UNESCO (1973)

Goals 2000 (1994)

“Lifelong education was seen to be the unifying principle that would enable all aspects of education to be brought together into a coherent whole.”

“lifelong learning….  Schools, in implementing comprehensive parent involvement programs, will offer more adult literacy, parent training, and lifelong education opportunities….”  (6) (vi)

“Member states were urged… to redefine education and see it as a dimension of life throughout its entire length….”

…promoting coherent, nationwide, systemic education reform… establishing valid and reliable mechanisms for…building a broad national consensus on American education reform…

“Primary education, secondary education, technical education a continuous and integrated process, and adult education… were now seen as a continuous and integrated process.”

 “What is essential is that we create a seamless web of opportunities to develop one's skills that literally extends form cradle to grave.... in which curriculum, pedagogy, examinations, and teacher education and licensure systems are all linked to the national standards... a system that rewards students who meet the national standard with further education and good jobs....” A 1992 letter from Marc Tucker (sitting in David Rockefeller's office) to Hillary Clinton explaining the School-to-Work  system now being implemented across America.]

“…an integration of the cultural and the vocational will be an essential part of life-long education…  linking together the formal and non-formal agencies of education …. It will require the ending of the usual separation between school and work.”

“…every major American business will be involved in strengthening the connection between education and work…..

Provide all students with effective mechanisms and appropriate paths to the work force as well as to higher education… Continue the lifelong learning process throughout the employment years of an individual.”

“…awarded certificates testifying to their educational attainments at important points in their career.”

“.… assisting in the development and certification of high-quality, internationally competitive content and student performance standards…. “ (the CIM and CAM)

“….nor can we acquire in a casual way, without deliberate educational provision, the complex new forms of knowledge and skill that we shall need….”

“By the year 2000, every adult American will be literate and will possess the knowledge and skills necessary to… exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.”

“Infant-care centers… provide…care till the age of three years. Infant educational centers… may be attended full-time or part-time. The programs will aim at … gradual socialization… and their preparation for… primary school.”

“Title IV Parental information and resource centers. Purpose …to increase parent’s knowledge and confidence on child-rearing activities… to strengthen partnerships between parents  and professionals in meeting the educational needs of children aged birth through 5 years.”

“Participation by mothers and fathers… under the guidance of the professional staff, will ease the children’s transition from the home to the school… helping the parents gain a deeper knowledge of their developing children and thus to become better educators of their children.”

“’Parents as Teachers program’… is designed to provide all parents of children from birth through age 5 with the information and support such parents need to give their child a solid foundation for school success… [It] provides regular scheduled visits with families by certified parent educators, … developmental screenings, and linkage with other resources.” (108 Stat. 190)

“A close relationship must be developed between the work of…  the health and educational centers and the parents of the infants so that the two environments complement each other…. “

“Parental and Community Support and Involvement. …describe strategies for how the State educational agency will involve parents … focusing public and private community resources… on prevention and early intervention… increasing the access of all students to social services, health care, nutrition, related services, and child care services— “

“.…The task is… to construct systematic relationships between them, so that they complement one another and comprise an integrated whole with interrelated parts.”

“—and locating such services in schools… designed to provide “one-stop shopping” for parents and students.”

“Educational technology… includes all the organizational arrangements, methods, materials, equipment… used in education. It includes—“

• medium of communication

• teaching techniques

• instructional and learning aids

• methods of class grouping

•  the promotion of students and their certification,

•  the prescribed curriculum

•  all the means used in the educational process[ii]

• “Infuse technology and technology planning into all educational programs … no school system will be excluded”

• “ensure the… dissemination of knowledge (drawn from research and experience) that can form the basis for sound State and local decisions…”

• “encourage the effective use of technology to provide all students the opportunity to achieve State content standards and… student performance standards…. “

•   “promote the use of technology in… training and lifelong learning, including plans for the educational uses of a national information infrastructure… .”        

• “facilitate an easy exchange of data….”

“Much of the common distaste for education… can be attributed to the premature and irrelevant content of the curriculum of many schools systems.”

[Foresees today’s shift from traditional academics to the touchy-feely, “real-life” classroom experiences that have replaced the “boring” old “drill and kill”. ]

“Home-centered education, ranging from basic nutrition and child care to household budgeting… citizenship education, as the adults get seriously involved in the economic and political affairs of the community.”

“…comprehensive improvement plans that will provide a coherent framework for the implementation… in an integrated fashion that effectively educates all children to prepare ???? them to participate fully as workers, parents, and citizens….” (692)

“The changes needed to institutionalize the mold of life-long education… cannot be brought about independently of other far-reaching social changes… Nor can major alterations in the structure of education occur until people are ready to make radical changes in the entire social structure.

                “In the political sphere, the idea of democratic community participation in the control of education… is also likely to meet with resistance. In some quarters it will almost certainly run counter to authoritarian forms of government.…”

[The Community Action Toolkit  distributed through the Department of Education shows how to

inform (or propagandize) the community with the “right” persuasive information (such as the “latest scientific discoveries”), win the consent of the people and establish a new “civil government” through the manipulative consensus process.]

“Leaders who see the need for innovation will have to consider carefully strategies of change…. Three different ways of gaining acceptance for innovative ideas and practices:

1. Rational-empirical approach… convince people intellectually of the validity of…solution

2. Normative approach… change people’s attitudes by persuasion, emphasizing emotions and sentiments…

3. Coercive approach… allocation of authority, power and financial resources to convince people that they have more to gain by supporting reforms than by opposing them.

    …the rational-empirical approach is the one least likely of itself to be effective when innovations are to be made widely accept-able throughout a community.”

“The panel shall be responsible for conducting statewide, grassroots outreach process, including conducting public hearings, to involve educators, related service personnel, parents, local officials… individuals representing private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools (includes homeschools), community and business leaders, citizens, children’s advocates, secondary schools students, and others with a stake in the success of students and their education system… in a continuing dialogue ….”