May 19, 1993
Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 34
Education
Capital Digest
The House last week passed and sent to President Clinton legislation to extend through 1994 the state-level assessments under the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Education
Pomp and Circumstance ... and Prayer
Public school officials who thought that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year banning school-sponsored prayers at graduation ceremonies would settle the matter are learning otherwise.
Education
Precollege Teacher Programs Hailed as Route for Minorities
Programs that encourage middle and high school students to become teachers are a promising strategy for recruiting members of minority groups into the profession, a study released last week concludes.
Education
Media Column
A key member of Congress last week called on the television industry to reduce children's exposure to violent programming, and hinted Congress may act if the industry fails to respond.
Education
Health Column
The incidence rate of babies born with fetal alcohol syndrome more than tripled between 1979 and 1992, according to a study released this month by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Education
Poll: Minorities More Sanguine About Prospects for Schools
Although African-Americans and Hispanics tend to see more problems with their local public schools than whites do, they are also more optimistic about the schools' chances for improvement and about their own children's future academic attainment, according to a survey released here last week.
Education
Coordinated National Strategy for Children Is Urged
WASHINGTON--Calling on President Clinton to "mount the most comprehensive effort in behalf of our nation's children in America's history,'' the Child Welfare League of America last week urged the development of a coordinated national strategy on children and families.
Education
Teachers in Poll Seek Greater Federal Push for Parent Involvement
A large majority of teachers believe that the federal government could improve the nation's schools by encouraging parents to become more involved in their children's education, according to a survey released last week.
Education
District News Roundup
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing allegations that District of Columbia school officials illegally used federal funds for private purposes.
Education
Pa. Collective-Bargaining Law 'Erased the Unknown'
Off and on for four months during the fall of 1991, teachers in the Westmont Hilltop school district in western Pennsylvania took advantage of the state's liberal public-sector-strike law to stage lightning-fast "selective'' strikes lasting only up to a few days.
Education
News Updates
The driver of a truck that caused a catastrophic 1989 school-bus crash in Alton, Tex., has been cleared of criminal charges in the deaths of 21 students.
Education
State Journal: To some a shocking switch
A request by the president of the New Hampshire Senate to switch from being a defendant to a supporter of a school-finance lawsuit has won him praise from educators but some sniping from his colleagues.
Education
News in Brief
Gov. Roy Romer of Colorado has signed a school-finance bill that includes $205 million in new funding for K-12 education but will still result in an overall 4 percent decrease in per-pupil spending.
Education
Head Start Quality Debate May Scale Back Funding for Expansion
WASHINGTON--Despite assurances by Secretary Donna E. Shalala that the Department of Health and Human Services will take decisive steps to respond to concerns about Head Start, it is unclear whether the program can win the full funding increase proposed by President Clinton.
Ed-Tech Policy
Panel To Study Technology's Role in National Goals
The National Education Goals Panel has appointed a task force of its members to investigate the ways in which various technologies, particularly telecommunications networks, can help students reach the national education benchmarks.
Education
Youth-Jobs Program Seeks Stronger Education Role in Training
Changes in curriculum, teaching methods, and student assessment can help build a strong education component into job-training programs for disadvantaged youths, a new report by the Academy for Educational Development in New York City suggests.
Education
Election of Clinton Is Reshaping Debate Over Family Planning
The election of a Democratic President who supports abortion rights has dramatically transformed the dynamics of the debate over federal abortion and family-planning policy.
Education
The Business of Reforming Cincinnati's Schools
This article is the 10th in an occasional series.
Education
Books: New in Print
Curriculum and Methods
Come Look With Me: Worlds of Play, by Gladys S. Blizzard (Thomasson-Grant, 1 Morton Dr., Ste. 500, Charlottesville, Va. 22903-6806; 32 pp., $13.95 cloth). Introduces young children to 12 works of art that depict game-playing scenes from around the world.
Come Look With Me: Worlds of Play, by Gladys S. Blizzard (Thomasson-Grant, 1 Morton Dr., Ste. 500, Charlottesville, Va. 22903-6806; 32 pp., $13.95 cloth). Introduces young children to 12 works of art that depict game-playing scenes from around the world.
Education
A Quiet Revolution Is Transforming Teaching of Writing
Years ago, the routine for assigning research papers in Bernadette Mulholland-Glaze's high school social-studies classes went something like this: Make the assignment, give students two days in the library, and grade the final papers.
Education
Partnerships Column
Some 5,000 students from the United States and 20 other countries will gather in College Park, Md., early next month for the world finals of the "Odyssey of the Mind'' competition.
Education
Rural Students Learn From 'Culturally Relevant' Health Program
BIG FLINT HOLLOW, W.VA.--In a three-room schoolhouse couched in a green hillside here, teacher Kathy Fawcett begins her 3rd-grade class with a song.
Education
Boston High School Reopens Following Racial Disturbance
Classes resumed peacefully last week at a Boston high school after a racially motivated rock- and bottle-throwing melee May 6 prompted a student's arrest and forced the one-day closure of the school.
Ed-Tech Policy
Technology Column
At a convocation on educational technology held by the National Academy of Sciences last week, precollegiate educators were criticized for failing to close the "technology gap'' between the classroom and the living room.
Education
78% of Schools in NCATE Review Receive Accreditation
Slightly more than three-fourths of the teacher education institutions that underwent the latest national review have been approved, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education announced last week.
Ed-Tech Policy
Ky. Department's Lax Oversight Of Technology Contract Assailed
The state auditor in Kentucky has criticized the state education department for lax oversight of a multimillion-dollar contract to design a plan for providing the state's schools with computers and other educational technology.
Education
Catholic-School Survey Documents Who Oversees Management Tasks
One in five Roman Catholic high schools assigns the management of its nonacademic affairs to an officer, typically a layperson, other than the principal, according to a financial survey issued this month by the National Catholic Educational Association.
Education
State News Roundup
Iowa education officials have dropped their controversial plan to establish a set of outcomes expected of every public school in the state.
Education
Federal File: Tough neighborhood
"Who is Richard Riley, what's his plan for American education, and will what he does in the next four years have an impact on you and your child?'' the journalist John Merrow asks at the beginning of the May edition of "Learning Matters,'' his monthly public-television program on education issues.