Inside American Education (50 page)
52
Peter Brimelow, “Are We Spending Too Much on Education?”
Forbes
, December 29, 1986, p. 75.
53 Chester E. Finn, Jr.,
We Must Take Charge: Our Schools and Our Future
(New York: The Free Press, 1991), p. 36.
54
Curtis C. McKnight et al.,
The Underachieving Curriculum
, pp. 56, 57.
55
National Center for Educational Statistics,
Digest of Education Statistics: 1988
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988), p. 39.
56
Lewis J. Perlman, “The ‘Acanemia’ Deception,” Hudson Institution Briefing Paper, No. 120, May 1990, p. 3.
57
Ibid.
, pp. 5-6.
58
Jacques Barzun,
Teacher in America
(Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1981 [originally 1945]), p. 37.
59
Ernest L. Buyer,
College: The Undergraduate Experience in America
(New York: Harper & Row, 1987), p. 121.
60
Ibid.
, p. 128.
61
Howard R. Bowen and Jack H. Schuster,
American Professors: A National Resource Imperilled
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 73.
62
Charles J. Sykes,
Profscam: Professors Are the Demise of Higher Education
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1988), p. 24.
63
Ibid.
, p. 40.
64
The Editors of the Chronicle of Higher Education,
Almanac of Higher Education 1989-1990
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), p. 54.
65
James Cass and Max Birnbaum,
Comparative Guide lo American Colleges
(New York: Harper & Row, 1989), p. 280.
66
The Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching,
The Condition of the Professoriate
, p. 48.
67
Pearl Evans,
Hidden Dangers in the Classroom
(Petaluma, California: Small Helm Press, 1990), pp. 41-42.
68
Charles H. Hartman,
Driver Education in Schools
(Washington: Automatize Safety Foundation, 1968).
69
“The 1991-92 Resolutions of the National Education Association,”
NEA Today
, September 1991, pp. 16, 24, 25.
70
Herbert I. London,
Armageddon in the Classroom: An Examination of Nuclear Education
(Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1987), pp. 2-3.
71
Tupper Hull, “S.F. Pupils Send Lawmakers Bitter Hate Mail on Prop. 98,”
San Francisco Examiner
, May 5, 1991, p. B1.
72
Quoted in Herbert I. London,
Armageddon in the Classroom: An Examination of Nuclear Education
, p. 3.
73
“The Derisory Tower,”
New Republic
, February 18, 1991, p. 5.
74
Eugene D. Genovese, “Heresy Yes—Sensitivity, No,”
New Republic
, April 15, 1991, pp. 30, 35.
75
Herbert I. London,
Armageddon in the Classroom
, pp. vii-viii.
CHAPTER 2: IMPAIRED FACULTIES
1
Geraldine Jonçich Clifford and James W. Guthrie,
Ed School: A Brief for Professional Education
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), p. 18.
2
Ibid.
, pp. 20-21.
3
Thomas Toch,
In the Name of Excellence: The Struggle to Reform the Nation’s Schools, Why It’s Failing, and What Should Be Done
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 138.
4
Dennis A. Williams, “Teachers Are in Trouble,”
Newsweek
, April 27, 1981, pp. 79, 81.
5
Computed from U.S. Department of Education,
Digest of Education Statistics: 1990
(Washington, D.C.: Department of Education, 1991), p. 11.
6
See, for example, Martin Mayer,
The Schools
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1963), p. 465; James Conant,
The Education of American Teachers
(New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1963), pp. 1-2.
7
Martin Mayer,
The Schools
, p. 465.
8
Geraldine Jonçich Clifford and James W. Guthrie,
Ed School
, p. 137.
9
Professor X,
This Beats Working for a Living
(New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1973), p. 108.
10
Geraldine Jonçich Clifford and James W. Guthrie,
Ed School
, p. 141; Sue Berryman,
Who Will Do Science?
(New York: The Rockefeller Foundation, 1983), pp. 74-75.
11
W. Timothy Weaver,
America’s Teacher Quality Problem: Alternatives for Reform
(New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983), pp. 39-58, 163-173; Ernest Boyer,
High School: A Report on Secondary Education in America
(New York: Harper & Row, 1983), pp. 171-72.
12
William Whyte,
The Organization Man
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956), p. 83.
13
W. Timothy Weaver,
America’s Teacher Quality Problem: Alternatives for Reform
(New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983), p. 163.
14
Sue Berryman,
Who Will Do Science?
, pp. 74-75.
15
William H. Whyte,
The Organization Man
, p. 83.
16
Martin Mayer,
The Schools
, p. 466.
17
Ibid.
, p. 467.
18
Geraldine Jonçich Clifford and James W. Guthrie,
Ed School
, pp. 32, 34.
19
W. Timothy Weaver,
America’s Teacher Quality Problem
, p. 62.
20
Ibid.
21
Ibid.
, p. 63; Ernest Boyer,
High School
, p. 172.
22
Edwin M. Bridges,
The Incompetent Teacher: The Challenge and the Response
(Philadelphia: The Falmer Press, 1986), p. 2.
23
John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe,
Politics, Markets, and American Schools
(Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1990), p. 3.
24
Geraldine Jonçich Clifford and James W. Guthrie,
Ed School
, p. 20.
25
Ibid.
, p. 25.
26
Ibid.
, p. 15.
27
“Education at Last,”
Stanford Daily
, November 1, 1989, p. 4.
28
See, for example, Geraldine Jonçich Clifford and James W. Guthrie,
Ed School
, pp. 47-153.
29
Diane Ravitch, “Scapegoating the Teachers,”
The New Republic
, November 7, 1983, p. 27.
30
Edwin M. Bridges,
The Incompetent Teacher
, pp. 21-23.
31
Ibid.
, p. 33.
32
Ibid.
, p. 41.
33
Ibid.
, p. 38.
34
Ibid.
35
Ibid.
36
Ibid.
, p. 40.
37
Ibid.
, p. 31.
38
Thomas Toch,
In the Name of Excellence
, pp. 46-54, 100-110. See also Diane
Ravitch, The Troubled Crusade
(New York: Basic Books, 1983), Chapter 2.
39
Thomas Toch,
In the Name of Excellence
, p. 50.
CHAPTER 3: CLASSROOM BRAINWASHING
1
Child Abuse in the Classroom
, edited by Phyllis Schlafly (Westchester, II.: Crossway Books, 1988), p. 190.
2
Ibid.
, p. 321.
3
W. R. Coulson, “
Helping Youth Decide
: ‘When the Fox Preaches, Beware the Geese,’”
New York State Journal of Medicine
, July 1985, p. 357.
4
Child Abuse in the Classroom
, called by Phyllis Schlafly, pp.401-402.
5
William Sargant,
Battle for the Mind
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1957), p. 163.
6
Child Abuse in the Classroom
, edited by Phyllis Schlafly, pp. 68, 403.
7
Ibid.
, p. 308.
8
Ibid.
, p. 260.
9
Ibid.
, p. 368.
10
Ibid.
, pp. 236, 283.
11
Ibid.
, pp. 63, 262.
12
Ibid.
, p. 295.
13
Ibid.
, pp. 130, 176.
14
Ruth Engs, S. Eugene Barnes, and Molly Wanta,
Health Games Students Play: Creative Strategies for Health Education
(Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1975), pp. 47-48.