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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 1, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
CHRISS WINSTON
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL AWARDS FOR TEACHER EXCELLENCE IN
SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS TEACHING
On Tuesday, October 2 at 1:30 p.m., you will address the
recipients of the Presidential Awards for Teacher Excellence in
Science and Mathematics Teaching. Awards will be presented to
107 science and math teachers for grades K-12. Your remarks,
approximately 5-7 minutes in length, will be on cards.
Olson/Blymire
Title: Bromley
October 1, 1990
Draft 3
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSE GARDEN
1:30 p.m., Tuesday October 2, 1990
It's a great pleasure to be here with Secretary of Energy
James Watkins, Under Secretary of Education Ted Sanders, and the
Acting Director of the National Science Foundation, Fred Bernthal
for this tremendous gathering.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to join you today and
add my congratulations to those you have just received.
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics
Teaching have been presented for the past eight years to
secondary school teachers, but this is the first year that
elementary school teachers have also received these awards. So
you are the pioneers in what will be a continuing effort to honor
the achievements of this nation's many outstanding school
teachers.
You are a very select group: 107 teachers from the more
than one-and-a-half million elementary school instructors in this
country. For many students, you represent their first exposure
to science and mathematics, which gives you a vital
responsibility.
Most kids who go on to become scientists or engineers
first became interested in those subjects in elementary school or
junior high. And, most often, the reason they do is because they
are exposed to a teacher like each of you; someone who can spark
2
their imagination and evoke the sense of wonder that is inherent
in science and math.
Kids are natural-born scientists, but too many of them lose
interest when their only exposure to science is through long
lists of facts. You have discovered how to bring out the fun in
science and mathematics; and, in doing so, you provide a model
and an inspiration for elementary school teachers everywhere.
You are also helping to meet a crucial national need. We
live in an increasingly complex and competitive world, and the
link between science and technology and our standard of living is
stronger today than ever before. At a time when our
international position in certain key industries is being
challenged, we face impending shortfalls of qualified scientists
and engineers. The students who can fill those shortfalls are in
classrooms right now. We must ensure that they are given the
education and the encouragement they need.
Just a little over a year ago, I met with the nation's
governors for an education summit - a first step toward building
a strong partnership among this Administration, the governors,
educators, parents and community leaders. This historic event
resulted in a sense of direction and national goals for
individual and collective efforts to improve the quality of
education for all Americans.
Three of those goals directly involve science and
mathematics. By the year 2000, American students must
demonstrate competency in five critical subjects including
3
science and mathematics -- with their progress measured in grades
four, eight, and twelve. We must also make American students the
first in the world in science and mathematics achievement by the
year 2000, and we must ensure that every adult American must be
able to read and have the skills, including technological skills,
to compete in a global economy.
These are ambitious goals but they are faithful to the
ambitions of this country. As a people, we have set tough goals
before -- to send men to the moon or to serve the cause of
freedom abroad. And we know that when the challenge is great,
great things happen in America.
Already, a great many things are happening at the federal,
state and local level. The Department of Energy and NASA are
opening up their research laboratories to students and teachers
so that they can experience cutting-edge science first-hand. And
the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation
are working together and with the states on strengthening
research, assessment and curricula.
Equally exciting things are happening in the states. But
achieving the goals that I announced last January will require
that everyone get involved. That means parents, teachers, school
administrators, businesses and universities.
Parents are especially important. It is very difficult for
you as teachers to do your jobs if you don't get help from
parents, and that's why we want to see parental empowerment in
education. We must make American education the best it can be
4
and that takes two things: greater parental involvement and
greater choice in education.
Reading about your accomplishments makes me confident that
we will succeed. The letters of recommendation that helped bring
you to Washington give ample testimony to your ingenuity,
determination and enthusiasm. In one letter, the parents of a
boy named Woody write, "when we [used] to ask Woody what happened
in school, he would tell us about recess. Now he tells us about
science. "
Another letter writes of a teacher who "studies with the
mind of a scholar, perceives through the eyes of a child and
communicates with the voice of an understanding, compassionate
and energetic motivator." And all of the letters are unanimous
about one thing: the enthusiasm that you bring to the classroom,
an enthusiasm that touches everyone who knows you.
You are truly remarkable people. You are able to take
children and inspire them, broaden their horizons, and point them
in new directions. The country owes you an immense debt of
gratitude. But your real rewards cannot be printed on a piece of
paper. Your real rewards are the students who will remember you
and what you have done for them for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for all you do and God bless the United States of
America.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 1, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
CHRISS WINSTON
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL AWARDS FOR TEACHER EXCELLENCE IN
SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS TEACHING
On Tuesday, October 2 at 1:30 p.m., you will address the
recipients of the Presidential Awards for Teacher Excellence in
Science and Mathematics Teaching. Awards will be presented to
107 science and math teachers for grades K-12. Your remarks,
approximately 5-7 minutes in length, will be on cards.
Olson/Blymire
Title: Bromley
October 1, 1990
Draft 3
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSE GARDEN
1:30 p.m., Tuesday October 2, 1990
It's a great pleasure to be here with Secretary of Energy
James Watkins, Under Secretary of Education Ted Sanders, and the
Acting Director of the National Science Foundation, Fred Bernthal
for this tremendous gathering.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to join you today and
add my congratulations to those you have just received.
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics
Teaching have been presented for the past eight years to
secondary school teachers, but this is the first year that
elementary school teachers have also received these awards. So
you are the pioneers in what will be a continuing effort to honor
the achievements of this nation's many outstanding school
teachers.
You are a very select group: 107 teachers from the more
than one-and-a-half million elementary school instructors in this
country. For many students, you represent their first exposure
to science and mathematics, which gives you a vital
responsibility.
Most kids who go on to become scientists or engineers
first became interested in those subjects in elementary school or
junior high. And, most often, the reason they do is because they
are exposed to a teacher like each of you; someone who can spark
2
their imagination and evoke the sense of wonder that is inherent
in science and math.
Kids are natural-born scientists, but too many of them lose
interest when their only exposure to science is through long
lists of facts. You have discovered how to bring out the fun in
science and mathematics; and, in doing so, you provide a model
and an inspiration for elementary school teachers everywhere.
You are also helping to meet a crucial national need. We
live in an increasingly complex and competitive world, and the
link between science and technology and our standard of living is
stronger today than ever before. At a time when our
international position in certain key industries is being
challenged, we face impending shortfalls of qualified scientists
and engineers. The students who can fill those shortfalls are in
classrooms right now. We must ensure that they are given the
education and the encouragement they need.
Just a little over a year ago, I met with the nation's
governors for an education summit - a first step toward building
a strong partnership among this Administration, the governors,
educators, parents and community leaders. This historic event
resulted in a sense of direction and national goals for
individual and collective efforts to improve the quality of
education for all Americans.
Three of those goals directly involve science and
mathematics. By the year 2000, American students must
demonstrate competency in five critical subjects including
3
science and mathematics -- with their progress measured in grades
four, eight, and twelve. We must also make American students the
first in the world in science and mathematics achievement by the
year 2000, and we must ensure that every adult American must be
able to read and have the skills, including technological skills,
to compete in a global economy.
These are ambitious goals but they are faithful to the
ambitions of this country. As a people, we have set tough goals
before -- to send men to the moon or to serve the cause of
freedom abroad. And we know that when the challenge is great,
great things happen in America.
Already, a great many things are happening at the federal,
state and local level. The Department of Energy and NASA are
opening up their research laboratories to students and teachers
so that they can experience cutting-edge science first-hand. And
the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation
are working together and with the states on strengthening
research, assessment and curricula.
Equally exciting things are happening in the states. But
achieving the goals that I announced last January will require
that everyone get involved. That means parents, teachers, school
administrators, businesses and universities.
Parents are especially important. It is very difficult for
you as teachers to do your jobs if you don't get help from
parents, and that's why we want to see parental empowerment in
education. We must make American education the best it can be
4
and that takes two things: greater parental involvement and
greater choice in education.
Reading about your accomplishments makes me confident that
we will succeed. The letters of recommendation that helped bring
you to Washington give ample testimony to your ingenuity,
determination and enthusiasm. In one letter, the parents of a
boy named Woody write, "when we [used] to ask Woody what happened
in school, he would tell us about recess. Now he tells us about
science."
Another letter writes of a teacher who "studies with the
mind of a scholar, perceives through the eyes of a child and
communicates with the voice of an understanding, compassionate
and energetic motivator." And all of the letters are unanimous
about one thing: the enthusiasm that you bring to the classroom,
an enthusiasm that touches everyone who knows you.
You are truly remarkable people. You are able to take
children and inspire them, broaden their horizons, and point them
in new directions. The country owes you an immense debt of
gratitude. But your real rewards cannot be printed on a piece of
paper. Your real rewards are the students who will remember you
and what you have done for them for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for all you do and God bless the United States of
America.
AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE \ ROSE GARDEN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1990 \ 1:30 P. M.
