March 10, 1982

Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 24
Education Growing Friction Seen Between Superintendents, Boards
School-district superintendents are growing less fond of their employers--local school boards--and are increasingly prone to quit their jobs over disagreements with a board, according to a study presented at the American Association of School Administrators' (aasa) annual convention held here last week.
Tom Mirga, March 10, 1982
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Education G.O.P. Group Backs Bill To Shift Civil-Rights Responsibilities
Twenty-four Republican Congressmen have added their names to a bill introduced last week that would transfer responsibility for the enforcement of civil-rights laws affecting states and school systems from the Education Department (ed) to the Justice Department.
Eileen White, March 10, 1982
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Education Education Research Official Call For Reforms in Schools
The recent decline in student achievement is directly related to the decline in the teaching of values and to "social permissiveness" in the schools, Donald J. Senese, the Education Department's assistant secretary for educational research and improvement, said at a conference here recently.
Eileen White, March 10, 1982
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Education Private Schools Face Painful Dilemma In Calculating Need For
For more than a decade, an unprecedented national divorce rate and the dramatic changes in families it signals have posed special concerns for public and private schools, called upon to provide additional services and understanding for students and separate-but-equal access to documents, records, grades, and teachers for parents who are no longer married.
Margaret L. Weeks, March 10, 1982
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Education
The U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld a town ordinance restricting the sale of such drug paraphernalia as rolling papers and pipes used in smoking marijuana.
March 10, 1982
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Education Draft Registrations Increase, But Many Still Fail To Comply
The Selective Service System reported last week that it received almost twice as many completed draft-registration forms as usual during the first three weeks of February, indicating that last month's grace period for delinquent draft registrants was "a tremendous success."

Joan Lamb, a Selective Service information specialist, said the agency would not have a final tally on the number of men who signed up for the draft during the late-registration period, which was announced by President Reagan on Jan. 7, until the middle of this month.

March 10, 1982
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Education Federal News Roundup
A fortuitous meeting between a California Congressman and the chairman of Apple Computer has resulted in a bill that could, if enacted, provide school districts with millions of dollars' worth of free computer hardware and other technical equipment, while also giving the manufacturers of the equipment a substantial tax break.

H.R. 5573, the "Technology Education Act of 1982," was introduced recently by Representative Fortney H. (Pete) Stark, Democrat of California. The bill, Representative Stark said, was inspired by a chance conversation he had on an airplane with Steven P. Jobs, the chairman of Apple Computer. The two agreed that the U.S. needs new ideas on how to improve high-technology education, according to a statement by the Congressman.

March 10, 1982
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Education National News Roundup
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has awarded $10,000 grants to each of 10 public elementary and secondary schools from across the country in recognition of their "superior arts programs."

The winners of the Awards in Arts Education, selected by a 12-member committee from among 450 applicants, were announced last week at the annual convention of the American Association of School Administrators.

March 10, 1982
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Education Legislatures
The Senate Judiciary Committee of the California legislature, in an effort to nullify the effects of a decision by the state's highest court, has approved a constitutional amendment that would allow the state to lend textbooks to private-school students.

The proposed amendment, which is now being studied in the Senate Constitutional Amendments Committee, would also have to be approved by a majority of the state's electorate. Final legislative action must be taken by the third week in June if the amendment is to be placed on the November ballot.

March 10, 1982
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Education College Enrollments Expected To Drop
Next fall, colleges and universities may experience the first twinges of the major long-term enrollment decline officials have been awaiting, according to a new tally of applications s freshman classes at 274 four-year institutions.

The survey, conducted by John Minter Associates for The Chronicle of Higher Education, found that 43 percent of the schools reported having received fewer freshman applications at the end of last December than they had in hand at the same point the previous year. At the end of December 1980, only 30 percent reported a decline from the previous year's total at the same point.

March 10, 1982
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Education Minnesota Student Has a Few Bugs To Work Out
When NASA's space shuttle takes off toward the stars on March 22, it will also launch the research career of Todd E. Nelson, a high-school senior from Rose Creek, Minn.

Mr. Nelson, named last May as one of 10 finalists in the Shuttle Student Involvement Project for Secondary Schools, will be the first of the students to send a project into space.

March 10, 1982
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Education States News Roundup
While the Illinois State Board of Education and the state superintendent haggle over how much more money the state's public schools will need for fiscal 1983, Gov. James R. Thompson is asking that state aid to education be cut by $35 million.

And the governor's proposed cut, state officials say, would actually amount to a $77-million loss, taking into account a $42-million obligation for the teachers' pension fund.

