National Commission on Teacher Education Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S.J. Res. 138 ... June 7, 1984 |
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... English Department was leading a statewide campaign to instruct teachers at every level on how to teach writing . At the same time , its education department was using a textbook which directed its future needlessly complicated ...
... English Department was leading a statewide campaign to instruct teachers at every level on how to teach writing . At the same time , its education department was using a textbook which directed its future needlessly complicated ...
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... English language that cannot be analyzed phonetically ? What is your estimate of the number of words that fall in that category ? 4. Dr. Pei also suggests that there are some fifty recognized sounds in a language like English , and that ...
... English language that cannot be analyzed phonetically ? What is your estimate of the number of words that fall in that category ? 4. Dr. Pei also suggests that there are some fifty recognized sounds in a language like English , and that ...
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... English is a phonetic system , but whether all of written English follows consistent , regular patterns of spelling . The answer is that it does not , and for very good reasons . Since written English represents a living language that ...
... English is a phonetic system , but whether all of written English follows consistent , regular patterns of spelling . The answer is that it does not , and for very good reasons . Since written English represents a living language that ...
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... English language consists of about 44 distinct , irreducible speech sounds . Our difficulty in written English is not due to our number of sounds , but the fact that twenty of them are vowels and we have only five letters in our 26 ...
... English language consists of about 44 distinct , irreducible speech sounds . Our difficulty in written English is not due to our number of sounds , but the fact that twenty of them are vowels and we have only five letters in our 26 ...
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... English is a feat of awesome proportions . 5. The influence of television on reading ability has been greatly exaggerated . Like most Americans , I watch a lot of television , but I also read a lot . Children spend more than enough time ...
... English is a feat of awesome proportions . 5. The influence of television on reading ability has been greatly exaggerated . Like most Americans , I watch a lot of television , but I also read a lot . Children spend more than enough time ...
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Page 262 - If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.
Page 10 - Senate, and shall be compensated at the rate provided for level V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of title 5, United States Code. One such Associate Director shall be designated "Associate Director for Domestic and Anti-Poverty Operations...
Page 9 - The teacher preparation curriculum is weighted heavily with courses in "educational methods at the expense of courses in subjects to be taught. A...
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Page 10 - Any vacancy in the Commission shall not affect its powers, but shall be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made.
Page 10 - All other members shall be entitled to receive an amount not to exceed the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay in effect for grade GS-18 of the General Schedule for each day during which they are engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the board. While away from their homes or regular places of business...
Page 221 - Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution or school system...
Page 194 - the deliberate, systematic, and sustained effort to transmit, evoke, or acquire knowledge, attitudes, values, skills, or sensibilities...
Page 10 - c) The Commission shall submit to the President and to the Congress such interim reports as it deems advisable. The Commission shall submit to the President and to the Congress not later than twenty-four months after the first meeting of the Commission, a final report of the study and investigation, together with such recommendations as the Commission deems advisable. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS SEC.
Page 208 - Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.