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September 1986:MulticulturalismA Prescription for Moral Anarchy What Is Multicultural Education? How Is It Defined? How Is It Taught? Moral Anarchy Starts Early America's Way Is for Everyone The Results of Multiculturalism U.S. Students Accept Soviets As Moral Equals Blowing The Whistle On Globalism Dewey's Pragmatic Oath Home Schools Are Legal Homeschool Success Vital Reading Letters From Readers Blumenfeld's Speaking Engagements Next Month October 1986:Why The Communists Love the NEA’s Political Programs US Press Misleads Public on NEANEA Favors Reds in Central America NEA’s Revenues: $91.3 Million UniServ Director Caught Red-Handed NEA Hosts Women’s Peace Conference NEA Spokesman Reveals All Radical Educators Define Literacy God’s Law Is Supreme In Pennsylvania Boy Hangs Himself In Vacant Classroom Educating For A Socialist America NEA Pushes Nuclear Freeze What Do Public School Teachers Think of Public Schools November 1986:AIDSDisease Catastrophe In The Making AIDS Victims Carry Many Diseases How Contagious Is AIDS? What Every Citizen Should Know Casual Transmission Rare But Possible How Fast Is AIDS Spreading? Is A Cure In Sight? The biblical solution to AIDS Public Policy or Public Lunacy? AIDS Now Considered a Handicap AIDS Spreading Rapidly in New York City Blood Supply Still Not Safe What To Do AIDS Statistics VITAL QUOTES December 1986:The Academic Disaster WorsensDr. Flesch’s Dismal Dozen Reading Failure in Wichita Reading Failure in Boston Megatrends 1986 SAT Scores Show No Improvement SAT Score Averages 1963-1986 Mean SAT Scores by State 1980-1986 What Is Functional Illiteracy? Illiteracy In Spokane Chicago Public Schools Produce Massive Reading Failure What’s A Parent To Do? Vital Quotes Author Critical of Surgeon General’s Report on AID January 1987:The War Against Christianity in AmericaTennessee: What kind of Victory? Christians Lose in Michigan School Christmas Scene Ruled Unconstitutional NEA and AFT Fight Creationism Iowa Church Schools Defy Court Ruling Michigan Home Schools to be Regulated Ten Percent pf Legislators are Former Educators Black Parents Turning to Private Schools ACLU Fights Lease to Christian School Can Christians Win in Court? Liberal Parents Fight Christian Influence Secular Humanism on Trial in Alabama Iowa Court Halts Bible Giving in School A Humanist’s Creed Church Home for Girls Raided in Mississippi Letters from Readers February 1987:THE LETHAL EQUATION:Values Clarification Plus Death Education Equal Teenage Suicide Death Education Menninger Psychiatrist Denounces Values Clarification NEA Promotes Death Education and Values Clarification Boy Murdered in Satanic Sacrifice Fifth Grader Kills School Principal Student Kills Self in Class Third Suicide in Pennsylvania School Ninth Grader Kills Teacher Sixth Suicide at Leominister High Cluster Suicides Hit Schools Suicide Epidemic Stuns Omaha Boy Writes About Own Suicide Teen Kills Self on TV Death Video Becomes Popular On “Lifeboat Games” Vital Quotes: AIDS Statistics Update March 1987:How Progressive Educators Planned To Socialize AmericaThe Socialist Plan Secular Salvation “Panhumanity” The NEA’s Role Teachers Get Highest Pay Increases in Nation School Costs: $4,263 Per Child Minnesota District Drops Creationism Opponents to Creation Science ignore Evidence Suicide Victim’s Parents Sue School Officials Child Porn Epidemic Satanists Abuse Children Vital Reading Correction Vital Quotes April 1987:Court Rules Secular Humanism Is A religionTextbooks Banned by Judge Hand Educators, PAW & ACLU Denounce Judge’s Ruling Alabama B of E Appeals Decision Appeals Court Suspends Textbook Ban NEA Lies About Humanism Nation Shocked by Teen Suicide Teacher Shows Death Video in Class Christian Schoolers Jailed in Iowa Seventh-Grader Kills Classmate and Self Pupils No Longer Asked To Write Own Eulogies Prayer Banned at High School Football Game Educators Organize to Fight Tennessee Decision Computer Study Indicates torah of Divine Origin Vital Reading May 1987:Violence in the SchoolsEditor’s Comment Violence Widespread in Public Schools Guns in the Schools Students Attack Teachers in D. C. Schools Students Sue School in Rape Case Weapons in Boston Schools Montana Student Murders Wrong Teacher Parents Found Guilty of “Slandering” Teacher “Dangerous Dragons” Suicide Provides Transplant Organs Teacher Sues Teachers Prof. Kohlberg Commits Suicide Professor Plots to Kill Judge Vital Quotes June 1987:Eugenics in American Education and the Making of a Black UnderclassEditor’s Comment Cattell Meets Dewey Eugenics Movement Grows Thorndike’s Influence Germany Applies Eugenics The Destroyers of Literacy The Growing Educational Underclass Vital Reading July 1987:Supreme Court Bans Creation Science in Public SchoolsScalia and Rehnquist Dissent Implications The Christian Response PTA Advocates State Regulation of Home Schools Educators Warn of Impending Massive Failure PTA Issues “Guide to Extremism” Aborted Fetuses Used for Skin Grafts Defective Condoms Recalled Students Riot over Grading System PURE to Hold Organizing Convention in Amarillo Creation Science Convention in Seattle AIDS Statistics Update Editor’s Note Atlanta B of E OK’s AIDS Policy August 1987:Communists Praise NEA as a Militant Progressive UnionNEA Is Largest Donor to People for the American Way NEA Reports on Black Decline in Public Education NEA to Work on Republicans NEA Opposes Bork and Contras Christians Protest Michigan Law Curtailing Educational Freedom Son of Madalyn Murray O’Hair Is Christian Activist Christian Minister Wins in Nebraska Vital Reading September 1987:An