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Topic 286 USDE Satellite Town Meeting - SF
peg:visionary cyberculture zone 2:48 PM Jan 19, 1994
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 01:12:07 -0500
From: Henry Dakin <hsd@igc.apc.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <cosndisc@yukon.cren.org>
Subject: USDE Satellite Town Meeting
I N T E R N E W S
Arcata * Paris * Prague * Moscow * Kiev
Washington * New York * San Francisco
S.F. Office: (415) 931-2593 * Fax (415) 931-0948
3220 Sacramento Street * San Francisco, CA 94115
liduina@igc.apc.org * hsd@igc.apc.org
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION -- GOALS 2000
Satellite Town Meeting for January 1994
San Francisco area downlink viewing
THE ARTS IN EDUCATION--
HOW SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES CAN
WORK TOGETHER TO IMPROVE ARTS EDUCATION
Tuesday, January 18, 1994, 5 to 9 pm
INTERNEWS San Francisco office
3220 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Arts and Education
Innovative school programs that help students learn about the
arts, and through the arts about other academic disciplines such
as math and science, will be the focus of this live Satellite Town
Meeting from Washington.
Other topics will include the artsU special potential for reaching
disadvantaged or disabled students and ways in which cultural in-
stitutions can work with schools to improve arts education.
The program will provide an opportunity for public comment on pro-
posed standards for arts education and on the the Goals 2000:
Educate America Act.
Participants
Secretary of Education Richard Riley and Deputy Secretary Made-
leine Kunin will welcome a panel of guests from arts organizations
and schools around the country.
The satellite broadcast from 5:30 to 6:30 will be followed in San
Francisco by a discussion of the arts in San Francisco Bay Area
schools, led by Ann Wettrich, the Arts Education Officer of the
San Francisco Art Commission and Liduina Van Nes of InternewsU San
Francisco office.
Guests at downlink sites will have an opportunity to talk on the
air by telephone with participants in the Washington, DC uplink
studio.
A $10 per person donation is requested, to cover expenses. For
more information, please call (415) 931-2593.
Goals 2000, in Brief
1. All children ready to learn.
2. 90 percent graduation rate.
3. All children competent in core subjects.
4. First in the world in math and science.
5. Every adult literate and able to compete in the work force.
6. Safe, disciplined, drug-free schools.
GOALS 2000 / Educate America
1993P94 Satellite Town Meeting Series
Schedule, January through June 1994
1/18 The Arts in Education: How schools and communities can work
to improve arts education
2/15 Opportunity to Learn: Helping all students reach high stan-
dards
3/15 Preparing World-Class Teachers
4/19 Helping U.S. Students to be First in the World in Math and
Science
6/21 Increasing Parent Involvement in Education
All Satellite Town Meetings are on the third Tuesday of the month,
and begin at 8:30 pm, ET (5:30 pm, WT).
INTERNEWS presents the only public downlink viewing of the GOALS
2000 Satellite Town Meeting series in the San Francisco area.
Doors open at 5:00 pm. The satellite broadcasts will run from 5:30
to 6:30. Informal discussions and refreshments will continue
until 9:00 pm.
The Arts in Education is the fourth of nine monthly programs in
the 1993P94 Satellite Town Meeting series, produced by the GOALS
2000 project of the U.S. Department of Education and transmitted
from Washington, DC to 2,000 satellite downlink sites and cable
television services throughout the USA, on the third Tuesday of
each month. Guests at downlink sites will have an opportunity to
be part of the broadcast and of a video recording of the show by
calling the USDE live during the presentation.
Light refreshments will be served; a $10 per person donation is
requested.
For a free subscription to GOALS 2000Us Community Update
newsletter, or for downlink sites or cable tv outlets in your
area, call (800) USA-LEARN. An audio-only version of the program
series will be available by telephone, (719) 444-0802, beginning
at 5:30 pm.
INTERNEWS takes no editorial position on public issues, but
attempts to make available to the public a variety of responsible
information sources.
INTERNEWS aims to promote international communication and under-
standing, primarily through the use of television. Since 1982,
this 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation has produced or contributed
to news programming on international issues for ABC, CBS, PBS,
CNN, the BBC, and over 20 other broadcasters world wide.
Current efforts focus on supporting independent television in
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union; facilitating peace and
security between nations; objective news reporting; and promoting
environmental awareness.
INTERNEWS has been best known for spacebridges, or two-way satel-
lite hookups for dialogues across international boundaries, and
has developed more than a dozen such programs, including the
Capital to Capital series on ABC News and Soviet State Television,
linking members of Congress with deputies of the Supreme Soviet of
the USSR.
Based in Arcata, California, Internews also has offices in San
Francisco, New York, Washington, DC, Paris, Jerusalem, Prague,
Kiev, and Moscow.
Officers and members of the Board of Directors: President: David
Hoffman; Vice President: Kim Spencer; Executive Director: Evelyn
Messinger; Administrative Director: Annette Makino. Chairman of
the Board: David McMurray. Board members: Robert Allen, Patrice
Barrat, Hon. George E. Brown, Jr., Sarah Conover, Henry S. Dakin,
Polly Howells, Kim Spencer, and William Ury.
INTERNEWSU San Francisco representatives: Liduina Van Nes, Kim
Spencer, and Evelyn Messinger.