Charter Schools: Going International

Education Week April 28, 1993 [page 10]

GOALS PANEL APPROVES PLAN TO MEASURE CITIZENSHIP

By Robert Rothman

In a move panel members said could boost the teaching of citizenship, the National Education Goals Panel [oversees GOALS 2000 implementation] last week adopted a plan for assessing student progress in that field.

The panel… which gauges national and state progress toward the six national education goals, also last week approved a recommendation for a core set of data local districts could collect to monitor their own progress toward the goals…

The citizenship data, which are expected to be included in the panel’s forth coming annual reports, would measure whether the nation is meeting Goals 3, which states that, by the year 2000, “every school in America will insure that all students learn to use their minds well, so they may be prepared for responsible citizenship.”

The plan calls for the National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] to regularly assess students’ knowledge of citizenship, for NAEP and the recipients of federal community-service, and for NAEP and the governor to gather information about the registration of young voters.

Core Data

The panel also recommended support for the development of national standards in citizenship, along the lines of standards now being developed in core subjects. Deputy Secretary Madeline Kunin, who represented Mr. Riley [Secretary of Education] at the meeting, said the plan would help instill in young people an “ethic” of service that could continue after high school. The Clinton Administration has proposed a national service plan (includes America's Promise/Colin Powell [CFR] and AmeriCorps) that would encourage high school graduates and college students to participate in service programs…

“I don't think you can take an 18-year-old and say, ‘Now you are a part of the community if he had not had that ethic from the start,’” Ms. Kunin said. The proposal for a core set of data for local districts is aimed at insuring that local student- record systems provide comparable information that could also be linked to the national goals reports, panelists said… [emphasis added]

Who will have the responsibility for developing the criteria for citizenship?

– Who is identified on the Goals Panel roster as representing the Edison Project; failing to mention Finn’s position at the Hudson Institute [poor citizenship!]

– Failing to mention that he is a member of Hudson Institute’s design team Modern Red School House for GOALS 2000/NASDC

More about Edison Schools in the GOALS 2000 Technology Component Report--UNDER CONSTRUCTION

– Hornbeck served at the same time as the Senior Education Advisor to the National Business Roundtable, however the Goals Panel roster identified him only as representing Philadelphia Public Schools. [more poor citizenship]

– Hornbeck traveled to several states (invited by the states’ Business Roundtable) representing the National Business Roundtable and advising the state legislatures on state GOALS 2000 legislation. His counsel was based on the National Business Roundtable's GAP Analysis–– a blueprint for US education; a plan which paralleled the international plan developed by the U.N. Inter-Agency Commission: World Bank, UNESCO, UNDP and UNICEF [good citizenship?]

– Hornbeck was/is co-director of Marc Tucker's NARE/NASDC design team (where the strategists won the national contest which they had proposed). [unethical behavior, unbecoming to a model citizen]

– Hornbeck’s resumé lists the Chairman of the Board of Trustees Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and member of the Board of Directors of the Children's Defense Fund, Public Education Fund, Board of Directors, Pew Forum on Education Reform, Public Private Ventures, Board of Directors.

Ed. Note: Teachers College at Columbia University [NY] has played a major role in curriculum development for GOALS 2000. Theodore Sizer/ Coalition of Essential School is on the Board of Trustees for Columbia Teachers College and is the director of the Atlas Communities design team for GOALS 2000/NASDC. Howard Gardner originator of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences (the basis for the newly designed performance testing–– New Standards Project–– for GOALS 2000) is a member of Atlas Communities design team. Henry M. Levin and Arthur E. Levin, both Teacher College Trustees, serve on the Board of Trustees of the nation's Educational Testing Service with others, including a representative from the Federal Reserve Bank.

– Director for the New Standards Project which served as the model for the revolutionary, start all over again/from-the-roots-up performance-based assessments necessary for testing the Carnegie-redesigned outcome-based education system.

Ed. Note: States have spent millions and billions[?] in the development of these time-consuming/high-stakes tests. See Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences for further insights into the basis for performance testing––UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

– Member of the Marc Tucker*/ David Hornbeck National Alliance for Restructuring Education [now the New Alliance] design team for GOALS 2000 /NASDC

Marc Tucker's National Center on Education and the Economy was formerly the Carnegie Foundation on Education and the Economy.

