March 29, 1995

Education Week, Vol. 14, Issue 27
Education The Science of Art Appreciation
Harvard University researcher Jessica Davis learned an important lesson from her children--a lesson that continues to shape her work today.
Meg Sommerfeld, March 29, 1995
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Education Vaccines for All Who Have Not Had Chicken Pox Advocated
The approval of the first-ever vaccine for chicken pox has spurred pediatricians and children's-health experts to sort out who should receive the drug and at what age.
Millicent Lawton, March 29, 1995
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Education Events
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March 29, 1995
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Education E.D. Will Not Help Pay To Develop Economics Standards After All
Washington
The Education Department announced last week that it will not help finance development of model national economics standards.
Karen Diegmueller, March 29, 1995
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Education A Political Food Fight
Washington
The federal school-lunch program, which has not seen this much attention since the Reagan Administration proposed counting ketchup as a vegetable, has again been caught in the middle of a nasty partisan food fight on Capitol Hill.
Millicent Lawton, March 29, 1995
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Education Capital Update
Capital Update tracks the movement of legislation, the introduction of notable bills, and routine regulatory announcements.
March 29, 1995
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Education News In Brief
Gov. Gary E. Johnson of New Mexico has vetoed legislation intended to make "social promotion" of students more difficult.
March 29, 1995
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Education Native American Educators Seek More Control and More Money
Washington
Native Americans say they do not want to wait for the federal government to define the future of Indian education.
Lynn Schnaiberg, March 29, 1995
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Education Center Criticizes Fla. District's Top-Down Style
The Palm Beach County, Fla., school district is in an uproar over a critical report issued by a nonprofit group that had been providing technical assistance to some district schools for nearly two years.
Ann Bradley, March 29, 1995
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Education Federal File
The Education Department's plan to target $1 billion in Title I funds to the neediest schools in fiscal 1996 is not what Congress intended when it reauthorized the program last year, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, maintains.
March 29, 1995
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Education House Panel Launches Series of Hearings on National Standards
Washington
After raging through academic circles and surfacing briefly in the Senate in January, the debate over national content standards appears to be settling in for an extended stay on the agenda of a House panel with designs on reining in the federal role in education.
Mark Pitsch, March 29, 1995
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Education Pa. District Vote To Hire Firm To Run School Assailed
A small Pennsylvania district's decision to hire a private company to manage one of its schools is making waves statewide and drawing fire from local and national union leaders.
Drew Lindsay, March 29, 1995
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Education Two Finance Cases Spur N.Y. Court To Consider How To Measure Equity
In 1982, New York State's highest court closed the door on a constitutional challenge to the state's system of paying for schools.
Drew Lindsay, March 29, 1995
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Education People
Teresa Harvey, a first-grade teacher at Chief Leschi Elementary School in Tacoma, Wash., has won the "Excellence in Teaching'' award given annually by the federal system of Native American schools. The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs' office of Indian-education programs presents the award to a K-12 teacher in the 185-school, 24,000-student system. Ms. Harvey was chosen from about 1,500 teachers in the system....The Council of Foundations has named the president of the Ford Foundation, Franklin A. Thomas, the winner of its 1995 Distinguished Grantmaker Award. The award, which will be presented May 2 during the Washington D.C.-based council's annual conference, recognizes outstanding lifetime achievement in organized philanthropy. Mr. Thomas, who has been with the Ford Foundation for 16 years, has announced plans to retire next March. The foundation has named Susan V. Berresford, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to succeed him. She will be the first woman president to head the New York City philanthropy.
March 29, 1995
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Education Legislative Update
The following are summaries of governors' budget requests for precollegiate eduation and highlights of proposals on the states' education agendas.
March 29, 1995
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Education Calif. Report Hailed, But Many Worry It Has No Champion
The Education Commission of the States last week delivered its long-awaited blueprint for school reform in California, urging lawmakers there to give local administrators the power and encouragement to tailor their own programs.
Lonnie Harp, March 29, 1995
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Education Calif. Teacher Victim of Anti-Semitic Slurs, A.C.L.U. Suit Says
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California sued a school district and several parents in federal court last week on behalf of a teacher who claims he was discriminated against because he is Jewish.
Jessica Portner, March 29, 1995
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Education Beating the Odds
Poor, black, and a product of an inner-city East St. Louis neighborhood, Evelyn Strode was born with the odds against her.
Debra Viadero, March 29, 1995
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Education State Journal: Lighting up; Group Psychology
Rhode Island's House majority leader is betting that loosening the state's ban on moking in schools will mean bigger bingo profits for education. Rep. George Caruolo is sponsoring a bill that would allow smoking in public and private schools during bingo nights or other after-hours events for adults.
March 29, 1995
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Education Ga. Administrators Decry Cuts in Central-Office Funds
Georgia lawmakers have dealt local school administrators a one-two punch by removing many of their job protections and slicing the state aid that helps pay their salaries.
Peter Schmidt, March 29, 1995
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Education Update Briefs
Ohio's financial-oversight board has approved an emergency loan of nearly $30 million to the Cleveland schools to operate through the end of the fiscal year.
March 29, 1995
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Education AmeriCorps Demographics Paint Middle-Class Face
Citing new data on AmeriCorps participants, officials say that the fledgling national-service program has a middle-class face that everyone can love--even conservative lawmakers who want to gut two-thirds of its funding.
Robert C. Johnston, March 29, 1995
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Education Benefits for Families of Disabled Children Retooled
It is complaints like Willie Lee Bell's that Congress is responding to with its efforts to rework a federal program that provides cash benefits to low-income families with disabled children.
Lynn Schnaiberg, March 29, 1995
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Education Four Coordinators Trying To Help One Family at a Time
When Jaye Sparber came to work at Breckenridge Elementary School here, she visited every classroom and drew a big heart on the blackboard.
Deborah L. Cohen, March 29, 1995
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Education News In Brief
The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to revive a lawsuit against the Dallas school district over the shooting death of a student in a high school hallway.
March 29, 1995
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Education Networking Column
More than three-fourths of teachers, administrators, and librarians polled by a tchnology trade group believe access to the "information highway'' will reshape classroom teaching for the better.
March 29, 1995
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Education Truce Sought In School Wars Over Religion
Groups that often battle fiercely over the proper place of religion in public education pledged last week to soften the tone of their rhetoric and to demonstrate respect for one another's views.
Mark Walsh, March 29, 1995
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Education Broad Impact of Debate Over Race, Gender Predicted
Debate over policies focusing on race, ethnicity, and gender has rocketed to the top of the political agenda, and the escalating assault on affirmative action could have broad ramifications for school districts, experts say.
Ann Bradley, March 29, 1995
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Education Milestones
Myra P. Sadker, a leading researcher on gender issues in education who rebuked schols for what she found to be their bias against girls and young women, died March 18. Ms. Sadker, who was 52, suffered complications from a bone-marrow transplant to treat breast cancer.
March 29, 1995
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