Many years ago someone observed that many parents raise their children but do not educate them. 
People sup together, play together, travel together, but they do not think together. Hardly any homes 
have any intellectual life whatsoever. The cause of this decay of the family's traditional role as the 
transmitter of tradition is the same as that of the decay of the humanities: nobody believes that the 
old books do, or even could, contain the truth. Fathers and mothers lack self-confidence as educators 
of their children and have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children 
is for them to be wise. Most parents do not know what they believe and do not even have the 
self-confidence to tell their children of their values. Thus they cannot control the atmosphere of the 
home and have even lost the will to do so.

For the past fifty years the public school system has had an utter inability to distinguish between what 
is important and what is unimportant. This is promoted as a "failure," but the evidence shows that it is 
not an accident. The universities tell us that what students bring to their higher education, in passions, 
curiosities, longings, and especially previous experience, has changed, because their elementary and 
secondary education has changed. The objective of the public schools, under the pretext of education, 
is steering "the intended behavior of students into the way students are to act, think, and feel as the 
result of participating in some unit of instruction... It includes objectives which describe changes in 
interest, attitudes, and values, and the development of appreciations and adequate adjustment." 1

Almost every student entering the university believes, or says that he believes, that truth is relative. 
If this belief is put to the test, one can count on the student's reaction: he will be uncomprehending. 
The danger he has been taught to fear from absolutism (certainty, or exactness) is not error, but 
intolerance. Relativism ("one opinion is as good as another") is necessary to openness, and 
openness is the only essence which all primary education for more than fifty years has dedicated 
itself to inculcating.

Students of relativism, or openness, cannot defend their opinions, of course, when they have been 
indoctrinated to sustain many allegiances without contradiction. They cannot understand the issues, 
so they are easy to propagandize when "everything is open and relative." Consequently, there are 
various impostors whose business it is to appeal to the young, because the political regime always 
needs citizens who are in accord with its fundamental principle. Albert Shanker, the son of Russian 
immigrants, who spoke no English as a boy yet became president of the American Federation of 
Teachers and a member of the Trilateral Commission, put it this way: "Public schools do not exist 
to please Johnny's parents... They do not even exist to ensure that Johnny will one day earn a 
good living... In short, public schools exist to create citizens." 2

Remember Mikhail Gorbachev's book Perestroika which praised Lenin for his glasnost? Glasnost in 
Russian means, literally, "openness," and according to Gorbachev "is an effective form of public 
control." 3 He equated openness with the "socialism" (i.e., communism) that was under Stalin and 
Lenin, and with Russia's "democracy" today. It was Lenin who referred to the plan for taking over 
nations as outlined in Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto (1848) as "the conquest of democracy." 
It was Lenin who coined the term "democratic centralism" to denote strict guidance 4 from a small 
center and broad participation of a large number of people flowing from this guidance. More and 
more we also hear our own political leaders and the media describe our Republic as a "democracy," 
while most people don't realize that one dictionary definition of democracy is "openness." Our 
government is supposed to be a Republic 5, not a democracy. Democracy is mob rule, such as 
that which crucified Christ. The February, 1993, Evangelical Methodist stated, 'Democracy is when 
two wolves and one sheep vote on what to have for lunch.' 6

In the 1932 report of the National Education Association Committee on Social-Economic Goals of 
America, which functioned for five years, chairman Fred J. Kelly wrote, "The chief instrumentality to 
mold public opinion in the interest of national goals is education." In 1934 Willard E. Givens, 
Superintendent of Schools in Oakland, California, and Executive Secretary of the NEA the following 
year, had this to say: "Many drastic changes must be made. . . Subject matter will be considered 
instrumental and not an end in itself .. thus ending the narrow, academic, non-functional subject 
courses . . Attitudes are the desirable objectives... Controversial issues must be discussed in the 
schools." This was when communism was the controversial issue. Inasmuch as the socialist objectives 
are now established, any opposition to what is now being taught in the schools is "controversial." 7

