June 15, 1994
Education Week, Vol. 13, Issue 38
Education
Plan To Return Boston to Neighborhood Schools Is Proposed
A Boston city councilwoman and a prominent desegregation expert have attacked the city schools' "controlled choice'' desegregation plan, arguing that it has done little to boost minority achievement.
Education
Two Leading Candidates To Vie for Calif. Schools Chief
Despite a low turnout and widespread concerns about an upset, California primary voters last week sent the two leading candidates for superintendent of public instruction into the November general election.
Education
Early-Years Column
Disadvantaged children from low- and lower-middle-income families are less likely than those from wealthier families to attend early-childhood programs that are center-based, a new study shows.
Education
N.Y. Lawmakers Tap Surplus in Approving 5% Boost in School Aid
New York State lawmakers last week sealed an agreement that will provide a $550 million boost in aid to schools. But the good news may have come too late to stop tax-weary voters from vetoing a record number of school district budgets.
Education
Pass Or Fail
The middle-aged man standing in a corner grips his white coffee cup and glances every so often at his watch as he paints a word picture of a warm and soothing beach.
Education
Teaching Board To Postpone Release of Some Test Results
After discovering problems with some of its scoring procedures, the national body developing a voluntary system for certifying expert teachers announced last week that it will delay releasing test results for about half of its initial candidates for certification.
Education
Rebuffed, O.C.R. Officials Still Seek Ohio Test Scores
In the face of state resistance, federal civil-rights officials are pressing efforts to obtain 1.6 million student-test scores as part of a review of Ohio's high school graduation examination.
Education
Small Player, Big Plans
New Mexico natives often advise tourists to bypass the interstate
when traveling from Santa Fe to Albuquerque. Instead, they recommend
taking Highway 14, a slower but far more picturesque route better known
as the "Turquoise Trail."
Education
Schools Must Trim the Fat From Menus
Washington
The Agriculture Department last week unveiled a plan to overhaul the federal school-meals programs by trimming the fat content of the food served to millions of children in 92,000 schools each school day.
The Agriculture Department last week unveiled a plan to overhaul the federal school-meals programs by trimming the fat content of the food served to millions of children in 92,000 schools each school day.
Education
Animal-Cruelty Charges Against Science Firm Dropped
A federal administrative-law judge has dismissed animal-cruelty charges against one of the nation's leading suppliers of science-teaching materials.
Education
State News Roundup
The New Jersey board of education has asked the state education department to develop a policy for withdrawing from schools that are being run by the state and to determine whether the state is prepared to return the Jersey City schools to local control.
Education
Gains Attributed to Child-Development Project
A federal project aimed at improving the outlook for poor families with young children is making important inroads in putting parents on the path to self-sufficiency and improving children's home lives, a study shows.
Education
News In Brief
While school choice remained a hot issue in 1993, the most action was in the area of charter schools, according to a survey released last week by the Heritage Foundation.
Education
People News
Superintendent Manuel J. Rivera of the Rochester, N.Y., school district has been named deputy director of schools for the Edison Project. Benno C. Schmidt Jr., the president of the private education-reform effort, announced the appointment last week.
Education
Writing Still Needs Work, Report Finds
Although most students grasp the fundamentals of narrative and informative writing, a federal report released last week says, many have trouble producing effective pieces. And even the best students find it hard to marshal the arguments and evidence needed to write persuasively.
Education
Teenagers Found More Effective at Preventing Pregnancies
While more teenagers are having sexual intercourse at younger ages, they have become more effective at preventing pregnancies, according to a report released last week by the Alan Guttmacher Institute.
Education
Ms. Frizzle and Her Magic Bus To Launch Their PBS Trip This Fall
With more than seven million copies in print, The Magic School Bus book series from Scholastic Inc. would seem to have created a ready audience for a television show of the same name.
Education
Future of Public TV Is Tied to Education, PBS President Says
The Public Broadcasting Service is taking the lead in bringing new information technologies to schools, leaving behind for-profit competitors such as cable television that are primarily interested in their own bottom lines, PBS President Ervin S. Duggan said here last week at the network's annual meeting.
Education
In Ala. Primary, Governor Defeats Teachers' Union Official
Gov. James E. Folsom Jr. of Alabama last week defeated Paul Hubbert, a teachers'-union leader who has clashed with him over education reform, in the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Education
Publishing Column
Columbus's voyage to the New World and the Pilgrims' arrival at Plymouth Rock mark the beginning of American history for most public school students. An unusual new history textbook, however, seeks to extend this time line back several thousand years to when Native Americans migrated from Asia.
Education
The Importance of Listening
"Take away the hate, the fights, the rumors, and racial discrimination, and this would be a great school.''
Education
State Journal: Threats?; Finance flap; Vaccine update
A Michigan Education Association official recently wrote to the president of Saginaw Valley State University, threatening to urge union members to cease professional involvement with the school and refuse to accept its students as teaching interns if it sets up a charter school without following M.E.A. guidelines.
Education
Chelsea Oversight Panel Laments Tensions Between Hispanics, B.U.
Longstanding tensions between the Hispanic community in Chelsea, Mass., and the private university that took over responsibility for the city's schools in 1989 threaten the progress of the partnership, a report by a panel of educators says.
Education
Cities Promote Jobs Programs for Youths as Crime-Beaters
As part of his crime-fighting plan in Boston, Mayor Thomas M. Menino carries in his suit-jacket pocket a handful of index cards with the printing, "Summer Jobs Program.'' When he meets business owners, he gives them a card and an arm-twisting to give jobs to Boston teenagers this summer.
Education
A Matter of Definition: What Are 'World Class' Standards?
When students in Maryland took their state's performance assessments this spring, so did 5th graders in Taiwan and the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg.
Education
E.D. Report Urges More Study of Impact of Magnet Schools
Washington
The number of magnet schools has grown tremendously in the past decade, but more needs to be learned about their effects on school desegregation and educational quality, a new Education Department report concludes.
The number of magnet schools has grown tremendously in the past decade, but more needs to be learned about their effects on school desegregation and educational quality, a new Education Department report concludes.
Education
Legislative Update
The following are summaries of governors' budget requests for precollegiate education and final action by legislatures on education-related matters.
Education
News Updates
A California superior court judge ruled last week that public school districts must administer the California Learning Assessment System examination.
Education
Federal File: Inside edition
The Agenda, the new book by the investigative reporter Bob Woodward, details the inner workings of the Clinton White House, and particularly of the development of President Clinton's economic and "investment'' strategy.