125
John H. Bunzel, “Living Together: Ethnic Theme Houses at Stanford,”
The Stanford Magazine
, Summer 1985, p. 54.
126
“This Year’s College Freshmen: Attitudes and Characteristics,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, January 30, 1991, p. A30.
127
Claude M. Steele, “Race and the Schooling of Black Americans,”
Atlantic Monthly
, April 1992, p. 78.
128
Mary Gibson Hundley,
The Dunbar Story (1870-1955)
(New York: Vantage Press, 1965), pp. 75-78.
CHAPTER 11. BANKRUPTCY
1
National Science Foundation,
Selected Data on Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards: 1990
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991).
2
Archie E. Lapointe, Nancy A. Mead, and Gary W. Phillips,
A World of Differences: An International Assessment of Mathematics and Science
(Princeton: Educational Testing Service, 1989), pp. 1011.
3
Chester E. Finn, Jr.,
We Must Take Charge: Our Schools and Our Future
(New York: The Free Press, 1991), p. 36.
4
John Hood, “When Business ‘Adopts’ Schools: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child,”
Policy Analysis
(Cato Institute), June 5, 1991, p. 5.
5
Thomas Toch,
In the Name of Excellence: The Struggle to Reform the Nation’s Schools, Why It’s Failing, and What Should Be Done
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 5.
6
Joyce D. Stern and Mary Frase Williams,
The Condition of Education: A Statistical Report
, 1986 Edition (Washington, D.C.: Center for Education Statistics, 1986), pp. 36, 69.
7
Karen De Witt, “Verbal Scores Hit New Low in Scholastic Aptitude Tests,”
New York Times
, August 27, 1991, p. A16.
8
Chester E. Finn, Jr.,
We Must Take Charge
, p. 36.
9
“The Myth Debunked—Spending Not the Cure-All for Schools,”
Education Update
, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Fall 1990), p. 1.
10
Diane Ravitch, “Scapegoating the Teachers,”
New Republic
, November 7, 1983, p. 28.
11
Thomas Toch,
In the Name of Excellence
, pp. 44-55.
12
“Public Schools Enroll 41.5 Million,”
NEA Today
, October 1991, p. 8; Thomas Toch,
In the Name of Excellence
, p. 158.
13
Mary Ann Seawell, “Union Leader Shanker Urges ‘Market’ Approach to Bringing About Major Changes in Education,”
Stanford University Campus Report
, January 3, 1990, p. 5.
14
Thomas Toch,
In the Name of Excellence
, pp. 240, 270-271.
15
“High School Dropouts: How Much of a Crisis?”
Backgrounder
(The Heritage Foundation), No. 781 (August 3, 1990), p. 9.
16
Ibid.
, p. 5.
17
“Sources of Voluntary Support for Higher Education, 1989-90,”
Chronicle of Higher Education: Almanac
, August 28, 1991, p. 35.
18
“College and University Endowments Over $60 Million, 1990,”
ibid.
, p. 36.
19
“Revenues and Expenditures of College and Universities, 1987-88,”
ibid.
, p. 35.
20
Anyone who doubts this is referred to Thomas Toch,
In the Name of Excellence
, pp. 151-193.
21
Chester E. Finn, Jr.,
We Must Take Charge
, p. 195.
22
Ibid.
, pp. 100-104; Thomas Toch,
In the Name of Excellence
, pp. 205-232.
INDEX
ABC Network, 36
Aborigines, 81
Abram, Morris, 135
Adams, Ansel, 94
Administrators, 173, 220-221
Admission to college, 103-131
athletes, 130, 131
criteria, 122-131
preferential admissions, 130-131, 133-141, 280-281
“Affective education” (see Brainwashing)
Air Force, 210
Altbach, Philip G., 171
American Association of University Professors (AAUP), 225-226, 227
American College Testing (ACT), 1, 24, 127, 128
American Federation of Teachers (AFT), 8, 22, 247, 290
American Humanist Society, 59
American Indian students, 141, 142, 149, 159, 172
American Psychological Association, 180-181
American students, xii, 1
cheating, 2
compared to foreign students, xi, 1, 4, 9, 269-270
compared to past American students, 1, 3
ignorance, 3, 5, 6
thinking ability, 4, 6, 286
work habits, 6
Amherst College, 112, 119, 122, 184, 282
Annapolis, 96
Anti-intellectualism, xii, 25, 32-33, 68-69, 286, 289, 290
Antioch College, 163
Anti-Semitism, 156, 157, 167
Arizona State University, 208-209, 211, 243
Asian Americans, 73, 83, 143, 155, 161, 172-173, 280
Athletics
athletes, 130, 131, 238-244
coaches and athletic directors, 232-233
economics of college athletics, 233-238, 239
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), 233, 235, 240-241
professional leagues, 234
Atlantic Coast Conference, 243
Auburn University, 187
Australia, 12, 71, 74
Bar examination, 140
Barnard College, 120
Barnum, P.T., 104
Barzun, Jacques, 13, 123, 226, 231
Bates College, 128
Bell, Derrick, 154
Bennett, William J., 71, 264, 267
Bennington College, 108, 109
Big Ten, 243
Bilingual Education, 74-82, 96
educational policies, 75-79
political objectives, 75-76, 80-81, 82
Black faculty, 149-150, 151, 154
Black students, 9, 91, 132, 134, 138-139, 140-141, 142, 143, 160, 259, 283-284
background, 282-283
