January 19, 2000

Education Week, Vol. 19, Issue 19
Theodore J. Forstmann
Education Reporter's Notebook
  • Entrepreneurs Encouraged by Public School Market
January 19, 2000
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Assessment ETS President Cole Announces Retirement
The president of the Educational Testing Service has announced that she will leave her post by the end of the year.
David J. Hoff, January 19, 2000
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School & District Management Yellow Bus Connects Schools Chief To District Students
Superintendent Doug Rutan has found an unusual method of communicating with students in his southwest Idaho district: by way of school bus.
Candice Furlan, January 19, 2000
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Equity & Diversity Minorities Need Path To Top Schools, Report Finds
Selective colleges and universities searching for programs to replace or supplement affirmative action plans should be wary of relying on precollege outreach programs to supply pools of qualified students, a new study suggests.
Julie Blair, January 19, 2000
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School Choice & Charters More Oversight Sought For Ohio School Choice
Ohio's school choice initiatives are under heavy attack, following charges that a voucher school received payments for students it didn't have and the discovery that a charter school lacks basic instructional materials and may have physically abused students.
Jeff Archer, January 19, 2000
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Education Events
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January 19, 2000
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Teaching Profession How Tough Is Too Tough?
Some call history teacher Paul Pflueger brilliant. His critics say he's a bully. After school officials had compiled a list of 42 incidents demonstrating why he should be fired, Pflueger chose to have his fate decided in an open forum.
David Hill, January 19, 2000
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Education Funding Ed. Dept. Tries To Shield Key Programs From Cuts
Funding for programs to assist disadvantaged K-12 students and encourage class-size reduction escaped the Department of Education scalpel as the agency last week unveiled details of how it would comply with a $108 million mandated cut in its fiscal 2000 budget.
January 19, 2000
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Federal Election Notebook
  • Students Get a Taste of the Political Process
January 19, 2000
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School Climate & Safety State Journal

Frustrated over fads

Pants that sag to the knees, skimpy skirts and bare midriffs, cell phones and pagers are all the rage among teenagers determined to fit in. Administrators in Oklahoma are afraid that a tiny provision in the state's voluminous school improvement law could undermine their efforts to ban such fads in the classroom.
January 19, 2000
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Education Opinion Higher Standards, Stronger Tests: Don't Shoot the Messenger
Achieve Inc.'s Robert Schwartz and Matthew Gandal argue that the tension between excellence and equity has caused some to question the political stability and staying power of the standards movement.
Robert B. Schwartz & Matthew Gandal, January 19, 2000
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor

Vocational Choices: Revisiting an Old Debate

While I am not completely opposed to Sandra L. Mishodek's point of view ("Talents Unrecognized," Commentary, Dec. 1, 1999), I do feel she overlooks an obvious downside to making vocational education classes more available in high school. What about those students whose teenage angst and hormonal chaos are mistaken for apathy for "regular" classes and are therefore herded into vocational classes? Her examples involving problematic 8th graders are in no way an indication that these students might make good welders or hairstylists.
January 19, 2000
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School Choice & Charters Opinion China Inc.
Is there an entrepreneurial future for schooling in the People's Republic? Denis P. Doyle investigates.
January 19, 2000
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Standards Opinion Higher Standards, Stronger Tests: There's No Turning Back
Edward B. Rust Jr. reminds us why we're raising standards in the first place and warns that changing goals and reversing course spells paralysis and inaction.
Edward B. Rust Jr., January 19, 2000
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Professional Development Opinion Teachers Teaching Teachers
Teachers teaching teachers is powerful professional development, or so declares Nancy Barnes.
Nancy Barnes, January 19, 2000
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College & Workforce Readiness Colleges
Distance-Learning Explosion: Colleges and universities have embraced distance learning, doubling the number of courses offered and enrollment in them between the 1994-95 and 1997-98 academic years, a study has found.
Julie Blair, January 19, 2000
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters
  • Impartial Research on Vouchers Needed
  • Please Reissue 'Century' Books
  • 'Faces of a Century': Someone Missing?
  • Class-Size Essayist Responds to Critics
  • Options Grow for Online-Sales Help
  • Vocational Choices: Revisiting an Old Debate
January 19, 2000
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