March 25, 1992

Education Week, Vol. 11, Issue 27
Education New Survey Discerns Deep Divisions Among U.S. Youths on Race Relations
The nation's youths share friendships and values that transcend racial lines, but they remain deeply wary of other races and feel their own group is most affected by discrimination, a study released here last week suggests.
Peter Schmidt, March 25, 1992
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Education Legislation To Create National System Of Standards, Assessments Under Fire
WASHINGTON-Lawmakers leery of the idea of creating a national assessment system apparently have enough support to make major changes in pending legislation that could jeopardize the enterprise.
Julie A. Miller, March 25, 1992
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Education Chubb, Moe Urge Look at Lessons of British Reforms
Americans could learn a lot about school reform by scrutinizing attempts at educational improvement in Great Britain, concludes a monograph written by John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe and released last week by the Brookings Institution.
Lynn Olson, March 25, 1992
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4 min read
Education T.V.A. To Give Schools, Colleges 10 Percent Credit on Power Bills
The Tennessee Valley Authority last week announced that it will cut power costs to the 2,500 public-education institutions that the giant utility serves as part of an effort to support education improvement and to spur economic growth.
Peter Schmidt, March 25, 1992
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Curriculum Consortium Wrests Reading Center From Illinois
A consortium of universities has wrested the federal research center on reading away from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which has operated it for the past 15 years.
Robert Rothman, March 25, 1992
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1 min read
Education Democrats Drop Plan To Make Pell Grant an Entitlement
WASHINGTON--Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee have abandoned an attempt to make Pell Grants an entitlement, and have exacted support for a pilot direct-loan program from the panel' leading Republicans.
Mark Pitsch, March 25, 1992
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Education News Updates
The Los Angeles Board of Education voted last week to enter a consent decree that would require the district to equalize funding for its schools, as demanded by black and Hispanic groups. (See Education Week, Dec. 11, 1991.)
March 25, 1992
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Education Capital Digest
The Educational Testing Service has won a $12-million grant to continue operating the National Assessment of Educational Progress through the end of 1993.
March 25, 1992
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1 min read
Education Books: New in Print
Keys to the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to the First Month of School, by Carrol Moran, Judy Stobbe, Wendy Baron, Janette Miller & Ellen Moir (Corwin Pres;;, 2455 Teller Rd., Newbury Park, Calif. 91320; 200 pp., $19.95 paper). Offers suggestions for setting up an effective classroom environment and creating a lesson plan to reinforce it.
March 25, 1992
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6 min read
Education Study Challenges Linking Dropouts, Early Problems
Students who have a tough time making the transition from elementary school to middle school, or from middle school to high school, may be at greater risk of dropping out than students who perform poorly in elementary school, the results of a new study suggest.
Ellen Flax, March 25, 1992
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2 min read
Education Bill 'Deregulating' Schools Clears Wash. Legislature
In a last-minute move at the end of its session, the Washington legislature approved a measure that would "deregulate" the state's schools.
Ellen Flax, March 25, 1992
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Education Coping in the Middle Of a War Zone At Jefferson High
NEW YORK CITY--For a principal who lost five of her students to violent deaths in a single week last month, Carol A. Beck is a decided optimist.
Ellen Flax, March 25, 1992
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Education State News Roundup
Commissioner of Education Thomas C. Boysen of Kentucky has brought charges against four local school officials and is seeking their ouster under governance mandates contained in the state's 1990 reform law.
March 25, 1992
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3 min read
Education District News Roundup
The Los Angeles Unified School District, which has made deep cuts in its budget for the past three years, is projecting a budget deficit of at least $258 million for the 1992-93 school year.
March 25, 1992
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4 min read
Education State Journal: Parting shot; Crocodile tears
For a politician, one of the few benefits to ending your career in elective office is that you get to say what you think without having to consider your re-election campaign.
March 25, 1992
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2 min read
Education In the Press
Jonathan Kozol finds an unusual forum for his views on school-funding inequities in the April issue of Playboy. The author of Savage Inequalities is April's "Playboy Interview."
M. Sandra Reeves & Sally K. Gifford, March 25, 1992
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Education Property-Tax Limit Forces Cuts in Oregon
Although Oregon has escaped the worst of the current recession, that has been little comfort for the education schools at the state's two leading universities. which have endured budget cutbacks as severe as those anywhere in the country.
Daniel Gursky, March 25, 1992
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Education Educators Tap Into Dropout-Prevention Center
If it were not for an innovative data base on dropout- prevention programs, Linda Vaughn would probably still be teaching 3rd graders at Centerville Elementary School in Anderson, S.C.
Ellen Flax, March 25, 1992
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Education Scientists, Engineers Pledge To Take Leading Role in Reform
The scientists and engineers who attended the National Science Resources Center's conference on science education here produced a set of recommendations designed to help guide reform efforts in the communities where they work as well as across the nation.
Peter West, March 25, 1992
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Education We Emphasize Limits, Not Possibility
The psychologists Harold W. Stevenson of the University of Michigan and James W. Stigler of the University of California at Los Angeles present in The Learning Gap lessons drawn from five studies comparing teachers, parents, children, schools, and educational practices in the United States and three Asian countries-Japan, Taiwan, and China.
March 25, 1992
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School Climate & Safety Carnegie Launches Effort To Target Youth Violence
In an effort to strengthen the field of violence prevention for adolescents, three nonprofit groups are collaborating on a national project to I link practitioners, encourage research and evaluation, and change , the way movies and television I shows portray violence.
Millicent Lawton, March 25, 1992
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Education Groups To Unite To Speak as Alternative to Unions
A loose coalition of independent associations of nonunion educators has taken the first steps toward incorporation in an attempt to become a national alternative to the dominant teachers' unions.
Daniel Gursky, March 25, 1992
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Education Senate Panel's Action Advances J.T.P.A. Overhaul
WASHINGTON--After three years of fitful progress, legislation to retool the Job Training Partnership Act finally seems to be gaining momentum.
Lonnie Harp, March 25, 1992
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Education Demand From Newly Eligible Families Adds to Wait for Head Start Programs
Seeking some social stimulation and school preparation for her son Courtney and more time to devote to her two younger children, Tina M. Stanley began trying to get him into a Head Start program in the North Shore, Mass., area a year ago.
Deborah L. Cohen, March 25, 1992
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Education People News
Jay Taggart, Utah's superintendent of instruction, has resigned after 18 months in the job.
March 25, 1992
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Education Republicans in N.J. Assembly Unveil Funding Plan
The shifting financial fortunes of New Jersey school districts have taken yet another turn with the release by the General Assembly'S Republican majority of a funding package that would provide less state aid than what Gov. James J. Florio has proposed.
Karen Diegmueller, March 25, 1992
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Education Federal File: Checks and imbalances
Two members of the Education and Labor Committee and two members of the appropriations subcommittee that oversees education spending are among the 24 Congressmen who have bounced the most checks at the House bank.
Julie A. Miller, March 25, 1992
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Ed-Tech Policy Lawmakers Ponder Technology as Way To Bridge Funding Gap Between Schools
State lawmakers searching for solutions to their increasingly frequent and intractable school-finance-equity dilemmas are beginning to look to technology applications as a way of bridging the gap between rich and poor schools.
Lonnie Harp, March 25, 1992
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Education National News Update
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has formed a task force to explore ways of ensuring that young children receive the nurturing and support they need.
March 25, 1992
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2 min read
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