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Peer reviewedRiley, Richard W. – Journal of Law and Education, 1994
The United States Secretary of Education explains how the Goals 2000 Act provides a framework for encouraging systemic education reform under the leadership of state and local education agencies. Discusses the nature of the federal government's role in education, its constitutional origins, and its development and expansion. (295 references) (MLF)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Download full textStedman, James B. – 1994
Goals 2000: Educate America Act (P.L. 103-227) authorizes a range of initiatives for federal support of education reform. Its basic strategy is that of systemic reform guided by sets of agreed-upon educational goals and standards at each level of governance. An overview and analysis of the Act's basic provisions and authorizations is provided.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Manno, Bruno V. – 1995
This policy paper, by a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education for Policy and Planning, argues that President Clinton and the previous "education Congress" designed a top-down strategy reminiscent of the Great Society programs in the 1960s to reform America's school systems. The resultant educational legislation has occurred at a…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Bureaucracy, Centralization, Conservatism
Clinton, Bill; Gore, Al – 1994
This document, part of the Clinton Administration's "Reinventing Government" initiative involving a long-term, significant revamping of the federal bureaucracy, presents a comprehensive set of published customer service standards for the United States Government. It presents more than 1,500 standards representing commitments from more…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government, Federal Programs
Finn, Chester E., Jr.; Ravitch, Diane – 1995
This report evaluates major developments in American education and federal education policy for the year 1994-95. Part 1 focuses on efforts to improve student achievement. It examines National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data and assigns the national public schools the grade of C+ in mathematics achievement and a D in reading…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Charter Schools, Decentralization, Educational Improvement
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. – 1995
This document records the proceedings of a Congressional hearing on the role of the federal government in education policy. Statements are provided by Richard Riley (Secretary of Education), Bret Schundler (Mayor, Jersey City, New Jersey), Tommy Thompson (Governor, Wisconsin), and Representatives, William L. Clay (Missouri), William F. Goodling…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Information, Civil Rights, Decentralization
