May 3, 1995

Education Week, Vol. 14, Issue 32
Education Deadlines
A symbol (*) marks deadlines that have not appeared in a previous issue of Education Week.
May 3, 1995
6 min read
Education Legislative Update
The following are summaries of final action by legislatures on state education budgets and other education-related matters.
May 3, 1995
1 min read
Education Appointments

In the Schools


Bruce H. Begin, director of development, Proctor Academy, Andover, N.H., to assistant head for advancement, New Hampton School, New Hampton, N.H.
May 3, 1995
2 min read
Education Clinton and Gore Pledge Rural-Development Strategy
Ames, Iowa
Pledging to put together a development strategy for rural communities that will stretch well beyond farm policy, President Clinton and Vice President Gore stopped in Iowa last week to hear from farmers, bankers, health-care workers, and students.
Lonnie Harp, May 3, 1995
5 min read
Education People
Elaine B. Griffin has been named the 1995 National Teacher of the Year. Ms. Griffin, a teacher at Kodiak Island Chiniak School in Alaska, was honored in a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House April 27, where President Clinton presented her with a crystal apple.
May 3, 1995
1 min read
Education Correction
An item in the April 12 issue of Education Week incorrectly stated the views of Nebraska's commissioner of education on monitoring home-school students. The legislature has formed a commission to study the matter, but neither Commissioner Doug Christensen nor the state has made any policy decision to test students statewide.
May 3, 1995
1 min read
Education Toledo Union Eliminates Peer-Review Program
The Toledo Federation of Teachers last week canceled its highly regarded peer-review program in a dispute with the school board over extra pay for principals.
Ann Bradley, May 3, 1995
3 min read
Education Ind. Dropouts Could Face Loss of Driver's Licenses
The Indiana legislature has approved a bill that would authorize the state bureau of motor vehicles to invalidate or deny driver's licenses for students under age 18 who drop out of school.
May 3, 1995
3 min read
Education Students
At a private school in Los Angeles, students can earn class credit for hitting a teacher.
May 3, 1995
1 min read
Education Academic Tourney's Black Mark: A Cheating Scandal
Somehow, the conversation at one of the corner tables in the banquet hall has led to mention of the transcontinental railroad.
Lonnie Harp, May 3, 1995
8 min read
Education Capital Update

The Education Department


Impact Aid
May 3, 1995
1 min read
Education Advocates Worry Cuts Will Kill Service Projects
Rita Cole was the oldest of nine children, and dropped out of junior high school to care for her siblings. She tried an adult-education class, where others laughed at her when she read aloud. Then a friend told her about the Family Literacy Corps program.
Robert C. Johnston, May 3, 1995
7 min read
Education Federal FIle: Omissions; Death or bowling?
Rachel Mason, a senior at Framingham High School, cheered President Clinton last fall as he signed the Improving America's Schools Act at the Massachusetts school. Weeks later, she was named one of 40 state semifinalists in the National Science Scholars program.
Robert C. Johnston & Julie A. Miller, May 3, 1995
1 min read
Education 'Talking Books' Pressed Into Classroom Service
Visit a haunted house. Pilot a spaceship to a small planet. Catch a movie in the gallery. Or read, write, and picnic with the animals.
Karen Diegmueller, May 3, 1995
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Education State Journal: Budgetary spin; Making up
New Jersey voters approved 72 percent of local school district budgets in last month's elections, a significant improvement from last year's 51 percent success rate.
Mark Walsh & Millicent Lawton, May 3, 1995
1 min read
Education Fund-Raising Schemes Raise Parents' Ire in California
Officials from several California schools who thought they had happened on new revenue sources have instead collided with parents who said the schools were using their children as marketing pawns.
Laura Miller, May 3, 1995
3 min read
School Climate & Safety Excerpts From Majority Opinion and Dissent In Gun-Free School Zones Case
Following are excerpts from the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Lopez:
May 3, 1995
3 min read
Education Tracking May Not Be As Common a Practice As Assumed, Study Says
Tracking, the traditional practice of grouping students in classes by ability levels, may not be as commonly practiced in schools as its critics sometimes assume.
Debra Viadero, May 3, 1995
4 min read
Education National News Briefs

Violent Teen Deaths Rose From 1985-92, Report Says

May 3, 1995
1 min read
Education New Multicultural Editions of Cliffs Notes Get Mixed Reviews
Yes, there really is a Cliff.
They may not know him by name, but countless English students facing term-paper deadlines have sought late-night salvation from Clifton K. Hillegass and his bumblebee-striped study guides since 1958.
Megan Drennan, May 3, 1995
4 min read
Education State News Briefs

Idaho Board Suspends Use Of National Teacher Exam

May 3, 1995
2 min read
Education Joining Hands
In San Antonio, a teenage boy breezes through a housing project on a bicycle, balancing a young child on his lap and a bottle of beer in his hand.
Deborah L. Cohen, May 3, 1995
22 min read
School Climate & Safety Justices Reject Ban on Guns Near Schools
The U.S. Supreme Court last week struck down a federal law that bars gun possession near schools. It ruled 5 to 4 that Congress exceeded its powers under the U.S. Constitution in passing the measure.
Mark Walsh, May 3, 1995
6 min read
Education Common Causes
The U.S. Education Department is forming a working group on comprehensive services to help implement recent legislation calling forschool-community linkages.
May 3, 1995
3 min read
Education Study of Gender Bias in S.A.T. Prompts Debate
New research has added fuel to the long-running debate over whether the Scholastic Assessment Test, the nation's best-known college-entrance examination, is biased against women.
Debra Viadero, May 3, 1995
2 min read
Education Clinton Defends Programs And Hails Loan Expansion
President Clinton last week took his defense of embattled education programs on the road, urging a community-college association meeting in Minneapolis to fight Republican plans to cut back student-loan subsidies and the direct-lending program.
May 3, 1995
4 min read
Education Philanthropy Column
The DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund has awarded a $2 million grant to the National Writing Project in Berkeley, Calif., to improve the teaching of writing in schools with large numbers of low-income students.
Meg Sommerfeld, May 3, 1995
2 min read
Education The Dog Ate It
A right, pretty, and talkative, Janelle Haynes is what Americans like to think of as a well-rounded 8th grader.
Debra Viadero, May 3, 1995
21 min read
Education News Brief Updates

L.A. Schools Still Awaiting Disaster Aid From '94 Quake

May 3, 1995
1 min read