BELL: PRODUCTIVITY EDUCATION LINKED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B01152R001101440033-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: June 22, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
6/22/83
v,arrs- Posr.
Bell: Productivity, Education Linked
By Dale Singer
and Gerald M. Boyd
Of the Port-pUwteh Staff
Increased productivity on the
part of the nation's businesses must
go band in hand with improvemeatt
in the - nation's education system.
Education Secretary Terrell H.. Bell
said hers today.
Bell linked the two is remarks
prepatred for delivery at the White
ause Conference on Proa"c
oeuig Hein at St. Louis tuversi,
EDUCATION PANEL makes its
recommendations. Page 15A
Bell cited, by contrast. the
experience in Japan. He said the
effectiveness of its'schools is one
relatively neglected reason for the
country's high productivity..
"By comparison, our own schools
are failing to provide our young
people with the preparation they
need to reach their full productive
potential.'. he said. "Given the
magnitude of the problem, the
See CONFERENCE, Page 15
"One of the reasons for the
decline in American productivity
the last 10 years has been related
to the slow but steady deterioration
of the American educational system
over the last quarter century," Bell
said. "The societal turmoil of the
'60s and 70s have borne some bitter
fruit."
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