Robin Eubanks has been studying U.S. education policies and practices:  

"...education in the US and globally has been, for decades,  engaged in a massive Newspeak (as in George Orwell's 1984) campaign that creates a public illusion on what is being promised and what is coming to the schools and classrooms that are this country's future. I know what the words and terms really mean to an Ed insider and how it differs from the common public perception. I have documented what was really behind the reading wars and math wars. I have pulled together what the real intended Common Core implementation looks like. And it is wildly different from the PR sales job used to gain adoption in most of the states.

For me the English language is both a sword and a shield. I have documented what is really going on, written a book describing how and why education became a weapon, and now we are going to talk about what the real Common Core implementation looks like in various communities in the US in this busy Summer of 2012."

She regularly details the effort to produce graduates who cannot think rationally. Here's her latest offering.