Student for the Future:

The new direction for all curricula

At the local level the plan for measuring citizenship as a component of GOALS 2000 was underway with the aid of Business Roundtable's Mr. Bussey. In the Issaquah School District, during the early 1990s, a hand-out titled The Student for the Future, printed on unusually up-scale paper for a school district, was placed prominently on the counters in all school offices. It read:

STUDENT FOR THE FUTURE

In developing the student for the future, basic skills will be the foundation for tomorrow's curricular and co-curricular program. In addition to these basic skills, an appetite for life-long learning and goal-setting will be cultivated in all students as the following characteristics are developed…"

Adaptability - Understand how to plan for change and how to work through the change process. [including: flexibility, tolerance for ambiguity, resiliency, risk-taking]

Critical Thinking - Using higher level thinking skills to process and use information.

Communications - The ability to interact with and be understood by others in the light of a changing world.

Character - A distinguishing combination of emotional, intellectual and moral qualities.

[including] "Moral/ethical development (e.g., issues in biotechnology, media and government

Global Perspective - The ability to view the world as an integrated community.

[including] Understanding interdependence

Citizenship - The ability to contribute effectively within a democratic society. [including] community service, civic participation, respect for democratic principles, respect for the role of dissent

Balance - The stability gained from weighing opposing alternatives and making wise choices. [including]: Self actualization/ relationship-building.

Life Planning - Prepare thee student to successfully take the next step in life.

With these skills and characteristics, the student for the future will have the foundation for success in personal living, success in the workplace and success as a member of society.

Obviously the Student for the Future [SFTF] was a pivotal document––the basis for all future curricula in the Issaquah School District. The survey [given to students in 5^th, 8^th & 11^th grades] was checking for attitudes -- a student's locus of control.

A note on the cover of the SFTF survey––“Conducted…for the Washington Business Roundtable.” Thanks to Mr. Bussey, the GOALS 2000 reform developed by the National Business Roundtable, RAND, the Carnegie Foundation and the other private foundations was well-underway in Issaquah.

Another project carried out by the Restructuring Committee under Mr. Bussey's leadership was Waves of Innovation––a proposal to GOALS 2000's NASDC [New American Schools Development Corporation] for the development of a design team. At the time that this proposal was submitted, Frank Shrontz, CEO of the Washington-based Boeing Company, was chairman of the Washington Business Roundtable and was also the Vice Chairman of GOALS 2000's NASDC. NASDC would be evaluating the proposals.

The RAC/ERI restructuring committee submitted a proposal to GOALS 2000's NASDC [New American Schools Development Corporation] entitled Waves of Innovation. (GOALS 2000/NASDC Vice Chairman was Frank Shrontz, Chairman / CEO of Boeing)

Waves of Innovation

We propose an approach for helping communities move along a continuum of renewal we call the Waves of Innovation to ensure that all citizens:

• become successful life long learners, who can

• obtain meaningful employment

• take full advantage of society's opportunities

• lead productive, satisfying lives in today's global environment

Three hallmark concepts will guide and support our work:

Collaboration

…125 people representing schools, small and large business, social and health services, students, parents, environmental design, the media and higher education participated in preparing this proposal and will continue their collaborative efforts to realize our goals for education reform…[the] blueprint is based on America 2000 [former name for GOALS 2000 under the George H. Bush administration], the National Roundtable's Principles, and the Governor's Council on Education Reform and Funding [GCERF] student learning goals [GCERF was significantly influenced by the presence of the Business Roundtable, ensuring that the new outcome-based assessments/student testing model be incorporated into the law]…ERI coordinated the collaborative proposal based on the exemplary work of Schools for the 21^st Century program, the international expertise at New Horizons for Learning* …Half of the Board of Directors [for Waves of Innovation] … comes from the Washington Business Roundtable, a forum for more than 30 of the largest corporations in Washington State…

[Note: New Horizons for Learning is a New Age education resource center based in Seattle. Dee Dickinson, director of New Horizons served on the White House Education Task Force during the 1980s and served as a resource person to GCERF-- Washington's taskforce which led to the passage of the GOALS 2000 state-level legislation. More about Dickinson below. ]

Convictions

We will support learning and development as lifelong pursuits, ensuring that each person continues to prosper in our rapidly changing global society… Community institutions will help citizens develop a thirst for continued learning and the skills to serve that thirst [the U.N.'s Lifelong Learning Model].

We will hold to high standards for learning which ensure mastery and successful application, in the workforce, and in all other aspects of life…Learners will be allowed to strive for mastery at their own pace…We will assess progress continuously…Each learner will have an advocate…We will develop systems… Total Quality at the systems level…adaptable concepts of Action Research…We will support a planful [?] approach to help each community develop and realize its own renewal effort…All parts of the community will participate in the change process…We will help communities develop their own vision and resolve the inevitable conflicts that arise out of any significant renewal effort… [Note: Educational change is no longer confined to the classroom. The envisioned change will involve every facet of community life as a seamless system.]

