April 7, 1993
Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 28
Education
News in Brief
The Massachusetts Senate last week passed an education-reform bill that would require all districts to participate in school choice.
Education
State News Roundup
Iowa parents who teach their children at home suffered a setback late last month when the state supreme court rejected a challenge to the state's requirement that such parents file reports on their children's courses of study.
Education
Mentoring by Big Brothers/Big Sisters Found To Establish Long Relationships
Mentortng relationships established
through chapters of Big BrotbersIBig
Sisters of America tend to last
longer and have higher rates of interaction
than matches fonned through
many newer mentoring programs, a
new report concludes.
Education
Partnerships Column
To be effective brokers for education reform, business leaders must address six strategic concerns, concludes a study by Public/Private Ventures, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit research organization.
Education
Plan To Require All Students Work Resisted in N.Y.
A proposal by Commissioner of Education Thomas Sobol of New York State to mandate work experience as a prerequisite for graduation has renewed the debate over the value of jobs for students.
Education
Education School Seeks To 'Serve Needs of the Diverse Learner'
Valerie Ooka Pang is reading a children's book called Teammates to her class. Students listen intently to the tale of friendship between Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play major-league baseball, and Pee Wee Reese, his white teammate.
Education
Column One: Teachers
Teachers in Fairport, N.Y., have entered into an agreement with the school district there that will reward teams of teachers if their students perform well on tests.
Education
Mass. Board To Pay 95% of Cost of Replacing Chelsea Schools
Massachusetts officials have agreed to pay 95 percent of the cost of replacing virtually all of the dilapidated school buildings in Chelsea, the troubled city whose schools are being managed by Boston University.
Education
Chicago Parents' Suit Seeking Private School Vouchers Dismissed
An Illinois judge last week dismissed a lawsuit by a group of low-income Chicago parents who sought state vouchers to enable them to send their children to private schools.
Education
Hope, Hurdles Ahead for Children Highlighted at Summit
While media personalities and political, business, and community leaders topped the agenda of last week's "National Summit on Children and Families,'' it was the voices of youths that appeared to stir the strongest reaction from the audience.
Education
Interactive Cable-TV Service Seeks To Engage Parents
Parents in a Detroit suburb can inquire about their children's homework or read their completed assignments on their home television sets using a new interactive cable-television service that is expected to be available nationwide within a year.
Education
Oscar-Winning Film Examines Issue of Full Inclusion
The issue of full inclusion for students with disabilities received
attention last week in an unlikely forum--the 65th annual Academy
Awards show.
Education
Projects To Explore Integrating Standards for the Early Grades
The directors of the projects charged with setting national curriculum standards have agreed to explore how--and whether--some of those emerging standards should be integrated for students in the primary grades.
Education
Effort To End Tracking Sparks Uproar in Va. District
Mayor Patricia Ticer faced a tough audience as she took the stage at Hammond Junior High School here on a Saturday morning late last month.
Education
People News
Dave Thomas, the founder and folksy commercial spokesman for the Wendy's fast-food chain, has received a high school equivalency diploma 45 years after dropping out of high school.
Education
Federal File: Media relations; Child advocacy; In print
It was billed as a major media event, and the White House convened 150 business leaders from around the country last week to hear President Clinton challenge the private sector to create thousands of new jobs for young people this summer.
Education
Media Column
Nickelodeon, the cable-television network for children, has packed its schedule with pro-environment programming this month in conjunction with its Kids World Council meeting, a three-day conference on environmental issues at the network's studios in Orlando, Fla.
Education
Religious-Freedom Bill on Fast Track in Congress
A bill that would reverse a 1990 U.S. Supreme Court decision by making it more difficult for government to interfere with a person's free exercise of religion is on a fast track in Congress, with wide support from both liberal and conservative groups.
Education
Minn. Board Frees District From Most Regulations
The Minnesota state board of education has moved to spur school innovation by approving an unprecedented waiver freeing an entire school district from nearly all state rules.
Education
Scarce Funds Force Ill. District To Choose Extinction
A school district in suburban Chicago has moved to protest inadequate funding from the state and federal governments by voting to dissolve and transfer its students to surrounding school systems.
Education
Schools for Juvenile Felons in Calif. Likely To Close
Nearly all of the 19 detention camps for juvenile felons in Los Angeles County and 11 of the 13 on-site schools that serve them will likely begin closing next month because the county cannot afford to keep the camps open.
Education
Signing Up the Public
Some 100 residents of this Rust Belt city have been invited to a college auditorium for a 90-minute "town meeting'' on education reform and workforce competitiveness.
Education
New Study Links Lower I.Q. at Age 5 to Poverty
Family income is a "far more powerful'' determinant of I.Q. at age 5 than whether a child lives with a single parent or how well educated the mother is, a new study suggests.
Education
Dade Union Official Expresses Frustrations With Reforms
Fed up with what they say are increasing demands on their time and few rewards, members of the United Teachers of Dade in Dade County, Fla., voted overwhelmingly last month to ask for a moratorium on all district and state reform efforts.
Education
State Journal: Home-school candidate; Schools under siege
A longtime national advocate for home schooling is trying to move from being a self-described government "outsider'' to an elected insider.
Education
District News Roundup
Teachers in the Dayton, Ohio, public schools continued to strike last week after school and union officials failed to resolve a contract dispute over pay increases and health benefits.
Education
Capital Digest
The Clinton Administration last week outlined a massive immunization plan under which the federal government would purchase enough vaccines to immunize every child in the nation and distribute them at no charge to health clinics, private doctors, and selected hospitals.
Education
Mich. Voters To Decide Fate of Finance Amendment
Gov. John Engler of Michigan last week won legislative backing for a proposal to end the state's nagging school-finance problems, but now faces the potentially more difficult task of getting the state's voters to go along.