ideological orthodoxy, 160,161, 162-163
opinions, 163, 261
organizations, 160, 162
self-segregation, 160-161, 162
Bloom, Allan, 162, 267
Bok, Derek, 249, 261, 262, 264, 267, 270, 277
Bowdoin College, 104, 116
Boyer, Ernest L., 9
Brainwashing, 34-69 71, 177, 183
“affective education,” 33, 34
agendas, 16, 47-62, 94-95
cross-examination, 42-43, 67-68
“death education,” 33, 36-38, 65-66, 253
“decision-making,” 34
desensitization, 36-41
diaries, 43-44
“drug prevention,” 33, 35, 65
family relationships 37, 45, 46
“Holocaust studies,” 47
incentives, 60, 61
isolation, 41-42
“nuclear education,” 40-41
peers, 53-54, 55
promoters, 56-62
results, 62-65
“residential education,” 197-199
role-playing, 37, 46
“sex education,” 33, 34, 35, 38-40, 48-49, 60, 63-64, 180-182
stress, 36-41
stripping away defenses, 43-47
techniques, 36-47
trust, 48, 55, 56
“values clarification,” 33, 34, 47-48, 49, 65-66
Brandeis University, 9
Brawley, Tawana, 168
Brigham Young University, 109
Britain, 3, 71, 74, 83
BrookingsInstitution, 27, 227
Brown University, 107, 121, 122, 158, 174, 187
Brubeck, Dave, 208
Bryn Mawr College, 167
Buckley, William F., 221
Bucknell University, 149
Bunzel, John H., 135
Burke, Samuel, 182-183
Burns, Robert, 302
Bush, George, 212
Calero, Aldolfo, 175
California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech), 9, 172, 236, 271
California State University
at Los Angeles, 268
at Northridge, 159-160
Canada, 12, 83, 123
Carleton College, 9, 153, 161, 195, 196, 205
Carnegie Foundation, 6, 9, 109, 122, 151, 205
Carter administration, 75
Case Western Reserve University, 172
Catholic schools, 10
Catholic University, 185
Chile, 115
China, 42, 43, 46, 92-93, 192-193, 212
Chinese Americans, 77, 97
Chowchilla kidnapping case, 37
City College of New York, 157
Clark, Kenneth B., 162-163
Cleaver, Eldridge, 176
Cogswell College, 268
Colby College, 272
Coleman, James S., 259
College of William & Mary, 178
Colleges and universities (see also Admission to college; Athletics; Professors)
administrators, 218-221, 302
admissions, 103-131
admissions criteria, 122-126
“costs,” 114-119, 230, 235
curriculum, 221
disciplines versus “interdisciplinary” courses, 279, 301
postgraduate education, 286
quality, 106-113, 267-271
rankings, 109-112
research universities vs. liberal arts colleges, 107-109, 293
tuition, 113-114, 117, 118,119-122, 262-265, 272
Columbia Teachers College, 24
Columbia University, 24, 123, 157, 168, 176, 206, 207, 226, 231, 236, 283
Communist Party, 42, 46
Congress, 60, 75, 79, 271, 291, 198
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 172
Cornell College, 107
Cornell University, 104, 107, 122, 162, 170, 178, 184, 194, 271, 282
Cotter, William R., 272
Council of Graduate Schools, 269, 270
Cultures
cultural hegemony, 172-173
cultural relativism, 48, 68, 71
multiculturalism, 70-89, 197
Dartmouth College, 2, 107, 113, 118, 126, 159, 161-162, 163, 181, 185, 189-191, 194, 211, 212, 213, 215, 250, 271
Dartmouth Review, 118, 188-191, 272
Davidson College, 9, 107, 108, 172, 205
Davis, Bernard, 275
“Death education” (see Brainwashing)
Deception 34-35, 66,73, 254, 280, 296-297 (see also Newspeak)
“expertise,” 25
grades, 2
secrecy, 8, 34-35, 145, 254
spending, 12-13
test scores, 105
words used ex post with ex ante meanings, 266
Decline, 1, 6, 73
“dumbing down” textbooks, 7
excuses, 8-15
standards, 7
test scores, 1, 3, 8-9
Defenses against critics of American education, 199-201, 247-284
“bashing” charge, 249
demands of others, 251-252, 254, 261-265
“golden age” charge, 250, 281
Delgado, Richard, 154-155
Dewey, John, 32, 93, 98
Diaries (see Brainwashing)
Dogmas, 15-18, 70-99
“critical mass,” 282-283
multicultural diversity, 70-89, 198
racial, 132-173
“role models,” 95-97, 281-283
self-esteem, 3, 5, 6, 97-99
test bias, 127-129
Double standards, 169
academic, 144,-145, 147-148, 159, 284
behavioral, 155-169, 176-177, 188-194, 200
ideological, 174-201, 261, 277-280
Dreyfus, Captain Alfred, 193
Drop-outs,292-293
“Drug-prevention” (see Brainwashing)
Duderstadt, James, 267, 280
Duke University, 107, 108, 123, 209, 215, 250, 271
Dunbar High School, 96, 282
Duster, Troy, 170, 171
Eckerd College, 111
Education Code for California, 291
Education schools and departments, 23-26, 288-290
credentialing power, 288, 289, 298
effect on teaching, 27, 28
filtering function, 26, 289
reputation, 23-24
substandard quality, 23-26
Edwards, Harry, 241
Einstein, Albert, 124
Elsenhower, Dwight D., 5
El Salvador, 213-214
Electrical Workers, 247
Emory University, 168
Employers, 1, 6-7
England, 115, 254
Europe, 3, 12
“Exciting” education, 91-92, 144-145
Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction, 41
Falwell, Jerry, 175
Farley, Reynolds, 177, 274
Farrakhan, Louis, 153, 157
Feminism, 96