April 9, 1997

Education Week, Vol. 16, Issue 28
School & District Management New Images of Teaching
For months, almost 50 research assistants abandoned the sunshine to sit in windowless rooms full of television and computer equipment at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Millicent Lawton, April 9, 1997
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Education After 16 Years, the Torch Passes at Education Week

Ronald A. Wolk, the founder of Education Week and for 19 years the president of the organization that publishes it, said last week he is withdrawing from the day-to-day management of Editorial Projects in Education.

Steven Drummond, April 9, 1997
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Mathematics From VCR to CD-ROM: A New Way of Viewing
When James W. Stigler first thought about examining math teaching by studying videotapes of classes in the United States, Germany, and Japan, "it really was impossible," the UCLA professor recalled.
Millicent Lawton, April 9, 1997
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School Choice & Charters Two Charter Schools
EduPreneurship Charter School
Lynn Schnaiberg, April 9, 1997
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Education Learning About Children
At Harvard University, 270 undergraduates are taking a course offered for the first time this spring called "Children and Their Social Worlds."
Debra Viadero, April 9, 1997
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School Choice & Charters Off To Market
Victor Diaz is passionate about his family. And, he admits, he's very protective of his children. In the evenings, when he finishes his job downtown as a social-service worker, he comes home to care for his three daughters while his wife, Veronica, works.
Lynn Schnaiberg, April 9, 1997
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor

Immigrants Know Value Of Fluency in English

April 9, 1997
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Teaching Profession Opinion The 'New Teacher Unions'
Once upon a time there was a feared giant who lived in the Forest of Education.
Julia E. Koppich, Charles Taylor Kerchner & Joseph G. Weeres, April 9, 1997
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Education Opinion Focus: It's About Time
If you listen at all to educators these days, you hear the word "focus" a lot. I've recently visited with people from several districts across the country, and their frustration was often expressed to me as a perceived lack of focus.
Mike Schmoker, April 9, 1997
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School Climate & Safety Opinion Snapshot of An Inner-City School
I spent a couple of hundred hours in two of the toughest inner-city schools in Cincinnati this year. While there, I shadowed, with permission, 7th and 8th grade students from the beginning to the end of school days in September and December.
Allen Berger, April 9, 1997
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Standards Opinion Stumping for Standards
Two recent surveys by the nonpartisan foundation Public Agenda found that a vast majority of the general public, business leaders, and students support academic standards, descriptions of what all students should know and be able to do at specified grade levels.
Christopher T. Cross & Scott Joftus, April 9, 1997
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