Raymond Callahan's Education and the Cult of Efficiency. It was published in 1962. It describes the efficiency movement of the early twentieth century, when administrators developed check lists for everything that teachers do. Scan of chapter 5Management theorist Henry Mintzberg is highly critical of Frederick Taylor's methods, one of the gurus of efficiency featured in the book. Mintzberg states that an obsession with efficiency allows measureable benefits to overshadow less quantifiable social benefits completely, and social values get left behind. Sound familiar?

Something else from the Wikipedia article about Frederick Taylor: Taylor's father built his wealth on mortgages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor
Almost immediately after the country became acquainted with scientific management procedures, pressure began to apply them to the classroom. In July of 1911, for example, a month after Taylor's series of articles was completed in the American Magazine, a school board member from Allegheny,Pennsylvania told the N.E.A. that the two words which were electrifying the industrial world, ­scientific management, contained a message for every teacher, and near the end of his speech he indicated that if teachers did not voluntarily take steps to increase their efficiency, the business world would force them to do so. As a result, great energy was expended on using the available tests and on developing new tests or scales or rating sheets or anything else that would seem to provide tangible evidence of efficiency. As one superintendent writing in 1912 put it, the results of a few well-planned tests would carry more weight with the business man and the parent than all the psychology in the world. GO TO utexas.edu

President Carter descended from immigrants from southern England (his paternal ancestor arrived in the American Colonies in 1635),[9] and his family has lived in the state of Georgia for several generations. Carter has documented ancestors who fought in the American Revolution, and he is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. Carter's great-grandfather, Private L.B. Walker Carter (1832–1874), served in the Confederate States Army.

In 1979, the Federal Department of Education was created during President Jimmy Carter's administration and now the serious problems are made worse by simplistic reforms being pushed by self-serving corporate interests working through politicians.
Department of Education Organization Act Statement on Signing S. 210 Into Law. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=31543

Writes Gatto: "Another major architect of standardized testing, H.H. Goddard, said in his book Human Efficiency (1920) that government schooling was about "the perfect organization of the hive."


October 17, 1979

There is no constitutional authority for the federal government's involvement in school curriculum, teacher qualifications, or spending. Studies upon studies have shown that public office-holders tend to make decisions that favor those who have helped finance their elections to office.

CATO Handbook For Congress:
Congress should abolish the Department of Education and return education to the state, local, or family level, as prescribed by the constitution.
www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb108/hb108-28.pdf

CORE STANDARDS
VS.
STATE TRIGGER LAW

 

 

 

TRIGGER

2012 According to the Mississippi Department of Education, 35 schools are eligible for the first time to be converted to charter schools if a majority of parents sign a petition seeking conversion.
http://www.clarionledger.com/viewart/20121019/NEWS/310190049/Parents-could-seek-charters-35-schools

At Desert Trails last year, two-thirds of the children failed the state reading exam, more than half were not proficient in math, and nearly 80 percent failed the science exam. The school has not met state standards for six years, and scores place it in the bottom 10 percent of schools statewide. A group of California parents has cleared a legal hurdle to become the first in the nation to take over a failing elementary school under a “parent trigger law,” a legal tool gaining popularity around the country. San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Steve Malone has ruled that parents in Adelanto, a desert town 90 miles northeast of Los Angeles, should be allowed to implement the state’s trigger law, which says that a majority of families at a struggling school can force major changes, from firing the principal to closing the school and reopening it as an independent charter. All they need to do to wrest control is sign a petition.
http://triblive.com/usworld/nation/2265530-74/parents-trigger-law-desert-district-california-charter-parent-state-trails

JOHN TAYLOR GATTO

 

John Taylor Gatto was voted the New York City Teacher of the Year three times from 1989-1991 and the New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991.

In the summer of 1991 he retired abruptly, and in a very public way: in a op-ed piece published in the Wall Street Journal where he claimed by being a part of the public school system he was harming students more than helping them. His 1992 book, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling then became a seminal work of the homeschool movement, but was not widely known in traditional education circles.

Meet John Taylor Gatto 
The elite send their kids to private schools and from these schools they pick the people who will run the government and make the laws. They are super rich to begin with, and get even more rich when they get into politics and pass laws to help their rich friends in big business. Then they get into big business and cycle to and from political positions. In the meantime, the average person thinks that they are voting for common citizens. It's a scam, in peoples' minds, to keep the rich wealthy.

John Taylor Gatto's full statement on the Bartleby Project (it's long).
Standardizing Minds: Nothing inside the little red schoolhouse does more personal and social damage than the numbers and rank order these tests hang around the necks of the young.