IT'S A GREAT PLEASURE TO BE HERE WITH SECRETARY OF
ENERGY JAMES WATKINS, UNDER SECRETARY OF EDUCATION TED
SANDERS, AND THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL
SCIENCE FOUNDATION, FRED BERNTHAL FOR THIS TREMENDOUS
GATHERING.
I AM PLEASED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY To JOIN YOU
TODAY AND ADD MY CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE YOU HAVE JUST
RECEIVED.
- 2 -
PRESIDENTIAL AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE AND
MATHEMATICS TEACHING HAVE BEEN PRESENTED FOR THE PAST
EIGHT YEARS TO SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, BUT THIS IS
THE FIRST YEAR THAT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS HAVE
ALSO RECEIVED THESE AWARDS. So YOU ARE THE PIONEERS IN
WHAT WILL BE A CONTINUING EFFORT TO HONOR THE
ACHIEVEMENTS OF THIS NATION'S MANY OUTSTANDING SCHOOL
TEACHERS.
- 3 -
You ARE A VERY SELECT GROUP: 107 TEACHERS FROM THE
MORE THAN ONE-AND-A-HALF MILLION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
INSTRUCTORS IN THIS COUNTRY. FOR MANY STUDENTS, YOU
REPRESENT THEIR FIRST EXPOSURE To SCIENCE AND
MATHEMATICS, WHICH GIVES YOU A VITAL RESPONSIBILITY.
MOST KIDS WHO GO ON TO BECOME SCIENTISTS OR
ENGINEERS FIRST BECAME INTERESTED IN THOSE SUBJECTS IN
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OR JUNIOR HIGH.
- 4 -
AND, MOST OFTEN, THE REASON THEY DO IS BECAUSE THEY ARE
EXPOSED TO A TEACHER LIKE EACH OF YOU; SOMEONE WHO CAN
SPARK THEIR IMAGINATION AND EVOKE THE SENSE OF WONDER
THAT IS INHERENT IN SCIENCE AND MATH.
KIDS ARE NATURAL-BORN SCIENTISTS, BUT TOO MANY OF
THEM LOSE INTEREST WHEN THEIR ONLY EXPOSURE TO SCIENCE
IS THROUGH LONG LISTS OF FACTS.
- 5 -
You HAVE DISCOVERED HOW TO BRING OUT THE FUN IN SCIENCE
AND MATHEMATICS; AND, IN DOING so, YOU PROVIDE A MODEL
AND AN INSPIRATION FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS
EVERYWHERE.
You ARE ALSO HELPING TO MEET A CRUCIAL NATIONAL
NEED. WE LIVE IN AN INCREASINGLY COMPLEX AND
COMPETITIVE WORLD, AND THE LINK BETWEEN SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY AND OUR STANDARD OF LIVING IS STRONGER TODAY
THAN EVER BEFORE.
- 6 -
AT A TIME WHEN OUR INTERNATIONAL POSITION IN CERTAIN
KEY INDUSTRIES IS BEING CHALLENGED, WE FACE IMPENDING
SHORTFALLS OF QUALIFIED SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS. THE
STUDENTS WHO CAN FILL THOSE SHORTFALLS ARE IN
CLASSROOMS RIGHT NOW. WE MUST ENSURE THAT THEY ARE
GIVEN THE EDUCATION AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT THEY NEED.
- 7 -
JUST A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO, I MET WITH THE
NATION'S GOVERNORS FOR AN EDUCATION SUMMIT -- A FIRST
STEP TOWARD BUILDING A STRONG PARTNERSHIP AMONG THIS
ADMINISTRATION, THE GOVERNORS, EDUCATORS, PARENTS AND
COMMUNITY LEADERS. THIS HISTORIC EVENT RESULTED IN A
SENSE OF DIRECTION AND NATIONAL GOALS FOR INDIVIDUAL
AND COLLECTIVE EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF
EDUCATION FOR ALL AMERICANS.
- 8 -
THREE OF THOSE GOALS DIRECTLY INVOLVE SCIENCE AND
MATHEMATICS. BY THE YEAR 2000, AMERICAN STUDENTS MUST
DEMONSTRATE COMPETENCY IN FIVE CRITICAL SUBJECTS
INCLUDING SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS -- WITH THEIR
PROGRESS MEASURED IN GRADES FOUR, EIGHT, AND TWELVE.
WE MUST ALSO MAKE AMERICAN STUDENTS THE FIRST IN THE
WORLD IN SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT BY THE
YEAR 2000, AND WE MUST ENSURE THAT EVERY ADULT AMERICAN
MUST BE ABLE TO READ AND HAVE THE SKILLS, INCLUDING
TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS, TO COMPETE IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY.
- 9 -
THESE ARE AMBITIOUS GOALS BUT THEY ARE FAITHFUL To
THE AMBITIONS OF THIS COUNTRY. As A PEOPLE, WE HAVE
SET TOUGH GOALS BEFORE -- TO SEND MEN TO THE MOON OR TO
SERVE THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM ABROAD. AND WE KNOW THAT
WHEN THE CHALLENGE IS GREAT, GREAT THINGS HAPPEN IN
AMERICA.
ALREADY, A GREAT MANY THINGS ARE HAPPENING AT THE
FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL.
- 10 -
THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND NASA ARE OPENING UP THEIR
RESEARCH LABORATORIES TO STUDENTS AND TEACHERS so THAT
THEY CAN EXPERIENCE CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE FIRST-HAND.
AND THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE NATIONAL
SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARE WORKING TOGETHER AND WITH THE
STATES ON STRENGTHENING RESEARCH, ASSESSMENT AND
CURRICULA.
EQUALLY EXCITING THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN THE
STATES. BUT ACHIEVING THE GOALS THAT I ANNOUNCED LAST
JANUARY WILL REQUIRE THAT EVERYONE GET INVOLVED.
- 11 -
THAT MEANS PARENTS, TEACHERS, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS,
BUSINESSES AND UNIVERSITIES.
PARENTS ARE ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT. IT IS VERY
DIFFICULT FOR YOU AS TEACHERS TO DO YOUR JOBS IF YOU
DON'T GET HELP FROM PARENTS, AND THAT'S WHY WE WANT TO
SEE PARENTAL EMPOWERMENT IN EDUCATION. WE MUST MAKE
AMERICAN EDUCATION THE BEST IT CAN BE AND THAT TAKES
TWO THINGS: GREATER PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AND GREATER
CHOICE IN EDUCATION.
- 12 -
READING ABOUT YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS MAKES ME
CONFIDENT THAT WE WILL SUCCEED. THE LETTERS OF
RECOMMENDATION THAT HELPED BRING YOU TO WASHINGTON GIVE
AMPLE TESTIMONY TO YOUR INGENUITY, DETERMINATION AND
ENTHUSIASM. IN ONE LETTER, THE PARENTS OF A BOY NAMED
WOODY WRITE, "WHEN WE [USED] TO ASK WOODY WHAT HAPPENED
IN SCHOOL, HE WOULD TELL US ABOUT RECESS. Now HE TELLS
US ABOUT SCIENCE."
- 13 -
ANOTHER LETTER WRITES OF A TEACHER WHO "STUDIES
WITH THE MIND OF A SCHOLAR, PERCEIVES THROUGH THE EYES
OF A CHILD AND COMMUNICATES WITH THE VOICE OF AN
UNDERSTANDING, COMPASSIONATE AND ENERGETIC MOTIVATOR."
AND ALL OF THE LETTERS ARE UNANIMOUS ABOUT ONE THING:
THE ENTHUSIASM THAT YOU BRING TO THE CLASSROOM, AN
ENTHUSIASM THAT TOUCHES EVERYONE WHO KNOWS YOU.
You ARE TRULY REMARKABLE PEOPLE. You ARE ABLE TO
TAKE CHILDREN AND INSPIRE THEM, BROADEN THEIR HORIZONS,
AND POINT THEM IN NEW DIRECTIONS.
- 14 -
THE COUNTRY OWES YOU AN IMMENSE DEBT OF GRATITUDE. BUT
YOUR REAL REWARDS CANNOT BE PRINTED ON A PIECE OF
PAPER. YOUR REAL REWARDS ARE THE STUDENTS WHO WILL
REMEMBER YOU AND WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR THEM FOR THE
REST OF THEIR LIVES.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
#
#
#
AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE \ ROSE GARDEN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1990 \ 1:30 P. M.
It's A GREAT PLEASURE TO BE HERE WITH SECRETARY OF
ENERGY JAMES WATKINS, UNDER SECRETARY OF EDUCATION TED
SANDERS, AND THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL
SCIENCE FOUNDATION, FRED BERNTHAL FOR THIS TREMENDOUS
GATHERING.
I AM PLEASED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN YOU
TODAY AND ADD MY CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE YOU HAVE JUST
RECEIVED.
