December 07, 1981

Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 13
Education Opinion Student, Teacher, and Book: Who Needs the 'Gaudy Days of Education'?
So far I've outlasted them all. Over the last two decades, education fads have come and gone, and I'm still in the classroom with the student, with only the textbook between us.
Edmund Janko, December 7, 1981
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Education Futurist Predicts Larger Role for Private Schools
Opinions differed on the future of America's private schools, but most people attending the joint conference of the National Association of Independent Schools (nais) and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education here last week agreed on one thing: there will be more of them.
E. Patrick McQuaid, December 7, 1981
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Education Minnesota Governor Proposes a 13% Cut for Education Programs
Minnesota school officials and teachers' union leaders predicted drastic setbacks and layoffs approaching the 11-percent level if Governor Albert H. Quie's emergency proposals survive a special session of the Democratic-controlled legislature.
Austin Wehrwein, December 7, 1981
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Education National News Roundup
An eighth-grade girl who wanted to try out for her school's boys' basketball team this season has received a final refusal from the U.S. Supreme Court.

But the Court's decision does not constitute approval of sex-segregated sports, according to one specialist in women's rights.

December 7, 1981
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Education Research And Reports
A journal aiming to bridge the gap between the theory and the practice of teaching composition made its debut this fall. Published by the University of Southern California, The Writing Instructor will appear quarterly.

"The journal will appeal to teachers interested in the theory behind practice and in the practical application of theory," explains Shirley Rose, managing editor. Ms. Rose is one of the six usc graduate students in rhetoric, linguistics, and literature who founded the journal and serve on its editorial board.

December 7, 1981
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Education Ford foundation Project Promotes the Interest of Woman Educators
In 1977, with $100,000 from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of School Administrators (aasa) set out to boost the careers of 75 carefully selected women holding middle-level administrative positions in the nation's schools.

By the following year, eight of those women were superintendents. Today, 14 of the 75 women hold district superintendencies (one woman has held two), another directs a state school-boards association, another, the Peace Corps in Afghanistan, and many others have been promoted to the upper levels of educational administration, according to Effie Jones, associate executive director of aasa

December 7, 1981
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Education Cuts in Federal Support Jeopardize Energy-Education Programs
Programs designed to promote energy awareness among elementary- and secondary-school students could face extinction if state governments and the private sector fail to fill the budget gap created by cuts in federal spending for education.
Tom Mirga, December 7, 1981
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Education Schools Effect on Gifted Students Is Most Negative, Study Finds
A 12-year-old who has an exceptional talent for, and consuming interest in, mathematics spends as much time solving equations each week as most students his age spend watching television.
Susan Walton, December 7, 1981
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Curriculum Parent-Teacher Partnership Called the Key to Reading
Working together, parents and school officials can do more than either could do alone to make lifelong, successful readers of children.
Susan Walton, December 7, 1981
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Education NY Regents Propose Teacher-Licensing Board
The New York State Board of Regents has endorsed a number of legislative proposals aimed at improving the quality and performance of teachers in the state.
Thomas Toch, December 7, 1981
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Education Harvard Names Woman Dean
Patricia Albjerg Graham, former director of the National Institute of Education, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. She is the first woman to head a graduate school at Harvard, according to a university spokesman.

Her appointment, which takes effect July 1, 1982, was announced last week by Derek C. Bok, president of the university.

December 7, 1981
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Education Stanford University Plans Three-Year Study of Schools
In an effort to rekindle interest in elementary and secondary school policy among diverse elements of the higher-education community, Stanford University has announced plans to conduct a three-year study of the nation's schools that will focus on policy decisions, curriculum alternatives, and teacher preparation.
Thomas Toch, December 7, 1981
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Education English Teachers Say Teaching of Literature Is in Jeopardy
The National Council of Teachers of English (ncte)--a 38,000-member association of school and college English teachers--has attacked what it sees as a growing trend in the nation's schools towards a curriculum that stresses minimum skills and job-oriented vocational training at the expense of more sophisticated ones in reasoning and effective writing.
Thomas Toch, December 7, 1981
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Education Conservative Foundation Urges Congress To Restrain Federal Courts and Agencies
Congress should "reign in" the powers of federal courts and regulatory agencies by vetoing regulations, overruling Supreme Court opinions, withdrawing court jurisdiction, and recalling recalcitrant judges, according to authors of a book advocating judicial reform published recently by a conservative foundation.
Eileen White, December 7, 1981
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Education Some 250,000 Teenagers Will Try Suicide This Year
In 1978, the most recent year for which figures are available, 6,500 people between the ages of 12 and 20 committed suicide in the United States.
Alex Heard, December 7, 1981
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Education Districts News Roundup
The Philadelphia Board of Education has named a four-member panel to select a successor to Superintendent Michael P. Marcase, whose contract expires next July.

