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Infiltrating the Curriculum
Sheridan, Terence | December 15, 1969 issue

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Few things are as impressive as dedicated bankers and industrialists, the silent minority, in hot pursuit of a mission. When Sputnik satellite went up spectacularly in 1957, Cleveland, Ohio's corporate elites sat down quietly to assemble an educational strike force to fight communism. The result was a businessmen's $14 million Tinker Toy, the Educational Research Council of America (ERCA), a non-profit tax-exempt organization, which does little research but a lot of propagandizing of "moral and spiritual" values. More than 250,000 students in twenty-five school districts use ERCA materials.

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CAPITALISTS & financiers -- United States; EDUCATION -- Societies, etc.; COMMUNISM; NONPROFIT organizations; SCHOOL districts; STUDENTS; AUDIO-visual materials; UNITED States
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