March 9, 1994
Education Week, Vol. 13, Issue 24
Education
Arts-Education Standards Set For Unveiling
Washington
By the end of high school, every student should be able to create a dance, compose in different musical styles, or demonstrate a variety of acting techniques.
By the end of high school, every student should be able to create a dance, compose in different musical styles, or demonstrate a variety of acting techniques.
Education
Shifts in Reform Movement Chronicled
The focus of education reform in the states shifted during the 10 years after A Nation at Risk was released, according to a study by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education.
Education
Middlebury To Offer 3-Year Bachelor's Degree
Middlebury College has decided to join the ranks of the few schools
that offer a quicker route to a formal degree.
Education
E.A.I. Fiscal Health at Issue in Suit by 2 Stockholders
Two shareholders of Education Alternatives Inc., which has watched its stock plunge 60 percent since November, allege in a recently filed lawsuit that the firm's accounting methods overstate its financial health.
Education
How States Govern Education
Although the state role in education has expanded dramatically in recent decades, most states continue to use systems of educational governance developed early in the 20th century, according to a new report.
Education
News In Brief
Balanced-Budget Mandate Falls Short in Senate: The Senate last week rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would require a balanced federal budget. Most education lobbyists were relieved by the defeat of the measure.
Education
Federal File: Voted out; In Limbo
California Republicans did not exactly roll out the welcome mat for members of the California Teachers Association who attended the state G.O.P.'s annual convention last month.
Education
Coming of Age
Between 1987 and 1991:
- Juvenile arrests for violent crimes increased by 50 percent--double the adult increase.
Education
Corrections
A story about the Newark, N.J., schools in the March 2 edition of Education Week should have identified the education reformers working to help the district as follows: Robert S. Peterkin, the director of the urban-superintendents program and the Francis Keppel Senior Lecturer on Educational Policy and Administration at Harvard University; the social psychologist Jeff Howard and his organization, the Efficacy Institute; and the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Education
Students Column
"Straight Talk About School,'' a new program launched last month by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, features successful college athletes advising high school students on ways to overcome obstacles and "achieve their personal best.''
Education
Female Seniors in 1992 More Ambitious Than in '72, Study Finds
Female high school seniors were much more ambitious about their educational and career goals in 1992 than they were 20 years earlier, a recent study shows.
Education
With Mich. Vote Comes the Inevitability of Change
Michigan voters, who have grown familiar with being called to the polls to consider state tax increases for education, will make their way there again next week to ponder the issue with a new twist.
Education
Mixed Bag Found at N.Y.C. Schools Striving To Link Services
Although an ambitious effort to convert eight New York City elementary schools into "community schools'' providing on-site coordination of educational, social, and health services has achieved some notable successes, the project has fallen short in many of its goals, a study concludes.
Education
Board Set To Approve Framework for NAEP Arts Assessment
A federal panel of educators and policymakers meeting here late last week was set to approve a new framework for national arts assessments that are modeled on national standards for arts education.
Education
Removal of Literary Works From Calif. Test Stirs Flap
Decisions by California officials to remove two prominent authors' works from a statewide assessment have sparked national controversy and spurred an influential state lawmaker and the state board of education to schedule hearings to examine the issue.
Education
News In Brief
In a special session, the Arkansas legislature last week altered the way local wealth is determined under the state's school-funding formula. It was responding to disclosures that the state education department had been incorrectly allocating funds for 11 years.
Education
Judge Rejects School-Funding Formula in R.I.
A Rhode Island Superior Court judge has struck down the state's school-funding formula, arguing that the current system gives students in wealthy districts an unfair edge over children attending schools in poorer communities.
Education
Plan To Offer Data Links to Schools Still on, Firms Say
The collapse of a proposed multibillion-dollar merger between two of the nation's largest telecommunications concerns may slow, but will not significantly alter, their plans to provide 26,000 public schools with advanced electronic links to the "information highway,'' according to company officials.
Education
Barriers Faced by Student Newspapers Detailed
High school newspapers are threatened by interference from school administrators, lack of funds, inadequate training of advisers, and community indifference, according to the first comprehensive study of the field in a decade.
Education
Federal File: Propaganda; Lodging a protest
Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley recently sent Education Department employees a 23-page brochure on the Clinton Administration's health-care proposal and a letter offering to answer questions.
Education
Advocates Seek To Increase Anti-Smoking Efforts in Schools
U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders exempts no one from the responsibility of stopping adolescent smoking--not the tobacco industry, not lawmakers, not parents, and not schools.
Education
Age of Reckoning
After a decade of promising to improve the education system, politicians have begun to embrace a new cure for what ails some children: the adult-criminal-justice system. Where they once spoke of helping children whom society has placed at risk, many now speak of incarcerating those who pose a risk to society. Threatening and imposing adult sentences, they claim, is the only way to make schools safe and drug-free. Pledging school reform has given way to lamenting the failure of reform schools.
Education
Study To Track 11,000 Chicago Youths for Eight Years
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the National Institute of Justice recently announced what they call the "largest research project ever undertaken'' to study human development in a major American city.
Education
Have Ideas, Will Travel
The Omaha public schools are looking for a consultant. The district's not in trouble.