The School Excellence and Reform Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2840 ... Hearing Held in Washington, DC, September 18, 1985U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 52 páginas |
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Página 21 - We do not believe that a public commitment to excellence and educational reform must be made at the expense of a strong public commitment to the equitable treatment of our diverse population. The twin goals of equity and high-quality schooling have profound and practical meaning for our economy and society, and we cannot permit one to yield to the other, either in principle or in practice.
Página 17 - OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. GARY HART, US SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF COLORADO Senator HART.
Página 2 - Representa2 lives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 4 This Act may be cited as the "Antarctic Protection and 5 Conservation Act of 1990".
Página 19 - About 13 percent of all 17-year-olds in the United States can be considered functionally illiterate. Functional illiteracy among minority youth may run as high as 40 percent.
Página 18 - Clearly there is little remaining commitment to the idea that separate and unequal schools are unacceptable and not enough commitment to equal opportunity to elicit clear and specific recommendations on how these crucial goals are to be pursued. •' Mr. Chairman, these introductory comments are not intended to dampen the spirit or the momentum of the educational reform movement. Neither are they intended to degrade the many wellintended measures that have been taken in the name of educational reform....
Página 29 - Their numbers are now so large that if they do not succeed, all of us will have diminished futures.
Página 27 - Students documents that the average child from a bottom quarter income family receives four fewer years of education than the child from a top quarter income family.
Página 27 - If academic standards are raised and students are not provided substantial additional help to attain them, it seems plausible to expect that social and academically disadvantaged students will be more likely to experience frustration and failure, resulting in notable increases in absenteeism, truancy, school-related behavior problems, and dropping out ...
Página 3 - Act of 1958 is amended — 9 (a) in section 601 by striking out "1971" both 10 places it appears and by inserting in lieu thereof "1973" ; 11 and 12 (b) in section 603 by striking out "and...
Página 27 - Office, results snowed that the number of children living in poverty in the United States is at the highest level in 20 years.