January 12, 1994
Education Week, Vol. 13, Issue 16
Education
A.F.T. Urges Halt to 'Full Inclusion' Movement
The American Federation of Teachers last month called for a moratorium on the "full inclusion'' movement, prompting an outcry among special educators and disability-rights advocates who support the goal of educating students with disabilities in regular classrooms.
Education
Education-Software Market Awash With Change
After long being considered a sideshow of the nation's multibillion-dollar software industry, the education-software market is undergoing dramatic changes that could raise its visibility and have important long-term effects for schools.
Education
Remembering 1993: The Year in Education
January
A report by the National Association of Secondary School Principals calls for an overhaul of the training of education administrators. Soon after, the National Policy Board for Educational Administration issues a comprehensive program for the development of principals.
A report by the National Association of Secondary School Principals calls for an overhaul of the training of education administrators. Soon after, the National Policy Board for Educational Administration issues a comprehensive program for the development of principals.
Education
Philanthropy Column
Ethics and program evaluation are the subjects of two new grant-related reports from Independent Sector, a coalition of some 800 corporations, foundations, and nonprofit organizations.
Education
Programmed For Failure
Mention computers to Cleveland school officials and you are likely to get an immediate, telling response.
Education
2nd N.Y.C. High School Is Targeted for Splintering
The New York City schools chief has targeted a second school as part of the district's drive to break down large, comprehensive high schools into smaller, more personalized learning environments.
Education
Battle Over Franklin Legacy Pits School Against Officials
A Boston technical school was dealt a major blow last month in its legal battle to claim a legacy from Benjamin Franklin, but the Massachusetts legislature has come to its rescue.
Education
Inequities Lead to Dual System in N.Y., Panel Finds
New York State has created a dual public education system that frequently blocks poor and minority students from achieving the schooling they need to be productive and financially independent citizens, a state commission has concluded.
Education
News Updates
The Jackson, Miss., high school principal who was dismissed for allowing prayers to be read over the school intercom has been ordered reinstated at the end of the school year.
Education
Federal File: Tapping the roots; Comings and goings
In anticipation of the 1994 elections, the Republican Party has created a vehicle to take the pulse of the nation on a variety of issues, including education.
Education
Lawmakers in Mich. Agree To Seek Voter O.K. of Tax Increase
Michigan lawmakers have agreed to replace the property-tax-based school-funding system they abruptly abolished last summer by giving state voters a choice between higher sales or income taxes.
School Climate & Safety
School Violence Up Over Past 5 Years, 82% in Survey Say
Family disintegration and portrayals of violence in the media are the two leading causes of an "epidemic of violence'' in public schools, school district leaders say in a report released last week.
Education
Experts Offer Tips, Cautions On Teaching Young Children
Computer use is rising slightly in public preschools, and more significantly in grades K-3, experts say.
Education
District News Roundup
A high school teacher in Chelsea, Mich., walked out of a staff meeting one day last month and returned with a semiautomatic gun, fatally shooting the superintendent and wounding the school's principal and another teacher, according to police.
Education
Whitman Faces Finance Balancing Act in N.J.
When Christine Todd Whitman takes the oath of office next week, the new Governor of New Jersey will face a crucial test in the early days of her young administration: finding a way to satisfy the New Jersey Supreme Court, her Republican colleagues in the legislature, and the voters on the politically charged issue of education funding.
Education
Tex. Finance Ruling Angers Both Rich, Poor Districts
The latest school-finance measure passed by Texas lawmakers deserves time to prove itself, a state judge has ruled.
Education
Make State-Level NAEP Yearly, Panel Urges
A group of leading scholars formed to evaluate the National Assessment of Educational Progress's trial state-level assessments has concluded that the program has essentially "worked'' and should be conducted every year.
Education
Opinion
Toward a Freer Student Press
Reference today to the First Amendment generally elicits strong sentiment about the protection of our constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of religion, speech, assembly and petition, and the press. That sentiment comes down on all sides of those rights -- from the recognition of the right of an individual to bum the American flag as a protest, to the burning and banning of books such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill a Mockingbird from school libraries.
Education
Opinion
What About The Others?
At my university, in the middle of a great and often daunting city, hardly a day passes that I don't see a group of young people, anywhere from the middle grades to high school juniors and seniors, being shown around the campus. Of course we would be delighted if some of them wound up enrolling here, but we're also glad to be a place where young people who may never have thought about college before look around them, listen to the student guides, and say, "This is great. How can I get to college?"
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
While I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the generally positive press given to the New York City school system in your Dec. 1, 1993, front-page article on Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines, I would also like to give you another perspective on one portion of the article.
While I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the generally positive press given to the New York City school system in your Dec. 1, 1993, front-page article on Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines, I would also like to give you another perspective on one portion of the article.