The Status of My $100,000 Challenge
In my book End the Biggest Educational and Intellectual Blunder in History I challenged 17 organizations that I had previously challenged, but this time I offered $100,000 to one that would accept the challenge and prove me wrong.
Thinking about it now, I should have dropped the government agencies and added a few others, such as the American Educational Research Association.
None of the 17 organizations has accepted my challenge:
Havard University
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)*
U.S. Department of Education
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)*
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)*
U.S. Department of Labor
Educational Testing Service
Carnegie Corporation
History of Science Society*
National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST)
Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society
National Association of Scholars
American Psychological Society
American Psychological Association
Cognitive Society
*These organizations acknowledged receipt of the challenge.
All the organizations with publications were asked to report to their members the receipt of the challenge; none did so. This continues to keep the blunder a “deep, dark secret.”
Tomorrow - the significance of the non-acceptance of my challenge.
