February 2, 1994
Education Week, Vol. 13, Issue 19
Education
Milestones
Jacqueline B. Vaughn, 58, the longtime president of the Chicago Teachers Union, died of cancer late last month.
English-Language Learners
Bilingual-Education Column
How and why students shift from speaking only their native language, to becoming bilingual, to ending up monolingual English speakers is the focus of an ongoing study of Mexican-American families.
Education
News In Brief
The Health and Human Services Department is poised to provide $3.25 million to school-health programs serving homeless and at-risk youths, in what will be the first federal grants specifically targeted to school-based clinics.
Education
National News Roundup
Black women are less likely than white women to receive prenatal advice from their doctors on the dangers of smoking and alcohol use, a new study reports.
Education
Books: New in Print
Personal and School Finance
Raising Funds for Your Child's School, by Cynthia Francis Gensheimer (Walker and Company, 435 Hudson St., New York, N.Y. 10014; 246 pp., $14.95 paper, $26.95 cloth). A guide for parents that details how to organize effective school fund-raisers.
Raising Funds for Your Child's School, by Cynthia Francis Gensheimer (Walker and Company, 435 Hudson St., New York, N.Y. 10014; 246 pp., $14.95 paper, $26.95 cloth). A guide for parents that details how to organize effective school fund-raisers.
School Climate & Safety
Plan To Rate TV Violence in the Works
The major broadcast and cable-television networks last week were fine-tuning voluntary plans to create independent monitors to rate their programming for violent content.
Education
School Reform, Training Key To Economic Renewal, Clinton Says
Although he proposed no new education initiatives in his State of the Union Message last week, President Clinton referred repeatedly to children's well-being in a speech that focused on health care, welfare, and crime.
Education
Parents' Child-Care Choices Send Mixed Message on Quality
Although convenience, cost, and quality are key factors for parents in making child-care choices, their conceptions of quality differ for different types of providers and do not always match those of experts, a new study shows.
Education
Opinion
Survival Is the Issue, Not the Confederate Flag
In 1971, Samuel Yette published a controversial book entitled The Choice. Its thesis was that African Americans had become an economic burden on the country and that white America had decided to give them the "choice" either of accommodation and assimilation or of extermination. In fact, Mr. Yette postulated, certain factors threatened the very survival of those of African descent in American society.
Education
Opinion
Setting Standards In a Democracy: Filling the Gap
It is a familiar argument We have a crisis in our schools because we have no high academic standards for students. We must therefore create some standards and then insist that everyone be accountable. It is also a false argument, and misses the real challenge for U.S. education.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
John E. Wills's essay, "What About the Others?'' (Commentary, Jan. 12, 1994), puts out in the open a host of lingering fallacies on the value of a college education: (1) a college education is a middle-class entitlement program; (2) there are plenty of good jobs for people without postsecondary degrees; and (3) by "college,'' we mean a four-year degree at the University of Southern California or some other similarly prestigious and pricey institution.
John E. Wills's essay, "What About the Others?'' (Commentary, Jan. 12, 1994), puts out in the open a host of lingering fallacies on the value of a college education: (1) a college education is a middle-class entitlement program; (2) there are plenty of good jobs for people without postsecondary degrees; and (3) by "college,'' we mean a four-year degree at the University of Southern California or some other similarly prestigious and pricey institution.
Education
Math, Science Aid To Be Protected in Expansion Plan
States and school districts would be required to continue funding at current levels math and science programs supported by the Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Program under a compromise proposal that would broaden the program's focus to cover professional-development projects in a variety of disciplines.