Although the scores correlate with absolutely nothing of real value, the harm they cause is real enough: such assessments are a crowning glory of the social engineers who seized final control of institutional schooling during the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt.

Standardized testing is the tail wagging the entire monster of forced institutional schooling. Standardized testing, which has always been about standardization and never about quality standards, must no longer be debated, but brutally and finally destroyed if schooling is ever again to take up a mission of intellect and character enhancement.

Why worry kids and parents with the stress of trying to do something they are biologically unable to achieve?


This was precisely the outlook Abraham Lincoln had ridiculed in 1859 (see Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life);

Hofstadter was a historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Columbia and Princeton mirror the outlooks of the great private corporate foundations funded by the money of the Opium Pirates who were also engaged in the Slave trade. John Cleve Green, Opium smuggler and pirate financed Princeton. Opium smuggler and pirate, Abiel Low financed construction of Columbia.

Precisely the outlook of Edward Thorndike, inventor of "educational psychology" at Columbia Teachers College; precisely the outlook of H. H. Goddard, chairman of the psychology department at Princeton; precisely the outlook of great private corporate foundations like Rockefeller and Carnegie; precisely the outlook of Charles Darwin and his first cousin, Francis Galton. You can find this point of view active in Plato, in John Calvin, in Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza, in Johann Fichte, . . .

The Bartleby Project
By the end of WWII, schooling had replaced education in the US, and shortly afterwards, standardized testing became the steel band holding the entire enterprise together. Test scores rather than accomplishment became the mark of excellence as early as 1960, and step by step the public was brought, through various forms of coercion including journalism, to believe that marks on a piece of paper were a fair and accurate proxy for human quality.

John Taylor Gatto's free online ebook,
The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation into the Problem of Modern Schooling (New York: Oxford Village Press, 2001), is the source for the following historical quotes. Most of the sources are out of print and hard to obtain. Begin

 

The American Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile

 

 

educRAT 2010 Bill Gates

"If reforms aren't shaped by teachers' knowledge and experience, they're not going to succeed," Gates told the delegates. Bill Gates, whose billions in foundation grants for experimental-education-overhaul efforts over more than a decade.
"We need to understand what makes teachers great and help all teachers learn from them. This is worth our best combined efforts," Gates told the delegates.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has led efforts to improve education, including charter schools, which while public are largely non-union and run by autonomous management organizations. The AFT, with 1.4 million members nationally, is the nation's second-largest teachers' union, after the National Education Association. Most Washington K-12 teachers are members of the NEA, but about 6,000 college and university teachers in the state are members of the AFT, union leaders said. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012327987_gates11m.html

Big mouth Bill - exactly what does he know about education? One thing he doesn't talk about that actually would make the world a better place is FAIR TRADE. He doesn't say a word about this.

educRAT: If there is any doubt as to the Rockefeller family commitment to globalism and world government, take a look at the words of David Rockefeller on page 405 of his Memoirs,

"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

 

2008 Doomsday Scenerio

Here's a video interview with The Black Swan author Nasim Nicholas Taleb and his mentor, mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, who say the current economic situation could be worse than the great depression. "The banking system, the way we have it, is a monstrous giant built on feet of clay. And if that topples, we're gone." Maybe that's why the US Gov't has pledged $7.7 Trillion.

 

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Remember: (American Values is a code word which = Control by Corporation)

John Dewey wrote in 1897:

Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth.

Elwood Cubberly the future Dean of Education at Stanford wrote:

that schools should be factories "in which raw products, children, are to be shaped and formed into finished products... manufactured like nails, and the specifications for manufacturing will come from government and industry."

 

The Hidden Wealth of the Richest 1%
Society's Parasites (The Speculators. Why Banks and S&Ls went Bankrupt).
 

THIS SOUNDS JUST LIKE THE 2008 WALL STREET BAIL OUT.

1952, the National Training Laboratories (NTL) becomes a part of the National Education Association. The NTL was founded in 1947 and sponsored by the NEA's Division of Adult Education Service. In 1968 the NTL will separate from the NEA and become an independent organization, and it will later, in 1986, be called the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science.

In the 50's and 60's, the instructional process, exacting the wanted behaviors based on the Hegelian Principle, was laid out in the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, book one, being the cognitive domain; book two, the affective domain; collectively known as Bloom's Taxonomy mastery learning, outcome-based education, the pedagogy of progressive education.

