February 8, 1995
Education Week, Vol. 14, Issue 20
Education
Gingrich Goes on the Record: Abolish the Education Department
Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., called for the abolition of the Education Department--apparently for the first time publicly--at a conference of private-college leaders held here last week.
Education
State Cuts, Increasing Tuition Seen Imperiling Calif. Higher Education
California's higher-education system is headed for a "state of
emergency" that requires drastic measures to insure access to college
for future generations, a new report says.
Education
Colo. Districts See Red Over Pension-Fund Demand
Colorado school districts are hopping mad over an aggressive effort by the state retirement fund to recover millions of dollars in unpaid pension contributions, some stemming from more than two decades ago.
Education
Events: February
A symbol (*) marks events that have not appeared in a previous issue of Education Week.
Education
Beyond Model Schools
Eighth grader Amy DeGeest thumbs through a large manila folder, pausing at highlights. There are notes from her oral report on Rome, the text of a speech she gave to her class, a project on World War II, a poem.
Education
Drug Firm's Visit to School Prompts Inquiry by F.D.A.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is looking into an incident last fall at a Maryland high school in which Eli Lilly & Company sales representatives passed out materials promoting the company's antidepressant Prozac.
Education
Citing Clashes With Governor, Sobol Bows Out as N.Y. Chief
Thomas Sobol, New York State's commissioner of education, resigned last week, saying that the new administration of Gov. George E. Pataki would squelch his effectiveness in the job.
Education
States Take Aim at Regulatory Beast: School Codes
Sometime soon, Bill Ratliff will drop a bomb in the Texas Senate's legislative hopper.
Education
Students' Best Writing Needs Work, Study Shows
Washington
The best writing that students produce as part of their classroom work is still not very good. That's the conclusion of the first large-scale study of writing portfolios conducted on a national basis.
The best writing that students produce as part of their classroom work is still not very good. That's the conclusion of the first large-scale study of writing portfolios conducted on a national basis.
Education
Districts: R.I. Officials Question Pawtucket Desegregation Plan
R.I. Officials Question Pawtucket Desegregation Plan
Education
Bills to Scrap NESIC Likely To Hold Sway
Washington
The federal council designed to endorse national and state standards in education appeared all but dead last week as committee leaders in both houses of Congress promised to abolish it.
The federal council designed to endorse national and state standards in education appeared all but dead last week as committee leaders in both houses of Congress promised to abolish it.
Curriculum
The Gift of Reading
You might call Lloyd E. Cotsen a bibliophile. After all, the Princeton University alumnus has been collecting children's books for years. Cotsen and his wife started stockpiling books for their three children back in the late 1950's when he was just starting out at the Neutrogena Corporation in Los Angeles.
Education
Federal File: Overlooked oaths; Scholarship shuffle
After months of waiting, members of the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans finally have had their official White House swearing-in.
Education
Ending the Long Day's Journey: New School Would Erase 2-Hour Commute
Every day, a dozen teenagers in the remote west Texas town of Terlingua wake long before sunrise to catch the bus to school.
Education
State Journal: Global strife, Pardon me
Teaching how crop production in South America might affect grain prices in the United States appears to be the kind of global education Iowa children might learn from.
Education
Hard Lessons From the Scene of the Crime
It's dark as night in the school auditorium, but students' faces are visible in the half-light of the slide show.
Education
The Five Design Tasks
The National Alliance for Restructuring Education and its member states and districts focus on five design tasks:
Education
Surgeon-General Nominee Is Noted Veteran of Fight Against Teenage Pregnancy
President Clinton nominated a new surgeon general last week who shares one of his predecessor's passions: reducing teenage pregnancy.
Education
Demise of Records System For Migrant Students Causes Concern
Washington
These days, Sharyn S. Foster has a lot of questions.
These days, Sharyn S. Foster has a lot of questions.
School & District Management
E.D. Spends Time on Task of Reshaping Research Efforts
After President Clinton signed a bill last year to reshape the Education Department's research operations, federal officials promised to "hit the ground running" in carrying out the new mandate.
Education
Include Equity as Key Tenet Of Reform, Coalition Argues
The reform movement has not focused enough on making schools bias free for all students, and it must do so if it is to succeed, a coalition of educators and activists says in a report to be released this week.
Education
Child-Care Study Finds MediocreLevel of Services
Most child-care centers provide mediocre services at best, and many are so bad they threaten children's emotional and intellectual development, a study set for release this week says.
Curriculum
Use of Toxic Plant Spreading Among Teenagers
Teenagers nationwide are turning to a common plant for a legal but potentially fatal high, and that has city, school, and public-health officials alarmed.
Education
Senators Say Funding To Fix Schools Likely Budget Target
Washington
Budget-cutters in Congress and the White House are targeting the first major federal funding for school repairs, lawmakers said last week.
Budget-cutters in Congress and the White House are targeting the first major federal funding for school repairs, lawmakers said last week.
Education
Window On The World
The tool Robertson is using to teach her foreign-language class at Lincoln High School won't be available in schools for some time. But its developers at the International Business Machines Corporation's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., believe this technology will one day revolutionize education. The tool--known as EduPort--allows teachers to fetch on demand a wide range of educational materials not typically available at schools. The faculty at Lincoln--Nebraska's largest high school--is the first to test EduPort in a school setting.