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Public Education Basics Emphasized At Portland Conference
Patricia McCormack reports from Portland where educators from Portland Public Schools Beaverton Public Schools Portland State University and Lewis and Clark College heard Council on Basic Education leaders urge schools to prove they make a difference. Diane Ravitch likened basic education to a liberal one stressing schools' intrinsic importance and railing against critics. Topics spanned science English and mathematics with calls for critical thinking precision language poetry and notational understanding alongside debates over minimum competency testing.
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Portland, Ore
The
Council On Basic Education
Diane Ravitch
Teachers College
Columbia University
Portland Public Schools
Beaverton Public Schools
Portland State University
Lewis and Clark College
Howard J. Hausman
National Science Foundation
Stanley B. Greenfield
University of Oregon
Karen Billings
Roosevelt Junior High
Eugene
Ore