May 5, 1993

Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 32
Education District News Roundup
Two employees of a New York City agency created to bring an end to graft in the letting of school-construction contracts were arrested late last month in connection with an alleged big-rigging scheme.
May 5, 1993
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Education Program Found Curbing Children's Violent Behavior
Most of the underprivileged, unruly children participating in a long-term, federally funded study aimed at preventing violent behavior have shown good progress after the project's first 18 months, a Vanderbilt University researcher told reporters here this week.
Millicent Lawton, May 5, 1993
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Education L.A. Teachers' Contract Expected To Be Adopted
The Los Angeles school board is expected early this week to approve a contract with its teachers' union, heading off a strike that was to have begun on May 7.
Joanna Richardson, May 5, 1993
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Education Neb. Researchers Develop New Methods to Collect Dropout Data
Speaking as if they are on the verge of a revolution, researchers from the University of Nebraska say they have a way of making the painstaking process of collecting data on public school dropouts ancient history.
Jessica Portner, May 5, 1993
6 min read
Education Special-Education Column
A new study suggests that the number of children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder may be much lower than is commonly believed.
May 5, 1993
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Education Meeting of Foundations Highlights Urban Concerns
The same afternoon that hundreds of foundation officers were traveling home from the 1992 Council on Foundations conference in Miami, parts of Los Angeles were aflame, the first of several days of civil disturbances that erupted after the virtual acquittal of four police officers accused of beating Rodney King.
Meg Sommerfeld, May 5, 1993
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Education Early-Years Column
Kentucky's ungraded primary program for kindergarten to 3rd-grade children is drawing a mixed reaction from parents, a new statewide poll shows.
May 5, 1993
4 min read
Education Column One: Research
Continuing a raging debate over the relative quality of Japanese and American schools, a new analysis concludes that Japanese students do, in fact, outperform Americans in mathematics.
May 5, 1993
2 min read
Education Study Cites Need To Improve E.D. Research Efforts
Although the Education Department's research centers and regional laboratories have produced some high-quality research, a significant portion of their output "could be substantially improved,'' a study commissioned by the agency's former research head has found.
Robert Rothman, May 5, 1993
7 min read
Education State News Roundup
The West Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a strip-search of a student that took place in a "nonemergency'' situation constituted an unreasonable search and seizure under the state and U.S. constitutions.
May 5, 1993
1 min read
Education Ex-Governor Forges New Federal-State 'Partnership' in Education
WASHINGTON--Some observers see irony in the fact that a former Governor, as Secretary of Education in the Administration of another former Governor, is presiding over an effort to significantly expand the federal government's involvement in an area that has traditionally been a state responsibility.
Julie A. Miller, May 5, 1993
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Education Youth Portions of Clinton's Stimulus Plan May Be Revived
WASHINGTON--President Clinton and other Administration officials said last week that they may revive education- and youth-related elements of his unsuccessful economic-stimulus bill in a new package.
Mark Pitsch, May 5, 1993
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Education A Use of Critical-Thinking Skills, or Just a Numbers Game?
With a $176,000 budget cut hanging in the balance, the superintendent of the tiny Elkton, Ore., school district recently drove six times, in four different vehicles, from the high school where he works to nearby North Douglas High School.
May 5, 1993
1 min read
Education State Journal: And now no pay; Voucher slapping
John Stephenson, who was elected Kentucky's state superintendent of public instruction shortly after the legislature stripped the post of all but menial duties, recently learned that in addition to not having a state office, phone, or stationery, he will now be without a state paycheck as well.
May 5, 1993
1 min read
Education Events
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May 5, 1993
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Education People News
Francie Alexander, a former deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Education Department, has joined the staff of the Edison Project.
May 5, 1993
1 min read
Education New Nominee for Chief's Post Expected in California
In the wake of a bitter partisan fight that led to the rejection of his first choice, Gov. Pete Wilson of California is expected this week to turn his attention to making a second nomination to fill the vacant post of superintendent of public instruction.
Lonnie Harp, May 5, 1993
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Education Monograph's Author Critiques Carnegie Study on Choice
Last fall, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching released an influential report on school choice that questioned its efficacy and importance as a way to improve schools. Now, a new monograph, "Beyond Partisan Politics: A Response to the Carnegie Report on School Choice,'' accuses the Carnegie study of "numerous outright errors of fact, as well as errors of omission and interpretation that seriously undermine its credibility.''
May 5, 1993
4 min read
School Climate & Safety 'Anywhere, At Any Time': Violence in Schools Spreads Past Cities
A 16-year-old high school freshman was stabbed to death last month when three schoolmates stormed a social-studies class in Dartmouth, Mass., a suburban town of some 27,000 residents near New Bedford.
Millicent Lawton, May 5, 1993
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Education Alliance Seeks To Help Schools Implement Curriculum Standards
A consortium of 26 national subject-matter and other education groups moved last week to carve a role for itself in the emerging debate over education standards by taking steps to sketch out for schools what implementing new standards would involve.
Debra Viadero, May 5, 1993
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Education Philanthropy Column
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced that it will award $1 million to help rebuild two south Dade County, Fla., elementary schools that were heavily damaged last summer during Hurricane Andrew.
May 5, 1993
2 min read
Education Students Lack Guidance To Meet Their 'High Hopes,' Study Shows
Most students have high ambitions for postsecondary study and careers but sorely lack the academic guidance they need to reach those goals, an ongoing study of 5,000 Indiana public school students, their parents, and their school counselors has found.
Peter Schmidt, May 5, 1993
6 min read
Education Capital Update
Legislative Action
May 5, 1993
1 min read
Education Wash. Lawmakers Debate How To Pay for School-Reform Package
A school-reform bill moving Washington State to a performance-based education system has won approval from the legislature.
Joanna Richardson, May 5, 1993
3 min read
Education Federal File: Careerism; Spinning
Maybe the girls didn't think Madeleine M. Kunin looked like a federal official. Maybe they had trouble believing that a former Governor would be such a good sport. Maybe Sally H. Christensen has been at the Education Department so long, and knows the script so well, that she really ought to be deputy secretary.
May 5, 1993
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Education A Little Cash Helps 'Impact II' Teachers Make Reform Reality
Although teachers often complain that they have been excluded from the school-reform debate, more than 500 teachers gathered here last month to declare that with a little cash, and a lot of support from colleagues, teachers can bring the reform movement to their classrooms.
Joanna Richardson, May 5, 1993
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Education Kan. Governor Vetoes State System of Basic-Skills Testing
Gov. Joan Finney of Kansas has vetoed a measure that would have established a statewide system of basic-skills testing.
Peter West, May 5, 1993
1 min read
Education Philadelphia Principals Vote To Kill Extracurricular Programs
High school principals in Philadelphia voted last week to eliminate interscholastic sports and other extracurricular activities for next school year to meet budget cuts imposed on them.
Karen Diegmueller, May 5, 1993
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Education News In Brief
The Rhode Island Senate has passed a bill requiring mediation to end lengthy teacher-contract fights.
May 5, 1993
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