March 30, 1983

Education Week, Vol. 02, Issue 27
Education Opinion When You Support Busing You Invite Government by Coercion
I am writing in regard to your support of school desegregation and your opposition to forced busing. I commend you for knowing the difference.
Joyce Haws, March 30, 1983
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Education 'No-Need' Scholarships to Private Schools Praised, Denounced at N.A.I.S. Assembly
Traditionally, scholarship students at independent schools have been children from families who receive financial aid solely on the basis of need.
Susan Walton, March 30, 1983
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Education Tenn. Governor, Wooing Teacher Union, Broadens Merit-Pay Plan
Reacting to intense opposition from the state's teachers' union, Gov. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee has broadened and revised his controversial merit-pay plan to include a larger percentage of less-experienced teachers in the bonus program.
Hope Aldrich, March 30, 1983
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Education Federal Research In Vocational Ed.Said 'Inadequate'
Panelists conducting the first "outside" assessment of the government's six-year-old, $25-million center for research in vocational education have concluded that it "lacks research objectives" and has failed to make the "significant improvements" in the nation's vocational systems envisioned by the Congress when it established the entity.
Susan G. Foster, March 30, 1983
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Education News Update
The Mississippi legislature has passed a bill appropriating $280,000 for a study of school and school-district consolidation in the state.

The study, to be conducted by the state's educational-finance commission, was ordered by the legislature as part of the education-improvement package passed last December (See Education Week, Jan. 12, 1983). The consolidation plan is due in June of 1985.

March 30, 1983
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Education School Rules Stir Sticky Trouble for 8th-Grade Chef
The sweet success of free enterprise seems to have eluded Jill Benton, at least temporarily.

In January, soon after a friend taught her how to make lollipops, the Sagle, Idaho, 8th-grader began selling her homemade cherry hearts and cinnamon lips to fellow students at Sandpoint Junior High School.

March 30, 1983
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Education Districts News Roundup
Teachers in the Nanticoke (Pa.) Area School District--angered by the district's moves to force them to stay in the classroom--began their second official strike of the school year early this month. As of last week, the strike continued.

Many members of the Greater Nanticoke Area Education Association have held "selective strikes" in recent weeks to protest the lack of progress in contract negotiations. The teachers have been working without a contract all year.

March 30, 1983
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Ed-Tech Policy Schools Using Block Grants for 'High-Tech' Purchases
More of the nation's school districts are receiving federal funds under the Reagan Administration's education block-grant program. And as a result, more districts are being helped to "move into the high-technology era," according to the results of a recent survey.
Susan G. Foster, March 30, 1983
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Education Measuring 'Adequacy' Is Desired, And Elusive, Goal of School-Finance Reformers
One of several discussions of "adequacy" at the American Educational Finance Association (aefa) meeting here this month centered on a presentation of statewide average per-pupil expenditures, adjusted for regional differences in the price of goods and services, and compared to the national average. On that basis, the presenter concluded, New Jersey spent 30 percent more than would have been needed to meet the definition of adequacy, while Mississippi was right about on the mark.
Peggy Caldwell, March 30, 1983
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Education E.D. Will Revise Rule Linking College Aid to Draft Sign-Up
The Education Department announced last week that it would delay for two years the part of a new regulation that requires colleges to verify that applicants for federal student aid have registered for the draft.
Tom Mirga, March 30, 1983
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Education Associations Column
Concern over state-level legislative and judicial activities involving the regulation of private schools has prompted the Independent Schools Association of the Central States to establish a network of representatives in each state to monitor developments.

Early conclusions that can be drawn from the information-gathering efforts of the network, reports Thomas Read, editor of the group's newsletter, include these: the nonpublic-school sector in the Midwest has grown rapidly, and independent schools constitute only 1.9 percent of all such schools; "in general, more aid given private schools by the state means more regulation by the state"; in states where private schools have the most influence, it is because they coordinate their efforts; and "pressures in the states to control private schools will not decrease and will require continuing alertness."

March 30, 1983
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Education National News Roundup
President Reagan, saying that the current system of education "has served the nation well but now is in need of significant changes in key areas," sent to the Congress earlier this month a package of bills that would drastically revise the way that the government distributes aid to college students and would establish an educational-voucher system for the parents of disadvantaged children.

The President said in letters to both houses of Congress that his proposals "reflect my strong conviction that education decisions should be made by parents, students, states, and local officials."

March 30, 1983
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Education Colleges Column
Women, who for generations constituted a small fraction of college students, now outnumber men on college campuses, and their enrollment lead continues to grow.

In 1972, according to a new report by the Bureau of the Census, there were 74 women enrolled at colleges and universities for every 100 men; in 1981, there were 108 women for every 100 men. Between 1972 and 1981, the agency also reports, college enrollments grew by one-third to 12.1 million, reflecting increases of 12 percent for men and 63 percent for women. Most college students in 1981 were over 21 years old, and a third were 25 and older.

