September 7, 1983
Education Week, Vol. 03, Issue 01
Education
Expertise For Sale
At last year's conference of the National Science Teachers Association, a teacher from Idaho handed Joyce Jeffery a business card. Jeffery, a project manager for Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. who had been keeping an eye open for possible teacher consultants, was impressed.
Education
Opinion
A Matter Of Commitment
Vivian Gussin Paley and Wendy Kopp are about as different as two people can be. Paley is a 62-year-old Chicago kindergarten teacher; Kopp is a 24-year-old entrepreneur who has raised millions of dollars to start a new national organization.
Education
Opinion
Student Teaching
During the past few years, all of the 185 teachers in my school district have been involved in peer coaching.
Education
Opinion
A Multicultural Lesson
Last June, a prestigious advisory panel recommended that New York state change its elementary and secondary social studies curriculum to give more weight to the contributions of African-Americans, Hispanics, and other minorities.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters
I feel tremendous compassion for Roderick Crochiere [“Presumed Guilty,” May/June], and I feel equal compassion for the student who made the accusation and her family.
Education
Opinion
Baseball, Miso Soup, and the Hot-Blooded, Warm-Hearted Teacher
Americans continue to be fascinated by Japanese schools. Is there something we can learn from a system that produces the best test-takers in the world? Should American schools be as demanding as their Japanese counterparts? Should all American students wear uniforms, as Japanese students do?
Education
Opinion
No Clean Getaway
"I thought I could leave without looking back, but I was wrong," writes Rosemary Genova.
Education
Opinion
Keep Dissection In Class
In his commentary (“The Unkindest Cut,” May/June), Thomas Bickleman tries to convince us that dissection should not be a part of high school biology classes. But his arguments are flawed and his conclusion wrong.
Education
Unions Anticipate Fewer But Worse Strikes This Fall
More teachers will report to work without contracts this fall than ever before, school and union officials say, but there will be fewer strikes this year than there have been in recent years.
Education
Arkansas Panel To Urge Major Reforms For State's Public Schools
A statewide commission charged with examining standards for Arkansas public schools has tentatively recommended that the state require kindergarten for all children, establish a "promotional gates" program, raise high-school graduation requirements, and extend the school year.
Education
Judge Upholds San Jose Bankruptcy, But Schools To Open on Time
Last week, the day after the San Jose Unified School District became the first school system in modern times to be declared bankrupt, its officials promised that schools in the 32,000-student system would open on time this week.
Education
House Panel Said To Call for E.D. Cuts
A House Appropriations subcommittee reportedly decided during a closed session last July to earmark $14.5 billion for education programs in the fiscal year 1984, an $800-million decrease from current funding levels, according to a coalition of 80 education groups.
Education
Phila. Court's Ruling Admits Girls To Single-Sex H.S.
A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge has ordered that three female students be admitted to the city's elite all-male Central High School, the nation's second-oldest public high school, established in 1836.
Education
Federal Court Requires Buffalo To Lay Off Teachers by Race
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's order requiring the Buffalo school board to lay off teachers on the basis of race, but it added that the board must rehire furloughed teachers on the basis of seniority.
Education
Federal File: Back to School; Back to School, Agaiin; Cooperative Ventures
"One thing you can learn in school that will make you happy the rest of your life is how to study"--or so said Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell in his most recent publication--a "back-to-school" article published in the funny pages of newspapers across the country on Aug. 28.
"One thing you can learn in school that will make you happy the rest of your life is how to study"--or so said Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell in his most recent publication--a "back-to-school" article published in the funny pages of newspapers across the country on Aug. 28.
Education
Preschool Study Finds Long-Term Gains
Nearly two decades after they attended an experimental preschool program in a low-income neighborhood in Ypsilanti, Mich., the small group of young people monitored in a now-well-known study continue to fare better as students, workers, and citizens than children from the same neighborhood who did not attend the preschool.
Education
S.C. Court Upholds Summer-School Fee
The South Carolina Supreme Court last month ruled that a school district did not violate the constitutional rights of two students when it charged them an $80 fee for summer-school classes.
Education
Teachers in a Michigan District Strike Over a Merit-Pay Plan
Teachers in the Port Huron school district, a southeastern Michigan system enrolling 12,000 pupils, went on strike late last month over what is believed to be the first recent attempt in the state to implement a form of merit pay.
Education
Women Charge Pa. District Pays Men More for Similar Jobs
Some 60 women who are employees of the Reading (Pa.) School District have joined the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (afscme) in accusing the district of job bias on the grounds that it pays women employees less than it pays men in similar jobs.
Education
National News Roundup
Nearly three-fourths of the nation's teacher-education programs have stiffened their admission standards during the last five years, according to a preliminary draft of a study by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The survey, which surveyed 423 schools out of 1,206 known to offer teacher-training programs, was conducted at the request of the National Commission on Excellence in Education.
Education
Dade Cty. To Begin New Chapter 1 Plan
In an effort to improve the achievement levels of their most disadvantaged students, the Dade County schools have launched a large new program this year that will place more than 17,000 elementary-school children in classes of 15 or fewer.
Education
Education Costs To Reach $230 Billion This Year
Americans will spend $230 billion for education during the 1983-84 school year--up from $215 billion this past year--while total enrollment in the nation's schools and colleges will decrease only slightly, according to the Education Department's annual "back-to-school" forecast.
Education
Achievement Gap Between Blacks, Whites Continues to Narrow
The narrowing achievement gap between black and white students, first reported about two years ago, is also beginning to show in college and graduate-school admissions tests, according to a new analysis of national data by the researcher whose earlier analyses first summarized the change.
Education
Two-Year Colleges' Role Grows Under Job Act
As state officials continue preparations for the start of the new federal job-training program next month, the results of a recently released survey suggest that community colleges will have a greater role in providing skills training because of a change in the way state officials say they will use their special training grants.
Education
Ind. Might Drop Lifetime Licenses
Gov. William Winter of Mississippi has named a 12-member task force of state education, building, and health officials to study the problem of potentially hazardous asbestos in public facilities, including public schools. The task force is also charged with developing a plan to deal with the problem.
There is no date set for the task force to submit its final report.
Education
Miss. Asbestos Study
It has also proposed that applicants to teacher-training programs in the state be required to pass a basic-skills examination as a prerequisite for admission.
It has also proposed that applicants to teacher-training programs in the state be required to pass a basic-skills examination as a prerequisite for admission.
The recommendations, the first such proposed changes in the state's certification procedures in more than 35 years, were made by an advisory panel of educators and lay citizens brought together by the state's education department.
Education
Uncertified Neb. Church Schools Open
Several fundamentalist schools in Nebraska opened their doors last week, despite court orders that they remain closed until they receive state certification. And the county attorney in the most widely-publicized school case said the school's leaders still could face jail sentences.
Cass County Attorney Ronald Moravec said he would decide this week whether to prosecute the leader of the Faith Christian School in Louisville, the Rev. Everett Sileven, and parents of the children attending the unsanctioned school.
Education
New Strategies Devised To Reward Schools for Student Gains
Two groups of university-based researchers, working independently, have developed models for giving schools financial incentives to improve students' test scores, and one of the schemes will be pilot-tested in Tennessee beginning this year.