4.ED 8/1:106-37 DEVELOPING AND MAINTAINING A HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION HEARING HELD IN WASHINGTON, DC, MAY 13, 1999 Serial No. 106-37 Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and the Workforce 60-512 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1999 DEPOSITORY DEC 0 6 1999 Stanford Univ» Y For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE WILLIAM F. GOODLING, Pennsylvania, Chairman THOMAS E. PETRI, Wisconsin CASS BALLENGER, North Carolina JOHN A. BOEHNER, Ohio PETER HOEKSTRA, Michigan HOWARD P. "BUCK" McKEON, California MICHAEL N. CASTLE, Delaware SAM JOHNSON, Texas JAMES M. TALENT, Missouri JAMES C. GREENWOOD, Pennsylvania CHARLIE W. NORWOOD, JR., Georgia RON PAUL, Texas BOB SCHAFFER, Colorado FRED UPTON, Michigan NATHAN DEAL, Georgia VAN HILLEARY, Tennessee VERNON J. EHLERS, Michigan MATT SALMON, Arizona THOMAS G. TANCREDO, Colorado ERNIE FLETCHER, Kentucky JIM DEMINT, South Carolina JOHNNY ISAKSON, Georgia WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY, Missouri DALE E. KILDEE, Michigan MATTHEW G. MARTINEZ, California MAJOR R. OWENS, New York DONALD M. PAYNE, New Jersey PATSY MINK, Hawaii ROBERT E. ANDREWS, New Jersey TIM ROEMER, Indiana ROBERT C. "BOBBY" SCOTT, Virginia LYNN C. WOOLSEY, California CARLOS A. ROMERO-BARCELO, Puerto-Rico CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania RUBEN HINOJOSA, Texas CAROLYN MCCARTHY, New York JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts RON KIND, Wisconsin LORETTA SANCHEZ, California HAROLD E. FORD, JR., Tennessee DENNIS KUCINICH, Ohio RUSH D. HOLT, New Jersey TABLE OF CONTENTS OPENING STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN HOWARD P. “BUCK" McKEON, SUBCOMMITTEE ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, TRAINING AND LIFE- OPENING STATEMENT OF RANKING MEMBER MATTHEW MARTINEZ, SUBCOMMITTEE ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, TRAINING AND LIFE- STATEMENT OF MS. KATRINA ROBERTSON REED, ASSOCIATE STATEMENT OF DR. ROBERT STRAUSS, PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY, THE H. JOHN HEINZ III SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND STATEMENT OF DR. BEVERLY YOUNG, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR STATEMENT OF DR. MARCI KANSTOROOM, RESEARCH DIRECTOR, |