March 30, 1983
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Ed-Tech Policy Computers Column
Johnny, get your Pac-Man.

President Reagan told students at the Epcot Center in Orlando, Fla., early this month that the quarters children feed into arcade video games might be an investment in the military.

March 30, 1983
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Education House Panel Approves E.C.I.A Amendments
A House education subcommittee last week quickly approved a bill that its sponsor says is needed to clarify and to correct "mistakes" in the legislation that created Chapters 1 and 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ecia).
Tom Mirga, March 30, 1983
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Education Family Structure Imperiled by Social Changes
If present trends continue, the traditional American family will completely disappear soon after the turn of the century, a researcher told the Senate Subcommittee on Family and Human Services last week.
Charlie Euchner, March 30, 1983
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Education Two-Tiered Diploma in Minneapolis Arouses Minority Opposition
Minority leaders here are criticizing a school-district proposal that would deny standard diplomas to seniors who fail "benchmark" tests in reading, writing and mathematics.
Nancy Paulu, March 30, 1983
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Education House, Rejecting President's Budget, Urges Funds Increase for Education
The House of Representatives rejected President Reagan's budget last week, in a 229-196 vote on a resolution that recommends increased spending for education and other domestic programs, tax increases, and cuts in the proposed increases for national defense.
Eileen White, March 30, 1983
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Education Civil-Rights Panel Demands To View U.S Agency Records
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has warned President Reagan that it will issue subpoenas to officials in several federal agencies, including the Education Department, if they fail by April 25 to respond to requests for data on the enforcement of anti-discrimination laws.
Tom Mirga, March 30, 1983
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Education Federal File
A more confident and relaxed Secretary of Education has been making appearances at hearings and meetings around the country recently.

Terrel H. Bell, who has frequently exhibited a troubled, harried countenance as he defended the Reagan Administration's education plans, is said by associates to have emerged triumphant from the Administration's latest internal budget deliberations. He is benefiting, they say, from the new "moderate" stance on education issues taken by the Administration.

March 30, 1983
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Education Student Enrollment Growing in Independent, Lutheran Schools
In addition to the National Catholic Educational Association, a number of private-school associations have compiled information on enrollment, numbers of schools, and other statistics for the 1982-83 school year.

The National Association of Independent Schools (nais) reports that, as of September, 1982, its United States membership included 336,347 elementary and secondary students in 842 schools.

March 30, 1983
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Education Funding 1980's Bring New Dilemmas In Reforming School Finance
The school-finance-reform movement, despite some recent setbacks in the courts, the loss of foundation support, and poor prospects for large infusions of new state funds, is not only surviving but adding the relatively new issues of "adequacy" and "school effectiveness" to its mission, according to policymakers, scholars, and others who have been active in the 15-year-old reform movement.
Peggy Caldwell, March 30, 1983
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Education Federal Paperwork Is Unpleasant Chore For Texas District
School officials in Happy, Tex., were unhappy when they had to complete some 50 pages of evaluation forms in order to receive $354 in federal assistance.

The district received the funds for a high-school home-economics class, but the money came with 35 pages of instructions and notes on the proper evaluation of the program.

March 30, 1983
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Education U.S. Abandons Attempt To Weaken Handicapped-Rights Rules
The Reagan Administration has abandoned its plans to rewrite regulations governing the federal law barring discrimination against the handicapped in federally funded programs, Vice President George Bush announced last week.
Tom Mirga, March 30, 1983
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Education After an Unfashionable Era, Traditional Humanities Are Revived
"The question is not whether the humanities are desirable or necessary but whether they are ... postponable," said Harry S. Broudy, emeritus professor of education and philosophy at the University of Illinois.
Sheppard Ranbom, March 30, 1983
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Education New Pennsylvania Education Chief Asks Delay in Curriculum Revisions
The nominee for secretary of education in Pennsylvania, Robert C. Wilburn, has asked the Pennsylvania Board of Education to postpone action on sweeping proposals for revising curriculum requirements.

Mr. Wilburn said he would review the proposals--which have been harshly criticized by the Pennsylvania State Education Association and the Pennsylvania Federation of Teachers--and then make his own recommendation. Work on the new standards began several years ago.

March 30, 1983
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Education Catholic Schools Note 'Unanticipated' 2-Percent Drop in Student Enrollment
This year, enrollments in Catholic elementary and secondary schools underwent an unanticipated decline of 68,000 students, according to a new report by the National Catholic Educational Association (ncea).
Alex Heard, March 30, 1983
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Education Commission Suggests Ways To Reduce Special-Education Costs
A national commission of educators has concluded, in a report presented recently to the Congress, that the problems associated with the financing of special-education programs can be solved through a combination of administrative and programmatic changes.
Susan G. Foster, March 30, 1983
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Education Court Refuses To Dismiss Suit Against Bible-Study in School
A U.S. District Judge in Abingdon, Va., has refused to dismiss a court challenge to the Bible-study classes that have taken place for 41 years in the Bristol school district.
Alex Heard, March 30, 1983
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