Ralph Tyler, Education (School To Word), And The Regional Training Laboratories.
by
Dean Gotcher
An Interview with Ralph Tyler Conducted by: Jeri Ridings Nowakowski, Ed.D. November 1981
RIDINGS: Do you think the Standards, or a profession searching for standards, will bring up some issues that will have to be resolved?
For example, there needs to be a continuing study of the nature of medical ethics as new ways are developed for keeping people alive a long time at a great cost. The ethical issue is: How much can society spend, if it has is limited resources, on keeping some person of age 65 alive for ten years at a cost that would cover the health services to children for perhaps 20 or 30 times that many children? This is an ethical question not easily answered, and should be a matter of continuing study. Correspondingly, for the profession of evaluation, the questions of who are the clients and what proper service can be given clients are raised. Is it proper for some people to get information that might be wrongly used? These are kinds of questions in evaluation that are continually going to come up, and they change with time."
and
Ralph Tyler
Frank Brown's book Education for Responsible Citizenship (1977) contains an article written by Ralph Tyler. A portion is entered below. My footnotes were added clarify Tyler's socialist doublespeak. The rest I leave up to you.
ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS FOR A
COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
by Ralph Tyler
"Because a comprehensive program of citizenship education requires constructive learning activities far beyond those which can be provided within a school, some form of community council or board is necessary to assess educational needs, identify actual and potential resources, and develop an outline of educational programs. Some educational task forces or councils must be drawn from the larger metropolitan area or region for educational needs that cannot be met well by the local community."
"At the state level, legislation should be enacted to authorize these community and metropolitan organizations, to express the policy of the state, to encourage and provide support for the development and maintenance of a comprehensive educational system, and to repeal any existing legislation which limits educational programs to those within the school or within certain specified time periods."
"At the national level, the Congress should be asked to adopt a resolution endorsing comprehensive educational programs and stating a national policy to encourage full development of human resources through comprehensive educational experiences. The federal government should authorize support for, and appropriate funds to encourage and assist, the development of community councils and metropolitan or regional task forces to develop and maintain comprehensive educational systems."
"The American public is not likely to vote the taxes required to furnish professionals to guide the educational of children and youth in the many hours when they are not in school. Volunteer leaders can be secured, as has been demonstrated by out-of-school educational organizations like the 4H Clubs, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, and the Junior Achievement Program."
"The strength and vitality of voluntary organizations in the United States have been noted frequently by foreign visitors. What is missing is the comprehensive identification of needs and authorized encouragement of those who could meet the needs."
"The intent of these proposed policies is to develop a recognized and responsible educational system to replace the informal and eroding one that now exists. This nation has progressed a considerable distance in enabling a major fraction of their young people to learn the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for a responsible and productive life in a complex society. But 20 to 25 percent of youth have not learned these competencies. They need specially designed opportunities to learn the basic skills, to develop the necessary understanding, and to take on increasing responsibility as citizens in activities that involve production and service to others."
"In the near future, because of the continuing erosion of learning experiences in home, in community, and in the work places, many more youth may have difficulty in making the transition to responsible adulthood. The vitality and stability of American political, economic, and social institutions are dependent upon the effectiveness of its educational system. That system must not be permitted to disintegrate."
FOOTNOTES TO FIRST PARAGRAPH
"ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS" directly correlates to a soviet structure where "Diverse groups of people, dialogue to consensus, over the social issues at hand, in a facilitated meeting." No policy decision can be made without this communist procedure. The arrangement of government must be administrated through the "praxis" (group experience) of the "dialectic process" (consensus in action). No one will have the power to administer policy within society without the decision being made in facilitated soviets. Any action taken outside this form of procedure will be considered illegal.
"COMPREHENSIVE" is another word for gestalt: "The sum is greater than the parts." For example, a traditional-minded person would consider 20 bricks in a pile to have the sum of 20, while a transformationalist would consider the 20 bricks to be only a part of the sum. The relationship between the bricks takes on meaning in gestalt. The feeling a pile of bricks gives off as opposed to an esthetic arrangement of the bricks differ in the character of their relationship to one another. In gestalt, having 20 bricks is not the issue, what is of issue is how the 20 bricks relate with one another (intra-interpersonal relationships). Any "brick" which can not relate will not be considered a part of the sum and must either be recycled (remediated or converted), neutralized (to prevent its getting in the way of other bricks seeking relationships), or removed (so it will not be in any position to prevent the administrative arrangement as stated above from taking place.
