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- NATION, Page 25American NotesVOICESGregorian's Chant
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- 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."