January 19, 1982

Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 17
Education Evaluation Process Developed for Industrial-Arts Programs
Copyright 1982 National standards for evaluating and upgrading industrial-arts programs in the nation's junior and senior high schools--one component of a recently completed three-year research project--may not win quick acceptance by the states because they are not federally mandated, according to the project's director.
January 19, 1982
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Education Negotiations May Clear Way for Boston Judge To Step Aside
Copyright 1982 Lawyers representing Boston's school administrators in a 10-year-old desegregation case are preparing the first draft of what could be a legal settlement that would terminate the federal court's role in Boston's public schools if agreed to by all parties involved.
January 19, 1982
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Education N.C. School of Science and Math: A Flame Burning Brightly
The shrill whine of a power saw breaks the stillness of the clear autumn day.
Susan Walton, January 19, 1982
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Education Block Grants, N.J. Discovers Lead to Unexpected Problems
A widely praised voluntary school-desegregation program in Montclair, N.J., will be all but wiped out next year because the nearly $1 million in federal funds that supported it this year must, in the future, be shared by school systems throughout the state.
Eileen White, January 19, 1982
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Education The Text of the President's Statement
Copyright 1982 My administration is committed to certain fundamental views which must be considered in addressing this matter:
January 19, 1982
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Education Threatened With Firing ny New Governor, N.J. School Chief Fred
New Jersey's new governor, Thomas H. Kean, promised repeatedly in his campaign that if elected he would remove Commissioner of Education Fred G. Burke, with whom he has had sharp philosophical differences and whose seven-year tenure has often been marked by controversy.
January 19, 1982
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Education District News Roundup
Copyright 1982 The centers, known collectively as the New York City Teacher Centers Consortium, provide continuing education, advice, and materials--as well as a sympathetic environment--to the city's 55,000 public-school teachers.
January 19, 1982
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Education Agencies Ponder How To Enforce Draft Regulations
President Reagan's recent decision to continue peacetime draft registration for 18-year-old men has raised serious questions for federal officials responsible for enforcement of the law, namely: How to inform students of their responsibility to register and how to identify and deal with those who refuse to do so?
Tom Mirga, January 19, 1982
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Education National News Roundup
Copyright 1982 The figure was computed on the basis of the number of volunteers, the number of hours worked, and the median hourly income for people of the same sex, age, and educational level. Of the 12 volunteer-service categories used in the survey, only health had a higher rate of participation than education.
January 19, 1982
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Education Federal News Roundup
Copyright 1982 According to the proposed regulations, which were published in the Federal Register on Jan. 7 and would take effect at the beginning of the 1982-83 school year, new funds would be cut off to postsecondary institutions where 25 percent or more of the students participating in the National Direct Student Loan program have defaulted on their loans.
January 19, 1982
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Education Novel Funding Plan For Private Schools Termed Successful
A novel plan for financing private schools based on parental income rather than a fixed tuition rate has been called an unqualified success by the independent researcher commissioned to evaluate it.
Alex Heard, January 19, 1982
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Education School for Circus Children: From the 3 R's to the 3 Rings
But unlike most of his peers, Tato doesn't slip on a pair of sneakers and knock around a volleyball or shoot baskets after school. He wriggles into a skintight rhinestone-studded body suit and performs aerial triple somersaults with his family--The Flying Farfans--high above the center ring, in arenas crammed with thousands of gasping and cheering spectators.
Paul Feldman , January 19, 1982
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Education Gov. Brown Gives Education a Rhetorical, If Not Fiscal, Boost
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. took educators by surprise this month when he gave education top billing in his annual State of the State speech before the California legislature.
January 19, 1982
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Education Reagan Critics Fight New Tax policy in Court and Congress
Washington--Civil-rights groups and members of Congress pushed forward last week with their own attempts to deny federal tax exemptions to private schools that discriminate on the basis of race, despite President Reagan's assertion that he will work toward the same goal.
Peggy Caldwell, January 19, 1982
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Ed-Tech Policy New Technology To Render Long Division Dead as a Dodo Bird
Addition and subtraction will remain important parts of the arithmetic curriculum no matter what technology may devise. But when computers and calculators truly come of age in the schools, paper-and-pencil long division will probably be "as dead as a dodo bird."
January 19, 1982
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Education Publishing Column
Copyright 1982 In a letter to Mr. Bell written late last month, Roy H. Millenson, director of education and library affairs for the aap, argued for retention of a section of the act entitled "Prohibition Against Federal Control of Education." That section restricts federal officials from exercising "direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction...or over the selection of library resources, textbooks, or other printed or published instructional materials by any educational institution or school system...."
January 19, 1982
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Education Schools That Lost Tax Exemptions
Alabama
Bullock County Private School Foundation, Union Springs; Butler County Private School Foundation, Greenville; Crenshaw Christian Academy, Luverne; Dixie Academy, Clayton; Greystone Christian Grade School of Mobile; Hoover Academy, Brighton; Jefferson Academy, Birmingham; John T. Morgan Academy, Selma; Lowndes Academy, Hayneville; Macon County Private School Foundation, Tuskegee; Salt Springs Academy, Jackson; Southeast Education, Dothan; the Southern Academy, Greensboro; Union Academy Private School Foundation, Dadeville; West Birmingham Christian School; Wilcox Educational Foundation, Camden; Wilcox School Foundation, Catherine
January 19, 1982
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Education New Tests Formulated To Assess Vocational Skills
Copyright 1982 A group of state vocational-education officials, frustrated by the inadequacy of their students' preparedness to join an increasingly mobile and technologically sophisticated national labor force, have formed a consortium to develop national standards for assessing student achievement in basic occupational skills.
January 19, 1982
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Education Tenn. Panel Urges Accountability Plan for Schools
Copyright 1982 A long-range planning committee of the Tennessee Board of Education has recommended that the state consider adopting a sweeping "accountability system" that would abolish its teacher-tenure law, establish a statewide merit-pay program for all professional-school employees, and provide "incentive" grants to school districts that improve the quality of their academic programs.
January 19, 1982
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Education States Experts Oppose Key Competency-Testing Practices
State officials who are authorities on their state's minimum-competency testing programs for students apparently disapprove of several key practices in those programs, a 50-state survey suggests.
January 19, 1982
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Education Illinois Chief Advances Plan for Teaching Values
Illinois School Superintendent Donald G. Gill is moving ahead with plans to teach "values" in public schools despite fears voiced by critics--including some members of the State Board of Education--that his proposed program may create more problems than it solves.
January 19, 1982
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Education Phila. Teacher Pact Blasted in City Council Report
Copyright 1982 School-district administrators, city officials, and teachers' union representatives in Philadelphia have long agreed that the crucial element in any long-term solution to the school system's financial woes lies in a comprehensive, multi-year pact between the school board and the 21,000-member Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (pft).
January 19, 1982
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Education States News Roundup
Maryland's highest court has ruled that educators and other school officials in the state cannot be sued for improperly educating a child. The court, however, said that educators who maliciously and intentionally injure children can be sued for damages.