Overview of the Year:The Struggle for Educational Freedom Intensifies The New The Christian Response Are Achievement Tests Getting easier? Christian School Wins Case in Massachusetts Alabama and Tennessee Court Victories Reversed AIDS Statistics Update October 1987:Humanists Launch Attack on Christian Fundamentalist Schools“Truth With A Capital T” “Forcing Houses” But Christian Education Works Pluralism Threatened Social “Costs” of Christian Schools Home-Schoolers Face Tyranny in North Dakota Bennett Rips Into NEA Memphis School Admits Student with AIDS Christian Student Sues School Officials Teachers Test Too Easy Lab Worker Gets AIDS Home-Schools Thrive in Michigan But Few Register with State Vital Reading Vital Quote November 1987:The SAT Disaster of 1987Minorities Improve SAT Disaster in Texas Parents Responsible for Education Says Texas Education Commissioner Dumbing Down America Suicides Plague Virginia High School Chicago Teen Shot in School Teen Violence worse than Ever Inside the Underclass in Baltimore Satanism Sweeping Teen Subculture N.Y. State Wants Private Industry to Solve Illiteracy Problem Illiteracy Grown in California December 1987:PURE A New Movement for Parental RightsPURE’s Program Information Network National Home Education Week The Cherry Pie Home School Industries Our Yearly Convention The Media PURE’s Board of Directors Membership Parents Oppose Hypnotism in Class NEA Moves to Control Teacher Licensing Home-Schoolers in Tennessee Outscore Public Schoolers Our Man of the Year Vital Reading January 1988:Dyslexia: The Disease You Get in SchoolSymptoms Dr. Orton’s Findings Enter Dr. Flesch The Disease Spreads The Alphabet Pictographs and ideographs Advantages of the Alphabet Going Backwards Look-Say Strategies Poor Spelling Circumventing the System Vital Reading February 1988:The Dangerous Trends in Sex EducationEditor’s Note PURE Conference March 1988:How the Federal Government Squanders Billions on Education3 pages of Tables of expenditures Do The Programs Work? Right-to-Read Bilingual Education Special Education The Rich Uncle Syndrome Huge Educational Bill Passed Vital Reading April 1988:Ritalin: Drugging Kids in SchoolSome Parents React Ritalin on Trial The Modern Quackery ‘my kind were guinea pigs in a torture chamber’ Drug Bust at Texas High School Undercover Cop at High School Murdered Student Kills Self in School Sharp Drop in Reading Scores Baffles Experts Top U.S. Students Fare Poorly on Science Achievement Test Occult Project in Catholic School Leads to Murder and Suicide Testing Firms Accused of Consumer Fraud Student Murdered at School May 1988:PURE Launches Campaign to Establish National Home Education WeekAn American Tradition God’s Commandment Progressives Take Over Rescuing the Children The Homeschoolers Ally Activities for Home Education Week The Benefits of Home Schooling (13) Arkansas School Reform Fails to Improve Academics Vital Quotes June 1988:Storm WarningsMassive Failure Drift Toward Surrender Collaborating with Communism Are We Being Checkmated? Is There a Way Out? Group Suicide Threat Cancels Graduation High School Students Lack Math Skills U.S. Students Being Brainwashed By “Peace” Education Vital Reading July 1988:Confessions of An Illiterate TeacherA Teacher Goes Public What a Difference Phonics Makes He Was Told He Was Stupid An Illiterate in Graduate School An Illiterate as Teacher Learning to Read at 48 Living With Deception The Incredible Pain High Failure Rate On Teacher Literacy Tests M.I.T. Quits Partnership With Boston Schools U.S. Court Bans Bible Club PURE Seminars Planned August 1988:Futrell Boasts of NEA Political Power and Chooses DukakisOrganized Teachers: Most Powerful Machine in America NEA To Control Teacher Certification NEA: Enemy Number One of Conservative Causes What Has NEA Done for Education? The Teachers Fight Back! Brave New Learning Laboratory NEA Out to destroy Christian Educational Freedom NEA Declares War on Home Education NEA’s Political Machine: Well Oiled and Well Financed Lobby-By-Mail Campaign Political Action Teachers Training to be Activists Comment PURE Seminar September 1988:Why the latest Campaign Against Illiteracy Will FailOne-Third Doomed to Failure The Debate Rages On Sixty Million Functional Illiterates No More Money Needed How to Solve the Illiteracy Problem California Kids to Get More Look-Say In Primary Schools Mr. Honig Asks for Money Comment In Selma. California, They Teach Real Phonics Comment Spending on Education at Record Levels Comment Alabama Approves Evolution But Prohibits Creationism Teenage Suicides Increase Shocking Survey on School Crime Released Schools Are Dangerous PURE Seminar October 1988:Revolution Via EducationDewey and Lenin The Fabians New Machiavellians Gradualism in America Bellamy’s Utopia The Nationalist clubs American Fabians Becoming A Socialist Hegel, Dewey and Psychology The Organic Society Dewey’s View of Democracy Dewey’s Experimental School The New Curriculum A Long-Range Strategy The Disastrous Results Vital Dates November 1988:The “Education President” Wins! An Open Letter to President-Elect George BushVanguard of the Left Saving the Taxpayers Money The Need for Reading Reform The Educators Choose “Whole Language” A Logical solution Encourage Private Alternatives Liberals Cannot Deliver Excellence Democrats Win Key Seats in Key State Legislatures Comment Idaho Teachers Become Top Political Power in State Comment Appeals Court Reverses Vicki Frost False Arrest Victory Teen Girls Afflicted by Sex Diseases Americans Flunk Geography More money does Not Produce Better Students Vital Dates December 1988:The SAT Disaster of 