May 11, 1994
Education Week, Vol. 13, Issue 33
Education
Public Opposition Kills Reform Plan in Conn. Legislature
Opposition from parent groups and teachers' unions in Connecticut has killed a reform panel's proposal for moving the state to a performance-based education system.
Education
Veto of Bill To Double N.H. School Aid Expected
The New Hampshire legislature has cleared a bill that would more than double the state's contribution to school spending. But an expected veto by Gov. Steve Merrill is underscoring a highly politicized debate over the state's duty to finance public education.
Education
Longer Year, Day Proposed For Schooling
If the education-reform movement is to succeed, American schools
will need a longer school day and year, and should allocate at least
5-1/2 hours daily for instruction in nine core academic subjects, the
final report of a federal commission recommends.
Education
Cleveland Voters Resoundingly Defeat Tax Levy for Schools
Cleveland voters last week emphatically turned down a tax levy that backers said would improve the schools, bring in new state money, and eventually result in an end to mandatory busing.
Education
Media Column
In an unusual arrangement, the television show that features the "Science Guy,'' Bill Nye, will appear next season both on the Public Broadcasting Service and on local commercial-television stations.
Education
Appointments
In the Schools
Eric Widmer, dean of admission and financial aid, Brown University, Providence, R.I., to headmaster, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass.
Eric Widmer, dean of admission and financial aid, Brown University, Providence, R.I., to headmaster, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass.
Education
Capital Update
Capital Update tracks the movement of legislation, the introduction of notable bills, and routine regulatory announcements.
Education
$10 Million for 'Summer Of Safety' Projects Set
The Corporation for National and Community Service has announced that it will provide about $10 million for 90 summer service projects geared toward community safety.
Education
Festival Puts Grant-Supported Films in Spotlight
"Stand and Deliver,'' "Roger and Me,'' and "Eyes on the Prize.''
Education
Federal File: Speech patrol?; Speech sale; New slot
College and university officials, upset about the way the Education Department's office for civil rights plans to investigate racial-harassment complaints, have appealed to the White House in an effort to amend the strategy.
Education
People News
Arthur E. Levine, an education expert at Harvard University and a well-known commentator on education trends, has been named the ninth president of Teachers College at Columbia University.
Education
'Aching' for Balance
From Gwendolyn Brooks
Like her contemporary Langston Hughes, the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American author to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950), tells in her poems the story of Blacks (she insists on capitalization of the word, and disdains the newer term "African-American''), recreating in verse their faces, personalities, dreams, and relationships. In "Family Pictures,'' the lecture she delivered last week in Washington as the 23rd Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities, the 76-year-old Ms. Brooks takes a wide-ranging look at Blackness in contemporary American culture, calling upon her poetry and life experience to convey certain messages about living together in a multicultural society.
Like her contemporary Langston Hughes, the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American author to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950), tells in her poems the story of Blacks (she insists on capitalization of the word, and disdains the newer term "African-American''), recreating in verse their faces, personalities, dreams, and relationships. In "Family Pictures,'' the lecture she delivered last week in Washington as the 23rd Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities, the 76-year-old Ms. Brooks takes a wide-ranging look at Blackness in contemporary American culture, calling upon her poetry and life experience to convey certain messages about living together in a multicultural society.
Education
News Update
The Mississippi Supreme Court has granted the request of the Jackson school district to keep a high school principal suspended over a prayer controversy out of his job at Wingfield High School while it reviews the case.
Education
Schlechty Says Story Wrongly Involved Him
In its March 23 issue, Education Week published a story under the headline: "Louisville Gheens Academy Under Fire for Spending Practices.'' The story was accompanied by a photograph of Phillip C. Schlechty and a caption stating that Mr. Schlechty "acknowledges the management of Gheens may have been 'sloppy' at times.'' His comment and photo were included because he helped create the academy in Louisville, Ky., and was its first director.
Education
Health Column
California students get about twice the amount of curricular hours on H.I.V./AIDS prevention as experts consider sufficient, according to an informal poll conducted by the California School Boards Association.