"EDUCATION SYSTEM" is the curriculum structure being used to shape the character and values of the next generation. In a traditional system, the purpose is to continue the present standards of home and society into the future and is limited to teaching facts, leaving morals and cultural development in the hands of the home and community, in that order. In a transitional system, the purpose is lost to pure whimsical actions and eventually ends up in rebellion if not checked. In a transformational system, the purpose is to shape the next generation to fit into the future dreams of the social engineers, where school and community (including the home) are under the jurisdiction of the socialist authorities.
"CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION" means education which produces a socialist (dialectic-minded) citizen who is not concerned with unalienable rights (given by a higher authority) but human rights (determined by the group in consensus guided by social engineers). With the former, one is innocent until proven guilty, since facts determine one's guilt' while with the latter, one is guilty until proven innocent, since feelings (personal-social felt needs) determine one's guilt or innocence. The former does not need a social-psychologist to discover his rights since they are self-evident; the latter does, since his rights are always relative to the felt needs of changing society.
"CONSTRUCTIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES" correlate to John Dewey's Education and Experience. One must participate in the abdication of their unalienable, self-evident rights and willfully participate in the experience of compromise. Identity with group rights (humanistic, socialist rights) will replace all prior rights as one participates in this dialogue experience. It is this type of "constructive learning activity" which shows one how to justify their defiance toward traditional authority.
"FAR BEYOND. . . WITHIN A SCHOOL" means those activities outside the classroom are now to be under the control of government. The home experiences, work experiences, religious experiences, play experiences, etc. of the child are now the direct concern of government. It is those activities which the child can not demonstrate within the school environment which must now be controlled by social-psychologists to guarantee he or she turns out to be a socialist-minded citizen.
Portions of the former Soviet Union's Constitution read "Citizens are obliged to concern themselves with the upbringing of children, to train them for socially useful work, and to raise them as worthy members of socialist society." In other words "it takes a communist village to raise a communist child." It also read "Socially useful work and its results determine a person's status in society."
Your school board, which is elected to oversee the in-school activity of the community's children is now to be controlled by a non-elected organization. This council (see below) will control both the school board as well as all out-of-school organizations, including the home and the workplace. The consensus process will replace your vote as a taxpaying citizen.
"SOME FORM OF COMMUNITY COUNCIL" is Ralph Tyler's way of avoiding the outright use of the tem "Soviet," "a diverse group of people, . . ." In T. Walter Wallbank's history book Western Perspectives, 1973, p. 435, we find the definition of Tyler's form of soviet as an "established federal system of government based on a succession of soviets which were set up in the villages, factories, and cities and in larger regions. . . governed by the communist party." One needs to know that when Democrats and Republicans make policy the consensus process there is only one party—communist.
"ASSESS EDUCATIONAL NEEDS" To assess is to determine the worth of something. Thus someone is determining first what educational needs are, and according to Ralph Tyler (a progressives), it is to propagate socialism, and then to determine the importance or value of the community's present education system based upon its participation in the soviet system. You assess values (dialectic), you measure knowledge (didactic).
"ACTUAL AND POTENTIAL RESOURCES" When Higher Order Thinking Skills (which are used on natural resources to turn elements, for example, into Boeing 747's) are used on souls (those being God breathed the breath of life into the nostrils of), the Citizens of a country become material resources no different than iron ore, etc.
Therefore actual resources are those people already dissatisfied with or critical of the current Constitutional Republic form of government with its traditional, patriarchal education system and are immediately pliable to the new soviet global society and its transformational, matriarchal education system. Potential resources are people who are content with the present system. They, according to the process, are only concerned about their own selfish interests (capitalism) and need to become interested in social interest (communism).
"OUTLINE OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS" There are over ten Regional Training Laboratories across our nation training facilitators on how to carry out this socialist education program. The first Laboratory, begun in 1947, established the original outline which is still being "pushed" today.
"TASK FORCES OR COUNCILS" Since the Governor's Conferences of the late 80's under then President Bush, Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas facilitated the governors of the United States into taking back to their states "Task Forces or Councils" to facilitate the soviet system over their traditional Constitutional Republic form of education and workplace system.