- 2 -
PRESIDENTIAL AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE AND
MATHEMATICS TEACHING HAVE BEEN PRESENTED FOR THE PAST
EIGHT YEARS TO SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, BUT THIS IS
THE FIRST YEAR THAT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS HAVE
ALSO RECEIVED THESE AWARDS. So YOU ARE THE PIONEERS IN
WHAT WILL BE A CONTINUING EFFORT TO HONOR THE
ACHIEVEMENTS OF THIS NATION'S MANY OUTSTANDING SCHOOL
TEACHERS.
- 3 -
You ARE A VERY SELECT GROUP: 107 TEACHERS FROM THE
MORE THAN ONE-AND-A-HALF MILLION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
INSTRUCTORS IN THIS COUNTRY. FOR MANY STUDENTS, YOU
REPRESENT THEIR FIRST EXPOSURE TO SCIENCE AND
MATHEMATICS, WHICH GIVES YOU A VITAL RESPONSIBILITY.
MOST KIDS WHO GO ON TO BECOME SCIENTISTS OR
ENGINEERS FIRST BECAME INTERESTED IN THOSE SUBJECTS IN
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OR JUNIOR HIGH.
- 4 -
AND, MOST OFTEN, THE REASON THEY DO IS BECAUSE THEY ARE
EXPOSED TO A TEACHER LIKE EACH OF YOU; SOMEONE WHO CAN
SPARK THEIR IMAGINATION AND EVOKE THE SENSE OF WONDER
THAT IS INHERENT IN SCIENCE AND MATH.
KIDS ARE NATURAL-BORN SCIENTISTS, BUT TOO MANY OF
THEM LOSE INTEREST WHEN THEIR ONLY EXPOSURE TO SCIENCE
IS THROUGH LONG LISTS OF FACTS.
- 5 -
You HAVE DISCOVERED HOW TO BRING OUT THE FUN IN SCIENCE
AND MATHEMATICS; AND, IN DOING so, YOU PROVIDE A MODEL
AND AN INSPIRATION FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS
EVERYWHERE.
You ARE ALSO HELPING TO MEET A CRUCIAL NATIONAL
NEED. WE LIVE IN AN INCREASINGLY COMPLEX AND
COMPETITIVE WORLD, AND THE LINK BETWEEN SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY AND OUR STANDARD OF LIVING IS STRONGER TODAY
THAN EVER BEFORE.
- 6 -
AT A TIME WHEN OUR INTERNATIONAL POSITION IN CERTAIN
KEY INDUSTRIES IS BEING CHALLENGED, WE FACE IMPENDING
SHORTFALLS OF QUALIFIED SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS. THE
STUDENTS WHO CAN FILL THOSE SHORTFALLS ARE IN
CLASSROOMS RIGHT NOW. WE MUST ENSURE THAT THEY ARE
GIVEN THE EDUCATION AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT THEY NEED.
- 7 -
JUST A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO, I MET WITH THE
NATION'S GOVERNORS FOR AN EDUCATION SUMMIT -- A FIRST
STEP TOWARD BUILDING A STRONG PARTNERSHIP AMONG THIS
ADMINISTRATION, THE GOVERNORS, EDUCATORS, PARENTS AND
COMMUNITY LEADERS. THIS HISTORIC EVENT RESULTED IN A
SENSE OF DIRECTION AND NATIONAL GOALS FOR INDIVIDUAL
AND COLLECTIVE EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF
EDUCATION FOR ALL AMERICANS.
- 8 -
THREE OF THOSE GOALS DIRECTLY INVOLVE SCIENCE AND
MATHEMATICS. BY THE YEAR 2000, AMERICAN STUDENTS MUST
DEMONSTRATE COMPETENCY IN FIVE CRITICAL SUBJECTS
INCLUDING SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS -- WITH THEIR
PROGRESS MEASURED IN GRADES FOUR, EIGHT, AND TWELVE.
WE MUST ALSO MAKE AMERICAN STUDENTS THE FIRST IN THE
WORLD IN SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT BY THE
YEAR 2000, AND WE MUST ENSURE THAT EVERY ADULT AMERICAN
MUST BE ABLE TO READ AND HAVE THE SKILLS, INCLUDING
TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS, TO COMPETE IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY.
- 9 -
THESE ARE AMBITIOUS GOALS BUT THEY ARE FAITHFUL TO
THE AMBITIONS OF THIS COUNTRY. As A PEOPLE, WE HAVE
SET TOUGH GOALS BEFORE -- TO SEND MEN TO THE MOON OR TO
SERVE THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM ABROAD. AND WE KNOW THAT
WHEN THE CHALLENGE IS GREAT, GREAT THINGS HAPPEN IN
AMERICA.
ALREADY, A GREAT MANY THINGS ARE HAPPENING AT THE
FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL.
- 10 -
THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND NASA ARE OPENING UP THEIR
RESEARCH LABORATORIES TO STUDENTS AND TEACHERS so THAT
THEY CAN EXPERIENCE CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE FIRST-HAND.
AND THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE NATIONAL
SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARE WORKING TOGETHER AND WITH THE
STATES ON STRENGTHENING RESEARCH, ASSESSMENT AND
CURRICULA.
EQUALLY EXCITING THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN THE
STATES. BUT ACHIEVING THE GOALS THAT I ANNOUNCED LAST
JANUARY WILL REQUIRE THAT EVERYONE GET INVOLVED.
- 11 -
THAT MEANS PARENTS, TEACHERS, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS,
BUSINESSES AND UNIVERSITIES.
PARENTS ARE ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT. IT IS VERY
DIFFICULT FOR YOU AS TEACHERS TO DO YOUR JOBS IF YOU
DON'T GET HELP FROM PARENTS, AND THAT'S WHY WE WANT TO
SEE PARENTAL EMPOWERMENT IN EDUCATION. WE MUST MAKE
AMERICAN EDUCATION THE BEST IT CAN BE AND THAT TAKES
TWO THINGS: GREATER PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AND GREATER
CHOICE IN EDUCATION.
- 12 -
READING ABOUT YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS MAKES ME
CONFIDENT THAT WE WILL SUCCEED. THE LETTERS OF
RECOMMENDATION THAT HELPED BRING YOU TO WASHINGTON GIVE
AMPLE TESTIMONY TO YOUR INGENUITY, DETERMINATION AND
ENTHUSIASM. IN ONE LETTER, THE PARENTS OF A BOY NAMED
WOODY WRITE, "WHEN WE [USED] TO ASK WOODY WHAT HAPPENED
IN SCHOOL, HE WOULD TELL US ABOUT RECESS. Now HE TELLS
US ABOUT SCIENCE."
- 13 -
ANOTHER LETTER WRITES OF A TEACHER WHO "STUDIES
WITH THE MIND OF A SCHOLAR, PERCEIVES THROUGH THE EYES
OF A CHILD AND COMMUNICATES WITH THE VOICE OF AN
UNDERSTANDING, COMPASSIONATE AND ENERGETIC MOTIVATOR."
AND ALL OF THE LETTERS ARE UNANIMOUS ABOUT ONE THING:
THE ENTHUSIASM THAT YOU BRING TO THE CLASSROOM, AN
ENTHUSIASM THAT TOUCHES EVERYONE WHO KNOWS YOU.
You ARE TRULY REMARKABLE PEOPLE. You ARE ABLE TO
TAKE CHILDREN AND INSPIRE THEM, BROADEN THEIR HORIZONS,
AND POINT THEM IN NEW DIRECTIONS.
- 14 -
THE COUNTRY OWES YOU AN IMMENSE DEBT OF GRATITUDE. BUT
YOUR REAL REWARDS CANNOT BE PRINTED ON A PIECE OF
PAPER. YOUR REAL REWARDS ARE THE STUDENTS WHO WILL
REMEMBER YOU AND WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR THEM FOR THE
REST OF THEIR LIVES.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
#
#
#
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Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
90 OCT 2 A8:41
10/2/90
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DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE
ROSE GARDEN
SUBJECT:
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1990
1:30 PM
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
A
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
DEMAREST
P
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BROMLEY
ANDERSON
HAGIN
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
90 0CT - PM 6:20
October 1, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
CHRISS WINSTON
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL AWARDS FOR TEACHER EXCELLENCE IN
SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS TEACHING
On Tuesday, October 2 at 1:30 p.m., you will address the
recipients of the Presidential Awards for Teacher Excellence in
Science and Mathematics Teaching. Awards will be presented to
107 science and math teachers for grades K-12. Your remarks,
approximately 5-7 minutes in length, will be on cards.
Olson/Blymire
Title: Bromley
October 1, 1990
Draft 3
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSE GARDEN
1:30 p.m., Tuesday October 2, 1990
It's a great pleasure to be here with Secretary of Energy
James Watkins, Under Secretary of Education Ted Sanders, and the
Acting Director of the National Science Foundation, Fred Bernthal
for this tremendous gathering.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to join you today and
add my congratulations to those you have just received.
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics
Teaching have been presented for the past eight years to
secondary school teachers, but this is the first year that
elementary school teachers have also received these awards. So
you are the pioneers in what will be a continuing effort to honor
the achievements of this nation's many outstanding school
teachers.
