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Field, Robert, 118

Finn, Chester E., 263

Fish, Stanley, 250

Fleming, Macklin, 138-140

Florida Institute of Technology, 109-110

Florida State University, 242

Ford Foundation, 165, 264

Foreign students

compared to American students, xi, 4, 9, 269-270

in American postgraduate education, 269-270

as teaching assistants, 210

France, 115, 230

Franklin and Marshall College, 2, 107, 108, 172

Free speech restrictions, 159-160, 200

Freedman, James, 250

Friedman, Milton, 17

Futrell, Mary Hatwood, 247, 248

Gantry, Elmer, 165

General Accounting Office, 271, 303

Genovese, Eugene, 16

George Washington University, 185

Georgetown University, 185, 187, 243

Law School, 143, 146

Georgia Tech, 109

Germany, 115, 230

Gershwin, George, 208

G.I. Bill, 134

Giamatti, A. Bartlett, 233

Grades, 8

changed for athletes, 242, 243

failing grades eliminated, 98

grade inflation, 2

Graduate Record Examination (GRE), 24, 25, 223

Great Depression, 211

Gross National Product (GNP), 270, 288

Hampton University, 242

Hart, Jeffrey, 159

Harvard University, 24, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 120, 123, 125, 126, 127, 130, 131, 136, 142, 143, 150, 164-165, 175-176, 177, 182-183, 184, 197-198, 204, 206, 208, 211, 217, 221, 222, 225, 229, 231, 242, 249, 250, 261, 262, 267, 268, 269, 271, 273, 274, 276, 277, 282, 294

Harvard/Radcliffe Gay and Lesbian Students Association, 182

Law School, 153

Medical School, 147-148, 153, 275

Harvey Mudd College, 107, 108, 172

Haverford College, 167-168, 172, 239

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 7

Hayek, Friedrich, 17

Heyman, Ira M., 171

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 40

Hispanic Americans, 9, 73

Hitler, Adolf, 201

Holmes, Sherlock, 277

“Holocaust studies,” 47

Homosexuals, 42, 45, 54, 96, 178-186, 193

double standards, 181-183, 184

indoctrination, 181-182, 183

toilets, 184-185

Honig, Bill, 95

Hoover Institution, 227, 228

Hope College, 190

Howard University, 185

Howe, Harold, II, 264

Humanism, 59

Humboldt State College, 213

Illinois Institute of Technology, 172

Illinois State University, 136

India, 81, 83, 173, 190

Indiana State Univesity, 187

Indiana Univesity, 187

Indonesia, 83, 129-130

International Comparisons, xi, 3-4 13,71-72, 73-74, 81, 83, 94, 129-131, 173

Internationalism, 59, 72

Iowa Test of Education Development, 1

IQ Test, 127, 128, 129

Italy, 115

Ivy League, 107, 108, 111, 113, 119, 122, 130, 172, 187, 239

Japan, 12, 72, 115

Japanese Americans, 97

Japanese students, 3, 9, 72

Java, 129-130

Johns Hopkins University, 107, 210, 249

Juilliard School of Music, 109

Kalamazoo, 111

Kasun, Jacqueline, 60

Kennedy, Donald, 115, 156, 192-193, 271, 272

Kenyon College, 167

Kinsley, Michael, 199

Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 176

Korean War, 24

Korean students, 3, 4

Kristol, Irving, 17

Ku Klux Klan, 156

Labor Party, 86

Lau v. Nichols, 74

Law School Aptitude Test (LSAT), 140, 143, 146, 159, 223

Learning English Advocates Drive (LEAD), 76

Lehigh University, 172

Lincoln, Abraham, 3

London, 85

Longfellow, William Wadsworth, 7

McCarthy, Mary, 6

McGuffey’s Readers, 7, 253, 255

McLuhan, Marshall, 104

Madison Avenue, 104

Malaysia, 81, 83

Man: A Course of Study (MACOS), 61-62, 252

Manchester, England, 85, 86, 87

Manila, 129

Mao tse-Tung, 37, 42, 43, 212

Maori, 81

Marquette University, 121

Maslow, Abraham, 62

Mason, C. Vernon, 168

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), 14, 106, 108, 109, 110, 119, 121, 144, 205, 266, 271, 274

