June 1, 1983
Education Week, Vol. 02, Issue 36
Education
Ala. District's Case Turned Down by Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to review a federal appeals court's ruling that prevented an Alabama school district from firing a teacher who bore a child out of wedlock.
Education
Senate Finance Panel Passes Reagan's Tuition-Credit Bill
The Senate Finance Committee last week approved the Reagan Administration's tuition tax-credit proposal after rejecting a variety of attempts to amend the bill.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
I had hoped for more from a newspaper dedicated to education--even a commercial enterprise--in the way of coverage dedicated to the Bell Commission report. Your article, "Education System Placing Nation 'At Risk"' (Education Week, April 27, 1983), replicated the same shallow, 11th-hour reporting given the Bell document in the rest of the media.
Education
Opinion
For Girls, Schools of Their Own
It is ironic that in our headlong search to open up educational opportunities for girls we have virtually closed down a powerful traditional option--the single-sex school.