-Caveat Lector- > Subject: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America > > Are you concerned about the sorry state of education in America today? > > Please contact as many Congress people as you can to urge them to abolish > the Federal Dept. of Education. > > US Congressional Switchboard Toll-free Numbers > 1-800-648-3516 > 1-877-762-8762 > 1-800-722-7494 > > The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt > http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/ > > More Information > The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America -- November 1999 Education Reporter > http://eagleforum.org/educate/1999/nov99/dec99-book.html > > Amazon.com: buying info: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America - A > Chronological Paper Trail > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0966707109/qid%3D9804 33808/107-6708808-6938960 > > Book reviews > Reviewer: Lois L Simpson from Woodbridge, VA United States > This book is THE BOOK - to have- EVERY CONCERNED PARENT in America should > invest in a copy of it. It's the encyclopedia of just what has been going > on in America in the public school system- now for years and years. I > can't recommend this book enough- it holds a lot of answers to so many > unanswered questions. YEARS OF RESEARCH at our fingertips- & it's the size > of a telephone book. It's the best inside look- it's HONEST- OFFICIAL > DOCUMENTATION- undisputable evidence. If every parent were to read this, > we could right a terrible wrong being done in public schools today. I > purchased two copies- one to share with a friend & one to keep by my > computer on hand. Saves me years of research AT MY FINGERTIPS. What can I > say, I could of used this book ten years ago. So don't be too late being > really informed- the time to catch up is now. > The fact she was once a Senior Policy Advisor for the US Dept. of > Education- weighs a lot on the books creditability factor. It may be in > the number FOUR slot- but to me it's NUMBER ONE. > > > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// > > > June 29, 2000 Reviewer: Cherilyn Gulbrandsen from USA > "Double agent" author/educator Charlotte Iserbyt was fired from her > Washington DC post in the Department of Education for leaking this > information to the press. Now, 15 years later, we get the rest of the > story, packed with hard facts she confiscated from the files. A > no-holds-barred approach. From conservative to liberal, no name is sacred, > and all are accomplices to the crime. A MUST READ! > > > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///// > > > April 25, 2000 Reviewer: Gerry R. Coleman from usa > In a telephone sized nutshell you can see source materials on the > deliberate socialization of our public school system. For over 50 years > the public school system has been controlled by psychologists and social > planners out to create a non thinking reacting high school graduate. What > child can actually think and reason in these schools today? Is it a > deliberate plan to dumb our children to the point of being unable to make > decisions on their own? You betcha! Why? The answers lie within. > > > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////// > > > April 21, 2000 Reviewer: Peggy S. Cuddy, Researcher, April 20, 2000 from > North Carolina, USA > If one wants to find out exactly what American tax dollars have been > funding for decades while students'education has been going downhill, just > read Charlotte Iserbyt's new book, 'The Deliberate Dumbing Down of > America.' In this book, concerned parents, teachers, school > superintendents, senators and representatives on the State and Federal > levels, and educational researchers will find thoroughly documented facts, > which are needed in order to understand what's happened to our once > excellent educational system. Iserbyt is meticulous in her research. In > addition, she includes firsthand experiences, and writes in an easy to read > style. Important and recognizable trends are covered by decades, so that > they may be readily followed by those who are interested in understanding > the plans and events which have contributed to the downward transformation > of our schools and our society. > > So impressed by the need for wide circulation of this dedicated > researcher's findings, I personally donated "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of > America" to the library system in my area. hopefully, other readers will > want to order and donate it to their local public library or nearby college > library, or request that local libraries order it. The sooner its > distribution all across our country occurs, the sooner a greater public > awareness and understanding of our educational crisis will occur, and thus > a real solution should soon follow... END > > Source: > WorldNetDaily > http://www.worldnetdaily.com/ > > > Deliberately dumbing us down By Samuel L. Blumenfeld > http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=162 49 > > 12-16-99 > > Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's new book, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of > America," is without doubt one of the most important publishing events in > the annals of American education in the last hundred years. John Dewey's > "School and Society," published in 1899, set American education on its > course to socialism. Rudolf Flesch's "Why Johnny Can't Read," published in > 1955, informed American parents that there was something terribly wrong > with the way the schools were teaching children to read, and my own book, > "NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education," published in 1984, explained in > great detail how and why the decline in public education was taking place. > > But Iserbyt has done what no one else wanted or could do. She has put > together the most formidable and practical compilation of documentation > describing the well-planned "deliberate dumbing down" of American children > by their education system. Anyone who has had any lingering hope that what > the educators have been doing is a result of error, accident, or stupidity > will be shocked