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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Due to an increase in requests for my 1985 booklet Back to Basics 
Reform Or...OBE *Skinnerian International Curriculum? 
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/pages/back_to_basics_reform.html
(48 pages), which is now out-of-print, the author has decided to make 
the booklet available free on this website. This will enable the 
reader to understand how the long-planned controversial restructuring 
of education from academics to workforce training, necessary for the 
planned global economy and United States participation in a socialist 
world government, was finalized between 1980 and the present time, 
and to take action to put a stop to education restructuring. Although 
the 150-year history of this unconstitutional agenda is documented in 
the deliberate dumbing down of america...A Chronological Paper Trail, 
1999, Back to Basics Reform Or...... lets the reader peek into the 
laboratory of the change agents at the U.S. Department of Education 
in the early eighties, when and where the author worked as a Senior 
Policy Advisor, with access to confidential planning. The author was 
fired for leaking a very important document to the press. However, 
since she knew she would get fired for doing so, she managed to 
remove all the incriminating documents from her office prior to 
leaking the one most important document. Much of the information 
gleaned from these purloined documents is found in "Back to Basics 
Reform Or...". The period about which the author writes was the 
period during which the Pavlovian/Skinnerian Outcomes Based Education 
was institutionalized for all students, not just the minorities who 
had been victimized by the federally-funded method since the mid-
sixties. When the Skinnerian/Pavlovian method necessary for work 
force training...mastery learning/direct instruction, OBE... "worked" 
(dumbed down the minorities), obviously through no fault of their 
own, it was decided to use this "successful" method on all American 
children, which is what we see happening today through Goals 2000, 
The School to Work Opportunities Act, and most recently, The No Child 
Left Behind Act which mandates the use of scientific research based 
reading instruction which is based on the animal training methods of 
Pavlov and Skinner. Once all teachers have been retrained in this 
method to teach reading, it can be used for teaching/training in all 
subjects, but it is especially well-suited for work force training 
and computer-assisted-instruction. It is referred to by knowledgeable 
education researchers as " Limited Learning for Lifelong Labor"! 
Nationwide distribution of this little booklet could have resulted in 
the abolition of the unconstitutional U.S. Department of Education, 
something President Reagan had promised the American people during 
his campaign for President. This would, of course, have stopped the 
controversial education restructuring we see today. However, that was 
not to be since the major conservative organizations in our country, 
now referred to as neoconservative, successfully boycotted the 
booklet, and, although 50,000 copies were sold at the grassroots 
level, it is unlikely that more than a few elected officials ever had 
the opportunity to read it and act upon its recommendations. Please 
use the two versions of this booklet as you wish, but especially get 
the booklet into the hands of your elected officials at the local, 
state, and federal level. They are the ones you should lobby for 
abolishing the unconstitutional Department of Education. If we want 
to bring traditional academic education back to the local level, in 
the hands of locally elected school boards, teachers, and parents, 
and to restore education to its legitimate role in the creation of 
upward mobility for our children, i.e. freedom to chose one's 
occupation, the U.S. Department of Education, which is in partnership 
with the U.S. Department of Labor and the United Nations, MUST be 
abolished. Abolishing the Department of Education would also deal an 
almost lethal blow to the change agents' plans to put us under the 
United Nations global economic system. The rats would have to jump 
off their sinking ship!

There can be no better time than right now to contact your elected 
officials since all Americans, including public school teachers, 
administrators, state Governors, school board members, parents, 
Congressmen and Senators, etc. are up in arms over the Leave No Child 
Behind Act which mandates national testing which obviously calls for 
a national curriculum geared only to training our children as human 
resources for the global economy!