Mathabane, Mark, 160-161

Matsuda, Mari, 155

Mayer, Martin, 24, 25

Memphis State University, 243

Meredith, James, 184

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 75

Mexican American students, 141, 142

Mexico, 90

Miami University, 242

Miami-Dade Community College, 268

Michigan State University, 160

Middlebury College, 103, 110, 132

Minorities

backgrounds, 281-282

definition, 142

faculty, 148-155

non-conforming, 154, 160-163

students, 141-143, 146-148

Money

and educational quality, 10-15, 22, 27, 225, 271, 288, 297

government, 60, 147, 271-272, 287

Montgomery Ward, 225

Mosher, Steven, 191-193

Mount Holyoke College, 184, 263

Mount Vernon College, 268

Multiculturalism (see Cultures)

NAACP, 150

Nader, Ralph, 195

National Association of Scholars, 212

National Basketball Association, 234, 240

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), 233, 234, 236, 240, 241, 242, 287

National Council of La Raza, 75

National Education Association (N.E.A.), 16, 22, 247, 248, 252, 260, 289, 298

National Football League, 234, 240

National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence, 170

National Parent-Teacher Association, 15

National School Board Association, 98

National Science Foundation (NSF), 252

New Hampshire, 35, 44

New York Life, 6

New York State Commissioner of Education, 72, 73

New York University, 110-111

New Zealand, 12, 81

Newspeak, 28, 44, 260, 265, 266

“access,” 266

“diversity,” 73

“exclusion,” 266, 267

“harassment,” 188-189, 201, 266

“opportunity,” 44, 45, 62, 265

“prejudice,” 266

“privilege,” 266

“quotas,” 280

“sensitivity,” 83-84

words used ex post with ex ante meanings, 266

Nobel Prizes, 97

Non-judgmental attitudes, 5-6

North Carolina State University, 242-243

Northwest AIDS Foundation, 181

Northwestern University, 107, 119, 176, 180, 189, 209, 215

Oberlin College, 9, 166, 167, 198

Occidental College, 111

Office of Naval Research, 271

Ohio Dominican College, 168

Ohio State University, 205

Ohio Wesleyan University, 149

Orbik, Jon, 158

Oregon State Univesity, 116

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 122

Orwell, George, 44 (see also Newspeak)

Pac-10, 243

Pacific Telesis, 6

Page, Clarence, 146

Palo Alto High School, 124

Parents, 44, 48, 79, 82, 91

anti-parent attitudes, xi-xii, 45, 48-51, 67, 68, 74, 177, 178, 256

parental choice of schools, 256-260, 300

parental permission, 51-53, 79

parental values, 35, 47, 48, 51

tactical responses to parents, 46, 51, 255, 291

Peers, 53-54

Penney’s, 225

Pennsylvania State University, 107, 108, 187

Persian Gulf War, 194, 200

Pharmaceutical companies, 15

Philanthropy, 118, 248, 287, 294

Philippines, 83, 129

Planned Parenthood, 60, 254

Poland, 115

“Political Correctness” (see Double Standards, ideological)

Politics

educational reform, 290, 297-303

politicization of education, 16-17

teachers’ union lobby, 22, 247-248

Pollak, Louis H., 138-140

Pomona College, 9, 108

Princeton University, 9, 111, 124, 150,209, 216, 221

Private schools, 10, 23

Professors

accessibility, 203-204

advising students, 206-207

classroom performance, 207-210, 214-216, 218-220

education professors, 23, 25, 27, 28

faculty self-governance, 294, 300, 301, 302

indoctrination, 210-214

minority, 148-155

research, 14, 223-225, 295-296

student evaluations, 216-218

teaching, 108, 202-231

teaching awards, 205-206

teaching loads, 261

tenure, 225-231, 274-277, 300

Psychological conditioning (see Brainwashing)

Psychotherapists, 6

Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), 195-196, 279

Puerto Rican students, 141, 142

Pusey, Nathan, 229

Quest International, 57-58

Racial conflict, 132-133

causes, 151, 152, 159, 164

predicted, 133-141

Racial consultants, 164-166, 169, 197

Racism, 146, 164, 165, 168, 169

definitions, 156, 165, 166, 167

direction of flow, 84-89, 170-171

“vestige,” 170-171

RAND Corporation, 10, 226

Ravitch, Diane, 4, 9

Reagan, Ronald, 17, 171, 212, 213

Reagan administration, 75, 171, 211

Reed College, 9, 109

“Relevance,” 89-93

Rensselaer Polytechnic, 172

Research, 14, 223-225

“Residential education” (see Brainwashing)

