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On the recordMarch 14, 2000
As we work together with our colleagues to make sure that, not only is character education integrated and a part of our curriculum in the future, but all of these issues of education continue to be at the top of our agenda. Because if we are going to have the kind of future we want to have in the 21st century, and America continues to be strong and a Nation that leads the world, we will do it through one thing. We will do it through education and providing those opportunities to our children and all the children of this country, no matter where they may live, no matter what their economic background might happen to be.
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Emerson Etheridge
Ind. Republican-Democrat · Tennessee

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Discussing the importance of character education and its integration into the curriculum.

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