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...offering empty rhetoric - "voodoo education" policies, he has called them -for a crisis that the former Vice President believes requires generous federal aid. "He's willing to fight to the death on the MX," Mondale said, "but he won't lift a finger for education." Not since Sputnik's triumphant flight in 1957 rattled Americans' faith in their public schools has there been such a clamorous national debate on education. With dueling initiatives, Reagan and Mondale have transformed the ordinarily sleepy is sue into the first hot battleground in the 1984 presidential campaign. Once again...
...page report by the N.C.E.E. is already into a third printing, with 81,000 copies distributed. It recommends a basic core curriculum for all high school students, stricter admission requirements for college, longer school days and years, more homework, and the recruiting and rewarding of better teachers. Echoing the Sputnik scare, the report concludes, "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed...
...that isolated from the country's business. Foe McCarthy and the Justice Department were hounding Harvard professors who refused to tell Congress about the political activities of their colleagues. Harvard students helped organize a protest rally at Fancuil Hall when Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian uprising. And when Sputnik went up, several Crimson editors had front row seats for the nation's embarrassment: the center of the embryonic US tracking system was at Harvard, but when the Russian satellite began bleeping through space, the center's electronic gear, communications equipment, even its desks, were still waiting to be uncrated...
...that isolated from the country's business. Foe McCarthy and the Justice Department were hounding Harvard professors who refused to tell Congress about the political activities of their colleagues. Harvard students helped organize a protest rally at Fancuil Hall when Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian uprising. And when Sputnik went up, several Crimson editors had front row seats for the nation's embarrassment: the center of the embryonic US tracking system was at Harvard, but when the Russian satellite began bleeping through space, the center's electronic gear, communications equipment, even its desks, were still waiting to be uncrated...
...that isolated from the country's business. Foe McCarthy and the Justice Department were hounding Harvard professors who refused to tell Congress about the political activities of their colleagues. Harvard students helped organize a protest rally at Fancuil Hall when Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian uprising. And when Sputnik went up, several Crimson editors had front row seats for the nation's embarrassment: the center of the embryonic US tracking system was at Harvard, but when the Russian satellite began bleeping through space, the center's electronic gear, communications equipment, even its desks, were still waiting to be uncrated...