URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/2260
Collection Structure Commonwealth Club of California records >  Sound recordings of club programs >  Commitment to Excellence and Equity: The Challenge for U.S. Education
Item Title Commitment to Excellence and Equity: The Challenge for U.S. Education
Collection Title Commonwealth Club of California records
Speaker Jackson, Jesse (1941-)
Date Created October 27, 1993
Description Reverend Jackson speaks on what needs to be done to reform the educational system in America. He frames it as a cultural problem. He is critical of vouchers, linking them to the privatization of health care and declining quality of both. He further notes that amount of time children spend at school as compared to other activities such as watching television, going to church, and others. He focuses on how investment on things such as prenatal care and education are fiscally prudent as compared to spending on such things as prisons. He also speaks about student-on-student violence. He calls for more parental involvement to improve both educational quality and educational safety.
Subject(s) Public schools School shootings Educational change United States Education Schools Educational vouchers
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Place Recorded California, United States
Dimensions Duration: 1 hr, 4 minutes, 12 seconds
Format Sound Recording
Medium speeches (documents)
Hoover ID Program 19931027ja; 2003c87_a_0006135
Record Number 2003C87.1949
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3g5032c1
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