Our Basic Concept: Waves of Innovation

To achieve our mission we must build a new, comprehensive system that extends well beyond the traditional concept of "schools" …each Community can evaluate its current status…and then begin a program of continuous improvement–– a process we call "Waves of Innovation."

[Diagram showing a progression of waves. The final and largest wave is the end-goal:]

Community Knowledge Networks -- Community-based local and state Community Learning Centers are networked with other national and international resources. Funded as a utility available to everyone in the community.

Guidelines to help a community to self-renew continuously. Guidelines will help communities use the Plan-Do-Check-Act (P-D-C-A) Total Quality approach for continuous self-renewal. The Total Quality Advisory Panel will help us develop, test, and refine these guidelines…

[Diagram]

Community Implementation Teams include: International Advisory Board, Total Quality Advisory, Community Advisory Team and Curriculum and Assessment Development [Team].

The International Advisory Board…[will work] collaboratively through New Horizons For Learning [Dee Dickinson], see below.

International Advisory Team:

[partial]

• James Botkin, President of the International Corporate Learning Association [INTERCLASS]

[Club of Rome, State of the World Forum; see Spotlight on James Botkin, below]

• Arthur Costa, Past President of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development [ASCD]

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Professor of Human Development and Education, University of Chicago

• Keith Davies, IBM director of Education, European Office; Director, European Lifelong Learning Initiative

• Marian Diamond, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, University of California

• Noboru Kobayashi, Japanese Council on School Reform

• Luis Alberto Machado, former Minister for the Development of Human Intelligence, Venezuela

• Paul McClean, Senior research Scientist, National Institute of Mental Health, MD

• Robert McClure, Director of Restructuring Program at the Center for Innovation, National Education Association, Washington, D.C.

• Shirley McCune,* Senior director, Mid-Continental Regional Education Laboratory; Director of the MCREL Center for Educational Equality

[New Age author of The Light Shall Set You Free; See Focus on Moral Educators: Shirley McCune, below]

• David Perkins,* Co-Director of Project Zero [with Howard Gardner] and Senior Research Associate, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.

• Robert Sternberg, Professor of Psychology, Yale University

• Linda Tsantis, V.P., America Tomorrow

• Alexander Uvarov, Institute of Cybernetics, Russian Academy of Sciences

• Cao Qing Yang, Vice Director, China National Institute for Educational Research

Education Renewal Institute [ERI] Board Members with Primary Oversight represent:

• Davis Wright Tremaine [law firm]

• Puget Sound Power and Light

• U.S. West [now Qwest Corporation], Steve Nielsen

Nielsen also appears on the National Goals Panel [oversight for GOALS 2000] as representing Milliman and Robertson, Inc. [Seattle firm]

• Batelle-Hanford [now Pacific Northwest Laboratories]

•The Boeing Company

See Understanding RAC/ERI [Restructuring Advisory Committee/Education Renewal Institute]

See information below on Dee Dickinson of New Horizons for Learning, on Shirley McCune's book The Light Shall Set You Free, and on David Perkins/ Howard Gardner originator of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Harvard's Project Zero.]

Total Quality Advisory Panel names three people including:

Jonelle L. Adams, Education Manager, Boeing Computer Services

Adams is on the New Horizons for Learning Board of Directors and is the coordinator for the GOALS 2000 design teams in Washington.

Persuading Others to Put Our Design Into Place

If we are to reach our ultimate goal of widespread reform, we must begin now to engage communities' interest and commitment. Toward that end we have identified strategies to reach large audiences, and to support their initial consideration of the need for educational renewal and the possibilities of launching it.

KCTS/9 (the Public Broadcasting Station [PBS]) Seattle's public broadcast television station, working closely with ERI and the technology office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, will produce at least one half-hour documentary program to be shown across the state… ERI and KCTS/9 will seek funding from Public Television [PBS] to develop three additional programs. These programs will describe the need for education reform in local communities…and introduce Waves of Innovation…

The Waves Design Team [with top-heavy advisory from the WA Business Roundtable] and their concept of a Community Learning Network was rejected in the national New American Schools selection process [1992]. However, the educators, those listed on the Waves International Advisory, continue to shape education policy. It is worth our while to look at certain of these prominent educators and the venues they represent:

Club of Rome

State of the World Summit/The Millennium Enterprise Summit

New Models for Public-Private Partnerships

Shirley McCune, Norma Milanovich and the Ascended Masters, The Light Shall Set You Free

Theory of Multiple Intelligences/Project Zero, Howard Gardner and others [under construction]

Dickinson is well known in Washington education circles. She served on the White House Task Force on Innovative Learning [Reagan Administration 1988]:

In 1988, a group of corporate leaders who were aware of a number of highly effective employee training techniques, called upon The White House to ask why these innovative techniques were not finding their ways into public schools. The White House’s response was to establish a Task Force on Innovative Learning.

