June 9, 1993

Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 37
Education L.A. Schools Choose To Ditch Year-Round Calendars
Parents and school employees in Los Angeles have overwhelmingly voted to jettison the single-track year-round schedules they have operated under for two years and return to traditional calendars.
Peter Schmidt, June 9, 1993
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Education Bill To Revamp Research Office Emerges on Agenda
WASHINGTON--After almost eight months in limbo, reauthorization of the Education Department's research branch is apparently moving up on the Congressional agenda.
Julie A. Miller, June 9, 1993
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Education Events
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June 9, 1993
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Education Federal File: Joint efforts?
In their appearances on Capitol Hill and before advocacy groups, Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich and Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley have worked so hard to project an image of close, harmonious collaboration between their agencies that observers have joked about whether they are joined at the hip.
June 9, 1993
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Education Schools Gleaning Lessons From Children Who 'Defy the Odds'
Almost every education conference these days features at least one speaker who expounds on the vast and growing number of children whose lives have been touched by adversity.
Deborah L. Cohen, June 9, 1993
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Education High Court Lets Stand Ill. Law Requiring Pledge in Schools
The U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to review the constitutionality of an Illinois law requiring that the Pledge of Allegiance be recited in schools.
Mark Walsh, June 9, 1993
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Education State News Roundup
School districts in Pennsylvania will receive $110 million in long-delayed special-education payments over the next two weeks under a court settlement approved last month.
June 9, 1993
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Education Correction
An article in the May 26, 1993, issue on South Carolina's school-deregulation program incorrectly described the operations of the South Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching and School Leadership. The center reports to the legislature through the commission on higher education; it is not run by the state department of education.
June 9, 1993
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Education Mich. Voters Reject Amendment To Retool Tax System
Michigan voters last week turned back a constitutional amendment aimed at reforming the state's tax system by lowering schools' reliance on local property taxes.
Lonnie Harp, June 9, 1993
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Ed-Tech Policy Technology Column
A U.S. Education Department pilot program to encourage educators to use a national computer network to access its system of ERIC clearinghouses has handled roughly 200 inquiries a week from teachers since its inception in November, far exceeding expectations.
June 9, 1993
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Education National News Roundup
The National Commission on AIDS has called on President Clinton and Congress to "exercise leadership that has been absent in the past'' and make AIDS-prevention programs part of a "comprehensive health curriculum for American schools.''
June 9, 1993
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Education Q & A: Sociologist Describes Center on Society and Education
As part of a ceremony this spring commemorating the 10th anniversary of A Nation at Risk, the landmark study that helped spur the school-reform movement, the University of California at Berkeley announced the formation of a consortium to study issues of society and education.
June 9, 1993
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Education 4 of 5 Students Sexually Harassed at School, Poll Finds
Four out of five students in grades 8 through 11--including 76 percent of boys--say they have been sexually harassed at school, according to the first nationally representative survey on the issue.
Millicent Lawton, June 9, 1993
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Education News in Brief
The Pennsylvania legislature has adopted a fiscal 1994 budget that includes an additional $130 million for the state's low-wealth school districts.
June 9, 1993
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Education Supply of Summer Youth Jobs Falling Short of Demand
Hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged teenagers are searching for employment this summer, but the public and private sectors will not be able to meet the demand, according to government and industry officials.
Mark Pitsch, June 9, 1993
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Education District News Roundup
The Michigan Supreme Court has reversed the convictions of an Ottawa County couple who had been found guilty of violating the state's compulsory-education law by teaching their children at home without a certified teacher.
June 9, 1993
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Education To Foster Resilience, Program Accents the 'Positive Side'
Adversity is no stranger to the children of John B. Stetson Middle School, situated as it is in one of the city's most crime-, drug-, and unemployment-plagued neighborhoods.
Deborah L. Cohen, June 9, 1993
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Education Tex. Finance Bill Signed Into Law, Challenges Anticipated
Gov. Ann W. Richards of Texas last week signed a new school-finance bill that seeks to reduce funding disparities by effectively transferring property wealth from rich school districts to poor ones.
Lonnie Harp, June 9, 1993
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Education Vocational Education Column
Students do not need to be taught on the job to learn work-related attitudes and generic skills, such as problem-solving, according to researchers from the RAND Corporation.
June 9, 1993
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Curriculum Books: Readings
"Across the world, children have entered a passionate and enduring love affair with the computer,'' writes Seymour Papert, creator of the Logo computer language, in the preface to The Children's Machine. What this love affair may mean for learning, and in particular for schools, is the book's subject. Below, the author ventures a theory on why schools have avoided embracing computers as the agents of what he calls educational "megachange:''
June 9, 1993
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Education Study Reveals the Roots of Black Underachievement
As Signithia Fordham looks back at her four years at a Washington high school, she recalls going to class, to basketball games, to the arcade, and to just about anywhere else students would go.
Peter Schmidt, June 9, 1993
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Education Health Column
Children living in urban areas are at greater risk for lead poisoning than are their rural and suburban counterparts, according to a study published last month in the Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Journal.
June 9, 1993
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Education State Journal: For the defense; Never enough?
Legislative leaders in Idaho recently toyed with--but ruled out--replacing State Attorney General Larry EchoHawk with an independent lawyer to defend the legislature in a school-finance lawsuit.
June 9, 1993
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Education Gambling Proposed To Help Generate Funds for Chicago Schools
Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago, searching for ways to raise money for the cash-strapped city schools without increasing taxes, last week proposed building an $800 million entertainment complex that would include gambling boats on the Chicago River.
Ann Bradley, June 9, 1993
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Education Books: New In Print
Bilingual Education
Bilingual Education: Politics, Practice, Research, ed. by M. Beatriz Arias & Ursula Casanova (University of Chicago Press, 11030 South Langley Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60628; 267 pp., $24.95 cloth). Essays on the political and policy issues surrounding bilingual education and what light current research sheds on these; the book's emphasis is on Hispanic students.
June 9, 1993
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Education Deadlines
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June 9, 1993
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Education Math, Science Network Receives $1 Million Grant
A philanthropic venture of the Annenberg Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has awarded a $1 million grant to the Education Commission of the States to support a mathematics- and science-education reform initiative that will encourage policymakers to interact by means of computer networks.
Peter West, June 9, 1993
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Education Column One: Research
The National Endowment for the Arts last week announced a two-year research project to demonstrate how design can be used as an educational tool.
June 9, 1993
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Education Roadkill 101
It took an unusual science teacher to see the pedagogic value in "roadkill,'' that eyesore for motorists.
June 9, 1993
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