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The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America https://www.wnd.com/1999/12/2877/ was published on December 2, 1999. The source URL goes to Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt s website.
TOPICS: From Blumenfeld s artice: Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt s new book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, is without doubt one of the most important publishing events in the annals of American education in the last hundred years. John Dewey s School and Society, published in 1899, set American education on its course to socialism. Rudolf Flesch s Why Johnny Can t Read, published in 1955, informed American parents that there was something terribly wrong with the way the schools were teaching children to read, and my own book, NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education, published in 1984, explained in great detail how and why the decline in public education was taking place.