1954 WATCH an Interview with Norman Dodd was the Congressional Investigator of Tax Exempts Foundations who said these same tax exempt foundations have been operating a world wide collective estate by these foundations.


The Hidden Agenda for World Government.
1953 Director of Research for the Reece Committee Reece Committee Hearings - Tax-Exempt Foundations (1953) - Part 1 of 4

Norman Dodd The Hidden Agenda For World Government
Watch G. Edward Griffins circa 1982 landmark interview of Norman Dodd, chief investigator for the Reece Committee, charged with the duty to ferret out the anti-American activities of non-profit, tax-exempt foundations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2xcwFpSW0k

The Hegelian Principle in Education:
In final analogy, what we are talking about, in discussing education reform, is not Sputnik, seat time, clock time and the Taylorian education system; we are talking about a change in philosophy from the traditional paradigm built upon and conducive to the tenets upon which this country was founded, to the Progressive paradigm: the collaborative, cooperative, collective man willing to work for minimal compensation for the good of the collective whole, for the state.
[ see China ]

The Speculators 2008 Wall Street Meltdown and Bailout
The Size of Derivatives Bubble = $190K Per Person on Planet. According to various distinguished sources including the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland -- the central bankers' bank -- the amount of outstanding derivatives worldwide as of December 2007 crossed USD 1.144 Quadrillion Trilateral Commission

FINANCIAL LITERACY - THE BAILOUT

 

1962, "Issues in Human Relations Training" is published by the National Training Laboratories of the National Education Association. In this book, the editors write that human relations, or sensitivity training: " . . . fits into a context of institutional influence procedures which includes coercive persuasion in the form of thought reform or brain-washing." The book also includes information about "change agent skills and unfreezing, changing and refreezing attitudes," and in David Jenkins' essay in the book, he explains that the Laboratories conducted by the NTL have recently moved from an emphasis on skill training to sensitivity training. He declares that the trainer has no alternative but to manipulate. His job is to plan and produce behavior in order to create changes in other people. The manual also states, regarding children, that "although we appear to behave appropriately, this appearance is deceptive. We are pseudo-healthy persons who can benefit from sensitivity training."

1963, In March and April, a special supplement of "AV Communication Review" is published as "Monograph No. 2" of the Technological Development Project of the NEA. The Project is under contract No. SAE-9073 with the United States Office of Education of Health, Education and Welfare, as authorized under Title 7, Part B, of the National Defense Education Act of 1958. The contractor is the NEA, and in this supplement you will find: "Another area of potential development in computer applications is the attitude-changing machine. Dr. Bertram Raven in the psychological department at the University of California in Los Angeles is in the process of building a computer-based device for changing attitude. This device will work on the principle that students' attitudes can be changed effectively by using the Socratic method of asking an appropriate series of leading questions, logically designed to right the balance between appropriate attitudes and those deemed less acceptable."

1967, "Humanizing Education: The Person in the Process," is edited by Robert Leaper for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development of the National Education Association, and contains Carl Rogers' article, "The Interpersonal Relationship and the Facilitation of Learning," in which Rogers declares: "The goal of education is the facilitation of change." Rogers was taught by William H. Kilpatrick at Teachers College where he received his Ph.D. in 1931. As a psychiatrist, he originated client-centered psychotherapy and helped found, with Abraham Mazlo, Ralomey Iraprogov and others, the Association for Humanistic Psychology in 1962.

1967, In October, the NEA "Journal" publishes "Helping Children to Clarify Values," by Lois E. Raths, Merrill Harmon and Sidney B. Simon, in which the authors declare: "The old approach seems to be to persuade the child to adopt the right values rather than to help him develop a valuing process. Clarifying is an honest attempt to help a student look at his life and to encourage him to think about it in an atmosphere in which positive acceptance exists. The teacher must work to eliminate his own tendencies to moralize."

1967, In November, the NEA "Journal" publishes, "The New Social Studies," in which one will read, "Probably the most obvious change occurring in the social studies curriculum is a breaking away from the traditional dominance of history, geography and civics. Materials from the behavioral sciences, sociology, social psychology, are being incorporated into both elemental and secondary school programs." The NEA Executive Secretary, Sam Lambert, comments: "The NEA will become a political power second to no other special interest group. The NEA will have more and more to say about how a teacher is educated, whether he should be admitted to the profession, and whether he should stay in the profession."

