Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt was an American freelance writer and senior policy advisor to the U.S. Department of Education.

Early life and education

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt was born in Brooklyn, New York on October 26, 1930. She attended Dana Hall preparatory school and Katharine Gibbs College in New York City, where she studied business. Iserbyt's father and grandfather were Yale University graduates and members of the Skull and Bones secret society.

Career

Iserbyt served as the senior policy advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, during the first term of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
Iserbyt later served as a staff employee of the U.S. Department of State.
From 1999, she served as President of 3D Research, Co. in Bath, Maine.

Publications

Iserbyt is known for writing the book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America. The book argues that gradual changes to the American public education system are being used 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 considers that these changes originated from plans formulated primarily by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education and Rockefeller General Education Board, and details the psychological methods used to implement and effect the changes.
Iserbyt also wrote Back to Basics Reform, which documents her experiences working in the Department of Education.

Personal life and death

In 1964, Iserbyt married Jan Iserbyt ; they had two sons.
Iserbyt also served as an elected school board member in Camden, Maine 1976–1979, and founded the Maine Conservative Union, an affiliate of the national American Conservative Union, and Guardians of Education for Maine.
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt died on February 8, 2022, at the age of 91.