"LARGER METROPOLITAN AREA OR REGION" The portions of government, such as county, which were not accessible to the soviet system were usurped by regional councils. In the course of things the states were treated in the same way, falling under the control of regional councils. This was an effective way to undermine the rights of the citizens and prevent their stopping the progressive development of the soviet system.
"CANNOT BE MET WELL" The top down form of socialist government had to replace the limited form of government our Constitutional Republic afforded to the States and local communities. The tool to accomplish the restructuring of government was the focus upon the satisfaction of local communities felt needs. Needs which were global in nature, tying all communities into the global community. Once having identified itself to these needs, yet unable to satisfy them by their own means, all communities which received soviet monies instantly abdicated their sovereign rights and fell under the jurisdiction of the soviet system above them.
"STATE LEVEL" The States' legislatures "authorized" the needed "encouragement and support" for these soviets to be developed (building bridges) and "repealed any existing legislation" (burning bridges) which were Constitutional Republic in form to prevent any potential "backslide" into a free market society.
"NATIONAL LEVEL" Likewise the National government "endorsed" the "development of community councils and metropolitan or regional task forces to develop and maintain" the soviet system.
CLOSING STATEMENTS CONCERNING TYLER
Ralph Tyler was a diehard socialist. He believed in a soviet-based society on a global scale. He successfully brought the progressive movement of the early 30's into the 90's. Socialists such as Leon Festinger, James Coleman, and Thomas Kuhn worked under Tyler as they developed their books, which are still being used today to justify "terrorism" in the classroom (Cognitive Dissonance), to justify the Supreme Court's decision in removing parent's God given and Constitutional rights over their children (Equality of Opportunity), and to justify war on the traditional minded, capitalist, American citizen (Paradigm Shift).
Tyler was skilled in hiding his agenda, coding everything in double speak, so the innocent would read him as one of them, while socialist wolves would know he was one of them. Although some deceived "conservative" intellectuals might consider him a kind and caring man, he was instead an evil man—one with a passion for a diabolic global socialist system. School-to-Work was Ralph Tyler's dream.
Although called by other names STW is universally recognized by its outcome—human slavery, slavery to the carnal nature of fallen mankind. What does America know about Ralph Tyler's dream? What does it care? Currently it seems to be enjoying his lie: "Trust us. We are here to help you." Once all the laws are in though, it will be living in Ralph Tyler's Evil Dream. If you do not wish to live in his world of illusion you must speak up now or forever, at least in this life, hold your peace.
NATIONAL (NOW REGIONAL) TRAINING LABORATORIES
by
Dean Gotcher
The National Training Laboratory history explained in their own words: ntl.org
and their mission statement.
ntl.org or ed.gov/pubs/TeachersGuide
(their effort to tie parenting to social concerns, negating the traditional family system in the process)
(all regions listed below)
"For actual changes in 'content' and 'method' we must change the people who manage the school program. To change the curriculum of the school means bringing about changes in people—in their desires, beliefs and attitudes, in their knowledge and skill . . . curriculum change should be seen as a type of social change, change in people. Curriculum change means a change in the established ways of life, a change in the social standards. It means a restructuring on knowledge, attitudes, and skills in a new pattern of human relations. Educators and others in the role of change agents must have a method of social engineering relevant to initiating and controlling the change process." (Source: An NEA and National Training Laboratory manual edited by Kenneth D. Benne, Human Relations in Curriculum Change, 1951)
During the 30's America experienced a major influx of European Marxists seeking asylum from Fascism. They came with their skills in "Social Psychology" continuing to research and apply their form of Marxism on American culture. The sophistication this branch of European Marxists had in hiding their agenda behind less alarming terminology along with the general trusting nature Americans have towards educators allowed them to gain control over education, business and politics.
Prior to the 30's there developed a major split in the Marxist. What was originally two general movements, the KPD (Communist Democratic Party) and the SPD (Socialist Democratic Party), turned into three. The former following a hard line of Marxist thought, bound to a traditional structure of thought that believed Marxism could be clearly defined with outcomes preset for all to see and follow and only those who were devoted to such behavior could be tolerated. The SPD on the other hand were considered soft and dangerous by the KPD because they were willing to compromise or transcend party lines and work with non-communists in resolving social problems.