198842 States decline 7 States Improve More Students Coached Math Scores Decline The Decline of the Best Minorities Gain SAT Stats and Scores The ACT’s State Boards Propose Radical Curriculum reform Comment New Exchange Set for U.S., Soviet Students Comment Computers to Link U.S. and Soviet Schools Arkansas Business Leaders Offer Reform Plan Comment Youth Suicides Up in Missouri Criminal Student, Protected by Counselor, Kills Teenage Girl Suicide Prevention Programs May Actually Encourage Suicide Rockefeller Foundation Funds Global Education in Arkansas Comment Soviets Admit their Textbooks Lie Comment Teachers Attacked in N.Y. Schools Ritalin Use Now Widespread Vital Dates January 1989:NEA President Interviewed by Communist NewspaperNEA Scored Gains School Integration Not Working NEA Official Visits Soviet Union Everyone Talks Peace Comment 1999-89 Resolutions Reflect NEA’s Arrogance and Lust for Power Part I Sex Education and AIDS NEA on Abortion NEA on Religion NEA on Globalism NEA on Peace NEA on Central America Vital Reading Vital Dates Vital Quotes February 1989:NEA 1988-89 ResolutionsPart II The Goal is Total Power Over the Profession NEA Leaders Call for power Enter Carnegie The True Aim of Reform The NEA’s Curriculum Hijacking Public Education Controlling Training and Licensing Who Sets Standards? What About private Schools? The Key to Politics: Power Employee Benefits Galore Can the Plan Be Upset? Judge Upholds Removal of Religious Books from Schools Comment The Reversal Schools are Establishments of religion Are We Like Pavlov’s Dogs? More Teachers Run for Office Teenage Pregnancy Costs Fed $ 19.3 Billion Teenage Gunman Kills Two In South Carolina School Vital Quotes Vital Dates March 1989:The “Whole Language” FraudEnglish as Chinese Reading as a Guessing Game Phony History Phony Phonics Reading for “Meaning” Developing dyslexia Confused Teachers IRA Convention Children as Guinea Pigs What Can Be Done? Vital Addresses The Great Debate Heats Up The Educators Reject Flesch The Establishment challenges Chall Zeroing in on Chall Chall Responds Chall KO’s Carbo California Schools to Teach Evolution Comment Vital Quotes PURE Convention Place and Dates Changed April 1989:Shootings in School Alarm NationComment Health of American Children Deteriorating Comment Three Gifted Students Commit Suicide Student Beaten to Death in Atlanta School Star Athlete Murdered in School Corridor Student Kills Self in Class Georgia Teen Dies After Abortion Nine-Year-Old Raped in School Restroom Teacher Reports Disruptive Students, Apathy Biggest Problems Comment Massive Academic Failure in Mass. Cities Schools Maryland Schools to Expel Students with Guns Los Angeles Parents Boycott Violence-Plagued Schools Three Boys With AIDS Win $1.1-Million School Settlement Unions Must Repay Nonunion Teachers Governor of Missouri Proclaims Home Education Week Mich. Judge Strikes Down Home-Schooling rules What Ate The Teaching the Children? Comment Signs of the Times Vital Quotes PURE Convention and Book Fair May 1989:Why Education Reform Has FailedTeacher Salaries Up Comment Who’s to Blame? Break Up the Monopoly Spending per pupil is up since 1982 High school dropout rates are on the rise Test scores decline Japanese Math Program A Success in Alabama School Great Success Quiet Classrooms The “Experts” Object Comment U.S. Math Experts Plan New “New Math” Comment PURE Convention & Book Fair How Gov. Dukakus Fights Illiteracy in Massachusetts June 1989:The theory of Evolution: Fact or Fairy Tale?Green Light for Evolution Religious Implications The Missing Links A Gigantic Hoax Enter Pasteur Typing Monkeys Thermodynamics Evolution in Education Children As Animals Evolutionist Creed of Humanism Man as an Accident Pavlov’s Children: Dick and Jane When Myth Becomes Truth Article Sources PURE Convention & Book Fair July 1989:Is Humanism A Religion?Establishments of Religion Three Key Documents The Wrong Question From Nonsectarianism to Secularism Filling the Vacuum The Humanists Organize A Messianic Mission Humanism as Religion Humanity as God Naturalistic Religion The fourth Faith Glorification of man The New Religion Secularists Object Human Manifesto II Ethics and Sex World Government Conclusions Sources Soviet Teens More Optimistic Than U.S. Teens Comment Sixth Grader Hangs Self August 1989:Lets Break Up the Public School MonopolyOr Why the Government Ought to Get Out of the Education Business The Only Solution An Instrument of government A Failed Monopoly Monopolies Distort Economies Unions Support Monopoly Education Consumers Lose Benefits of Privatization Privatizing Promotes Freedom Improving Literacy Depoliticizing Education What About the Poor? Sources Whole Language Produces Disastrous Results in Maine Comment Whole Language Proponents Call for New Reading Tests Champion of Phonics Dies PURE Holds Second Annual Convention in Grand Prairie, TX Top Corporate Heads Rip Public Schools Comment September 1989:Is Your Child Attending a Zoo?Or How to Evaluate Your Local Public School The Cognitive Skills The Humanist Catechism One Third Become Disabled Asking the Right Questions Read the Textbooks The Reading Program The Sight Vocabulary The Writing Program The Affective Domain Is the School Safe? New Age Practices Social Studies A Humanist Concept It There a Dress Code? The Bus Ride Michigan Home Schoolers Must Be Taught By Certified Teachers Comment Drop Loses Driver’s license Comment October 1989:Another Disastrous Year for the SAT’sMixed Results in Math The Asian Equation Teachers Help Students Cheat on Achievement Tests Average SAT Scores by State, 1979, 1984-1989 Comment Jersey City