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 Following is a summary of "Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating morality through education" by B.K. Eakman:
America’s government education system has become an “illiteracy cartel” which is built around an out-of-control psychographic consulting industry, according to B.K. Eackman in “Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating morality through education.”
Unethical behavioral scientists are teaming up with school testing companies, computer specialists, and information brokers to produce polls and predict workforce needs, a political weapon is being created that holds a youngster's future employment prospects hostage to a set of quasi-political, psychological criteria . . . while the nation's cognitive and cultural knowledge base is systematically eradicated, Eakman says.
Eakman argues that psychology has assumed a messianic political mission in government schools. “An unwary public and its distracted elected representatives have bought in to the education reform movement's bogus agenda, which is being sold under the dual umbrellas of ‘mental health’ and “testing standards”
"Cloning of the American Mind" traces the contributions of two distinct factions within the behavioral science community -- one that emerged from the old Hitlerian Right and one on the Marxist Left -- and shows how their two disparate agendas eventually merged for the purpose of introducing psychological screening instruments and experimental therapies into the schools. Eakman demonstrates how this screening process takes on new meaning as students and their families are unknowingly assessed for supposed "markers" of psychological disorders, the most recent example being to label Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADD) as a "marker" for schizophrenia. The results of the various tests, analyses, and therapies designed to locate ADD students are placed into sophisticated, cross-referenceable electronic transfer systems, such as the SPEEDE/ExPRESS.
Information collected by the schools can be overlaid with other public and private records, and downloaded at any time by "research groups" and underground information brokers for a small fee, according to Eakman. A mathematical, computer model enables experts to predict probable future behavior and reactions. Psychological assessments masquerading as academic tests and curriculum, maintains the author, have frightening implications for both individual privacy and learning.
Eakman provides a step-by-step guide to countering psychological manipulation by professional agitators-turned-facilitators in small- and large-group settings. She conducts seminars to show how parents can take corrective measures to protect their children’s health and mental well-being.
About B.K. Eakman
B.K. Eakman is executive director of the National Education Consortium and the author of the book, Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality Through Education.
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