Field, Robert, 118
Finn, Chester E., 263
Fish, Stanley, 250
Fleming, Macklin, 138-140
Florida Institute of Technology, 109-110
Florida State University, 242
Ford Foundation, 165, 264
Foreign students
compared to American students, xi, 4, 9, 269-270
in American postgraduate education, 269-270
as teaching assistants, 210
France, 115, 230
Franklin and Marshall College, 2, 107, 108, 172
Free speech restrictions, 159-160, 200
Freedman, James, 250
Friedman, Milton, 17
Futrell, Mary Hatwood, 247, 248
Gantry, Elmer, 165
General Accounting Office, 271, 303
Genovese, Eugene, 16
George Washington University, 185
Georgetown University, 185, 187, 243
Law School, 143, 146
Georgia Tech, 109
Germany, 115, 230
Gershwin, George, 208
G.I. Bill, 134
Giamatti, A. Bartlett, 233
Grades, 8
changed for athletes, 242, 243
failing grades eliminated, 98
grade inflation, 2
Graduate Record Examination (GRE), 24, 25, 223
Great Depression, 211
Gross National Product (GNP), 270, 288
Hampton University, 242
Hart, Jeffrey, 159
Harvard University, 24, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 120, 123, 125, 126, 127, 130, 131, 136, 142, 143, 150, 164-165, 175-176, 177, 182-183, 184, 197-198, 204, 206, 208, 211, 217, 221, 222, 225, 229, 231, 242, 249, 250, 261, 262, 267, 268, 269, 271, 273, 274, 276, 277, 282, 294
Harvard/Radcliffe Gay and Lesbian Students Association, 182
Law School, 153
Medical School, 147-148, 153, 275
Harvey Mudd College, 107, 108, 172
Haverford College, 167-168, 172, 239
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 7
Hayek, Friedrich, 17
Heyman, Ira M., 171
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 40
Hispanic Americans, 9, 73
Hitler, Adolf, 201
Holmes, Sherlock, 277
“Holocaust studies,” 47
Homosexuals, 42, 45, 54, 96, 178-186, 193
double standards, 181-183, 184
indoctrination, 181-182, 183
toilets, 184-185
Honig, Bill, 95
Hoover Institution, 227, 228
Hope College, 190
Howard University, 185
Howe, Harold, II, 264
Humanism, 59
Humboldt State College, 213
Illinois Institute of Technology, 172
Illinois State University, 136
India, 81, 83, 173, 190
Indiana State Univesity, 187
Indiana Univesity, 187
Indonesia, 83, 129-130
International Comparisons, xi, 3-4 13,71-72, 73-74, 81, 83, 94, 129-131, 173
Internationalism, 59, 72
Iowa Test of Education Development, 1
IQ Test, 127, 128, 129
Italy, 115
Ivy League, 107, 108, 111, 113, 119, 122, 130, 172, 187, 239
Japan, 12, 72, 115
Japanese Americans, 97
Japanese students, 3, 9, 72
Java, 129-130
Johns Hopkins University, 107, 210, 249
Juilliard School of Music, 109
Kalamazoo, 111
Kasun, Jacqueline, 60
Kennedy, Donald, 115, 156, 192-193, 271, 272
Kenyon College, 167
Kinsley, Michael, 199
Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 176
Korean War, 24
Korean students, 3, 4
Kristol, Irving, 17
Ku Klux Klan, 156
Labor Party, 86
Lau v. Nichols, 74
Law School Aptitude Test (LSAT), 140, 143, 146, 159, 223
Learning English Advocates Drive (LEAD), 76
Lehigh University, 172
Lincoln, Abraham, 3
London, 85
Longfellow, William Wadsworth, 7
McCarthy, Mary, 6
McGuffey’s Readers, 7, 253, 255
McLuhan, Marshall, 104
Madison Avenue, 104
Malaysia, 81, 83
Man: A Course of Study (MACOS), 61-62, 252
Manchester, England, 85, 86, 87
Manila, 129
Mao tse-Tung, 37, 42, 43, 212
Maori, 81
Marquette University, 121
Maslow, Abraham, 62
Mason, C. Vernon, 168
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), 14, 106, 108, 109, 110, 119, 121, 144, 205, 266, 271, 274
Mathabane, Mark, 160-161
Matsuda, Mari, 155
Mayer, Martin, 24, 25
Memphis State University, 243
Meredith, James, 184
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 75
Mexican American students, 141, 142
Mexico, 90
Miami University, 242
Miami-Dade Community College, 268
Michigan State University, 160