March 10, 1982
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Education 'Sex-Equality Audit' Developed for Coed Girls
To advance its goal of "making schools more responsive to the needs of women and girls," the Council for Women in Independent Schools (cwis) is developing a survey instrument intended to help independent schools measure their progress in providing "equity" for their students and employees.
Margaret L. Weeks, March 10, 1982
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Education Congressmen Call For a Committee on Children
Seven members of the House of Representatives have proposed the formation of a bipartisan select committee on the condition of children, youths and families.
March 10, 1982
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Education School Closings Based on Race, Parents Claim
Maryland's state board of education has been asked to decide whether a local school board's selection of schools to be closed over the next two years was intended to thwart integration.

But no matter which way the state board rules, the case is expected to end up in court.

March 10, 1982
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Education National PTA Joins Campaign To Fight Cuts
Opposing the policies of an incumbent President for the first time in its 85-year history, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers (National pta) last week joined the effort of other education groups to fight against the Reagan Administration's fiscal 1983 education budget.
Eileen White, March 10, 1982
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Education Appointments
In the Schools
Edes P. Gilbert, headmistress of Mary Institute, St. Louis, to headmistress of The Spence School, New York City.
March 10, 1982
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Education Teachers' 'Time on Task' Affected By Contracts
Elementary-school teachers who are covered by collective-bargaining agreements spend less time instructing students in the classroom than do their peers who are not covered by contracts, but they devote more time to classroom preparation and administrative tasks, a new study by two University of Oregon researchers has found.
Susan Walton, March 10, 1982
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Education House Leadership Will Try To Quash Senate's Anti-Busing
In the wake of the Senate's passage of sweeping anti-busing legislation last week, Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives are acting to prevent the bill, which must be passed by the House to become law, from being brought to the House floor for a vote.
Eileen White, March 10, 1982
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Education High Court Hears Argument in New York Book-Ban Case
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week in a case that could both define the rights of school boards to judge the "educational appropriateness" of books and further define the First Amendment rights of students.
Alex Heard, March 10, 1982
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Education Bell Defends '83 Cuts, Admits Decline in Quality May Result
In response to strong criticism from Republicans and Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee last week, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell admitted that "when you reduce funding [for federal education programs], you sacrifice as far as quality is concerned."
Eileen White, March 10, 1982
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Education Cities News Roundup
More than 220 teachers from greater Boston--nearly four times the number expected--met on the Lesley College campus in Cambridge, Mass., last week to discuss "Educating for Responsibility in a Nuclear Age."

The meeting--believed by its sponsors to be the first of its kind held in the nation--was convened to help teachers examine their "role and responsibility" in making students aware of the dangers and implications of the nuclear-arms race.

March 10, 1982
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Education Black Children Seen Prime Victims of Budget Cuts
The educational gains and social "well-being" of black children, a large majority of whom attend urban schools, would be eroded under the Reagan Administration's "new federalism" initiative, according to a strongly-worded report released last week by an advocacy group for black children.
Susan G. Foster, March 10, 1982
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Education Today's Winners, Tomorrow's Nobel Laureates
In the summer of 1979, Gary M. Griner Jr. saw a design for a seismograph in Scientific American magazine.
Susan Walton, March 10, 1982
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Education U.S. Judge Hears Denver Plan To End Compulsory Busing
The Denver school board's proposal to end eight years of mandatory busing, formulated in response to a judge's request for a "unitary, non-racial" enrollment policy, is not a desegregation plan, school officials admitted in federal district court last week.
John Chaffee Jr., March 10, 1982
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Education Virginia District Drops Military-Tuition Plan
Fairfax County, Va., school officials have dropped their plans to charge tuition for military dependents at a military base within the district, for this year at least, because the U.S. Department of Education has given them most of the federal impact aid they demanded for the 1981-82 school year.

The district received last week the first payment in the total $3.5 million in impact aid funds it will be paid by the government.

March 10, 1982
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Education Vermont Likely To Increase State Aid To Schools by 50%
Montpelier, Vt--The state legislature in Vermont, a state whose schools have traditionally been among the most reliant in the nation on local property taxes, appears ready to enact a bill that would boost state aid to schools by 50 percent.
Peter Huidekoper, March 10, 1982
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Education Teachers Today Are Older, Poorer, And Much Less Happy With
In 1981, the average American public-school teacher was older, had spent more time in college, was relatively less well paid, and was far less likely to choose teaching as a career if given a second chance than was the case in 1976.
Thomas Toch, March 10, 1982
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Education Opinion Cutting Vocational Educational Could Kill Its Momentum
Will Rogers once quipped that the business of government is to keep the government out of business--that is, unless business needs government aid.
Stuart A. Rosenfeld, March 10, 1982
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