pg. 62:
From Congressman, John M. Ashbrook's speech before Congress on July 18, 1961 (Congressional Record: pp. 11868–11880), entitled “The Myth of Federal Aid to Education without Control”
Fifty-six pages of findings contain recommendations which call for more and more Federal participation and control and repeatedly stress the need for Federal activity in formulating educational policies. It recommends a review of teacher preparation, curriculum and textbooks.
pg. 64:
[Ed. Note: A careful warning was sounded through the National Defense Education Act Amendment of 1961—Additional Views when the Congressmen said, “We reject that there can exist Federal aid to any degree without Federal control. We further hold that there should not be Federal aid without Federal control.” This applies as well to all of the voucher and tax credit proposals before us today (in 1999) flying under the banner of “choice.”
pg 81:
TECHNOLOGY OF TEACHING BY B.F SKINNER WAS PUBLISHED (PRENTICE HALL: NEW YORK, 1968) and became part of the educational lore of the day. An excerpt follows:
Absolute power in education is not a serious issue today because it seems out of reach. However, a technology of teaching will need to be much more powerful if the race with catastrophe is to be won, and it may then, like any powerful technology, need to be contained. An appropriate counter control will not be generated as a revolt against aversive measures but by a policy designed to maximize the contribution which education can make to the strength of the culture. The issue is important because the government of the future will probably The Sick Sixties : c. 1968
82 operate mainly through educational techniques. (p. 260)
pg 253:
BARRY BEAR, A MILDLY RETARDED 11-YEAR-OLD INDIAN BOY LIVING ON A RESERVATION AND being taught at home by his mother, was declared a “child in need of assistance” (CINA) by a landmark Iowa Supreme Court decision on May 17, 1989. Barry Bear was removed from his home when the court cited “his parents’ failure to exercise a reasonable degree of care in supervising him” because he was not in school.
