April 13, 1983
Last week, Mr. Cody came to the suburban Washington district and met further with school officials, as well as with local citizens and the chamber of commerce. If the board members, five of whom visited Mr. Cody in Alabama, continue to be favorably impressed with him, he will be offered the position, a spokesman said.
The Penwaukee High School student's grades were high enough for admission to the society, but a faculty committee judging his "scholarship, service, character, and leadership" did not select him for membership, even after the student's father sought and won a second vote.
The state court's decision upheld the findings of the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission that the Newton, Mass., school committee violated the state's collective-bargaining law when it laid off seven custodial workers in 1976 without first consulting with union officials.
The researchers analyzed data from 52 independent studies of all forms of computer instruction. According to their analyses of the studies' findings, students receiving some form of computer-based instruction got better scores on tests, reduced the time they needed to study, and had more positive attitudes about their studies and technology than students who did not have access to computers.
The department said last week's action marked the first time that the government has gone to court to enforce a 1978 law barring discrimination against pregnant women.
But in Michigan the practice has provoked opposition that led to a legal opinion by the state attorney general barring school districts from engaging in construction projects on private property.
The report--the sixth by Frederick O. Mueller and Carl S. Blythe, both of the University of North Carolina's physical-education department--said 11 players received "catastrophic injuries" last fall.
High-school students in Christiansburg', Va., have voted almost unanimously to keep their traditional mascot, the "Blue Demon," despite a petition drive by some townspeople who want to have the name changed.
In an article published in the April issue of Educational Leadership, the journal of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Mr. Goodlad describes some of his findings to date. In answer to the question, "what are schools asked to do?" the researcher found four broad areas of goals: academic, social and citizenship, vocational, and personal.
Last week, the Governor appointed an 18-member "proposed" interim selection commission that will work out the procedure for selecting "master teachers." Master teachers, according to the new plan, will be a new tier of teachers selected for their ability in the classroom, not for their academic credentials or seniority, and they will receive pay increases of up to $6,000.
One of those programs is the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (hippy), which began in 1968 as an experimental project with initial funding from the National Council of Jewish Women and, later, from the Israeli government. The hippy program now reaches more than 16,000 Israeli families and is considered successful in its attempt to improve the educational aptitudes of preschoolers through a series of lessons administered by their mothers.
The project involves the use of microcomputers in 11 school districts in Mercer County, N.J., and a computer program developed at ets
"The [recent] withdrawal from ncate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison was first and foremost a rebellion against having practitioners on campus."