February 13, 1991

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FRONT PAGE
Bush Seeks To Reward District Plans That Include Private-School Choice
Baltimore Class Tests Theory of Providing 'Positive Role Model' for Young Black Boys
Weld Plan Would Cut School Aid, Eliminate Board
Mississippi Reforms At Mercy of Politics And Fiscal Problems
PAGE 4
D.C. Officials Lay Plans To Introduce Afro-Centric Curriculum in City Schools
PAGE 5
Md. Standard-English Program for Blacks Stirs Controversy
Portland Parents Boycott Schools Over Education for Minorities
PAGE 8
Foundation Awards RAND $10 Million For an Institute on Education Research
PAGE 31 - Commentary
Local Control and 'Organizacrats'
We have met the enemy, and they is us!" That's the Pogo-like characterization sketched in "Reinventing Local Control" by Chester E. Finn Jr. Commentary, Jan. 23, 1991). Mr. Finn contends, in effect, that people cannot be trusted to govern their own community's public schools.
PAGE 40 - Commentary
Against 'Collaboration': Reading and Writing Are Not Social Acts
Susan Ohanian says that not every aspect of a teacher's job is improved by working in teams.
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