October 12, 1988
Education Week, Vol. 08, Issue 06
Education
Group Offers To Help Texas Districts Pay Bills
The Texas Association of School Boards has offered to assist school districts that participated in a now-defunct health-insurance trust that left $8.5 million in unpaid claims by 7,000 school personnel.
The Texas School Services Foundation, the association's administrative-services branch, would help the school districts obtain loans and help broker settlements for a 3 percent fee, according to association officials.
Education
Books
Directory of School Mediation and Conflict Resolution Programs, by Annie Cheatham (National Association for Mediation in Education, 425 Amity St., Amherst, Mass. 01002; 169 pp., $12.50 paper plus $2.50 handling). Profiles of 86 school and community mediation centers in 27 states and England.
Directory of School Mediation and Conflict Resolution Programs, by Annie Cheatham (National Association for Mediation in Education, 425 Amity St., Amherst, Mass. 01002; 169 pp., $12.50 paper plus $2.50 handling). Profiles of 86 school and community mediation centers in 27 states and England.
Education
N.E.A. 'Strategic' Planners See Structural Change as Possibility
Leaders of the National Education Association and its state affiliates met behind closed doors here late last month to ponder a number of issues critical to the union's future policies and structure, and to work on a "strategic plan" that will guide the organization over the course of the next decade.
Education
N.Y. Plan: Parents May Leave Failing Schools
Parents in New York State whose children attend schools deemed "educationally unsound" under new state standards would be allowed to transfer to other schools in their district at state expense, under a plan proposed by Commissioner of Education Thomas Sobol.
Education
Owens Renews Attack on Center
Representative Major R. Owens, chairman of the House Select Education Subcommittee, has renewed his attacks on the Education Department's proposed research center on disadvantaged students.
Education
Innovative Education Programs Win $100,000 Grants
The Ford Foundation has awarded $100,000 grants to education-related programs in Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Vermont that were among 10 deemed "models of creativity" by a panel of judges.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Vincent Rogers University of Connecticut Storrs, Conn.
Harriet Tyson-Bernstein clearly does not want to hear that some teachers don't think textbooks are all that bad ("Questioning Teachers' Outlook on Texts," Commentary, Sept. 21, 1988).
Education
Opinion
The Risks of Comparing NAEP Results
Backers of the National Assessment of Educational Progress's plan to conduct a field test allowing state-by-state comparisons of student achievement early next year rationalize in several ways the decision of only about 20 states to participate in the test ("Fewer Than Half of States Join naep 'Pre-Test', " Sept. 7, 1988).
Education
Democrats Seek To Prevent From Joining NAEP Panel
A group of House Democrats, warning of the potential for "politicization" of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, has asked Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos to withdraw the nominations of three members of naep's new governing board.
Education
N.Y. Changes Scholarship Policy
New York State has scrapped its policy of awarding college scholarships on the basis of high-school grades in the wake of charges that schools had manipulated grades to win cash awards, state officials confirmed last week.
Education
Appeal Is Filed in Special-Ed. Suit
The parents of a child with severe physical and mental handicaps have appealed a federal-court decision that is believed to be the first to declare a child ineligible to receive special-education services because he is not "capable of benefiting" from them.