January 18, 1995
Education Week, Vol. 14, Issue 17
Education
Riley, Lawmakers Debate Federal Role in Schools
Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley and House Democrat made their case la t week for a federal role in education-and the existence of the Education Department.
Education
Colleges Column
Without an overhaul of higher-education funding systems, college
enrollment will become increasingly stratified, warns a report issued
this month by a national commission on higher-education finance.
Education
Kentucky Grant Will Expand Elementary-Reform Project
The Knight Foundation awarded $1 million last week to expand a pilot school-reform effort in Kentucky into all of the state's elementary schools over the next six years.
Education
People Column
Students from Burnley-Moran Elementary School in Charlottesville, Va., took their first school field trip to the South Pole by way of live broadcast last week.
Education
Private Schools Tap New Source: Tax-Exempt Bonds
Like many private schools, Albuquerque Academy in New Mexico has taken on several big expansion projects over the past 10 years. It added a middle school to its campus in 1985, and half a decade later it built a new library and science facility.
Education
17-State Project Hammers Out Own Standards
Proposed national standards in subjects ranging from the arts to U.S. history describe many things students should know and be able to do. But the voluminous documents are relatively silent on how students would show that they have met a standard.
Education
Antidote for Antipolitics: A New 'Text of Civic Instruction'
On March 4, 1801, in the wake of "the dirtiest Presidential campaign in American history," Thomas Jefferson in his Inaugural Address sought to repair the political wounds of the ferocious partisan bickering of the 1790's, a partisanship that even descended to physical brawling on the floor of Congress.
Education
State Teachers Of The Year
The recipients of the 1994 State Teacher of the Year Award, presented by the U.S. Education Department and sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers, are listed below. Winners from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Department of Defense Dependents Schools are included.
Education
Take Note: Child's play?; Underwater mystery
The Omaha school district has alerted teachers to be on the lookout for a new toy showing up in mathematics classes: a pocket-sized calculator that students could use to cheat on exams.
Education
Congress Takes First Steps in March Toward Spending-Cut Goal
Washington
The Republican-led 104th Congress continued its march toward spending cuts last week with a host of hearings on 1995 budget revisions, cost-saving program changes, and a proposed balanced-budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The Republican-led 104th Congress continued its march toward spending cuts last week with a host of hearings on 1995 budget revisions, cost-saving program changes, and a proposed balanced-budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Education
Networking Column
A paper by the educator William H. Cosby Jr., better known as the entertainer Bill Cosby, on the importance of early exposure to effective science teaching is one of thousands of documents available on a new online service offered by the National Academy of Sciences.
Education
Business Still Up To Tackle Reform, Report Says
Business is in a "fourth wave" of involvement with school reform, with corporate leaders finally realizing the enormous task of systemically changing the education system, a new report says.
Education
Phila. Board Seeks State Funds in Desegregation Case
The Philadelphia school board has challenged a recent state-court order requiring it to implement certain desegregation remedies without new state money.
Education
Lawmakers See Need To Untangle Voc.-Ed. Web
In contrast with partisan clashes elsewhere on Capitol Hill,
Democratic and Republican lawmakers agreed last week on the need to
streamline the tangled web of federal vocational-education and
job-training programs.
Education
Publishing
High school students in Boston are writing and producing a new environmental newspaper for the city's 5th graders.
Education
Accord Bars Ala. Educator From School Grounds
A former Alabama high school principal whose comments about interracial dating inflamed a community will be barred from visiting campuses in his district during school hours, under a settlement announced last week by the U.S. Justice Department.
Education
N.D. Lawmakers Prepare To Rewrite School-Finance System
Amid agreement that North Dakota's school-funding system is flawed, the state legislature is gearing up this month to consider Gov. Edward T. Schafer's plan to fix the problem. But the bipartisan proposal, supported jointly by the Republican Governor and Superintendent of Public Instruction Wayne G. Sanstead, a Democrat, still faces a rough reception.
Education
Court Hears Arguments In K.C. Case
Several Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court asked last week whether federal-court supervision of the Kansas City, Mo., school district has gone too far as the Court heard oral arguments in a major school-desegregation case.
Education
N.J. Governor Agrees To Delay School-Voucher Legislation
Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey retreated somewhat last week from her strong support of a proposed school-voucher program for Jersey City.
Education
A Governor's Legacy: Solid Record on Education
Gov. Ned McWherter is leaving the Tennessee Governor's mansion this week, but it appears that the school-reform movement that he led during his two terms will stick around.
Education
A Concerted Effort
Fifteen-year-old Ivan Dietz breezes into his classroom in Grand Forks, N.D., still shivering from the biting October wind as he sheds his coat and drops it on a hook by the door.
Education
Mothers Lead List in Caregiver Time, Study Says
American 4-year-olds spend more time with their mothers than with any other caregivers, and they also spend more time with their mothers than do 4-year-olds in many other countries, a new study shows.
Education
G.O.P.'s 'Leaner, Meaner' Crime Bills Would Scrap School-Based Programs
Washington
Flexing their new political muscle in Congress, Republicans leaders have introduced bills that will form the basis of an effort to replace last year's crime act with something "leaner and meaner."
Flexing their new political muscle in Congress, Republicans leaders have introduced bills that will form the basis of an effort to replace last year's crime act with something "leaner and meaner."
Education
State Journal: Minutiae; Paddle problem
The Kentucky Court of Appeals is getting tired of interpreting the anti-nepotism provisions of the state's 1990 school-reform law. Take their latest case:
Education
House Historian Ousted Over Remarks as E.D. Reviewer
Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich fired his choice for historian of the House last week after learning of controversial comments she made as a consultant to the Education Department in 1986.