February 24, 1982

Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 22
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"There is a potential for the arrangement to grow, possibly to include Title VI [of the Civil Rights Act of 1964] and Title IX [of the Education Amendments of 1972]," he said. These laws prohibit racial discrimination and sex discrimination, respectively.
February 24, 1982
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Education Colorado Rethinks One-Day Count of Attendance
A new way of calculating attendance in Colorado schools last year for the purpose of allocating state education funds resulted in so much ''monkey business" that the state legislature seems certain to vote soon to return to the old method.
Alex Heard, February 24, 1982
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Education Cities News Roundup
Beginning next month, the New York City board of education will enter the business of training adults to become licensed practical nurses.

Some 100 people will participate in the six-, nine-, and 12-month courses, which are to be co-sponsored by the city's health and hospitals corporation and the union representing licensed practical nurses and technicians in the city.

February 24, 1982
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Education Night High School: Another Chance for Students With Problems
It's 9 o'clock, and nothing in Palmer High School's room 202 appears to be out of the ordinary. Students dressed in the universal teen-age uniform--jeans, Adidas, and down jackets--sit at tables, answering questions and writing paragraphs about a short story that they have just read.
Elaine Yaffe, February 24, 1982
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Education Phila. Teachers To Be Retrained in Mathematics
In an effort to ease two problems with one solution, the School District of Philadelphia last week announced a program that will alleviate the district's critical shortage of junior-high mathematics teachers.
Susan Walton, February 24, 1982
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Education Schools Column
The last 40 minutes of each school day at North Olmsted Junior High School in Ohio are devoted to an unusual "activity period." During this time, the school's 1,100 students read, write, and pursue extra-curricular activities.

In two of the periods each week, the entire staff of North Olmsted--faculty, administrators, and clerical workers--join the students in reading silently.

February 24, 1982
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Education States News Roundup
The Metropolitan Edison Company, the utility that owns the Three Mile Island nuclear-power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., has been getting some fallout from school boards in the area.

The Northern Lebanon Board of Education has voted to not pay its March electric bill until the company improves its efforts to clean up radioactive waste at the crippled nuclear plant. The plant has been shut down since March 1979, when a malfunction in a reactor resulted in a massive leak of radioactive materials.

February 24, 1982
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Education Changes Possible In Reagan Budget, Stockman Suggests
David A. Stockman, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, suggested to members of the House Budget Committee last week that the President's fiscal 1983 budget--including huge cuts in spending for education--may be negotiable.

The Administration "will look very carefully at a good-faith, sincere effort on the part of the responsible leadership of the Congress ... to propose something different," the budget director said.

February 24, 1982
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Education Loss of Funds Cited in Deterioration of California Schools
Cathy Golliher's seventh-grade health-science class in the Los Angeles Unified School District includes three or four mentally retarded children (some of whom are below average and others of whom are above average in their ability to learn), as well as students who have been "mainstreamed" from an English-as-a-second-language class.
George Neill, February 24, 1982
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Education N. Dakota Considers Tailor-Made Instruction for All Pupils
Education officials in North Dakota are considering a proposal to "take advantage of the small, rural character of the state's schools" by providing each of the state's 104,000 public-school students with individualized instruction programs.
Tom Mirga, February 24, 1982
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Education Teachers Centers May Collapse When They are Needed Most
Political conservatives have called them "taxpayer-financed union halls." Others claim they are important grassroots efforts to improve day-to-day instruction in the classroom. Teacher centers are controversial, often misunderstood, and struggling for survival at a time when, many educators say, they are most needed.
Thomas Toch, February 24, 1982
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Education Federal Judge's Decision Allows the Suspension of Disabled
School officials may have broader authority, with fewer procedural restraints, to discipline handicapped students than had been widely assumed, a recent federal-court decision suggests.
Peggy Caldwell, February 24, 1982
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Education Deregulation Efforts Proceeding Rapidly: Disputes Expected
The complex group of federal rules governing the educational and civil rights of the handicapped--which school officials have bemoaned as the most unnecessarily complex and "litigious" regulations in the history of U.S. public education--are undergoing sweeping revisions by the Reagan Administration that are bound to provoke new controversy across the country.
Susan G. Foster & Martha Matzke, February 24, 1982
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Education Millions Wasted in Military Budget Could Go to Children, Groups
While the Reagan Administration is cutting millions of dollars from children's immunization programs, it is allocating $1.4 million to provide veterinary services for the pets of military personnel, a nationally known advocate for children charged last week.
Susan G. Foster, February 24, 1982
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Education Media Column
Another town has joined the list of jurisdictions seeking to curb children's use of electronic video games.

An ordinance passed by the Marlborough (Mass.) City Council makes it illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to play the games during school hours, and bans the machines within 1,500 feet of public schools.

