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Walking Targets By B. K. Eakman
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WALKING TARGETS: HOW OUR PSYCHOLOGIZED CLASSROOMS ARE PRODUCING A NATION OF SITTING DUCKS - An examination of how educators and provocateurs drive a wedge between parents and their... More > children.---Today’s schools promote success without achievement, ethics without religion, and character without morals. Clinical-sounding labels such as "emotionally handicapped" may make failure more palatable. They certainly make it more permanent...."This book hones in on the real problems with education today."~ The Honorable Karen S. Johnson, District 18, Arizona Senate..."No one has conducted more thorough research exposing the broad attack on our children than Bev." ~ The Honorable Samuel Rohrer Dist. 28, PA House of Representatives< Less
Walking Targets By B. K. Eakman
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America gave up the three R's and got back the three I's: ignorance, illiteracy, and illegitimacy. Parents of the postwar years wanted a “kinder and gentler nation.” Americans were... More > vulnerable to the arguments of behavioral psychologists. These came at them through articles and books touting appealing but unworkable philosophies of child management that denounced adult guidance and leadership. These messages were later repeated through colleges of education in the form of courses in "educational psychology.'' Today’s schools promote success without achievement, ethics without religion, and character without morals. Clinical-sounding labels such as “emotionally handicapped” may make failure more palatable. They certainly make it more permanent.< Less
Walking Targets: How our Psychologized Classrooms are Producing a Nation of Sitting Ducks By B. K. Eakman
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An examination of how educators and provocateurs drive a wedge between parents and their children.---Today's schools promote success without achievement, ethics without religion, and character... More > without morals. Clinical-sounding labels such as "emotionally handicapped" may make failure more palatable. They certainly make it more permanent...."This book hones in on the real problems with education today."~ The Honorable Karen S. Johnson, District 18, Arizona Senate..."No one has conducted more thorough research exposing the broad attack on our children than Bev." ~ The Honorable Samuel Rohrer Dist. 28, PA House of Representatives< Less
How to Counter Group Manipulation Tactics: Seminar Manual By B. K. Eakman
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How to Counter Group Manipulation Tactics WorkbookThe Techniques of Unethical Consensus-Building Unmasked.Have you ever had the demoralizing experience of being labled a "troublemaker" as... More > soon as you question the moderator of a discussion, or raise an objection to a school policy, textbook, course of study, teaching method, or community proposal Unfortunately, being seen as "uncooperative" is not socially acceptable these days. Be it the workplace, a community forum,or the PTA; team spirit is valued above all else. To have your view heard and taken seriously, you must know, how to recognize psychological manipulation and be able to work around it to reframe the debate, take it away from your adversary, and argue the issue in question on your terms, not on your opponent's. This workbook teaches you all you need to know about countering the tactics used by moderators so you can get reasoned conversation and dialogue started.< Less
How to Counter Group Manipulation Tactics By B. K. Eakman
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2011 Updated version. International Human Rights Award-Winner, Beverly Eakman, veteran educator, science writer, Washington political speechwriter, and author of the blockbuster education books,... More > CLONING OF THE AMERICAN MIND: Eradicating Morality Through Education (Huntington House) and WALKING TARGETS: How Our Psychologized Classrooms are Producing a Nation of Sitting Ducks, has given dozens of seminars on this critical text: "How to Counter Professional Manipulators in Small and Large Groups.''< Less