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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1988
Recently, a United Nations study of 30,000 10- to 14-year-olds in nine countries ranked U.S. students next-to-last in their comprehension of foreign culture. Senator Robert Stafford of Vermont pointed out that the impressive array of witnesses before the committee indicated the need to increase geography literacy among young people. Senator…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Geography Instruction, Primary Sources, Social Science Research
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Hunger. – 1988
This hearing addresses issues of health, hunger, and malnutrition among Hispanic Americans. Health and poverty agency officials made statements before the committee and expressed difficulty in examining the health- and poverty-related problems among Hispanics because of a lack of data. Testimony indicated that previous data regarding the health of…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Government Role, Health Programs, Health Services
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. – 1989
Since 1891, Phoenix Indian High School has served as a boarding school for Indian students. In February 1987, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) recommended that the school be closed, and that students be transferred to Sherman Indian School in Riverside, California. Congressional hearings in February and July 1987 received testimony on this…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Boarding Schools, Enrollment, Federal Indian Relationship
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1988
Hearings on Senate Bill 1475 (S.1475) to establish an effective clinical staffing recruitment and retention program are presented. The bill, introduced by Senator John Melcher (Montana) seeks to counteract the effect of the impending decline of physicians and the termination of the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program on the Indian…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Health Services, Hearings
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Agriculture. – 1987
Testimony of H.R. 1800, the Rural Area Revitalization Act, and H.R. 2026, the Rural Development Reorganization Act focuses on the need for federal attention to rural problems other than agriculture. The Rural Area Revitalization Act authorizes expansion of capital available for lending in rural areas, a grant program of $25 million per year for…
Descriptors: Counseling, Dislocated Workers, Drinking Water, Economic Development
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Hunger. – 1987
The status of efforts to integrate women into the development assistance projects and programs funded by the U.S. government was the subject of this hearing. Representative Elizabeth J. Patterson, Democrat from South Carolina, pointed out that women in developing nations must work 17 hours per day for the survival of their families. Testimony was…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Females, Foreign Policy
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1989
Poverty affects many rural two-parent families, even with one or both parents working. High suicide rates, increased violence, families separated in order to find work, homelessness, and hunger afflict the rural and small town poor. This document contains testimony from poor and homeless rural people; the director of the Center on Budget and…
Descriptors: Hearings, Homeless People, Hunger, Low Income Groups
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
This legislative amendment affects Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It provides that any program within an organization receiving federal financial assistance brings the entire organization or institution…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals), Citizenship, Civil Rights
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1993
This document from the Virginia Department of Education reports on a project to enable public schools to meet requirements of two laws. The first law required public schools to emphasize instruction on the documents of Virginia and United States history and government. The second requested that all public schools be urged to display copies of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 5
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1988
This document contains the text of a Senate hearing called to examine proposed amendments (S.1703) to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (Public Law 93-638) and includes the language of the proposed amendments. The bill primarily addresses federal funding for Indian tribes to operate federal programs mandated to benefit…
Descriptors: American Indians, Economic Development, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1988
This document contains the text of a Senate hearing called to examine proposed amendments (S.1703) to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (Public Law 93-638) and includes the language of the proposed amendments. The bill primarily addresses federal funding for tribal governments, federal Indian affairs programs, and Indian…
Descriptors: American Indians, Economic Development, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1988
This hearing produced testimony on the efforts of Hawaiian and American Indian educators to provide effective, culturally relevant education at preschool and elementary levels. Witnesses described (1) Kamehameha Elementary Education Program (KEEP) which developed elementary school reading and language arts curricula and teaching methods compatible…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Style
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1988
This Senate hearing produced testimony on how the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) has been administered by government agencies and the courts. Three members of the Select Committee on Indian Affairs presented background information on the act's intent to confirm the tribe as the primary authority in matters involving an Indian child's…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Alaska Natives, American Indians
1986
In the aftermath of Grove City College v Bell, Congress sought to nullify the effects of the decision by the enactment of H.R. 700 (Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1985). This bill would restore the broad scope of coverage and clarify the application of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,…
Descriptors: American Studies, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. – 1987
Two hearings held on October 24, 1985, and April 29, 1986, produced testimony about two House bills on prevention and treatment of Indian juvenile alcoholism and drug abuse. These bills provide for (1) programs of instruction on alcohol and drug abuse in Indian schools in kindergarten through grade 12; (2) training about alcohol and drug abuse for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Education, Alcoholism
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