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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 169 609 EA 011 397 TITLE Part 11:A Bill to Provide Educational Proficiency Standards. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session on H.R. 6088 (September 12 and 15, 1977). INSTITUTION Congress of the U.S., Washington, D.C. Hr-usa Committee on Education and. Labor. PUB DATE 77 NOTE 142p.; Best copy available EDRS PRICE MFO1 Plus Postage, PC Not Available from EDPS. DFSCRIPTOPS Academic Standards; Basic Skills; Educational Accountability; *Educational Legislation; Federal Aid; *Federal Legislation; Federal Programs; *Federal State Relationship; Higher Education; *Minimum Competency Testing; *Performance Based Education; Secondary Education; :State Departments of Education; *State Federal Aid; reacher Education: Testing Programs IDENTIFIERS Congress 95th ABSTRACT This document contains testimony, prepared statements, letters, and supplemental materials submitted during two days of hearings held in September, 1977. Under consideration wasa bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require state educational agencies to establish basic standards of educational proficiency applicable to secondary school students. Admiral H. G. Rickover expressed strong beliefs that the educational system is falling behind the needs of society. The president of Miami -University at Oxford, Ohio, Dr. Phillip Shriver, testified that many entering freshmen are not prepared for college level work. The second day of testimony, Representative Ronald Mottl announced that he planned to introduce a substitute bill that would allow local systems to initiate minimum competen.cy testing on a voluntary basis. Further t'estimony.was Presented favoring the federal governmsnt helping states, establish standards but maintaining local control.
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