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	Dumbing down - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dumbing down is usually a derogatory term which refers to the simplifying of a subject, often education, news and TV amongst others.
		Some people believe that the audienceâ”be it television or print media â”has a limited attention span which is getting ever shorter.
		In order to attract and capture this attention, the dumbing down process is deemed essential.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dumbing_down (108 words)

	The Dumbing Down of Doctrine
		One further dumbing down of doctrine which is so much evident in these modern substitutes for sound evangelism is the dumbing down of language that goes with it.
		Dumb as a senator, and, as a priest.
		Surely this is one of the worst signs of the dumbing down of doctrine we have and a cause for general repentance.
	www.evangelica.de /The_Dumbing_Down_of_Doctrine.htm (9897 words)

	Vaspers the Grate: Dumbing Down vs. Simplicity
		"Dumbing down" is speaking with an arrogantly mocking tone, in exaggeratedly childish terms, to a person in order to make that person feel inferior, ashamed, or angry.
		"Dumbing down" could also refer to telling people what you know that they already know, and implying that they don't know it, which could be insulting to them.
		"Dumbing down" could also refer to discussing something at a primitive, overly simple level, as though that is the only level at which it functions and can be discussed, and thus never proceeding beyond it.
	vaspersthegrate.blogspot.com /2004/12/dumbing-down-vs-simplicity.html (1401 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Deliberately dumbing us down (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's new book, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America," is without doubt one of the most important publishing events in the annals of American education in the last hundred years.
		She has put together the most formidable and practical compilation of documentation describing the well-planned "deliberate dumbing down" of American children by their education system.
		The book, she writes, "was put together primarily to satisfy my own need to see the various components which led to the dumbing down of the United States of America assembled in chronological order -- in writing.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16249 (935 words)

	Dumbing Down (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Making programmes entertaining is not the same as dumbing down — reality show formats can be really successful at making minority interests more accessible.
		Dumbing down assumes an old fashioned and elitist definition of education.
		Dumbing Down assumes that TV had a golden age — this relies on a completely selective view of the past: so landmark documentaries and classic drama gets spoken about but unfunny, racist, sexist sitcoms get ignored.
	www.studymedia.co.uk /dumbing_down.htm (336 words)

	America: Deliberate Dumbing Down
		The deliberate dumbing down of america is a chronological history of the past 100+ years of education reform.
		Publication of the deliberate dumbing down of america is certain to add fuel to the fire in this nation's phonics wars.
		Upon delivery of such proof, "resisters" are consistently met with the "shoot the messenger" stonewalling response by teachers, school boards, superintendents, state and local officials, as well as the supposedly objective institutions of academia and the press.
	www.relfe.com /america_dumbing_down.html (3759 words)

	Dumbing Down Evil
		But that has changed over the last century; evil has been dumbed down to make it possible for those who want to be seen as being good, to be able to enjoy a few bites at the forbidden - and unfortunately often tasty - fruits from the garden of evil.
		The clear and present danger is that once you start down the path of transforming such things the civilized world has always regarded as evil into perfectly acceptable behavior, nothing is exempt from being redefined.
		A nation that is "conflicted" - with a large segment of its population unable to recognize the nature of evil, or even its very existence, is a nation well on the way to barbarity.
	suicidal-bob.blogspot.com /2004/06/dumbing-down-evil.html (1156 words)

	Dumbing Down and Developing Diversity -- March 2001 Phyllis Schlafly Report
		This means dumbing down science in order to promote evolution.
		Pressure rained down on Dr. Dragovic to change his conclusion, but he held firm, saying: "I'm not telling people what to do with their children or patients.
		A parent should agree to place a child on Ritalin only after an examination by the child's own physician (not the school's) and the parent is satisfied that there isn't some medical or behavioral or dietary problem that might better be treated in another way.
	www.eagleforum.org /psr/2001/mar01/psrmar01.shtml (2660 words)

	Salon 21st \| The dumbing-down of programming
		It was like hosing down your car after washing it: the same feeling of virtuous exertion, the pleasure of the sparkling clean machine you've just rubbed all over.
		I stared at the message for a while, then calmed down: It had to be related to not having an operating system.
		And down under all those piles of stuff, the secret was written: We build our computers the way we build our cities -- over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.
	archive.salon.com /21st/feature/1998/05/cov_12feature.html (1547 words)

