May 26, 1982

All Our Children Learning: A Primer for Parents, Teachers and Other Educators, by Benjamin S. Bloom (McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10020; 288 pages, paper $6.95).

But if students are to become responsible citizens of the "global village," global education must assume an increasingly important role in the schools, according to the speakers at the conference, which was sponsored by Global Perspectives in Education, Inc., a nonprofit organization.

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• ], denote legal citations omitted. The footnotes marked by number may be found at the end of the text. The text begins with the opinion of the six-Justice majority and concludes with the dissenting view of Justices Powell and Rehnquist, and Chief Justice Burger. Because the complaint in the case was first filed in 1978 with the former Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), and because "many of the relevant actions in this case were taken by HEW prior to its reorganization," references in the text, the Justices note, are always to "HEW" rather than to the subsequently established Education Department.

The Supreme Court's Decision in North Haven v. Bell

The Cuba Central School District in western New York barred the four boys from school last Oct. 26, after rejecting their father's claim that the immunization of his sons "contravened his right to privacy and to the exercise of his religion."

At the school, students who excel on a state physical-education examination wear red gym shorts, students who perform above average wear green, black, or gold shorts (in descending order), and the poorest performers wear blue shorts.

The justices broadly defined a thorough and efficient school system as one that "develops, as best the state of education expertise allows, the minds, bodies, and social morality of its charges to prepare them for useful and happy occupations, recreation, and citizenship, and does so economically."

It tortures the language chosen by Congress toconclude that not only teachers andadministrators, but also secretaries and janitors... are ... subject to discrimination under an education program or activity.

The President's initial response came during a question-and-answer session with students at Providence-St. Mel High School in Chicago during a visit to that city on May 10:

"I believe that it would be beneficial for our children to have an opportunity to begin each school day" by praying, Mr. Reagan said as he sent the proposal to Capitol Hill.

Bending to pressure from several parents' and educators' groups, Mayor Kevin H. White instructed his commissioner of consumer affairs and licensing, Joanne Prevost, to place an immediate moratorium on the licensing of such games while the city ponders a "comprehensive plan" to address the "unregulated proliferation of video games and pinball machines" in Boston. According to the commissioner's office, there are an estimated 4,000 licensed game machines in the city and several hundred illegal operations.

Mr. Davis, a professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, says he views proposed tuition tax credits for the families of private-school students as "a threat to freedom."

Edith H. Uunila Washington, D.C.