Middlebury College, 103, 110, 132
Minorities
backgrounds, 281-282
definition, 142
faculty, 148-155
non-conforming, 154, 160-163
students, 141-143, 146-148
Money
and educational quality, 10-15, 22, 27, 225, 271, 288, 297
government, 60, 147, 271-272, 287
Montgomery Ward, 225
Mosher, Steven, 191-193
Mount Holyoke College, 184, 263
Mount Vernon College, 268
Multiculturalism (see Cultures)
NAACP, 150
Nader, Ralph, 195
National Association of Scholars, 212
National Basketball Association, 234, 240
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), 233, 234, 236, 240, 241, 242, 287
National Council of La Raza, 75
National Education Association (N.E.A.), 16, 22, 247, 248, 252, 260, 289, 298
National Football League, 234, 240
National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence, 170
National Parent-Teacher Association, 15
National School Board Association, 98
National Science Foundation (NSF), 252
New Hampshire, 35, 44
New York Life, 6
New York State Commissioner of Education, 72, 73
New York University, 110-111
New Zealand, 12, 81
Newspeak, 28, 44, 260, 265, 266
“access,” 266
“diversity,” 73
“exclusion,” 266, 267
“harassment,” 188-189, 201, 266
“opportunity,” 44, 45, 62, 265
“prejudice,” 266
“privilege,” 266
“quotas,” 280
“sensitivity,” 83-84
words used ex post with ex ante meanings, 266
Nobel Prizes, 97
Non-judgmental attitudes, 5-6
North Carolina State University, 242-243
Northwest AIDS Foundation, 181
Northwestern University, 107, 119, 176, 180, 189, 209, 215
Oberlin College, 9, 166, 167, 198
Occidental College, 111
Office of Naval Research, 271
Ohio Dominican College, 168
Ohio State University, 205
Ohio Wesleyan University, 149
Orbik, Jon, 158
Oregon State Univesity, 116
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 122
Orwell, George, 44 (see also Newspeak)
Pac-10, 243
Pacific Telesis, 6
Page, Clarence, 146
Palo Alto High School, 124
Parents, 44, 48, 79, 82, 91
anti-parent attitudes, xi-xii, 45, 48-51, 67, 68, 74, 177, 178, 256
parental choice of schools, 256-260, 300
parental permission, 51-53, 79
parental values, 35, 47, 48, 51
tactical responses to parents, 46, 51, 255, 291
Peers, 53-54
Penney’s, 225
Pennsylvania State University, 107, 108, 187
Persian Gulf War, 194, 200
Pharmaceutical companies, 15
Philanthropy, 118, 248, 287, 294
Philippines, 83, 129
Planned Parenthood, 60, 254
Poland, 115
“Political Correctness” (see Double Standards, ideological)
Politics
educational reform, 290, 297-303
politicization of education, 16-17
teachers’ union lobby, 22, 247-248
Pollak, Louis H., 138-140
Pomona College, 9, 108
Princeton University, 9, 111, 124, 150,209, 216, 221
Private schools, 10, 23
Professors
accessibility, 203-204
advising students, 206-207
classroom performance, 207-210, 214-216, 218-220
education professors, 23, 25, 27, 28
faculty self-governance, 294, 300, 301, 302
indoctrination, 210-214
minority, 148-155
research, 14, 223-225, 295-296
student evaluations, 216-218
teaching, 108, 202-231
teaching awards, 205-206
teaching loads, 261
tenure, 225-231, 274-277, 300
Psychological conditioning (see Brainwashing)
Psychotherapists, 6
Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), 195-196, 279
Puerto Rican students, 141, 142
Pusey, Nathan, 229
Quest International, 57-58
Racial conflict, 132-133
causes, 151, 152, 159, 164
predicted, 133-141
Racial consultants, 164-166, 169, 197
Racism, 146, 164, 165, 168, 169
definitions, 156, 165, 166, 167
direction of flow, 84-89, 170-171
“vestige,” 170-171
RAND Corporation, 10, 226
Ravitch, Diane, 4, 9
Reagan, Ronald, 17, 171, 212, 213
Reagan administration, 75, 171, 211
Reed College, 9, 109
“Relevance,” 89-93
Rensselaer Polytechnic, 172
Research, 14, 223-225
“Residential education” (see Brainwashing)
