January 12, 1983

Education Week, Vol. 02, Issue 16
Education N.J. Plans More Rigorous Competency Testing; New Graduation Standards To Be Determined
The New Jersey Board of Education gave the go-ahead last week to an extensive re-scaling of the statewide testing program for public-school students.
Paul Feldman , January 12, 1983
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Education Settlement Ends 20-Year-Old Desegregation Suit in San Fransisco
A 20-year-old legal battle over school desegregation in San Francisco was settled late last month when parties to the lawsuit agreed on a desegregation plan that will not require additional mandatory student busing.
Tom Mirga, January 12, 1983
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Education Software Producers Seeking Ways To Curb Illegal Copying by School Systems, Others
Copyright infractions are becoming a major problem for manufacturers of computer programs.
Charlie Euchner, January 12, 1983
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Education Detroit Ends Decentralized School Governance
Seeking to trim $6 million from its ailing budget, the Detroit School District last week ended its twelve-year experiment with decentralization.
Glen Macnow, January 12, 1983
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Education Minnesota Governor Sworn In At High School He Attended
Traditionally, Minnesota's governors have their swearing-in ceremony in the capitol in St. Paul, the capital city. But the newly elected 36th governor, Rudy Perpich, broke that tradition and was sworn into office in the auditorium of the rural high school where he had been a student 40 years ago.
Nancy Paulu, January 12, 1983
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School Climate & Safety Violence Marks Pa.'s Longest Teachers' Strike
The nation's only remaining teachers' strike--the longest in Pennsylvania history--entered its 69th day last Thursday with the president of the union in jail for refusing a court's back-to-work order and the school-board president in the hospital after having been struck with a bottle.

Both sides returned to the negotiating table in Pittsburgh to consider, among other proposals, an initiative drafted by residents affected by the closing of the California Area School District.

January 12, 1983
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Education For States: New Year, Same Old Issues
As the new year began, a number of governors and state legislators across the nation were focusing on education matters, principally on the difficult question of how to maintain state support for schools at a time of steeply declining state revenues.

Among recent developments are these:

January 12, 1983
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Education City News Roundup
Fewer white students are leaving Chicago's public schools, reversing a five-year trend in the district, according to the results of the board of education's annual survey.

The number of white students in the district declined by nearly 5,000--or 6.5 percent of all white students--last year, compared to an average yearly decline of about 10,900--or 10.3 percent of whites--during the last five years, according to a spokesman for the school department.

January 12, 1983
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Education Research And Reports
The National Center for Educational Statistics has released a report that documents the much-discussed decline in academic aptitude among students planning to enter the teaching profession.

The report also suggests that a much smaller percentage of the students who aspire to college plan to major in education.

January 12, 1983
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Education People News
Anne Campbell, commissioner of education in Nebraska for the past eight years, resigned on Jan. 1.

The best decision she made during her tenure in office, she said, was to turn down an offer to become U.S. Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration, a position subsequently filled by Terrel H. Bell.

January 12, 1983
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Curriculum Six-Year-Old Chides State Ed. Official for Not Reading
A Utah 1st-grader has offered tips to make books fun to a state education official who is admittedly apathetic about reading.

Six-year-old Daniel Stephenson made his suggestions to Daryl McCarty, a recently appointed associate state superintendent of schools for internal affairs, in a letter to the editor of The Salt Lake Tribune.

January 12, 1983
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Education The Challenge of Leading When Governance is 'Diffused'
Montgomery County, Md., has a national reputation for good public schools, a high degree of involvement on the part of its well-educated and outspoken citizenry, and racial tolerance. It was one of the first school districts in the country, and remains the largest, to have adopted an integration plan without pressure from the federal government or the courts. One of the nation's 20 largest school districts, it enrolls nearly 100,000 students and has an annual budget of over $350 million.

In the past few years, this once-homogeneous, wealthy Washington suburb, like other big cities' suburbs, has changed. Enrollment has declined, necessitating school closings, and in the past five years the proportion of minority-group students in the system has risen from 12 percent to 25 percent of total enrollment.

January 12, 1983
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Education State Finance Prospects Mixed As School Enrollments Increase
More than one-third of the states face unfavorable prospects for adequately maintaining support for elementary and secondary education in the 1980's, says a new federal study of the school-finance capabilities of the states and the District of Columbia.
Eileen White, January 12, 1983
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Education Report Criticizes Creation of Programs for 'Marginal' Students
Conventional programs, often costing millions of dollars, that are designed to help "marginal" students complete their education are ineffective, according to a university researcher.
Sheppard Ranbom, January 12, 1983
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Education N.C.A.A. Votes On Standards For Athletes
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (ncaa) is voting this week on a number of proposals that would set more stringent academic requirements for college-bound high-school athletes and would ease restrictions on the recruiting practices of colleges.

