January 17, 1996

Education Week, Vol. 15, Issue 17
Education NCAA Vote Gives Broader Control to College Presidents
College and university presidents were given more control over the National Collegiate Athletic Association after the organization voted last week to restructure.
January 17, 1996
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IT Infrastructure & Management What is Time?
The following is an excerpt from an on-line conversation among several upper-elementary students in Toronto enrolled in the Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environment program. The students were responding to the opening questions about the nature of time.
January 17, 1996
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Education People
John A. Murphy, the former superintendent of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools in North Carolina and one of the country's best-known school leaders, may be stepping out of the school system. But he is not stepping out of education.
January 17, 1996
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Special Education Educating Rafael
When a child has Down syndrome, who decides what kind of education is "best"?
Lynn Schnaiberg, January 17, 1996
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Reading & Literacy Learning in Community
More than a decade ago, Ann Brown and Annemarie S. Palincsar perfected a technique for improving children's reading comprehension. The approach, "Reciprocal Teaching," was simple: Teach children to use the same strategies that expert readers use to get a handle on difficult text.
Debra Viadero, January 17, 1996
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Education Learning with Jasper
In 1989, John D. Bransford and his colleagues at the Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt University tried an experiment with students. They asked two groups of students to read various passages of technical information. Members of the first group, called the "facts oriented" group, were told to remember as much as they could from the passages they had read. Members of the second group, the "problem oriented" group, were asked to read the text as though they were planning a trip down the Amazon River.
Debra Viadero, January 17, 1996
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School & District Management Learning on Line
--a student in an upper-elementary classroom in Toronto, as excerpted from Schools for Thought by John T. Bruer.
Debra Viadero, January 17, 1996
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Student Well-Being Letter to the Editor Letters To the Editor

Overemphasis on Sports? Three Educators' Views

January 17, 1996
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Education Opinion Keith Can't Spell 'Know'
Weigand Avenue School in sunny Southern California is much like any other elementary school in the slums of Watts, site of South Central Los Angeles' atrocious riots and the most poverty-stricken area in the city. The demographic profile of the 400 students Weigand serves is shifting dramatically in ethnicity from African-American to Hispanic. Tonight there is no debris in front of the hovels on 103rd, Gorman, and Weigand, streets that embrace the school. Parents carrying infants and containers of fried chicken, greens, and enchiladas amble across the campus. Few sirens from police cars on Alameda Avenue are heard. There will be no fights among Mrs. Jones' robust sons who live across the street and watch out for the school. It is back-to-school night, and the community shows its respect.
Venetta Whitaker, January 17, 1996
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Assessment Opinion Good Country Practice
How many times have we heard the patent conclusion that "assessment drives curriculum"? It's been stated so often that many have come to accept it as the natural order of things, yet it seems to put the cart before the horse. First, we ought to think long and hard about the skills and knowledge we want for our children; then we can design assessment to measure how well they master those skills and that knowledge.
Chris Benson, January 17, 1996
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Education Opinion On Knowing the Secret of Schools
The American way of knowing schools, particularly when there are questions about accountability, skillfully avoids what is actually happening in the classroom. Yet classrooms are the prime workplaces for the adults we pay to educate our children. We avoid the real-life complexities of teaching and learning when we take refuge in measuring student performance.
Thomas A. Wilson, January 17, 1996
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