This is the incredible story of how one gutsy woman stood the whole education establishment on its head and forced a cabinet-level government agency to obey the law. What began as a simple citizen complaint against a local school district resulted in a massive investigation and coverup of irregularities in this nation's education system dating as far back as 1965. Education bureaucrats in Pennsylvania never dreamed they would one day be on the losing side of a fight against their Washington counterparts, whom they previously had imagined to be allies. Even less did officials in Washington dream they would be outmaneuvered into opening a Pandora's Box of white papers, position papers, working papers, official memos, appropriations, review boards, `secure' lists, and task forces that eventually would reveal one of the most unique and mind boggling cases of misrepresentation in American history. Anita Hoge herself did not expect to be declared winner in a case against the U.S. government — even before it went to court . . . and before she had had a chance to make her case public.

Educating for the New World Order

Education & Teaching

B. K. Eakman

Schools & Teaching

Halcyon House

The Decline and Fall of American Education and a Blueprint for Its Resurrection by Carl Salser and Fred West (Paperback - Sep 1991)

The Decline and Fall of American Education and a Blueprint for Its Resurrection

West, Fred

Salser, Carl

Profiled in a very favorable October 1995 interview with John Stossel of ABC TV's 20/20 program, Prof. Engelmann is an educator with more than 35 years of experience teaching elementary school children, dealing with public school administrators, and managing private training organizations. In general terms, this book is a penetrating examination of our public schools. As a Professor of Special Education for more than 25 years, Professor Engelmann also understands all of the popular educational theories and buzzwords. Using his knowledge of both theory and practice, Professor Engelmann gives both professionals and laypeople such as parents and legislators examples of how educational theorists and public educators have neglected the trees while concentrating on the forest. In more specific terms, this details Professor Engelmann's participation, as a developer of Direct Instruction methods and materials, in the federal government's Project Follow Through comparison of instructional methods, and how, after spending half a billion dollars, the results of the study were never formally published. Anyone interested in more fully understanding the debate surrounding our public educational systems should read War Against the Schools' Academic Child Abuse.

War Against the Schools' Academic Child Abuse

Parenting & Relationships

Siegfried Engelmann

Family Relationships

"A unique work that should be a must for libraries, educators, and any concerned about the literacy debate and the state of our schools." Millions of adults in the United States are functionally illiterate. But before they became adults they were children in our public school systems. Too many of these children also become wards of the juvenile justice system. This landmark book examines the relationships between juvenile illiteracy and the methods that are commonly used to teach reading, and what proportion of juvenile crime might be attributable to the failure of our school systems. The book also serves to report the results of a unique survey of literacy educators at juvenile detention facilities regarding their own educational background, preferred methods for teaching reading, and perceptions about the efficacy of different methods. Thus readers may judge whether juveniles are likely to leave the justice systems any better prepared to succeed in school or the working world than when they entered. This also has significant implications for public schools, since public school reading teachers have received the same instruction as those serving in juvenile correctional facilities.

Retarding America: The Imprisonment of Potential

Politics & Social Sciences

Brunner, Michael S.

Social Sciences

Microchipped provides further insight into the issues raised by Educating for the ‘New World Order’ in the form of five of Mrs. Eakman’s public presentations during the past two years. A touching introduction places many of the changes we have observed in our educational systems into personal and historical perspective, after which the text of the speeches she has given will give insights into many related issues - such as Outcome-Based Education (OBE) - which have come to public attention since publication of Educating for the ‘New World Order.’ A special Appendix includes sample portions of documents to which Mrs. Eakman referred in her speeches and both books.

Microchipped

Fallen Eagle

Harold E. Wills

This classic gives a unique and sweeping insight into life in China, and in particular the differences between China and the West.  Chapters: The Chinese People and Their Origins, The Chinese Character, The Chinese Mind, Chinese Ideals and Religion, Woman's Life, Social and Political Life, Literature, Art and Architecture, The Pleasures of Life, Home and Garden, Eating and Drinking, The End of Life, The Search for Leadership, and The Way Out.    The Author: Lin Yutang was a born into a Christian family, and after choosing Taoism and Buddhism returned to Christianity.  He we was educated at Harvard, and lived most of his life in America, primarily a writer and translator.  His translations of Chinese texts were popular in America.  His wife, (Lin TsuiFeng) was a cookbook author who popularized Chinese cooking in America.

My Country and My People

History

Lin, Yutang

Asia

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