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On the recordApril 10, 2003
We hope we can play a role in taking all the various programs... back in its rightful place in our curriculum.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Discussing the importance of teaching American history and civics.

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The hearing today will address the intersection of two concerns which are extremely important to the future of our country: the education of our children and the principles that unite us as Americans.

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It is time to put the teaching of American history and civics back in its rightful place in our schools.

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the legislation I propose today will help our schools do what they were established to do in the first place.

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In my, as we call it in the Senate, so-called maiden address, I spoke on this subject, and I said I thought we had spent over the last 30 or 40 years too much time, relatively, on diversity, multiculturalism, and bilingualism and too little time on a common culture, on a common language, and on unity.

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