February 10, 1988
The certification check was ordered by Elena J. Scambio, the Essex County school superintendent who monitors the Newark school system for the state.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled Jan. 26 that Mr. Jaffree lacked legal standing to demand that the federal courts rule on the issue.
The study, conducted by a panel of educators, found that black students are disproportionately placed in special-education programs, forced to repeat grades, and suspended or expelled from school.
Although officials from the two neighboring districts had hoped the state would pick up the entire cost of both, the director of the collaborative effort said last week that the legislature's decision to pay 90 percent of each moved the plan forward nonetheless.
"The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning, by Eleanor Duckworth (Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Ave., New York, N.Y. 10027; 151 pp., $13.95 paper). Essays on the applications of Jean Piaget's thought for teaching, evaluation, and curriculum development.
At a meeting last week, the D.C. board of education voted to request an independent audit of its no-bid contract with the firm Leftwich, Moore and Davis, which was harshly criticized by the city's auditor for having charged the district $4.5 million for legal services since December 1984. Board members had previously estimated that the contract would cost between $20,000 and $65,000 per year.
Known as the care program--for Children At Risk Embraced--the initiative would dramatically expand preschool services and increase the availability of before- and after-school care in elementary schools.
"Overall, the Department of Education's accounting system does not provide managers with the reliable information they need to protect financial resources from fraud, waste, and mismanagement, and to satisfy internal and external financial reporting requirements," the report says.
Ms. Graham, dean of the graduate school of education at Harvard University, traces back to research from the 1920's the origins of the notion that education should be adjusted to students' perceived ability levels.
If approved, the new pay level would be the nation's highest state-mandated salary for beginning teachers, according to officials at the Education Commission of the States and the American Federation of Teachers.
A proponent of classics instruction at the secondary-school level, Mr. Gummere was the author of a series of Latin textbooks, Using Latin. He was a leader in efforts to develop stronger management skills among school administrators.
Many experimental programs that adapt instruction to students' individual needs have proven successful in teaching the skills needed for technological literacy, according to the report, which was commissioned by the National Research Council's committee on research in mathematics, science, and technology education. But they go unnoticed, it says.
Advisory Council on Education Statistics: Margaret C. Broad, executive director and chief executive officer, Arizona Board of Regents, Phoenix; Ellis B. Page, professor of educational psychology and research, Duke University, Durham, N.C.; and Ray Turner, assistant superintendent for educational accountability, Dade County Public Schools, Miami.
They are moving the flagpole outside Liberal High School from one side of the building to the other.
Most who responded to the National Association of Elementary School Principals' survey agreed that changes in the family had made the need for supervision beyond school hours an imperative.