October 12, 1988

Education Week, Vol. 08, Issue 06
Education Opinion How To Create a Generation of 'Aliterates'
Despite a promise that he wouldn't "be putting out Bill Bennett's list of books for the American people," William J . Bennett does indeed have a little list.
Susan Ohanian, October 12, 1988
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Education Books
Efforts to combat acquired immune deficiency syndrome continue to generate a wide variety of educational materials. The following guides and booklets are among the new resources available for teaching young people about aids:

October 12, 1988
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Ed-Tech Policy $4.9-Million Federal Grant Launches New Technology Center
The Education Department has awarded a $4.9-million grant to the Bank Street College of Education in New York City to create a new national Center on Technology in Education.
Peter West, October 12, 1988
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Education Proposed Children's 'Bill of Rights'

All children have the right to:
October 12, 1988
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Education People News
A Hall County, Neb., judge has ordered a Roman Catholic school to re-admit a student expelled for getting married in a civil ceremony.

Anthony Murphy, 17, was expelled from Grand Island Central Catholic High School after officials learned he had not sought church sanction for his marriage. Bishop Lawrence McNamara ordered that Mr. Murphy be punished because he "broke the law of the Catholic Church."

October 12, 1988
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Education Bush Plan Asks Young Americans To Help Out 'Where the Want Is'
Vice President George Bush, the Republican Presidential nominee, last week unveiled a proposal aimed at encouraging high-school and college students to participate in community volunteer efforts.
Reagan Walker & Julie A. Miller, October 12, 1988
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Education News In Brief
Gov. George Deukmejian of California has signed a bill that will reauthorize the state's special-education program, but he vetoed another that would have reauthorized five other categorical programs that have expired under the state's "sunset" law.

The Governor's signature on SB 2059 will restore the state's authority to regulate special-education programs between Jan. 1, 1989, and June 30, 1993. The regulations for the program expired this past summer.

October 12, 1988
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Education City Chiefs Eye Teacher Issues in Funding Context
Using terms popularized by teachers, urban superintendents and school-board members say they are well aware of the need to reform teaching and administration in their districts.
William Snider, October 12, 1988
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Education Detroit Cardinal's Plan Could Force Some Catholic Schools To Close or Consolidate
Roman Catholic educators in Detroit are predicting that some Catholic schools may eventually close, consolidate, or become independent of the church if the Archdiocese of Detroit carries out its plan to shut down more than one-third of the city's churches.
Kirsten Goldberg, October 12, 1988
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Education Capital Digest
The House Employment Opportunities Subcommittee last week approved legislation establishing a national youth-service program.

Sponsors of the measure conceded that there was no chance that the bill could become law in the few remaining days of the current Congressional session.

October 12, 1988
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Curriculum State Journal: Unrequired reading; Mothers and daughters
Gov. Arch Moore of West Virginia has advised a group of teachers in Charleston that they might feel better about themselves and their state if they read less.

"There is an age of cynicism in West Virginia now, don't succumb to it," Mr. Moore exhorted participants at the second annual West Virginia Teachers Forum. "I'm an optimist. I don't even read The Wall Street Journal."

October 12, 1988
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Education Million Students and Parents To Pull 'Mock' Election Levers
As voters prepare to go to the polls next month, a group of education, political, and business organizations is planning a "mock election'' to teach students and their parents about voting.

Scheduled to take place on Nov. 3, five days before the general election, the mock election will involve some 5 million parents and students in grades K-12, who will cast their votes for President and state their positions on a range of national issues.

October 12, 1988
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Education Montana School Chief, Governor's Panel Support Redistribution of Funds Among School Districts
Montana would impose a uniform statewide property-tax rate, limit the amount that school districts could spend, and redistribute excess revenues from wealthy to poor communities, under plans proposed by a governor's advisory panel and the state school chief.
Nancy Mathis, October 12, 1988
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Education Private Schools Columns
Teachers in private secondary schools have more positive opinions about their principal, school administration, fellow teachers, and students than teachers in public schools do, a study by the U.S. Education Department has found.

Secondary School Teachers' Opinions: Public and Private Schools combines data from two previous federal studies: the 1983-84 "Administrator and Teacher Survey," part of the department's High School and Beyond study, and the 1985-86 Private School Survey.

