TIME: Almanac 1993/TIME Almanac 1993.iso/time/042489/04248900.032

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                                                                                NATION, Page 25

American Notes

VOICES

Gregorian's Chant


    Vartan Gregorian, newly installed president of Brown
University, last week decried the poor quality of America's
public schools. An excerpt: "Now, in the midst of the explosion
of information, knowledge and complex challenges facing us, the
American university cannot afford the luxury of transforming its
first two years of instruction to meet the woeful inadequacies
of our public school system. We cannot afford to relegate 50%
of the university's time and resources to remedial work . . .
The universities in two years cannot do justice to twelve years
of neglect in learning. We are our high schools' keepers. The
nation must take preventive measures to reform, strengthen and
in some instances rescue our high school system."