Word: nies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government official reviewing a controversial National Institute of Education (NIE) contract with the Graduate School of Education said this week he has reached a preliminary decision, but refused to say what his decision...
...September, Bank Street College in New York protested a $7.7 million NIE award for the Ed School to develop a School Technology Center which would study how to use computers in teaching math and science in primary and secondary schools...
Bank Street protested the award because their bid for the contract was nearly $3 million less than Harvard's. The University claims that the NIE director violated selection procedure by overruling a review committee's recommendation that gave the contract to Bank Street...
Other controversies have surfaced regarding NIE's decision to award the contract to Harvard...
...article in the January issue of the American Psychological Association Monitor suggested that Justiz's decision in favor of Harvard may have been the result of political pressure brought on the NIE by Silvio O. Conte (R-Mass.), ranking minority member of the House committee which controls NIE funds...