Improving Access to Preschool and Postsecondary Education: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Education and Health of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, December 14 and 15, 1988 |
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... sector edu- cation leadership and the legislative education leadership . We are delighted to have you . Please take such time as you may need . STATEMENT OF HON . JOHN BRADEMAS , PRESIDENT , NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Mr. BRADEMAS . Thank you ...
... sector edu- cation leadership and the legislative education leadership . We are delighted to have you . Please take such time as you may need . STATEMENT OF HON . JOHN BRADEMAS , PRESIDENT , NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Mr. BRADEMAS . Thank you ...
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... sector , to monitor labor force needs so that educational institutions can design training programs to serve their communities more ef- fectively . At a time when the economic challenges facing America are grave and immediate , we must ...
... sector , to monitor labor force needs so that educational institutions can design training programs to serve their communities more ef- fectively . At a time when the economic challenges facing America are grave and immediate , we must ...
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... , support for the development of new computerized capabilities for information storage and retrieval . 5. We must restore respect for fundamental values and ethical be- Our national leaders , in all sectors of public life havior . 48.
... , support for the development of new computerized capabilities for information storage and retrieval . 5. We must restore respect for fundamental values and ethical be- Our national leaders , in all sectors of public life havior . 48.
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... sectors of public life , are in a unique position to help rekindle a spirit of social obligation . At the Federal level , they can build on successful existing programs that provide opportunities for college and university students to ...
... sectors of public life , are in a unique position to help rekindle a spirit of social obligation . At the Federal level , they can build on successful existing programs that provide opportunities for college and university students to ...
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... in cooperation with the private sector , to monitor labor force needs so that educational institutions can design training programs to serve their 3 . At a time when the economic challenges facing communities more effectively . 62.
... in cooperation with the private sector , to monitor labor force needs so that educational institutions can design training programs to serve their 3 . At a time when the economic challenges facing communities more effectively . 62.
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Page 166 - This nation cannot continue to compete and prosper in the global arena when more than one-fifth of our children live in poverty and a third grow up in ignorance.
Page 244 - America is moving backward— not forward— in its efforts to achieve the full participation of minority citizens in the life and prosperity of the nation.
Page 57 - In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate.
Page 26 - The Congress reaffirms the principle and declares that the States and local communities have and must retain control over and primary responsibility for public education. The national interest requires, however, that the Federal Government give assistance to education for programs which are important to our defense.
Page 13 - For the past 5Vfe years, I have had the privilege of serving as president of New York University, one of the foremost urban universities in the Nation and with nearly 47,000 students, the largest private university in the world. I must tell you that as a result of my experience on the campus, I am even more convinced of the wisdom of the judgments that you and my other colleagues in Congress and I made over the last generation in forging policies to assist the colleges and universities of our country...
Page 100 - Health and education are closely linked in the development of vigorous, skillful, adaptable young people. Investments in health and education can be guided by research in biomedical and behavioral sciences in ways likely to prevent much of the damage now being done to children and adolescents.
Page 2 - The time has come to make education through the fourteenth grade available in the same way that high school education is now available.
Page 242 - First, the monetary returns from higher education alone are probably sufficient to offset all the costs. Second, the nonmonetary returns are several times as valuable as the monetary returns. And third, the total returns from higher education in all its aspects exceed the cost by several times. In short, the cumulative evidence leaves no doubt that American higher education is well worth what it costs.
Page 180 - We have proclaimed our faith in education as a means of equalizing the conditions of men. But there is grave danger that our present policy will make it an instrument for creating the very inequalities it was designed to prevent. If the ladder of educational opportunity rises high at the doors of some youth and scarcely rises at all at the doors of others, while at the same time formal education...
Page 2 - But there is grave danger that our present policy will make it an instrument for creating the very inequalities it was designed to prevent. If the ladder of educational opportunity rises high at the doors of some youth and scarcely rises at all at the doors of others, while at the same time formal education is made a prerequisite to occupational and social advance, then education may become the means, not of eliminating race and class distinctions, but of deepening and solidifying them. It is obvious,...