April 28, 1982
In workshop sessions across the state, some 100 trained teachers have been helping their colleagues master techniques of handling disruptive students with a minimum of confrontation--by avoiding, for example, inflammatory gestures and language.
The $50-million program would enable young people, ages 16 to 25, to work at minimum wage in national parks and forests, on waterfronts, and in neighborhoods. State and federal conservation agencies would administer the program.
The issue, Mr. Tobin said, involves not only the academic record of his daughter, but also the rights of Florida students to demand hearings on grades they believe to be undeserved or unfair.
The survey, conducted in 1979, indicated that the unemployment rate for students who completed vocational-training programs while in high school was 10 percent, compared to 16.5 percent for non-vocational students who entered the la-bor force immediately after graduating from high school.
Gov. Charles S. Robb, who supported efforts to distinguish the state's policies toward such schools from those of the Reagan Administration, on April 15 ordered the state tax department to refuse the tax exemptions.
Particularly memorable among Mr. Ciardi's works for children is The Reason for the Pelican.
Education Week is to be congratulated for printing the commentary on "Distorting the Truth of Creation" (March 31), by Richard Bliss, even though the author, like the Sophists of old, "makes the worse appear the better reason."
The voice of reason as represented by Mr. Bliss is a camouflage for teaching religious beliefs under the guise of teaching science.