Word: nea
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...weeks ago at the NEA headquarters in Washington, the air resounded with attacks on testing. Representatives of reform-minded organizations plus a smattering of professors, school administrators and test experts from 28 states gathered at a meeting organized by a cumbersomely titled group ("Project to DEmystify the Established Standardized Tests"). Some of the delegates even grumbled about the national turn toward required competency tests for promotion of elementary and high school students. P.T.A. Representative Ann Kahn said that due to testing, elementary school curriculums are now concentrating on test scores-to the exclusion of basics like good writing. Ralph Nader...
...Department of Education, moreover, is a political payoff from President Carter to the National Education Association (NEA), a group mostly concerned with primary and secondary education. It is no secret that Carter traded his influence for the NEA's first-ever endorsement of a presidential candidate. For a man who came to Washington promising to trim down the federal bureaucracy, Carter hasn't done a very good job. We can only hope that the new department does not become a mouthpiece for the interest groups that rallied for its establishment--and that issues of post-secondary education are not buried...
...President Carter, who will sign the bill into law as soon as someone finds him a quill pen. Carter has been after this one since 1976, when he traded a promise to create the new agency for the endorsement of his campaign from the all-powerful National Education Association (NEA), an agency that had never before lent its clout to a political candidate...
Other opponents were less blunt than Bok. A disappointed spokesman for the American Federation of Teachers--which locked horns with the NEA over the proposal--said "the department will spend two years thrashing around trying to figure out which...
Many of the bill's opponents, moreover, voiced fears that the department would become the mouthpiece for the National Educational Association, the group which joined the White House to lobby for the bill. If so, then college officials need not worry about more regulation; the NEA has traditionally focused on primary and secondary education...