The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America - A Chronological Paper Trail, by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt. The paper is a chronological history of the past 100+ years of education reform. This free to download pdf is large - around 7MB.
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/

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