May 27, 1992

Education Week, Vol. 11, Issue 36
Education Opinion Multinational Partnerships
Like clothing, art, and pop music, education runs in fashions that transcend national boundaries. The present fad of creating partnerships with business has found favor with schools from Paris to Peoria, just as the idea of links with schools has appealed to executives from Renault to I.B.M. But in Europe as in North America there are skeptics who ask whether this new liaison between business and education can be anything more than a passing fancy that has little real impact on educational practice.
Donald Hirsch, May 27, 1992
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7 min read
Education Lawrenceville Set To Launch Drive For $125 Million
The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey was scheduled this week to announce a five-year, $125-million capital campaign that officials believe would be the largest fundraising drive conducted to date by an independent school.
Millicent Lawton, May 27, 1992
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5 min read
Education Arizona Education-Reform Package Appears Dead Amid Impasse Over Budget Crisis
A consensus package of reform measures for the Arizona public-school system appeared last week to be headed for oblivion as a divided legislature bickered over how to resolve a state budget crisis.
Peter West, May 27, 1992
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3 min read
Education State Journal: Not the normal statement
In a cover letter distributing copies of his recent testimony before the Education Committee of the New Jersey Senate, Commissioner of Education John Ellis observed that his comments were "not the normal statement a bureaucrat presents."
Harrison Donnelly, May 27, 1992
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2 min read
Curriculum Books: Readings
In The Measure of Our Success, Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, writes an open letter to her three sons--and to the American public. The book is organized around "25 lessons for life,'' a sampling of the author's life observations, made up of equal parts advice, historical anecdote, and inspiration. In lesson 20, excerpts of which follow, she describes the traits of leadership and how the impulse to serve may be nurtured:
May 27, 1992
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10 min read
Education A Number of Governors Seeking To Whip Up Grassroots Support for Tax Reform
While Gov. Lawton Chiles hits the Florida hustings on behalf of higher taxes, several other governors are also trying to enlist grassroots support for tax reform.
Karen Diegmueller, May 27, 1992
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2 min read
Education National News Roundup
The school-construction industry continued to boom in 1991, with educational institutions spending a record $17 billion on construction, according to an annual survey conducted by American School & University magazine.
May 27, 1992
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2 min read
Education District News Roundup
School officials in Fairfax County, Va., have changed their procedures for running criminal-record checks on substitute teachers after discovering that a convicted killer who had escaped from prison had been working in the school system for almost two months.
May 27, 1992
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6 min read
Education Q&A: Newsman Reflects on Role of Current Events in Education
After retiring from a long career as a writer and editor at Time magazine and other Time/Life publications, Peter B. Martin decided to launch his own international news wire service in 1986.
May 27, 1992
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3 min read
Education Capital Digest: House Panel Approves Education Research Bill
The House Education and Labor Committee last week approved by voice vote legislation to reauthorize and reorganize--the Education Department's research branch, after rejecting a Republican effort to give the President authority to appoint the members of a new board that would set research policy.
May 27, 1992
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3 min read
Education Fla. Officials Are Barnstorming State To Whip Up Support for Tax Increase
For the kickoff rally for an unprecedented state campaign, the symbol that confronts the audience here seems somewhat ominous--a "doomsday'' clock, its hands bent, its numbers askew.
Karen Diegmueller, May 27, 1992
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14 min read
Education Education and Tax Package Dies in Ala. Legislature
The school-reform movement in Alabama suffered a major setback last week as a $423-million education and tax package died in the legislature on the last day of the 1992 session.
Millicent Lawton, May 27, 1992
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4 min read
Education G.A.O. Report Chronicles Huge Growth in Government
Despite raising taxes over the past 30 years to a record level, state and local governments have been unable to keep pace with the demand for services, triggering record deficits as well, according to a fact sheet published by the U.S. General Accounting Office.
Lonnie Harp, May 27, 1992
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2 min read
Education L.A. Weighs Longer Day, But Shorter School Year
Officials of the Los Angeles Unified School District are weighing longer school days, but fewer of them, as an answer to a severe fiscal crisis.