While these two knocked it out a third movement developed, the Transformational Marxists. Although this new group of Marxist's did not succeed in making inroads in European Marxism prior to the Second World War, even getting expelled from the communist party, it was this group and their ideas which are now the leading agents of change around the world.
If one studies, in depth, contemporary methodology in education, business, and politics, all research will eventually lead to at least one of three famous European Transformational Marxists. They are Karl Korsch, György Lukács, and Antonio Gramsci. Karl Korsch befriended and influenced Kurt Lewin, the father of "Group Dynamics." György Lukács along with Karl Korsch laid the groundwork for the "Institution for Social Research." Members of this Institution have had a major impact upon American society, men such as Max Horkheimer, Jürgen Habermas, Erick Fromm, Paul Lazarsfeld, Herbert Marcus, and Theodore Adorno. Bloom's Taxonomy is based upon their work. Antonio Gramsci, the third Transformational Marxist, is a must reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of contemporary education, business, and politics in America. His influence is immense.
All three Transformational Marxists have left their mark. Their work has effected organizations such as the UN, the CFR, and NATO.
Gorbachev bases his "openness" upon their structure of thought. Former President Clinton functions from their philosophical thought in his quest for world unity. This, my fellow Americans, is the stuff OBE, TQM, STW, and Common Core is made of. As noted in the 1989 Education Summit that took place in Charlottesville where state governors met about "efforts to reform American education."
"Finally, the growing involvement of the National Education Association (NEA) in American national politics was rewarded with the creation of the U.S. Department of Education by the Carter administration. Although there were serious reservations about the wisdom of creating a cabinet-level education office, President Carter and the 96th Congress went ahead and narrowly passed (by a vote of 210–206 in the House) legislation creating the U.S. Department of Education in 1979. Shirley Hufstedler, a federal judge from California, was designated the first Secretary of Education." (The Road to Charlottesville, p.4) The NEA was fully involved in the development of the National Training Laboratories in the late 40's and early 50's (as mentioned in their first training manual, Human Relations in Curriculum Change, ed. by Kenneth Benne).
The "laboratory" method of education, begun by John Dewey at Columbia University, was advanced by the late 40's and early 50's to National Training Laboratories. The first (national) "laboratory," begun in Bethel Maine, in 1947, was based upon the works of Marxist such as Kurt Lewin and J. L. Moreno (two Marxists who came to America from Europe in the late 20's and early 30'), who advancing Marxism through the use of psychology (placing the child's pleasure-pain spectrum, i.e. his opinion , i.e. how he "feels" and what he "thinks" in the 'moment,' as well as his desire for approval from the other students, i.e. being "positive" over and therefore against the parent's authority) in the classroom, not only advance Marxist ideology (the negation of the father's authority, i.e. the negation of that which is "negative," i.e. the father's commands, rules, facts, and truth) in the children, but advancing Marxist ideology in the adults, i.e. the teachers, the administration, the staff, the community, and the parents as well.
for an overview of their history link to ntl.org
Kenneth Benne's second book on the National Training Laboratories was THE LABORATORY METHOD OF CHANGING AND LEARNING THEORY AND APPLICATION. The "Cookbook on humans" (Phil Ring), i.e. Human Relations in Curriculum Change, edited by Kenneth Benne is key to any understanding of the NTL's, their 'purpose,' and methods used to initiate and sustain 'change.' During the late 40s and early 50s with grants from the Carnegie Corporation the NTL "developed a national headquarters and a year-round program as a part of the Division of Adult Education of the National Education Association."
1952 – Western Training Lab
1956 – Management Work Conference Church Workers Conference (National Council of Churches)
1957 – Key Executive Lab
1959 – Educator's Lab
1960 – Community Workers Lab & Higher Education Lab
1963 – Adult Education Division split from NEA-NTL
1964 – European Institute for Trans-national Studies in Group and Organizational Development
1965 – Presidents' Conference for presidents of major industries and businesses
1968 – The Australian Institute of Human Relations . . . etc.
Jane Howard in her book Please Touch: A Guide Tour of the Human Potential Movement (McGraw-Hill, NY, 1970) gives an extended list of organizations, and Who's Who that were involved with the NTL's up to 1970. Called T-groups (Training groups) and following the encounter groups of the NTL, Howard writes "the human potential groups were striving to reacquaint us with the ‘affective domain,' and help us to be less ‘cognitive.'" Small groups were the key to the movement's success. Administrators and faculty as well as students were the main target to be exposed to "affective education," otherwise known as "sensitivity training."
