April 21, 1999

Education Week, Vol. 18, Issue 32
Education N.J. Schools Put Reform To the Test
When the New Jersey Supreme Court handed down a ruling last spring requiring hundreds of urban schools to implement wholesale, schoolwide change by no later than next year, heads turned in the nation's education community.
Caroline Hendrie, April 21, 1999
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11 min read
Education In New Jersey Schools, Reform Keeps to Its Own Schedule

George Washington Elementary School, a brick behemoth that covers the better part of a block in this city's hard-pressed seaport neighborhood, has narrow slits for windows that lend it the air of a fortress under siege. And for many of the educators inside, that's just about how they feel.

Caroline Hendrie, April 21, 1999
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4 min read
Teaching Profession Kindergarten Teacher Takes Home a Pulitzer
Margaret Edson's artistic side can be seen not only in her Pulitzer-Prize-winning play, "Wit," but also in her kindergarten classroom in Georgia--hundreds of miles from the off-Broadway theater where her critically acclaimed work has been playing to sold-out audiences.
Linda Jacobson, April 21, 1999
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2 min read
Rep. Bill Goodling
Special Education Conferees Agree on Revised 'Ed-Flex' Bill

House and Senate negotiators late last week made passage of the first education legislation of the year all but certain after agreeing to strike a Senate GOP provision that Democrats had argued would undermine President Clinton's prized teacher-hiring program.

Erik W. Robelen, April 21, 1999
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4 min read
Student Achievement Chicago Centers Target 8th Graders in Transition

Time passes slowly in Joan Escoto's language arts class, where eight teenagers quietly struggle to fill out applications for a public library card.

Kerry A. White, April 21, 1999
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6 min read
Education Engler Sees Funding Supplement as Stage for Policies
Gov. John Engler's plan to augment Michigan's K-12 education budget over the next two years is making big headlines. But it's not the new money that's creating a stir.
Robert C. Johnston, April 21, 1999
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4 min read
Federal House, Senate Pass Budget Blueprint for 2000 and Beyond

Congress last week approved a compromise budget blueprint that falls $1.1 billion short of Senate Republicans' original plan for spending on education and related programs. The nonbinding plan for fiscal 2000 sparked criticism from education groups and the Clinton administration.

Erik W. Robelen, April 21, 1999
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2 min read
Education State Journal

Bonus time

Massachusetts Gov. Paul Cellucci awarded 19 teachers his state's first $5,000 bonuses for master teachers last week.

April 21, 1999
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School & District Management Progressives: The 1950s and the 1960s
Excerpts
April 21, 1999
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2 min read
Teaching Tugging at Tradition
Much of the philosophy behind the 300-student Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School would be sweetly familiar to its namesake.
Lynn Olson, April 21, 1999
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29 min read
Education A Blueprint for Change
Today, as on most days at Horace Mann, the auditorium is empty, and school officials have chained its two doors to keep potential vandals away. Once upon a time, such a scene would have been unthinkable
David J. Hoff, April 21, 1999
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19 min read
Student Well-Being Districts Should Improve Background Checks, Lawyers Advise
When it comes to employee background checks meant to protect children from sexual abuse, school districts should follow a policy of "do ask, do tell," school law experts say.
Mark Walsh, April 21, 1999
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4 min read
Student Well-Being Study: Smokers Who Start Young Risk Genetic Damage

Smokers who pick up the habit while they are teenagers are at the greatest risk of developing genetic changes in lung tissue that have been linked to cancer--even after they quit smoking, new research suggests.
April 21, 1999
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4 min read
Curriculum Take Note
--Jeff Archer & Robert C. Johnston
Making the transition from elementary school to junior high is not easy. And seemingly minor frustrations, like forgetting a locker combination, can in small ways hinder students academically and socially.
April 21, 1999
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1 min read
School & District Management Open to Innovation
On May 3, 1971, Newsweek magazine's cover story explored the "joy and excitement" of an educational movement that had burst into the national consciousness with the publication of Charles E. Silberman's Crisis in the Classroom.
Ann Bradley, April 21, 1999
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8 min read
Federal Candidates Backed by Riordan Win in L.A. Board Races
Mayor Richard J. Riordan of Los Angeles declared victory last week in his bid to retool the local school board and bring a "revolution" to the nation's second-largest school system.
Kerry A. White, April 21, 1999
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2 min read
School Choice & Charters Privatization Center To Seek Balanced View of Vouchers

Should the new National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education be "neutral" on the subject of vouchers? Or is a "dispassionate" position more appropriate? What about "balanced," "unbiased," or "objective"?

Erik Fatemi, April 21, 1999
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4 min read
School & District Management Dewey: The Progressive Era's Misunderstood Giant
John Dewey has been called the "most influential writer on education" and the "greatest philosopher" this country has produced. He's also one of the most misunderstood, oft-quoted, and least-read educational commentators of the progressive era.
Lynn Olson, April 21, 1999
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5 min read
Education Funding S.C. Lottery Proposal Advances in Legislature
Policymakers in South Carolina aren't willing to leave to chance a referendum authorizing a state lottery for education.
Julie Blair, April 21, 1999
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4 min read
Education News in Brief: A National Roundup

Ohio Districts Make Errors On Statewide Report Cards

April 21, 1999
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School & District Management The Great Debate: Introduction
The energy and optimism that radiated from the United States as it strode confidently into the 20th century found a perfect outlet in the multifarious movement known as progressivism.
April 21, 1999
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Education City in Suburban L.A. Loses Its Bid To Secede
The California state school board has turned down a request from a suburban city to break away from the Los Angeles schools, dampening the hopes of other groups that would like their areas to secede from the nation's second-largest district.
Kerry A. White, April 21, 1999
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School & District Management Oakland's Beleaguered Superintendent To Resign
Acceding to political pressure from California and city officials critical of the pace of reform in the Oakland schools, Superintendent Carole C. Quan announced her resignation last week.
Kerry A. White, April 21, 1999
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2 min read
Rep. Michael N. Castle
Federal Capitol Hill Begins Debate on Possible Title I Reforms

Debate over Title I's future intensified last week, as the House held its first hearing on the program's reauthorization and education experts weighed in at competing events on how best to improve it.

Erik W. Robelen, April 21, 1999
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5 min read
Recruitment & Retention Effects Mixed for Ore.'s Contract-Renewal Law
In 1997, a proposed law aimed at ushering bad teachers and principals out of Oregon's public schools was hotly debated in the legislature. Two years later, there is widespread disagreement among state and district leaders over whether it has worked.
Bess Keller, April 21, 1999
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4 min read
Education For-Profit Company To Offer High School Diploma Over Internet
Students soon will be able to earn a high school diploma anytime, anywhere, through a for-profit company that has been started by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Andrew Trotter, April 21, 1999
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3 min read
Curriculum Opinion Deciding on 'Essential Knowledge'
Subject-matter specialists and policymakers who have sought to clarify what students should learn have not considered the curriculum as a whole.
Robert J. Marzano, April 21, 1999
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7 min read
Education Opinion New Criteria for College Admissions
As affirmative action ends, a complex search for ways to ensure campus diversity begins.
Michael W. Kirst, April 21, 1999
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7 min read
Education Opinion Gifted Education
Federal Effort: Advocates for gifted students are hoping that Congress will see fit to send a new source of funding to schools and their high-achieving students.
April 21, 1999
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2 min read
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