February 24, 1982
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Education New Jersey Court To Rule on Sex-Education Requirement
The fate of mandatory sex education in New Jersey's public schools was placed in the hands of the New Jersey Supreme Court this month, as attorneys for the state board of education and a coalition of parents offered opposing arguments in a case that challenges the state's right to require sex education in the public schools.
Susan Walton, February 24, 1982
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Education Shortage of Teachers Forces Major Recruiting Drive in L.A.
The nation's second-largest school district is facing a teacher shortage that neither advertising nor extensive media coverage has fully alleviated thus far.
Alex Heard, February 24, 1982
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Education New Family-Planning Rule Challenged in Hearings
A proposal that would require federally supported family-planning agencies to notify parents when their children sought prescription contraceptives would disregard the intent of Congress, and would likely lead to higher rates of teen-age pregnancy, according to critics of the proposal.
Susan Walton, February 24, 1982
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Education Discipline of Handicapped Has Been Guided by Courts
The discipline of handicapped students has been a source of confusion and frustration for both advocacy groups and local school officials since P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, took effect in 1978.
Peggy Caldwell, February 24, 1982
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Education Registration Evaders Will Face Prosecution
U.S. Attorney General William French Smith reaffirmed last week that his department would begin prosecuting young men who have failed to register for the draft following a late-registration grace period that ends on Feb. 28.

Mr. Smith said at a Feb. 17 press conference that the department would enforce, as best it could, the two-year-old law that requires men to sign up for military conscription within 30 days of their 18th birthday.

February 24, 1982
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Education Legislatures News Roundup
Gov. Hugh L. Carey of New York has proposed increasing state aid to schools by $740 million next year, as part of a five-year plan to increase the state's share of support for education from 40 percent to 50 percent.

The Governor's legislative package for education, which represents an increase of nearly 18 percent over the current $4.2 billion in state aid, also includes adjustments to the aid formula, which are intended to direct more state money to the districts with the greatest needs.

February 24, 1982
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Education Research and Reports
From the Winter 1982 issue of the Annenberg School of Communications' Journal of Communication comes evidence that today's rock-and-rollers may be tomorrow's fuddy-duddies.

In "Popular Music: Resistance to New Wave," James Lull writes that many of the 375 University of California students he surveyed about "attitudes toward New Wave music" are clinging to rock music from the 1960's and dislike New Wave because they consider it an "attack" on music from that period.

February 24, 1982
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Education Federal News Roundup
Two more bills have been introduced in Congress proposing to extend the enrollment deadline that college-bound high-school seniors must meet in order to qualify for Social Security benefits over the next four years.

That brings to eight the number of bills supporting the revision of new laws that would phase out by April 1985 Social Security's 16-year-old program of education benefits to college students.

February 24, 1982
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Education National News Roundup
The National Commission on Excellence in Education should stress the importance of "instructional materials" in providing effective education, according to textbook publishers.

Funding for such materials is insufficient, and as a result "many schools use out-of-date textbooks that reflect the limited opportunities and sexual stereotyping of another era," the publishers contend in a statement submitted to the commission this month by the school division of the Association of American Publishers. Publishers belonging to the school division produce 85 percent of the textbooks and other instructional materials used in the nation's schools.

February 24, 1982
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Education E.D. Alters Magazine To Reflect Reagan Policies
The current issue of American Education, the Education Department's monthly magazine, reflects a controversial new editorial policy aimed at transforming the publication--known for its light features on schools' uses of federal funds--into a thoughtful journal of articles by political conservatives and of scholarly opinion.
Eileen White, February 24, 1982
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters To The Editor
Your article, "New Tests Formulated To Assess Vocational Skills" (Jan. 19), points up one problem that I wish we all could find an answer for. Students often don't possess very good skills in communication when they arrive and enroll in vocational programs, and it is often the first time in their lives that they really would like to know how to read and write and communicate well because they feel that they now have a reason.

They want to learn more about the vocation, and suddenly reading and writing skills are very important to them. But the vocational teacher is so busy trying to fill them full of all of the math and science and to teach them the skills of the occupation that sometimes he or she forgets to check the student's reading level! So, different people look for someone to blame.

February 24, 1982
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Education Opinion Mapping The Land of Growing Up
Flannery O'Connor has a wonderful short story, "A Temple of the Holy Ghost," in which the protagonist, a child of 12, hears about the half-man, half-woman at the county fair and cannot understand how such a creature can exist if it doesn't have two heads.
Faye Moskowitz, February 24, 1982
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Education Opinion Sex and Drugs Rock and Roll--A World View?
A glossary of terms.
Eric Black, February 24, 1982
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Education Opinion Defining a 'Doorknob' and Other Updates on the Student Lexicon
"Tsup, man?" "The rents are outta town, man, so let's have a kegger at the crib."
Eric Black, February 24, 1982
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