"Growth Centers," (like Esalen, etc.) she wrote "began as a West Coast phenomenon. The more conservative groups organized much earlier in the East" (Bethel). The Growth Centers' "most prestigious founders" were Maslow and Rogers and ranged from their "Basic Encounter Workshop" at the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in La Jolla to "Nude Encounter Therapy" sessions (blessed by Dr. Maslow) in Los Angeles. Warren Bennis stated "There is no sacredness to anything, including encounter."
Maslow commented to Howard "We have to teach everyone to be a therapist." He recognized the difficulty in getting the public schools to participate, "Reforming a school system is like melting a glacier." Administrators were the key to its success. Without a change in the Administrator the school system itself could not be changed.
Moreno stated "I told Freud he put people on a couch and isolated them, which was entirely wrong. We don't live on a couch; we live in groups from birth to death. Freud took people into the past, I take them into the present and future. Psychodrama deals with the Here-and-Now." As Howard put it "the groups provide the right gemeinschaft for the angsts of our zeitgeist." Moreno commented "Right now (in America, 1970) we're going through a transitional period of anarchy and chaos. The giants are dead and 200 million midgets are in charge. We have to wait for what we need: a psychiatry and sociatry for all mankind."
According to Howard the Human Potential Movement, (on which OBE, TQM, and STW are built), stems from Dr. Ferdinand Tonnies, a German sociologist of the late 1880's who recognized the differences between Gesselschaft (a patriarchal hierarchy), and Gemeinschaft (a matriarchal community. Others who followed were Joseph Pratt, Trigant Burrow, J. L. Moreno, Frank Buchman, Frederick Perls, and Wilfred Bion (Tavistock). "Tavistock groups are emotionally right wing of the NTL. They're to the NTL what the NTL is to Esalen." Howard noted Bion, the English psychologist who eventually moved to Los Angeles, as its founder. Bion was to Tavistock in London, as Kurt Lewin was to the NTL in America. Margaret Rioch, Washington D.C. School of Psychiatry and the National Institute of Mental Health, officially linked the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations to America in 1965.
Kurt Lewin believed that self-help groups could prevent the totalitarianism which developed in Germany under Hitler. He fled Berlin and came to America in 1933. Howard writes that "The small group struck him as the obvious link between individual and social dynamics."
Lewin believed he could use the group dynamic process to overcome "the social restraints imposed on groups by technology, economics, law, and politics." He believed the use of "Force Field Analysis" could help people identify the negative forces (pre-set standards) which acted as a barrier to self-determined, felt needs satisfaction and positive forces which liberated self-determined behavior.
T-groups were originally developed by Lewin at the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Commission on Community Interrelations of the American Jewish Congress. Both were involved in the Basic Skill Training Group held in Connecticut in 1946 (see Benne's book Human Relations in Curriculum Change, 1954). "The use of groups for growth purposes is as old as human life on earth . . . these studies were rather late in coming," Kenneth Benne.
With the help of the NEA, Kenneth Benne, Leland Bradford, and Ronald Lippitt continued Lewin's dream by setting up the first National Training Lab at Bethel, Main in 1947. That year Kurt Lewin died. Douglas McGregor's humanistic (anti-authoritarian) management theories, i. e. "sensitivity training," developed at Berkeley under the Industrial Relations Institute (joining labor-management relations with community service) brought the NTL to UCLA in 1954, forming the Western Training Lab.
Carl Rogers used the basic encounter group as an instrument for self-directed change in Immaculate Heart school system in Los Angeles. Dr. William Coulson overseeing this project stated that the project "simply fortifies the staffs' willingness to run risks. The individual is strengthened in encounter groups. He learns to trust his experience." He saw the encounter group "as a medium of harnessing the energy of the student revolutionary." Today those schools do not exist. The school disintegrated under the watchful eye of Rogers and Coulson. Both discovered a "pattern of failure" with the group encounter process. Rogers saw it as a pattern hard to overcome, traditional minds tended to prevail in society despite the pressure to change, while Coulson saw the process itself as a failure. Coulson continues to sound the warning today.
The NTL's carried out labs "geared to the special needs of key executives, middle-management workers and, corporation presidents." Companies were encouraged to commit themselves to five years of their time to the NTL's.
