November 18, 1987

Education Week, Vol. 07, Issue 11
Education Proposed State 'Guarantees'
  • An education program "of the quality available" to students who attend schools with high graduation rates. This core academic program should be supplemented with needed services that are "integrated" with the regular program.
  • Enrollment in a school that demonstrates "substantial and sustained" student progress.
November 18, 1987
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Education Elections Reflect Racial Divisions
As desegregation plans mature and the courts relinquish some of their oversight of school districts, many communities are once again grappling with the thorny issues of race relations and student busing.

Such issues surfaced in school-board elections this month, as debate in several heated races centered on how desegregation plans could be implemented--or altered--to provide both integration and parental choice.

November 18, 1987
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Education Column One: Curriculum
A University of Wisconsin chemist has developed classroom kits that combine the principles of the rapidly advancing field of superconductivity with the fun of one of its more unusual by-products: levitation.

The kits, developed by Arthur B. Ellis, the university's Meloche-Bascom Professor of Chemistry, are said to be one of the first broad applications of the new high-temperature superconductors.

November 18, 1987
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Education Capital Digest
President Reagan asked the Congress last week to enact legislation that would place child pornography under federal racketeering statutes in order to expand the government's prosecutorial power.

Warning child pornographers that their "days are numbered," the President said the legislation was a response to grassroots demand for federal action.

November 18, 1987
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Education Chiefs Urge That States 'Guarantee' School Quality for Those 'At Risk'
A bold new proposal drafted by the nation's chief state school officers calls on states to "guarantee" a high-quality precollegiate education to those students deemed least likely to finish high school.
Lynn Olson, November 18, 1987
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Education Test Scores Tied To State Aid in Connecticut Plan
Connecticut would become the first state to allot general aid to school districts partly on the basis of deficiencies in student test scores, under a plan approved last week by a committee appointed by the state legislature.
Robert Rothman, November 18, 1987
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Education Seeking an 'Appropriate Education' for the Deaf
David Martin, dean of Gallaudet University's college of education, can still recall the panic he felt as a young teacher in the 1960's when a deaf child was "mainstreamed" into his 6th-grade classroom.
Debra Viadero, November 18, 1987
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Education District News Roundup
The nine-member school board of the Oakland-Craig district in northeastern Nebraska has resigned in an attempt to avoid personal liability for any judgment resulting from $22 million in lawsuits filed against the district.

The board resigned Nov. 2, a day before the suits went to trial in Burt County District Court. The suits charge the district and the board with liability in a 1984 school-bus accident. After a three-day break, testimony was scheduled to resume late last week and could continue for several weeks.

November 18, 1987
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Education Teen-Age Traffic Deaths Are Up Despite Increase in Drinking Age
Despite the enactment of tougher drunk-driving laws nationwide and the passage in most states of legislation raising the legal drinking age to 21, traffic deaths caused by drunken drivers--particularly teen-agers--rose markedly in 1986, after a general decline in the early 1980's.

Using calculations from the U.S. Transportation Department, a new study by Ralph Hingson, chief of social and behavioral sciences at the Boston University school of public health, shows that overall drunk-driving fatalities increased by 7 percent in 1986 after an 11 percent decline between 1982 and 1985.

November 18, 1987
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Education Follow Through Program Bids Sought
For the first time in 20 years, the Education Department has opened competition for grants under the recently restructured Follow Through compensatory-education program.
Reagan Walker, November 18, 1987
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Education E.D. Bill Worked On as Budget 'Summit' Stalls
Washington--With budget negotiations at a major impasse late last week, automatic funding cuts loomed over House and Senate conferees who are working to resolve differences between their two versions of the education appropriations bill for the current fiscal year.
Reagan Walker, November 18, 1987
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Education Resources for Teachers
The National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology has prepared a book on Mainstreaming: Practical Ideas for Educating Hearing-Impaired Students.

Copies are available for $10 each from the Publication Sales Department, Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, 3417 Volta Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007.

November 18, 1987
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Education Federal File: Not his kind of town; 'I would not feel so all alone - everybody must get stoned'
At a Nov. 6 education forum with reform-minded business leaders in Chicago, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett said that city's school system is the worst in the nation.

"I'm not sure there's a system as bad," Mr. Bennett said in remarks reported by the Associated Press and confirmed by his spokesman, Loye W. Miller. "If there's one that's worse, I don't know where it is."

November 18, 1987
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Education Column One: Media
Instructional video has reached a critical point in its development, according to the first director of educational projects for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and greater support for the teacher will be needed if schools are to take advantage of the growth in programs and equipment.

For a new book on the subject, Video at Work in American Schools, Robert D. B. Carlisle interviewed teachers, administrators, and media coordinators and specialists in 12 states. From them, he learned that, to be used effectively systemwide, instructional video often has to be championed by a "sparkplug," an "enthusiastic teacher next door," or an administrator with a high-priority commitment.

