National Federation of Republican Women pass resolution against OBE and Goals 2000 From: bernie@binghamton.edu Date sent: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:49:25 -0500 (EST) To: Arthur Hu Copies to: education-consumers@tricon.net, fredb001@spectra.net Subject: Re: WA Bill to repeal Tucker Based Education It is interesting to note that at their winter biennial convention the National Federation of Republican Women passed the following resolution: WHEREAS, OBE is the most commonly known term for an educational theory that establishes an end product which builds assessment and curriculum around the end product; WHEREAS, The end products of OBE are desribed as attitudes, behaviors, beliefs and values; this theory of education emphasizes subjective performance; WHEREAS, Traditional education, in contrast demands a student learn an objective body of knowledge that when tested, has absolute answers and that when built upon expands expeditiously; such as traditional p honics, arithmetic, history, science, etc; WHEREAS, OBE de-emphasizes these objective standards and replaces them with watered-down education and with a common thesis of peer uniformity (group think) rather than acknowledgment of the individual; WHEREAS, "Mastery" of these subjective standards will be requuired by students as a condition of graduation; WHEREAS, Billed as a program of "local control" Goals 2000/OBE follows in lockstep with the federal standards established by the National Education Standards and Improvement Council; and WHEREAS, States must adopt federal standards or lose their federal funds; RESOLVED, That the National Federation of Republican Women at the Biennieal Convention in New Orleans, Luisiana, on September 26-28, 1997, urges the repeal of Goals 2000 and the Federal Improving American Schools Act of 1004 (public law 103-382 commonly known as HR6) and all other federal legislation intended to foster, support, encourage or mandate OBE. EDUCATION CONSUMERS CLEARINGHOUSE