November 3, 1982

Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon has signed an agreement with the International Business Machines Corporation to cooperate over a 10-year period on the development of a campuswide computer network that by 1991 could number about 7,500 interconnected personal computers--enough to supply one to every student and faculty member at the institution. Under the agreement, ibm personnel will help develop and staff an "information-technology" center, and the company and university will establish a consortium of other institutions that can make use of aspects of the computer network.

In an analysis of race and education policy since the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Mr. Kirp traces the educational history of five California communities (San Francisco, Richmond, Berkeley, Sausalito, and Oakland). Calling the effort to achieve racial equality in the schools a "vexed, ... quixotic undertaking," he looks at the "history of enmity and indecision" as it relates to busing, community control, the meaning of equal opportunity, law and politics, decision making on the local level, and other issues.

"The fact that most of the kids who join are from normal, happy families bespeaks the power of the cult," Mr. Schecter says.

Confrontations and violence have marked the unincorporated town--which is a few miles north of the Mexican border in Cochise County--since soon after 300 members of the Miracles Today Church migrated to the area from Chicago in 1979. (See Education Week, Oct. 26, 1981).

The "teacher stress scale," developed specifically to measure the factors that contribute to teacher burnout and fatigue, was developed by Elaine G. Wangberg, associate professor of education at the University of New Orleans, and Justin Levitov, assistant professor of education at Loyola University.

Keith D. Crosbie, the department of education's coordinator of bilingual education and foreign languages, said the plan "is an attempt to crystallize some of the discussions that have been going on about global and international education."

Altogether, the Census Bureau reported in State Government Finances in 1981, the states took in $310 billion in revenues in fiscal 1981 and spent more than $291 billion--an increase of 11.1 percent over 1980.

Members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference emerged from the building on Oct. 23 after an afternoon meeting in which the board members agreed to review on request the records of children who were not promoted.

KALW-fm is owned and operated by the San Francisco school district. In the past, the district has provided 60 percent of the station's funding.

The delay in the ruling on the case, in which a student-advocacy group opposes a new federal rule prohibiting federal payments for processing of student-loan applications by private firms, has resulted in "the entire student-aid application process for the whole government being held up," said James W. Moore, director of the office of student financial assistance.

Of the 600 students who responded to the survey, the results of which were published in the Fall 1982 issue, 85 percent owned bicycles, 84 percent owned a radio or cassette recorder, 80 percent owned cameras, 72 percent had designer clothes, 71 percent owned stereo systems, and 52 percent had televisions.