May 10, 1995
Education Week, Vol. 14, Issue 33
Education
The New "New Math"?
Like most tourist towns in the off-season, this gateway to Glacier National Park is largely populated by the locals on a chilly April evening.
Education
Administration Asks Court To Overturn Ban on Race-Based Aid
The Clinton Administration has joined the University of Maryland in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that the institution's scholarship program for black students is unconstitutional.
Education
New Generation of Activists Channels Their Idealism
Even when put on hold, callers to the Boston offices of City Year
cannot escape the idealism that sparked the creation of this
youth-service corps.
Education
Federal File
Over the last several months, the idea of transferring more power from Washington to states and local communities has been at the forefront of political debate.
Education
State News Roundup
Maryland education officials plan to replace the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills with a more modern standardized test in time for the 1996-97 school year.
School Climate & Safety
Clinton Vows Steps To Reinstate Federal Gun Ban
President Clinton and some members of Congress have vowed to take steps to reinstate the federal ban on gun possession near schools that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down late last month.
Education
Report Urges New Method Of Setting the Poverty Line
Washington
Current federal poverty data undercount the number of poor families in America, a group of experts concludes in a 500-page report, which recommends a new method for identifying the impoverished.
Current federal poverty data undercount the number of poor families in America, a group of experts concludes in a 500-page report, which recommends a new method for identifying the impoverished.
Education
Calif. Agrees To Pay District For Desegregation Expenses
Ending a 13-year dispute, California state officials have agreed to give the Long Beach Unified School District nearly $64 million as reimbursement for its voluntary desegregation efforts.
Education
Advocate Urges Foundation Role in Restoring Honor to Public Service
More than 1,500 foundation leaders gathered at the San Francisco
Marriott hotel last week to look at how foundations contribute to the
public good and to look back on how they have changed society.
Education
Testing Column
The Dover, N.H.-based company that helped develop Kentucky's innovative assessment system has landed another contract.
Education
Update Briefs
K.C. Fires Superintendent After Months of Controversy: The Kansas City, Mo., school board has fired Superintendent Walter L. Marks.
Education
Food-Services Firm Serves Up Deficit to R.I. Districts
A group of Rhode Island school districts that hired a private contractor to save money on school-lunch programs is having to swallow more than it bargained for.
Education
Group Seeks To Pave Way for New Social Entrepreneurs
Soon after Roger Landrum finished a stint in the Peace Corps in
Nigeria in 1964, he decided to launch Teachers Inc., a teacher corps
that operated in six East Coast cities for about seven years.
Education
State Journal
After Connecticut officials won a long, expensive, hard-fought legal battle that cleared the state of responsibility for racial segregation in Hartford-area schools, Gov. John G. Rowland took a moment to savor the victory.
Ed-Tech Policy
Connecting Technology
When 6th graders Lauren Giffee and Maria Rivera needed information for a project on Northern Ireland, they logged on to school computers for a trans-Atlantic journey through cyberspace.
Education
Time Well Spent
Troop 2140 opens its meeting with a time-honored tradition. Standing
in a circle in a gymnasium, two dozen girls and their mothers hold up
their right hands and recite the Girl Scout promise: "On my honor, I
will try to serve God and my country, to help people at all times, and
to live by the Girl Scout law."
Education
Foster Grilled on Pregnancy-Prevention Program
Republican senators grilled the Clinton Administration's nominee for surgeon general last week on the effectiveness of a teenage-pregnancy-prevention program he founded.
Education
N.J. Desegregation-Aid Program on Chopping Block
In justifying Gov. Christine Todd Whitman's decision to eliminate New Jersey's desegregation-aid program, Commissioner of Education Leo Klagholz has accused the preceding administration of improperly distributing the aid for political gain.
Education
Texas Teacher Count Does Not Add Up, Union Says
Texans have always believed that bigger is better. And now a group that represents state teachers who oppose unions says it has bragging rights.
Education
Dallas To Pilot-Test Teacher-Evaluation System
The Dallas school board has approved a pilot test of a new evaluation system that will take students' academic progress into account in rating teachers.
Education
S.D. Board Asked To Rethink State Guidelines for Schools
A few weeks of unbridled regulation-cutting by South Dakota lawmakers have left the state school board with months of work, as it picks through hundreds of eradicated school laws for the few that should be salvaged.
Education
Core Subject Status for Health Education Sought
Washington
Bowing to the adage "less is more," the sponsors of national health-education standards unveiled their compact product last week while urging national, state, and local leaders to add health to the list of core subjects.
Bowing to the adage "less is more," the sponsors of national health-education standards unveiled their compact product last week while urging national, state, and local leaders to add health to the list of core subjects.
Education
News In Brief
The Missouri state school board will heed the warnings of an advisory commission and delay consideration of academic-performance standards until they can be written in plainer language.
Education
Research Links Pregnant Teenager's Age to Risk
A pregnant teenager's age, apart from other social or demographic factors, puts her at greater risk than an older woman of having a premature or low-birthweight baby, new research suggests.
Education
New Title I Rules Focus on Standards and Assessment
Washington
States and school districts would be required to adopt academic standards and new assessments in order to take part in Title I, but they would have more latitude than ever before in administering the program, under proposed rules issued last week by the Education Department.
States and school districts would be required to adopt academic standards and new assessments in order to take part in Title I, but they would have more latitude than ever before in administering the program, under proposed rules issued last week by the Education Department.