	BBC News \| TV AND RADIO \| Dyke not 'dumbing down' BBC
		BBC director general Greg Dyke has hit out at claims that the corporation is "dumbing down" its political coverage.
		Last week, in a joint letter, Labour Party chairman Charles Clarke and Tory chairman David Davis expressed their concern that the BBC was about to scrap some of its flagship political shows.
		BBC chairman Gavyn Davies wrote back pledging that there would be no dumbing down of its political coverage.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1812454.stm (355 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| News crumb \| Jibe talking
		As the dumbing down debate lurches into another year it becomes painfully clear that the carping is getting dumber.
		This year the comments recycled by the media are particularly cruel - rubbishing the worth of Ds and Es at A-level and saying nothing less than a C will really count with universities and employers.
		But the worthy winner of the 2004 prize for the dumbest dumbing down statement goes to the Tory Bow Group.
	education.guardian.co.uk /schools/story/0,5500,1286286,00.html (692 words)

	Ingenious (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On the other hand, attempts to bring science to a wider audience face accusations of dumbing down if they are seen to be undermining science’s intellectual foundations.
		Finally, the motive is scrutinised: why popular science is not part of a dumbing down process but one of wising up.
		Scientists have long been sceptical about the value of popular science, which to them means dumbing down.
	www.ingenious.org.uk /Read/ScienceCulture/dumbingdown (353 words)

	Sunday Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		THOSE who claim that society is dumbing down are likely to be told that they are sadly out of touch with reality by government ministers and leading lights of the cultural establishment who maintain that people are far better educated than in the past and that we are living in a knowledge economy.
		The main accomplishment of dumbing down is to subject cultural and intellectual life to powerful pressures that are external to it.
		The pressure to dumb down and down-play content exercises a powerful disorienting influence on cultural life.
	www.sundayherald.com /print44363 (763 words)

	Deliberately Dumbing Us Down -- February 2000 Education Reporter
		Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's new book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, is one of the most important publishing events in the annals of American education in the last hundred years.
		Iserbyt decided to compile this book because, as a "resister" to what is going on in American education, she was constantly told that she was taking things out of context.
		The book, she writes, "was put together primarily to satisfy my own need to see the various components which led to the dumbing down of the United States of America assembled in chronological order - in writing.
	www.eagleforum.org /educate/2000/feb00/dumbing-down.html (453 words)

	DUMBING DOWN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In DUMBING DOWN, a diverse group of people explore the implications of the world-wide shedding of cultures in the old sense, and the ascendancy of a global mono-culture in the new.
		In the face of an uncertain and alarming future, which holds little inspiration for present living, people fight off gloom and stupefaction by withdrawing into trivia, sensation-seeking, or addictions to money, drugs, or power.
		This is Dumbing Down, a phenomenon observable in almost all walks of life; politics, culture, civil administration, the media, science, education, even the law.
	www.imprint-academic.demon.co.uk /books/dumbo.html (553 words)

	Kerry and Edwards: The Buddy Picture (washingtonpost.com)
		They are a fist-pumping, thumbs-upping testament to good barbering and good dentistry, a Brady Bunch hodgepodge of six toddlers, young adults and stepkids, evenly divided between blonds and brunets, boys and girls.
		John Edwards seems to be consciously amping himself down, restraining the energy and charm that won over so many voters during the primaries.
		His hair, sprayed down at a sharp 45-degree angle, lacks its usual boyish moppiness.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A35972-2004Jul8.html (665 words)

	Features \| DUMBING DOWN? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sheridan says the area likely to be hardest hit is the central library’s reference services, where more access to materials may be provided through computers.
		She says the "popular" library concept does not mean a dumbing down of the library, and that the library’s mission to provide a broad range of materials is not changing.
		The issue, she says, is how level funding — 12 years from the state and five years from the city — is forcing the library to "make fundamental changes" in how to match services to available funds.
	www.providencephoenix.com /features/tji/documents/03903536.asp (625 words)

	Dumbing Down the Dial
		Most of them are down in the noncommercial part of the band, from 88.1 to 91.9 MHz.
		So the processing delay through the MPEG encoders and down those lines is about a quarter-second.
		But when you've got ERPs like 50,000 watts, even 80 dB down is still a considerable amount of energy, when you compare it to our 660-watt signal after it's traveled 10 miles or more.
	bg.mixonline.com /ar/audio_dumbing_down_dial (2138 words)

	Deliberate Dumbing Down - Making Johnny Stupid
		Last week, we began to look at a book entitled the deliberate dumbing down of america (Ravenna, Ohio, The Conscience Press, 2000) by educator Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt.
		The title has no capital letters, to dramatize the deliberate dumbing down of children in the nation's government (public) schools.
		Iserbyt's book so stupendous was her ability to plow through a couple of mountains of garbage extruded by the (mis)educators who are deliberately doing this, so you don't need to guess what they mean.
	www.rense.com /general32/deliberate.htm (1437 words)

