Posted on 05/31/2015 4:38:35 PM PDT by Ray76
In the early 1970s, Michael Lerner (who would become an important adviser to Hillary Clinton) authored THE NEW SOCIALIST REVOLUTION, in which he proclaimed: "Education will be radically transformed in our socialist community...the main emphasis will be on learning how to... live and work collectively....The next level is learning some series of skills, for one's first set of jobs."
In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected president, taking office in January 1981. Over the next several years, Carter administration holdovers left the National Institute of Education (within USDOE). One of them, Marc Tucker (an NIE Associate Director) went to the newly established (early 1985) Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy (CFEE).
[In the Winter 1987/88] the CFEE changed its name to the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) with board members including David Rockefeller, Jr. and Hillary Clinton. Early in 1989, NCEE produced TO SECURE OUR FUTURE: THE FEDERAL ROLE IN EDUCATION, which would play an important role in framing the issues and shaping the agreements that would be made at the Education Summit held at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville) in September 1989.
Following the summit,the [National Governors Association] would ask members of NCEE's staff to assist in the development of national education goals. This process would culminate in the announcement of national education goals by President George H.W. Bush in his January 31, 1990 State of the Union address.
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Lerner was chairman of the Berkeley chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society from 1966-1968. In December 1971 he founded a splinter faction called New American Movement, which like SDS and other splinter groups was Marxist.
The New American Movement was headquartered in Chicago.
Which, like "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" sounds fair until you try to put it in practice and find out that some faceless bureaucrat gets to decide what you "need" and what you owe!
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