Why Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt is important to the ideals of freedom: Early in the 1960s Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt recognized the profound transformation of American education from a learning based system of locally controlled schools providing future generations of concerned and aware American citizens to a behavior modification system designed to churn out unthinking, uncritical "citizens of the world" trained to accept socialism. She continues to this day to write articles and grant radio interviews warning Americans of their loss of freedoms to the State and corporate fascism.
"They are taking our form of government -- Congress did this in the '90s with this legislation where they effectively changed our free system of government to a planned economy. A planned economy is not a free system at all. And if Americans think it is, they ought to go down to Cuba and take a look. In my opinion nothing short of abolishing the U.S. Department of Education will take care of this problem. And that means not back to the state level but back to the local level." - Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
ormer Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) in the US Department of Education under President Reagan, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt is considered one of America's top whistle blowers against the sovietization of the American educational system. Iserbyt was the research analyst and co-founder of the Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She is best known for her booklets Back to Basics Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum (1985), Soviets in the Classroom: America's Latest Education Fad (1989), and the deliberate dumbing down of america...A Chronological Paper Trail (1999).