This blog is a tribute and memorial to the life of my dear friend, O. Jerome (Jed) Brown. The writings posted here are the articles that he published in his newsletter, The Traditional Educator. His theme was the art of teaching versus psychological conditioning, the nobility of the former and the wanton destructiveness of the latter.


Jed campaigned for the office of the Superintendent for Public Instruction in the State of Washington in 1992 and 1996. His platform was to return public education back to the traditional knowledge-based disciplines of learning; to save our school system, teachers, children, families and scociety from the disaster of the "education reform" mandated by HB 1209, our state's version of outcome based education.



In 1993 Jed led a group of concerned parents and teachers in an effort to repeal HB 1209. Had Referendum 47 succeeded, the disastrous WASL test requirement would never have seen the light of day.



In 1995 Jed researched, wrote and co-produced a 4-part video series, "The People vs The Educational Confederacy: Educational Restructuring on Trial" with Katie Levans of Tacoma, WA. If you want to know who is responsible for "education reform," this 2-hour video production lays it all out.


On September 6, 2009 Jed Brown passed away.



Please join me in "Remembering Jed."

1994 Maltby Meeting

Cursor down to the bottom of the page for six video clips of Jed's remarks addressing Education Reform legislation, Outcome-based Education, Behavioral Conditioning and Curriculum.



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Sunday, December 13, 2009

THE NEW CURRICULUM

by O. Jerome (Jed) Brown
April, 1995

An insidious aspect of the current efforts to restructure education is the intentional perversion of the traditional school curriculum. As the schools shift from a Disciplined Knowledge Paradigm to a Life-long Education Paradigm, the school curriculum, by definition, disappears. Curriculum is defined as a course, or set of courses. The word “course” in this case is defined as a number of lectures or other matter dealing with a subject. The operative word is “subject.” Given that the Life-long Education Paradigm is behavior-driven rather than subject-driven, there can be no “curriculum” in the true sense of the word.
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