About the Book
The following is the "Preface" to School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education:
In The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, Iserbyt provides 736 pages of research documenting how the United States Federal Government, in bed with Robber Baron corporations and philanthropies, has funded educational psychology policies that implement stimulus-response, behaviorist, and operant methods of cognitive conditioning which have been programmed into Skinnerian “teaching-machines.” Iserbyt demonstrates how modern-day “Skinner-box” teaching computers are engineered to psychologically re-condition students’ democratic values of individualist liberty by digitally training them to conform to the Hegelian-collectivist philosophies underlying the totalitarian political-economic systems of communism and fascism, which are being synthesized in the global planned economy of the New World Order. In the Revised and Abridged update to her Chronological Paper Trail, which was reprinted in 2011, Iserbyt shows how the elected public schoolboard authorities of the federalized education system are being handed off to the private sector under the corporate authorities of the un-elected executive councils of globalist, for-profit charter school companies that are deploying post-Skinnerian adaptive-learning computers to condition students for corporate-fascist workforce training in a technocratically planned world economy.
School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education is a historical and futurist process analysis of global trends in education: the corporate privatization of schooling; and the “personalization” of learning through computerized instructional technologies. The ‘trends forecast’ herein has been written to append and amend one of the most important tomes ever written about the history of American education: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America (2000) by former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement for the US Department of Education, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, who penned her Chronological Paper Trail after blowing the whistle on the Reagan Administration’s Project BEST (Better Education Skills through Technology), which laid out federal plans to computerize the education system through fascistic public-private partnerships between corporations and government-funded schools.
Following the historical paper trail detailed by Iserbyt, School World Order investigates the trajectory of current trends in education policy that are moving toward the techno-fascist plans for corporate privatization and ed-tech personalization exposed by Iserbyt in the 1980s. In particular, my research covers three major aspects of the corporate-fascist privatization of education:
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“School choice” policies that use public tax dollars to subsidize private charter schools.
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Workforce-training curriculums that replace traditional academic studies with “job-competence” training.
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Corporate-fascist control of public education governance by replacing publicly elected schoolboards with unelected corporate-executive charter “councils.”
In addition, my investigation examines two main components of the hi-tech “personalization” of corporate schooling:
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The replacement of human teachers with “adaptive learning” software that uses operant-conditioning psychology to train students in job competence.
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The digital data-mining of student-learning outcomes on these adaptive-learning software.
This second data-mining component has three basic functions:
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To determine corporate workforce quotas for a fascist planned economy.
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To continually upgrade research and development of adaptive-learning software and other educational technologies.
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To enhance research and development of biofeedback, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, and various transhumanist technologies that ultimately transcend traditional knowledge acquisition to the point where human learning itself becomes obsolete.
I also document how these techno-fascist education policies are being set up worldwide through the globalization of corporate-technocratic schooling through online charter schools that operate international chains, which utilize adaptive-learning software for workforce training that is regulated by the “lifelong learning” standards of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
In sum, the scope of my School World Order documents that the short-term objective of the new corporate-technocratic education system is to transform our public schooling system into a network of public-private business partnerships that overthrow publicly elected schoolboards while siphoning tax subsidies to replace human teachers with operant-conditioning computers which train students to fill workforce quotas planned by politically connected corporations. At the same time, the long-term objective is to co-opt Big Data-mining of cognitive-behavioral student-learning algorithms, converting these metrics to construct transhumanist ed-tech that “upgrades” learning into an interface with “smart” technologies.
This book also reveals how The Order of Skull & Bones at Yale University has been central to both the corporate privatization of workforce schooling and the hi-tech “personalization” of educational psychology methods based on eugenic evolutionary theories.
My research has been closely guided by the counsel of Charlotte Iserbyt herself, who personally contacted me in response to my News With Views article, “The Corporatization of Education.” Thanks to Iserbyt’s gracious outreach, what began as a simple news report has blossomed into the extensive treatise before you. Charlotte has consulted with me nearly every step of the way, and it was her who recommended this project to my publisher: Kris Millegan of TrineDay Books.
Iserbyt has also been instrumental in shaping the history of TrineDay as she is the heroine who leaked her father’s Skull and Bones address books to Antony C. Sutton (1925-2002). A former Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Sutton investigated these secret “black books” to compile the primary-source evidence cited in his groundbreaking exposé on The Order: America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones, which was rescued from censorship when it was reprinted by Kris Millegan, who later partnered with Sutton to co-author the 712-page tome, Fleshing out Skull & Bones: Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society. In brief, with the Godsend of Iserbyt’s leaked address books, Sutton and Millegan came together to produce the two foremost authoritative bodies of research on the Order and my own Skull and Bones research is based on these sources with direct collaboration with the surviving author himself.
It has been an honor to carry on the works of Iserbyt, Millegan, and Sutton, and I hope that I have honored them in due kind.
To those who would dismiss this book as mere conspiracy theory: Please note its proximity to the primary source, authoritative scholarship on the subject of Skull and Bones. Furthermore, I have not relied solely upon these resources. On the contrary, I have corroborated the works of Iserbyt, Millegan, and Sutton with an extensive array of academic peer-reviewed journals, scholarly whitepapers, university press books, government documents, and mainstream news reports from both ends of the political spectrum. Without an account of these historical facts, it is impossible to assess the complete picture of current and future trends in the technocratic globalization of corporatized education.
My findings have come down hard on the schooling system. Yet School World Order is not an attack on the public education system; it is a defense of public education. It is neither left-wing nor right-wing, as I have indicted both Republicans and Democrats alike. If my prognosis has offended or disturbed the reader, I have only diagnosed the disease of corporate technocracy so that we might prescribe a remedy.
Sincerely,
John jakE Klyczek
