April 10, 1996

Education Week, Vol. 15, Issue 29
Education Correction
In article in the April 3 issue of Education Week about the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Roxbury, Mass., misspelled the name of an official at a Boston-based consulting group and transposed two words in the nonprofit group's name. Bill Slotnik is the executive director of the Community Training and Assistance Center.
April 10, 1996
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Education People
Veteran basketball referee Ed Hightower has spent many years officiating the actions of others. That description fits his new job pretty well, too.
April 10, 1996
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Education Colleges
A new SAT-preparation plan offers free access--and a feisty attitude--on the Internet's World Wide Web.
April 10, 1996
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Budget & Finance State Moves To Oust East St. Louis School Board
State managers of the troubled East St. Louis, Ill., schools moved last week to remove the district's entire local school board after reaching an impasse over cuts in its budget.
Lonnie Harp, April 10, 1996
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Education Status of Federal Legislation
This monthly update reports the status of Key education-related bills as of April 5, 1996.
April 10, 1996
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Equity & Diversity Culture Clash
Ms. White, a teacher in an isolated rural community, is teaching her 1st graders how to tell time. She points to a clock, telling her students that "It's 10 o'clock because the big hand is on the 12 and the little hand is on the 10."
Debra Viadero, April 10, 1996
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Education Partnerships
Youth Service America has announced the 11 finalists in its second annual Fund for Social Entrepreneurs competition.
Meg Sommerfeld, April 10, 1996
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Education Los Alamos: The making of a community
1917: Ashley Pond starts the Los Alamos Ranch School, a private boarding school for boys that blends academics and rigorous physical activity. Students include future authors Gore Vidal and William S. Burroughs. The Los Alamos community on the Pajarito Plateau consists largely of scattered homesteaders and the school.
April 10, 1996
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Education News in Brief

Veto Override May Hinder Governor's School Plan

April 10, 1996
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Education At a Glance: The Los Alamos Public Schools
Current K-12 enrollment: 3,700
Mean SAT scores (Class of 1995 profile):
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Education History Standards: Round Two
The revised standards integrate positive features of U.S. history that critics claimed were lacking. The new version includes the idea that the nation is alluring to immigrants, who were willing to unite despite their differences. It also addresses education, a topic that has been buttressed.
April 10, 1996
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Education State Plans Banking On Congress Enacting Welfare-Reform Bill
Although it is far from certain that a federal welfare-reform law will be enacted this year, some states are already banking on the short-term financial windfall they would get under the leading plans to give states control over welfare.
Jessica Portner, April 10, 1996
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Education Toward Standards
In a new NSTA survey, teachers listed the barriers they expect to encounter in implementing national science standards. Following are the problems teachers expect and the percent choosing each item as their top expected barrier to standards.
April 10, 1996
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Science Science Teachers See Benefits, Barriers in Standards Effort
Science teachers believe the voluntary national science standards will help improve the way they teach, a new survey shows.
Meg Sommerfeld, April 10, 1996
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Standards History Center Shares New Set Of Standards
Timbuktu has disappeared. Pearl Harbor has ascended. George Washington is in; Eleanor Roosevelt is out. And names and places like Joseph McCarthy and Seneca Falls, N.Y., whose prominence so irked critics the last time around, have been allotted one mention apiece in the revised national history standards that were released last week.
Karen Diegmueller, April 10, 1996
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Mathematics Nations Face Similar Reform Challenges, Study Says
Despite regional and cultural differences in their approaches to education reform, all industrialized nations face similar challenges in devising challenging science and math curricula, a new study says.
Peter West, April 10, 1996
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Education By the Numbers

Elementary Concerns


Earlier this year, the National Association of Elementary School Principals asked its members' views on the importance of a number of school-related issues. Here are some of the results:
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Education Thompson's Plan To Increase School Control Rejected
The education-reform plans of Gov. Tommy G. Thompson suffered a major blow when the Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously struck down a law through which he had attempted to circumvent the authority of the elected state schools chief.
Lonnie Harp, April 10, 1996
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Recruitment & Retention Chronic Shortages Mark Teacher-Hiring Season
Bob Vidal is looking for teachers, and he needs a lot of them.
Jeanne Ponessa, April 10, 1996
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Budget & Finance Budget Cuts Strike Sour Note for Music Educators
In recent years, supporters of the music program in Roselle (Ill.) School District No. 12 have gotten used to disappointment.
Jeff Archer, April 10, 1996
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School Choice & Charters Court Deadlocks on Religious School Vouchers
Both sides in the debate over government vouchers for students at religious schools scrambled last week to put the best face on the Wisconsin Supreme Court's 3-3 deadlock over the expansion of Milwaukee's voucher program.
Mark Walsh, April 10, 1996
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Education Mass. To Limit Remedial Education in State Universities
The number of remedial-education students to be admitted to Massachusetts state universities will be limited as of 1997, the Higher Education Coordinating Council of Massachusetts has decided.
April 10, 1996
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Law & Courts Parent-Rights Cases Against Schools Fail To Make Inroads
Among those who disagree with public school policies on such troublesome issues as sex education, condom distribution, and school prayer, the buzzword these days is "parental rights."
Mark Walsh, April 10, 1996
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Budget & Finance Calif. Educators Seek To Cash In On Good Times
The annual skirmish over California's budget has a new twist this year: The fight isn't over whose programs will get cut, but rather how to divvy up the spoils of the state's new economic prosperity.
Drew Lindsay, April 10, 1996
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Standards State Progress On Title I Rules Called Uneven
When Congress revamped Title I in 1994, the new law was widely praised for raising the stakes in the massive remedial-education program. The idea was to spark changes in a program that had, by most measures, produced only marginal achievement gains among disadvantaged students.
Mark Pitsch, April 10, 1996
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Education Take Note: Wanna dance? Get a date
Like many students, 17-year-old Kelly Noah takes issue with one of her school's official policies.
April 10, 1996
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Education A. Harry Passow, Expert On Gifted Children, Dies at 75
A. Harry Passow, one of the nation's leading experts on urban education and gifted education, died March 28 of a stroke. He was 75.
April 10, 1996
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Federal Title I Officials Gain Access to Lunch Data
Washington
The Department of Agriculture has agreed to allow Title I officials in local school districts immediate access to family-income data, unraveling what had become a vexing source of bureaucratic red tape.
Julie A. Miller, April 10, 1996
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Education Capital Update
Capital Update tracks the movement of legislation, the introduction of notable bills, and routine regulatory announcements.
April 10, 1996
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