In 1971 the federal bureaucracy defined to the states that all schools were day care facilities 
and defined what day care standards the states must adopt. 8 These standards linked increased 
school costs and unasked for, unwanted, yet mandatory programs through back door administrative 
guidance policies and procedures to federal requirements and made those mandatory guidelines a 
condition of funding. 9 The government then buried those conditions in the Social Security laws, and 
gave complete control to the White House without Congressional or public scrutiny, because the 
original Paperwork Reduction Plan Act of 1980 (44 USC 3501 and following) gave the White House 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the power to control the form and content of agency 
rule-making, and to keep information dealing with regulatory reviews secret from Congress and 
the public. 10

In addition, Executive Order 12291, which was signed by President Ronald Reagan, provided for 
presidential oversight of the regulatory process of present and future regulations "designed to 
implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy [emphasis added] or describing the procedure or 
practice requirements of . . any agency specified under 44 USC 3502(1)." The Order stated that 
the Director of OMB "shall have authority . . to prescribe criteria" for requiring any set of rules. 
The Director of OMB was subject to the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief and was given 
wide authority under the Paperwork Reduction Plan Act and the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 4 USC, 
601 ff. 11 Any effort that would require the OMB to make information dealing with all regulatory 
reviews available to Congress and the public or to restrict OMB's control was opposed by White 
House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu and White House counsel C. Boyden Gray. 12

Years later, relating his experience with the federal government and the G. I. Bill, Bob Jones 
University head wrote, "We have been fighting them since 1968, for it was then that our students 
lost the right to use G. I. benefits, simply because we would not sign the Act of Compliance which 
would bring us under federal control and dictatorship." 13 The "Act of Compliance" was the Civil 
Rights Act of 1964, which was limited to a specific program or activity of an institution. But the real 
blow to academic freedom was the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Grove City College v. Bell(named 
for President Reagan's Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell) in March, 1984, which ruled that private 
schools are subject to government regulations even if they receive no direct federal funds.

By this time the series of three books providing background information for A Study of Schooling in 
the United Stateswas finished, which described the planned re-education program of American 
school-age children and their unwilling parents, obstacles to a smooth transition to a global society. 
The ten financial backers included the U.S. Office of Education, the National Institute of Education, 
and eight foundations, among them the Charles F. Kettering and Rockefeller Foundations, original 
financiers of the international Trilateral Commission, formally established in 1973. 14

What was really scary was the Civil Rights Restoration Act (PL 100-259) which became law on March 
22, 1988, and was broadened to "correct the defects" in the enforcement of Title IX of the Education 
Amendments of 1972 by applying the Grove City Collegeprinciple to entire institutions, directly or 
indirectly, not just to the programs and activities. This is why some colleges still today will not accept 
students who rely on federal grants or government loans to pay their tuition.

Commenting on the Civil Rights Restoration Act, George Roche, president of Hillsdale College in 
Michigan said, "It is one of the most sweeping impositions of federal power over free Americans 
that has ever been seriously proposed. The principle sponsor was Senator Ted Kennedy. Note well 
its enforcement. They might as well announce, 'You take our money, we own you!' " Dr. Roche 
continued: "The law targets all indirect recipients of federal funds... It was argued: 'Oh, no, the law 
wasn't meant to go this far; we will always use a narrow interpretation.' But the law does go this far! 
And the power will be used. I don't think there is a case in history when government, given such 
power, has not ultimately used it." Dr. Roche also said, "Think about this, too, as you contemplate 
what everybody knows to be true: Bureaucratic management of education goes up and up; the 
quality of education goes down and down. If and when the last vestiges of private purpose and 
charity and skills in education are shot down, education itself must fall. For education is a continuing 
process, a transmission of knowledge and values from generation to generation. When the last real 
schools are gone, who will educate the next generation of educators? The U. S. Department of 
Education? Forget it! 15

