Educational Technology Act of 1969: Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session on H.R. 8838 ... March 12, 1970

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Page 26 - State to provide a program of education beyond secondary education, (3) provides an educational program for which it awards a bachelor's degree or provides not less than a two-year program which is acceptable for full credit toward such a degree...
Page 27 - For purposes of this subsection, the Commissioner shall publish a list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies or associations which he determines to be reliable authority as to the quality of training offered. (c) The term "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Education.
Page 52 - Chairman of the Department of Education and Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Chicago.
Page 131 - ... of the National Library of Medicine's Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS), and from biological publications not included in MEDLARS.
Page 70 - It is not possible to spend any prolonged period visiting public school classrooms without being appalled by the mutilation visible everywhere — mutilation of spontaneity, of joy in learning, of pleasure in creating, of sense of self. The public schools — those "killers of the dream...
Page 159 - The scope of the Commission's work is wideranging. It must consider every aspect of instructional technology and every problem which may arise in its development. This distinguished group of citizens has the independent judgment and impartiality needed to make the report a significant contribution to American education.
Page 95 - It is a systematic way of designing, carrying out, and evaluating the total process of learning and teaching in terms of specific objectives, based on research in human learning and communication, and employing a combination of human and nonhuman resources to bring about more effective instruction.
Page 29 - State which desires to receive a grant under this title for any fiscal year shall establish a State advisory council, which shall be appointed by the Governor or, in the case of States in which the members of the State board are elected (including election by the State legislature) , by such board...
Page 70 - Because adults take the schools so much for granted, they fail to appreciate what grim, joyless places most American schools are, how oppressive and petty are the rules by which they are governed, how intellectually sterile and esthetically barren the atmosphere, what an appalling lack of civility obtains on the part of teachers and principals, what contempt they unconsciously display for children as children.
Page 40 - The National Institutes of Education should be broadly authorized to develop, support, and fund greatly strengthened programs in educational research, development, and application (RD & A.). The National Institutes of Education should comprise several constituent institutes, through which grants would be made to universities and other independent research institutions. The institutes would also conduct research themselves. The NIE should sponsor, among other things, several...

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