Thus, in August of 1988 with the initial objective of making corporate training successes available to the nation's schools, the Task Force began a series of meetings. In addition to concerned corporate leaders, the Task Force was composed of White House staff members, educational innovators and researchers. As a first step, the Task Force began to build a data base of proven learning innovations—accelerated learning, immersion techniques, learning styles, multiple intelligences, “edutainment”, learner-paced exploratory learning, learner driven studies, team learning and various technology-based learning enhancements.

In January of 1989, the Task Force readied an “Action Plan” which called for the creation of a public-private initiative on innovative learning. The immediate goal of the proposed initiative was to create awareness of these innovations and to develop means for their dissemination.

Dickinson would serve as a resource person to the GOALS 2000/ WA Governor's blue ribbon Commission on Education Reform and Funding [GCERF, 1992] which had a large representation from the WA Business Roundtable.

“Twenty-three of the writers are members of the International Advisory Board of New Horizons for Learning, an international education network.”

Note: This International Advisory shares many of the same people who were to serve on the GOALS 2000 Waves of Innovation design team's International Advisory. The Foreword to Creating the Future was written by John Goodlad,[University of Washington] recipient of a grant from Pew Charitable Trusts.

“Never has the vision of what human beings can be been more remarkable.” –– Jean Houston

Dr. Houston is a world-famous personality, author, philosopher, educator and behavioral scientist.

The Possible Society: An Exploration of Practical Policy Alternatives for the Decade Ahead.”

“Dr. Jean Houston is a scholar and researcher in human capacities, and for the past 30 years has co-directed, with her husband Dr. Robert Masters, the Foundation for Mind Research, first in New York City and now in Pomona, New York. Their work has focused on the understanding of latent human abilities. She is the founder of the Mystery School--a program of cross-cultural mythic and spiritual studies--dedicated to teaching history, philosophy, the new physics, psychology, anthropology, myth, and the many dimensions of our human potential.

”Dr. Houston was the protégé of the late anthropologist Margaret Mead, who instructed her in the workings of organizations and power structures in many different cultures. With the late mythologist Joseph Campbell, Jean Houston frequently co-led seminars and workshops aimed at understanding interrelationships between ancient myths and modern societies.”

“Mystery School is a way of honoring ancient schools across the world and across history where women and men gathered to explore and decipher the great mysteries and their resonance and application, in order to live more freely and more fully. The weekends are designed to provide rich experiences embracing sacred psychology: a synthesis of history, music, theater, the world's cultures, societies and peoples; philosophy, theology, comedy, humor and laughter; science (fact, fiction and fantasy); metaphysics and general joy.

”Mystery School is both experiential and experimental. We stretch our bodies with psychophysical exercises, explore realms of psyche and spirit, create personal and community expressions of art and high play, and journey through rare dimensions of consciousness.”

Board of Directors

Adams is identified in the Waves of Innovation design team on the Total Quality Advisory Panel.

NHL’s International Advisory Board

• John Abbott, Director, 21st Century Learning Initiative The Education 2000 Trust

• Steve Arnold, President, Polaris Ventures and George Lucas Educational Foundation

• James W. Botkin , Ph.D., President, INTERCLASS: International Corporate Learning Associates

[Club of Rome consultant and State of the World Summit panelist, see Spotlight on James Botkin, below]

• Barbara Clark, Ph.D. – Author: Optimizing Learning: The Integrative Education Model in the Classroom

• Arthur L. Costa , Ed.D. – President, Search Models Unlimited; Author: Developing Minds: A Resourcebook for Teaching Thinking

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi , Ph.D. – Psychologist, University of Chicago; Author: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Optimal Experience

• Keith Davies – Director, Heuras European Associations in Higher Education (Secretariat des Associations Europeennes d'Enseignement Superieur); IBM, Belgium; Director, European Lifespan Learning Association

• Marian C. Diamond, Ph.D. – Neuroscientist, University of California, Berkeley; Author: Enriching Heredity, Magic Trees of the Mind

• Reuven Feuerstein , Ph.D. – Director, The International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential; Author:Instrumental Enrichment, Mediated Learning Experiences, Don't Accept Me As I Am

• Howard Gardner , Ph.D. – Psychologist, Harvard University;Co-Director, Project Zero; Author: Frames of Mind, The Unschooled Mind, Multiple Intelligences, Creating Minds