The next month, on April 28, 1988, the Hawkins-Stafford Elementary and Secondary School 
Improvement Amendments of 1988 (PL 100-297), commonly known as HR 5, amending and 
re-authorizing President Lyndon Johnsonês Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 16 
became law. Seeming to completely ignore Article X of the Bill of Rights 17 of our Constitution by 
stating "now it is the right time for the Federal government to fulfill its role in education reform," 18 
the new law re-authorized, revised, consolidated, and added to the provisions of Chapter 1 of the 
Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 and Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965. It affected all children, from birth to age 24, in every school attendance area, 
defined as "the geographical area in which the children who are normally served by that school." 19 
In fact, it contained a by-pass provision which allowed the Secretary of Education to circumvent any 
state law 20 in order to "assist" 21 in the education of each child who lives in any school district. The 
reasoning is, that all local school districts receive financial aid, so, therefore, all children who live in 
those districts must be allowed to participate in the "services, purposes, and benefits" of this bill. 22 
Not only could the secretary by-pass any existing state laws or agencies "unwilling to provide for 
such participation," 23 he could make any regulations necessary to ensure compliance, consulting 
with no one "in emergency situations." 24 The law affected elementary and secondary "day or 
residential school" children and their parents, 25 and it specifically included private schools 26 
whose students "shallreceive the services" of the provisions and regulations of PL 100-297.

By 1991 the U.S. Department of Education would be proclaiming in America 2000: An Education Strategy 
Source Bookthat "the definitionof 'public school' should be broadened to mean any school that 
serves the public and is held accountable by a public authority." Contrary to what we were told, 27 

the America 2000 plan was not developed by the National Governors' Association. Education insider 
Chester Finn, Jr. was the chief architect of America 2000, which was unveiled while Lamar Alexander 
was President Bush's Secretary of Education. It appeared in conjunction with the Learning for All: 
Bridging Domestic and International Educationconference held in Alexandria, VA, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1991, 
attended by 136 countries. First Lady Barbara Bush was the Honorary Chair. This was the second of 
ten Bridging Education into the Future international conferences on education sponsored by the World 
Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF, the United Nations Development Program, and 23 co-sponsors. The same 
America 2000 was reintroduced with a new name as Goals 2000during the Clinton administration 
when Richard Riley was Secretary of Education.

On May 23, 1991, the government went a step further when the United States Supreme Court upheld 
in Rust v. Sullivanthe principle that when the government offers funds, it may include as a condition 
of funding that those who receive money or favors must refrain from disseminating certain kinds of 
information, or expressing certain points of view. The Court endorsed a further expansion of the 
government's power to specify the content of the activities it subsidizes." Rust v. Sullivandid not cut 
into the right to receive information, but the right to give it! Now, 'in the public interest' can include not 
only what one does but what one says. Justice Blackmun acknowledged that the government may call 
on recipients of subsidies to relinquish some of their constitutional rights. Never before has the U.S. 
Supreme Court upheld the suppression of speech simply because that suppression was a condition 
upon the acceptance of public funds... Value-neutral funding is impossible. The more such precedents 
the government sets, the more it becomes protective of its power to control the beneficiaries. Power 
feeds on itself. Control through funding bypasses all constitutional limitations. To be free of 
government control, one must be independent of the government. Simply 'reforming' the system by 
attempting to guarantee the independence of the recipients of the money isn't a viable solution... 
Government funding and government control of private activities go hand in hand. To keep private 
activity free, its financing must be kept private. 28 

In 1989, when George Herbert Walker Bush was president, his first Secretary of Education, Lauro F. 
Cavazos, held a White House Workshop on Education. Cavazos outlined how he and the President 
planned to restructure America's system of elementary and secondary education through what they 
called site-based management. 29 "Site-based management," which does not mean local control, 
is educational jargon which is deliberately chosen to neutralize the issue and mislead the public. 30 
It means a shift of responsibility away from an elected local school board to a non-elected committee 
made up of specific staff, administrators, and "lead/master" teachers who have total authority in 
regards to staffing, staff development, curriculum decision, materials and textbook selection, school 
organizational structure, length of school day, length of class periods, subject configuration or 
approach, budget, or instructional decisions or practices to "meet the mental health needs of 
emotionally disturbed children." This new "empowerment," introduced under the euphemism of 
"school-centered education," 31 was in the public schools by the early nineties, when all parents 
and taxpayers lost all local control except for mundane housekeeping decisions.

