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Copyright © 1999, Congressional Information
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99 CIS S 43122
TITLE: ESEA:
Educating the Forgotten Half
CIS-NO: 99-S431-22
SOURCE:
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Senate
DOC-TYPE:
Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-59
DATE: May 18, 1999
LENGTH: iii+51 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1043-A; 1043-B
SUDOC: Y4.L11/4:S.HRG.106-59
MC-ENTRY-NO: 99-20289
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND:
1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)
SUMMARY:
Hearing to examine issues and initiatives relating to the educational needs
of noncollege-bound youth, including those who fail to graduate from high school
and those who do not continue their education beyond the secondary level.
Hearing was held in connection with upcoming reauthorization of
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Noncoll-bound youth, educ policy
issues
DESCRIPTORS:
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION; STUDENTS; SCHOOL DROPOUTS;
YOUTH; ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT
99-S431-22 TESTIMONY NO: 1 May 18, 1999 p. 2-51
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
HALPERIN, SAMUEL (Senior Fellow, American Youth Policy
Forum)
FISH, JAMES E. (Principal, Sherwood High School,
Sandy Spring, Md)
ADAMS, COURTNEY (Teacher, Lincoln
Multicultural Middle School, D.C)
PRICE, MARCUS
ROSARIO, ANNA (both students, Lincoln Multicultural Middle
School)
EBRAHIMI, HAMID (CEO and National Director,
Project SEED)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Perspectives on situation of noncollege-bound youth, with
policy recommendations (related articles, p. 12-15); description of dropout
prevention programs for secondary school students, including Project SEED
mathematics program for disadvantaged students; elaboration on dropout
prevention programs and related education policy issues.
CONTENT
NOTATION:
Noncoll-bound youth, educ policy issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
AMERICAN YOUTH
POLICY FORUM; MATHEMATICS 
