May 19, 1982
Currently, school districts in the state can use such penalties when students damage property, but not when it is reported lost or when the students simply fail to return it.
Jay, who received his degree in mathematics with honors from Boise State University, plans to begin graduate studies at Stanford University later this year, according to William Mech, the young man's mentor at the university.
An error by the New York City Board of Education in counting the number of handicapped pupils it serves will cost the city about $30 million in state education aid, state and city officials revealed late last month.
The four are appealing a lower court's ruling that the court had the power to interpret their teaching contract, but that Bishop Odore J. Grendon was not out of line when he fired the nuns without stating cause. (See Education Week, March 31 and May 5, 1982.)
What often results, says Jeanne Bamberger, an associate professor at mit's Division for Study and Research in Education, is that a child of promise, emotionally unequipped to face the pressure of success, drops out of public view. "While many musically prodigious children do go on to become acclaimed artists," she says, "one doesn't ordinarily know of the others because they tend to keep their pasts hidden.
Child-Stress: Understanding and Answering Stress Signals of Infants, Children, and Teenagers, by Mary Susan Miller (Doubleday & Company, Inc., 245 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10167; 264 pages, $14.95).
The eight states--Alabama, Maine, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Kentucky--intervened in Ambach v. Bell, a suit filed late last month by 10 states seeking to force the use of 1980 census data in allocating $2.4 billion in Title I funds for the education of disadvantaged children.
The Classroom Teachers of Dallas--an affiliate of the Texas State Teachers Association--has filed suit in a state district court accusing Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Linus Wright of attempting to carry out what the group says is an illegal transfer policy to provide jobs for 250 administrators whose jobs as "teaching consultants" will be abolished next year.
A statewide survey that covered many issues, conducted by a consulting firm for the state education department, asked the question: "Teachers in Florida are now required to take a competency test before being certified to teach. Do you think the required competency test will improve the quality of education in Florida?"
The researchers, Thomas Good and Douglas Grouws, examined the effects of an experimental mathematics program, which they developed from their previous research findings on effective teachers. Using more than 1,000 4th-grade students and 40 teachers from 27 schools, the researchers divided the schools into "treatment" and "control" groups.
Mr. Bernardo, 44 years old, has been an educational consultant and a real-estate investor and salesman since he was forced to resign from the Montgomery County superintendency position in 1979 because of conflicts with the school board and teachers. He has also served as the superintendent of schools in Providence, R.I.
Mr. Chapoton, testifying before the Senate subcommittee on taxation and debt management, said that the "Technology Education Act of 1982" bill would "permit a favored corporation to obtain three times the benefit from its contribution of computers ... than could be obtained by a corporation donating cash or other types of property for such worthy causes as cancer research."