Even one's state constitution offers no protection. In 1991 U.S. District Judge Marion J. Callister ruled 
in an Idaho case that "the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause prohibits states from using their own 
constitution to block federal law. As the Supremacy Clause makes clear, the laws of Congress which 
are made in pursuance of the Constitution will prevail whenever there is a direct conflict with the 
constitutional law of a state." 32 Today we are seeing the results of what George Roche called 
"bureaucratic management of education." In Texas these results supposedly are measured by the 
Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS).

But, TAAS is a minimum proficiency test, not an achievement test. A perfect score means the student 
has met minimum expectations. In Texas, only 50% of a school's students must pass to be deemed 
an acceptable school. Passing the TAAS is achieved at a 70% standard. In other words, one is 
allowed to miss 30% of questions (ostensibly the hardest 30%). This is not so much of a problem 
with an achievement test... but is particularly problematic with a minimum proficiency test. By allowing 
students to miss 30% of the hardest questions, then that student is passing the test even though she 
is only able to answer questions that are one, two, or three years below grade level. 33

What the new, improved TAAS scores conceal is that scores required to pass the TAAS have been 
dropping. While the passing score is officially 70%, that score is not the raw score, but rather a score 
converted from the raw score according to a formula based on the perceived difficulty of the test. The 
true score required to pass a TAAS test may be as low as 50%. Tucked away on the Texas Education 
Agency's student assessment page is the TAAS raw score conversion table... Consider also that the 
TAAS is multiple-choice with no penalty for a wrong answer... If a student is able to eliminate some 
unreasonable answer choices, and many Texas students spend an ungodly amount of time learning 
this multiple-choice test-taking strategy, he may be able to pass even if he knows less than one 
quarter of the answers. 34

The 'Texas Miracle' as measured by TAAS is seriously overstated as witnessed by every independent 
measure of performance: Iowa's Test of Basic Skills (ITBS), SAT9, SAT, ACT, TASP or even NAEPS, as 
well as by longitudinal attrition rates and dropout rates... The need for remedial education for 90% 
of Texas graduates attending community colleges, and 66% of students attending state universities, 
confirms these findings. Estimates of social promotion on the order of 30% further attest to unresolved 
problems at all grade levels... In math, our minority kids lag behind white kids, Texans lag the U.S., 
and the U.S. lags the world... Neither English or social studies core course performance is predictive 
of college readiness... 42% of Texas youth drop out of school... 'Whole language' for teaching reading 
is a failed experiment; 'reformed math' (often called 'fuzzy math') is repudiated by 200 distinguished 
scientists and mathematicians... No one has been held accountable - no one has been blamed, much 
less fired...

The educators who direct Texas public education have not demonstrated the business and profession 
skills, nor the academic qualifications and standards necessary to efficient and effective oversight of 
the system. Unproven fads of the 'progressive' education agenda have been relentlessly promoted by 
Texas educators in the face of the preponderant evidence of the superior performance of traditional 
instruction in knowledge and skills... Ideology is given priority over educational achievement of Texas 
youth... The arrogance of professional educators often denies participation in the education debate by 
persons who often are far better educated and more knowledgeable... than the educators themselves. 
Parents and citizens should not be treated as ignorant nuisances... Such attitudes of ideological 
certainty have also resulted in virtual censorship of dissent withinthe public education system, often 
enforced by sacrifice of professional standing and ostracism for any educators who tell it like it is, 
and criticize or challenge the system... The reliability of the educators who oversee the TAAS tests and 
reporting of results at the TEA and many of the districts is worse than the TAAS test itself. Intent to 
deceive the public is clearly shown by misrepresenting TAAS standards, excessive TAAS exemptions, 
teaching to the TAAS, and even tampering with results. The blatant misinforming of the public on 
education performance clearly evidenced by IDRA dropout rates and TAAS scores... presents an 
intolerable abuse of public trust [and] is clearly fraudulent. 35

