January 26, 1982

Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 18
Education Text of Tax-Exemption Bill
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to prohibit the granting of tax-exempt status to organizations maintaining schools with racially discriminatory policies.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

January 26, 1982
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Education Agency Urged To Regulate Children's TV
Children's television advocates last week urged the Federal Communications Commission (fcc) to "send a signal" to the major commercial television networks that the commission has not abandoned the rulemaking procedures regarding broadcasters' responsibilities for providing programming for children begun two years ago during the Carter Administration.
Alex Heard, January 26, 1982
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Education Chancellor Seeks New Vitality for Berkeley School
The chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley last week announced his plan for radically reorganizing the university's much-criticized school of education.

Asserting that scholarship in education at Berkeley must be converted "into a major institutional effort," Chancellor I. Michael Heyman proposed in a letter to the academic senate a number of changes intended to involve more faculty members from other disciplines in the study of education and to narrow sharply the curriculum of the education school.

January 26, 1982
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Education Century III Leaders Selected From Among 300,000 Students
Out of a field of some 300,000 high-school seniors, 102 have been named Century III Leaders--two from each state and the District of Columbia.

The annual scholarship competition is based not on grades or test scores, but on leadership ability, community involvement, and awareness of current events.

January 26, 1982
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Education Foundation Plan To Be Accepted, Budget Suggests
Even before President Reagan announces his decision on the future of the Education Department--a decision expected to be included in the Presidential State-of-the-Union Message this week--the Office of Management and Budget (omb) is functioning as if the department already has been replaced by a foundation.
Eileen White, January 26, 1982
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Education School-Library Study Shows Stability in 70's
Nationally, the proportion of public schools with libraries held steady throughout the mid-1970's, and the schools' library collections and budgets--not taking inflation into account--increased, according to a new government report.
Margaret L. Weeks, January 26, 1982
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Education 'Teachers Teaching Teachers' Is Key to Writing Project's Success
Each summer, 25 teachers gather at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. for a five-week summer program. But unlike many of their colleagues, who venture into the groves of academe to learn from university faculty members, these teachers come to learn about writing from other schoolteachers.
Susan Walton, January 26, 1982
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Education Research Offers Little Support for Hyperactivity Diet, Panel Says
Seven years after one pediatrician's prescription for treating hyperactive children with an additive-free diet raised the hopes of parents and teachers that a solution to the troubling and mysterious syndrome was at hand, medical experts still have little scientific evidence that the "defined" diets improve the behavior of such children.
Susan Walton, January 26, 1982
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Education Scientists Are Still in the Dark About Causes

As many teachers know first-hand, the behavior of the hyperactive child--characterized by restlessness, inattention, calling out in class, and other symptoms--can disrupt an entire classroom and impede learning for all students.
January 26, 1982
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Education Teacher Starts Educators' Group To Oppose Nuclear Arms
Concerned that educators "are leaving to others" the task of alerting young people to the dangers of nuclear war, Roberta Snow, a teacher and administrator in the Brookline, Mass., public school system, has founded Educators for Social Responsibility (esr) to mobilize opposition to the nuclear-arms buildup.
Stephanie DeAbreu, January 26, 1982
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Education Federal News Roundup
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether the Perry (Ind.) Education Association, recognized as collective-bargaining agent for local teachers, has a right to exclusive use of the school district's internal mail system.

The teachers' group, an affiliate of the National Education Association, procured the right to use the mailing system in a 1978 contract. But a smaller, independent union, the Perry Local Educators Association, claims that it, too, should be able to communicate with its members through the school system's mails.

January 26, 1982
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Education National News Roundup
Officials at the Educational Testing Service (ets) in Princeton, N.J. have acknowledged that they decided not to count one of the questions in a mathematics test administered to some 360,000 students around the country on Nov. 7 because it was confusing and poorly composed.

This was the offending problem:

January 26, 1982
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Education People News
Some 7,000 students in Haverhill, Mass.--rated as one of the worst places in the country to live--have written to the editors at Time magazine to tell them it just isn't so.

A cardboard box of the handwritten essays was delivered to Time Inc. in Washington after the magazine ran an article about a new book, Places Rated Almanac, which ranks the quality of living in 227 metropolitan communities based on housing, climate, terrain, health care, environment, crime, transportation, education, recreation, art, and finances.

January 26, 1982
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Education State News Roundup
A smaller version of the Supreme Court case concerning free schooling for the children of aliens is before the Vermont Department of Education.

Fran and Jerry Steinberg, Canadian citizens who own a home and pay taxes in Wakesfield, Vt., are appealing the local school board's decision that their five children are not entitled to a free public education.

