February 15, 1995
Education Week, Vol. 14, Issue 21
Education
N.D. Senate Plan To Revamp Funding Formula Gains Favor
A North Dakota Senate plan to tinker with the school-funding formula seems to be gaining legislative favor over two other proposals, including one from Gov. Edward T. Schafer.
Education
People News Briefs
E. Don Brown, the principal of L.D. Bell High School in Hurst, Tex., was elected president of the National Association of Secondary School Principals at its annual convention last week in San Antonio. Mr. Brown, who was the 1985 Texas Principal of the Year, joined the N.A.S.S.P. in 1969 and has served on its board since 1990. He succeeds Esther J. Cox, the principal of the Martin Luther King Jr. Career Center in Anchorage. Also last week, the association named H. Michael Brown, the principal of Hope (Ark.) High School, its president-elect.
Education
Looking the Other Way
As a Baptist minister, the Rev. Johnny Scott professes a deep faith in the basic decency of the people of East St. Louis, Ill. As the head of the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter in this almost entirely black city, he has dedicated much of his life to helping African-Americans gain and keep political power. So it comes as a surprise when he says, without hesitating, that he's glad a bunch of bureaucrats have come down from the state capital to seize power from the school board.
Education
Take Note: Calling all subs; Phoning for frogs
School principals in Richmond County, Ga., can now sleep a little later each day, thanks to the district's automated telephone system for placing substitute teachers.
Calling All Subs
School principals in Richmond County, Ga., can now sleep a little later each day, thanks to the district's automated telephone system for placing substitute teachers.
Education
Gingrich on Education, Part 2: Encourage Students To Graduate Early
Schools should offer incentives for students to finish high school in two or three years, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., told a gathering of school board members last week.
Education
Annenberg Seeks Applicants for Faculty Network
Some 500 schools nationwide have been invited to apply for a professional-development network announced last week by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
Education
Hornbeck To Push Ahead With Phila. Reforms
Superintendent David W. Hornbeck of Philadelphia has announced that he is pushing ahead with a host of radical reform measures, even though some do not have the support of a state judge overseeing the district's desegregation efforts.
Education
Women's Work
Bite off the job of changing the world and this is where you find yourself: driving on a desolate Oklahoma road, past chicken farms and trailers, turning onto a muddy lane, and stopping in the ruts outside a ramshackle old house where a lazy black dog watches over the littered yard.
Education
Clarification
Susan H. Fuhrman, who has been nominated as dean of the graduate school of education at the University of Pennsylvania, will continue in a leadership position at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education. The consortium will in the future move to the University of Pennsylvania. An item in the People column in the Feb. 1 issue of Education Week implied otherwise.
Education
Federal File: Unforeseen controversy
When the Clinton Administration nominated as surgeon general a Tennessee obstetrician respected for his work in reducing teenage pregnancy, its officials expected the new Republican-controlled Congress to embrace the nominee. (See Education Week, Feb. 8, 1995.)
Education
State Journal: Crossfire; As the Superintendency Turns
A 17-year-old West Virginia boy got a lesson in the rough and tumble of politics when he testified before a Senate panel in support of a school-safety bill.
Crossfire
A 17-year-old West Virginia boy got a lesson in the rough and tumble of politics when he testified before a Senate panel in support of a school-safety bill.
Education
Book: Excerpt 'I'm Terrific'--and Demoralized
Lowered expectations and appeals to self-centeredness are among the cultural factors that feed into the demoralization of today's young people, writes the Brown University professor William Damon in Greater Expectations: Overcoming the Culture of Indulgence in America's Homes and Schools.
Education
Court Backs Remedial Classes at Religious School
A federal appeals court has ruled that the San Francisco school district may hold federally financed remedial classes in mobile classrooms on the grounds of religious schools.
Education
News In Brief
A state judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by 44 of Florida's 67 school districts that challenged the adequacy of the state's schools.
Education
AmeriCorps Sparks Debate on Federal Service Role
Colin Yost got more than he bargained for by joining a Portland, Ore., AmeriCorps program that weatherizes low-income homes.
Education
Networking Column
As many educators can attest, the Internet can be a wild and woolly place to take school-children on electronic field trips.
Education
Baltimore Resists Order To 'Reconstitute' 3 Schools
The Baltimore school board spent much of last week at loggerheads with the state as the district resisted an order to restructure three troubled schools.
Education
Injured Athletes: The Risk of Returning to the Game Too Soon
Some pediatricians who treat student athletes for head injuries fail to properly instruct them about when it is safe to return to the playing field, a study out last week concludes.
Education
Bush Urges Increased Authority, Flexibility For All Texas Districts
Gov. George W. Bush of Texas acknowledged that he may be starting to sound like a broken record, but pledged to lawmakers in his State of the State address last week that he will continue to focus narrowly on four goals, including greater local control of schools.
School Climate & Safety
'Hoop Dreams' Guns for Academy Award Long Shot
The producers of the acclaimed documentary "Hoop Dreams," which chronicles the basketball aspirations of two young Chicagoans, will learn this week whether their own quixotic dreams of film glory come true.
Education
Administration Beats Drum For Education
In dozens of speeches and appearances over the past two months, President Clinton has stressed the importance of education to a successful middle class and to a buoyant national economy.
Education
Learning On the Job
Sixth in an occasional series.
Administrators in San Francisco got a shock recently when they took inventory of the school system's professional-development offerings. They discovered that the district is spending close to $18 million a year on a plethora of programs and projects--a figure that had never before been tallied.
Administrators in San Francisco got a shock recently when they took inventory of the school system's professional-development offerings. They discovered that the district is spending close to $18 million a year on a plethora of programs and projects--a figure that had never before been tallied.
Education
Recent Finance Activity Follows Disparate Patterns
After years of easy-to-spot trends, the most recent surge of school-finance activity in state courts and legislatures finds some states retrenching while others confront fresh legal challenges. And some judges and lawmakers are expressing open frustration with their prolonged battles over the issue.