March 19, 1997

Education Week, Vol. 16, Issue 25
Education Where the Deals Are
Tax breaks and other incentives have become a popular tool for winning jobs as companies look for places to locate new plants. Incentives are also frequently used to keep companies from moving. In both cases, schools' property taxes are easy targets.
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States Taxes on Selected Properties
MANUFACTURING PLANT Address: 1981 N. Division, Harvard, Ill. Description: Cellular Telephone Manufacturing Plant Assessed Value: $15 million
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor

Knocking Volunteerism Is Ill-Considered 'Parochialism'

March 19, 1997
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Social Studies Opinion The Prairie Years
The children and their teachers are gone, but the weathered bones of one-room schools remain, ghostly reminders of how rural America once learned to read and write.
Mike Rose, March 19, 1997
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Teaching Opinion Collaborative Learning, Collaborative Mislearning
The least effective mode of teaching and learning is still the most popular at all levels of instruction: teaching by telling, learning by parroting.
Linda Elder, March 19, 1997
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Education Opinion The Great Non-Problem of Evolution vs. Creationism
In "Counter Evolutionary," Education Week recounted in intriguing detail the story of a 15 year-old straight-A student named Danny Phillips at Wheat Ridge High School in Jefferson County, Colo.
Evans Clinchy, March 19, 1997
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Standards Opinion Not Without Parents
The recent study on public education conducted by this newspaper and the Pew Charitable Trusts concludes that "despite 15 years of earnest efforts to improve public schools and raise student achievement, states have not made much progress."
Joan Dykstra & Arnold F. Fege, March 19, 1997
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School Climate & Safety Opinion Litigating School Dress Codes
Twenty-eight years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court invoked the majesty of the Constitution and came to the aid of the Tinker children.
Richard Fossey & Todd A. Demitchell, March 19, 1997
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