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...with impunity call for better performances from U.S. schoolchildren. Those who are being hectored to pull up their socks and hit those books are too young to vote. So the 41 Governors who assembled last week in picturesque, exurban Palisades, New York, for the two-day National Education Summit had no reason to fear a backlash from their constituents--i.e., registered parents back home...
...much for the broken part. The fixing proved contentious. Most of the Governors were at pains to distinguish this summit from the gathering of state leaders assembled by President George Bush in 1989. That conclave, in which Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton played an influential role, wound up endorsing the formulation of federally developed national standards by which student competence would be judged. This decision not only ran counter to the nation's long tradition of local control (thanks to local funding) of public schools; it also proved embarrassingly hard to implement. A blue-ribbon panel dithered over a national history...
President Clinton, who spoke at the summit on its final day, acknowledged that attempts to establish national standards have been "less than successful." But if setting one goal seems impossible, what is to be done...
PALISADES, N.Y: Governors and business leaders who gathered for a summit on raising educational standards agreed Tuesday that states, not the federal government, should set the marks for student performance. At the first such summit in 1989, national standards were the goal. Now, amid a bipartisan push in Washington to allow states to experiment in education and welfare programs, the governors have the ear of a private sector that is increasingly worried about mediocre graduates. "The American people have spoken," IBM Chairman Louis Gerstner told the group. "They do not want national standards." Gerstner and Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson hosted...
...with a rambunctious King Hussein of Jordan as a roommate, periodically verged on nodding off. In fact, the hour allotted for the actual meeting of the leaders had to be cut back to 20 minutes because of the remarks. In any case, negotiations weren't the reason for the summit in the first place. A picture is worth at least $100 million, the amount Clinton pledged to Israel the next day toward an antiterror campaign...