by the way American social engineers have systematically > gone about destroying the intellect of millions of American children for > the purpose of leading the American people into a socialist world > government controlled by behavioral and social scientists. > > This mammoth book is the size of a large city phone book: > 462 pages of documentation, 205 pages of appendices, and a 48-page > Index. The documentation is "A Chronological Paper Trail" which starts > with the Sowing of the Seeds in the late 18th and 19th centuries, proceeds > to The Turning of the Tides, then to The Troubling Thirties, The > Fomentation of the Forties and Fifties, The Sick Sixties, The Serious > Seventies, The "Effective" Eighties, and finally, the Noxious > Nineties. The educators and social engineers indict themselves with their > own words. > > Iserbyt decided to compile this book because, as a "resister" to what is > going on in American education, she was being constantly told that she was > taking things out of context. The book, she writes, "was put together > primarily to satisfy my own need to see the various components which led to > the dumbing down of the United States of America assembled in chronological > order -- in writing. > Even I, who had observed these weird activities taking place at all levels > of government, was reluctant to accept a malicious intent behind each > individual, chronological activity or innovation, unless I could connect it > with other, similar activities taking place at other times." > > And that is what this book does. It connects educators, social engineers, > planners, government grants, federal and state agencies, billion-dollar > foundations, think tanks, universities, research projects, policy > organizations, etc., showing how they have worked together to advance an > agenda that will change America from a free republic to a socialist state. > > What is so mind boggling is that all of this is being financed by the > American people themselves through their own taxes. In other words, the > American people are underwriting the destruction of their own freedom and > way of life by lavishly financing through federal and state grants the very > social scientists who are undermining our national sovereignty and > preparing our children to become the dumbed-down vassals of the new world > order. > > One of the interesting insights revealed by these documents is how the > social engineers use a deliberately created education "crisis" to move > their agenda forward by offering radical reforms that are sold to the > public as fixing the crisis -- which they never do. The new reforms simply > set the stage for the next crisis, which provides the pretext for the next > move forward. This is the dialectical process at work, a process our > behavioral engineers have learned to use very effectively. Its success > depends on the ability of the "change agents" to continually deceive the > public, which tends to believe any lie the experts tell them. > > Iserbyt's long journey to becoming a "resister," started in 1973 when her > son, a fourth grader, brought home from school a purple ditto sheet, > embellished with a smiley face, entitled, "All About Me." She writes, "The > questions were highly personal; so much so that they encouraged my son to > lie, since he didn't want to 'spill the beans' about his mother, father and > brother. The purpose of such a questionnaire was to find out the student's > state of mind, how he felt, what he liked and disliked, and what his values > were. With this knowledge it would be easier for the government school to > modify his values and behavior at will -- without, of course, the student's > knowledge or his parents' consent." > > From that time on, Iserbyt became an activist in education. She became a > member of a philosophy committee for a school, was elected as a school > board member, co-founded Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM), and > finally became senior policy advisor in the Office of Educational Research > and Improvement (OERI) of the U.S. Department of Education during > President Reagan's first term of office. > > As a school board member she learned that in American education, the end > justifies the means. "Our change agent superintendent," she writes, "was > more at home with a lie than he was with the truth." Whatever good she > accomplished while on the school board was tossed out two weeks after she > left office. > > It was during her tenure in the Department of Education in Washington, > D.C., where she had access to the grant proposals from change agents, that > she came to the conclusion that what was happening in American education > was the result of a concerted effort on the part of numerous individuals > and organizations -- a globalist elite -- to bring about permanent changes > in America's body politic. She was relieved of her duties after leaking an > important technology grant -- a computer-assisted instruction proposal -- > to the press. > > Another reason why Iserbyt decided to publish this book is because of the > reluctance of Americans to face unpleasant truths about their government > educators. She wants parents to have access to the kinds of documents that > were only circulated among the change agent educators themselves. She > wants parents to see for themselves what has been planned for their > children and the kind of socialist-fascist world their children will have > to live in if we do nothing to counter these plans. > > Therefore, getting this book into the hands of thousands of Americans ought > to be a major project for lovers of liberty in the year 2000. It will do > more to defeat the change agents than anything else I can think of. _____ > > Samuel L. Blumenfeld is the author of eight books on education, including > "Is Public Education Necessary?" and "The Whole Language/OBE Fraud," > published by The Paradigm Company, 208-322-4440. > > His reading instruction program, "Alpha-Phonics," is available by writing > The Tutoring Company, P.O. Box 540111, Waltham, MA 02454-0111. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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