Day 21: Skin­ner Hor­ror Files The Skin­ner­iza­tion* of Teachers *DEFINITION of Skinnerize: The process by which stu­dents, teach­ers, prin­ci­pals, admin­is­tra­tors, etc. — and any­one else for that mat­ter — con­form to B.F. Skin­ner’s mod­el, meth­ods, goals, process and sys­tem. To become Skin­ner­ized means one has adapt­ed them­selves, will­ing­ly or through com­pul­sion, to the entire modus operen­di […]

DAY 20: Skin­ner Hor­ror Files Behav­ioral Sci­ence Teacher Edu­ca­tion Pro­gram (BSTEP)   George Orwell “We are get­ting clos­er to devel­op­ing effec­tive methods for shap­ing the future and are advanc­ing in fun­da­men­tal social and indi­vid­ual evolution.” ~BSTEP Few Amer­i­cans know about this pro­gram unless they were trained in edu­ca­tion. Even few­er know how seri­ous­ly bad this pro­gram […]

Day 19: Skin­ner Hor­ror Files “…to con­trol a child’s atti­tudes and values it is first nec­es­sary to mod­i­fy the child’s behav­ior.” “Par­ents have been told that Out­come-Based Edu­ca­tion has noth­ing to do with chang­ing the atti­tudes and val­ues of their children;  that OBE will improve learn­ing for all chil­dren through “best-prac­tices” research. What par­ents are not […]

If we think of the Com­mon Core as a buck­et or a ban­ner instead of pre­tend­ing it is about the trans­mis­sion of knowl­edge, its func­tion becomes much clear­er. All the changes that would cause an out­cry if pur­sued sep­a­rate­ly, and in many cas­es already have cre­at­ed wide­spread pop­u­lar rejec­tion, get to Come on Down Any­way […]

Day 18: Skin­ner Hor­ror Files Your Child, the Lab Rat?! See yes­ter­day’s post “School-To-Prison-Pipeline” Sys­tem? Then exam­ine care­ful­ly the graph­ics in this post. This tells a more com­plete sto­ry about Oper­ant Con­di­tion­ing. Sim­i­lar graph­ics were used on pre­vi­ous posts this month dur­ing our “Skin­ner Hor­ror Files” series. But these images have an added element. Note the words […]

Day 17: Skin­ner Hor­ror Files Oper­ant Con­di­tion­ing Includes PUNISHMENT Don’t ever for­get this! Penal­ties, pun­ish­ment… it is all part of the sys­tem of oper­ant con­di­tion­ing and an inte­gral part of the method. And when par­ents find out about this, they often get upset. Very upset. Read this arti­cle: “Mom Says NO to School Sys­tem Intim­i­da­tion,” Sep­tem­ber 26, […]

Ani­ta B. Hoge This edu­ca­tion mod­el is a recur­ring, failed edu­ca­tion mod­el being dupli­cat­ed with new names over the past sev­er­al decades. The ref­er­ence to a stu­dent is “human cap­i­tal.” This val­ue-added def­i­n­i­tion address­es the worth of an indi­vid­ual to busi­ness. There are many old­er names for Out­come Based Edu­ca­tion. Com­mon Core State Stan­dards, CCSS, is […]

An edu­ca­tion expert who heads up a pop­u­lar online K‑12 school is advis­ing par­ents that they must be vig­i­lant against gov­ern­ment intru­sion if they want to main­tain con­trol over their chil­dren’s schooling. Alan Scholl and his wife, Doreen, have suc­cess­ful­ly home­schooled sev­en chil­dren over the past 29 years. In addi­tion to that accom­plish­ment, Scholl — […]