Outcome Based Education: The State's Assault on Our Children's Values [Paperback]

Pamela Hoffecker (Author), Peg Luksik (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1996

Advocates claim Outcome Based Education is designed to improve our children's education, but authors Luksik and Hoffecker expose what they see as the chilling truth: OBE is designed to change our children's value structure.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Vital Issues Pr (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563840251
• ISBN-13: 978-1563840258
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,635,124 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An incredible must read for anyone interested in OBE, December 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Outcome Based Education: The State's Assault on Our Children's Values (Paperback)

This is a fantastic overview of OBE. A must read for ANYONE concerned about the education and future of our kids.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book & simple to read, December 16, 2008

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This review is from: Outcome Based Education: The State's Assault on Our Children's Values (Paperback)

Simple to read but a complicated subject.

Thanks for putting yourselves out on the line like you did.

Book arrived in good condition and I thank you.

3 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An interesting perspective..., May 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Outcome Based Education: The State's Assault on Our Children's Values (Paperback)

The book highlights concerns about OBE, but doesn't do a very good job of describing the benefits of outcome-based education. For example, the book highlights that FACTS are over looked in OBE, the assumption being that it is useful to know the facts themselves.

OBE tends to say that facts in and of themselves are not very useful, however it is useful to know how to apply the facts. Knowing that water boils at 212 deg. F isn't so useful, that's just a number that you can memorize and only applies to water at sea level, and that is the very sort of FACT that this book says is important.

However if you know that water turns into steam at some temperature and that the temperature at which it does that varies because of air pressure you can use that understanding to consider that you need to boil macaroni longer at high elevations in order to cook it properly. That is the higher order thinking that the book belittles.