May 19, 1982

Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 34
Education Denver's Busing Plan Approved by Judge For 1982-83 Only
"With considerable reservation," U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch last week ordered that the Denver school board's revised desegregation plan be put into effect for the 1982-83 school year only.
John Chaffee Jr., May 19, 1982
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Education Kansas Advances Plan To Improve Teacher Quality
Kansas has become the seventh state within two months to take steps toward implementing "accountability" standards for teachers.
Thomas Toch, May 19, 1982
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Education Legislative Report
as of 7 p.m. on May 12

Senate House

May 19, 1982
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Education Media Column
Two major groups concerned with radio and television programs for children--the 1.7 million-member National Education Association (NEA), and the Boston-based advocacy group, Action for Children's Television (ACT)--recently presented 1981-82 awards for outstanding work in the realm of educational programming for children.

The nea awards, the first such awards given by the organization since 1967, went to 11 television productions and one radio series for "the advancement of learning through broadcasting."

May 19, 1982
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Education Michigan Increases State Income Tax
The Michigan legislature last week approved a temporary 22-percent increase in the state's income tax, ending the immediate threat of deep cuts in state aid to public schools and colleges.
Glen Macnow, May 19, 1982
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Education Planned Cancellation Of N.I.E. Contracts Called Permissible
In the opinion of the Education Department's office of the general counsel, the plan of the director of the National Institute of Education (nie) to end existing contracts with the nation's 17 federally supported educational laboratories and research centers one year early is legal.
Alex Heard, May 19, 1982
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Education Colleges Column
Contradictions and surprises abound in the topsy-turvy world of college varsity sports.

Late last month, an unusual group of important academic and athletic officials put its collective weight behind the notion of seriously tightening academic standards for college athletes who receive financial aid (one of the sharpest criticisms of such athletes being that they are simply "weekend warriors" who do not belong in college).

May 19, 1982
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Education Philadelphia Budget Would Cut 1,550 Jobs
The Philadelphia school board has approved a $707.5-million budget for the 1982-83 school year that calls for the elimination of 1,550 jobs and a deficit of slightly more than $29 million.

Administrative, technical, and clerical personnel will bear the brunt of the firings, according to a spokesman for the school board. But 550 special-education teachers, psychologists, and teachers' aides are also scheduled to lose their jobs.

May 19, 1982
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Education Illinois Board May Ease State Mandate
The state of Illinois should continue to require districts to offer special classes for non-English-speaking students in public schools, but the districts should have more flexibility in the instructional approaches they use, a study by the staff of the State Board of Education recommends.
Don Sevener, May 19, 1982
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Education Parents Allege Bias, Abuse in Lawsuit
A parents' group has filed a $3.2-million suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and others for alleged racial discrimination and physical and emotional abuse of Mexican-American students at a parochial school in Pico Rivera, Calif.
Alex Heard, May 19, 1982
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Education Defense-Training Bill Clears Panels; House Floor Vote Expected Soon
Members of the House Education and Labor Committee last week gave unanimous approval, after making some minor revisions, to a bill that would re the Defense Production Act of 1950 and would add a new provision to assist states in training workers for defense-related industries, which currently face manpower shortages.
Susan G. Foster, May 19, 1982
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Education 600 Students Awarded Prizes In Creative-Writing

In the stream-of-consciousness, I pan for a nugget of precious thought.--Richard Haney
May 19, 1982
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Education Top U.S. Officials Confront Math, Science Crisis
In an unusual appearance before a convocation of educators and scientists, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger said last week that U.S. national security will be seriously weakened if some action is not taken to remedy the well-documented problems in precollege science and mathematics education.
Susan Walton, May 19, 1982
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Education Employment and College Top List of Students' Concerns in Survey
High-school students in the 1980's are more concerned about future employment than were students of two decades ago, and they are frustrated by guidance-counseling programs that do not help them address their job concerns, according to the findings of a recent study of adolescent problems.
Susan G. Foster, May 19, 1982
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Education New Bills

SENATE

S 2498--Tax-exempt educational institutions. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-exempt educational institutions to take out loans for new property or improvements and not file them as "acquisition indebtedness" for taxation on unrelated business income. By Senator Matsunaga (D-Hawaii) and one other.