The National Council of Churches helped sponsor encounter groups such as "Theological Reflection on the Human Potential." As Jane Howard stated in 1970, "One could make a life work of visiting all the churches that have been affected by sensitivity training." Religious institutions such as "Willow Creek" and "Saddleback" push the encounter group experience in churches even today.
The encounter group experience produces an "ephemeral" effect on its participants. Like an intoxicating drug it keeps those who have experienced it "clamoring for more."
A few of the Growth Centers, as mentioned by Howard, which were in operation by 1970, were: Gestalt Therapy Institute of San Diego; Institute of Group Psychotherapy in Beverly Hills, Nexus in El Cajon; Western Behavioral Science Institute in LaJolla; American Association for Humanistic Psychology in San Francisco; Berkeley Center for Human Interaction; Esalen Institute in Big Sur and San Francisco; San Francisco Gestalt Therapy Institute; Institute for Group and Family Studies in Palo Alto; Senoi Counseling and Growth Center in Eugene, Oregon; Center of Man in Mincanopy, Florida; Family Relations Institute in Annadale, Virginia; Laos House: Southwest Center for Human Potential in Austin, Texas; Association of Community Trainers in New York City; Institute for Experimental Education in Lexington, Massachusetts; Institute for Rational Living in Philadelphia; Moreno Institute of Psychodrama in New York City and Beacon, New York; National Council of Churches in New York City; Psychosynthetic Research Foundation in New York City; and Gestalt Training Institute of Canada at Lake Cowichan, Vancouver, British Columbia.
By 1970 there were six NTL divisions: NTL Institute for Applied Behavior Science (Washington D.C.); Midwest Group for Human Resources in Kansas City, Missouri; NTL Institute in Portland, Oregon; NTL Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah; NTL Labs in Bethel, Maine; Cedar City, Utah; Lake Arrowhead, California; and Western Training Labs at UCLA in Los Angeles. The Diaprax article Regional Training Laboratories (Federally funded Marxist training camps) lists the contemporary NTL's, now called Regional Training Labs.
Howard's 1970 list of companies which use NTL training reads like Who's Who; American Airlines, Boeing, Dow Chemical, General Electric, General Foods, IBM, Kaiser Aluminum, Eli Lilly, Monsanto, Procter and Gamble, Standard Oil, TRW, just to mention a few.
Her listing of colleges and universities is likewise extensive, mentioning Stanford, Brigham Young, Georgia State, Michigan State, Ohio State, Purdue, Universities of Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Oregon, Utah, Michigan, Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Harvard, Maryland, Vermont, Yeshiva, Temple, Teachers College of Columbia, MIT, SUNY, New York, George Washington (D.C.), Boston College, Georgia State College, Colorado State College, etc. Today it would be a short list to name those who have not participated with the NTL's group encounter agenda.
All I can say to those who use this process, although I doubt they would or even could understand, "Professing to be wise, they have become Fools." Herein lies the title to a book Death to America. Who killed America? You did. When you refused to proclaim the Word of God or stopped doing so when confronted with group dynamics, you killed America. Every time you made mankind, instead of God, the source for your felt needs satisfaction, America died.