So why are some home schooling parents, who have opted out of the public schools for a multitude 
of reasons, trying to get laws passed so they can opt right back in again to participate in public school 
extra-curricular activities, special lab or classes, or have access to public school libraries? And why are 
some private and church schools willing to accept government monetary enticements, so they too can 
be planned, programmed, and budgeted by a central controlling agency? 36 To parents who have been 
paying taxes to support government schools it sounds wonderful to be able to reap some benefit from 
that. But stop and think: The state has its fangs into private and home schools now. What will it be like 
when home and private schools participate in public school activities and accept government favors? 
How much imagination does it take to see what is coming? Can you imagine the kinds of controls in 
store for schools that are set up to permit an escape hatch for the crumbling state educational 
monopoly - the most horrendous visible failure of socialism in America? 37

The truth of the matter is, once home and private schools become part of government-financed facilities 
or programs, they can no longer remain "private," because through government laws, regulations, and 
conditions of funding they will be nationalized and homogenized with their public counterparts. "And 
therein lies the trap! It will be government's way of harnessing 'all the stray cats,' in order that they 
may be conditioned to think and act alike as wholly owned subsidiaries of the state and a bureaucratic 
agency for the propagation of ideology and the enforcement of 'standards.' And standards will be 
devised by the same old coalition and manufacturers of gimmicks and publishers of pseudo-books 
who do know exactly what they want, and exactly how to get it. 38

We end this article with random excerpts from Richard Mitchell's analysis of the American public school 
system and his penetrating attack against what passes for education today:

     "It is even more frightening than it is dismal. It is a thematic illusion of our educational 
     enterprise that understanding can be had without knowledge, that the discreet can be 
     informed without information, that judgment need not wait on evidence. Facts seem 
     unrelated only to those who know few facts.
  
     Lenin approved the "teaching" of values. He knew all too well the worth of behavior 
     modification. He knew that indoctrination in "citizenship" is safer than the study of 
     history. He knew that mouthing empty slogans about "quality education" can dull even 
     a good mind into a stupor out of which it will never arise to overthrow the slogan-makers. 
     The apparatus is not intended to distinguish what is worthy from what is not, but what 
     is approvedfrom what is not.
  
     It's not surprising, therefore, that educationists respond to public discontent not by 
     trying to improve what they do, but by trying to "educate" the public into some other 
     "perception" of what they do. When the public finally noticed, for instance, that fewer 
     and fewer children were learning to read, the educationists quickly discovered that 
     "learning disabilities" were far more common than anyone had ever suspected. It's 
     always amusing to watch them reinventing the wheel every few years and announcing 
     that children who know the sounds of letters can actually read words they've never 
     seen before, by golly.
   
     Most of us have nothing at all to do with the schools and don't know what they're 
     doing. Barely literate children [are] suffering and facing whole lives of deprivation, 
     while consultants, and remediationists, and professors of reading education, and 
     tax-supported researchers, and the editors and publishers of workbooks and handsome 
     packets of materials, and superintendents who do not function to know, understand, 
     and judge, but only to function appropriately according to their place in the apparatus, 
     are doing very well indeed... Our educational problems and disorders provide endless 
     and growing employment for the people who made them.
   
     Most people think that teachers are the agents of public education and that all those 
     guidance counselors and curriculum facilitators and others are merely support services. 
     This is not so. Public education isa government agency, but it does differ from the 
     IRS and the Marine Corp in one supremely important detail: it harbors hosts of dissidents 
     who are themselves sick to death of what they see in the system that demeans and 
     subverts their best efforts.
   