May 19, 1982
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Education New Statistics Indicate Supply, Not Demand, May Cause Teacher Shortages in This Decade
Previous predictions of teacher shortages later in this decade based mainly on demographic projections of increased elementary-school enrollment have been called into question by recent federal demographic surveys.
Thomas Toch, May 19, 1982
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Education Health Experts Claim Better Warnings
More detailed warnings of the potential health hazards of smoking, as well as better education efforts, could help discourage children and adolescents from ever taking up the habit, according to medical and public-health experts testifying at recent Congressional hearings here.
Susan Walton, May 19, 1982
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Education Teachers Column
The Los Angeles city school system is planning to form a cadre of 200 "master teachers," both to reward outstanding teachers and to serve as models for others in the profession.

The teachers, who will be chosen by school administrators, will be available to help other teachers, particularly new ones, while continuing their own full-time classroom work.

May 19, 1982
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Education A.C.L.U. To Challenge Law Requiring Meditation in Schools
A bill that requires Tennessee's public schools to set aside one minute at the beginning of the school day for "meditation, or prayer, or personal beliefs" has been signed into law by Gov. Lamar Alexander, but the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu) of Tennessee intends to file suit shortly on the grounds that the law is in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Susan Walton, May 19, 1982
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Education Lobbyists Regroup for Next Round
The recent House vote to increase federal funding for education by $668 million quickly turned into a bittersweet victory for education lobbyists when House members, struggling to finish their work before the Memorial Day weekend, were unable to agree on a budget for the federal government next year.
Eileen White, May 19, 1982
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Education E.D. Recruiting 1,000 New Readers
One thousand new educational "experts" have been recruited by the Reagan Administration to review proposals for Education Department (ED) grants and contracts--the result of a program begun earlier this year that is supposed to remove conflict-of-interest and other alleged abuses from the department's grants-making process.
Eileen White, May 19, 1982
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Education Reform Panel's 'Official Parent' Sees Hope for Positive Change
Among the members of the National Commission on Excellence in Education--the federally supported panel charged with recommending reforms in American schools and colleges--are representatives of nearly all levels of the education profession.
Eileen White, May 19, 1982
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Education In Federal Agencies
Arts education. The National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities announced, in the June 1 Federal Register, a meeting of the Artists in Education Advisory Panel on June 24, 8:30 A.M.-6 P.M., in room 1426 and on June 25, 8:30 A.M.-5 P.M., in room 2202 of the Columbia Plaza Office Complex, 2401 E St., N.W., Washington. A portion of the June 25th meeting will be open to the public for a discussion of policy issues. Contact: John H. Clark, Advisory Committee Management Officer, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington 20506; (202) 634-6070.
May 19, 1982
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Education State News Roundup
Nearly one-third of the 450,000 Arizona students who took a state-required standardized achievement test were given incorrect scores by the computer firm hired to grade the tests.

Westinghouse Information Service, a scoring contractor based in Iowa City, Iowa, blamed "computer error" for mistakes in the scores of the Arizona students in grades 1 through 12 who took the California Achievement Test in April.

May 19, 1982
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Education 4-Day School Week Termed Ill-Suited to Large States
The four-day school week isn't all it's cracked up to be, according to an analysis by the Michigan department of education.
May 19, 1982
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:

Your recent article "Mastery Learning: Useful Tool, Not a Panacea" (May 12) adequately reports what was said during the mastery learning workshop at the recent International Reading Association convention here in Chicago. Unfortunately, what was not said about the Chicago Mastery Learning Reading (cmlr) program is equally important, especially since many of your readers might be tempted to purchase the program on the basis of claims for success that have not been validated.

May 19, 1982
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Education Opinion High Stakes in Matters Of Censorship, Morality, And Educational Values
Censorship is the hottest issue to hit the schools this year. Spirited debates about the sanitizing of school plays, the selection of library books, and the adoption of class reading lists are rebounding from the Virginia Tidelands to the Seattle suburbs.
Scott D. Thomson, May 19, 1982
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Education Opinion Stalking the Public-Private School Dualism
Much of the debate about public and private schools suggests two monolithic armies poised to engage in bitter and decisive conflict on the field of battle. The two central images are of inevitable competition between the sectors, on the one hand, and of fundamental differences between them, on the other.
Arthur G. Powell, May 19, 1982
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