Schools Taken Over by State Comment Texas Court Rules Schools in State Are Illegally Financed Comment Witches Get Tax-Exemption In Rhode Island 1 in 8 U.S. Children Mentally Ill Comment Driver’s License: Right or Privilege? Comment November 1989:AIDS Spreading Among TeenagersTeen Girls at Risk Infected Runaways Rampant VD Teenage Boys More Sexually Active They Start Younger Comment Risky Behavior Dr. Koop’s Choice Disarming children Condom Failure The AIDS Crisis Grows 4 Pages of Tables on AIDS Cases December 1989:Education Issues of the 1990sAnd the New World Synthesis Hegel’s Vision A New Phase Future Indefinite Deceptive Tricks A Cult of Fanatics Humanist manifesto Applied Popular Patriotism Critical Thinking Tension and Conflict Radical Pedagogy Death Education AIDS Curriculum Teacher Power NEA Versus parents Good News Global Education Explained Start in Kindergarten Process and Concepts A Political Agenda One Third of Idahoans Are Functionally Illiterate HIV Infection Among College Students Higher than Among Military Letter From A Reader January 1990:The Purpose of EducationA Manifesto for the Nineties Radical Transformation The Tenants of Humanism The Altar of Socialization Our Abdication Can It Be changed? A New Philosophy The New Curriculum Acquiring Wisdom Book Selection Imparting Values The Bible and History Foundational Tenants The End of a Monopoly Professor Debunks New Trends in Math, Advocates Rote Learning Disaster for Mathematicians The Aversion to Rote Collective Learning No Simple Fix Peer Counseling Trains Kids To Become Psychologists’ Helpers Signs of the Times Vital Reading February 1990:A Second Open Letter to the “Education President”Obstacles to Learning How Reading Instruction Was Changed Making Teachers Ready to Teach Revising the Assessment Tests A Failed Monopoly Redefining Literacy Remembering “Right-to-Read” The Need for Common Sense Encouraging Private Alternatives The Poor Have Suffered Most Privatization is the Answer NEA Wants Stricter Requirements for National Board Certification NEA and AACTE Join Forces Prerequisites: A Live Issue AFT Versus NEA Comment An Establishment Board Honig Targets ICR in Assault On Academic Freedom Honig’s Threats Comment Freedom in Moscow March 1990:Why Ivan Can Read But Johnny Can’tIt Was Tried in Russia History of Russian Primers Look-Say in Russia The Dewey Influence The Soviet Experiment Soviets Junk Deweyism Engineers and Technicians Needed Back to Basics The Failure of Progressivism Reviving the Three R’s The Need for Competence The Progressives Push On Sound Teaching Needed Proof of Failure Poor Spelling Déjà vu Sweden’s Socialist Education System Is Falling apart Socialist Policies A State Curriculum Sweden: A Nation at Risk Comment Maine and Missouri Proclaim Home Education Week April 1990:The Tama Story:Educational Tyranny in Iowa Mother Was Certified Teacher “Child in Need of Assistance” Comment Barry in Kindergarten Special Ed “Experts” Evaluate Barry Deputies Terrorize Children Mother Charged with Harassment The State Pursues Anna Calling in the “Experts” Mother’s Teaching Not Good Enough Parents Versus the State State Power Arrayed Against Anna Boy Hangs Self After Seeing Suicide Film in School They Watched “Titanic” Comment Second Student Suicide in Same Township Shocks Community Good Natured Young Man Third Annual PURE Conference July 6-7, Boise, Idaho May 1990:An Interview With Dr. William R. Coulson On theOrigin and Dangers of Affective Education Maslow the Messiah Enter Carl Rogers Dropping Defenses Dr. Coulson’s Background The Immaculate Heart Experiment Rotten Fruits Parents in the dark The Obedient Child at Risk Victims of a Bad Curriculum Coulson on Illiteracy Dewey’s Influence Contacting Conservatives The Alabama Textbook Case A One-man Crusade The Affective Schema Postscript Third Annual PURE Conference July 6-7, Boise, Idaho June 1990:The Rivera Case:Why Is the State of Iowa Determined to Bring a Christian Home-Schooling Father to His Knees? Judge Wanted Stronger Punishment Judge Has Second Thoughts The Issue Is Control Statists Defend State Control Judge Distrusts Parents The Sentencing Children Scored Well On Tests God’s Work Is Unchanging Home-Schoolers Demonstrate Raising a Christian Family The Bureaucrat Responds Lesson Plans in Duplicate Ms. Mosel’s Metamorphosis PURE Conference Postponed Till October 1990 July 1990:The Teenage Suicide Holocaust:Is Death Education the Cause? Cluster Suicides School Officials Baffled Were Parents Consulted? Desensitizing Children Death Ed in Kindergarten The Power of Suggestion How It All Began The Making of a Death Cult Death Educators Organize A Growth Industry Public Ignorance Making Death Ed “Effective” Is The Debate Over? Parents Are Irrelevant The NEA’s Active Role Uneasy Teachers Junior High Freshman Kills Self Boy, 11, Hangs Self Vital Quotes August 1990:How To Cure DyslexiaMotivation Is Key to Success Mastering the Alphabet Removing the Blockage The English Alphabet 26 Letters for 44 sounds Applying Phonetic Knowledge The Importance of Accuracy Self-Teaching Spotting One’s Own Errors The Right Reading Materials Improving One’s Writing Spelling Rules Mastering the System Letter From South Africa Former Labor Secretary Blasts Public Education Vital Quotes Parents for Unalienable rights in Education (PURE) 3 rd. Annual Conference Oct. 19-20, 1990 Boise, Idaho “A Parents’ Rights Strategy for the Nineties” Retired Teachers’ Three Daughters Use Alpha-Phonics September 1990:Are Compulsory Attendance Laws Necessary?The Way It Was The Way It Is Serving the Establishment The Original Premise The Common Schools The Prussian Model