September 25, 1991

Education Week, Vol. 11, Issue 04
Education New Mission Sought For Diffusion Network On 10th Anniversary
When the National Dissemination Study Group gathered this month to mark the organization's 10th anniversary, the primary topic was not nostalgia but the prospect of radical change.
Julie A. Miller, September 25, 1991
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9 min read
Education State News Roundup
Tennessee lawmakers can have until June 30 of next year to devise a new method for funding education, the state court judge who ruled this summer that the state's existing school-finance system was unconstitutional said last week.
September 25, 1991
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Education New Study Ties Dyslexia To Vision Abnormalities
A new study of dyslexia provides what researchers say is the first physiological and anatomical evidence that the reading disorder may be linked to the sense of vision.
Debra Viadero, September 25, 1991
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2 min read
Ed-Tech Policy PBS To Unveil Geography Game Show Based on Popular Computer Character
Inspired in part by the popularity of youth-oriented programming on such cable-television channels as Nickelodeon, the Public Broadcasting Service next week unveils its first-ever daily game show--a children's geography series based on a popular computer-game character.
September 25, 1991
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4 min read
Education L.A. and Unions at Impasse Over Budget Cutbacks
Negotiations between the Los Angeles Unified School District and its employee unions reached an impasse last week as the two sides haggled over a final budget containing the steepest cutbacks the schools there have seen in a decade.
Peter Schmidt, September 25, 1991
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3 min read
Education White Students Twice as Likely As Blacks To Smoke, Study Finds
White high-school students are more than twice as likely as black students to smoke, a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control concludes.
Ellen Flax, September 25, 1991
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1 min read
Education Arizona's Chief in the Eye of Storm As Lawsuits and Allegations Swirl By
An attentive newspaper reader following the fortunes of Arizona's public schools could well come to the conclusion that the state education system is in an unusual degree of crisis.
Peter West, September 25, 1991
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7 min read
Education Chelsea Schools Reopen Amid Uncertainty Over Near-Bankrupt City's Fiscal Health
As children streamed back into this city's aged schools last week to begin another year of study, some were greeted by an important visitor: James F. Carlin, the state-appointed receiver who now runs this suburban Boston city.
Ann Bradley, September 25, 1991
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9 min read
Education Adding the Ineffable to an Algebra Class
Book Excerpts: The Quixotic Roots of Classroom Style. An excerpt from The First Year of Teaching: Real World Stories from America's Teachers
September 25, 1991
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4 min read
Education Tax-Base-Sharing Plan Nears Approval in Michigan
Michigan lawmakers last week were poised to pass a bill that would provide low-wealth school districts with a share of the new tax revenues produced by economic growth in other parts of the state.
Lonnie Harp, September 25, 1991
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4 min read
Education A.C.T. Results Show Growth in Academic Curricula
For the first time, more than half of the college-bound seniors taking the American College Testing Program test had taken a "core" academic curriculum, officials of the A.c.T. reported last week.
Robert Rothman, September 25, 1991
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3 min read
Education Worth Noting
"For all or our differences over ideology, politics, and ethnicity, most Americans are not as far apart on the dry substance of multicultural education as many in the current debate imply. Between the extreme of using our educational system to foster an 'ethnicity first' identity and the opposite extreme of denying any diversity, is a wide area of generally accepted common ground and common sense. Most Americans can understand both the need to recognize and encourage an enriched diversity as well as the need to ensure that such a broadened multicultural perspective leads to unity and an enriched sense of what being an American is, and not to a destructive factionalism that would tear us apart.
September 25, 1991
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Education Q&A: Renowned Explorer Aims To Interest Youths in Applied Science
Robert D. Ballard, the director of the Center for Marine Exploration at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, became world famous when he discovered the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic.
September 25, 1991
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3 min read
Education State News Roundup
Children who are truant from school can be sent to jail if they disobey court orders to return to class, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled.
September 25, 1991
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1 min read
Education Del. Block-Grant Program Poses Funding Dilemma
Delaware educators are finding this fall that their state's new block-grant program has given them both a unique opportunity and a difficult responsibility: deciding on their own how to carry out a 15 percent cut in a key form of state aid.
Jonathan Weisman, September 25, 1991
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4 min read
Education Legislative Update
The following are summaries of final action by legislatures on education-related matters.
September 25, 1991
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1 min read
Education Kansas City's Lavish Classical Greek Magnet Draws Suburban Students and Raises Eyebrows
The ancient Greeks never had it as good as Steven Griffin, a junior at Central High School here.
Debra Viadero, September 25, 1991
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8 min read
Education Mo. Teachers Vow To File Suit To Fight Proposed Aid Cuts
Missouri teachers' groups have announced that they will file suit to block Gov. John Ashcroft's proposal to cut $35 million from state education aid to fund new court-ordered expenditures for desegregation of the Kansas City schools.
Peter West, September 25, 1991
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3 min read
Education Capital Digest
The National Citizens Commission on African-American Education has called for an infusion of more than $3 billion in federal funds annually for education.
September 25, 1991
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2 min read
Education Incentive Program for Teenage Parents on Welfare Evaluated
Ohio counties have made "great progress" in implementing an unusual program that offers financial incentives to keep teenage parents who are on welfare in school, a new study contends.
September 25, 1991
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2 min read
Education E.D. Study Examines Chelsea's Value As School-Reform Model
From the outset of their involvement in Chelsea, Boston University officials have viewed the project as a potential national model for urban school reform.
September 25, 1991
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2 min read
Education Shortcomings in School-Based Management in Boston Noted
School-based management in Boston has not significantly altered instruction and has not shifted real authority to the schools, according to a report released this month.
Lynn Olson, September 25, 1991
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3 min read
Education Improved Capacity To Gather Data on Youths May be 'Real Winner of New Futures
City and agency officials overseeing the Annie E. Casey Foundation's $50-million New Futures initiative have scaled back their expectations of transforming the landscape for at-risk youths within five years.
Deborah L. Cohen, September 25, 1991
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4 min read
Education Finding Light in the Heart of Darkness
Book Excerpts: The Quixotic Roots of Classroom Style. An excerpt from
September 25, 1991
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4 min read
Education News Updates
By broadening its nondiscrimination policy, the San Francisco school board has effectively barred the Boy Scouts of America from offering instructional programs in the district's schools.
September 25, 1991
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1 min read
Education People News
Geraldo Rivera, the talk-show host, has announced he will donate the profits from his steamy, tell-all autobiography, Exposing Myself, to help pay for the college educations of a group of disadvantaged New York City high-school students.
September 25, 1991
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Education Reality Tempers 'New Futures' Leaders' Optimism
Three years after the Annie E. Casey Foundation committed $50 million to an ambitious five-year effort to raise student achievement and stem dropout rates, teenage pregnancy, and youth unemployment in five cities, project participants' initial enthusiasm and optimism has been tempered by a healthy dose of reality.
Deborah L. Cohen, September 25, 1991
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22 min read
Education Confirmation of Thomas Appears Assured As Senate Committee Hearings Near Close
Although the eventual confirmation of Clarence Thomas as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court seems likely, it remains unclear whether the Senate will vote on the nomination in time for him to join the Court by the start of the new term on Oct. 7.
Mark Walsh, September 25, 1991
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3 min read
Education Publishing
Making the largest education database in the world more accessible is a goal of the The ERIC Review, a new journal published three times a year with support from the U.S. Education Department.
September 25, 1991
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2 min read
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