November 18, 1987
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Education Milestones
Former Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi, whose resistance to racial desegregation at the University of Mississippi thrust him into the national spotlight in the early 1960's, died Nov. 6 in Jackson at the age of 89.

The one-term Governor drew the wrath of President John F. Kennedy in 1962 when he fought a federal court order granting black students the right to enroll in the all-white institution.

November 18, 1987
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Education Lawmakers Exhorted To Develop Child-Care Policy
Witnesses before a joint Congressional panel last week called on lawmakers to establish a national child-development policy that would assure children adequate health care and education.
Reagan Walker, November 18, 1987
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Education State Journal: What's in a name?; In Illinois, no reprieve for the 'Tully monster'
An apparent lapse of memory has put Gov. Kay A. Orr of Nebraska in the doghouse with state education leaders who want 1988 designated as "the year of education" in the Cornhusker State.

For several weeks now, the education community and Governor Orr have been debating whether next year will officially receive that designation.

November 18, 1987
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Education National News Roundup
A new report by the Center for Population Options marshals statistics about teen-age sexual behavior and drug use to support its call for teaching adolescents how to reduce the risk of contracting aids.

Although adolescents now account for less than 1 percent of the reported cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, ac6cording to the report by the Washington-based organization, their behaviors may put them at increased risk for exposure to the aids virus.

November 18, 1987
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English-Language Learners New Jersey Eases Rules for Bilingual Education
Despite the threat of a legal challenge and strong opposition from supporters of bilingual education, the New Jersey Board of Education has unanimously approved a proposal to ease state requirements for moving students out of bilingual classes.
Deborah L. Gold, November 18, 1987
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Education N.R.C. Acts on Nuclear Plant Evacuations
In the face of determined opposition from state and local officials, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has decided to permit utility companies to submit their own emergency plans for two highly controversial nuclear power plants in New York and New Hampshire.

The nrc's action could allow the utilities to bypass state and local governments that have tried to keep the two plants from operating. It could also override the objections of teachers who say they will not participate in any evacuation from the area around New Hampshire's Seabrook plant. (See Education Week, Sept. 23, 1987.)

November 18, 1987
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Education People News
Gene Arline, the Jacksonville, Fla., elementary-school teacher who disputed her 1979 dismissal because of tuberculosis all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, was back before a judge this month in her effort to regain her job.

Lawyers for Ms. Arline and the Nassau County school board met with a federal district judge Nov. 3 to map out plans for a trial next May to determine whether the teacher, who is no longer infectious, can return to her 3rd-grade classroom or to another job in the district.

November 18, 1987
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Education State News Roundup
The Connecticut Board of Education has approved a set of regulations that would, for the first time, require all teachers in the state to continue professional development in order to retain their certification.

The regulations, which will go into effect next July if approved by a committee of the legislature, would also establish an alternative-certification system to enable people to enter teaching from other careers.

November 18, 1987
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Education On 'Intellectual Education,' Waning Local Involvement
Addressing the annual principals' meeting of the Coalition of Essential Schools in Baltimore last month, Theodore R. Sizer, chairman of the education department at Brown University, reviewed what he saw as the group's "basic ground."

Mr. Sizer three years ago formed the coalition of public and private high schools across the country dedicated to changing the basic structures and assumptions that underlie schools.

November 18, 1987
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Education Mississippi Gauges 5 Years of Reform
Five years after enacting the nation's first comprehensive package of education reforms, Mississippi is struggling to realize the high hopes for the future that accompanied that legislation.
William Montague, November 18, 1987
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Education Justices Hear Suit on Violent Disabled Boys
Members of the U.S. Supreme Court indicated last week that a technicality may prevent them from deciding whether school boards must keep violent and disruptive handicapped students in their current classrooms pending the completion of hearings on their behavior.
Tom Mirga, November 18, 1987
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Education First State Indicators Issued; More To Come
The chief state school officers were scheduled to release this week their first state-by-state comparisons of educational "indicators."

Volume 1 of "Education in the States" focuses on basic demographic and fiscal data, much of which has been available from other sources.

November 18, 1987
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Education States Warned on Minority Needs
Unless five Southwestern states do a better job of educating their rapidly expanding minority populations, the overall level of education in the region will drop dramatically, warns a new report by an interstate education organization.
Blake Rodman, November 18, 1987
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Education Publishers, Educators Trade Blame for Content Decline
Textbook publishers this month convened what was to be a meeting of the minds here with curriculum planners on the decline in religious content in their books.
Kirsten Goldberg, November 18, 1987
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters To the Editor
I disagree with much of what Xerox Corporation's chairman and chief executive officer, David T. Kearns, said in his Oct. 26 speech to the Economic Club of Detroit ("Xerox Executive Exhorts Candidates to Focus on Schools," Oct. 28, 1987).

Mr. Kearns suggested that public education has "produced few positive results." To the contrary: This nation is well on its way to becoming a learning society, thanks largely to public education.

November 18, 1987
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