Charlotte Iserbyt - The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

Interview from 2004.
Charlotte Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America's classrooms. Iserbyt is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She has also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and in the Republic of South Africa. Iserbyt is a speaker and writer, best known for her 1985 booklet Back to Basics Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet Soviets in the Classroom: America's Latest Education Fad which covered the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements which remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer and has had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The Bangor Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional hearings.

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[bondita]

when she was about to say something important the radio host interrupted her with "the selling of the book"- (at min 10:00 starts). The fact that she almost discovered and was about to pinpoint out was that about the PRIDE that divides us ,european vision versus american vision- we cannot unite or think "together" unless we emphasize our pride to be one thing or another (americans or europeans). She almost got it , was about to express it but he was sinking in blind pride almost immediately.

[halfzombiehalfrobot]

Parents just don't understand.

[bman462]

it makes so much sense this is a revelation for me

[scsmith2]

@TWICEfan3125 That was Jeff Rense, of rense dot com fame.

[TWICEfan3125]

Wonderful interview. What radio show/host is this?

[YouKnowIAmRight]

Great ....and the truth every word of it !