Education Not About Reading, Writing and Arithmetic

Charlotte Iserbyt – Deliberate Dumbing Down of the World 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.  A few highlights:…

Stolen Education, Stolen Children, Stolen Future

When the news got out that New York parents were coaching their children to not take the standardized tests, I was so uncomfortable. I wasn’t sure if when I was a student, I would have had the courage to put down the pencil and stick to it with a teacher standing there telling me to pick…