What Is Skinnerian Experimentation?
It is a known fact that our educational system has been deteriorating. It hasn't happened over night but has been a rather long and winding road of infiltration and saturation with damaging ideas. For example, in 1964 the Carnegie Corporation appointed Ralph Tyler to be the Chairman of the Committee on Assessing the Progress of Education which later became the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Since 1999 the NAEP has been funded by the federal government and its methods have been widely used across the United States. So what is the significance of the NAEP?
While parents mistakenly believe that the NAEP's "tests" (assessments) reflect their children's academic performance, and so do state legislators who pass legislation to use NAEP as a State test, all these assessments do is track conformity to government-generated goals!
What might those "goals" be? Let's look at an example of the type of programs which have been put into effect to forward such "goals."
In 1965 the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare funded the Behavioral Science Teacher Education Program (BSTEP). Initiated at Michigan State University, it was carried out between 1965 and 1969. Its objective was to change the teacher from a transmitter of knowledge/content to a social change agent/facilitator/clinician. School administrators and teachers alike were appalled at this alteration of a teacher's age-old role from a mere educator to a modifier of behavior.
However, what marked the end of local State control and the beginning of nationalization (and in fact, internationalization) of education in the United States was the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) passed by Congress in 1965. Use of goal setting, Management by Objectives (MBO), Planning, Programming, Budgeting Systems (PPBS), and systems management for accountability purposes would be totally funded by and directed from the Federal level.
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) targeted low income/minority students for experimentation with Skinnerian (of or relating to the behavioristic theories and methods of psychologist B.F. Skinner) "basic skills" programs: i.e. Follow Through (mastery learning/direct instruction), Right-to-Read, Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI), Project INSTRUCT, etc. By the end of the 1980s State departments of education would be receiving 60-75% of their operating budget from the U.S. Department of Education (which was not even in existence at the time ESEA was passed).
It is no secret that poor education (and behavior modification is far from being "education") leads to poverty, crime, drug abuse and other undesirable factors which adversely affect our social fiber. Drug use alone is costing billions of dollars and countless lives!
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