1968, Elizabeth Coones became the head of the National Education Association, making "teacher power" the rallying cry of her administration. She advocated that teachers organize, agitate and strike. She also promoted the kibbutz concept. On September 23, she addressed the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and stated: "The National Education Association has a multi-faceted program already directed toward the urban school problem, embracing every phase from the Head Start Program to sensitivity training for adults, both teachers and parents."

1969, in January, "Today's Education," published by the NEA, contained an article called "Forecast for the '70s" by Harold and June Shane. Their article was a digest of many articles within which you can find the following comments: "Ten years hence, it should be more accurate to term him, the teacher, a learning clinician. This title is intended to convey the idea that schools are becoming clinics whose purpose is to provide individualized psycho-social treatment for the student, thus increasing his value both to himself and to society. Educators will assume a formal responsibility for children when they reach the age of two, with mandatory foster homes and boarding schools for children between ages 2 and 3 whose home environment was felt to have a malignant influence and children would become the objects of biochemical experimentation."

1970, July 3, NEA President George Fisher tells NEA representatives at an assembly that "A good deal of work has been done to begin to bring about uniform certification, controlled by the unified profession in each state. A model Professional Practices Act has been developed, and work has begun to secure passage of the Act in each state where such legislation is needed. With these new laws we will finally realize our 113-year-old dream of controlling who enters, who stays, and who leaves the profession. Once this is done, we can also control the teacher training institutions."

September 1970, in NEA's "Today's Education" editorial, one reads: "The change-agent teacher does more than dream. He builds, too. He is part of an association of colleagues in his local school system, in his state, and across the country that makes up an interlocking system of change-agent organizations. This kind of system is necessary because changing our society through the evolutionary educational processes requires simultaneous action on three power levels."

Perhaps not coincidentally, at about this time, Health, Education and Welfare lets contract No. OEC-0-8-080603-4535010, under which portions of "Training for Change Agents" (1973) by Ronald and Mary Havelock, will be developed, and in which one reads: "The advocator-organizer-agitator (ADORAG) and social architect change-agents would receive training in value clarification. Because of his political and ego strength, the ADORAG is relatively invulnerable to the system. He is able to ride or create a crisis to escalate frictions and protests. Knowledge of the law and strategies of confrontation and civil disobedience will be extremely helpful. Three to six crucial school districts in one state would be identified in which inside and outside change teams would work on their projects."

Remember in 1906 the Rockefeller Education Board

In our dreams . . . people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions [intellectual and character education] fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science.

In July, 1972, Rockefeller called his first meeting, which was held at Rockefeller's Pocantico compound in New York's Hudson Valley. It was attended by about 250 individuals who were carefully selected and screened by Rockefeller and represented the very elite of finance and industry.

1973 David Rockefeller founded the Trilateral Commission: World Shadow Government. To put it simply, Trilateralists are saying: The people, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.


The Trilateral Commission is a private organization, established to foster closer cooperation between America, Europe and Japan. It was founded in July 1973, at the initiative of David Rockefeller; who was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations at that time. The Trilateral Commission is widely seen as a counterpart to the Council on Foreign Relations. The August Review: The Trilateral Commission:
Usurping Sovereignty "The Trilateral Commission: Usurping Sovereignty" By Patrick Wood the effect of their “New International Economic Order” on the U.S. has been nothing less than devastating. (See America Plundered by the Global Elite for a more detailed analysis)
The philosophical underpinnings of the Trilateral Commission are pro-Marxist and pro-socialist. They are solidly set against the concept of the nation-state and in particular, the Constitution of the United States. Thus, national sovereignty must be diminished and then abolished altogether in order to make way for the New World Order that will be governed by an unelected global elite with their self-created legal framework.

In the spring of 1974, the Federal Office of Education will give a grant of $5.9 million for 500 change-agents to be changed at 21 institutions of higher education around the country. "The Commission on Professional Rights and Responsibilities," a National Education Association brochure No. 163-04940-71, lists among the Commission's purposes to: "gather information about the various individuals and groups who criticize or oppose education and make resumes of their activities." ED031800 - Rules of Procedure for Investigation.

"Schools for the '70s and Beyond: A Call to Action" is published by the National Education Association and it declares that: "Teachers who conform to the traditional institutional mode are out of place. They might find fulfillment as tap dance instructors or guards in maximum security prisons or proprietors of reducing salons or agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But they damage teaching, children and themselves by staying in the classroom."

1972, the National Education Association President, Catherine Baron, stated: "We are the biggest potential political fighting force in this country, and we are determined to control the direction of American education."