Child Labor The Boston Elite Going After the Truant First Law Is passed The Catholics React Going After Home-Schoolers The Need for Educational Freedom Repeal Should Be the Goal Education Costs Reach New High A Sad Farewell to “Johnny” Johnson Parents for Unalienable Rights in Education (PURE) Conference Oct. 19-20 Boise, Idaho “A Parents’ Rights Strategy for the Nineties” Illiteracy Snarls hurricane Relief in South Carolina October 1990:What Every Teacher of Reading Should Knowor How to Solve America’s Literacy Problem in Short Order The Better Way A Parents’ Testimony My Assumptions Were Correct Convinced? Milwaukee Choice Program Faces Court Fight Legal Battle Continues For Low Income Students State Pays Tuition Parent Participation Failures of Desegregation NAACP Opposes Choice Attacks on Students in Los Angeles Schools Increase Schlafly Blasts New Definition of Reading Comment Vital Quote November 1990:The SAT Disaster of 1990National Verbal Score Hits Bottom As the Dumbing Down of America Continues Apace Atrophying the National Brain Declining Intelligence The Black Predicament The Failure of Reform A Perverse Philosophy Failure From Coast to Coast College Bound Seniors: SAT Score Averages 1969-1990 Average SAT Scores by State, 1980, 1985-1990 (Two Pages of Tables) SAT Averages by Ethnic Group 1976, 1980-1990 Math Teachers Plan New New Math Comment Teachers Who Can’t Teach Short Changing the Children December 1990:A Visit to IowaWhere Educational Totalitarians, Robotic Bureaucrats, Hypocritical County Attorneys and Politicized Judges Confront Home Schoolers Potential Reign of terror Obeying God’s Commandments Prosecutors Target Home Schoolers The Educators’ Fiefdom An Unusual Family A Talent for Research Our Visit With Barry Chatting With the Social Worker Separation Anxiety Drug-Sniffing Dogs May Be Used In Some Maryland Schools Asst. Principal in Texas School Murders Administrator Corporations Blamed for Not Testing Literacy of Employees Comment Two Teachers Suspended For Breach of Test Security Administrator Pleads Guilty to Stealing State Education funds Teacher Sues School Board For Right to Teach Obscenity January 1991:Public Education: The Sick DinosaurCan It Survive the Trends Toward Decentralization and Privatization Moral Confusion The Fiction of Reform Getting A Diploma The Successful Family The Dinosaur in Politics Crumbling Structures Liberals Back Privatization What Is to Be Done? Teachers Form “Private Practice” Association Learning Enterprise One-Room Private Schools Parental Choice Causes Heated Debate in New Hampshire Town Ready to Do Battle Townspeople Approve Program Accessible to All Vital Quote February 1991:What’s Wrong With Whole Language?No More Dick and Jane The Debate Goes ON A Political Dimension A Socialist Agenda Symbolic Confusion Nearly Half of Texas Students Fain New Achievement Test Vital Quote March 1991:Values and Public Education:The Cultural Civil War (Part I) Values and Emotions No End to Scenarios Price of Unlimited tolerance A New Utopianism Self-Actualization A New Road to Salvation Training change Agents The Humanist Solution Harvard’s Kennedy School to Recruit Homosexual Students April 1991:Values and Public Education:The Cultural Civil War (Conclusion) The Lifeboat Game Cast of characters Easy Victims Tough Decisions Phony Choices Silver Lining Teenager Takes Over Classroom With Loaded Rifle It’s Official: America Is A Christian Nation Few Blacks Are Muslims Comment Neil bush: Dyslexic Anti-Suicide Programs Produce Unwanted Effects Sexual Slang Upsets Parents Homosexual, 29, Sues Boy Schools May 1991:Why Schools Don’t EducateBy John Gatto (1990 New York City teacher of the Year) Comment 6% of Teenagers Have Tried to Commit Suicide June 1991:The Political Agenda Behind “Whole Language”“Democratic governance” “Empowerment” The Exclusion of Parents One Family’s Experience With Whole Language Letter from Barbara M. Morris Dewey’s Pragmatic Oath Viral Reading July 1991:Can Chris Whittle Succeed?His Is The Most Revolutionary Plan for American Education in 150 Years Private Schools for All A Born Entrepreneur Starting from Scratch Comment A Sound Philosophy of Education Convention in Miami: The 1991 NEA follies of 1991 Boy Scouts Kicked Out Down With Columbus Teachers Are Angry Not Happy With Clarence Thomas Investigate Whittle Comment National Average Salary for Teachers Rises 5.4% August 1991:The Great American Math DisasterFramingham Has High Hopes for New Math Program Vital Reading Correction LA Schools Adopt Bullet Drills September 1991:The Scandalous State of Reading Instruction in AustraliaComment October 1991:Multiculturalism:The New Anti-Americanism Defining Multiculturalism Teaching Moral Diversity A New Worldview Celebrating Americanism Stepping Stone to Globalism The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. An Australian View The Christian Context State Control of children Children Versus Parents Limiting Parents Rights Inappropriate Rights November 1991:In Search of “Whole Language” in AustraliaEducating for Socialism A Key Dissertation “Whole Language” Not New Homeschooling in the Outback Kangaroos and Educators Billion-Dollar Parliament Arguing With Educators Letter to the Editor December 1991:The SAT Disaster of 1991National Verbal Score Hits New Low And the Dumbing down Goes On The Virtues of Illiteracy Average SAT Scores by States, 1981, 1986-1991 (3 pages of Tables) School Funding Higher Than Ever Verbal Scores Lower Than Ever Public Schools Outdo Public Schools Comment More Money Is Not the Answer Biggest SAT Bang for the Buck January 1992:Educating for the “New World Order”or The