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Members of the House Subcommittee on Education and the Workforce examined the financial practices of the Department of Education. The committee focused on the department’s inability to prod…

Officials talked about a survey of American schools designed to determine if they would be prepared for potential computer problems resulting for the date change on January 1, 2000. They sai…

Marshall Smith, Acting Dep. Secretary of Education and Gordon Ambach, Executive Director of the Council of Chief State School Officers talked about the Elementary and Secondary Education Act…

Participants spoke about various government and business programs to assist students in going to college. They focused on at-risk students and various mentoring and scholarship programs that…

Acting Deputy Secretary for the Department of Education, Marshall Smith discussed news stories and his duties in the Education Department. He talked about the size and the budget of the depa…

Secretary Richard Riley talked about the new voluntary testing initiative that is designed to gauge the reading skills of fourth graders and the mathematics skills of eighth graders. Officia…

Education Secretary Richard Riley highlighted various aspects of the education portions of the president’s 1998 budget, including college tax credits and national education standards. He str…

Education Secretary Richard Riley spoke to Department of Education employees about the need for a coherent education policy in the U.S. He talked about the importance of improving education …

Meeting of The National Council on Education Standards & Testing to discuss task force progress reports.

The National Council on Education Standards and Testing held a forum and discussed the progress of a report for voluntary education skills assessments for the nation’s schoolchildren.

The Interim Council on Standards and Testing continued to speak about possible national standards for academic achievement in U.S. schools and methods for assessing achievement through natio…

Experts on Education and the Economy conversed with members of the NGA Education Task Force on plans and ideas for National Goals. Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas chaired the meeting. Issu…