STRAIGHT OUT OF A SOVIET COMMUNIST TEXTBOOK! Watch this video in the arti­cle post­ed HERE “The kids who come to us are a clean slate.… It’s the adults who have to be retrained.” Read the fol­low­ing arti­cle and learn how par­ents are being retrained — but not just in math skills! “Com­mon Core math can be […]

Free or Not Free? That is the question! Note the Skin­ner­ian lan­guage inher­ent in this book’s title:PROGRAMMED LEARNING: EVOLVING PRINCIPLES AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS (Foun­da­tion for Research on Human Behav­ior: Ann Arbor, Mich., 1961) edit­ed by Jerome P. Lysaught (see blog post ear­li­er on this topic). From a chap­ter authored by Robert Glaser apt­ly titled “Prin­ci­ples of Programming”: […]

Day 31: Skin­ner Hor­ror Files The ulti­mate trou­ble with Skinnerian  “sci­en­tif­ic, research-based” standards, out­come-based methods, and “com­mon core” results   Who were these chil­dren?How were they the sub­jects of a “sci­en­tif­ic, research-based” study?[1] If we as par­ents and cit­i­zens believe that the same “sci­en­tif­ic, research-based” standards[2] applied to research in edu­ca­tion and psy­chol­o­gy are those applied […]

Day 30 : Skinner Horror Files The Hor­ri­ble Truth Comes Out!  In 1982, just as the Skin­ner­ian machine was rolling full-speed ahead into the class­rooms of Amer­i­ca, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER: A CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW was published.[1] In a trea­tise enti­tled “A Chris­t­ian View of Phi­los­o­phy and Cul­ture: Back to Free­dom and Dig­ni­ty,” not­ed […]

Day 29: Skin­ner Hor­ror Files Part 2: Trick or Treat? As men­tioned in yes­ter­day’s post, David Horn­beck­’s “draft” plan for Iowa’s edu­ca­tion trans­for­ma­tion ini­tia­tive, leaked to the press and dat­ed Sep­tem­ber 19, 1990, told the whole sto­ry. It was a most com­pre­hen­sive expla­na­tion of the Skin­ner­ian total­i­tar­i­an sys­tem applied to society. For the next 25 years Horn­beck […]

Day 28: Skin­ner Hor­ror Files Trick or Treat? In the Fall of 1990 a doc­u­ment was pre­ma­ture­ly leaked to the Iowa pub­lic. This doc­u­ment was a land­mark guide to under­stand­ing the direc­tion that edu­ca­tion reform would take in the decades to come. It was nev­er intend­ed to be reviewed by the pub­lic, but was sup­posed to remain […]

Did you notice that trans­for­ma­tions is plur­al? That added ‘s’ is  not a case of ear­ly morn­ing hyper typ­ing. As I have men­tioned numer­ous times with sub­stan­tial evi­dence in my book Cre­den­tialed to Destroy and this blog, we can­not sep­a­rate out the end goals in our real world from the inten­tion of using edu­ca­tion to […]

This is an out­rage, but expect­ed and exact­ly what I warned of in my book, Stop the Islamiza­tion of Amer­i­ca: A Prac­ti­cal Guide to the Resis­tance, in the chap­ter “The Mosque­ing of the Pub­lic Schools.” The sha­ha­da that the chil­dren are forced to recite in Mass­a­chu­setts pub­lic schools is the Mus­lim pro­fes­sion of faith (“there […]

Day 27: Skin­ner Hor­ror Files B.F. Skin­ner’s Legacy I am not the only one who has writ­ten the his­to­ry of edu­ca­tion reform. Dr. Den­nis [Cud­dy] wrote an excel­lent book in 1993 titled Chronol­o­gy of Edu­ca­tion With Quotable Quotes. Below is his warn­ings about B.F. Skinner: 1948: Walden II by B. F. Skin­ner (1972 Human­ist of the […]

Back from my jaunt this week to Orange Coun­ty, Cal­i­for­nia to talk about all the things com­ing into K‑12 class­rooms under the cloak­ing ban­ner of the Com­mon Core. Since I was tak­ing notes on Mon­day night and the pro-CC side zeal­ous­ly con­ced­ed a great deal in their pre­pared pre­sen­ta­tions, I thought we would talk about […]

DAY 24: SKINNER HORROR FILES Skin­ner’s Ero­sion of Privacy LAWRENCE P. GRAYSON OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF Edu­ca­tion, wrote “Edu­ca­tion, Tech­nol­o­gy, and Indi­vid­ual Pri­va­cy” (ECTJ, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 195–208) in 1976. The fol­low­ing are some excerpts from this impor­tant paper which serves as a clear warn­ing regard­ing the indis­crim­i­nate […]

Lib­er­tar­i­an Can­di­date Quotes Charlotte! We inter­rupt the cur­rent Skin­ner Hor­ror Files series to announce that the Lib­er­tar­i­an can­di­date for gov­er­nor in New York state has just quot­ed Char­lotte in his oppo­si­tion to char­ter schools! Go to: http://news.wbfo.org/post/video-candidates-square-sole-gubernatorial-debate Start lis­ten­ing at 36 min­utes. The sub­ject is Com­mon Core. Below is a transcript: 38.20 Michael McDer­mott, Lib­er­tar­i­an […]

Day 23: SKINNER HORROR FILES Teach­ing the way it used to be before per­for­mance-based out­comes on a predi­gest­ed learn­ing tools Over the years one has seen the depar­ture of many tal­ent­ed teach­ers who have left the pro­fes­sion due to Skin­ner­ian Per­for­mance-based Teacher Edu­ca­tion. Teach­ing used to be a joy­ful job in a cre­ative envi­ron­ment where stu­dents thrived […]