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Page 109 - I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Page 100 - State agency which is directly responsible for providing free public education for handicapped children (including mentally retarded, hard of hearing, deaf, speech impaired, visually handicapped, seriously emotionally disturbed, crippled, or other health impaired children who by reason thereof require special education...
Page 232 - Business and military leaders complain that they are required to spend millions of dollars on costly remedial education and training programs in such basic skills as reading, writing, spelling, and computation.
Page 424 - ... (4) set forth policies and procedures which assure that Federal funds made available under this title for any fiscal year will be so used as to supplement and, to the extent practicable, increase the level of...
Page 525 - We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more constant work and less crime ; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge...
Page 89 - Commissioner thereupon shall file in the court the record of the proceedings on which he based his action, as provided in section 2112 of title 28, United States Code.
Page 427 - ... of such applications, give priority to those applicants which— (i) Are located in economically depressed areas and areas with high rates of unemployment, and are unable to provide the resources necessary to meet the vocational education needs of those areas without Federal assistance, and (ii) Propose programs which are new to the area to be served and which are designed to meet new and emerging manpower needs and job opportunities in the area...
Page 276 - Universities, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, and the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States.
Page 523 - ... may be taught the principles of the trades, not necessarily in separate buildings but in separate schools adapted to this particular education and by competent and trained teachers.
Page 523 - ... reform should focus on the goal of creating a Learning Society. At the heart of such a society is the commitment to a set of values and to a system of education that affords all members the opportunity to stretch their minds to full capacity, from early childhood through adulthood, learning more as the world itself changes. Such a society has as a basic foundation the idea that education is important not only because of what it contributes to one's career goals but also because of the value it...