The late Charlotte Iserbyt was the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America’s classrooms.

Charlotte T. Iserbyt, 91 of Dresden, passed away at her home on the afternoon of February 8, 2022.  Born in New York on October 26, 1930, she was the daughter of Clifton and Charlotte (Thomson), and the wife of the late Jan Iserbyt.

Iserbyt’s father and grandfather were Yale University graduates and members of the Skull and Bones secret society.

Iserbyt was a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She has also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and in the Republic of South Africa.

Iserbyt was a speaker and writer, best known for her 1985 booklet Back to Basics Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet Soviets in the Classroom: America’s Latest Education Fad which covered the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements which remain in effect to this day.

A prolific writer, Ms. Iserbyt authored two books, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America…A Chronological Paper Trail in 1999, which alleges that changes gradually brought into the American public education system work to eliminate the influences of a child’s parents and mold the child into a member of the proletariat in preparation for a socialist-collectivist world of the future. She also wrote three editions of Back to Basics Reform or…OBE*Skinnerian International Curriculum between 1985 and 2003 and Back to Basics Reform, which documents her experiences working in the U.S. Department of Education, where she was privy to past and future plans to restructure American education.

Ms. Iserbyt contributed numerous articles to professional journals and newspapers. She was a freelance writer and had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The Bangor Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional hearings.

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