December 16, 1998

Education Week, Vol. 18, Issue 16
School & District Management New England States Team Up on High Schools
A consortium of four states will try to reinvent secondary schools at the practical and policy levels.
Catherine Gewertz, December 15, 2008
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3 min read
Student Well-Being On College Campuses, a Gradual Move Toward Addressing Faculty-Student Sex
Few people go to college with the intention of falling in love with a professor.
Julie Blair, October 18, 2007
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5 min read
Accountability Quality Counts '99 To Track Accountability in States
Many states are threatening to get tough by adopting policies that reward success and punish failure in education. But, so far, there may be more bluster than action, according to Quality Counts '99: Rewarding Results, Punishing Failure.
Lynn Olson, December 16, 1998
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1 min read
Education News in Brief; A State Capitals Roundup

Mo. Makes Final K.C. Desegregation Payment

Missouri has made its final payment in the settlement of the 21-year-old Kansas City desegregation lawsuit--nearly seven months ahead of schedule.

December 16, 1998
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Education Urban Education
After Reconstitution: When a failing school is overhauled and nearly entirely restaffed, where do the displaced teachers go?
December 16, 1998
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Rep. Frank Riggs
Education Federal File

Scholar Riggs


Retiring Rep. Frank Riggs' eccentric career path has taken him from cop to congressman, and now to scholar.
December 16, 1998
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1 min read
Student Well-Being Principals Face a Delicate Balancing Act In Handling Allegations of Misconduct
School principals often feel they need to be education's answer to the Colonial minuteman—ready at a moment's notice to handle just about anything.
Caroline Hendrie, December 16, 1998
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6 min read
Teaching Requiring Students To Volunteer May Be Overkill
Schools don't need to force students to volunteer in their communities, new national data from the U.S. Department of Education suggest. The key to kindling a spirit of community service in a school may be simply to make those kinds of opportunities available.
Debra Viadero, December 16, 1998
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1 min read
Education Take Note

Out of Sight


Three high school seniors at a private boarding school in New England were credited with a significant astronomical discovery this fall without even looking through a telescope.
December 16, 1998
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1 min read
Education Board OKs Math, Language Arts Frameworks
The California board of education unanimously approved new state frameworks in mathematics and language arts last week in a move that will likely influence instruction and textbook selection in the state and around the nation for years to come.
Kathleen Kennedy Manzo, December 16, 1998
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School & District Management At One California School, a 'Never-Ending Nightmare'
During a quarter-century career in the Los Angeles County schools, Jeffrey Warschaw has worked with inner-city gang members, taught children with severe emotional problems, and seen students charged with murder.
Caroline Hendrie, December 16, 1998
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5 min read
Linda G. Roberts
Ed-Tech Policy Technology Network for Teachers Gets Another Try

With a plea and a promise, an idea-sharing network to support teachers in the use of technology was launched last week for the third time in less than three years.

Andrew Trotter, December 16, 1998
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2 min read
Federal Education Panels To Add Some New Players

Tom G. Tancredo of Colorado plans to hit the ground running in the upcoming 106th Congress. And the former federal education official has found the perfect launch pad: the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Anjetta McQueen, December 16, 1998
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5 min read
Student Well-Being For More Information
Here are some sources for additional information on sexual abuse of students by school employees:
December 16, 1998
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1 min read
Education Out of the Past
Carefully tucked away in the nooks and crannies of the Smithsonian are stories of education in America.
Steven Drummond, December 16, 1998
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7 min read
Education At 'Applied Learning' Center, Every Lesson Has a Purpose

When students at the Alice Carlson Applied Learning Center organize school events, run the annual PTA membership drive, and write city zoning officials in support of an outdoor-learning center, they aren't missing out on their curriculum.

Mary Ann Zehr, December 16, 1998
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7 min read
Education News in Brief: A Washington Roundup

Ford Calls for Education Session

Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr. wants Congress to allot the first two weeks of its session next year exclusively to debating education legislation.

December 16, 1998
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School Choice & Charters For Students of Color, the 'Chance' of a Lifetime

On a crisp fall Saturday in this city's affluent Upper East Side, 13-year-old Chris Forde glimpsed a world of new educational opportunities.

Jeff Archer, December 16, 1998
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8 min read
/Tom Mooney
Education Cincinnati Union Rejects School-Overhaul Plan
Teachers in Cincinnati last week rejected a proposed contract change that would have allowed the district to redesign low-performing schools from the ground up.
Ann Bradley, December 16, 1998
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3 min read
College & Workforce Readiness Department Seeking Guidance on Voc. Ed. Measure

A little-noticed provision in the new vocational education law that would put more high school students on community college campuses has some federal and state officials scratching their heads.

Mary Ann Zehr, December 16, 1998
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4 min read
Education Flap Over 'Nappy Hair' Book Leads to Teacher's Transfer
Carolivia Herron hoped the book she wrote about her hair--"the kinkiest, the nappiest, the fuzziest, the most screwed up, squeezed up, knotted up, tangled up, twisted up, nappiest" hair you ever saw--would promote self-esteem and pride among black children.
Kathleen Kennedy Manzo, December 16, 1998
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3 min read
Education News in Brief: A National Roundup

Okla. Districts To Get Millions From Company's Back Taxes

December 16, 1998
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Equity & Diversity New York State Sued Over Education Equity For Minority Students
The New York state affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that educational opportunities for the state's minority students are so inferior that they amount to discrimination.
Jessica L. Sandham, December 16, 1998
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Education Easy Access Blamed for Youths' Increased Heroin Use
Heroin use among high school students has jumped sharply in the past five years, as the narcotic has become easier to acquire and as more teenagers sniff it in the false belief that that method is safer than injection, a study released last week concludes.
Jessica Portner, December 16, 1998
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4 min read
Education Series

ABOUT THE SERIES:

This series is the result of a six-month project by Education Week Associate Editor Caroline Hendrie and Deputy Managing Editor Steven Drummond.

December 16, 1998
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Student Well-Being 'Zero Tolerance' of Sex Abuse Proves Elusive
In 20 states, sex between a student and an adult employee is perfectly legal, as long as the young person is at least 16. And if the student is 17, add three more states to the list.
Caroline Hendrie, December 16, 1998
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16 min read
Yvonne W. Larsen
Education Davis in Position To Revamp Power Structure
Gov.-elect Gray Davis of California appears poised to reshape what many see as the state's piecemeal and inefficient system of developing policies to govern its 8,000 K-12 public schools.
Robert C. Johnston, December 16, 1998
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Education Slow Progress Found in Efforts To Reach National Education Goals

The United States is progressing slowly toward the ambitious national education goals set almost nine years ago, but is unlikely to meet them by the 2000 target date, according to the panel charged with monitoring the process.

David J. Hoff, December 16, 1998
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Theodore S. Sergi
Education People

Theodore S. Sergi
Theodore S. Sergi has been reappointed Connecticut's commissioner of education by the state school board. Mr. Sergi, 49, has worked with the Connecticut education department for 20 years. In his position, which he has held since 1995, he works with officials from the state's 166 districts, which serve more than half a million students. Mr. Sergi's new four-year term begins next month.
December 16, 1998
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