On the recordSeptember 4, 1997
Let me speak very frankly about this. I have had some considerable difference with my own administration on the issue of testing, as has the gentleman from Pennsylvania on the issue of Goals 2000. There is great debate about the value of either of those programs. I do not know whether Goals 2000 is going to turn out to be worth much or not, and I do not know whether their testing program is going to turn out to be worth much or not. What we have been trying to do is to find some way to encourage school reform on a neutral basis so that we can help local schools develop their own ideas, to have the time to think through what it is they want to do to improve teacher performance with only one requirement: that they agree afterward to have that approach evaluated so that we can determine which approaches really produce results and which ones do not. I would think every conservative in this body would agree with that conclusion.
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