{"id":1423,"date":"2019-06-03T16:24:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T20:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2019-06-03T16:24:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T20:24:47","slug":"for-education-related-to-north-american-free-trade-agreement-nafta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/2019\/06\/03\/for-education-related-to-north-american-free-trade-agreement-nafta\/","title":{"rendered":"Implications for Education Related to North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Following quotes taken from the deliberate dumbing down of america, 1999, and revised updated version, 2011.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Page 279:<\/p>\n

THE CHALLENGE: America\u2019s Skills and Knowledge Gap<\/p>\n

Introduction:<\/p>\n

As a nation, we now invest more in education than in defense. Nor is the rest of the world sitting idly by, waiting for America to catch up. Serious efforts at education improvement are under way by most of our international competition and trading partners.<\/p>\n

While more than 4 million adults are taking basic education courses outside the schools,
\nthere is no systematic means of matching training to needs; no uniform standards measure the skills needed and the skills learned.<\/p>\n

[Ed. Note: Carnegie\u2019s Marc Tucker took care of matching training to needs when his Human Resources Development Plan for the United States, developed by the National Center for Education and the Economy, was unveiled in 1992. (See Appendix XVIII.) As far as keeping track of the progress of our \u201cinternational competition and trading partners\u201d is concerned, the NorthAmerican Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the General Agreements for Tariffs and Trade (GATT),and international co-ordination of ISO 9000 and 1400 through the United Nations will ensure that we maintain \u201ccomputability.\u201d]<\/p>\n

Pages 291-292:<\/p>\n

BRITISH COLUMBIA TEACHERS\u2019 FEDERATION IN 1991 PUBLISHED \u201cWHAT IS THE MARKET Model?\u201d<\/p>\n

Excerpts from this interesting flyer made available to Canadian teachers follows:
\nAIMS: The Market Model aims to reduce learning to an instrument serving social power. More specifically public education is enlisted in the Market Model to serve the needs of corporate capital in an information age of global production.
\nFEATURES:<\/p>\n

1. In Canada the market model started in higher education, and is now moving to
\nsecondary schooling.<\/p>\n

2. Cuts in government funding, with corporate funding targeted to particular projects.<\/p>\n

3. Purpose of education\u2014to compete economically in the international marketplace.<\/p>\n

4. Demands that public education be redesigned to serve as a knowledge producer for
\nprivate corporations in the national economic competition.<\/p>\n

5. Textbook production and distribution under control of private corporations.<\/p>\n

6. Academic teachers are conceived as \u201cbusiness persons\u201d who provide goods and
\nservices under Free Trade Agreement and NAFTA.<\/p>\n

RHETORIC:<\/strong>
\n\u201cNew Reality\u201d
\nCompetition, Market Discipline
\n\u201cThe Campus as Corporation\u201d (Strangeway, 1984)
\nCurriculum Products
\nResource Units or Resource Packages
\nUniform Standards Skills<\/p>\n

MAIN SOURCE: McMurtry, John, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 25, No. 2, 1991.
\nPD95\u20130016<\/p>\n

[Ed. Note: Many of McMurtry\u2019s tongue-in-cheek ideas are to be found in so-called \u201cconservative\u201dthink tanks\u2019 papers on education restructuring. Number 6 under \u201cFeatures\u201d is particularly offensive in that the idea of teachers becoming \u201cprivate contractors\u201d instead of school system employees is being discussed and proposed around many a policy maker\u2019s table in this country. What a peculiar thing. If teachers are being trained not to concentrate on subject matter or \u201clower level skill development,\u201d what would they have to market? The ability to\u201ctrain\u201d students to perform certain tasks in a certain way in a certain period of time? Market Model Maniacs?]<\/em><\/p>\n

Page 304:<\/p>\n

THE 1993 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON, D.C., dedicated to their twentieth year celebration, revealed the following:<\/p>\n

The idea of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) originated with Heritage
\nFellow Richard Allen and has long been advocated by Heritage policy analysts…. The idea of creating a North American free trade zone from the Yukon to the Yucatan was first proposed by Heritage Distinguished Fellow Richard Allen in the late 1970s, refined by then Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, and further developed in a major 1986 Heritage Foundation study. (p. 4)<\/p>\n

[Ed. Note: The Free Trade Agreement got the ball rolling for the development of skills standards by the newly formed National Skills Standards Board, endorsed by the 1992 U.S. Labor Department Secretary\u2019s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) study originated under Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole, and eventually led to the School-to-Work Opportunities Act and the dumbing down of American education curriculum for workforce training. With all of this emphasis on \u201cstandards\u201d it should be pointed out that NAFTA allows exchanges ofall categories of professionals, with those coming from Mexico and Canada having met their own countries\u2019 standards, not necessarily equal to those required in the United States. If thisprocess evolves the way most of these exchange processes have in the past, that disparity will be addressed in one of two ways\u2014by changing U.S. standards to match foreign standards, or by altering both NAFTA nations\u2019 standards to align with international standards like ISO 9000 or ISO 1400 monitored by UNESCO. This should be of concern to professional organizations in the United States.]<\/em><\/p>\n

Pages 315-316<\/p>\n

THE IMPACT ON EDUCATION OF THE UNITED STATES SIGNING THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT was discussed in an article entitled \u201cUSIA\u2019s Grants Go to Schools in NAFTA Nations\u201d was published in the September 12, 1993 edition of The Washington Times. Some excerpts follow:<\/p>\n

United States Information Agency Director Joseph Duffey attending a four-day \u201cimplementation\u201dconference at Vancouver, British Columbia, yesterday announced the first North American three-way university affiliation grants to involve exchanges of faculty and staff among Canadian, Mexican and U.S. universities for teaching, lecturing, research and curriculum development.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe often have university affiliation grants,\u201d Mr. Duffey said in an interview before
\nhe left for Vancouver. \u201cThis is the first time we\u2019ve decided to start awarding three or four a year that involved three countries in North America.\u201d\u2026 Each USIA award will carry about $100,000, plus travel and per diem expenses, for exchanges of faculty, administrators and educational materials.<\/p>\n

The agreement, part of the broadened dialogue that has come out of the North American
\nFree Trade Agreement, will support an array of projects focused on history, economic
\ndevelopment, international trade and the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we seek to do is, among other things, nothing less than dismantling barriers to
\nacademic mobility,\u201d Mr. Duffey said in a speech at the conference. Mr. Duffey said he expects the North American countries to succeed in achieving a sense of regional community where the quest for a common community of nations in Western Europe has foundered.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to reverse the tradition of nationalism and people, who in looking to their identity, look backwards to the past,\u201d he said. \u201cInstead, we want them to look to the future.\u201d (p. A\u20135)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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