Oversight Hearings on American Secondary Education: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session |
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Page 714 - How to live ? — that is the essential question for us. Not how to live in the mere material sense only, but in the widest sense.
Page 322 - Each passage in this section is followed by a group of questions to be answered on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
Page 318 - Report on a National Study of the Nature and the Quality of Instructional Materials Most Used by Teachers and Learners (Epie Report no. 76 [New York: EPIE Institute, 1977]), p. 7-8. 21. Frances Fitzgerald, America Revised (Boston: Little, Brown, 1979). 22. Small, "Censorship and English,
Page 351 - We can whenever, and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of Interest to us. We already know more than we need, to do what I just said. Whether or not we do It must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we haven't so far.
Page 321 - Each question below consists of a word printed in capital letters followed by five lettered words or phrases. Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.
Page 287 - I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance to the general peace, or a saving radiance in the sky.
Page 324 - A if the quantity in Column A is greater; B if the quantity in Column B is greater; C if the two quantities are equal; D if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
Page 324 - A symbol that appears in both columns represents the same thing in Column A as it does in Column B.
Page 7 - Includes all persons residing in the United States, but excludes Armed Forces overseas. Data shown are actual figures from the decennial censuses of population unless otherwise indicated.
Page 404 - But there is an essential one. Basic education concerns itself with those matters which, once learned, enable the student to learn all the other matters, whether trivial or complex, that cannot properly be the subjects of elementary and secondary schooling. In other words, both logic and experience suggest that certain subjects have generative power and others do not have generative power.