     After sober and judicious consideration, [essayist and critic] H. L. Mencken concluded 
     that a startling and dramatic improvement in American education required only that we 
     hang all the professors and burn down the schools. His uncharacteristically moderate 
     proposal was not adopted. Those who actually knew more about education than Mencken 
     did could see that his plan was nothing more than cosmetic and would in fact provide 
     only an outward appearance of improvement. The 1913 National Education Association's 
     Commission on Reorganization of Secondary Education, a.k.a. The Gang of Twenty-Seven, 
     now long forgotten but certainly not gone, on the other hand, had somewhat more 
     elaborate plans of their own, and they just happened to be in charge of the schools.
   
     We must give up forever the futile hope that the educationists will "do something" for 
     us if only we ask them often enough. Tyrannies all require the same thing, a subject 
     population in which the power of thought is occluded and the power of deed brought 
     low, and that was why Lenin's bolshevism and American educationism have so much in 
     common. Government agencies do not change from within except for their own 
     purposes, and their "responses" to external cries for change, even when well meant, 
     are inevitably subterfuges. Illiteracy, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, is 
     not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended, but is simply a political 
     arrangement of great value to somebody. Far from failing in its intended task, our 
     educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the 
     American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system. And it is easiest 
     of all if you can convince the ignorant that they are educated, for you can thus make 
     them collaborators." 39
  
Virginia Birt Baker 
Was active in the Reading Reform Foundation (Phoenix, AZ), the only organization that promoted 
intensive phonics-only reading programs in the English language, and presented at its seminars 
in Tampa, Cincinnati, and Phoenix.
   
A former home schooling mom and a founding executive board member of the Texas Home School 
Coalition and did the research for its pamphlet, "Home Education: Is It Working?" 

1. Benjamin Bloom, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: Cognitive Domain, 
   David McKay Company Inc., New York, 1956, pages 7 and 12.  Bloom dedicated this 
   book to Ralph W. Tyler, behavioral psychologist and past president of the Carnegie 
   Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which created the SAT and the National 
   Teachers' Examination.  From 1926 to 1994 the SAT stood for Scholastic Aptitude Test, 
   which tested knowledge, reasoning and I.Q., but in 1994 it was revised and introduced 
   as the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT II) which assesses how well the student learns 
   what he is taught in school.  Bloom wrote in 1963, "A large part of what we call 'good 
   teaching' is the teacher's ability to attain affective objectives through challenging the 
   students' fixed beliefs.  Again, in 1981 he said, "The purpose of education and the 
   schools is to change the thoughts, feelings and actions of the students."  There are 
   SAT critics who recommend better tests because they claim the test is biased.  But 
   E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Professor of Education at the University of Virginia and a member of 
   Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education replies, "They have chosen 
   the wrong target.  The right target is K-12 public education.  Blaming the SAT is a 
   short-sighted way of taking the heat off the public schools"  ["The SAT: Blaming the 
   Messenger," May, 2001, at hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/we/current/hirsch_0501.htm].
   
2. National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) Bulletin, "Public Services? 
   Tax Credits?", March 1982, page 80.  One definition of "citizens" in Black's Law Dictionary, 
   6th Edition, is "members of a political community who, in their associated capacity, have 
   established or submitted themselves to the dominion of a government..., Herriott v. City 
   of Seattle, 81 Wash.2d 48, 500 P.2d 101, 109."

3. Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika, Harper & Row, New York, 1987, page 61.  We in the 
   West were told that Perestroika means "reconstruction," but Mikhail Gorbachev in his 
   praise of Lenin wrote:  "Perestroika is a word with many meanings.  But if we are to 
   choose from its many possible synonyms, the key one which expresses its essence 
   most accurately is a revolution... In accordance with our theory, revolution means 
   construction, but it also means demolition" (pp. 36-37).  "Perestroika means more 
   glasnost, criticism and self-criticism . . the development of democratic centralism and 
   socialist self-government . . more socialism.  More socialism means more democracy, 
   openness and collectivism in everyday life.  We will spare no effort to develop and 
   strengthen socialism...  Those in the West who expect us to give up socialism will be 
   disappointed" (pp 20-28).  We should have listened to Nikita Khrushchev, who "wasn't 
   even afraid of the devil" [U.S. News & World Report, October 5, 1949], when he told us, 
   "Anyone who thinks we have forsaken Marxism-Leninism deceives himself.  That won't 
   happen until shrimps learn to whistle" [Dr. Fred Schwarz, You Can Trust the Communists 
   (to be Communists), Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, Long Beach, CA 90801, 1960, page 2].
   