January 26, 1982
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Education Black-Majority Schools May Aid Race Relations
The best social relations between the races in desegregated schools may occur where blacks are in the numerical majority--provided the white students accept the principle of integration.

So concludes Martin Patchen, a Purdue University sociologist, in Black-White Contact in Schools: Its Social and Academic Effects, a book on the Indianapolis school system published this month by the Purdue University Press.

January 26, 1982
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Education Illinois's Education Boards Join Forces
Worried about the poor writing skills demonstrated by Illinois students from grade school through graduate school, the state board of education has decided to work with its higher-education counterpart to place more emphasis on the teaching and learning of writing.
Don Sevener, January 26, 1982
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Education Physical-Education Requirement Upheld in Massachusetts
An appeals-court panel in Massachussetts has overturned a lower-court ruling that would have exempted the Worcester Vocational-Technical High School from compulsory physical-education instruction because the school cannot afford the program.
Susan G. Foster, January 26, 1982
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Education Vermont Students Required To Pass Basic ~'Reasoning' Test
By 1983, students in Vermont will not only have to master basic reading, writing, listening, speaking, and computation skills before they may graduate from high school, but they also will have to demonstrate proficiency in "reasoning."
Susan G. Foster, January 26, 1982
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Education Volunteers in Miami Schools Work To Prevent Delinquency
Ray Anthony Mitchell's criminal career began when he was 10. His school career ended when he was 15.
Tom Mirga, January 26, 1982
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Education Alaska Board Likely To Act on 'Effective Schools' Document
This week the Alaska State Board of Education is scheduled to begin discussing the recommendations of a special report that one official in the state education department said represents "the most thorough review of effective-schooling practices ever conducted in Alaska."
Tom Mirga, January 26, 1982
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Education Hartford Drama: Who Decides Whether the Show Goes On?
When a Maryland superintendent of schools moved this month to bar an eighth-grade class in his district from putting on a play he thought was "inappropriate," in part because a conservative parents' group might object to it, he did not anticipate that he would soon feel, as he later said, that he "had a tiger by the tail."
Alex Heard, January 26, 1982
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Education Reagan Submits Legislation On Schools' Tax Exemption
President Reagan last week submitted to Congress a bill that is intended to deny federal tax exemptions to private schools that discriminate on the basis of race, but that "is sensitive to the legitimate special needs of private religious schools."
Peggy Caldwell, January 26, 1982
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Education Urban League Report Assails Vouchers, 'Basics'
Public support of private schools through tax credits and vouchers would do little to increase educational opportunities for black students--yet public-school programs may be no more than "enforced mediocrity" for black and other minority students, contends a paper commissioned by the National Urban League for its seventh annual "State of Black America" address.
Susan G. Foster, January 26, 1982
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Education Money for Schools Is a Major Concern For Legislatures
Money for schools is much on the minds of state legislators as they convene this month.
Peggy Caldwell, January 26, 1982
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English Learners Approaches to Bilingual Education
Stephen Krashen, a professor of linguistics at the University of Southern California, outlined for those attending the state conference on bilingual education the most widely used approaches to teaching children with little or no English proficiency and offered his evaluation of each method's effectiveness.

The three approaches most commonly used by schools to educate such students, he said, are:

January 26, 1982
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Education Education Concerns in State Legislatures
Arizona

The state's chief educational concern this year, according to the chairmen of the House and Senate education committees, is to establish a single board for vocational education and technical training.

January 26, 1982
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Education Young New Yorkers Learn Self-Defense
A 7-year-old child was roller-skating through the streets of New York City. Preoccupied with staying on her feet, she became separated from her friends and was grabbed up by an assailant. The child told him that if he put her down, she would do what he wanted. He did. The child, screaming loudly, was able to escape and attract the attention of passers-by, who nabbed the man. He turned out to have a long record of molesting children.

The story probably had its relatively happy ending because the child was an alumna of the Children's Creative Safety Program, a unique course run by the Safety and Fitness Exchange (safe) in New York.

January 26, 1982
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Education Deadline Extended To End of February For Draft Sign-Up
The Selective Service System officially announced last week the beginning of a grace period for young men who have failed to register for the draft.

According to Joan Lamb, a Selective Service spokesman, young men born in 1960 through 1963 who have not signed up can do so at any local post office without fear of prosecution until Feb. 28. Afterwards, she said, the draft agency and the Justice Department will begin seeking out the remaining nonregistrants for possible prosecution in federal courts.

January 26, 1982
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English Learners Public Hostility, Budget Cuts Confront Bilingual Education
As 1982 begins, bilingual education in the United States faces staggering problems, according to experts who gathered here last week to discuss "Bilingual Education in Academic Growth, Economic Development, and World Trade" at the four-day annual conference of the California Association for Bilingual Education (cabe).
George Neill, January 26, 1982
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