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Date sent:        Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:36:33 -0500
From:             Gene <frdm2000@wi.net
To:               arthurhu@halcyon.com
Subject:          Re: OBE-Racist/for Blacks


Gene wrote:
 
 Arthur: Madeline Hunter's Effective School Model for OBE students,
 Mastery Learning and measuring small bits of information rather than
 learning, to read sentences, think was/is largely done in urban
 "disadvantaged " areas- where the urban poor live, mostly. The Housing
 and Urban Development grants via Model Cities monies brought these
 sub-standard programs to a helpless, and most needy Americans already
 with economic ,education problems.  Add this to your "things to
 do"-research. In the 196O's and '7O's this was the case-then these
 sub-standard programs-after the urban experimentation-spread to the
 other areas of schooling throughout the country.  I was there/observed.
 I think you would call the above programs DI or spin offs of DI which is
 more of a remedial approach to reading not for above average/average
 ability students-as I observed the stuff. Madeline Hunter is now
 deceased. Wish some folks would look into the Effective Schools (yuk)
 reform measures that have done so much damage/but fit OBE.
 Gene-OBE by the Lake-Kenosha,Wisc