March 16, 1994
Education Week, Vol. 13, Issue 25
Education
Principals Call for Halt to Corporal Punishment
Addressing the issue of corporal punishment more directly than it has in the past, the National Association of Elementary School Principals last week approved a resolution urging that the practice be abolished in all schools.
Education
Folsom Offers Finance Bill as Ala. Session Nears End
Although Gov. James E. Folsom Jr. of Alabama has released a detailed version of his plan for paying for court-ordered education reform and making that funding more equitable, observers last week were suggesting it was literally too little and too late.
Education
Legislative Update
The following are summaries of governors' budget requests for precollegiate education and highlights of proposals that rank high on the states' education agendas.
Education
Capital Update
Capital Update tracks the movement of legislation, the introduction of notable bills, and routine regulatory announcements.
Education
Group Warns Against the Narrow Use Of 'Readiness' Measures
Washington
An advisory group to the National Education Goals Panel is circulating a report synthesizing research on factors that contribute to children's early learning and restating earlier warnings against the use of narrow standards to gauge whether children are ready to learn.
An advisory group to the National Education Goals Panel is circulating a report synthesizing research on factors that contribute to children's early learning and restating earlier warnings against the use of narrow standards to gauge whether children are ready to learn.
Education
In The Press
"We often define ourselves more by our misdeeds than by our accomplishments,'' writes Barry O'Neill in the opening line of a March 6, 1994, story in The New York Times Magazine on the authenticity of those famous lists of school troubles, then and now, that are often waved as warning flags by social critics.
Education
Short on Time, Congress Seeks Goals 2000 Accord
Washington
As a March 25 deadline looms, House and Senate negotiators hope to meet this week to reconcile their different versions of the Clinton Administration's education-reform proposal.
As a March 25 deadline looms, House and Senate negotiators hope to meet this week to reconcile their different versions of the Clinton Administration's education-reform proposal.
Education
Fla. Lawmakers Seek Alterations in School-Reform Blueprint
Florida legislators have been having a tough time this year keeping their hands off the state's sweeping education-reform initiative, which promised schools freedom to make decisions in exchange for improved student performance.
Education
With N.Y.C. Enrollment Up, Cortines Decries Budget Cuts
After enrolling one million students this year for the first time in 15 years, the New York City public schools can ill afford the massive budget cuts being proposed by the city's new Mayor, Schools Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines has warned.
Education
A House That's Like a Home
A band of youngsters clusters around Janice Ross-Devers's kitchen table and counter, devouring an afternoon snack of tuna melts, fresh fruit, and cake.
Education
State Journal: Taking a gamble; Hospitality
State legislators in Oklahoma would like to help out schools that raise extra funds through raffles. But they fear that kindergartners selling chances to win a cake could lead to slot machines.
Education
Curriculum Column
In an unusual collaboration, the Children's Television Workshop and the International Business Machines Corporation have joined forces to develop interactive, computer-centered elementary school science-curriculum materials.
Education
Privatization Proposal Deleted From D.C. Agenda
When District of Columbia school officials gathered last week for a forum on the superintendent's new reform plan, they jokingly beseeched each other not to even mention "the 'P' word.''
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Media Violence
It's the question that won't go away: Does media violence promote real violence? After all the evidence is cited, the debate about media violence quickly falls into a tired and frustrating pattern: either you are for government regulation of the media, or you support the First Amendment and are opposed to censorship.
Education
Opinion
Is Social-Skills Training One 'Missing Link'?
No matter what glowing statistics we muster to show the steady course of school reform, another set of statistics being created by our young people is jeopardizing our sense of accomplishment in changing the course of young lives.
Education
Opinion
Taming Aggression in the Young: A Call to Action
The following statement has been endorsed by over 56 college and university faculty members nationwide who make up an ad hoc group studying ways that educators and other concerned citizens might address the issue of violence in American culture, particularly as it affects children and young people.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
Freda Schwartz's essay, "The Myth of the Model Developmental Lesson'' (Commentary, Feb. 23, 1994), prompts me to respond, not necessarily in criticism of her well-written article but rather in defense of those of us who have, as administrators, supervised high school instruction.
Freda Schwartz's essay, "The Myth of the Model Developmental Lesson'' (Commentary, Feb. 23, 1994), prompts me to respond, not necessarily in criticism of her well-written article but rather in defense of those of us who have, as administrators, supervised high school instruction.