March 17, 1982

Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 25
Education Teachers Charged With Obtaining Phony Credits
In an unprecedented move, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office brought criminal charges of grand theft last week against 43 public-school teachers who received salary increases based on fraudulently obtained college credits.
Peggy Caldwell, March 17, 1982
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Education Denver Plaintiffs Ask U.S. Judge To Continue Busing Plan
An alternative to the Denver School Board's "Total Access Plan" to end a 13-year-old desegregation suit was presented last week to U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch.
John Chaffee Jr., March 17, 1982
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Education The Shock Lingers After Oklahoma Explosion As Officials Seek
The shock waves are still being felt here from the Jan. 19 blast that occurred when a hot-water tank exploded and ripped through the cafeteria of Star Elementary School in Spencer, Okla., killing a teacher and six students and injuring 34 others.
Linda Shalaway, March 17, 1982
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Education State Agents Pose as Job Candidates To Test N.Y.C.'s Hiring
Last August, more than 40 employees of the New York State Department of Education posed as candidates searching for jobs as special-education teachers in New York City. Each had a master's degree in special education and at least five years' teaching experience. They were responding to openings advertised in The New York Times. None was offered work.
Thomas Toch, March 17, 1982
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Education Rural Educators Denounce Planned Revision of P.L.94-142
Murray, Ky.--Services to handicapped students living in rural areas would effectively be eliminated under the Reagan Administration's proposed funding cuts and changes in P.L.94-142, the 1975 law protecting the educational rights of all handicapped children, charged an alliance of 60 special-education teachers and administrators meeting here recently.
Charlie Euchner, March 17, 1982
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Ed-Tech Policy California Districts Plan High-Technology High School
When the idea for a "high-tech" high school first occurred to Paul V. Collins, he was driving home from a meeting of the local industrial-education council, where industry members had been critical of the computer skills that local high-school and community-college graduates brought to the workplace.
Susan Walton, March 17, 1982
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Education School Lunches Should Be State Responsibility, Official Says
If it were up to him to decide, Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block told a Congressional committee last week, he would turn the 35-year-old National School Lunch Program "back to the states."
Susan Walton, March 17, 1982
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Education National News Roundup
Elementary and secondary education is often thought of as a field dominated by women, but male educators make more money, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

In a study of 100 occupations released this month, the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics found that male school administrators earned an average of $520 per week, compared with $363 for their female counterparts.

March 17, 1982
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Education Cities News Roundup
Three days after publicly declaring his position on a number of desegregation issues, Boston's school superintendent, Robert R. Spillane, was reappointed to the position he has held for the past seven months by a 4-1 vote of the Boston School Committee.

And in a second vote taken by the committee on March 5, Mr. Spillane was unanimously awarded a four-year contract beginning July 1.

March 17, 1982
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Education States News Roundup
As any teacher can attest, the racket in a high school sometimes rises to an unbearable level.

Roosevelt High School in Honolulu used to be so noisy that it violated local noise-abatement regulations. As a result of complaints from neighbors, the state health department ordered the school to abide by a strict noise-abatement plan. The policy required that after-school use of the gymnasium be greatly restricted, much to students' dismay.

March 17, 1982
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Education Students Claim Abuse, Brainwashing In School
The supervisor of a "Christian home" for wayward teen-age girls in Hattiesburg, Miss., is being accused by several former residents of the private facility of beatings, attempted "brainwashing," and other types of abusive treatment in a federal district court trial here.
Pat Clem , March 17, 1982
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Education N.J. Senior Awarded $10,000 In Leadership Competition
"The lack of leadership training," wrote Kenneth Klemm, a senior at Butler (N.J.) High School, "is most apparent in our schools and communities where students are required to assume leadership roles without being prepared for them."

That opinion notwithstanding, Mr. Klemm has been named "the nation's outstanding future leader" by the Century III Leaders program sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and funded by the Shell Oil Company.

March 17, 1982
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Education Calif. School Chief May Have Double Income By Moonlighting
Wilson C. Riles, California Superintendent of Instruction, probably doubled his $42,500 state salary last year by serving on corporate boards and speaking at conferences, a recent state report and additional sources suggest.
George Neill, March 17, 1982
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Education College Coaches Avidly Pursue the Elusive 'Blue Chippers'
Hundreds of men and women have fanned out across the country during the past few months to stalk and snare the "blue-chipper"--one of the rarer species to be found in the nation.
Tom Mirga, March 17, 1982
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Education Teachers Column
Helping teachers develop and share innovative ideas for the classroom is the goal of the Impact II program run by the New York City Board of Education.
Thomas Toch, March 17, 1982
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Education Federal News Roundup
The Education Department's office for civil rights announced last week that, as of Oct. 1, its staff members would be spending more time responding to specific civil-rights complaints lodged by individuals and less time reviewing school systems' general performance in meeting civil-rights requirements.

