June 8, 1983

Education Week, Vol. 02, Issue 37
Education States Reassess Purposes of Education 'Mandates'
Correspondent Don Sevener contributed to this report.
Peggy Caldwell, June 8, 1983
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Education Publishing Column
Aliteracy, n., the condition or quality of being literate, but choosing not to read.

Aliteracy is the term the Association of American Publishers has coined to describe people who are able to read, but who choose not to read, except for occasional newspaper headlines, television listings, and road signs. To motivate the increasing numbers of aliterates in the U.S., the aap has launched an "I'd Rather Be Reading" campaign.

June 8, 1983
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Education Education Seen Emerging as 1984 Presidential Campaign Issue
Education issues are shaping up as one of the most divisive topics of the 1984 Presidential election, as Republicans and Democrats take opposing positions on how to remedy the widespread school "mediocrity" cited by the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education.
Eileen White, June 8, 1983
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Education Sizer Says School Restructuring Is Essential To Improved Quality
The quality of education in American high schools will not change without a complete overhaul of their structure, methods, and goals, according to Theodore R. Sizer, chairman of the group that is conducting "A Study of High Schools" for the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the National Association of Independent Schools.
Alex Heard, June 8, 1983
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Education People News
Alice G. Pinderhughes has been appointed superintendent of the Baltimore City Schools. She has been acting as interim superintendent since December, 1982, when John L. Crew retired after seven years as superintendent of the 125,000-student system, which is one of the nation's 10 largest.

Ms. Pinderhughes has made her career in elementary education and has been with the Baltimore City School system for 40 years as a teacher, assistant principal, supervisor, project director, and executive director of elementary education. She served as assistant superintendent from 1976 through last December.

June 8, 1983
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Education Texas Rejects Teacher-Salary Increase
Although he waged an active campaign to win substantial salary increases for Texas teachers--proclaiming that the increases were a high legislative priority--Gov. Mark White was resoundingly defeated on the issue at the close of the state's biennial legislative session late last month.
Hope Aldrich, June 8, 1983
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters To The Editor
I strongly support Henry M. Levin's suggestions in his Commentary, "Reawakening the Vigor of Urban Schools" (Education Week, May 18, 1983). In particular, I support his idea of establishing many community-based, small schools that offer the best of two worlds: a choice of diverse, shared staff members and facilities that our cities can offer, and personal mini-schools where all students and teachers know one another.

Mr. Levin mentions many student- and teacher-initiated activities that would make all participants feel proud that they are building and maintaining their own school. As an example, the computerization of school schedules, student records, and so forth, to minimize paper work, might be included in such student-run activities. If there is no sufficiently sophisticated computer buff among the students, perhaps a person can be "borrowed" from a college or a data-processing business to get the computer work going. After that, students and teachers can run it.

June 8, 1983
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Education Opinion In Support of National-Service System for Youths
Virtually every industrial country is now burdened with unprecedented rates of unemployment, especially among young people. In our country, the affliction appeared earlier than elsewhere.
Franklin A. Thomas, June 8, 1983
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Education Opinion Hopeless Frivolity On the Edge of the Abyss
I guess I'm just a hopelessly frivolous person. Here I sit puffing on my hookah while the media bleat about the plague of a teacher shortage that's about to smite our public schools, and all I can think about is Edward Young.
Edmund Janko, June 8, 1983
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