October 12, 1988
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Education Research and Reports
Drug-education curricula used by many schools fail to give students a "clear, consistent" message about the dangers of the use of illegal drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, according to a U.S. Education Department report released last week.

While not mandating a national anti-drug curriculum, the report provides recommendations on the essential elements of substance-abuse programs at all school levels.

October 12, 1988
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Education Court To Rule on States' Immunity From Special-Education Lawsuits
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to decide whether states can use the 11th Amendment as a shield against federal lawsuits charging them with discrimination against the handicapped in education.
Tom Mirga, October 12, 1988
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Education The Soviet System at a Glance

During the 1987-88 school year, the mandatory age for starting school was lowered from 7 to 6; compulsory schooling ends with grade 8. Typically, one-half of those who complete the 8th grade continue their schooling in one form or another.

The system includes four types of precollegiate schools:

October 12, 1988
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International Pedagogical 'Perestroika': Education Reform, Soviet Style
School No. 6 here has seen two different versions of Soviet school reform in two years.
Kirsten Goldberg, October 12, 1988
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Education States News Roundup
The Floyd County, Ky., school system has convinced the state board of education not to take it over on account of academic bankruptcy.

The board dropped plans to assume control of the district after hearing testimony from its new superintendent, school-board members, and parents about the progress being made, officials said.

October 12, 1988
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Education Drug's Side Effects and Adverse Reactions

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the use of anabolic steroids can damage the liver, the cardiovascular and reproductive systems, and emotional health. The effects may differ from person to person, depending on individual body chemistry, associated secondary side effects, or inappropriate ingredients found in black-market steroids.

Established side effects and adverse reactions include the following:

October 12, 1988
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Education Steroids: Few Demanding That High-School Athletes 'Just Say No'
Although many educators acknowledge that a growing number of high-school students are using steroids and other growth-enhancing drugs, few education organizations are prepared to mount a campaign against their abuse.
Ellen Flax, October 12, 1988
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Education Panel in Texas Unveils School-Spending Plan
A school-finance plan that would guarantee equal funding for Texas's 1,063 school districts has been unveiled by Lieut. Gov. Bill Hobby and State Comptroller Bob Bullock.
Nancy Mathis, October 12, 1988
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Education Where There's Smoke, There's Teachers
For a group of teachers at the Lincoln (Neb.) High School, the start of school this fall brought a potentially unnerving austerity measure--a districtwide ban on the use of tobacco products in school buildings.

Fortunately for those who blanched at the thought of long, nicotineless work days, though, Jim Stork had spotted a small vacant apartment across the street from the school. For just $225 a month, the social-studies teacher was able to rent a place where devotees of Nicotiana tabacum could find mid-day refuge.

October 12, 1988
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Education Contracts for Kindergarten
In a program being hailed as a model collaborative venture between the education and child-care sectors, the Milwaukee public schools have contracted with five private day-care centers to provide half- and full-day kindergarten for disadvantaged 4- and 5-year-olds.
Deborah L. Gold, October 12, 1988
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Education Key Bills Pending as Session Nears Close
As the Congress headed into the final days of its 1988 session, the fate of some key education-related bills remained in doubt.
Deborah L. Gold, Julie A. Miller & Reagan Walker, October 12, 1988
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Education Publishers Probe Text Warehouses After Scandals
Stung by million-dollar losses, a group of textbook publishers is pressing for reforms in the book-depository system, which some critics have labeled a wasteful relic of "horse-and-buggy days."
Robert Rothman, October 12, 1988
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Education District News Roundup
Students in New Haven, Conn., will be suspended or expelled if they commit a violent crime anywhere in the community, under a new policy set by Superintendent John Dow Jr.

Mr. Dow has ordered school principals to monitor police reports and suspend for 10 days any student accused of engaging in violent crime.

October 12, 1988
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Education Early Years Columns
Children of legal kindergarten age should not be denied entry into school because they are not considered "ready," according to the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

The group argues in a new monograph against such practices as moving back the cutoff date for school, tracking children on the basis of tests, and having them repeat kindergarten.

October 12, 1988
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Ed-Tech Policy N.E.A., I.B.M. Launching Effort To Link Schools With Computers
A computer network that will enable teachers from across the country to share ideas and concerns about school-based reform and restructuring was scheduled to go into operation this week, according to a spokesman for the National Education Association.
Peter West, October 12, 1988
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