May 11, 1983
Resolutions approved by the group's delegate assembly included those supporting strengthened high-school graduation requirements, additional instructional time, and improved training and salary programs for teachers.
Mr. Minter did not indicate what he would do next.
Some are particularly displeased that he mentioned his own willingness to forego a pay raise for this school year in a successful effort to persuade teachers to moderate their salary demands, since it was revealed that the local school board has for the past two years, in lieu of a salary increase, given him an expense account for his law-school tuition and a car to travel to law school in.
The letter--"The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response''--is expected to become an important topic of discussion in Catholic schools' "peace education" curricula.
The Justice Department and the city of St. Louis told a federal district judge recently that they can not support a proposal to increase the city's property tax in order to help pay for the desegregation of schools in the city and its suburbs.
Steven K. Huth and Gary Wisniewski of the School of Computer Technology said that in the last year they have built homemade computers that would normally cost from $5,000 to $10,000. Not counting their own labor costs, the 60 machines they plan to build will cost $1,000 apiece.
To show them that genuine leaders are more than figureheads, the program requires the 35 students of this popular year-long course at the Shrub Oak, N.Y., high school to give their talent and time to benefit the school and the community.
Robert Wood, Chairman. Director of urban studies, University of Massachusetts
Lynn Simons, Wyoming superintendent of public instruction, last week said she will appoint a panel of educators, bankers, businessmen, and high-school students to assess what the state expects of education in the future, what schools are doing, and what schools want to accomplish.
The bill, HR 2207, seeks the reauthorization of the Emergency School Aid Act, which was folded into the education block-grants program by the Congress in 1981. An identical bill has been introduced in the Senate by Daniel P. Moynihan, Democrat of New York, but no hearings had been scheduled on the measure as of last week.
The district--through the county superintendent's office--issued registered warrants on April 29 to about 70 teachers, administrators, and nonteaching personnel.
The program, sponsored by members of the American Federation of Teachers, will provide counseling, games, and group discussions for children in grades one through eight who seem troubled by their home situations, said a spokesman.
Now, says Ronald A. Baughman, a pathologist and professor of oral medicine at the University of Florida's College of Dentistry, increasing numbers of teen-agers are joining baseball players in the habit of chewing tobacco or "dipping" snuff. And that is unfortunate, he says, because smokeless tobacco can cause lesions in the mouth that if left untreated may lead to oral cancer.
But the major problem, still unsolved, is our general inability to measure student learning reliably and validly for most of the higher-level competencies schools ought to be developing. What we can, and do, test are low-level skills of recall, computation, and the like. The proliferation of basic or minimal competency-testing requirements in many states has already had the effect of making the achievement floor into a ceiling in many schools.