• Jane M. Healy , Ph.D. – Author: Endangered Minds Your Child's Growing Mind, Failure to Connect

• Asa Hilliard III , Ph.D. – Fuller E Callaway Professor of Urban Education; Georgia State University

• Malcolm S. Knowles, Ph.D. – Author: The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species, Andragogy

• Noboru Kobayashi, M.D. – Founder, Child Research Net; The National Childrens' Hospital, Tokyo University

• Luis Alberto Machado , Ph.D. – Intelligence Project, Venezuela; Author: The Right to be Intelligent

• Paul D. MacLean, M.D. – Former Director, Brain Laboratory, National Institutes of Mental Health; Author: The Triune Brain in Evolution

• Robert McClure ,Ph.D. – National Education Association, Center for Innovation

• Shirley McCune , Ph.D. – Education Liaison, State of Washington, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction; Author: Guide to Strategic Planning for Educators [Shirley McCune is also the New Age author of The Light Shall Set You Free; See: Focus on Moral Educators: Shirley McCune, below]

• Paul R. Messier , Ph.D. – President, National Learning Foundation Retired, U.S. Department of Education

• David Perkins , Ph.D. – Harvard University; Co-Director, Project Zero, Arts Propel; Author: The Mind's Best Work: A New Psychology of Creative Thinking, Knowledge as Design, Outsmarting I.Q., Smart Schools

• Robert J. Sternberg, Ph.D. – Psychologist, Yale University; Author: The Triarchic Mind: A New Theory of Intelligence, Applied Intelligence, Beyond I.Q., Intelligence, Heredity and Environment

• Anne Taylor, Ph.D. – University of New Mexico, School Zone Institute, AIA Architects in Education Committee; Author: School Zone: Learning Environments for Children

• Linda Tsantis, Ph.D. – Coordinator, Technology for Educators Graduate Program Johns Hoplins University; America Tomorrow Technology Network

In 1988, a group of corporate leaders who were aware of a number of highly effective employee training techniques, called upon The White House to ask why these innovative techniques were not finding their ways into public schools. The White House's response was to establish a Task Force on Innovative Learning.

Thus, in August of 1988 with the initial objective of making corporate training successes available to the nation's schools, the Task Force began a series of meetings. In addition to concerned corporate leaders, the Task Force was composed of White House staff members, educational innovators and researchers. As a first step, the Task Force began to build a data base of proven learning innovations—accelerated learning, immersion techniques, learning styles, multiple intelligences, “edutainment”, learner-paced exploratory learning, learner driven studies, team learning and various technology-based learning enhancements.

The Washington Alliance has served as a state jurisdiction for the New American Schools Corporation since 1994.

* Ensure overall coordination of New American Schools [GOALS 2000] effort in the Puget Sound [Seattle region];

Interfaces with Partnership for Learning [Phil Bussey] and the Seattle Alliance for Education [Phil Bussey]

* Transform at least 30% of all schools using multiple New American Schools designs;

* Create a policy environment that supports the New American Schools effort;

* Partner with community agencies to provide support to schools and students;

Evaluation: The Rand Corporation serves as the third party evaluator for the New American Schools Corporation and has collected information from our schools since 1996-97 school year.

• National Alliance N.C.E.E./Nat'l Center on Education and the Economy [Tucker & Hornbeck, 54 schools]

• Roots & Wings [Robert E. Slavin, Johns Hopkins/ Success For All - component of Edison Project. See Technology Component of GOALS 2000–– UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

The director of ATLAS is Theodore Sizer -- Board of Trustees Teachers College, Columbia University.

We will cover Lightspan, Inc. in the Technology Component of GOALS 2000––UNDER CONSTRUCTION

[partial list representing those appearing on the Waves of Innovation Advisory]

• John Abbott, Director, 21st Century Learning Initiative The Education 2000 Trust

The aim of The 21st Century Learning Initiative is to draw together the world's best from disciplines that do not normally work together, but each of whose work is critical to the creation of rich learning opportunities, (the top experts from fields as diverse as Philosophy and Neurology) and share this knowledge with the word's leading educational innovators. From this blending of expertise and experience a synthesis, a set of Informing Principles, will be defined that will provide at least approximate guidance for educators, community leaders, and parents to follow in developing learning communities that will enable people to cope with the numerous challenges of the future.

The Education 2000 Trust of the United Kingdom has committed principal start-up funding; The Johnson Foundation in Wisconsin has committed support for multiple Wingspread conferences over a three year period, and several key research organizations from a number of countries have agreed to support the participation of leading researchers in all aspects of human learning. The Initiative will be headed by John Abbott, the Director of The Education 2000 Trust.