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Chester Finn, head of the Educational Excellence Network, and Brenda Welburn, Deputy Executive Director of the National Association of State Boards of Education, defined multiculturalism and…

For a creative writing assignment, Michelle Fletcher asked her students to pretend that they were homeless to gain firsthand knowledge of the problems of poverty. She used this example to le…

The members of the panel discussed the National Education Goals set by President George Bush and the National Governors' Association, the administration’s education policy, and local initiat…

Hiroshi Jo spoke about the Meiji Gakuin High School, a school for Japanese students whose families are living outside of Japan. He explained how the school operates and how the school is dif…

Andrew Alexander, who published a series of articles on education around the world, expressed his views about the American education system compared to those of Britain, Germany, and Japan. …

At the Dunstan Middle School in Lakewood, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, the focus is on the National Education Goals set by the nation’s governors, the administration’s education policy, loc…

Senator Ted Kennedy is chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. He discussed the changing role of education, the differences between the educational goals of Congress and …

Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander took part in a discussion with a Louisville high school students and others on the American educational system. They discussed the city’s America 2000 …

Pat Henry discussed the problem of low parental involvement in the education system. She talked about the findings recently released by her organization in a report, "Education in America".

Ms. Kornbluh detailed the effect of federal management of local and state education programs. She also addressed the question of federal funding for education, and the role of the education …

William Bennett, the former Secretary of Education, compared the education level of American children to that of children from other industrialized nations. He stated that America was fallin…

Education experts participated in a live call-in program. They spoke about the education process in the United States in the 1980's and the direction that the nation is taking in the 1990's.

Lamar Alexander, Secretary of Education, described “America 2000,” a plan developed by President Bush and the National Governors' Association. America 2000 includes the goals of the Bush adm…

Governor Roy Romer of Colorado, the former chairman of the National Education Goals Panel, discussed America 2000, the Bush administration’s goals for education reform through the year 2000.…