Rhodes, Frank, 178

Rhodes College, Memphis, 171

Rice University, 9, 120-121

Richardson, William, 249

Riesman, David, 125, 147, 150, 150, 207

Risk, 55-56

Robin Hood theory, 273

Roe v. Wade, 63

Rogers, Carl, 6, 48, 55, 56, 59, 62, 89-90

Rome, 115

Rose Bowl, 232

Rose-Hulman Institute, 108, 172

Rosovsky, Henry, 217, 262, 263, 264, 269, 276, 277

R.O.T.C., 301

Rustin, Bayard, 135, 150

Rutgers University, 136, 159, 196, 199, 203

Ruth, Babe, 266

Sadat, Anwar, 115

St. Augustine High School, 96

St. Cloud State University, 213

San Francisco State University, 149, 151-151, 157, 180

San Jose State University, 146, 170, 172, 180, 185

Schiller, Professor, 215

Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), 1, 3, 8-9, 11, 24-25, 26, 27, 105, 122-123, 126, 127, 128, 129, 141-142, 144, 145, 251, 280, 288

Schumpeter, J. A., 277-278

Sears, 225

Self-esteem (see Dogmas)

Sex education (see Brainwashing)

Sexual attitudes, 178-188

Shakespeare, William, 7

Shanker, Albert, 8

Shields, Brooke, 221

Simon, Sidney, 55

Smith, Adam, 231

Smith College, 2, 168

South Africa, 175

Southeastern Conference, 243

Southeastern University, 268

Sowell, Thomas, 141

Spain, 115

Spence, A. Michael, 175

Sri Lanka, 81, 173

Stalin, Josef, 3, 37

Stanford University, 28, 106, 107, 115, 123, 124, 126, 142, 145, 147, 156-157, 162, 163, 167, 170, 172, 178-181, 185-186, 187, 191-193, 197, 198-199, 200, 203, 204, 205, 207, 210, 214, 215-216, 238, 239, 243, 249, 271, 272, 274, 280, 282

Date Rape Education Project, 179

Law School, 154, 166

Starr, S. Frederick, 198

State University of New York

at Binghamton, 157-158

at Buffalo, 171, 213

at Farmingdale, 213

Steelworkers, 247

Stigler, George J., 105

Students (see American students; Foreign students)

Sugar Bowl, 242

Summers, Clyde, 135-138, 146

Supreme Court, 236

Supton, Alice, 179, 180

Swarthmore College, 103

Syverson, Peter D., 270

Talented and Gifted (TAG), 51-52

Teachers

bilingual education, 80

elementary and secondary, 5-6, 21-33

incentives, 290-291

irresponsibility, 66-67

loads, 13-14

qualifications, 21-33

sincerity, 5, 6

teachers’ unions, 22, 27

tenure, 30, 299

Teamsters’ Union, 249

Tenure, 274-277

Tests

bias, 128

college admissions tests, 126-130

predictive validity, 128, 129-130

scores, 1, 3, 4, 8-9, 11, 12, 24-25, 26, 105, 122-123, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 251, 280

Thernstrom, Stephan, 177, 274

Tufts University, 132-133, 168, 189, 195

Tuition, 113-114, 117, 118, 119-122, 262-265, 272

Tulane University, 165, 237

Union College, 172

United Auto Workers, 247

U.S. Air Force Academy, 145

U.S. Army, 24

U.S. Department of Education, 35, 37, 42, 52, 65, 79, 117, 255, 265, 293

U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 46

U.S. Department of Justice, 120

U.S. English, 76

U.S. Supreme Court, 74-75

University of California, 172, 196

at Berkeley, 107, 111, 132, 144-145, 146, 155-156, 157, 158, 159, 162, 168, 170, 171, 176, 177, 180, 195, 209, 215, 241

at Davis, 8

at Irvine, 111

at Los Angeles, 108, 159, 176, 187, 195, 237, 268

at Riverside, 111

at San Diego, 111, 185, 215

at Santa Barbara, 195

at Santa Cruz, 111, 195, 196, 198

University of Chicago, 2, 9, 172, 204, 210, 214-215, 237, 259, 283

University of Colorado, 176

University of Connecticut, 193-194

University of Dallas, 115

University of Delaware, 111

University of Evansville, 115

University of Florida, 185

University of Houston, 235

University of Illinois, 204

University of Iowa, 149, 180, 205, 242

University of Maryland, 185, 187, 194, 210

University of Massachusetts, 80, 132, 171, 183, 212

at Amherst, 212

University of Michigan, 166, 177, 198, 205, 212, 213, 267, 274, 280

University of Minnesota, 195, 204

University of Mississippi, 184

University of Nevada at Reno, 235

University of North Carolina, 180, 204, 210

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