Road to a National Education System (Run By Psycho-Educators) How it Began The Progressive Period Training children As Animals Tapping into the Treasury The cognitive Domain Exposing the Master Plan Testing Values Changing Belief systems Agents of Change The Super Computer A Computer for Totalitarians What’s to Be Done On Self Education Letter from Mary Pride A Letter from a Homeschooling Mom Comment February 1992:Some Houston Schools Dump Whole LanguageAnd Return to Phonics (…And More On the Whole Language Fraud Officials Push Whole Language School Board Gives In New Studies Cast Doubt on Benefits of Whole Language Instruction Studies Favor Phonics Nicholson Challenges Goodman Goodman Rebuts Nicholson Velluntino Advocates Compromise Comments New Book Explains Whole-Language Philosophy Comment Vital Quote March 1992:Can Dyslexia Be Artificially Induced in School?Yes, Says Researcher Edward Miller Boston Schoolmasters react Overcoming a Handicap A Cognitive Conflict Dr. Seuss’s 223 Words Getting to the public Frank Smith Was Wrong Devising a Suitable Test What the Tests Revealed Alarming Results Comparing Schools Establishment Not Interested Editorial Note Back Issues [of the BEL] on the Literacy Problem (List of 14 back issues dealing with literacy) April 1992:AIDS Hits Texas High School(…plus an AIDS Update) Comment AIDS Update Boston Health Chief Backs Condoms for Students Harvard Divinity School Displays Art Work Made of Condoms Comment Kissing Can Spread AIDS (3 pages of AIDS Statistics) May 1992:Why Is America Being Inundated by Disinformation About Dyslexia?The Experts Spread Disinformation Comment Is the Dumbing-Down Deliberate? Comment Court Clears Way for Condoms in New York City Schools Planned Parenthood Files Suit to Prevent Teaching of Abstinence Vital Quote June 1992:Did Public Education Cause [Riots in] Los Angeles?Now Comes the Video Miseducating Black Americans Illiteracy and Delinquency Functional Illiteracy and Gangs The Underclass Learning to be Defective Dropout Kills 4 in Calif. School San Diego Reading Scores Down Comment Dumbing Down in England July 1992:Premarital Sex, Condoms, and AIDS:What Shall We Tell Our Children? Fathers and Sons Premarital Sex Teaching Our children Teaching Your Daughter Aggressive Girls Irresponsible Males Another Teacher Quits and Speaks Out Comment Vital Reading: A Profile in Courage August 1992:“The Whole Language Catalog”or A Review of the Fetish of the Whole The Guessing Game Goodman’s “Research” Basal Boredom Whole Language Belief System Leaning to the Left Molding Children’s Minds Literacy As Politics Toward A Brave New Culture High School Graduate Learns to Read 15 Years Later Comment September 1992:NEA Endorses ClintonAnd Bashes Whittle Private School Plan Teacher Power NEA Blasts Channel One Honig Versus Whittle Schlafly Blasts NEA NEA-AFT Merger? NEA Versus Alexander The Collectivist Millstone Organizing Teachers Worldwide NEA: Political Powerhouse Living Off the Taxpayer Hillary Clinton Promotes “Kiddie Lib” October 1992:Homeschooling Father Runs for U.S. PresidencyA Principled Approach Privatize Public Land The Natives Are Restless Who Will Win? Spending on Education Up to $445 Billion Teacher Pay Reaches Record Level AIDS Educators Angered by Pro-Abstinence Policy in New York AFT’s Shanker Backs Clinton Boston Schools in Crisis As Test Scores Plummet Comment Goodlad Gets Another Grant Comment Ready to Learn Council Formed Comment November 1992:The Upside-Down election of 1992Conservative Landslide – Liberal Victory The Figures Tell the Story The Clinton Presidency What About Education? The Perot Factor Other Interesting Votes Early-Childhood Assessment Plan Approved Multicultural Readiness Comment Workers Lack Basic Skills Say Employers Britain Dumps Progressive Ed In teaching English Back to Phonics Comment December 1992:Miscue Analysis:Training Normal Children to Read Like Defective Children How Defective Children Read Three Important Facts Misleading the Public Whole-Language Nonsense Homeschoolers Score High In Socialization Letters Comment January 1993:Can Conservatives Thrive in the New Clinton Era?The Trouble With Moderates The Trillion-Dollar Mess Home Schooling Will Grow The New Technology The Biblical Commonwealth The Calvinist Influence The Importance of Fathers Chelsea Clinton to Attend Private Quaker School Comment U.S. Marxists Ponder the Future Clinton Inspires Hope Comment February 1993:Establishment Happy With Clinton’s New Education SecretaryRiley’s Reforms America 2000 Comment Establishment Politician S.C. Scores in Decline San Diego Schools Reject Scout Programs Because of Ban on Gays Public School Enrollment Up Two 7th-Graders Plot to Kill Teacher D.C. Student Shoots Security Guard Comment March 1993:Outcome Based Educationor How to Turn a Dinosaur into an Octopus Student Kills Self in School Cafeteria Student Fatally Stabbed In New York School April 1993:OBE and Mastery Learningor Education Revolution by Stealth The Spady Bunch Revolution from the Top What Are the Outcomes? Hillary Approves Unbelievable Quotes Gay Teachers Win Protection Condoms Available in New Hampshire Schools Teen Member of Occult Group Commits Suicide Top Student Gets Low Scores in; Civics May 1993:Dumbing Us Down:The Hidden Curriculum of Public Schooling OBE and the Seven Lessons The Time Factor Drug Use Increases Among 8 th Graders New Book Studies Condoms in the Schools Philly Combats School Violence Letter From a Teacher Education Secretary’s Son Guilty in Drug Charge June 1993:Homeschoolers and the Courtsor Does the State Have a “Compelling Interest” in Education? Challenging “Compelling