The civil-rights office's annual operating plan, which was published in the March 8 Federal Register, would reduce the total amount of time spent on both of those activities, in spite of an anticipated increase in the number of civil-rights complaints received by the agency.

March 17, 1982
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Education Congress Seeks More Funds for E.D.
The Congressional battle over the President's fiscal 1983 budget officially began last week, as members of education-related committees of both the House and the Senate debated among themselves the appropriate budget levels for education programs.
Eileen White, March 17, 1982
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Education House Panel To Consider Anti-Busing Bill
The leadership of the House of Representatives has agreed to take up the anti-busing bill that recently passed the Senate.

An aide to Representative Peter W. Rodino Jr., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, confirmed last week that Mr. Rodino intended to ask that the bill be forwarded to his committee for consideration. The Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over such legislation.

March 17, 1982
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Education Census Bureau Forecasts School-Planning Woes
A series of rapid shifts in the number of school-age children in the U.S. in the next 20 years will make planning for school staffing difficult and will "significantly affect" the future structure of educational institutions, according to a report released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Susan Walton, March 17, 1982
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Education Colleges Column
The University of New Hampshire and the state's department of education have joined forces to expand collaborative efforts in such fields as curriculum and professional development in the New Hampshire public schools.

The formation of the 12-member "Schools and University Education Council," which includes a teacher, a principal, a superintendent, a state vocational-education official, and unh faculty members, was announced last month by Education Commissioner Robert Brunelle and the university's president, Evelyn Handler.

Sheppard Ranbom & Martha Matzke, March 17, 1982
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Education Media Column
The U.S. Supreme Court has avoided rendering judgment on the constitutionality of a Mesquite, Tex., town ordinance that bars individuals under 17 years of age from playing coin-operated pinball or video computer-games.
Alex Heard, March 17, 1982
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Education Hard Times Threaten Public Schools In Michigan
Alpena County, Mich., October 1981--A bugler plays "Taps" as students drape a black cloth over the Alpena High School sign. Following cuts in state aid and rejection by local voters of three tax proposals, the district's 6,800 students learn a hard lesson in economics: Classes can't run without money.
Glen Macnow, March 17, 1982
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Education Accrediting Body Reverses Policy On Disclosure
The voluntary national accrediting body for teacher education, in a major change in policy, last week voted to make detailed public disclosures of its judgments on teacher-training programs, including those programs that it decides do not meet its published standards.
Thomas Toch, March 17, 1982
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Education Report Urges New Policies for Urban Schools
In spite of the "unsympathetic mood" of the Reagan Administration toward a strong federal role in education, urban schools need the financial and administrative backing of a "modified" federal policy if they are to improve the educational opportunities of the urban poor, according to a report jointly sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (hud) and a private research group.
Susan G. Foster, March 17, 1982
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Education And in the Department of Dubious Achievement . . .
The bilingual-education office of the Los Angeles Unified School District's research and evaluation branch has been given the first--but not the last--Waste Basket Award by the United Teachers of Los Angeles (utla) and John Greenwood, a member of the Los Angeles Board of Education.

The award will be given monthly to the administrator or department that generates the "most useless or ridiculous piece of paperwork," according to Judy Solkovits, utla president.

March 17, 1982
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Education Report Praising Teacher Corps Is Questioned by Evaluators
The Teacher Corps, the Great Society-era initiative that aimed to prepare new teachers for then-expanding urban school systems, has received praise in a federally sponsored study released on the eve of the program's dispersal into the Administration's 1982 education block-grants package.
Alex Heard, March 17, 1982
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Education Research And Reports
The "rebellious youth"--epitomized by the late James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause"--has a well-recognized role in modern life.

This troubled individual is presumed to be suffering from a syndrome known in psychiatric circles as "adolescent turmoil," characterized by moodiness, confusion, and a desire to rebel against one's parents. The syndrome was introduced into the psychiatric lexicon by G. Stanley Hall, an American psychologist who was also responsible for inviting Sigmund Freud to visit the United States.

March 17, 1982
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Education Opinion Unyielding Pressure Is Last Resort for Ailing Urban Schools
Public schools all over the nation--but especially in cities--are grappling with difficult problems of strikes, decreasing enrollment and increasing costs, as well as the perceived threat of tax credits for private school tuition and voucher plans.
Debra S. Weiner, March 17, 1982
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Education Opinion Amicable Solutions: Ombudsmen Make The System Work
The situations are all too familiar: A student and teacher do not get along and the student's parents ask school officials to assign the child to a new classroom;
Gene I. Maeroff, March 17, 1982
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