You are a very select group: 107 teachers from the more
than one-and-a-half million elementary school instructors in this
country. For many students, you represent their first exposure
to science and mathematics, which gives you a vital
responsibility.
Most kids who go on to become scientists or engineers
first became interested in those subjects in elementary school or
junior high. And, most often, the reason they do is because they
are exposed to a teacher like each of you; someone who can spark
2
their imagination and evoke the sense of wonder that is inherent
in science and math.
Kids are natural-born scientists, but too many of them lose
interest when their only exposure to science is through long
lists of facts. You have discovered how to bring out the fun in
science and mathematics; and, in doing so, you provide a model
and an inspiration for elementary school teachers everywhere.
You are also helping to meet a crucial national need. We
live in an increasingly complex and competitive world, and the
link between science and technology and our standard of living is
stronger today than ever before. At a time when our
international position in certain key industries is being
challenged, we face impending shortfalls of qualified scientists
and engineers. The students who can fill those shortfalls are in
classrooms right now. We must ensure that they are given the
education and the encouragement they need.
Just a little over a year ago, I met with the nation's
governors for an education summit - a first step toward building
a strong partnership among this Administration, the governors,
educators, parents and community leaders. This historic event
resulted in a sense of direction and national goals for
individual and collective efforts to improve the quality of
education for all Americans.
Three of those goals directly involve science and
mathematics. By the year 2000, American students must
demonstrate competency in five critical subjects including
3
science and mathematics -- with their progress measured in grades
four, eight, and twelve. We must also make American students the
first in the world in science and mathematics achievement by the
year 2000, and we must ensure that every adult American must be
able to read and have the skills, including technological skills,
to compete in a global economy.
These are ambitious goals but they are faithful to the
ambitions of this country. As a people, we have set tough goals
before -- to send men to the moon or to serve the cause of
freedom abroad. And we know that when the challenge is great,
great things happen in America.
Already, a great many things are happening at the federal,
state and local level. The Department of Energy and NASA are
opening up their research laboratories to students and teachers
so that they can experience cutting-edge science first-hand. And
the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation
are working together and with the states on strengthening
research, assessment and curricula.
Equally exciting things are happening in the states. But
achieving the goals that I announced last January will require
that everyone get involved. That means parents, teachers, school
administrators, businesses and universities.
Parents are especially important. It is very difficult for
you as teachers to do your jobs if you don't get help from
parents, and that's why we want to see parental empowerment in
education. We must make American education the best it can be
4
and that takes two things: greater parental involvement and
greater choice in education.
Reading about your accomplishments makes me confident that
we will succeed. The letters of recommendation that helped bring
you to Washington give ample testimony to your ingenuity,
determination and enthusiasm. In one letter, the parents of a
boy named Woody write, "when we [used] to ask Woody what happened
in school, he would tell us about recess. Now he tells us about
science."
Another letter writes of a teacher who "studies with the
mind of a scholar, perceives through the eyes of a child and
communicates with the voice of an understanding, compassionate
and energetic motivator." And all of the letters are unanimous
about one thing: the enthusiasm that you bring to the classroom,
an enthusiasm that touches everyone who knows you.
You are truly remarkable people. You are able to take
children and inspire them, broaden their horizons, and point them
in new directions. The country owes you an immense debt of
gratitude. But your real rewards cannot be printed on a piece of
paper. Your real rewards are the students who will remember you
and what you have done for them for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for all you do and God bless the United States of
America.
Document No. 178703
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
9/28/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: Noon, Mon., Oct. 1, 199
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE (09/28 Draft 2)
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE N/C
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH N/C
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
DEMAREST N/C
/
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BROMLEY
HAGIN
ANDERSON N/C
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations to Chriss Winston by
NOON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1990, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Olson/Dooley
Title: Bromley
September 28, 1990
30 SEP 28 P5: 17
Draft 2
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSE GARDEN
1:30 p.m., Tuesday October 2, 1990
It's a great pleasure to be here with Secretary of Education
Under Secretory of Education
Lauro Cavazos, Secretary of Energy James Watkins and the Acting Ted
Sanders
Director of the National Science Foundation, Fred Bernthal, for
this tremendous gathering.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to join you today and
Just
add my congratulations to those you have already received.
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics
to secondary school teachers
Teaching have been presented for the past eight years, but this
also received
is the first year that elementary school teachers have been
these awards.
honored as a separate category. So you are the pioneers in what
will be a continuing effort to honor the achievements of this
nation's many outstanding school teachers.
You are a very select group: 107 teachers from the more
than one-and-a-half million elementary school instructors in this
country. For many students, you represent their first exposure
to science and mathematics, which gives you a vital
responsibility.
Studies have shown that most kids who go on to become
first became interested in those subjects
scientists or engineers decide to do so in elementary school or
junior high. And, most often, the reason they do is because they
are exposed to a teacher like each of you; someone who can spark
their imagination and evoke the sense of wonder that is inherent
in science and math.
2
Kids are natural-born scientists, but too many of them lose
interest when their only exposure to science is through long
lists of facts. You have discovered how to bring out the fun in
science and mathematics; and, in doing so, you provide a model
and an inspiration for elementary school teachers everywhere.
You are also helping to meet a crucial national need. We
live in an increasingly complex and competitive world, and the
link between science and technology and our standard of living is
stronger today than ever before. At a time when our
international position in certain key industries is being
challenged, we face impending shortfalls of qualified scientists
and engineers. The students who can fill those shortfalls are in
classrooms right now. We must ensure that they are given the
education and the encouragement they need.
Just a little over a year ago, I met with the nation's
governors for an education summit - a first step toward building
a strong partnership among this Administration, the governors,
educators, parents and community leaders. This historic event
resulted in a sense of direction and national goals for
individual and collective efforts to improve the quality of
education for all Americans.
Three of those goals directly involve science and
demonstrate
mathematics. By the year 2000, American students must be
competent cy in five critical subjects including science and
mathematics -- with their progress measured in grades four,
eight, and twelve. We must also make American students the first
3
achievement
in the world in science and mathematics by the year 2000, and we
must ensure that every adult American must be able to read and
have the skills, including technological skills, to compete in a
global economy.
These are ambitious goals but they are faithful to the
ambitions of this country. As a people, we have set tough goals
before -- to send men to the moon or to serve the cause of
freedom abroad. And we know that when the challenge is great,
great things happen in America.
Already, a great many things are happening at the federal,
and NASA are
state and local level. The Department of Energy is opening up
their research
its national laboratories to students and teachers so that they
Cud the
can experience cutting-edge science first-hand. And the
Department of Education and the national Science Foundation are
Department of Education plans to greatly expand its Dwight
WORKING together and with the states on strengthening research,
Eisenhower Mathematics and Science program to bring the best
assesment and curricula.
possible science and math teaching to schools throughout the
country
Equally exciting things are happening in the states. But to
achieve ing the goals that I announced last January will require that
everyone get involved. That means parents, teachers, school
administrators, businesses and universities.
Parents are especially important. It is very difficult for
you as teachers to do your jobs if you don't get help from
want to see
parents, and that's why we're encouraging parental empowerment in
education. We must make American education the best it can be
two things educational choice and mor. greater
and that takes commitment.
greater parental involvement
and greater charce in education.
add
*In fact, NASA
4
Reading about your accomplishments makes me confident that
we will succeed. The letters of recommendation that helped bring
you to Washington give ample testimony to your ingenuity,
determination and enthusiasm. In one letter, the parents of a
boy named Woody write, If when we [used] to ask Woody what
happened in school, he would tell us about recess. Now he tells
us about science."
Another letter writes of a teacher who "studies with the
mind of a scholar, perceives through the eyes of a child and
communicates with the voice of an understanding, compassionate
and energetic motivator." And all of the letters are unanimous
about one thing: the enthusiasm that you bring to the classroom,
an enthusiasm that touches everyone who knows you.
You are truly remarkable people. You are able to take
children and inspire them, broaden their horizons, and point them
in new directions. The country owes you an immense debt of
gratitude. But your real rewards cannot be printed on a piece of
paper. Your real rewards are the students who will remember you
and what you have done for them for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for all you do and God bless the United States of
America.
#
#
#
Document No. 178703
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 9/28/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: Noon, Mon. , Oct. 1, 199
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE ROSE GARDEN,
SUBJECT: 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 2, 1990
k
Co9/28 Draft 2)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
Bromley
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Due: Mon. Oct. 1, 1990, NOON.
RESPONSE
PCs proude any comments recemen
to Chriss Winston by NOT May 10/1
with a capy to my offerce ThA us
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Document No. 178703
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
14
9/28/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: Noon, Mon. , Oct. 1, 199
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE (09/28 Draft 2)
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BROMLEY
HAGIN
ANDERSON
IOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations to Chriss Winston by
NOON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1990, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
Please All additional comment from
NSF, Thanks, Hollywilliamson 10-1-90
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
In addition to sponsoring this awards program, the National
Science Foundation is actively engaged in efforts to expand
excellence in science, mathematics, and engineering instruction
at all levels, and ensure that students progress through school
achieving competency in these subjects. In particular, it
recently launched a Statewide Systemic Initiative to actively
encourage and support broad-based, fundamental changes at the
state and local levels to improve science and mathematics education.
