June 16, 1993
Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 38
Education
Getting in Touch With Urban-Renewal Projects
More information about the three initiatives featured in the Cities of Hope series is available from:
Education
Study Shows Tests Can Be Linked To Make Comparisons
Researchers said here last week that they have demonstrated a way to link different national and international tests to show how students in the United States over all, and those in individual states, compare with students from other countries.
Education
Testing Smarts: Boston Schools Pilot Urban Assessments
Janan Bristow and Latoya Bacchus, 4th graders at William Monroe Trotter Elementary School here, giggle as they retrieve beads that have fallen to the cafeteria floor.
Education
News In Brief
The Connecticut legislature has given final approval to a desegregation bill that would divide the state into 11 regions and require each to devise a plan to integrate schools.
Education
Religious Groups Can Use Schools, High Court Rules
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that school districts must give religious groups the same access to school facilities after hours afforded to other community organizations.
Education
Bill Would Ease Pell Grant Shortfall, But Trim Summer Jobs
The Senate Appropriations Committee last week approved a $1.9 billion supplemental-spending bill that, in comparison with House-passed bills, increases the amount of money to minimize a Pell Grant shortfall, reduces added funding for the summer-youth-jobs program, and restores funding cuts in Education Department programs.
Education
G.A.O. Cites Longstanding Flaws in Management of E.D.
The Education Department has had serious flaws in its management structure ever since its inception, the General Accounting Office has charged in an in-depth report.
Education
Senate Panel Backs Expansion of Direct-Loan Pilot
The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week approved a compromise bill that would expand the current pilot program under which the federal government lends money directly to college students and establish a commission to monitor the experiment.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
I second almost everything Dr. Gerald S. Coles writes in his letter rebutting claims that attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder, or A.D.H.D., is of biological origin ("Attention-Deficit Research: 'Leaps of Faith,' Not Logic,'' Letters, May 19, 1993). But why does he find it necessary to criticize the use of the term "disorder'' in referring to the symptom clusters making up this condition?
I second almost everything Dr. Gerald S. Coles writes in his letter rebutting claims that attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder, or A.D.H.D., is of biological origin ("Attention-Deficit Research: 'Leaps of Faith,' Not Logic,'' Letters, May 19, 1993). But why does he find it necessary to criticize the use of the term "disorder'' in referring to the symptom clusters making up this condition?
Education
Opinion
Filet of School Reform, Sauce Diable
Education's failure to make progress in comparison to the advance of other enterprises ha caused much commentary in the last decade.
Education
Opinion
National-Service Deceptions
College aid through national service is a
centerpiece of President Clinton's ideas for education reform and even social change
Education
Opinion
Professionalizing the Principalship
The question of whether or not educational administration is a profession comes up periodically, and is on the table again now.