4. Erminie King Wright, The Conquest of Democracy: the documented story of how the 
   character of the United States was covertly changed by organized education, Educational 
   Research Bureau, Roanoke, Virginia (no date, but in the middle sixties)], pages 23-24.

5. "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic 
   for which it stands... "

6. Calvary Contender, Huntsville, AL 35816, April 1, 1993.

7. The Conquest of Democracy, pages 5-7.

8. On September 23, 1968, certain requirements, pursuant to Section 522(d) of the 
    Economic Opportunity Act, were approved by the U. S. Dept. of Health, Education 
    and Welfare (as it was known then), the U. S. Office of Economic Opportunity, and 
    the U. S. Dept. of Labor.  This key federal legislation underlying and controlling 
    any subsequent education legislation was adopted on June 18, 1971.  This master 
    control system, called "The Interagency Day Care Standards," hinged upon the federal 
    government's own definition of day care:  "Day care is defined as the care of a child 
    on a regular basis by someone other than the child's parents for any part of the 
    24 hour day."

9. "Sex education, drug education, death education, character education, "citizenship" 
    education, psychological services and questionnaires, behavior modification, values 
    clarification, conflict resolution, situation ethics, paradigm shift, encounter groups, 
    critical thinking, role-playing, mastery learning (outcome based education), the 
    Delphi technique, human relations activities, life management skills, community 
    service, cooperative learning, restructuring, bilingual education, global education, 
    the deceptive "back to basics," etc., etc., promoted and implemented by change 
    agentspersons, organizations, or institutions that change or help to change the 
    beliefs, values, attitudes or behavior of students without their knowledge or 
    consent - and designed to eliminate existing traditional beliefs, values and attitudes 
    and to replace them with new beliefs, values and attitudes that will render a child 
    susceptible to manipulation, coercion, control, and corruption for the rest of his 
    life"  [Betty Lewis, "Education Jargon," in America 2000/Goals 2000 Research Manual, 
    James R. Patrick editor, Citizens for Academic Excellence, Moline IL 61265, March, 1994, 
    pages 677-681; and Barbara M. Morris, Change Agents in the Schools, 1979, page 15].

10. Model Child Care Standards Act - Guidance to States to Prevent Child Abuse in Day 
    Care Facilities, Dept. of Health & Human Services, January, 1985, Margaret M. Heckler, 
    Secretary, page 3.  Social Services Block Grant, Title XX, of the Social Security Act, 
    which is administered by the Office of Policy, Planning, and Legislation, Office of the
    Human Development Department of Health and Human Services.  Title XX appears in 
    the United States Code as Sections 1397-1397(f), subchapter 7, Title 42.  Regulations 
    of the Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to Title XX are contained in 
    part 96, subtitle A, Title 45, Code of Federal Regulations.  These standards 
    ("guidelines") have since been imposed upon state agencies and into state law, 
    bypassing our elected state representatives, as a condition of receiving federal funds. 
    In 1991 then Texas Education Commissioner Lionel "Skip" Meno confirmed that all the 
    states were passing companion laws, to make it easier "to break the rules... so 
    regulations don't get in the way of new programs" ["Education Commissioner Makes 
    Bold Public School System Proposal," Tyler Morning Telegraph, July 21, 1991].
   
11. Federal Register, Vol. 48, No. 33, February 18, 1981.

12. Congressional Quarterly, July 9, 1990, page 1785.

13. Young Parents Alert, Lake Elmo, Minn., July 8, 1982.

14. "Global Schooling: the re-education of America," in The Trilateral Observer, Antony 
    C. Sutton, editor, October, 1980.  In his book With No Apologies, Senator Barry 
    Goldwater termed the  Commission "David Rockefeller's newest international cabal...
    In my view, the Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, co-ordinated effort to 
    seize control and consolidate the four centers of powerpolitical, monetary, 
    intellectual, and ecclesiastical." [William Morrow & Co., New York, 1979, pages 280, 284].

