December 16, 1992

Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 15
Education Media Column
The Learning Channel is gearing up for the Dec. 28 debut of its new preschool educational- programming block, "Ready, Set, Learn!''
December 16, 1992
4 min read
Law & Courts Department Weighing Plan To Copyright Information Data Base
In a dramatic shift from past practice, the Education Department is weighing a proposal to copyright its educational-information data base and to charge fees for its use.
Robert Rothman, December 16, 1992
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Education Column One: Administrators
The Principals' Public Relations Network is producing a series of television public-service announcements on the importance of school administrators.
December 16, 1992
1 min read
Education Milestones
Lawrence G. Derthick Sr., the U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1956 to 1961 and a past president of the American Association of School Administrators, died Dec. 3 at his home in Chattanooga, Tenn. He was 85.
December 16, 1992
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Education A Matter of Choice: The Debate Over Schools and the Marketplace
Choice is a concept as American as the Declaration of Independence. So, too, is the notion of universal access to learning. It was Jefferson, after all, who warned us that no nation could remain both ignorant and free. The freedom to choose, in our choice-laden democracy, has always implied a right to knowledge.
December 16, 1992
56 min read
Education News Updates
A federal judge has moved to keep agents of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service from harassing students and teachers at an El Paso high school near the Mexican border.
December 16, 1992
2 min read
Ed-Tech Policy Boston Group, TV Station Create Center For Technology in Teaching the Disabled
The Education Department has awarded a five-year, $2.5 million grant to a nonprofit educational organization and a Boston public-television station to create a national center aimed at improving the use of technology, media, and more traditional instructional materials in teaching students with disabilities.
Debra Viadero, December 16, 1992
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Education Poll Finds Teachers' Relations With Parents Unsatisfactory
Although many new public school teachers say they have positive working relationships with students, principals, and other faculty members, only one-quarter rate their experience with parents as satisfying, according to a survey released last week.
Joanna Richardson, December 16, 1992
2 min read
Education School Boycott Threatens 'Lifeblood' of La. Town
BONITA, LA.--This is the kind of place where the drive-up lottery window has replaced the drive-up banking window. Now, town residents fear, Bonita Elementary School will go the way of its bank--a once-thriving community institution forced to close its doors.
Mark Pitsch, December 16, 1992
9 min read
Education Colleges Column
W. Ann Reynolds, the chancellor of the City University of New York, last week presented to the system's 19 campus presidents an advisory committee's report that calls for the consolidation and elimination of programs on some campuses to free up resources for the expansion of other programs.
December 16, 1992
2 min read
Education SuccessMaker Partnership Guarantee
You set the goal for each of your students in Reader's Workshop and/or Math Concepts and Skills. And you set the date by which each of your students should reach the goal.
December 16, 1992
4 min read
Education People News
The New Jersey State Senate last week voted 38 to 0 to confirm the nomination of Mary Lee Fitzgerald, the superintendent of the Montclair public schools, to be the next state education commissioner.
December 16, 1992
1 min read
Education Carnegie Urges Youth Programs for 'Adrift' Adolescents
The nation's 20 million young adolescents, many of whom have been "left adrift'' by adults to use drugs, join gangs, and have sex, need stronger community-based youth programs to fill their nonschool hours and insure their full development and contribution to society, a report released last week concludes.
Millicent Lawton, December 16, 1992
5 min read
Education RAND Study Finds Serious Problems in Vt. Portfolio Program
A report analyzing Vermont's pioneering assessment system has found severe problems with it and raised serious questions about alternative forms of assessment.
Robert Rothman, December 16, 1992
6 min read
Education Many Army Personnel Expect To Be Teaching Soon
Among current U.S. Army personnel considering a shift to an education career, one-third expect to be teaching in K-12 schools within the next five years, according to a report released last week by the National Center for Education Information.
Meg Sommerfeld, December 16, 1992
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Education Board Overrules Fernandez After He Tells Tales Out of School
Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez of New York City, already embroiled in controversies over AIDS education and a curriculum dealing with homosexuality, last week got a lesson on the dangers of "kiss-and-tell'' politics.
Peter Schmidt, December 16, 1992
3 min read
Education Despite Upturn, States' Financial Outlook Remains Gloomy
Despite indications that the national economy may be edging upward, state lawmakers' outlook for the financial vitality of their governments continues to be gloomy, a survey released here last week indicates.
Karen Diegmueller, December 16, 1992
3 min read
Education Software Maker's 'Guarantee' of Student Performance Questioned
In an apparently unprecedented move, the Computer Curriculum Corporation, one of the nation's largest developers of software for integrated learning systems, announced last month that it could "guarantee'' that students who use one of its products would meet performance goals in reading and mathematics.
Peter West, December 16, 1992
12 min read
Education Des Moines Board Refuses To Let White Students Transfer
In a move that has drawn fire from Gov. Terry E. Branstad and other Iowa officials, the Des Moines school board has refused to allow about 120 white students to transfer out of the district under the state's open-enrollment law.
Peter Schmidt, December 16, 1992
3 min read
Education National News Roundup
Teenagers who frequently are exposed to drug-education advertising are less likely than those who are not to use drugs, according to a survey released last week by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.
December 16, 1992
1 min read
Education Federal File: More rumors; Advocacy and errata; International honor
Speculation about the identity of the next Secretary of Education continued to rage in Washington education circles last week.
December 16, 1992
1 min read
Education District News Roundup
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River, Mass., has reached an out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit involving 68 men and women who say they were molested as children by a priest who worked there.
December 16, 1992
4 min read
Education District Decides To Provide Life-Sustaining Care to All
Horrified to learn that school personnel might be expected to carry out do-not-resuscitate orders for some of the "medically fragile'' children they serve, the Bangor, Me., school committee last week approved a policy requiring school staff members to provide life-sustaining, emergency care to any student who needs it, regardless of parental orders to the contrary.
Debra Viadero, December 16, 1992
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Education Tex. Lawmakers Again Adjourn Stalled Over Finance
Although the Texas legislature has again adjourned without a consensus on school-finance reforms, a plan offered during the waning days of this month's special session has given officials a glint of optimism that a solution might be found early next year.
Lonnie Harp, December 16, 1992
3 min read
Education Capital Digest
The U.S. Supreme Court last week granted the Justice Department's request to argue in an upcoming case in favor of requiring public schools to provide special-education services to students who attend private religious schools.
December 16, 1992
1 min read
Education Baltimore Plan To Offer Norplant Raises Ethical, Medical, Legal Questions
A number of educators, church officials, and health organizations have voiced concern over the decision of public-health and school officials in Baltimore to begin offering Norplant, the surgically implanted contraceptive, in school-based health clinics next month.
Jessica Portner, December 16, 1992
6 min read
Education Keeping the Peace
A group of New Mexico students is hoping to make a monumental contribution to world peace.
December 16, 1992
1 min read
Education State Journal: Windmill tilting; Education speak
Two outspoken members of state boards of education who are retiring this month have left behind thoughtful valedictories on the prospects for change in education.
December 16, 1992
2 min read
Education Essays Sound Caution on Youth Apprenticeships
President-elect Clinton's promise to develop a national youth-apprenticeship system has brought urgency to an issue that has been bubbling at the state and national levels for several years. But a report from the William T. Grant Foundation's Commission on Youth and America's Future cautions that the task will not be an easy one.
Lynn Olson, December 16, 1992
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