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00 CIS H 3418
TITLE: Improving
Student Achievement and Reforming the Federal Role in Education
CIS-NO:
2000-H341-8
SOURCE: Committee on Education and the Workforce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: Sept. 8, 1999
LENGTH:
iv+151 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:106-72
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477
(Full Text Reproductions)
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-24962-1.
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-72. Hearing in
Battle Creek, Mich., before the Subcom on Oversight and Investigations to review
the Federal role in education and strategies to improve student achievement, in
connection with upcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (ESEA) of 1965.
Supplementary material (p.
37-151) includes witnesses' written statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Elem and secondary educ aid programs,
Fed role and student achievement strategies review
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON
OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS, EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE. HOUSE;
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION; FEDERAL AID TO LOCAL
GOVERNMENTS-EDUCATION; FEDERAL AID TO STATES-EDUCATION; MICHIGAN; BATTLE CREEK,
MICH.; ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT
00-H341-8
TESTIMONY NO: 1 Sept. 8, 1999 p. 8-36, 47-150
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
MCPHERSON, PETER
(President, Michigan State University)
MITCHELL, PETER T.
(President, Albion College)
MURRAY, MARK A. (State
Treasurer, Michigan)
DELINE, JOHN (Superintendent,
Tekonsha Community Schools, Tekonsha, Mich)
STOBIE, THOMAS
J. (Principal, Jackson High School, Jackson, Mich.; also representing Michigan
Association of Secondary School Principals)
GAGNON,
MICHAEL (Executive Director, Council for Employment Needs and Training
Employment Services)
JOHNSON, JULIE A. (EMI Special
Education Teacher, Union City Schools, Sherwood, Mich)
SLOMA, MELINDA M.
EBEL, TRAVIS R.
(both students)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Views on methods of improving student achievement,
including Federal supporting role; description of Michigan Merit Award, a
statewide scholarship program focusing on student achievement; role of Federal
funding in supporting programs at schools in Tekonsha, Mich; support for ESEA
reauthorization to assist public schools to remain competitive, with
recommendations.
Perspectives on educational system
strengths and weaknesses, with suggestions; personal experiences of students in
Battle Creek schools.
INSERTION:
-- Blue
Ribbon Panel on the Lansing School District, "Vision and Plan for Our Students"
June 11, 1997 (p. 55-71).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Elem and secondary educ aid programs, Fed role and student
achievement strategies review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY; STATE GOVERNMENTS;
SCHOLARSHIPS; COMPETITION; LANSING, MICH.; PLANNING; TEKONSHA, MICH; STUDENTS
LOAD-DATE: May 11, 2000 
