March 30, 1983

Education Week, Vol. 02, Issue 27
Education 'Suit the Action to the Word'
Backstage at the Elizabethan Theater, Folger Shakespeare Library: The cast members of The Tempest, who in their nontheatrical lives are 7th- through 9th-grade students at the Westminster School in Annandale, Va., are huddled behind the black curtain that hides the stage.
Susan Walton, March 30, 1983
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Ed-Tech Policy Computer Firms Offer Aid to Schools
Standing beside Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell, the chairman of the board of the Tandy Corporation last week announced at a press conference a plan to offer free computer instruction to teachers and administrators from every school in the country.
Charlie Euchner, March 30, 1983
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Education Utah Gov. Tries To Stem 'Exodus' of Teachers
Concerned over what he calls the "mass exodus" of teachers from Utah and from a profession that low pay and status have made unattractive, Gov. Scott Matheson last week proposed that the state create a "consortium of experimental schools" that would try implementing a variety of reforms to make teaching more pleasant and rewarding.

The experiments the consortium might undertake to improve working conditions for teachers, he said, could include "altering the standard 180-day contract, eliminating clerical and custodial duties for teachers, bringing new types of instructional and non-instructional workers into the schools, building career ladders for teachers, and organizing the schools to promote cooperation and teamwork."

March 30, 1983
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Education W.Va. Must Draw Up School 'Grievance' Plan
The West Virginia Board of Education has agreed to draw up a grievance policy for parents, students, and lay citizens who believe their county boards of education are not complying with statewide education standards.
Mark Ward, March 30, 1983
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Education States News Roundup
Wyoming's school-finance reform, ordered by the state supreme court and approved in principle by the state's voters last fall, has been passed by the legislature and signed by Gov. Ed 'Herschler.

The measure, as modified by the State Senate, will set property-tax levies in all districts at between 25 and 28 mills. Districts whose local per-pupil revenues fall below the statewide average will receive enough state funds to bring them up to the average, while local revenues in property-wealthy districts are subject to "recapture" by the state if they exceed 150 percent of the statewide average.

March 30, 1983
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Education Opinion Whose Textbooks Are They, Anyway?
In 399 B.C., an Athenian jury convicted the philosopher Socrates and condemned him to death. His crime: corrupting the minds of the city's youth.
William Jay Jacobs, March 30, 1983
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor
W.B. Hamilton Jr. Principal Gilbert Park Elementary School Portland, Ore.

Your recent article, "Educators Seek Solutions to 'Crisis' in Teaching," (Education Week, March 2, 1983), states: "The purposes of the [Yale] meeting, conference participants said, were to begin to break down the 'tremendous prejudice against public-school teaching' that exists on many college campuses, ..."

March 30, 1983
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