The Maryland Court of Appeals, on a 6-1 vote, upheld a state circuit court's ruling that the Montgomery County school board was immune from an educational-negligence suit. The case involved the parents of a 16-year-old boy, who claimed that their son was improperly evaluated as a youngster by a school official.

January 19, 1982
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Education Japan, Two Germanies, Ready Students for Techtronic Future
The industrialized nations that compete economically with the United States provide their children with significantly more and different schooling in programs that place far greater emphasis on the sci-ences and mathematics than American schools.
Susan Walton, January 19, 1982
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Education Research and Reports
Probably not the same person who was minding them in 1958, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data conducted by three researchers from the bureau's population division.
January 19, 1982
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters To The Editor
Copyright 1982 Handicapped students have recently made great gains in receiving their rights. This has come at considerable cost to the public schools, both financial and psychic, because of the competition for limited resources. The handicapped movement shares many similarities with the civil-rights movement in this respect because gains are perceived by some to have been made at the expense of others.
January 19, 1982
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Education Opinion There Are No Top-Down Answers To Improving Urban Schools
Whatever the future of public education in the United States, it is clear, for better or worse, that urban education will get there first. Declining enrollments, prolonged and frequent teachers' strikes, federal economic policies that starve the cities, and an aging urban population on fixed incomes directly threaten the quality of education offered to urban youth.
Richard A. Gibboney & James M. Larkin, January 19, 1982
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Federal Opinion Only Bureaucrats and Educators Benefit From Federal Involvement in Education
As the role of the federal government in education is debated, it is useful to consider the effects of a strong federal role in education.
Eugenia Froedge Toma, January 19, 1982
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