June 23, 1982

Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 39
Education Books Column
Of General Interest

Managers of Virtue: Public School Leadership in America, 1820-1980, by David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot (Basic Books, 10 East 53rd St., New York, N.Y. 10022; 312 pages, $17.95).

June 23, 1982
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Education Federal News Roundup
The Justice Department announced last week that federal prosecutors across the nation have been ordered to take legal action against more than 200 young men who have failed to register for the draft.

According to the department, prosecutions against the men, all of whom were born between 1960 and 1964, could begin this month. Conviction on charges of failure to register for the draft carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a $10,000 fine, or both.

June 23, 1982
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Education Benefits Outweigh Costs for Urban Catholic-School Students
In 1800, St. Peter School in lower Manhattan opened its doors and became the nation's first Roman Catholic inner-city school. In the decades that followed, scores of schools like St. Peter were founded as the Catholic Church sought to serve Catholic immigrants who flocked to America's cities from Europe.
Alex Heard, June 23, 1982
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Education Parents' Lobby Poised to Fight The Education 'Establishment'
The federal "education lobby"--a collection of representatives of the more than 100 professional education associations, unions, and parent organizations that annually seek funds from the Congress--may face new opposition on Capitol Hill next year, if the members of a newly formed lobbying group succeed in their efforts to promote "a new voice in education policy making."
Eileen White, June 23, 1982
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Education Terrel Bell Says E.D. Must Promote
Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell told educators meeting at the National Diffusion Network's (ndn) annual conference here last week that the federal government cannot afford to promote programs that delve into the "affective domain" of students at a time when improving academic achievement has never been "more critical to our future."
Tom Mirga, June 23, 1982
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Education New Bills

SENATE

S Res 410--Title I grants. A resolution encouraging the Secretary of Education to use the 1980 census data in determining the amount of grants under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. By Senator Tsongas (D-Mass).

June 23, 1982
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Education Calif.'s Categorical Programs Often Lose Focus, Study Says
Because of the particular process by which they are funded, California's state and federal "categorical" education programs--the largest in the nation--completely lose their structural distinctiveness at the local level, according to a study by the state's department of finance.
George Neill, June 23, 1982
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Education The Dissent by Chief Justice Burger

Chief Justice Burger, with whom Justice White, Justice Rehnquist, and Justice O'Connor join, dissenting.
June 23, 1982
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Education $14-Million School Is Complete, But Will Not Open
Ortonville, Mich.--There's a brand new, $14-million high school in Brandon Township, a quiet bedroom community in Michigan's Oakland County.
Roger Martin, June 23, 1982
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Education The Classroom Becomes a Political Arena
The issue is the redevelopment of James Park, a port city, and the arguments have just begun.
Susan G. Foster, June 23, 1982
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Education The Supreme Court's Decision in Plyler v. Doe
Following are excerpts from the Supreme Court's opinion in Plyler v. Doe, the Texas case on the education of illegal-alien children. The majority opinion, excerpts of which begin on this page, was written by Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Section I of the opinion, which gives the background of the case, was omitted. The full text of the dissent, written by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, follows.

In the text, 21.031 refers to the Texas statute allowing school districts to charge tuition to illegal-alien children. One asterisk [

