November 17, 1982
High-school seniors favor women's equality but want traditional marriages, according to this study of the students' attitudes toward sex, marriage, careers, family, and work. The findings are the result of a two-year research project, sponsored by the National Institute of Education, in which 16,000 seniors were questioned. Includes 72 tables explaining the researchers' findings. (See Education Week, Jan. 12, 1982).
Private colleges, traditionally reputed to be more selective than public ones, said they accepted over 60 percent of their applicants, on the average.
"During the whole school year black students in the school were subjected to racial slurs practically on a daily basis," said Kenneth D. Orcutt, Mr. Jones's attorney.
Remedies for civil-rights violations in education "must be practical and flexible" and must not be of a particular type just because the Education Department's office for civil rights "has always done it that way," according to the office's new chief.
The one-hour program, "Nuclear War: A Guide to Armageddon" includes a 30-minute film by the British Broadcasting Corporation, followed by a look at the civil-defense debate in the United States.
The school districts reported that computers are used predominantly for drill and practice at the elementary level and for courses in programming and computer literacy at the secondary level. The survey sample represented responses received last July from 76 percent of New York's 726 school districts, according to a spokesman for the network.
The agreement was prompted by a suit filed against the authority and Governor James by Charles Graddick, the state's attorney general. Mr. Graddick filed the suit on Oct. 8 after attending a pta meeting at his child's school and learning that the building had asbestos ceilings. The suit was intended to hasten removal of asbestos from the schools.
On Nov. 8, school officials began excluding children whose parents could not verify the date that the child had been immunized. As of last week, 3,100 students had been excluded, according to Robert F. Adams, coordinator of comprehensive health programs for the Dade County Public Schools.
District officials, who contended that the after-school activities were not necessary to complete academic requirements in the schools, said they will appeal the decision to the state supreme court.
Mr. Elmendorf, whose appointment must be confirmed by the Senate, has been serving as deputy assistant secretary for student financial assistance since August 1981. Previously, he was president of Johnson State College in Johnson, Vt., from 1974-80.
Although they try very hard to convince everyone that the incident is no more than an unpleasant memory, the schoolchildren still suffer anxiety and other psychological effects, according to a study conducted by a California child psychiatrist.
The company announced last month that its well-known but costly line of educational software--Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations, or plato for short--will soon be available on floppy disks for use with the Texas Instruments 99/4A, Apple II Plus, and Atari 800 microcomputers.
James Stevens, 18, was charged with 10 counts of abduction and 10 counts of the use of firearms in the commission of a felony, police said.
As an educator and one whose daughter attended Hardy School with Amy and with other children of Carter administrators, I resent such faulty conclusions and implications. The United States has probably never elected a president so dedicated to public education as Jimmy Carter. This southern gentleman, by example, encouraged white families to send their children to predominantly black schools in an effort to stop white flight and to make a personal statement regarding integration.