March 23, 1983
Organizations involved in the effort include the American Association of Retired Persons, the National Council of Senior Citizens, the Children's Defense Fund, and the Child Welfare League of America.
Television is gaining in the battle with teachers to influence the mental development of children, asserts Ms. Doerken. In an examination of the history of television, she addresses such subjects as educational programming; violence on TV; the workings of the television industry; TV's effect on children's imagination, perception, and psychological growth; and the future of the industry. Ms. Doerken has taught various subjects and grade levels and is currently working on her doctorate in educational psychology and instructional technology at the University of Southern California.
Funded by a three-year $205,000 grant from the Northwest Area Foundation, the Center for Studies in Youth Policy "will aim to serve as a major national resource for policymakers and decisionmakers interested in youth," according to a university spokesman. The center's director will be Ira Schwartz, who headed the U.S. Justice Department's office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention in the Carter Administration.
ncate is a 30-year-old, nonprofit body that accredits the teacher-training programs in about 540 colleges and universities that graduate nearly 80 percent of the nation's new teachers each year. It is governed by the National Education Association, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, and a group of representatives from a variety of other education associations. Education schools submit their programs for ncate review voluntarily.
In offering all of the district's 19 buildings for sale, the board is trying to determine which of its properties are the most valuable, said Leroy Herron, assistant superintendent for instruction and curriculum.
The money would have been used to cover the start-up cost of early-education programs for children aged 3 to 8 in about five school districts. (See Education Week, Feb. 23, 1983).
Fiscal troubles were cited as their most pressing concern by 23.4 percent of the respondents, while 20 percent said the consequences of declining enrollments were their most troubling issue. Parents' lack of interest in school affairs was a concern of 12.6 percent of those surveyed.
Mr. Wright said that such an arrangement "is about the only way we are going to put qualified teachers in many [mathematics and science] classrooms." He said he envisions the community-college mathematics and science faculty members teaching one or two periods a day beginning next fall, if the Texas Education Agency grants the school system's request to waive its certification requirements for part-time instructors in the Dallas area.
Speaking at a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Mr. Bell said raising interest rates for the program from 5 to 9 percent would bring the rates in line with those charged for Guaranteed Student Loans.
The cut, imposed by executive order in January, will cost the Cincinnati district about $5 million, or 20 percent of its scheduled state aid, from February through June, according to G. David Schiering, the city's school-board president.
Robert W. Sweet Jr., the former New Hampshire parents-rights activist who served briefly as acting director of the National Institute of Education last year, appears to be enjoying the last laugh in a political struggle over control of the institute.
B. Frank Brown, chairman of the Florida Governor's Commission on Secondary Schools, speaking in Orlando, Fla., to a statewide coalition on the quality of education.
In 1963, there were only 500 elementary-school guidance counselors. The interest in counseling at the grade-school level developed, authorities say, out of research findings in the child-psychology and child-development fields suggesting that behavioral problems may be more easily identified and treated in young children than in adolescents.