June 16, 1982

Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 38
Education Foundation Promotes Medical Careers For Minority, Low-Income Students
With a sizable boost from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, about 1,000 high-school students--most from minority groups, all from low-income families--will be able to move a step closer to careers in biomedicine, a field in which such groups have, historically, been underrepresented.
Susan Walton, June 16, 1982
•
8 min read
Education Pennsylvania Official Resigns in Wake of Plagiarism Charges
Pennsylvania Commissioner of Basic Education Ronald Lewis, who declined a cabinet post in New Jersey after being accused of plagiarism, resigned under fire last week.
Lisa Stein , June 16, 1982
•
2 min read
Education Curran Forced Out as Director of N.I.E.
The director of the National Institute of Education, the research agency of the Education Department, was removed from his post by Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell last week.
Eileen White, June 16, 1982
•
1 min read
Education Promotion Guidelines Result in Retentions For 1 in 4 Students
Benton Harbor, Mich--Twenty-two percent of the youngest students in this western Michigan school district were flunked this month under new minimum standards set by the local school board.
Glen Macnow, June 16, 1982
•
1 min read
Education Long Hot Summer May Be Alleviated By Miami Schools
Dade County, Fla., like most urban areas, faces the prospect of thousands of unemployed and disappointed young people idling away a long, hot summer. But Dade County, unlike most major cities, has decided that summer school can be an effective way of keeping the summer cool and making it productive.
Constance G. Kurz, June 16, 1982
•
8 min read
English Learners 7 Texas Districts Fight U.S. Audit Of Bilingual Plans
Seven school districts in Texas have banded together to fight an Education Department (ED) audit criticizing their bilingual-education programs and seeking to have them return part of the federal bilingual funds they have received over the last several years.
Dale Rice, June 16, 1982
•
9 min read
Education Cities News Roundup
A measure that outlawed smoking by people under the age of 18 was greeted with extreme skepticism when it was passed last year by the Tennessee legislature, but today, school officials in Memphis report that it has been an unexpected success.

The students' smoking areas of yesteryear are gone, and although they may be lighting up as soon as they leave school property, they are not doing so in school. "Apparently, it is working wonderfully," said a spokesman for the Memphis City Schools.

June 16, 1982
•
1 min read
Education News Update
The federal judge who is hearing arguments in Louisiana's creationism case has expressed doubts about whether the case belongs in federal court.

U.S. District Judge Frank Polozola said, "If I were going to rule on the motion right now, which I am not, I would dismiss the case for lack of jurisdiction."

June 16, 1982
•
1 min read
Education People News
Phillip E. Runkel, Michigan's state superintendent of public instruction, has been reappointed under a new three-year agreement. Mr. Runkel's first three-year contract with the state board of education was to expire in April 1983; the new contract extends his term until Oct. 1, 1985.

Under the new agreement, Mr. Runkel may leave with six months' notice.

June 16, 1982
•
1 min read
Education Spillane Publicly Airs Criticism Of Boston Judge's Busing Order
In private, Boston's public school superintendent, Robert R. Spillane, has made no secret of the fact that he would like U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. to curtail his involvement in the administration of the city's schools.
Susan G. Foster, June 16, 1982
•
4 min read
Education House-Passed Budget Gives $14 Billion to E.D.
In an extremely close vote last Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a Republican-sponsored budget resolution to set broad spending targets for next year's federal programs, including programs funded by the Education Department.
Eileen White, June 16, 1982
•
1 min read
Education Suit Challenges Appropriateness of Separate School for Retarded
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is considering a case that, lawyers say, could further define the respective authority of parents, school districts, and federal courts in deciding the proper educational placement of handicapped students.
Peggy Caldwell, June 16, 1982
•
5 min read
Education Research and Reports
School systems that could least afford it were hit hardest during the first year of Proposition 2, the Massachusetts tax-limitation measure, according to a researcher from Lehigh University.

With support from the National Science Foundation, Edward P. Morgan, a former director of the Massachusetts commission on unequal educational opportunity, examined the fiscal 1982 education budgets of all Massachusetts cities, towns, and school districts.

June 16, 1982
•
2 min read
Education Colleges Column
Jane Templeton taught high school in the Midwest for eight years, but now she works part time in a law firm specializing in "school law" while she completes an interdisciplinary degree program in law and education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ms. Templeton, according to the university, became the first student to sign up for the new program established last fall when she switched out of the second-year law class in which she had been enrolled.

Illinois is one of only a handful of universities to launch programs that recognize that "the schools have become legitimate game for the courts," in the words of the program's director, Paul Thurston. He argues that the increasing legal entanglements of education require that school administrators have "legal expertise." He cites the growing number of college presidents and administrators with law degrees and of legal advisers assisting public-school systems.

