“Critical thinking” is another one of those terms which have been perverted by the education program developers. They know that parents want their children to become critical thinkers, so they use the term to introduce concepts and lessons to which parents might otherwise object. A few months ago, students in the Rialto School District in California were given a “critical thinking” assignment — to write a Holocaust-denying essay. Read more…

Find out more about semantic deception from our website, linked  here.

Beware of “semantic deception.” Learn the definitions of current education terms.

Have you ever been in a large meeting in which you felt manipulated into coming up with a decision you never wanted? You been the victim of the Delphi technique.

Paradigm Change: More Magic than Logic by John C. Hillary, is an article from the 1990-91 issue of OUTCOMES, a professional education journal on outcome-based education. Read the article linked from the “American Deception” website.

Hear Dr. Shirley McCune 1989 speech describing her ideal education system that would cure society’s ills. Now more than twenty years later….do we have the utopia she envisioned?

The new Measurements of Student Progress (MSP) are called “formative” assessments and the High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE) is being called a “summative” assessment. What does that mean?

Explanation of the difference between assessments and tests, the terms “valid”and “reliable” and other information.

Information from the website of the Office of the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Three personalities who had a hand in education restructuring in the late ’80s and early ’90s in Washington State