March 1, 1995
Education Week, Vol. 14, Issue 23
Education
Accord Set in Desegregation Case in K.C.
A temporary truce has been declared in the long-running, bitterly contested Kansas City, Mo., school-desegregation case now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Education
Testing Column
Now a set of case studies from the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching appears to support those contentions.
Education
Lawmakers Take on Texas-Sized Task: Rethinking School Code
After five years of exhaustive legislative sessions that focused on overhauling the way Texas pays for its schools, lawmakers have found a way to create even more upheaval: rethinking the state's entire school code.
English-Language Learners
Language Burden of Bilingual Children Called False Belief
Contrary to what some believe, children who are bilingual early in life do not have poorer vocabularies and less successful school careers than their monolingual peers.
Education
Getting Its House in Order
The Chicago board of education's Pershing Road headquarters --three massive red-brick former warehouses not far from the city's stockyards--are a powerful symbol of the command-and-control bureaucracy that once ruled the city's schools.
Education
Ill. Lawmakers Debate Chicago Voucher Proposal
Chicago school officials and political observers will have their eye on the Illinois Senate next week when it returns after a recess to debate a controversial voucher bill that would make Illinois the first state to steer state funds to religious schools.
Education
Legislative Update
The following are summaries of governors' budget requests for precollegiate education and highlights of proposals on the states' education agendas.
Education
Take Note: A little sipping; A lot of slipping
Carter Loar, a 17-year-old high school senior in Loudoun County, Va., may be the only student ever suspended for freshening his breath in class.
English-Language Learners
Bilingual Educators Urged To Join Political Fight
At their annual meeting here, bilingual educators got more than the latest thinking on how to teach language-minority students. They also learned about political activism and immigration policy.
Education
School-Finance Legislation Clears House, Senate in North Dakota
The North Dakota House has passed a watered-down version of a plan proposed by Gov. Edward T. Schafer in an effort to make the way schools are financed more equal across school districts.
Ed-Tech Policy
Digital Library of the Future May House Bytes, Not Books
The library of the future may not be housed on bookshelves inside a building. Instead, it may exist as trillions of bits of computer code that can be transmitted over a telecommunications network to anywhere in the world.
Education
Child-Care Block Grant Clears Education Committee
A House committee approved legislation last week that would consolidate nine federal child-care programs into a single block grant to be administered by the states.
Education
Early Years Column
Children in Southern states are more likely to feel the harsh hand of discipline than youngsters in the North, according to recent research from the University of Virginia.
Education
Court To Weigh State Efforts To Ban Local Gay-Rights Measures
Taking on a major gay-rights case for the first time in a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to decide whether states may ban local laws or policies protecting homosexuals from discrimination.
Education
NABE Sets Goal: Teachers Fluent in Second Language
In less than a decade, every newly certified teacher in the United States should speak fluently a second language in addition to English.
Education
Court Orders Tennessee To Equalize Teacher Salaries
Two years after it struck down Tennessee's school-finance formula as inequitable, the state supreme court is trying to level the playing field for public school teachers.
Education
Federal File: Branstad backing out; Keeping up appearances
Gov. Terry E. Branstad of Iowa has warned President Clinton that his state will back out of the Administration's Goals 2000 education-reform initiative unless the law is changed.
Branstad Backing Out
Gov. Terry E. Branstad of Iowa has warned President Clinton that his state will back out of the Administration's Goals 2000 education-reform initiative unless the law is changed.
Education
Federal Study Ties Spending Disparities to Local Property Values
Despite state and federal efforts to balance the scales, the amount of money local school districts spend is still closely tied to the property values and the education level of adults in their communities, according to a federal report.
Education
Diffusion Network Seeks To Gain Solid Footing
Seventh in an occasional series.
A year ago, officials at the highest levels of government were talking publicly about the need to "scale up" education reform.
A year ago, officials at the highest levels of government were talking publicly about the need to "scale up" education reform.
Education
Book Excerpts: Culture Conflict and 'Anti-Intellectualism'
Lisa Delpit, a MacArthur fellow who teaches urban educational leadership at Georgia State University in Atlanta, locates the source of some of the academic problems of minority children not in the internal or external deprivations many may experience, but in the miscommunication they encounter in the classroom. In the following passage from Other People's Children, she writes of the dynamics of a subtle inequality that in her view plagues the education system.
Education
News in Brief
With Congress poised to approve a bill that would enforce a moratorium on new federal regulations, President Clinton last week ordered all federal agencies to issue reports by June 1 recommending which rules should remain on the books.
House Ponders Ban On Federal Regulations
With Congress poised to approve a bill that would enforce a moratorium on new federal regulations, President Clinton last week ordered all federal agencies to issue reports by June 1 recommending which rules should remain on the books.
Education
Exxon Gives $1.25 Million to Goodlad Center
The Exxon Education Foundation last week awarded $1.25 million to the school-reform center founded by John I. Goodlad, the renowned author and professor.
Education
Books: New in Print
Creating Schools for All Our Students: What 12 Schools Have To Say, (The Council for Exceptional Children, Dept. K50170, 1920 Association Dr., Reston, Va. 22091; 60 pp; $18.50 plus $2.50 shipping, paper). Findings from teams of educators and parents brought together in the recent Working Forum on Inclusive Schools, an effort that involved 10 major educational organizations.
Diversity
Creating Schools for All Our Students: What 12 Schools Have To Say, (The Council for Exceptional Children, Dept. K50170, 1920 Association Dr., Reston, Va. 22091; 60 pp; $18.50 plus $2.50 shipping, paper). Findings from teams of educators and parents brought together in the recent Working Forum on Inclusive Schools, an effort that involved 10 major educational organizations.
Ed-Tech Policy
Gap Between White, Black Dropout Rates Has Virtually Closed
African-Americans are no longer significantly more likely than whites to drop out of school, the U.S. Census Bureau said last week.
Education
Ideas & Findings
Drug-education materials are better at turning off teenagers than they are at turning teenagers off to drugs, a new study suggests.
Education
N.J. To Debate Standards Before Revisiting School-Finance Issue
Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey has launched an unusual effort that ties the state's long-running attempts to devise an equitable school-finance system with the national movement to set standards for what students should learn in school.