March 16, 1983
Education Week, Vol. 02, Issue 25
Education
Oregon Joins Other States in Considering Higher Standards
This spring, Oregon's state board of higher education, dismayed that up to 50 percent of the freshmen at its four-year colleges and universities are reported to be unready for college-level work, will act on a proposal to adopt minimum high-school graduation requirements for admission to those institutions.
Education
In The Press
"When [the] implicit moral power of the teacher is joined to the explicit political force of a major national organization," writes Chester E. Finn Jr. in the March issue of Commentary, "it is important to understand the ideological foundations [of the organization]."
In a lengthy essay entitled "Teacher Politics," Mr. Finn, professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University, examines the education philosophy, political ideology, and foreign policy of the two major teachers' unions, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association.
Education
Opinion
Should Schooling Begin and End Earlier?
Laval Wilson, superintendent of schools in Rochester, N.Y., has on the wall of his office a large photograph of three boys and three girls, all of whom were born in October, 1969.
Education
Opinion
Should Schooling Begin and End Earlier?
In current discussions of the rising costs and uncertain functioning of public education, almost every feature of American schooling has been questioned except its length.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
Although Floretta Dukes McKenzie's Commentary, "Attitude Is the Reason For Japanese Schools' Success" (Education Week, Feb. 16, 1983) is her perception of the Japanese educational system, her statements about discipline and mathematics are questionable.