To Amend and Extend the National Defense Education Act: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, First and Second Sessions, on H. R. 6061, H. R. 9846, and Similar Bills; to Extend and Improve the Provisions of the National Defense Education Act of 1958United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Special Subcommittee on Education U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964 - 536 pages |
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Page 501 - ... credits are accepted, on transfer, by not less than three institutions which are so accredited, for credit on the same basis as if transferred from an institution so accredited.
Page 6 - Islands. (b) The amount of any State's allotment under subsection (a) for any fiscal year which the Commissioner determines will not be required for such fiscal year shall be available for reallotment from time to time, on such dates during such year as the Commissioner may fix, to other States in proportion to the original allotments to such States under...
Page 191 - Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education, and thereby be enabled to read the histories of his own and other countries, by which he may duly appreciate the value of our free institutions, appears to be an object of vital importance...
Page 239 - Each individual who attends an institute operated under the provisions of this part shall be eligible (after application therefor) to receive a stipend at the rate of $75 per week for the period of his attendance at such institute, and each such individual with one or more dependents shall receive an additional stipend at the rate of $15 per week for each such dependent.
Page 487 - Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress In education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Page 178 - local educational agency" means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of...
Page 195 - The Congress hereby finds and declares that the security of the Nation requires the fullest development of the mental resources and technical skills of its young men and women.
Page 6 - State needs and will be able to use for such year; and the total of such reductions shall be similarly reallotted among the States whose proportionate amounts were not so reduced.