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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Education
Legislative Update
The following are summaries of final action by legislatures on
education-related matters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Education
Finding Light in the Heart of Darkness
Book Excerpts: The Quixotic Roots of Classroom Style. An excerpt from
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.
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.
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.
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.
Education
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