June 21, 1995

Education Week, Vol. 14, Issue 39
Education National News Roundup
The DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund last week awarded $1.2 million each to Boston, Chicago, and Seattle to set up before- and after-school programs for children in elementary and middle schools.
June 21, 1995
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Education Deadlines
A symbol (*) marks deadlines that have not appeared in a previous issue of Education Week.
June 21, 1995
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Education Books: New In Print

Administrators


America Goes to School: Law, Reform, and Crisis in Public Education, by Robert M. Hardaway (Praeger Publishers, P.O. Box 5007, Westport, Conn. 06881-5007; 224 pp., $55 cloth). A documentation of "the shocking state of public education in the United States," with a comparison of public and private schools as well as suggestions for how public school educators can learn from past experiences.
June 21, 1995
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Education Capital Update
Capital Update tracks the movement of legislation, the introduction of notable bills, and routine regulatory announcements.
June 21, 1995
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Education Take Note: Some stumping; Others surfing
Two Seattle parents could move onto the national stage this week when a Presidential candidate endorses their proposed overhaul of Washington State's school system.
June 21, 1995
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Education N.J. District Sues Parents of Nonresident Students
Seeking to deter the unauthorized enrollment of students from outside its borders, a New Jersey district has sued 16 families it suspects of the practice to recover whopping tuition payments.
Peter Schmidt, June 21, 1995
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Education Department Proposes Standards for Awarding Research Grants
Washington
The Education Department this month proposed for the first time a common set of standards for awarding grants for education research.
Debra Viadero, June 21, 1995
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Education News Update
A Pittsburgh-area district that has been embroiled in a privatization debate for almost a year has hired a for-profit company to run one of its elementary schools.
June 21, 1995
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Education Researchers Chart Increase in Earnings of G.E.D. Holders
After an initial lag, high school dropouts who obtain a General Educational Development credential eventually fare better in the labor market than those who do not, a study by three Harvard University researchers concludes.
Meg Sommerfeld, June 21, 1995
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Education Advocates Beat Drum for Para-to-Teacher Programs
Educators, policymakers, and university and foundation officials gathered here in search of ways to help paraprofessionals make the leap to teaching.
Joanna Richardson, June 21, 1995
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Education Clinton Spares Education From Cuts in Balanced-Budget Plan
Washington
President Clinton again thrust schools to the top of his agenda last week by sparing education from across-the-board spending cuts he is proposing in a 10-year balanced-budget plan.
Robert C. Johnston, June 21, 1995
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Education Bringing Back Heroes
In April, The New York Times Magazine published an article on the growing character-education movement that implied the effort may well be hopeless. When teaching character runs into issues, it's more than a run-in, the author seemed to say, it's a train wreck, even for the best-intended program or teacher.
Ann Medlock, June 21, 1995
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Education Annenberg Institute Seeks To Find Voice in 1st Year
For Theodore R. Sizer, 1994 was the year of living dangerously. That was the year the Brown University professor agreed to help advise the philanthropist Walter H. Annenberg on where to spend most of his $500 million gift to public education.
Lynn Olson, June 21, 1995
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Education Controversy Predicted Over N.Y. Social-Studies Framework
In a third stab at drafting a set of social-studies curriculum guidelines, education officials in New York State have settled on an approach that is expected to provoke criticism again, only this time from liberal quarters.
Karen Diegmueller, June 21, 1995
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Education Capital Digest
President Clinton has urged Congress to require states to adopt "zero tolerance" laws for underage drivers who drink alcohol.
June 21, 1995
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Education Six Steps to Social Studies
Following are the recently released draft guidelines for social studies in New York State.
June 21, 1995
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Education State Journal: All in the family
In the never-dull world of Louisiana politics, the state has turned to showcasing kinship and education.
June 21, 1995
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Education Events
A symbol (*) marks events that have not appeared in a previous issue of Education Week.
June 21, 1995
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Education Partnerships Column
The Youth on Board organization has begun its first major project: providing technical assistance to five Massachusetts community groups to increase the presence of young people on their boards of directors.
Meg Sommerfeld, June 21, 1995
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Education People Column
The Seattle school board is hoping to hire a retired Army major general, John Henry Stanford, to be the district's next superintendent.
June 21, 1995
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Education Excerpts From Majority Opinion of High Court In Missouri v. Jenkins
Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court.
June 21, 1995
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Education O'Connor's Concurrence
Justice O'Connor, concurring.
... This case, like other school desegregation litigation, is concerned with the elimination of the discrimination inherent in the dual school systems, not with myriad factors of human existence which can cause discrimination in a multitude of ways on racial, religious, or ethnic grounds. Those myriad factors are not readily corrected by judicial intervention, but are best addressed by the representative branches; time and again, we have recognized the ample authority legislatures possess to combat racial injustice. ...
June 21, 1995
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Education Legislative Update
The following are summaries of final action by legislatures on state education budgets and other education-related matters.
June 21, 1995
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Education School-Prayer Amendment Back in the Spotlight
After being relegated to the background during the first five months of the Republican-controlled 104th Congress, the issue of school prayer is moving back into the spotlight.
Mark Walsh, June 21, 1995
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Education Teacher's Case Spurs Debate Over Scope of A.D.A.
School officials in Pauls Valley, Okla., just breathed a sigh of relief.
Joanna Richardson, June 21, 1995
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Education Arthur Kropp, Advocate for Civil Liberties, Dies at 37
Arthur J. Kropp, 37, the president of People for the American Way, has died.
June 21, 1995
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Education Supreme Court Sets Stricter Standard for Racial Preferences
Diving into the national debate over affirmative action, the U.S. Supreme Court last week cast serious doubt over federal programs that award benefits based on race.
Mark Walsh, June 21, 1995
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Education Group To Develop Test for P.E. Teachers for the Disabled
To better define what it takes to teach physical education to students with disabilities, one group hopes to devise a national certification test for such teachers by 1997.
Lynn Schnaiberg, June 21, 1995
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Education Thomas's Concurrence
Justice Thomas, concurring.
It never ceases to amaze me that the courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior. Instead of focusing on remedying the harm done to those black schoolchildren injured by segregation, the District Court here sought to convert the Kansas City, Mo., School District into a "magnet district" that would reverse the "white flight" caused by desegregation. ...
June 21, 1995
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