ERIC Number: ED144238
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1977-Sep-12
Pages: 23
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The Great Debate III. Options in Education, Program #91.
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Inst. for Educational Leadership.; National Public Radio, Washington, DC.
This publication is the complete transcript of a weekly radio program devoted to contemporary issues in American education. This particular program consists of an informal debate on various educational issues between Terry Herndon, executive director of the National Education Association (NEA), and Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). The debate focuses primarily on the topics of discipline problems in the schools, the use and validity of standardized achievement tests, teacher evaluation and tenure, affirmative action in education and the Bakke case, and the continuing conflict between the NEA and the AFT. (JG)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Discipline Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Standardized Tests, Teacher Associations, Teacher Evaluation, Tenure, Unions
National Public Radio--Education, Washington, D.C. 20036 ($0.50)
Publication Type: Collected Works - Proceedings
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Sponsor: National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.; Corporation for Public Broadcasting, New York, NY.; Carnegie Corp. of New York, NY.
Authoring Institution: George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Inst. for Educational Leadership.; National Public Radio, Washington, DC.
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