Big government began intervening in American education in a big way in 1965 with the passage of LBJ’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). And at the dawning of a brave new millennium, the Clinton regime seeks to close the deal. There was no constitutional basis for that massive incursion in the ’60s, just as … Read more
One gathers from a recent discussion at the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP) that an innocuous-sounding new organization called Achieve is the blunt instrument to bring about the work-force/technologizied brand of school reform favored by big business. Leading the charge for the corporate-statists is technology titan IBM and its CEO, Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Lamenting … Read more
“What is essential,” wrote Carnegie-backed education bureaucrat Marc Tucker to Hillary Rodham Clinton just after her husband’s 1992 election, “is that we create a seamless web of opportunities to develop one’s skills that literally extends from cradle to grave and is the same system for everyone—young and old, poor and rich, worker and full-time student.” … Read more
As the daffodils of  ’95 bloomed, I was putting the finishing touches on a book, Not With My Child, You Don’t, which I am going to publish through a small company set up expressly for that purpose. Given that those who oppose nationalized education have had to fight their battles mostly underground, it seems only … Read more