May 13, 1992
Education Week, Vol. 11, Issue 34
Education
Capital Digest
The Education Department this month proposed new rules governing changes in the federal early-intervention program for disabled infants and toddlers.
Education
N.S.F. Initiative Emerges as 'Topic Number One' on State Agendas
In an unusual statewide broadcast earlier this year, Louisiana's public-television stations aired a program that featured segments on the role of part-time teachers in reforming mathematics and science instruction in the state and on its nationally recognized educators.
Education
Ky. Reforms Stay on Track In Legislative Session
State education officials in Kentucky last week celebrated a milestone for the state's 1990 school-reform law when Gov. Brereton C. Jones signed a budget requiring minimal funding cuts and lawmakers concluded a session marked by support for the landmark education program.
Education
National News Roundup
Once again this spring, boys outnumber girls as National Merit Semifinalists, even though girls typically earn higher grades than boys in both high school and college, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing has charged.
School Climate & Safety
Host of Motives and Circumstances Spurred Youth Violence, Experts Say
Young people under age 25, mainly impoverished blacks, were among the first to begin rioting on the streets of South-Central Los Angeles following the verdict in the Rodney G. King beating case, representing the leading edge of a violent wave that within hours brought rioters of all ages and racial and ethnic backgrounds out across the city, local observers said last week.
Education
L.A. Events Seen Touching Schools 'for Years'
As children returned to Los Angeles classrooms last week, educators were buoyed by the fact that schools were all but spared in the wave of violence that swept over large chunks of the city in the wake of the Rodney G. King verdict.
Education
Media Column
The Learning Channel this month rolled out the first show of its new Saturday morning block of children's educational programming.
Education
District News Roundup
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the Orange County, Fla., school district in an effort to force school officials to re-evaluate their student-expulsion policy.
Education
Ballot Box: Perot speaks; Singleton win
Ross Perot last week offered a glimpse of what he would say on the stump should he declare an independent Presidential candidacy, delivering a speech on education to a group of money managers that was light on policy details, heavy on folksy humor, grounded in business-management philosophy, and sprinkled with apparent inconsistencies.
Education
News Updates
The National Academy of Sciences has named Audrey B. Champagne, a professor of education and chemistry at the State University of New York at Albany, to head a panel that will develop national assessment standards for precollegiate science.
Education
500 Teachers in 17 States, 6 Districts To Pilot National Exam
In a significant step toward the development of a national examination system, some 500 4th-grade teachers in 17 states and 6 school districts this week will begin piloting the prototype for such a system.
Education
News In Brief
Several powerful Georgia legislators have come under fire for allegedly using a secret account to fund school projects in their own districts and those of their allies.
Education
Mass. Education Panel Votes To Repeal Choice Law
The Massachusetts legislature's joint education committee has voted to repeal the state's controversial school-choice law that was hastily adopted during the budget process last year.
Education
House Passes First Measure On Family Planning in 8 Years
WASHINGTON--For the first time in eight years, the House has approved a bill that would reauthorize the primary federal family-planning program.
Education
Schools Are Urged To Follow Through On Lessons of King Verdict, L.A. Rioting
Nearly every student in America has learned something since a jury virtually exonerated four white police officers accused of severely beating the black motorist Rodney G. King and rioters took to the streets in Los Angeles, educators said last week.
Education
Milestones
Lee Salk, for more than three decades a prominent expert on family relationships and social upheaval, died May 2 in New York City of cancer. He was 65 years old.
Education
Hawaii Reform Plan Takes Steps Toward Decentralization
A school-reform package approved before the Hawaii legislature adjourned last month takes key steps toward transferring decisionmaking and budgeting authority from the state's centralized education system to individual schools.
Education
Lottery Ruling Seen Having Little Impact on Wis. Schools
Wisconsin officials last week were planning to release $29 million in general funds to balance the state school-aid account after a judge declared that the state cannot use lottery proceeds to finance education.
Education
Q&A: After King Verdict and Riots, Educator Discusses Race Relations
Founded in 1971 by the civil-rights lawyer Morris Dees, the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., seeks to advance the legal rights of poor people and minorities.
Education
Howard Is 1st in Degrees To Blacks, Survey Finds
Howard University, the nation's largest four-year predominantly black postsecondary-education institution, awarded the most undergraduate degrees to blacks during the 1988-89 academic year, according to a new survey released last week.
Education
Court Rejects Interpreter for Deaf Church-School Student
A public-school district in Arizona may not provide a sign-language interpreter for a deaf student attending a church-sponsored school, a divided federal appeals court has ruled.
Education
Miss. Lawmakers Adopt Sales-Tax Hike Over Fordice Veto
The Mississippi Legislature last week narrowly overturned Gov. Kirk Fordice's veto of a bill that raises the state's sales tax by 1 percent to support public education.
Education
State News Roundup
A Minnesota appellate court has upheld a state program that allows high-school juniors and seniors to take classes at public or private colleges and universities, including religiously affiliated ones, at state expense.
Education
Panel Paves Way To Test Students' Geography Skills
Giving impetus to a long-neglected discipline in the school curriculum, the National Assessment Governing Board late last week was poised to adopt a draft framework for the first full-blown national assessment of students' grasp of geography.
Education
Federal File: No choice?; Out of town; Lamar and Dolly
President Bush's April 16 speech in Allentown, Pa., in which he sought to reassert his "Education President'' credentials for the fall campaign, originally contained "strong language'' on school choice that was watered down at the behest of Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, The New Republic reported in its May 11 issue.
Education
Column One: Students
Some 71 percent of high-school juniors and seniors rare their teachers as "excellent" or "good," while only 36 percent give the" schools similarly high marks, according to a survey released last week by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and Sylvan Learning Centers.
Education
Plan for a Smaller School Board Advances in Ohio
Gov. George V. Voinovich of Ohio was expected last week to approve a compromise with the state legislature that would nearly halve the number of positions on the state school board but continue the practice of electing board members from across the state.
Education
Worth Noting
"Even though our American future depends on finding common ground, many white Americans resist relinquishing the sense of entitlement skin color has given them throughout our national history."
Education
Tracking Teddy's Travels
At Hillside Elementary School in Berwyn, Pa., a student's teddy bear has become an important tool for teaching world geography.