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GLOSSARY OF IMPORTANT OBE TERMS

Outcome Based Education (OBE) -

This is the latest fad and accompanying "buzzword" in education
circles which promises to be as controversial as sex education
and equally dangerous to the values, morals and family
relationships of the young people who are ravaged by it.

An educational philosophy, not a program per se - It is an old
product in a new package, formerly called Mastery Learning or
Learning for Mastery.  Attempts are made to disavow the
connection, but it is clear that the concept's nomenclature and
inspirators are all the same.  The following are additional
synonyms, used interchangeably:

Performance-Based Education

Outcome-Driven Developmental Model (ODDM)

Competency-Based Education and Project Re: Learning

Outcome-Based Instruction (OBI)

The OBE methodology establishes "outcomes" upon which the
respective student's success is analyzed.  While mastery of
these outcomes is mandatory for graduation, the time limit is
broadly relative for each student.  This is in direct contrast
to the "traditional" approach which allocated a "fixed" amount
of time for a particular topic and is one reason that taxpayer
and citizens' groups are up in arms regarding OBE, namely the
potentially much higher per pupil cost.

Required Student Learning Outcomes (RSLO's) -

The bottom-line basis of OBE.  They are detailed descriptions
of the expected knowledge, values and behavior that the student
must demonstrate in his life.  At least half of the goals do not
deal with academics (learning how to think), but are affective
in nature (learning what to think).  Not demonstrating a
particular outcome would prevent the student from advancing to
the next grade level and ultimately from receiving a diploma.

remediation -

That process of mind-manipulation/behavior modification which
ostensibly is to qualify the scholastically delinquent student
for the next level of learning.  This period of "remediation"
can be unlimited and continue for as long as required for the
mandatory outcome.  (When this technique is applied in the
military to prisoners-of-war it is commonly referred to as
"brain-washing.")
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Educational Testing Service (ETS) -

Brainchild of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching (CFAT), which created and owns all of the testing
programs

Ten Quality Goals of Education -

A committee of unelected officials, comprised of eight top
behavioral psychologists in the country, formulated them.  The
committee consensus edicted that any education program would be
inadequate unless it embraced the "development of the whole
child," meaning more than the three R's.  It meant that the
whole personality - the social, emotional, intellectual and
psychomotor areas of each child - needed to be considered in the
curriculum.

Whole-Child Development Concept -

If one wishes to change the way a child acts, he must change
the way the child feels and thinks.  To do this it is necessary
to gain access to the individual's belief system; hence, the
test or survey, the journal-writing or diary-keeping, the
role-playing and discussion groups - all common to the
psychiatric mind-manipulation technique known as "sensitivity
training."

Educational Quality Assessment (EQA) -

Used in Pennsylvania, it is a model for the country; the
results are used to manipulate behavior through specially
designed curricula.

belief system -

That which is tested and scored for "preferred" attitudes as
each child is judged on opinions and personality traits, not
academic knowledge, not what the average parent would call
"skills"

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) -

Tests designed to elicit information about beliefs and
attitudes, half of which questions are psychologically
oriented...Even the U.S. Dep't. of Education has been forced to
admit this.  These types of behavior-oriented questions have
been traditionally classified as affective, rather than
cognitive.  To justify such probing the behaviorists have simply
redefined "cognitive" as having an emotional as well as
intellectual aspect.

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"Presidential Citation For Educational Excellence" -

Awarded to high school students who do well on American
Achievement Tests, putting Christian, private and home-schooled
students at a disadvantage if they did not take the tests. 
Being ineligible for the citation, they would be competitively
deprived when seeking employment or entrance to higher education
institutions.

SCANS Commission -

Developed to formulate "national competency guidelines" that
will be used countrywide in developing new curricula and
training programs for schools...The mentors for the guidelines
are all Carnegie personnel.

America 2000 -

An education strategy proposed by President Bush that will
affect every family, business and citizen in America.  If the
"social engineers" behind these goals prevail, it will destroy
our heritage of freedom, and our children will be indoctrinated
into a globalist, one-world order which denounces
Judeo-Christian ethics as unacceptable.

The Elementary and Secondary Integrated Data System (ESIDS) -

A supercomputer which, using children's social security numbers
(mandatory by age 5), can store and access personal and academic
test information.  The system also enables data to be
cross-referenced with innumerable other systems with little
security-control  over access to these records.  Interesting
legal questions arise therein which are yet to be resolved such
as invasion of privacy.  Use of such data on family and
community is accessible to international organizations as well. 
It is clear that the potential for abuse of this information is
staggering.

"Parents as Teachers" Program -

H.R. 120 disturbingly reveals the purpose of this strategy the
need to remedy the training already received by the child from
its parents.  The bill defines the term "parent educator" as a
state-designated person who is to come into the home a minimum
of 8 times per year to monitor the quality of parenting. Bettina
Hobbs, former consultant to the U.S. Dep't. of Health, Education
and Welfare (HEW), and current president of Guardians of
Education for Maine, says of the program:  "It will result in
state control of the children and reduce parents to the status
of breeders and supervised custodians."  The program already
exists in 40 states!

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"at risk" -

There are 12 computer code definitions which label the child
"at risk."  They are stated on the record-keeping forms.  Every
family could unquestionably fit into one of these categories. 
This could lead to being labeled "dysfunctional" and having your
children removed by means of Senate Bill 1133, the
"Comprehensive Services for Children and Youth Act of 1991." 
Since the expectation is that every child will be found
"mentally ill," there is no code for normal!  The assessment is
made by the "parent educator" during each home visit.

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