Education
N.Y.C. Meeting Is in the Neighborhood for Many
More than 2,000 foundation officers, trustees, and others filled the hallways and meeting rooms of the New York Hilton and Towers last week for the annual conference of the Council on Foundations, a national association of community, corporate, and private grantmaking organizations.
Education
Milestones
John R. Whelan, an assistant attorney general of Connecticut and the lead lawyer for the state in the Sheff v. O'Neill school-desegregation case, committed suicide late last month at his home in Bristol, Conn., the state attorney general's office said.
Education
Student Column
Worried about what they feel is a shortage of good reading material and television programs for elementary-age and adolescent girls, some budding writers, editors, and illustrators from Duluth, Minn., have taken matters into their own hands.
Education
A Jeffersonian Sense of Proportion
From David McCullough
The historian David McCullough sounded a warning on the deep but seldom-examined consequences of cutbacks in federal spending for arts education and cultural programs when he delivered the Nancy Hanks Lecture on the Arts and Public Policy in Washington last month. The lecture, presented by the American Council for the Arts and sponsored by the Philip Morris Companies Inc., traced a public shift in fiscal priorities that Mr. McCullough said threatens the wholeness of the education future generations will receive. The excerpt below elaborates:
The historian David McCullough sounded a warning on the deep but seldom-examined consequences of cutbacks in federal spending for arts education and cultural programs when he delivered the Nancy Hanks Lecture on the Arts and Public Policy in Washington last month. The lecture, presented by the American Council for the Arts and sponsored by the Philip Morris Companies Inc., traced a public shift in fiscal priorities that Mr. McCullough said threatens the wholeness of the education future generations will receive. The excerpt below elaborates:
Education
Calif. Urged To Step Up Training of Minority Teachers
California faces an "urgent need'' to recruit and train more teachers from racial and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in the teaching force, according to a report by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
Education
New In Print
Reading and Literacy
Audio Book Breakthrough: A Guide to Selection and Use in Public Libraries and Education, ed. by Preston Hoffman and Carol H. Osteyee (Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., P.O. Box 5007, Westport, Conn. 06881; 178 pp., $39.95 cloth). A guide to selecting audio books for libraries and to incorporating audiotapes into education programs.
Audio Book Breakthrough: A Guide to Selection and Use in Public Libraries and Education, ed. by Preston Hoffman and Carol H. Osteyee (Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., P.O. Box 5007, Westport, Conn. 06881; 178 pp., $39.95 cloth). A guide to selecting audio books for libraries and to incorporating audiotapes into education programs.
Education
E.D. Ordered To Release Va. Special-Education Funds
A federal appeals court has ordered the Education Department to release nearly $59 million in special-education funds it had been withholding from the state of Virginia because of a dispute over disciplinary policies for students with disabilities.
Education
Proposed Merger of Software Publishers Canceled
A proposed merger between two California-based software publishers, which analysts said would have created the world's largest video-game and educational-software company, has collapsed in a dispute over stock prices.
Education
The Science of Teaching Science
As with many scientific discoveries both great and small, John L. Staub's investigations into the psychology of learning began when he experienced a flash of curiosity one day that left him groping for the answer to a difficult question.
Education
Counsel For The Cause
David S. Tatel was a young Chicago lawyer when the city erupted in riots 26 years ago after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Education
Debate Expected Over Crime-Prevention Programs
Washington
The scope and funding levels of youth-related crime-prevention programs is expected to be one of the more contentious issues as House and Senate conferees meet this week to smooth out the differences between their multibillion-dollar crime packages.
The scope and funding levels of youth-related crime-prevention programs is expected to be one of the more contentious issues as House and Senate conferees meet this week to smooth out the differences between their multibillion-dollar crime packages.
Education
Education Bulk of Immigration Costs, Fla. Says
Every month for the past four years, an average of 1,016 foreign-born students have entered the Dade County, Fla., school system.
Education
E.D. Softens Some Higher-Education Accountability Rules
In the face of criticism from the higher-education community, the
Education Department has scaled back some of the Clinton
Administration's more controversial proposals for tightening federal
oversight of postsecondary education.