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Federal Register: July 29, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 145)NoticesPage 40547From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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NATIONAL EDUCATION GOALS PANEL

Task Force on the Future of the Goals; Meeting

AGENCY: National Education Goals Panel.

ACTION: Notice of Meeting.

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the date and location of a forthcoming meeting of the Task Force on the Future of the Goals. This notice also describes the functions of the National Education Goals Panel and the Task Force on the Future of the Goals.

DATE AND TIME: Saturday, August 1, 1998 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

ADDRESSES: Milwaukee Hilton Hotel, 509 West Wisconsin Avenue, (Walker Room), Milwaukee, WI 53203.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ken Nelson, Executive Director, 1255 22nd Street, NW, Suite 502, Washington, DC 20037. Telephone: (202) 724- 0015.

SUMMARY: The National Education Goals Panel (NEGP) was established to monitor, measure and report state and national progress toward achieving the eight National Education Goals, and report to the states and the Nation on that progress. The authorizing legislation for the National Education Goals and the Goals Panel are expected to expire in 1999. At its February, 1998, meeting, the Panel decided to form a Task Force to make recommendations on the future of the Goals after the year 2000.

AGENDA ITEMS: The meeting of the Task Force on the Future of the Goals is open to the public. Agenda items will include: (1) A review of the charge to the Task Force; (2) Presentations by Governor Roy Romer, (D), Colorado and Chester E. Finn, of the Hudson Institute, on the History of why the Goals were established, expectation for the Goals and the Panel and Recommendations, possibilities for the future; (3) Staff Responses to Panel Requests; (4) a Panel discussion on the future of the Goals and next steps for the Panel; and (5) the Panel will receive a commissioned paper on Grading State Standards.

Dated: July 23, 1998. Ken Nelson, Executive Director, National Education Goals Panel.

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