April 1, 1992
Education Week, Vol. 11, Issue 28
Education
Electronic Materials Added To N.M. Text-Adoption List
New Mexico schools will be able to use state textbook funds to buy electronic materials for social-studies classes and reference needs, under an unusual textbook-adoption process approved by the state board of education.
Education
Column One: Teachers
Teachers in New York State spend an estimated $62 million annually out of their own pockets for "basic teaching supplies," New York State United Teachers estimates.
Education
Maine's 'Common Core' Offers a Lesson in Standards
AUGUSTA, ME.--More than a year before a national panel of educators and business and political leaders called on the nation to define and set high standards for what every child should know and be able to do, the state of Maine had already set off down a similar path.
Education
News Update
Leonard Jeffries Jr., the Afrocentric-education proponent whose racially charged remarks ignited a national controversy last summer, has been replaced as head of the black-studies department at City College of New York.
Education
House, Senate Both Back Plans To Increase Taxes in Maryland
Under pressure from Gov. William Donald Schaefer and the education community, the Maryland House last week approved the largest tax increase in the state's history.
Education
Task Force Calls for Revamping Calif. High Schools
A California task force has called for an overhaul of the state's high schools aimed at upgrading courses and strengthening the connection between school and work.
Education
Casey Grants To Target Foster Care, Mental-Health Services
The Annie E. Casey Foundation announced last month that it will award more than $28 million to two initiatives designed to help states improve their foster-care systems and mental-health services for low-income children.
Education
Capital Digest
Saying that millions of Americans do not realize they are at risk of getting the virus that causes AIDS, Secretary Louis W. Sullivan of the Department of Health and Human Services last week unveiled a national media campaign aimed at stemming the spread of the virus.
Ed-Tech Policy
E.T.S. Perfects Computer System for Test-Taking
Ushering in a new direction in testing, the Educational Testing Service plans to inaugurate a system that will enable students to take tests on a nationwide computer network.
Education
District News Roundup
The Granite, Utah, school district may opt to provide home tutoring for severely disabled children who need constant nursing care, a federal judge has ruled.
Education
State Journal: Shock troops; Strange ways
Martial strains were in the air as the academics, lawyers, and consultants who are on the front lines of the states' increasingly frequent school-finance battles gathered at the annual meeting of the American Education Finance Association in New Orleans last month.
Education
APPOINTMENTS
In the Schools
E. Phillip Cannon, general partner of the Iberia Petroleum Company in Houston, Tex., to headmaster of St. John's School, Houston.
E. Phillip Cannon, general partner of the Iberia Petroleum Company in Houston, Tex., to headmaster of St. John's School, Houston.
Education
Ballot Box: Teachers and students; Reform candidate?; Bennett in '96?
Gov. Bill Clinton's first campaign appearance aimed at the April 7 New York primary was a March 21 address to members of New York State United Teachers.
Education
Honig Faces Trial on Criminal Charges of Conflict of Interest
Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig of California confirmed late last week that he will face a criminal trial over felony conflict-of-interest charges following an indictment by a state grand jury.
Education
Q&A: College Head Reflects on Vt. Plan To Revamp Teacher Training
In August 1990, Richard P. Mills, Vermont's commissioner of education, and the state board of education challenged the 12 institutions in Vermont that educate teachers to devise a new process by which the state would approve their programs.
Education
Colleges Column
Members of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics last month said that the American public is responding to recent high-level efforts to reform collegiate sports.
Education
Calif. Plan Shifts State Duties to Private-School Group
Private-school advocates in California would assume the duties of the state education department's defunct private-school office, under a plan scheduled to be considered by the state board of education next week.
Education
People News
Robert V. Antonucci, the superintendent of schools in Falmouth, Mass., last week was selected as the Bay State's commissioner of education.
Education
Reducing Infant Mortality Becomes Policy Priority
CROSS, S.C.--More than 600 babies born each year in South Carolina do not live to celebrate their first birthday. For DeKendrick Davis, fortunately, the odds have gone up that he will not meet the same fate.
Education
N.Y.C. To Create Small, Theme-Oriented High Schools
The New York City school system is moving on several fronts to create at least 15 small, theme-oriented high schools to provide more supportive environments for students and to expand their choices among the city's high schools.
Education
Federal File: On the job at E.D.
An inquiry by the General Accounting Office has disclosed a relatively high number of cases at the Education Department-including two that investigators term suspicious-in which political appointees were "converted" into civil servants.
Education
Professor Predicts Urban Teachers' Success
Martin Haberman has been telling anyone who would listen for more than 30 years that not all teaching is the same. Urban teaching is different, he says, and successful urban teachers exhibit a distinct mixture of skills and beliefs.
Education
Chiefs' Report Documents Improvement In Student Achievement in Math, Science
WASHINGTON-Despite widespread assumptions to the contrary, some progress has been made in both improving student enrollment in mathematics and science courses and in student achievement in those courses since the publication of A Nation at Risk, according to a report released by the Council of Chief State School Officers.
Education
State News Roundup
The 21st Century Education Commission in Rhode Island issued its final report last month, calling for an array of reforms ranging from shared decisionmaking at every school to creation of a series of professional-development schools to train teachers.
Education
'Impact Statement' for Tests Is Urged
WASHINGTON-Any national system of assessments should require test-makers to submit an "educational-impact statement" detailing their tests' effects on schooling, a coalition of four dozen civil-rights and education groups argued last week.
Education
Science-Reform Goals Elusive, NAEP Data Find
Nearly a decade after national reports sounded the alarm about the state of science education in the United States, the National Assessment of Educational Progress has found that those reports' calls for equal opportunities and excellence in the subject are "just as pertinent" as in 1983.
Ed-Tech Policy
Technology Column
Several technology-related businesses planned to announce new products during the National Science Teachers Association annual meeting last week in Boston, but only one offered a "sneak preview" of a science-related coming attraction.
Education
Partnership Awards Restructuring Grants to L.A. Schools
Several Los Angeles public schools last week won $10,000 grants from a joint public-private restructuring efforts to help advance their school-based management ideas.
Education
News In Brief
Gov. John Engler of Michigan has signed one of the first state laws in recent years to relax, rather than tighten, legal curbs on how much force teachers can use on students.