Mr. Marcase indicated that he would consider a contract extension if the search committee or the full nine-member school board requests that he stay on. The superintendent, however, told the press in late October that under no circumstances would he ask the board for an extension.

December 7, 1981
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Education Excerpts from the Heritage 'Report Card'
Foundation Says 'Action taken on 17 out of 29' Recommendations

December 7, 1981
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Education School Board's Authority To Ban Book Faces a Federal-Court Test in Maine

By Susan G. Foster

Susan G. Foster, December 7, 1981
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Education Schools of Education Are Urged To Promote Global Awareness
The educators who prepare people for teaching may be at fault for the lack of interest students are showing in international affairs and foreign languages, according to speakers gathered here recently to discuss international education.
Susan G. Foster, December 7, 1981
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Education Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Illegal Aliens
The Supreme Court last week heard oral arguments in a case that may redefine the rights of illegal aliens--and, some analysts believe, could clarify the educational rights of all children.
Peggy Caldwell, December 7, 1981
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Education Funding Methods For Ga Schools Upheld By Court
While conceding that "serious disparities in educational opportunities" exist among school systems, the Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the state's method of financing public education.
Peggy Caldwell, December 7, 1981
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Education W.Virginia Court Seeks To Define School Quality
When Janet Pauley, a mother of five from Sod, W. Va., went to see lawyers with the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund in 1972, she had a clear goal in mind.
Mark Ward, December 7, 1981
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Education Woman Administrators: Leadership Means Going for the Top
Peggy E. Gaskill, a middle-level administrator in the Detroit public schools, was among the finalists for the superintendency of a mid-sized, suburban school system not far from Chicago. Her hour-and-a-half interview with the city's school board was shorter than most, but nonetheless grueling.
December 7, 1981
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Education Teaching of Economics Is on the Rise in Nation's Schools
About 10 years ago, only a handful of students--primarily college-bound seniors--received instruction in economics, and of those, most were enrolled in special accelerated programs for the gifted.
Tom Mirga, December 7, 1981
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School Choice & Charters Opinion Accepting the Challenge of Tuition Tax Credits
October's election results in Washington, D.C., brought public education across the nation both a cause for celebration and a mandate for some essential nose-to-the-grindstone work.
Floretta Dukes McKenzie, December 7, 1981
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters To The Editor

For Mr. Finn, the question is whether "a government that allows rich people to make choices in education should allow poor people to be denied those choices by virtue of their poverty." For the poor whose educational cause he would champion, the question might be more basic: whether a government that allows most people to eat very well should allow poor people to go hungry.

The challenge of our time is the shaping of a just society; the American conscience must deal with poverty in ways that will end its degrading spiral. The choice is not between food for the body or food for the soul; nor is the choice between public and private schooling. The choice is between a society in which the poorest citizens are deprived, not only of educational alternatives, but of food, clothing, and homes, or a society in which all citizens can live in dignity because their basic needs are satisfied.

December 7, 1981
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters To The Editor
I find little to disagree with in John Pagen's list of factors leading to school success, at least at the level of generality that they are presented (Letters, Nov. 23). I am quite willing to believe that good teachers, effective leadership and management in the schools, and involved parents are key factors to success. However, I should note that my acceptance of these generalities is not based upon any research or any new revelations about the educational process that have come from either researchers or practitioners. Professionals and nonprofessionals alike would accept such general notions without debate.

On the other hand, I and others were quite willing in the past to believe that higher expenditure levels, smaller classes, and more educated teachers would lead to higher student performance. On these bits of conventional wisdom, we were simply wrong. None holds up under closer scrutiny.

December 7, 1981
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Federal Reagan Given Passing Grade By Conservative Think tank
The Heritage Foundation—which presented the Reagan Administration with more than 2,000 recommendations—issued the President a "report card".
Eileen White, December 7, 1981
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