The Higher Education Roots of NEA, 1857-Present
One of the most illustrious university figures to participate in the NEA at this time was James D. Conant of Harvard, the chairman of the National Defense Research Commission during World War II, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany during the post war occupation, and later Ambassador to West Germany. Dr. Conant served on the NEA's Educational Policies Commission for 16 years, becoming its chairman in 1950. The NEA proposed that the American Association of Higher Education undertake this task among the faculties of four-year institutions. The AAHE's leadership rejected the proposal and indicated their opposition to collective bargaining. The NEA then established the National Society of Professors (NSP) to organize college and university faculties. The AAHE severed its ties with NEA and became an independent association in 1971. The American Association of School Administrators and the Associations of High School and Elementary School Principals also became independent organizations at this time. The National Faculty Association of Community Junior Colleges and National Society of Professors eventually merged to form the NEA National Council for Higher Education in 1974.

 

Teachers Take Control

The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed the most profound change in NEA's history. The public school, college, and university administrators who had managed the affairs of the Association for over 100 years relinquished their control to classroom teachers and faculty members.
From the 1920s to the 1960s, public school administrators had recruited teachers throughout the United States into NEA. By the end of the 1960s the teachers were in control of the organization. Community college, four-year college, and university faculty members participated actively in this evolution.
For over 100 years NEA had been essentially a professional society. In a single decade it became one of the largest and most powerful unions in the United States. By 1990, NEA had also developed one of the most effective legislative and political action programs in the country. All of this was achieved while expanding its professional development and instructional improvement programs. For example, a National Foundation for the Improvement of Education was created in 1969. Today, the National Education Association is both a union of professionals and a professional association.

Privatizing Education Takes Control

1999 controlling the education of students everywhere with a uniform and politically correct curriculum of compliance and servitude is obvious to international observers.

In a paper by Angela C. Siqueira presented to the Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society called "The World Bank New Discourse and the 1999 Education Strategy", secret documentation is examined that already describes global education policies that will be applied to education initiatives around the world that eerily predict the form and deployment of NCLB in America.

Based on the 1999 education sector strategy and World Bank documents... -snip-
[ . . . it seems that the main target is to create intellectual dependence and impose a one-sided solution and view of the world, by eliminating the possibility for the emergence of alternative perspectives.
In summary, the Knowledge Management Bank and its Education Knowledge Management System seem to be an attempt to foster the commodification, sterilization, and standardization of knowledge.
Therefore, it constitutes a serious peril to democracy, which presupposes diversity and not homogeneity.

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1999 Ignite!, Inc. an educational software and hardware company co-founded in 1999 by Texas businessman Neil Bush, brother of former President George W. Bush and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and Ken Leonard, the current CEO, who from the desire of conglomerates and neo-con factions of the Republican party, created the prototype in America of a closed, tightly controlled public school curriculum that would uniformly classify its graduates according to the needs of these international power brokers.

Texas Scam - Reading First Program owned by President Bush's brother Neil Bush is a Fraud Scam
BUSH'S FAMILY PROFITS FROM 'NO CHILD' ACT - READING FIRST AND VOYAGER EXPANDED LEARNING

 

2006 Charlotte 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.

2009 AND HOW ARE WE DOING NOW?

2009 ADULT ILLITERACY 1 in 7 thanks to the Department of Education.

( National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program, 75,000 young people in half of the 50 states have gone through it since the early 1990s. )

1994 What can so-called literate adults do? by Frank Foreman Here are seven of the 96 at the site (text altered slightly to fit this web page). I am sending these to amaze you, since the actual questions are rarely publicized.

 

THE BIGGEST PROBLEM ARE GLOBAL CORPORATIONS
- COMMERCE WITHOUT CONSCIENCE -

The Corporation Video Part 1 of 15

Noam Chomsky

Should Corporations Have Rights?

On Corporate Propaganda

Free Market Fantasies by Noam Chomsky 1/5

Taxes

Education Inc.

Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood - Marketing to Children

Commercializing Childhood: The Corporate Takeover of Kids' Lives

These quotes are the intro to "The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation" By Alfie Kohn

  • 80-20 rule, private tyrannies, strategic alliances

    • One of the chief obstacles to raising the standards of the degree is the readiness with which insincere students gain passable grades by sham work. -- Report of the Committee on Raising the Standard, Harvard University, 1894
    • Grade inflation got started ... in the late '60s and early '70s.... The grades that faculty members now give ... deserve to be a scandal. -- Professor Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University, 2001
    • Grades A and B are sometimes given too readily:
    • Grade A for work of no very high merit, and Grade B for work not far above mediocrity....