	Dumbing Down Democracy
		By this means 'the fuehrer, representing the will of the people, directed the flow of policy through the institutions of state and party down to the people.
		Builders are getting away with murder, we are told, and need government supervision; everyone who's been let down by a builder gives a cheer.
		The health service is corrupt and incompetent; they need bureaucrats to supervise them; anyone who's waited in a hospital queue gives a cheer.
	www.ivo.mosley.com /Dumbing_Down_Democracy.html (3435 words)

	Dumbing Us Down - Reviews - John Taylor Gatto
		Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden curriculum of Public Schooling by John Taylor Gatto Reviewed by Samuel L. Blumenfeld in The Blumenfeld Education Newsletter : May 1992
		Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden curriculum of Public Schooling by John Taylor Gatto reviewed by Ron Miller in Holistic Education Review June 1992
		Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden curriculum of Public Schooling by John Taylor Gatto reviewed by Hannah B. Lapp in The Freeman February 1993
	www.johntaylorgatto.com /bookstore/dumbingdown.htm (98 words)

	The Dumbing Down of America
		If our News Media had you worried about Y2K, you have been dumbed down.
		America fared poorly on this one -- all Dallas fans were Dumbed Down very harshly.
		dumbed down by the notion of boob jobs.
	www.protext.com /DUMBING (1272 words)

	TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Michelle Malkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was the man who applied to be a police officer in New London, Conn., but was turned down because he scored too high on a standard intelligence test.
		When he sued, a federal judge rejected his discrimination claim and ruled that it was reasonable to reject people who score too well on screening tests.
		The slow and the witless can line up for airport security jobs, smile brightly, flunk until they pass their tests and reap the rewards of the continued dumbing down of America.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/michellemalkin/mm20021204.shtml (645 words)

	Kentucky Kernel - Dialogue: Mindless television not dumbing down America
		Well, you can believe whatever you want about the media conspiring to dupe the public, but I maintain that we cannot be duped unless we agree to be.
		I, for one, do not consider myself a willing participant in the dumbing down of America.
		Just because I enjoy watching a few mindless programs does not mean that I have abandoned any and all concern for world affairs.
	www.kernel.uky.edu /2000/text/0207/08a_edit_col.shtml (669 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why America's Children Feel Good About Themselves but Can't Read, Write, or ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing Down of America's Kids in the Name of Self-Esteem by Maureen, Ph.D. Stout
		The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail by Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt
		Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture by Katharine Washburn
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312134746?v=glance (2138 words)

	Dumbing Down
		This is the kind of trash young children and teenagers and young adults are lapping up.
		This rubbish invades and corrupts their minds, and the result is that they gradually embrace this “dumbing down” as though it were an integral part of life and growing up.
		He now hunts down the fathers of the children of unwed mothers who have slept in and committed immorality with numerous men, brings both onto his partially-staged show, and allows them to address each other in the filthiest of profanity.
	www.mindspring.com /~renewal/DumbingDown.html (912 words)

	eBay - Book: Dumbing Down Our Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		Dumbing Down Our Kids by Charles J. Sykes (1996)
		Dumbing Down Our Kids by Charles J. Sykes (1996)
	product.ebay.com /Dumbing-Down-Our-Kids_W0QQfvcsZ1388QQsoprZ1574192 (377 words)

	Dumbing down our past \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dumbing down our past doesn't serve our future
		While presented as part of the state's vision of "leading the nation in improving student achievement," the new curriculum will actually result in nothing more than dumbing down world history and U.S history courses.
		But like so many other history teachers, I know that while claiming to seek the road to excellence, educrats are really leading us down the path of least resistance.
	www.ajc.com /opinion/content/opinion/0104/25history.html (1115 words)

	Dumbing down
		I recall that when I was managing a junk bond fund, I was confronted by a particularly thick prospectus that had dozens of pages explaining the company's interlocking subsidary structure.
		But I have chosen not to feature it becasue it violates the dumbing down principle I described above.
		You can access it by clicking here, or later on Education links that appear on data report pages, or the Education link that appears in the Stocks section of the menu running down the left side of this page.
	multexinvestornetwork.com /article.asp?docid=6229 (2084 words)

	Dumbing Down
		If you feel dumb, smile, because in truth, you may be the one who is getting it right.
		And if you feel smart, consider dialing down your IQ for a while.
		See if you can understand the situation based only on accounting for simpletons.
	www.tailspinestates.com /dumbing_down.htm (549 words)

	MacAddict Forums / Dumbing down the Bible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I agree that the Bible has been dumbed down.
		The car of the future is a train with a bike waiting at the other end.
		I don't know if it's "dumbing it down." I wonder if other literary works were to be reworded into more modern english (Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, Moby Dick), if people would raise a stink over it.
	www.macaddict.com /forums/topic/55286/1 (1051 words)

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