10-1-90
Chriss:
The National Science Foundation sent me the above insert for page 3,
paragraph 3, end of first sentence. Thanks.
Holly
10/01/90
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in the world in science and mathematics by the year 2000, and we
must ensure that every adult American must be able to read and
have the skills, including technological skills, to compete in a
global aconomy.
These are ambitious goals but they are faithful to the
ambitions of this country. As a people, we have set tough goals
before -- to send men to the moon or to serve the cause of
freedom abroad. And wa know that when the challenge is great,
great things happen in America.
Already, a great many things are happening at the federal,
state and local INSERT level. The Department of Energy is opening up
its national laboratories to students and teachers so that they
can experience cutting-edge science first-hand. And the
Department of Education plans to greatly expand its Dwight
Eisenhower Mathematics and Science program to bring the best
possible science and math teaching to schools throughout the
country.
Equally exciting things are happening in the states. But to
achieve the goals that I announced last January will require that
everyone get involved. That means parents, teachers, school
administrators, businesses and universities.
Parents are especially important. It is very difficult for
you as teachers to do your jobs if you don't get help from
parents, and that's why we're encouraging parental empowerment in
education. We must make American education the best it can be
and that takes commitment.
Document No. 178703
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
90 OCT I Pl:41
9/28/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: Noon, Mon., Oct. 1, 199
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE (09/28 Draft 2)
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BROMLEY
HAGIN
ANDERSON
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations to Chriss Winston by
NOON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1990, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
see Comments. Thama.
Haezuilliamson
10-1-90
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
DOE = Energy
I am still waiting
Ext. 2702
to hear from Bernthal.
DOEd= = Education
1:30 pm 10-1-90
Olson/Dooley
Title: Bromley
September 28, 1990
30 SEP 28 P5: 17
Draft 2
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSE GARDEN
1:30 p.m., Tuesday October 2, 1990
It's a great pleasure to be here with Secretary of Education e
secretary of Energy James Wathins, under secretary of Education Fed
DOED
Lauro Cavazos, Secretary of Energy James Watkins and the Acting Sandler,
(T)
alsowhet
Director of the National Science Foundation, Fred Bernthal, for
Bromper?
this tremendous gathering.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to join you today and
add my congratulations to those you have already received.
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics
(DOE)
in recognition of our National Educational Goals,
Teaching have been presented for the past eight years, but this year
^ is the first year that elementary school teachers have been
honored as a separate category. So you are the pioneers in what
will be a continuing effort to honor the achievements of this
nation's many outstanding school teachers.
You are a very select group: 107 teachers from the more
than one-and-a-half million elementary school instructors in this
country. For many students, you represent their first exposure
to science and mathematics, which gives you a vital
responsibility.
Studies have shown that most kids who go on to become
scientists or engineers decide to do so in elementary school or
junior high. And, most often, the reason they do is because they
are exposed to a teacher like each of you; someone who can spark
their imagination and evoke the sense of wonder that is inherent
V(OCA)
in science and math.
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prescribed see a seperate ceremony which f cannot Magbe
it could be 1 reworded to indicate a seperate ceremory was particularly
sollin tn this Moth Kienan FD /mal
2
Kids are natural-born scientists, but too many of them lose
interest when their only exposure to science is through long
lists of facts. You have discovered how to bring out the fun in
science and mathematics; and, in doing so, you provide a model
and an inspiration for elementary school teachers everywhere.
You are also helping to meet a crucial national need. We
live in an increasingly complex and competitive world, and the
link between science and technology and our standard of living is
stronger today than ever before. At a time when our
international position in certain key industries is being
challenged, we face impending shortfalls of qualified scientists
and engineers. The students who can fill those shortfalls are in
classrooms right now. We must ensure that they are given the
education and the encouragement they need.
Just a little over a year ago, I met with the nation's
governors for an education summit - a first step toward building
a strong partnership among this Administration, the governors,
educators, parents and community leaders. This historic event
resulted in a sense of direction and national goals for
individual and collective efforts to improve the quality of
education for all Americans.
Three of those goals directly involve science and
mathematics. By the year 2000, American students must be
competent in five critical subjects including science and
mathematics -- with their progress measured in grades four,
eight, and twelve. We must also make American students the first
3
in the world in science and mathematics by the year 2000, and we
must ensure that every adult American must be able to read and
have the skills, including technological skills, to compete in a
global economy.
These are ambitious goals but they are faithful to the
ambitions of this country. As a people, we have set tough goals
before -- to send men to the moon or to serve the cause of
freedom abroad. And we know that when the challenge is great,
great things happen in America.
Already, a great many things are happening at the federal,
and NASA are
state and local level. The Department of Energy^is opening up
(NASA t
their research
a
its national laboratories to students and teachers so that they
POE)
can experience cutting-edge science first-hand. ^ And the
Department of Education plans to greatly expand its Dwight
Eisenhower Mathematics and Science program to bring the best
possible science and math teaching to schools throughout the
country.
Equally exciting things are happening in the states. But to
achieve the goals that I announced last January will require that
everyone get involved. That means parents, teachers, school
administrators, businesses and universities.
Parents are especially important. It is very difficult for
you as teachers to do your jobs if you don't get help from
parents, and that's why we're encouraging parental empowerment in
education. We must make American education the best it can be
VLOCA)
two things: choice and
and that takes/commitment.
NASA writed to insut: "NASA has just announced
a program to integrate exciting space concepts into college prozians
education and notio is buture teachers."
4
Reading about your accomplishments makes me confident that
we will succeed. The letters of recommendation that helped bring
you to Washington give ample testimony to your ingenuity,
determination and enthusiasm. In one letter, the parents of a
boy named Woody write, H when we [used] to ask Woody what
happened in school, he would tell us about recess. Now he tells
us about science."
Another letter writes of a teacher who "studies with the
mind of a scholar, perceives through the eyes of a child and
communicates with the voice of an understanding, compassionate
and energetic motivator." And all of the letters are unanimous
about one thing: the enthusiasm that you bring to the classroom,
an enthusiasm that touches everyone who knows you.
You are truly remarkable people. You are able to take
children and inspire them, broaden their horizons, and point them
in new directions. The country owes you an immense debt of
gratitude. But your real rewards cannot be printed on a piece of
paper. Your real rewards are the students who will remember you
and what you have done for them for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for all you do and God bless the United States of
America.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 1, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER RBP
18/-
SUBJECT:
Science and Mathematics Teaching Awards
The remarks for the Presidential Awards for Excellence
in Science and Mathematics ceremony are well written and
appropriate. I have several minor comments.
Page 2, para. 4
I suggest substituting "demonstrate competency" for "be
competent" in lines 2 and 3.
Page 3, top
Please insert "achievement" to read "science and mathematics
achievement" in line 1. Perhaps the following could be added
after "by the year 2000" in line 1: "And we have a specific
objective under this goal to 'strengthen math and science
education throughout the system, especially in the early
grades' where you are already making a difference."
Page 3, para. 2, lines 4-8
The example of the Eisenhower grants is good, but at the moment
it is uncertain how the budget agreement will affect its
allocation. Perhaps the following example could be substi-
tuted: "The Department of Education and the National Science
Foundation are working together and with states on strengthen-
ing research, assessment, and curricula."
Page 3, para. 3
Please substitute "achieving" for "to achieve" in line 1.
Page 3, para. 4
Please substitute "want to see" for "we're encouraging" in line
4 and "dedication" for "commitment" in the last line.
Please let me know if you have any questions about these
comments.
Document No. 178703
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
9/28/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: Noon, Mon., Oct. 1, 19
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE (09/28 Draft 2)
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BROMLEY
HAGIN
ANDERSON
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations to Chriss Winston by
NOON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1990, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Olson/Dooley
Title: Bromley
September 28, 1990
30 SEP 28 P5: 17
Draft 2
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSE GARDEN
1:30 p.m., Tuesday October 2, 1990
It's a great pleasure to be here with Secretary of Education
Lauro Cavazos, Secretary of Energy James Watkins and the Acting
Director of the National Science Foundation, Fred Bernthal, for
this tremendous gathering.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to join you today and
add my congratulations to those you have already received.
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics
Teaching have been presented for the past eight years, but this
is the first year that elementary school teachers have been
honored as a separate category. So you are the pioneers in what
will be a continuing effort to honor the achievements of this
nation's many outstanding school teachers.
You are a very select group: 107 teachers from the more
than one-and-a-half million elementary school instructors in this
country. For many students, you represent their first exposure
to science and mathematics, which gives you a vital
responsibility.
Studies have shown that most kids who go on to become
scientists or engineers decide to do so in elementary school or
junior high. And, most often, the reason they do is because they
are exposed to a teacher like each of you; someone who can spark
their imagination and evoke the sense of wonder that is inherent
in science.