Rhodes, Frank, 178
Rhodes College, Memphis, 171
Rice University, 9, 120-121
Richardson, William, 249
Riesman, David, 125, 147, 150, 150, 207
Risk, 55-56
Robin Hood theory, 273
Roe v. Wade, 63
Rogers, Carl, 6, 48, 55, 56, 59, 62, 89-90
Rome, 115
Rose Bowl, 232
Rose-Hulman Institute, 108, 172
Rosovsky, Henry, 217, 262, 263, 264, 269, 276, 277
R.O.T.C., 301
Rustin, Bayard, 135, 150
Rutgers University, 136, 159, 196, 199, 203
Ruth, Babe, 266
Sadat, Anwar, 115
St. Augustine High School, 96
St. Cloud State University, 213
San Francisco State University, 149, 151-151, 157, 180
San Jose State University, 146, 170, 172, 180, 185
Schiller, Professor, 215
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), 1, 3, 8-9, 11, 24-25, 26, 27, 105, 122-123, 126, 127, 128, 129, 141-142, 144, 145, 251, 280, 288
Schumpeter, J. A., 277-278
Sears, 225
Self-esteem (see Dogmas)
Sex education (see Brainwashing)
Sexual attitudes, 178-188
Shakespeare, William, 7
Shanker, Albert, 8
Shields, Brooke, 221
Simon, Sidney, 55
Smith, Adam, 231
Smith College, 2, 168
South Africa, 175
Southeastern Conference, 243
Southeastern University, 268
Sowell, Thomas, 141
Spain, 115
Spence, A. Michael, 175
Sri Lanka, 81, 173
Stalin, Josef, 3, 37
Stanford University, 28, 106, 107, 115, 123, 124, 126, 142, 145, 147, 156-157, 162, 163, 167, 170, 172, 178-181, 185-186, 187, 191-193, 197, 198-199, 200, 203, 204, 205, 207, 210, 214, 215-216, 238, 239, 243, 249, 271, 272, 274, 280, 282
Date Rape Education Project, 179
Law School, 154, 166
Starr, S. Frederick, 198
State University of New York
at Binghamton, 157-158
at Buffalo, 171, 213
at Farmingdale, 213
Steelworkers, 247
Stigler, George J., 105
Students (see American students; Foreign students)
Sugar Bowl, 242
Summers, Clyde, 135-138, 146
Supreme Court, 236
Supton, Alice, 179, 180
Swarthmore College, 103
Syverson, Peter D., 270
Talented and Gifted (TAG), 51-52
Teachers
bilingual education, 80
elementary and secondary, 5-6, 21-33
incentives, 290-291
irresponsibility, 66-67
loads, 13-14
qualifications, 21-33
sincerity, 5, 6
teachers’ unions, 22, 27
tenure, 30, 299
Teamsters’ Union, 249
Tenure, 274-277
Tests
bias, 128
college admissions tests, 126-130
predictive validity, 128, 129-130
scores, 1, 3, 4, 8-9, 11, 12, 24-25, 26, 105, 122-123, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 251, 280
Thernstrom, Stephan, 177, 274
Tufts University, 132-133, 168, 189, 195
Tuition, 113-114, 117, 118, 119-122, 262-265, 272
Tulane University, 165, 237
Union College, 172
United Auto Workers, 247
U.S. Air Force Academy, 145
U.S. Army, 24
U.S. Department of Education, 35, 37, 42, 52, 65, 79, 117, 255, 265, 293
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 46
U.S. Department of Justice, 120
U.S. English, 76
U.S. Supreme Court, 74-75
University of California, 172, 196
at Berkeley, 107, 111, 132, 144-145, 146, 155-156, 157, 158, 159, 162, 168, 170, 171, 176, 177, 180, 195, 209, 215, 241
at Davis, 8
at Irvine, 111
at Los Angeles, 108, 159, 176, 187, 195, 237, 268
at Riverside, 111
at San Diego, 111, 185, 215
at Santa Barbara, 195
at Santa Cruz, 111, 195, 196, 198
University of Chicago, 2, 9, 172, 204, 210, 214-215, 237, 259, 283
University of Colorado, 176
University of Connecticut, 193-194
University of Dallas, 115
University of Delaware, 111
University of Evansville, 115
University of Florida, 185
University of Houston, 235
University of Illinois, 204
University of Iowa, 149, 180, 205, 242
University of Maryland, 185, 187, 194, 210
University of Massachusetts, 80, 132, 171, 183, 212
at Amherst, 212
University of Michigan, 166, 177, 198, 205, 212, 213, 267, 274, 280
University of Minnesota, 195, 204
University of Mississippi, 184
University of Nevada at Reno, 235
University of North Carolina, 180, 204, 210