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- Apr. 24, 1989: American Notes:Voices
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Apr. 24, 1989 The Rat Race
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- VOICES
- Gregorian's Chant
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- <p> 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."
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- </body></article>
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