Foreign Language Assistance for National Security Act of 1983: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2708 ... Hearing Held in Washington, D.C., on April 27, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - 51 páginas |
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academic ACKERMAN Al Quie ALATIS American application areas BACKMAN Bilingual Education Bilingual Education Act Caspar Weinberger Chairman colleges and universities Commission commonly taught languages cultures curriculum develop economic educa Education Act educational agency elementary and secondary encourage English Farsi language Federal Foreign Commercial Service foreign lan Foreign Language Assistance foreign language instruction foreign language study Foreign Service Institute funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY GOODLING graduates guage hard languages HARRISON high school higher education important improve institution of higher international studies language education language skills language teachers language training institutes leadership learning legislation less commonly taught linguistic major MCELHENY ment model programs NABE National Security Act number of students overseas PAUL SIMON percent Phillips Exeter Academy postsecondary problem Ramon Santiago recommendations reform RON PACKARD school boards schools and colleges secondary school Serbo-Croatian SIMON society standards subcommittee teaching TERNATIONAL tests Thank tion
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Página 23 - If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.
Página 23 - Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world.
Página 24 - I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
Página 25 - Business and military leaders complain that they are required to spend millions of dollars on costly remedial education and training programs in such basic skills as reading, writing, spelling, and computation.
Página 29 - Secondary school curricula have been homogenized, diluted, and diffused to the point that they no longer have a central purpose. In effect, we have a cafeteria-style curriculum in which the appetizers and desserts can easily be mistaken for the main courses.
Página 23 - States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people.
Página 4 - For the purposes of this subsection, (A) the number of students enrolled in institutions of higher education shall be deemed to be equal to the sum of (i) the number of full-time students and (ii) the full-time equivalent of the number of part-time students as determined by the Commissioner in accordance with regulations ; and (B) determinations as to enrollment under either clause (1) or clause (2...
Página 25 - For the first time in the history of our country, the educational skills of one generation will not surpass, will not equal, will not even approach, those of their parents.
Página 24 - It is not just that the South Koreans recently built the world's most efficient steel mill, or that American machine tools, once the pride of the world, are being displaced by German products. It is also that these developments signify a redistribution of trained capability throughout the globe. Knowledge, learning, information, and skilled intelligence are the new raw materials of international commerce and are today spreading throughout the world as vigorously as miracle drugs, synthetic fertilizers,...
Página 25 - Many 17-year-olds do not possess the "higher order" intellectual skills we should expect of them. Nearly 40 percent cannot draw inferences from written material; only one-fifth can write a persuasive essay; and only one-third can solve a mathematics problem requiring several steps.