June 16, 1982
•
6 min read
Education House Hearing on Diffusion Network Dominated by Ideological
Members of the House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education invited a host of witnesses to Capitol Hill last week to discuss with them the pros and cons of revamping the method by which the National Diffusion Network (ndn) is funded by the federal government.
Tom Mirga, June 16, 1982
•
7 min read
Education E.D. Hit for Failure To Curb Paperwork Burden
The Education Department (ED) has not fulfilled its legal obligations to reduce paperwork burdens on states and school systems, a General Accounting Office (GAO) study has concluded.
Eileen White, June 16, 1982
•
4 min read
Education Minority Enrollment Up in Private Schools
Minority-group enrollment in Southern independent schools has increased dramatically since 1979-80, but minorities still make up only a small fraction of the schools' student populations, according to statistics from a study sponsored by the Lyndhurst Foundation.

The Mid-South Association of Independent Schools, which represents 100 schools in seven Southern states, reports that minority representation in its member schools grew from 1,728 students in 1979-80 to 2,340 students this year, an increase of 35 percent. During the same period, total enrollment in the member schools increased by 3.4 percent, according to the study. Members of minority groups now make up 4.4 percent of the total enrollment of the regional association's member schools.

June 16, 1982
•
1 min read
Education Runoff Forced for Superintendency in California
A dark-horse candidate who spent $1.2 million on his campaign to become California's Superintendent of Public Instruction and who called for more homework, more discipline, and more mathematics, won enough votes in last week's primary election to force a run-off next November.
George Neill, June 16, 1982
•
4 min read
Education 'This Wide and Universal Theatre...Wherein We Play.'
William Shakespeare, who had three children himself, probably would have approved.
Susan Walton, June 16, 1982
•
3 min read
Education Football Group Calls For Stricter Eligibility Requirements
In an effort to raise the academic quality of college athletes, the College Football Association (cfa) has designed proposals to tighten eligibility requirements for awarding college athletic scholarships to high-school students.
Alex Heard, June 16, 1982
•
3 min read
Education Tests Don't Help Teachers Teach, Officials Argue
Standardized tests, which have become a primary preoccupation of states and school systems eager to prove the effectiveness of their educational activities to a skeptical public, are the focus of growing criticism even by the people who design and administer them.
Thomas Toch, June 16, 1982
•
5 min read
Education State News Roundup
For the fourth straight year, errors in computing state education aid for Connecticut cities and towns have resulted in overpayments to large cities, while municipalities with fewer welfare recipients were shortchanged.

During the current fiscal year, the errors amounted to about $1.25 million, out of a total state-aid budget of $306 million. About 1 percent of this year's distributed funds had to be adjusted after the mistake was discovered in a March audit. Last year, the mistakes totaled about $29.2 million, Mark R. Shedd, state commissioner of education, has admitted.

June 16, 1982
•
7 min read
Education E.D. Offers Reasons for Lag In Civil-Rights Enforcement
Obstacles both within and beyond the control of the office for civil rights delay resolution of discrimination complaints against schools and postsecondary educational institutions, according to the Education Department (ed).
Margaret L. Weeks, June 16, 1982
•
4 min read
Education Alabama Teachers Fight Proposed Revision of Pension Plan
Gov. Forrest H. (Fob) James is trying for a third time to revise the state teachers' and employees' retirement systems--and, for a third time, teachers and employees are opposing the changes.
Cynthia Smith, June 16, 1982
•
3 min read
Education National News Roundup
Among the losers in last week's primary elections was Representative Ronald M. Mottl, Democrat of Ohio, a persistent opponent of busing for school desegregation.

For several years, Mr. Mottl, of suburban Cleveland, has pressed for a constitutional amendment that would outlaw desegregation busing. The so-called "Mottl amendment" was narrowly defeated in a House vote two years ago; a revived version is in committee, and Mr. Mottl has been attempting to force it to a floor vote via a discharge petition.

June 16, 1982
•
1 min read
Education 'Values and Visions' of Catholic Schools Now in the Hands of Lay
Last September, 95 lay faculty members at Christ the King Regional High School in Queens, N.Y., walked off the job, claiming that the $14,000 average salary they received was too low
Alex Heard, June 16, 1982
•
13 min read
Education Health Column
Most 1st graders are still six years old but, in a trend that will continue for at least five years, they are much more likely to have "older" mothers who are in their late 20's or early to mid-30's.

In 1979--the latest year for which statistics are available--more than 115,000 women in their 30's gave birth their first child. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, this is 73 percent more than in 1975, and more than twice as many as in 1970.

June 16, 1982
•
2 min read
Education Florida Begins Planning To Forestall Shortage of Teachers
Copyright 1982 Shortages of mathematics, science, and vocational-education teachers already exist in Florida, as they do nationwide, the commission said, but "less recognized are approaching shortages of teachers of foreign languages, elementary education, and exceptional children."
June 16, 1982
•
2 min read
Education Opinion The Painting Lesson Taught More Than Met the Eye
As far as I can see, the painters have come and gone, probably forever. For years there's been talk of giving our school a major overhauling and, Lord knows, we need it. Our walls and ceilings are a mess, the window frames are literally rotting away, and scores of our "permanent" bolted-down classroom seats are broken or completely gone.
Edmund Janko, June 16, 1982
•
3 min read
Load More ▼