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Stephen K. Bailey, professor Education and Social Policy and president of the National Academy of Education, says he has been devoted to the notion of a separate Department of Education for more than 10 years. "HEW suffers from elephantitis," says Bailey. "Enormous budgets and resources end up going to the 'H' and the 'W' but not to the 'E."' The Commissioner of Education, as Bailey puts it, is on the fourth bureaucratic level. To make matters worse, he argues, "there have been 15 commissioners in the last 18 years--it's just a revolving door. Nobody knows who's responsible...
Ylvisaker stresses the importance of keeping educational issues in the public eye. "Education is just too damned important" to be buried, he says, adding, "Even if the Secretary of Education lost battle after battle, we'd still have a spokesman." Bailey takes a more pragmatic view. Education, he argues, must be "dignified and elevated to the point when somebody like Derek Bok can call up the Secretary on a particular issue and say, 'For Chrissakes...
Steven K. Bailey, professor of Education and Social Policy and President of the National Academy of Education, said yesterday he is "delighted" by the Rules Committee vote. Bailey said he could not predict whether the full House would eventually pass the bill, adding, "the people I talk to in Washington say they think that they have the votes...
...Larry G. Bailey...
...four defendants, a somber figure in a dark gray suit, stood uncertainly. When it came, the response was low and fatigued: "Not guilty." With that, former Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe, 50, once a rising star of British politics, last week went on trial in London's Old Bailey criminal court for conspiracy and incitement to murder...