2
Kids are natural-born scientists, but too many of them lose
interest when their only exposure to science is through long
lists of facts. You have discovered how to bring out the fun in
science and mathematics; and, in doing so, you provide a model
and an inspiration for elementary school teachers everywhere.
You are also helping to meet a crucial national need. We
live in an increasingly complex and competitive world, and the
link between science and technology and our standard of living is
stronger today than ever before. At a time when our
international position in certain key industries is being
challenged, we face impending shortfalls of qualified scientists
and engineers. The students who can fill those shortfalls are in
classrooms right now. We must ensure that they are given the
education and the encouragement they need.
Just a little over a year ago, I met with the nation's
governors for an education summit - a first step toward building
a strong partnership among this Administration, the governors,
educators, parents and community leaders. This historic event
resulted in a sense of direction and national goals for
individual and collective efforts to improve the quality of
education for all Americans.
Three of those goals directly involve science and
mathematics. By the year 2000, American students must be DEMONSTRATE
competent cy in five critical subjects including science and
mathematics -- with their progress measured in grades four,
eight, and twelve. We must also make American students the first
AND WE HAVE A SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE UNDER THIS
GOAL TO STRENGTHEN MATH AND SCIENCE EDUCATION
THROUGHOUT THE SYSTEM, ESPECIALLY IN THE EARLY
GRADES" WHERE YOU ARE ALREADY MAKING A DIFFERENCE.
3
ACHIEVEMENT
in the world in science and mathematios/by the year 2000, And we
must ensure that every adult American must be able to read and
have the skills, including technological skills, to compete in a
global economy.
These are ambitious goals but they are faithful to the
ambitions of this country. As a people, we have set tough goals
before -- to send men to the moon or to serve the cause of
freedom abroad. And we know that when the challenge is great,
great things happen in America.
Already, a great many things are happening at the federal,
state and local level. The Department of Energy is opening up
its national laboratories to students and teachers so that they
THE DEPARTMENT OF
can experience cutting-edge science first-hand. And the
EDUCATION AND THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARE WORKING
Department of Education plans to greatly expand its Dwight
TOGETHER AND WITH THE STATES ONT RESEARCH AND
Eisenhower Mathematics and Science program to bring the best
ASSESSMENT AND STRENGTHENING CURRICULA.
possible science and math teaching to schools throughout the
country.
Equally exciting things are happening in the states. But to
ACHIEVING
achieve the goals that I announced last January will require that
everyone get involved. That means parents, teachers, school
administrators, businesses and universities.
Parents are especially important. It is very difficult for
you as teachers to do your jobs if you don't get help from
WANT TO JEE
parents, and that's why we ma encouraging parental empowerment in
education. We must make American education the best it can be
DEPICATION
and that takes commitment.
4
Reading about your accomplishments makes me confident that
we will succeed. The letters of recommendation that helped bring
you to Washington give ample testimony to your ingenuity,
determination and enthusiasm. In one letter, the parents of a
boy named Woody write, " when we [used] to ask Woody what
happened in school, he would tell us about recess. Now he tells
us about science."
Another letter writes of a teacher who "studies with the
mind of a scholar, perceives through the eyes of a child and
communicates with the voice of an understanding, compassionate
and energetic motivator." And all of the letters are unanimous
about one thing: the enthusiasm that you bring to the classroom,
an enthusiasm that touches everyone who knows you.
You are truly remarkable people. You are able to take
children and inspire them, broaden their horizons, and point them
in new directions. The country owes you an immense debt of
gratitude. But your real rewards cannot be printed on a piece of
paper. Your real rewards are the students who will remember you
and what you have done for them for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for all you do and God bless the United States of
America.
Document No. 178703
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DATE: 9/28/90
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SUBJECT:
1:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 2, 1990
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ACTION FYI
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VICE PRESIDENT
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BROMLEY
HAGIN
ANDERSON
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
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NOON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1990, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
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90 OCT I Pl: 02
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 1, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
JIM PINKERTON
S
SUBJECT:
Math/Science Educational Excellence Draft
pg. 3, para. 5, line 3
"It is very difficult for you
as teachers to do your jobs if you don't get help from
parents, and that's why we're encouraging parental
empowerment in education. We must make American education
the best it can be and that takes commitment."
We cannot allow the fact that this is an audience of
teachers to dissuade us from mentioning choice in
education. Such references to choice were included in the
last two such events (in fact, both mentioned Polly
Williams): The National Teacher of the Year ceremony in
April, and the very recent School Recognition Ceremony.
The phrase "parental empowerment" can mean the same
thing as parental choice in education, nevertheless it is
too oblique; we should politely (i.e., without
criticizing teachers or teachers' unions) call a spade a
spade, e.g., " and that' why we're encouraging the
nationwide, grassroots movement toward greater parental
involvment and greater parental choice in education."
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9/28/90
DATE:
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE (09/28 Draft 2)
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BROMEY
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BROMLEY
HAGIN
ANDERSON
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations to Chriss Winston by
NOON MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1990, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
(Ext. 2734)
Comments by Steve Olson for D. Allan Branley.
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Olson/Dooley
Title: Bromley
September 28, 1990
30 SEP 28 P5: 17
Draft 2
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSE GARDEN
1:30 p.m., Tuesday October 2, 1990
It's a great pleasure to be here with Secretary of Education
Lauro Cavazos, Secretary of Energy James Watkins and the Acting
fir
Director of the National Science Foundation, Fred Bernthal, for
this tremendous gathering.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to join you today and
just
add my congratulations to those you have already received.
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics
to secondary school teachers,
Teaching have been presented for the past eight years, but this
is the first year that elementary school teachers have been
also received these awards.
honored as a separate category. So you are the pioneers in what
will be a continuing effort to honor the achievements of this
nation's many outstanding school teachers.
You are a very select group: 107 teachers from the more
than one-and-a-half million elementary school instructors in this
country. For many students, you represent their first exposure
to science and mathematics, which gives you a vital
responsibility.
Studies have shown that most kids who go on to become
first become interested in those subjects
scientists or engineers decide to do so in elementary school or
junior high. And, most often, the reason they do is because they
are exposed to a teacher like each of you; someone who can spark
their imagination and evoke the sense of wonder that is inherent
in science.
2
Kids are natural-born scientists, but too many of them lose
interest when their only exposure to science is through long
lists of facts. You have discovered how to bring out the fun in
science and mathematics; and, in doing so, you provide a model
and an inspiration for elementary school teachers everywhere.
You are also helping to meet a crucial national need. We
live in an increasingly complex and competitive world, and the
link between science and technology and our standard of living is
stronger today than ever before. At a time when our
international position in certain key industries is being
challenged, we face impending shortfalls of qualified scientists
and engineers. The students who can fill those shortfalls are in
classrooms right now. We must ensure that they are given the
education and the encouragement they need.
Just a little over a year ago, I met with the nation's
governors for an education summit - a first step toward building
a strong partnership among this Administration, the governors,
educators, parents and community leaders. This historic event
resulted in a sense of direction and national goals for
individual and collective efforts to improve the quality of
education for all Americans.
Three of those goals directly involve science and
mathematics. By the year 2000, American students must be
competent in five critical subjects including science and
mathematics -- with their progress measured in grades four,
eight, and twelve. We must also make American students the first
we mention need do the NSF to most educ.
The National Science Foundation is starting a major
new program to help revamp science education at the
state level.
Theyath. in + program. run the + awards
3
in the world in science and mathematics by the year 2000, and we
must ensure that every adult American must be able to read and
have the skills, including technological skills, to compete in a
global economy.
These are ambitious goals but they are faithful to the
ambitions of this country. As a people, we have set tough goals
before -- to send men to the moon or to serve the cause of
freedom abroad. And we know that when the challenge is great,
great things happen in America.
Already, a great many things are happening at the federal,
5
state and local level. The Department of Energy is opening up
its national laboratories to students and teachers so that they
can experience cutting-edge science first-hand.
And the
Department of Education plans to greatly expand its Dwight
Eisenhower Mathematics and Science program to bring the best
possible science and math teaching to schools throughout the
country.
Equally exciting things are happening in the states. But to
achieve the goals that I announced last January will require that
everyone get involved. That means parents, teachers, school
administrators, businesses and universities.
Parents are especially important. It is very difficult for
you as teachers to do your jobs if you don't get help from
parents, and that's why we're encouraging parental empowerment in
education. We must make American education the best it can be
and that takes commitment.
4
Reading about your accomplishments makes me confident that
we will succeed. The letters of recommendation that helped bring
you to Washington give ample testimony to your ingenuity,
determination and enthusiasm. In one letter, the parents of a
boy named Woody write, If when we [used] to ask Woody what
happened in school, he would tell us about recess. Now he tells
us about science."
