Goals 2000: What's in a name?

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 345-355

  Ohanian, Susan ^a  

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References (15)

1. Susan Ohanian, "Huffing and Puffing and Blowing Schools Excellent," Phi Delta Kappan, January 1985, p. 319.
2. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., et al., Reinventing Education: Entrepreneurship in America's Public Schools (New York: Dutton, 1994). Subsequent references will be made parenthetically in text.
3. I don't know which is my favorite: seventh-graders analyzing the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of Islamic civilizations in the Middle Ages, of China in the Middle Ages, of the sub-Saharan civilizations, of Japan in the Middle Ages, of Europe in the Middle Ages, and of Mesoamerican and Andean civilizations; or the theological, political, and economic ideas of the major figures of the Reformation (e.g., Erasmus, Martin Luther, John Calvin, William Tyndale). These are just two of 11 standards to be covered by California seventh-graders.
4. Subscriptions are $16 (11 issues). Contact Substance, 5132 W. Berteau Ave., Chicago, IL 60641-1440; or via e-mail at Csubstance@aol.com.
5. According to a release from the Associated Press, dated 17 September 1999, CTB/McGraw-Hill fouled up the scores of 260,000 Indiana students; an unspecified number of South Carolina, Wisconsin, and Nevada students; 60,000 Tennessee fourth-graders; 183,032 Missouri students; and 11,500 Florida students. And that's just CTB/McGraw-Hill. As Roxanne Grossman reported on the Assessment Reform Network Mailing List for 26 September 1999, Harcourt Brace has had its own goofs: California, Philadelphia, Oklahoma, and Connecticut. These goofs involve things like misclassifying as "below basic" elementary students who had actually scored at "proficient" or "advanced" levels and sending 11th-grade tests to eighth-graders and vice versa. (When the mistake was detected, the kids had to retake the tests.)
6. Conspiracy theories continue to swirl around Tucker. The right wing sees him as a prime mover for "womb-to-tomb" government control. An emerging left-wing theory is that he is positioning himself for lucrative deals when school choice becomes a reality.
7. The speech was posted on the Web at www.summit96.ibm.com.
8. See any of the Bracey Reports that are featured in the October issues of the Kappan, beginning in 1991; David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle, The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995);
9. Clinton E. Boutwell, Shell Game: Corporate America's Agenda for Schools (Bloomington, Ind.: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 1997);
10. and Richard Rothstein, The Way We Were? The Myths and Realities of America's Student Achievement (New York: Century Foundation, 1998).
11. Larry Cuban, "The Great School Scam," Education Week, 15 June 1994, p. 44.
12. James R. Patrick, ed., America 2000/Goals 2000 - Moving the Nation Educationally to a "New World Order" (Moline, Ill.: Citizens for Academic Excellence, 1994), p. 662.
13. America 2000/Goals 2000 - Moving the Nation Educationally to a "New World Order" (Ibid., p. 675.
14. Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd (New York: Random House, 1960).
15. Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), pp. 362-63.