February 10, 1982

Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 20
Education Congressmen Plan Steps To Extend Social Security Benefits
Several members of the U.S. House of Representatives chastised themselves last week for voting last summer to begin phasing out the $2.4 billion Social Security education-benefits program without fully considering the impact of their action.
Tom Mirga, February 10, 1982
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Education Proposed Shift of Indian Education From E.D. Raises Concerns
All Indian-education programs now housed in the U.S. Department of Education would be transferred to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (bia) under the Administration's 1983 budget proposal, according to an Administration source.
Alex Heard, February 10, 1982
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters To The Editor
Eugenia Froedge Toma's well-written Commentary (Jan. 19) should provide secondary- school English students ample material for examining the techniques of propaganda. Beyond that, it appears to be but another sample of academic prostitution financed by the tax-exempt Heritage Foundation (though actually financed by taxpayers at the expense of the many tax-supported social programs that we do hold desirable).

Toma necessarily ignores the essential circumstances that invalidate her arguments and falsify her conclusions: That much of the educational programming that has come to serve so well the needs of individual children and youths over this recent period has come to exist as a direct result of federal and state intervention in the face of opposition by individual school districts.

February 10, 1982
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Education Opinion Salaries: Chasing Teachers From The Profession
When I started teaching 25 years ago, the schools were almost exclusively a woman's world, with a sprinkling of men on hand for such traditionally male preserves as shop and science.
Judy Solkovits, February 10, 1982
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Education Opinion Confronting The Abrasive Questioning of the Radical Reformers
As reading scores and scholarship drifted downward in the last few decades, we heard throughout the nation a rising chorus of demands that we "return to the basics." This was a slogan that parents, teachers, and boards of education could subscribe to in good conscience.
Alfred T. Vogel, February 10, 1982
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7 min read
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