Another letter writes of a teacher who "studies with the
mind of a scholar, perceives through the eyes of a child and
communicates with the voice of an understanding, compassionate
and energetic motivator." And all of the letters are unanimous
about one thing: the enthusiasm that you bring to the classroom,
an enthusiasm that touches everyone who knows you.
You are truly remarkable people. You are able to take
children and inspire them, broaden their horizons, and point them
in new directions. The country owes you an immense debt of
gratitude. But your real rewards cannot be printed on a piece of
paper. Your real rewards are the students who will remember you
and what you have done for them for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for all you do and God bless the United States of
America.
#
#
#
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DATE: 9/28/90
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE ROSE GARDEN
SUBJECT:
1:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 2, 1990
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ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
Bromley
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Due: Mon. Oct. 1, 1990, NOON
RESPONSE
Pls provide any comments recomen
to Chriss Wi stan by NOOD
with a copy to my offence The us
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Document No. 178703
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9/28/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: Noon, Mon., Oct. 1, 199
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE (09/28 Draft 2)
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BROMLEY
HAGIN
ANDERSON
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations to Chriss Winston by
NOON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1990, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE: See comments
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Olson/Dooley
Title: Bromley
September 28, 1990
90 SEP 28 P5: 17
Draft 2
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSE GARDEN
1:30 p.m., Tuesday October 2, 1990
It's a great pleasure to be here with Secretary of Education
Lauro Cavazos, Secretary of Energy James Watkins and the Acting
Director of the National Science Foundation, Fred Bernthal, for
this tremendous gathering.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to join you today and
add my congratulations to those you have already received.
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics
Teaching have been presented for the past eight years, but this
is the first year that elementary school teachers have been
honored as a separate category. So you are the pioneers in what
will be a continuing effort to honor the achievements of this
nation's many outstanding school teachers.
You are a very select group: 107 teachers from the more
than one-and-a-half million elementary school instructors in this
country. For many students, you represent their first exposure
to science and mathematics, which gives you a vital
responsibility.
Studies have shown that most kids who go on to become
scientists or engineers decide to do so in elementary school or
junior high. And, most often, the reason they do is because they
are exposed to a teacher like each of you; someone who can spark
their imagination and evoke the sense of wonder that is inherent
in science.
2
Kids are natural-born scientists, but too many of them lose
interest when their only exposure to science is through long
lists of facts. You have discovered how to bring out the fun in
science and mathematics; and, in doing so, you provide a model
and an inspiration for elementary school teachers everywhere.
You are also helping to meet a crucial national need. We
live in an increasingly complex and competitive world, and the
link between science and technology and our standard of living is
stronger today than ever before. At a time when our
international position in certain key industries is being
challenged, we face impending shortfalls of qualified scientists
and engineers. The students who can fill those shortfalls are in
classrooms right now. We must ensure that they are given the
education and the encouragement they need.
Just a little over a year ago, I met with the nation's
governors for an education summit - a first step toward building
a strong partnership among this Administration, the governors,
educators, parents and community leaders. This historic event
resulted in a sense of direction and national goals for
individual and collective efforts to improve the quality of
education for all Americans.
Three of those goals directly involve science and
mathematics. By the year 2000, American students must be
competent in five critical subjects including science and
mathematics -- with their progress measured in grades four,
eight, and twelve. We must also make American students the first
3
in the world in science and mathematics by the year 2000, and we
must ensure that every adult American must be able to read and
have the skills, including technological skills, to compete in a
global economy.
These are ambitious goals but they are faithful to the
ambitions of this country. As a people, we have set tough goals
before -- to send men to the moon or to serve the cause of
freedom abroad. And we know that when the challenge is great,
great things happen in America.
Already, a great many things are happening at the federal,
state and local level. The Department of Energy is opening up
its national laboratories to students and teachers so that they
can experience cutting-edge science first-hand. And the
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everyone get involved. That means parents, teachers, school
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administrators, businesses and universities.
Parents are especially important. It is very difficult for
you as teachers to do your jobs if you don't get help from
parents, and that's why we're encouraging parental empowerment in
education. We must make American education the best it can be
and that takes commitment.
4
Reading about your accomplishments makes me confident that
we will succeed. The letters of recommendation that helped bring
you to Washington give ample testimony to your ingenuity,
determination and enthusiasm. In one letter, the parents of a
boy named Woody write, " when we [used] to ask Woody what
happened in school, he would tell us about recess. Now he tells
us about science."
Another letter writes of a teacher who "studies with the
mind of a scholar, perceives through the eyes of a child and
communicates with the voice of an understanding, compassionate
and energetic motivator." And all of the letters are unanimous
about one thing: the enthusiasm that you bring to the classroom,
an enthusiasm that touches everyone who knows you.
You are truly remarkable people. You are able to take
children and inspire them, broaden their horizons, and point them
in new directions. The country owes you an immense debt of
gratitude. But your real rewards cannot be printed on a piece of
paper. Your real rewards are the students who will remember you
and what you have done for them for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for all you do and God bless the United States of
America.
#
#
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
90 OCT
i
All : 48
9/28/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: Noon, Mon., Oct. 1, 199
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE (09/28 Draft 2)
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BROMLEY
HAGIN
ANDERSON
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations to Chriss Winston by
NOON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1990, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
Comments
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Olson/Dooley
Title: Bromley
September 28, 1990
90 SEP 28 P5: 17
Draft 2
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSE GARDEN
1:30 p.m., Tuesday October 2, 1990
It's a great pleasure to be here with Secretary of Education
Lauro Cavazos, Secretary of Energy James Watkins and the Acting
Director of the National Science Foundation, Fred Bernthal, for
this tremendous gathering.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to join you today and
add my congratulations to those you have already received.
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics
Teaching have been presented for the past eight years, but this
is the first year that elementary school teachers have been
honored as a separate category. So you are the pioneers in what
will be a continuing effort to honor the achievements of this
nation's many outstanding school teachers.
You are a very select group: 107 teachers from the more
than one-and-a-half million elementary school instructors in this
country. For many students, you represent their first exposure
to science and mathematics, which gives you a vital
responsibility.
Studies have shown that most kids who go on to become
scientists or engineers decide to do so in elementary school or
junior high. And, most often, the reason they do is because they
are exposed to a teacher like each of you; someone who can spark
their imagination and evoke the sense of wonder that is inherent
in science.
2
Kids are natural-born scientists, but too many of them lose
interest when their only exposure to science is through long
lists of facts. You have discovered how to bring out the fun in
science and mathematics; and, in doing so, you provide a model
and an inspiration for elementary school teachers everywhere.
You are also helping to meet a crucial national need. We
live in an increasingly complex and competitive world, and the
link between science and technology and our standard of living is
stronger today than ever before. At a time when our
international position in certain key industries is being
challenged, we face impending shortfalls of qualified scientists
and engineers. The students who can fill those shortfalls are in
classrooms right now. We must ensure that they are given the
education and the encouragement they need.
Just a little over a year ago, I met with the nation's
governors for an education summit - a first step toward building
a strong partnership among this Administration, the governors,
educators, parents and community leaders. This historic event
resulted in a sense of direction and national goals for
individual and collective efforts to improve the quality of
education for all Americans.
Three of those goals directly involve science and
mathematics. By the year 2000, American students must be
competent in five critical subjects including science and
mathematics -- with their progress measured in grades four,
eight, and twelve. We must also make American students the first
3
in the world in science and mathematics by the year 2000, and we
must ensure that every adult American must be able to read and
have the skills, including technological skills, to compete in a
global economy.
These are ambitious goals but they are faithful to the
ambitions of this country. As a people, we have set tough goals
before -- to send men to the moon or to serve the cause of
freedom abroad. And we know that when the challenge is great,
great things happen in America.
Already, a great many things are happening at the federal,
state and local level. The Department of Energy is opening up
its national laboratories to students and teachers so that they
can experience cutting-edge science first-hand. And the
Department of Education plans to greatly expand its Dwight
Eisenhower Mathematics and Science program to bring the best
possible science and math teaching to schools throughout the
country.
Equally exciting things are happening in the states. But to
achieve the goals that I announced last January will require that
everyone get involved. That means parents, teachers, school
administrators, businesses and universities.
Parents are especially important. It is very difficult for
you as teachers to do your jobs if you don't get help from
parents, and that's why we're encouraging parental empowerment in
education. We must make American education the best it can be
and that takes commitment.
4
Reading about your accomplishments makes me confident that
we will succeed. The letters of recommendation that helped bring
you to Washington give ample testimony to your ingenuity,
determination and enthusiasm. In one letter, the parents of a
boy named Woody write, " when we [used] to ask Woody what
happened in school, he would tell us about recess. Now he tells
us about science."
Another letter writes of a teacher who "studies with the
mind of a scholar, perceives through the eyes of a child and
communicates with the voice of an understanding, compassionate
and energetic motivator." And all of the letters are unanimous
about one thing: the enthusiasm that you bring to the classroom,
an enthusiasm that touches everyone who knows you.