. George Roche, "The Hillsdale Idea," in Imprimis, Vol. 19, No. 10, October, 1990, 
    the monthly journal of Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242.

16. The leading promoter of the ESEA was Francis "Frank" Keppel, Commissioner of 
    Education (then called) under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.  Keppel was closely 
    involved in the enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as it dealt with equal 
    access to education, and he created the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
    He was the longtime director of the Aspen Institute, an adviser to the World Bank and 
    the governments of many other countries, and a member of the review board of the
    New York Rockefeller Commission.  His father, Frederick P. Keppel, was president 
    of the Carnegie Corporation.  ["Obituaries," The New York Times, February 21, 1990.]

17. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited 
    by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
    
18. "Report 100-95 [to accompany HR 5]," from the Committee on Education and Labor, 
    House of Representatives, 100th Congress, 1st Session, May 15, 1987, page 2.

19. PL 100-297, Section 1471.

20. PL 100-297, Section 5143.

21. PL 100-297, Section 1437(a)3.

22. PL 100-297, Section 5143.

23. PL 100-297, Section 5143(c).

24. PL 100-297, Sections 1431(a) and (c).

25. PL 100-297, Section 1016.

26. PL 100-297, Section 1017.

27. U.S. News and World Report, July 15, 1991, page 46.
  
28. Gary McGath, "Government Funding Brings Government Control," in The Freeman, 
    the journal of the Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, New 
    York 10533, November, 1991.

29. "Improving Schools and Empowering Parents," a report on the White House workshop 
    by Nancy Paulu,  October, 1989; and The San Antonio Light, December 5, 1990.

30. Betty Lewis, "Education Jargon," America 2000/Goals 2000 Research Manual.

31. Bob Moos, "Schools Need More Than Teachers," The Dallas Morning News, April 17, 1992.

32. "Action," The Rutherford Institute, November, 1991; quoted in Legal-Legislative 
    Update, Roy M. Hanson, Jr., editor, Roseville, CA, January/February, 1992.

33. Jeff Judson, President, Texas Public Policy Foundation, December, 2000, at 
    www.educationnews.org.

34. Jerry Jesness, "Truth in TAAS Scoring," May, 2001.  Mr. Jesness is an elementary 
    special education teacher and a regular contributor to www.educationnews.org.

35. David A. Hartman, Chairman, the Lone Star Foundation, "Summary Observations on 
    the State of Texas Public Education Reforms," December, 2000, at www.educationnews.org.

36. Two of the early thought reform and attitudinal change programs brought into 
    the public schools were Family Life Education (FLE) and the Planning, Programming, 
    Budgeting System (PPBS).  [Details can be found in  "The Nationalization of 
    Education Through FLE-PPBS-Voucher," Deloris Feak, chairman, Santa Clara County 
    Citizens Action Committee Opposing FLE," Campbell, CA 95008, Spring, 1971.]

37. Gary North, The Freeman, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, May, 1976.

38. Richard Mitchell, The Leaning Tower of Babel, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 
    1984, page 119.  Example:  "Children who learn the separate letter sounds and 
    how to sound out words from the beginning of Grade I become independent 
    readers in six months.  They are able to read whatever interests them at their 
    level of comprehension and therefore do not provide a captive market for the 
    controlled vocabulary readers and workbooks of any one publishing company. 
    Publishers of basal reading series are well aware of the business opportunities 
    in the failure market. Unfortunately for the children, there is more commercial 
    profit in illiteracy than in independent reading" [Mary Johnson, Programmed 
    Illiteracy in Our Schools, Clarity Books, Winnipeg, Canada, 1970, pp. 124, 126].

39. Richard Mitchell, The Graves of Academe, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 
    1981, pages 10, 24, 31, 69, 78, 100, 149, 179, 185, 223-224.