Interest” Compulsory Attendance A Prison Sentence The State v. the Family Homeschoolers Win Major Victory in Michigan July 1993:Why Johnny Can’t Tell Right from WrongMoral Miseducation The Problem With Quest Innate Depravity The Corrupt Heart Student Stabbed to Death In High School Classroom Student Plots to Kill Teacher ACLU Fights Expulsion of Gun-Toting Students Teen Shoots Family Three Teens Held in Killing of Three Children [Note: pages 7 and 8 of this issue are missing] August 1993:Further Investigation Into School-Induced Dyslexia ProvidesIrrefutable Proof of Dumbing Down The Miller Test Dr. Seuss’s Sight Words Educational Dyslexia 72 Percent At Risk Comparing Schools The Follow Up Proof of Dumbing Down Spelling Helps Reading The Sight Word Eliminator Vickie’s Story Scientists Believe Dyslexia May Be Genetically Inherited Comment Reading Scores in N.Y. Schools Lag Behind 1991 Comment September 1993:Benjamin Bloom: OBE’s GodfatherHis Writings Tell All Enter OBE Messianism in Action The New Vocabulary Humanist Manifesto II Bloom’s Taxonomy Cognitive Domain NEA Resolution Mary Foley’s Curriculum Math Problems Stump Students Comment October 1993:U.S. Government reveals:90 Million American Adults Can Barely Read or Write Only 20% Highly Literate Comment Crippling a Nation Dumbed-Down Educators Engler’s Choice Comment NAEP Tests Reveal Students’ Poor Reading Skills Comment Vital Videos November 1993:Debunking Whole Language Myths About New ZealandReading War in New Zealand Cashing In On the Myth Britain’s Secret Education Establishment Fights Conservative Reforms Comment Vital Reading December 1993:The AIDS Plague:The Worst Is Yet to Come New Surge of AIDS Among Gays Gene Antonio’s New Book AIDS Dementia AIDS Transmission By Saliva [2-½ Pages of AIDS Statistics] January 1994:The Government’s Waco Coverup:Can Linda Thompson’s Video Wake Up America? The First Assault Isolating the Victims The Final Solution Destroying the Evidence Lies From the Media Lawsuit Filed in Waco Massacre Defending the Survivors February 1994:Who Controls American Education?Those Rhodes Scholarships The Global Contest Clinton’s professor Dodd’s Discoveries U.S.-Soviet Agreement Enter Terrel Bell The Big Computer George Bush and the Pyramid March 1994:Homeschool Scores Dramatic victory on CertificationAs Congress Accelerates Cultural Revolution in Education The Network Lights Up Bills in House of Representatives What’s To Be Done? Goals 2000 Federalizes Education [6 goals] Comment Move to Investigate Terrel Bell April 1994:Kentucky’s OBE Experiment:Conflict, Confusion, and Lower Scores Change-Agent Carpet Baggers A National Fraud May 1994:OBE and Big Brother:Data Collection for the New World Order and Carnegie Corp. Launches Plan for Fed Control of Children Who Gets the Information? Permanent Student records Enter Anita Hoge SCANS Carnegie Corp. Launches Plan to Control Early Childhood Development U.S. Ed. Dept. 1995 Budget: $ 31.7 Billion Comment A parent’s View of OBE June 1994:The Rhodes Legacy:Are its Agents Shaping America’s Destiny? Mr. Rhodes’s Ideal of Anglo-Saxon Greatness The Socialist Connection Rhodes’s Funeral A Professor Dissents July 1994:Are Teachers Underpaid?The Statistics Say “NO” What Other People Earn Letter From Kentucky: An Inside View of KERA Getting Into the School The Teacher’s Lot Whole Language Program Attitudes and Habits Kentucky Distinguished Educator The Power to Destroy Retarding America: The Imprisonment of Potential Parent Praises Alpha-Phonics August 1994:Charter Schools: Good or Bad? (Page3)NEA Votes to Boycott Florida Orange Juice Because of Rush Limbaugh Hillary Speaks National Certification Charter Schools: Good or Bad? A “Different Twist” on Vouchers On Calvinism Recall Drive in Vista, CA A “Must Read” September 1994:How Should We Teach Our Children to Write?Cursive First, Print Later! How Cursive helps Reading The Ease of Cursive Cursive Helps the Left-handed Kiryas Joel: The Politics of Indecision Hostility Toward Religion On Learning to Read Chinese October 1994:Another Year of SAT Doldrums1994 Verbal Score One Point Above Bottom Analyzing the Scores Comparing the States Private Schools Do Better [2 pages of SAT Score tables] Recentering America’s Shrinking Brain Joycelan Elder’s Son Gets 10 Years in Jail Elders Witness Commits Suicide Students Supply Sperm Bank Boston SAT’s: The Pitts November 1994:Education Goals Panel Produces Tax-Funded “Toolkit”To Manipulate Public Acceptance of Phony Reforms Community Action toolkit Blame Everybody A Nation of Learners The Unreachable Goals The Higher-Standards Fraud Politically correct Standards Manipulating the Public Handling the Opposition A Journalist Speaks Out December 1994:An Open Letter to Republican Congressmen: It’s Time to Get the Federal government Out of the Education BusinessFederal Dollars Produce Academic disaster The Dismal; Failure of Title One The Reading Scandal Toward Federalized public Education Brainwashing Americans Government Monopoly and Politics The Cry Is Always for More Money Let the private Foundation Do it An Orwell Ian Nightmare in the Making Restore Educational Freedom in America! Fifty percent of College Grads have Low Literacy January 1995:The Nalepa Case:Educators Can Now Cause the Death of a Child and Get Away With It The Lethal Film Teachers Ignore Own Rules Was Stephen Suicidal? Canton’s OBE Curriculum Mrs. Egan’s Affidavit Educational Malpractice The Copy-Cat Effect The Educators’ Defense The Educators Win Teachers Destroy Evidence The “Health” Curriculum A Promising Life Lost February 1995:The International Reading Association, Newsweek, NBC and the Federal Trade