You are truly remarkable people. You are able to take
children and inspire them, broaden their horizons, and point them
in new directions. The country owes you an immense debt of
gratitude. But your real rewards cannot be printed on a piece of
paper. Your real rewards are the students who will remember you
and what you have done for them for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for all you do and God bless the United States of
America.
#
#
#
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 9/28/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: Noon, Mon., Oct. 1, 199
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE ROSE GARDEN
SUBJECT: 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 2, 1990
E
C09/28
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
Bromley
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Due: Mon. Oct. 1, 1990, NOON
RESPONSE
Pls provide any comments recemen
to Chriss Winston by No. Manuels
with a capy to my offerce ThANKS
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Document No. 178703
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
90 SEP 31 A10: 46
9/28/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: Noon, Mon. , Oct. 1, 199
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE (09/28 Draft 2)
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BROMLEY
HAGIN
ANDERSON
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations to Chriss Winston by
NOON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1990, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
10/1/90
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Olson/Dooley
Title: Bromley
September 28, 1990
90 SEP 28 P5:17
Draft 2
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSE GARDEN
1:30 p.m., Tuesday October 2, 1990
It's a great pleasure to be here with Secretary of Education
Lauro Cavazos, Secretary of Energy James Watkins and the Acting
Director of the National Science Foundation, Fred Bernthal, for
this tremendous gathering.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to join you today and
add my congratulations to those you have already received.
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics
Teaching have been presented for the past eight years, but this
is the first year that elementary school teachers have been
honored as a separate category. So you are the pioneers in what
will be a continuing effort to honor the achievements of this
nation's many outstanding school teachers.
You are a very select group: 107 teachers from the more
than one-and-a-half million elementary school instructors in this
country. For many students, you represent their first exposure
to science and mathematics, which gives you a vital
responsibility.
Studies have shown that most kids who go on to become
scientists or engineers decide to do so in elementary school or
junior high. And, most often, the reason they do is because they
are exposed to a teacher like each of you; someone who can spark
their imagination and evoke the sense of wonder that is inherent
in science.
2
Kids are natural-born scientists, but too many of them lose
interest when their only exposure to science is through long
lists of facts. You have discovered how to bring out the fun in
science and mathematics; and, in doing so, you provide a model
and an inspiration for elementary school teachers everywhere.
You are also helping to meet a crucial national need. We
live in an increasingly complex and competitive world, and the
link between science and technology and our standard of living is
stronger today than ever before. At a time when our
international position in certain key industries is being
challenged, we face impending shortfalls of qualified scientists
and engineers. The students who can fill those shortfalls are in
classrooms right now. We must ensure that they are given the
education and the encouragement they need.
Just a little over a year ago, I met with the nation's
governors for an education summit - a first step toward building
a strong partnership among this Administration, the governors,
educators, parents and community leaders. This historic event
resulted in a sense of direction and national goals for
individual and collective efforts to improve the quality of
education for all Americans.
Three of those goals directly involve science and
mathematics. By the year 2000, American students must be
competent in five critical subjects including science and
mathematics -- with their progress measured in grades four,
eight, and twelve. We must also make American students the first
3
in the world in science and mathematics by the year 2000, and we
must ensure that every adult American must be able to read and
have the skills, including technological skills, to compete in a
global economy.
These are ambitious goals but they are faithful to the
ambitions of this country. As a people, we have set tough goals
before -- to send men to the moon or to serve the cause of
freedom abroad. And we know that when the challenge is great,
great things happen in America.
Already, a great many things are happening at the federal,
state and local level. The Department of Energy is opening up
its national laboratories to students and teachers so that they
can experience cutting-edge science first-hand. And the
Department of Education plans to greatly expand its Dwight
Eisenhower Mathematics and Science program to bring the best
possible science and math teaching to schools throughout the
country.
Equally exciting things are happening in the states. But to
achieve the goals that I announced last January will require that
everyone get involved. That means parents, teachers, school
administrators, businesses and universities.
Parents are especially important. It is very difficult for
you as teachers to do your jobs if you don't get help from
parents, and that's why we're encouraging parental empowerment in
education. We must make American education the best it can be
and that takes commitment.
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Reading about your accomplishments makes me confident that
we will succeed. The letters of recommendation that helped bring
you to Washington give ample testimony to your ingenuity,
determination and enthusiasm. In one letter, the parents of a
boy named Woody write, If when we [used] to ask Woody what
happened in school, he would tell us about recess. Now he tells
us about science."
Another letter writes of a teacher who "studies with the
mind of a scholar, perceives through the eyes of a child and
communicates with the voice of an understanding, compassionate
and energetic motivator." And all of the letters are unanimous
about one thing: the enthusiasm that you bring to the classroom,
an enthusiasm that touches everyone who knows you.
You are truly remarkable people. You are able to take
children and inspire them, broaden their horizons, and point them
in new directions. The country owes you an immense debt of
gratitude. But your real rewards cannot be printed on a piece of
paper. Your real rewards are the students who will remember you
and what you have done for them for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for all you do and God bless the United States of
America.
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 9/28/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: Noon, Mon. , Oct. 1, 199
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE ROSE GARDEN,
SUBJECT: 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 2, 1990
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSE GARDEN
1:30 p.m., Tuesday October 2, 1990
It's a great pleasure to be here with Secretary of Education
Lauro Cavazos, Secretary of Energy James Watkins and the Acting
Director of the National Science Foundation, Fred Bernthal, for
this tremendous gathering.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to join you today and
to All,
add my congratulations to those you have already received.
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Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics
Teaching have been presented for the past eight years, but this
is the first year that elementary school teachers have been
honored as a separate category. So you are the pioneers in what
will be a continuing effort to honor the achievements of this
nation's many outstanding school teachers.
You are a very select group: 107 teachers from the more
than one-and-a-half million elementary school instructors in this
country. For many students, you represent their first exposure
to science and mathematics which gives you a vital
responsibility.
Studies have shown that most kids who go on to become
scientists or engineers decide to do so in elementary school or
junior high. And, most often, the reason they do is because they
are exposed to a teacher like each of you; someone who can spark
their imagination and evoke the sense of wonder that ist inherent
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Kids are natural-born scientists, but too many of them lose
interest when their only exposure to science is through long
lists of facts. You have discovered how to bring out the fun in
science and mathematics; and, in doing so, you provide a model
and an inspiration for elementary school teachers everywhere.
You are also helping to meet a crucial national need. We
live in an increasingly complex and competitive world, and the
link between science and technology and our standard of living is
stronger today than ever before. At a time when our
international position in certain key industries is being
challenged, we face impending shortfalls of qualified scientists
and engineers. The students who can fill those shortfalls are in
classrooms right now. We must ensure that they are Get given the
need only
education and the encouragement they need.
Just a little over a year ago, I met with the nation's
governors for an education summit - a first step toward building
a strong partnership among this Administration, the governors,
educators, parents and community leaders. This historic event
resulted in a sense of direction and national goals for
individual and collective efforts to improve the quality of
education for all Americans.
Three of those goals directly involve science and
mathematics. By the year 2000, American students must be
competent in five critical subjects including science and
mathematics -- with their progress measured in grades four,
eight, and twelve. We must also make American students the first
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in the world in science and mathematics by the year 2000, and we
must ensure that every adult American must be able to read and
have the skills including technological skills to compete in a
global economy.
These are ambitious goals but they are faithful to the
ambitions of this country. As a people, we have set tough goals
before -- to send men to the moon or to serve the cause of
freedom abroad. And we know that when the challenge is great,
great things happen in America.
Already, a great many things are happening at the federal,
state and local level. The Department of Energy is opening up
its national laboratories to students and teachers so that they
can experience cutting-edge science first-hand. And the
Department of Education plans to greatly expand its Dwight
Eisenhower Mathematics and Science program to bring the best
America
possible science and math teaching to schools throughout the
country.
Equally exciting things are happening in the states. But to
achieve the goals that I announced last January will require that
everyone get involved. That means parents, teachers, school
administrators, businesses and universities.
Parents are especially important. It is very difficult for
you as teachers to do your jobs if you don't get help from
parents and that's why we're encouraging parental empowerment in
education. We must make American education the best it can be
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and that takes commitment.
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Reading about your accomplishments makes me confident that
we will succeed. The letters of recommendation that helped bring
you to Washington give ample testimony to your ingenuity,
determination and enthusiasm. In one letter, the parents of a
boy named Woody write, " when we [used] to ask Woody what
happened in school, he would tell us about recess. Now he tells
us about science."
Another letter writes of a teacher who "studies with the
mind of a scholar, perceives through the eyes of a child and
communicates with the voice of an understanding, compassionate
and energetic motivator." And all of the letters are unanimous
about one thing: the enthusiasm that you bring to the classroom,
an enthusiasm that touches everyone who knows you.
You are truly remarkable people. You are able to take
children and inspire them, broaden their horizons, and point them
in new directions. The country owes you an immense debt of
gratitude. But your real rewards cannot be printed on a piece of
paper. Your real rewards are the students who will remember you
and what you have done for them for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for all you do and God bless the United States of
America.
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