REGIONAL TRAINING LABORATORIES
The Regional Educational Laboratories are listed in the National Education Goals Panel Community Action Toolkit. http://www.ericdigests.org/1996-1/goals.htm -- http://cse.edc.org/products/toolkit/community_all.asp -- http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/negp/reports/local.pdf --For warnings about the NEGPCAT ( http://www.apfn.org/apfn/un_plan.htm )
The Regional Educational Laboratories (Freurxist―Freud plus Marx, Transformational Marxists regionalization of the United States) are:
Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Charleston, WV http://www.ael.org or ed.gov/pubs/RegionalEdLabs/AEL.html
Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA http://www.wested.org/
Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory, Aurora, CO http://www.mcrel.org
Missouri Office, Kansas City, MO
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, Oak Brook, IL http://www.ncrel.org/ncrel
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland, OR http://www.nwrel.org
Pacific Region Educational Laboratory, Honolulu, HI http://www.prel.org/
Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement of the Northeast and Islands, Providence, RI, http://www.lab.brown.edu
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA http://www.temple.edu/departments/LSS/
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, Austin, TX http://www.sedl.org/
Southeastern Regional Vision for Education, Greensboro, NC http://www.serve.org
Tallahassee, Florida Office, Tallahassee, FL
Math and Science Consortium, Atlanta, GA
Cleveland, Mississippi Office, Cleveland, MS
Columbia, South Carolina Office, Columbia, SC
Their regional representatives and departments are listed as:
Region I: CT, VT, ME, NH, MA, RI,--Boston, MA
Region II: NJ, NY, PR, VI
Region III: DE, DC, WV, MD, PA, VA—Philadelphia, PA
Region IV: FL, SC, GA, TN, KY, MS, NC, AL--Atlanta, GA
Region V: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI--Chicago, IL
Region VI: AR, LA, NM, OK, TX—Dallas, TX
Region VII: IA, KS, MO, NE—Kansas City, MO
Region VIII: CO, MT, ND, SD, UT—Denver, CO
Region IX: AS, AZ, CA, GU, HI, NV, CN, MI—San Fran., CA
Region X: AK, ID, OR, WA—Seattle, WA
These books are for those who want to go beyond application and want to know how the process for change was developed (justified) and implemented.
A Handbook of Child Psychology by Carl Murchison, 1933; reissued in 1967. Kurt Lewin's "Environmental Forces" is must reading.
A Dynamic Theory of Personality by Kurt Lewin, 1935. This is one of the most quoted and referred to sources of Kurt Lewin's and clearly brings the Berlin, Germany project to Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
Cooperation: Principles and Practices by the 11th Yearbook, Dept. Sup. & Dir. Of Instr., 1938. This work is a precursor to the following books:
The Discipline of Practical Judgment in a Democratic Society by Kenneth D. Benne, George E. Axtelle, B. Othanel Smith, and R. Bruce Raup, Yearbook No. 28, Nat. Soc. Of Coll. Teach. of Ed., 1942, 1943.
The Improvement of Practical Intelligence, February, 1950.
Bulletin Number 7 by Kenneth D. Benne and Boziar Muntyan, 1950. This work was published three times under the Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Illinois Secondary School Curriculum Program Series. C. W. Sanford directed and B. Othanel Smith facilitated.
Human Relations in Curriculum Change by Kenneth D. Benne and Bozidar Muntyan, 1951, 54. This book is the clearest reading I have ever found on how the Laboratories work. Despite its "age" it is up to date concerning the general principles of "controlled" change. A Who's Who book, ie. Lewin, etc.
Child Behavior and Development by Roger Barker, Jacob S. Kouin, and Herbert F. Wright, 1943. Barker was a major influence in the National (now Regional) Training Laboratories.
Readings in Social Psychology (1st and 2nd ed.) by Theodore M. Newcomb and Eugene L. Hartley, 1947, 1953 (3rd ed.) included Eleanor Maccoby, 1958. All three editions are different and each contains specific information regarding the development of the process of "change" and its application.
The Dynamics of Planned Change by Ronald Lippitt, Jeanne Watson, and Bruce Westley, 1948. Ronald Lippitt worked with Kurt Lewin. He had major influence on Ronald Havelock and Warren Bennis who either build off of his material or use it as a supplementary source for their own. Bennis considered Lippitt too constructed in his approach to the implementation of change through the use of change agents.
The Planning of Change by Warren G. Bennis, Kenneth D. Benne, and Robert Chin, 1961, 1969, 1974. All three works are about 80% different from each other and each must be read as unique to the development and implementation of change being used by change agents.
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Handbook I: Cognitive Domain by Bloom and Krathwohl, 1956 and Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Handbook I: Affective Domain by Krathwohl and Bloom, 1964 are the culminating work of all the books listed above. These are the bedrock works for OBE, TQM, and STW.
The Change Agents Guide to Innovation in Education by Ronald G. Havelock, 1973 is the result of a Federally funded project, The Guide or Diffusion of Utilization Research of Knowledge Linkers in Education under contract No. OEC-8-080603-4535 (010) under the office of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education, & Welfare. The Change Agents Guide. . . explains how change agents are used and how the Training Laboratories are able to control the local schools and the communities.
Putting Knowledge to Use by Edward Glaser, et al., 1983. Glaser shows how the UN is using science and technology as the medium for global control. He compares and contrasts the research of social psychologists being used around the world today.
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