I’m reading “The deliberate Dumbing Down Of America” by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt.
It’s free to read online in PDF at: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=the+deliberate+dumbing+down+of+america+pdf&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
It documents the actions, papers, methods, books and names, over many decades, of those who used “Progressive Education” to teach Americans to stop thinking.
Wow! Pretty pricey if you want a real copy of the book.
I was interested in this title because it reminded me of John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education which is also a hefty 8.5 x 11 tome, and also available on line for free. (But a book is so much better!)
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