Saturday, July 31, 2010

The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education


The History of Compulsory Schooling



John Taylor Gatto on State Controlled Consciousness

John Taylor Gatto

John Taylor Gatto climaxed his teaching career as New York State Teacher of the Year after being named New York City Teacher of the Year on three occasions. He quit teaching on the OP ED page of the Wall Street Journal in 1991 while still New York State Teacher of the Year, claiming that he was no longer willing to hurt children.


Charlotte Iserbyt on the Deliberate Dumbing Down of America


Charlotte Iserbyt

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. Iserbyt is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000.



GEORGE CARLIN - Who Owns You Americans - A funny movie is a click away
George Carlin on Why Government Schools Suck


Resources

Books by John Taylor Gatto




Books by Charlotte Iserbyt




Organizations
Alliance for the Separation of School and State
School Sakharovs

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