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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... sounds radical , we need to look at what prompted it . School time is precious time . It should not be misspent because of teachers who have not been educated properly . Our children have only one opportunity for an education . I find ...
... sounds radical , we need to look at what prompted it . School time is precious time . It should not be misspent because of teachers who have not been educated properly . Our children have only one opportunity for an education . I find ...
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... sounds in a language like English , and that these sounds seldom coincide exactly ; consequently , from these fifty sounds , the total possible number of speech sounds could run into the thousands . He also suggests that , because the ...
... sounds in a language like English , and that these sounds seldom coincide exactly ; consequently , from these fifty sounds , the total possible number of speech sounds could run into the thousands . He also suggests that , because the ...
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... sounds the letters stand for in a systematic , logical sequence , using drill as a means of reinforcing the child's mastery of the alphabetic system . My own instruction book , ALPHA - PHONICS , teaches the letter sounds in the ...
... sounds the letters stand for in a systematic , logical sequence , using drill as a means of reinforcing the child's mastery of the alphabetic system . My own instruction book , ALPHA - PHONICS , teaches the letter sounds in the ...
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... sound . The articulated word represents the meaning . In look - say , the printed word is taught to represent meaning , not sound . The question is not whether written English is a phonetic system , but whether all of written English ...
... sound . The articulated word represents the meaning . In look - say , the printed word is taught to represent meaning , not sound . The question is not whether written English is a phonetic system , but whether all of written English ...
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... 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 - letter alphabet to represent them . It should be remembered that the ...
... 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 - letter alphabet to represent them . It should be remembered that the ...
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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.
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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.