Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations for 1990: hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, Parte 11

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Página 157 - Commissioner shall report to the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate on the number of fellowships in the field of training teachers for bilingual education which he recommends will be necessary
Página 573 - George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, will be located in the Old United States Custom House in lower Manhattan.
Página 123 - SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES of the UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES APRIL 8, 1987 Mr.
Página 130 - If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit.
Página 21 - The texts of man's achievements are not written exclusively in words. They are written, as well, in architecture, paintings, sculpture, drawing, photography, and in urban, graphic, landscape, and industrial design. "" Music, dance, painting, and theater are keys that unlock profound human understanding and accomplishment. Children should be handed these keys at an early age. Yet, according to the Council of Chief State School Officers, boards of education in only 13 states specified the arts within...
Página 151 - ... language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism, theory, and practice of the arts; those aspects of the social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.
Página 125 - ... that many students go to college without knowing much about the humanities, and once there are not required to study them. In 1988-89, it was possible to graduate from 37 percent of the nation's colleges and universities without taking a course in history, 45 percent without taking a course in American or English literature, and 77 percent without studying a foreign language. The humanities, like other areas of human inquiry, suffer when teaching is insufficiently valued. Humanities in America...
Página 21 - The reading and study of fine selections in prose and verse furnish the chief aesthetic training of the elementary school. But this should be re-enforced by some study of photographic or other reproductions of the world's great masterpieces of architecture, sculpture and painting. The frequent sight of these reproductions is good; the attempt to copy or sketch them with the...
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Página 284 - ... Congressional Gold Medal on our Chairman, he reiterated, "...our pledge was more than "Never again." It was also "Never forget." And we've kept that pledge too. We kept that pledge when we established the Holocaust Memorial Commission and set the cornerstone for its museum.

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