Peter Schmidt, May 27, 1992
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1 min read
Education Seattle School Board Adopts Plan To Phase Out Mandatory Busing
The Seattle school board voted overwhelmingly this month to phase out mandatory busing for racial balance in the district's schools. Voluntary desegregation measures that give parents the choice of sending their children to magnet schools or to schools closer to their homes will be instituted as an alternative.
Peter Schmidt, May 27, 1992
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2 min read
Education Educators, U.S. Officials Hammer Out Arts-Research Agenda
Federal officials and educators in the arts last week hammered out a wide-ranging agenda intended to guide research in arts education over the next decade.
Debra Viadero, May 27, 1992
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2 min read
Education Legislative Update
The follwing are summaries of final actions by legislatures on education-related matters.
May 27, 1992
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2 min read
Education News Updates
School officials in Georgia must take steps to educate children with emotional disabilities closer to their homes, instead of sending them to institutions out of state, according to a ruling this month by a federal judge.
May 27, 1992
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2 min read
Education 13 States Join NASBE's Early-Childhood-Education Network
The National Association of State Boards of Education has organized a network to assist states in launching early-childhood-education initiatives and in reforming current programs, practices, and policies.
Deborah L. Cohen, May 27, 1992
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2 min read
Education House's Bill Would Authorize Standards, But Not Assessment
WASHINGTON--Provoking a veto threat from Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, the House Education and Labor Committee last week approved legislation to authorize the development of national subject-matter standards, but not the creation of a national testing system.
Julie A. Miller, May 27, 1992
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6 min read
Education House Panel Approves Expansion of Juvenile-Justice Act
WASHlNGTON--The House Education and Labor Committee last week unanimously approved legislation to reauthorize the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.
Millicent Lawton, May 27, 1992
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3 min read
Education Fueled by Sense of Crisis, Coalition Forges Plan To Rebuild L.A. Schools
Members of a broad-based coalition of business, labor, school-district, civic, and community leaders are hashing out a plan to restructure the deeply troubled Los Angeles Unified School District.
Ann Bradley, May 27, 1992
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11 min read
Education Poor Attendance Identified as Barrier To Bolstering Welfare Recipients' Skills
Poor program attendance has been a significant barrier to bolstering the educational skills of welfare recipients under the federal welfare-reform law, a five-state study released last week concludes.
Deborah L. Cohen, May 27, 1992
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3 min read
Education Capital Update
Capital Update tracks the movement of legislation, the introduction of notable bills, and routine regulatory announcements.
May 27, 1992
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Education Plan To Revamp School-Finance System In Louisiana Clears Legislative Hurdle
A plan to revamp Louisiana's method of funding public schools cleared a significant obstacle last week when a House panel passed a fiscal 1993 spending bill that includes an additional $38.2 million to implement the first year of a finance- equity program.
Mark Pitsch, May 27, 1992
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3 min read
Education Clinton, in Attacking Bush's Policies, Pledges 'Real Education Reform' Plan
In a speech billed as a "major address" on education, Gov. Bill Clinton earlier this month charged that President Bush has tried to use the issue to score political points without backing up his rhetoric with either money or effort.
Julie A. Miller, May 27, 1992
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5 min read
Education Community Fights To Save Denver School That 'Redirects' Dropouts
As an over-age junior-high-school student slated to attend North High School here, Sergio Rubio was, he recalled last week, "in the process of dropping out."
Robert Rothman, May 27, 1992
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11 min read
Education In Conn. District, Senior Citizens Study Alongside Students
Like all the other students in Joanna Ecke's American-literature class at Wilton High School here, Sister M. Andrina Logan dutifully carries her textbook to class four days a week and does the required readings by Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, and Benjamin Franklin. She takes copious notes, writes in her journal, and participates in classroom discussions.
Debra Viadero, May 27, 1992
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6 min read
Education Study Links Mainstreaming, Disabled Students' Success
A federally financed study suggests that severely disabled students' degree of success in school may be directly correlated with the amount of time they spend in regular classrooms.
Debra Viadero, May 27, 1992
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2 min read
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