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SECRETARY OF EDUCATION Lamar Alexander touts it as an important step toward reinvigorating America's schools. Gov. William F. Weld '66 has made it a major part of his education reform strategy. Conservatives love it, and many liberals are toying with the idea. The program is school choice, and it's the hottest, most dangerous innovation in public education today...
...need the wind-fall even more. Most of us are struggling to finance our college education. Tuition rises every year, and government assistance decreases. As each semester goes by, we sign away more and more of our future to loan officers working in this country's failing banking system. Lamar Alexander is no Ed McMahon, and President Bush is not going to show up on any student's doorstep holding a huge check...
...CONJUNCTION WITH the arrival of U.S. Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander to Massachusetts and its schools last week, Weld and his staff whipped up an educational reform package designed to radically revamp the state's schools...
Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander discussed the major changes he believes will take place in American politics in the next quarter-century in a featured speech at this weekend's 25th anniversary celebration of the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics...
...ever accused Lamar Alexander of lacking confidence, either in his ideas or in himself. "Five years from now, Choice will not be an issue," he serenely predicts. Instead, he insists, it will be the foundation for a transformed system of education that has long been his political and personal dream. Whether that is confidence or evidence of a quietly unbending temperament is something only he can prove...