Proposals to tighten high-school academic requirements for prospective college athletes appear to have widespread support.

January 12, 1983
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Education Judge Bows Out of Boston Desegregation Case; State Board To Supervise Future Compliance
Keeping a self-imposed deadline to end his personal supervision of Boston's desegregation case, U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. last month issued orders establishing a two-year "transitional" period during which the state board is to monitor the city's schools.
Susan G. Foster, January 12, 1983
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Ed-Tech Policy Teachers' Interest in Computers Is High, But Usage Is Low
Although most teachers are interested in learning more about computers and in using them in their classrooms, only a few (6.2 percent) now do so, according to an unpublished survey conducted by the National Education Association.
Charlie Euchner, January 12, 1983
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Education 98th Congress To Tackle Issues Unresolved by Its Predecessor
The 98th Congress, which convened here last week for its first session, is expected to take up quickly many of the education-related issues left unresolved by the 97th Congress.
Tom Mirga & Eileen White, January 12, 1983
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Education Women's Colleges Promoted
The Public Leadership Education Network (plen), a consortium of nine women's colleges and two national women's organizations, is distributing brochures, posters, and other visual materials to more than 23,000 high-school guidance counselors nationwide.

Awareness Encouraged

January 12, 1983
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Education Arkansas Commission Favors New Funding Formula
Little Rock--A 15-member Arkansas commission has submitted its recommendations for revamping the state's school-funding formula.
Marianne Fulk , January 12, 1983
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Education National News Roundup
A federal appeals court has ruled that federal regulations barring sex discrimination in education are invalid because they do not limit prohibitions against sex bias to the individual programs and activities where the bias is alleged to exist.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit made the ruling on Dec. 16 in Hillsdale College v. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a lawsuit involving a small private institution located in southeastern Michigan.

January 12, 1983
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Education Mississippi Votes 'Monumental' Reforms in Education Programs
In a 16-day special session that left many Mississippians both surprised and pleased, the Mississippi legislature approved a $106-million package of education reforms that state officials hope will improve both schools and the state's image with business and industry.
Andy Kanengiser, January 12, 1983
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Education Presidential Panel Favors Vouchers,Tax-Credit Plan
A report by half of the members of an advisory panel on school finance appointed by President Reagan has recommended sweeping changes in the federal role in education.
Eileen White, January 12, 1983
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Education Michigan Court Rejects State Control Over Private Schools
A Michigan judge has ruled that parts of a 1921 law giving the state control over private schools violate the First Amendment rights of religiously affiliated schools in the state.
Alex Heard, January 12, 1983
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Education News Update
The Reagan Administration has asked a federal appeals court in California to overturn a lower-court ruling that freed a former Yale University student from his obligation to register for the draft.

The Justice Department filed a brief last week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit asking that panel to reinstate a federal indictment against David A. Wayte of Pasedena, Calif.

January 12, 1983
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Education Final Arguments Set in Washington Finance Suit
Final arguments are expected next month in a court challenge to the level of financing that Washington state provides for local school districts.
Bill Mertena, January 12, 1983
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Education Opinion The Role of the Courts in Education: Just Arbiters and Unwarranted Intruders?
Courts have played a major role in social-policy issues in the past generation: in civil rights, prison reform, reform of mental institutions, increased access to the political process, and, importantly, education.
Donald N. Jensen, January 12, 1983
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters To The Editor
Your series on the National Institute of Education (Education Week, Dec. 8, Dec. 15, Dec. 22) has prompted me to express the following concerns:
If mistakes of the past are to be avoided, people appointed to positions at nie must be aware of past research and trends in education if they are to design requests for research proposals in the future. Their language in formulating such proposals must be precise. If people applying for funds can not understand the proposal request, they will not be able to respond with proposals of high quality.
January 12, 1983
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Education Opinion Notes on the Saturnalia of Hallway Life
She toyed with her boyfriend's hair, pecked at his lips, and snuggled deeper into his arms, but since she's really a good girl and no rampaging wanton, she lovingly pushed him away when the bell rang and went into the classroom to take her seat.
Edmund Janko, January 12, 1983
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