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Download full textDungan, Andy T.; Brownbridge, Robert D. – 1994
The National Education Goals, Goals 2000, were signed into law by President Clinton in 1994. From 1989 to 1994 the goals existed in a symbolic context with minimal funding to support them. An unpredictable series of events sustained the National Education Goals through a period of potential obscurity to enactment. The goals appear to be unique in…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government
Mulcahy, D. G. – 1994
The National Education Standards and Improvement Council (NESIC) was established in the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. One of NESIC's duties is to identify areas in which specific educational standards ought to be developed. Several complex issues arise in carrying out this duty, such as: the need for standards in such non-content areas as…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation, Educational Objectives
