While serving on the council, I did extensive research of STW and it became evident that this plan is a federal take over of the U.S. educational and workforce systems. In this plan, vocational education, general education, higher education, and the workforce will all become ONE system. In the back of Tangled Web is a chart which demonstrates the interactions of allegedly separate and independent organizations. The proponents of these radical changes use carefully chosen rhetoric. American citizens will be trained through Pavlovian techniques what to know and do , and more specifically, how to behave and what to believe.
Employers tell educators 'what work requires of schools'.
The following are but a few of the connections. Education reform in Oklahoma from 1989-1992 began to draw attention to this concept. The Oklahoma Learner Outcomes list the ' know ' and ' do ' parts of the equation. Brent Lovejoy, Executive Director of American Vocational Association, used the same phrases in May 1996. Extensive efforts are underway to implement these standards.