August 6, 1997

Education Week, Vol. 16, Issue 41
Education Group Looks To Bolster Services for Gifted Students
A new consortium of education groups wants to help schools better identify gifted and talented students and make sure the youngsters have a sufficiently challenging academic experience.
Joetta L. Sack, August 6, 1997
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Education Rochester Mulls Parent Voice in Rating Teachers
If district officials have their way, parents in Rochester, N.Y., will be asked this fall to put their two cents in when it comes time to evaluate their children's teachers.
Jeff Archer, August 6, 1997
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Education N.Y. Plan Would Require Students To Pick a Major
High school students in New York state could become the first in the nation to be required to declare a major and earn credits in their chosen field in order to graduate.
Kathleen Kennedy Manzo, August 6, 1997
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Education ETS Study Supports Value of Smaller Classes
When Harold Wenglinsky set out to study school spending for the Educational Testing Service, he thought he was contributing to the ongoing debate over the links between spending and achievement.
Bess Keller, August 6, 1997
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Education Organization of U.S. Research Labs Becomes a Trade Group
The Council for Educational Development and Research, an umbrella group that has served the U.S. Department of Education's research laboratories and centers since the 1960s, is recreating itself to become a trade association.
Debra Viadero, August 6, 1997
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Education NCES Report Indicates Nation's Supply of Teachers Is Sufficient
Despite forecasts of an impending teacher shortage, the country as a whole appears close to having enough educators to go around--at least for the time being, a new government report suggests. But other findings in the study show that America's schools still face serious human resources challeng
Jeff Archer, August 6, 1997
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Education New AFT President Urges Members To Help Floundering Schools
Despite the advances that educators have made in learning "what works" for students, there are still too many troubled schools.
Ann Bradley, August 6, 1997
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Education Arbitrator Rejects Overhaul Plan for 2 Philadelphia Schools
After teaching at Olney High School in Philadelphia for 30 years, Michele Collins was horrified to find out in February that she would be forced to leave.
Beth Reinhard, August 6, 1997
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Education Hispanic Dropouts Face Higher Hurdles, Study Says
Hispanic dropouts on average have more work to do to complete a high school education than do black and white young people who have quit school, a federal report says.
Debra Viadero, August 6, 1997
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Education Used-Text Dealer Provides Novel Lease Plan
A Florida district may be the first in the nation to stretch its limited dollars for instructional materials by leasing new textbooks from a used-book dealer.
Kathleen Kennedy Manzo, August 6, 1997
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Education Ga. Lawsuit Over Parental Rights May Go to Trial
A high-profile lawsuit alleging that the principal and counselor of a Georgia middle school violated a couple's parental rights by helping the couple's two daughters get pregnancy tests and contraceptives may proceed to trial, a federal judge has ruled.
Mark Walsh, August 6, 1997
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Education Largest-Ever Tax Hike For Education Deemed Insufficient in Nashville
When the governing council for Nashville and surrounding Davidson County approved its largest tax increase ever for education, the region's leaders trumpeted it as a sign of their commitment to improving the metropolitan area's ailing schools.
Kathleen Kennedy Manzo, August 6, 1997
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Education Teacher Corps' Tough Regimen Tasks Recruits
For five weeks this summer, James Savage lived and breathed education in a kind of teacher training boot camp.
Jeff Archer, August 6, 1997
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Education Feds Position National Tests On Fast Track
Moving on an especially fast track, President Clinton's voluntary national tests in reading and math are taking shape and gaining support even as members of Congress try to stop the effort.
Millicent Lawton, August 6, 1997
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Education 'Safety Audit' Takes Officer Under Cover
Department stores employ phony shoppers to test their sales associates' customer-relations skills. Automobile companies hire independent auditors to inspect their products for reliability.
Jessica Portner, August 6, 1997
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Education NEA Panel Touts Its Union Label
When a committee of the National Education Association set out to recommend ways that the union and its affiliates could help promote higher standards in teaching, its members felt obliged to include a footnote on their credentials.
Ann Bradley & Jeff Archer, August 6, 1997
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Education Fate of Peer Review Rests With NEA Locals
Although the National Education Association's recent vote to allow members to evaluate one another's job performance was a giant step for the union, it will be up to hundreds of local affiliate to make the decision more than just symbolic.
Ann Bradley, August 6, 1997
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Education Washington Group To Analyze Rigor of Academic Standards
To help fill a sizable void in what policymaker's know about the quality of the academic standards that states are setting, the Council for Basic Education plans to judge the rigor of those standards and issue the results in January.
Millicent Lawton, August 6, 1997
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Education AFT, Foundation Find Good and Bad in States' Standards
The quality of standards set by states for what their students should know and be able to do has improved since a year ago, according to an annual report from the American Federation of Teachers.
Millicent Lawton, August 6, 1997
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Education NAACP Wrestles With Evolving Views on Desegregation
Reflecting long-held ambivalence among African-Americans over the social cost of desegregating schools, one of the nation's foremost civil rights groups has been struggling to dispel confusion over where it stands on the issue.
Caroline Hendrie, August 6, 1997
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Education Ohio Supreme Court Will Allow Cleveland Voucher Program To Begin Its Second Year
The Ohio Supreme Court will allow Cleveland's voucher program to continue for another year while it reviews a ruling that said using the scholarship for religious schools is unconstitutional.
Beth Reinhard, August 6, 1997
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Education Statistics From Cleveland Add Fuel to the Voucher Debate
The politically charged battle over statistics from school voucher programs, fiercely waged last year in Milwaukee, has shifted to Cleveland.
Debra Viadero, August 6, 1997
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