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...common. At the same time, in a panicked effort to improve their schools, many states and localities have added new and often burdensome course requirements, typically without input from teachers. "Traditionally, teachers have been treated like very tall children," observes Mary Futrell, president of the National Education Association (NEA), which represents 1.6 million schoolteachers. "We are not perfect," concedes Baltimore elementary school teacher Kathlynn Jacobs. "But people need to walk in our shoes before they criticize...
...greatest irony of all is that the higher education community brought the pressure on itself. For the NEA and the "blob" of interest groups representing higher education which had pushed so hard for a Cabinet-level position in the late 1970s were the ones who made Bennett possible. And instead of getting the acquiescent, cooperative type of leader they expected in the post, education leaders found themselves dealing with a highly independent secretary with an agenda remote from their...
...official, Ed McNeill, the National Education Association met in the Dome before the Republicans did and offered to split the cost of the sound system. But the Republicans said no. "They wanted their own system, so they reinvented the wheel," he said. "It was a crummy system, and the NEA's worked fine...
...ever careful GSA turned to the National Endowment for the Arts, and the NEA duly selected half a dozen candidates. As for what the CIA actually wanted of them, the agency proposed these specifications: "This art should reflect | life in all its positive aspects (e.g., truth, justice, courage, liberty, etc.). It should engender feelings of well-being, hope, promise and such. It should not produce or reflect negative attitudes, political expressions, or feelings of futility. The art should respect sensitivities against sexual, sexist, race, ethnic or other related slurs . . . It should be forceful in style and manner; and be breathtaking...
...members, honored by the NEA in San Francisco on Saturday, were still in California yesterday for the National School Board's Annual Convention and could not be reached...