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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED331495 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Hearing on the Office of Educational Research and
Improvement. Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Select
Education of the Committee on Education and Labor. House of
Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, Second
Session.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1990
NOTE: 182 p.; Serial No. 101-125.
AVAILABILITY: Superintendent of Documents, Congressional
Sales Office, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington,
DC 20402.
ABSTRACT: This report of a hearing on the Office of
Educational Research and Improvement (U.S. Department of
Education) focuses on programs that may help the plight of
black males in the country's educational system, i.e., ways
in which educational research and reform can address the
problems of equal education, high dropout rates, poor
student attitudes, low academic achievement, and the need
for educational improvement for minority children
generally. After an introduction and opening statement by
Major R. Owens, Chairman, testimony and/or prepared
statements and other materials from the following
representatives from the field of education are presented:
(1) W. Curtis Banks, Psychology Department, Howard
University; (2) Steven Bossert, Bruce Hare, and William
Pollard, Syracuse University; (3) Jomills Henry Braddock
II, Director, Center for Research on Effective Schooling;
(4) Norma Ewing, Chairperson, Special Education Department,
Southern Illinois University; (5) Henry Frierson, Jr.,
Office of Educational Development, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill; (6) Geneva Gay, Purdue University;
Michael K. Grady, Prince George's County Public Schools;
(7) Larry Hawkins, Institute for Athletics and Education,
University of Chicago; (8) Barbara Holmes, Director,
Education Commission of the States; (9) Shirley M. McBay,
President, Quality Education for Minorities Network; (10)
William Oliver, Criminal Justice Program, University of
Delaware; and (11) Warren Simmons, Director of Equity
Assurance Programs, Prince George's County Public Schools.
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KEY DESCRIPTORS: Academic-Achievement; Dropouts-;
Elementary Secondary-Education; Federal-Government;
Hearings-; High Risk-Students; Lower-Class;
Minority-Group-Children; Public Agencies; Social-Systems;
Student-Attitudes
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Blacks-; *Educational-Improvement; *Equal
Education; *Males-
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