Commission Gang Up on “Hooked on Phonics”The Target Was Phonics US to Sign UN Convention On Rights of Children 18 US Women Awarded Rhodes Scholarships March 1995:The New Barbarians:Public Schoolers Without Conscience Teenager Who Paid Friend to Kill Parents Convicted of Murder “A” Student Guilty in Calif. Murder 11-Year-Old Dies in School Shooting Teenager Charged in; Fight Death Children Rob Teacher at Gunpoint Girl Sent to Jail in Gang Rape Case 7th-Grader Slain in Nashville Nebraska Teacher Shot by Student Girl, 9, Wields Knife on School Bus Five-Year-Old Brings Gun to School Gun Seized from 8th Grader at School 15-Year-Old Rapes 6-Year-Old Student with Gun and Drugs Arrested D.C. Student Murdered in; School Fourth-Graders with Cocaine Arrested Student Kills Self in class Student Killed in Los Angeles Student charged with Murder Can Attend School Student Murders Student in Iowa Boy Strangled at Residential School Honors Student Kills Parents Boy Murders Girl in School Restroom Teen Drug Use Up College Drug Arrests Up Heroin and Marijuana Use Up Among Young Americans Prozac and Ritalin Use Rises Among Children High School Yearbook Rejects Abstinence Ad Mass. Has Highest Rate of Unwed Teenage Births April 1995:What Forced Bussing Did to Boston’s Public SchoolsComputer Files on U.S. Students Resemble Chinese Communist model Comment A Student Describes Cooperative Learning Emasculated Parents Rights Bill Passed by Mass. Senate Comment Idaho 4th-Graders Flunk Basic Arithmetic May 1995:Whole Language, Linguistics and the Witgenstein ConnectionLinguistics and Evolution The chasm A holistic Reflex The Meaning of Meaning The Wittgenstein Factor Psycholinguistic Guessing Game Wittgenstein on reading Quotable Quote June 1995:The War Between Humanism and Christianity Examined in“The Messianic Character of American Education” The Centrality of Family Defender of Homeschoolers Humanism as a Religion Are Christians Insane? School Health Survey Alarms Parents Federally Funded Comment Public Library in Vermont Offers Gay Books to Kids July 1995:John Dewey and the Decline of Literacy in AmericaLooking Backward Dewey’s Key Essay Enter Dick & Jane Systematic Change The Virtues of Illiteracy August 1995:California Education Dept. Confesses:Whole Language Has Been a Disaster! Comment NEA to Shift Emphasis to School Reform Issues Help From Jesse Jackson Top Priority: School Reform D.E.A. to Operate Charter School in Detroit Cheaper, Purer Heroin Pours Into the Northeast Vital Reading The Road to Socialism and the New World Order Father Fined for Tutoring Son Off Campus September 1995:Are Schools Causing the “Attention Deficit Disorder” Epidemic?No Two Children Are Alike Structure in Traditional Education The Child’s Vulnerable Brain What Can Parents Do? October 1995:Totalitarian Data-Gathering systemPrepared by U.S. Dept. of Education Bureaucrats at Work SPEEDE/ExPRESS System Confidentiality The Number Code Data on Student’s Religion Homework and Private Schools Assessment Information All About Your Teeth Medical Data Individual Health Plan Socialized Medicine Via Education Serviced to Death Do We Need This? What Can Be Done? November 1995:Forty Massachusetts Professors of Linguistics andPsycholinguistics Blast Whole Language: Scores Decline At Top Boston Schools Boston Mayor Launches Child Literacy Campaign Comment BEL Goes World Wide Web December 1995:Who Is Marc Tucker?His Letter to Hillary Reveals the Elitists’ Educational Plans From N.I.E. to Carnegie The Rochester Experiment The Left=Wing Source of Goals 2000 A National Examination System The SCANS Scam The Famous Letter The Dangers of patient Illiteracy January 1996:(Pg. 5: Who Killed Vince Foster?A review of Michael Kellett’s book) Unitarians Launch Full-Scale Attack on Right-Wing Critics of Public Education The Calvinists Were Right Tom Payzan and Goals 2000 Vital Reading Who Killed Vince Foster? February 1996:Conservative Republicans Vote for Hillary Clinton’s Forced-Labor BillCorruption Rampant in Public Schools Students Plot to Blow Up School Comment Ritalin May Cause Cancer in Mice Comment Parents Lose Condom Battle Comment Upcoming Blumenfeld Lectures March 1996:Homeschoolers to be Included and Bar Coded in the School-to-Work Education PlanSchool-to-Work Is OBE The Planning Elite Student Kills Three in Classroom April 1996:California’s Reading Debacle: When the Incompetent Rule, the Children SufferWhole Language Takes Over California Girl Commits Suicide Because of Dyslexia Comment Reading Skills Decline in Britain Comment Steve Jobs on Computers and Education Study Links Alzheimer’s with Linguistic Ability Comment 1 in 5 Mass. Adults Functionally Illiterate May 1996:Will Republicans Betray America For Marc Tucker’s HumanResources Development System: HR 1617 and S. 143? Goals 2000 Henry Hyde Opposes Iserbyt Blows the Whistle Research Galore Governing Board Benchmarks Equal Outcomes Miss. Schools to Put Student Records Online Comment June 1996:Pennsylvania Dept. of health Mandates Genitalia Exam ofSixth-Grade Girls in Public Schools: The Nazis Did It Tip of the Iceberg Study Affirms Superiority of Phonics to Look-Say Comment Learning Is Working and Working is Learning Enter Mark Tucker School-to-Work Planned in the Soviet Union in 1984 July 1996:The Importance of Homeschooling to AmericaThe Third Stage Defeating Mark Tucker Strong Christian Worldview Growth in Florida The Backyard Scientist Growth in Ohio The Whole Language/OBE Fraud August 1996:Pennsylvania Implements Marc Tucker’s SocialistSchool-to-Work Education Reform Educational Philosophy World Class Fraud? Bureaucrats as Revolutionaries Our Last Issue |