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  • ] denote a deleted citation. Where footnotes were retained, they appear in brackets and in italic type.
June 23, 1982
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Education John Saxon's One-Man Battle Against Algebraic Ignorance
John H. Saxon Jr. was teaching an algebra I class at Oscar Rose Junior College in Oklahoma City when he first realized that when it comes to algebra, once is not enough.
Susan Walton, June 23, 1982
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Education Summertime Blues: Classes Canceled, Restricted
During the mid-1970's, the Chicago public-school system opened its doors each summer to all students who wished to attend. In the summer of 1975 alone, 200,000 students took the district up on its invitation to participate in a vast array of remedial, academic, and enrichment courses.
Constance G. Kurz, June 23, 1982
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Education Voters in Michigan Approve Spending At Current Levels
Michigan voters gave their schools a vote of confidence last week, but were hesitant to dip further into their pockets when asked to raise property taxes.
Glen Macnow, June 23, 1982
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Education Video Merger of Home and School Is Envisioned
The back-to-basics movement may be the first stage of resistance to the transformation of education by new electronic technologies, according to a report conducted by a team of "future" researchers and released here last week.
Susan Walton, June 23, 1982
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Education W. Virginia Board Won't Appeal Order
The West Virginia Board of Education has announced that it will not appeal the ruling of a West Virginia trial judge that the state's system of financing schools is unconstitutional.
Mark Ward, June 23, 1982
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English Learners New Calif. Rules Set Academic Goals in Bilingual Programs
California's bilingual-education community won a major victory this month in its long effort to "raise standards" and to make it more difficult "to push students out of bilingual programs too quickly."
George Neill, June 23, 1982
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Education Illinois Case Tests Authority of State
In a case with potentially far-reaching ramifications, state authority to order racial desegregation is being tested before the Illinois Supreme Court.
Don Sevener, June 23, 1982
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Education Washington Governor Orders 8.2% Cut in Budget
Washington state's schools, already hit by a $151-million cut in state funding prepared for the worst last week as Gov. John Spellman reluctantly ordered all state agencies, including public schools, to slice an additional 8.2 percent from their budgets.
Susan Goldberg, June 23, 1982
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Education State News Roundup
Marking the first major change in 50 years in the state's attendance-reporting system, the Alabama education department has announced that teachers will begin using the new "streamlined" reporting system next fall.

State officials estimate that the old register system, which was 120 pages long, took each teacher about one hour per month to complete. "The annual equivalent of 317 teachers was being expended in filling out the old attendance registers," state officials reported.

June 23, 1982
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Education City News Roundup
School officials in Dade County (Miami), Fla., reacted first with anger, but then with promises of reform, to a report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that sharply criticized the quality of the education offered to minority students in the district.

The commission's report, officially issued early this month but "leaked" to the press last month (see Education Week, May 12, 1982), said that education in Dade County "no longer is perceived as the ultimate equalizer," primarily because the incomplete desegregation of county schools leaves thousands of black students in dilapidated, ill-equipped inner-city schools.

June 23, 1982
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Education Research and Reports
In a move that has sparked con-siderable reaction from the pharmaceutical manufacturers, the Surgeon General has issued an advisory against the use of aspirin and other medications containing salicylate to treat chicken pox, influenza, and influenza-like illnesses in children.

The warning came because the use of such drugs has been associated with Reye's syndrome, a rare, acute, life-threatening condition that occurs most commonly in children who are recovering from viral infections. The syndrome is characterized by vomiting and lethargy that may progress to delirium and coma. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control (cdc) estimate that between 600 and 1,200 cases occur in the U.S. each year; between 20 and 30 percent of these are fatal. Permanant brain damage has been reported in survivors.

June 23, 1982
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Education Opinion Politicizing Peer Review?
The Reagan Administration has been much criticized for its selection of new names and faces to review funding proposals submitted to the National Institute of Education (NIE), other units of the Education Department, and such agencies as the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). It is said that the Administration is "politicizing" the peer-review process, that it is choosing evaluators who are not "expert" in the fields covered by the proposals, and that in some cases it is recruiting reviewers who are activists rather than scholars.
Chester E. Finn Jr., June 23, 1982
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:

Stephen Arons's assessment of the Pico v. Island Trees dilemma (Commentary, June 2) namely, which world view(s) should be legitimized in the public school, was generally incisive. In the last paragraph, however, he failed to explain why "right-wing moralists," a pejorative label often applied to a significant minority of Americans who still embrace a Judeo-Christian Weltanschauung, are exercising their right to influence public institutions. They are merely grappling, albeit somewhat awkwardly, with the values and presuppositions of secularism that they believe, correctly, I think, dominate many segments of our public-school enterprise.

June 23, 1982
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Law & Courts Illegal Aliens Entitled to Education, Court Rules
A Texas law that permitted school districts to charge tuition for educating children who are illegal aliens was declared unconstitutional last week by the Supreme Court.
Eileen White, June 23, 1982
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