October 19, 1983
Governor Winter was chairman of the board of the sreb in 1982-83; Gov. Lamar Hunt of Tennessee now holds that post.
The voluntary testing program is sponsored by the state department of education and is designed to serve as a "diagnostic tool" for students, counselors, and curriculum planners, according to Duane Clow, professor of mathematics at the university and the director of the testing program.
The Philadelphia Board of Education voted 5-to-3 last week not to appeal a court order that opened Central High School, the nation's second-oldest public high school, to female students for the first time in its 147-year history. Judge William M. Marutani of Pennsylvania's Common Pleas Court had ruled in August that single-sex public schools violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution and the Pennsylvania Equal Rights Amendment.
Since then, students and alumni of both Central and its counterpart for females, Girls High School, had lobbied strongly for an appeal. Just before last week's vote, Common Pleas Judge Lisa A. Richette, a Girls High graduate, told the board it had a "moral obligation" to appeal the decision of her colleague. Judge Richette said Judge Marutani's decision was based on "wrong law" and an intrepretation of the Pennsylvania era that was never intended.
When the superintendent of the Town of Hartford School District discussed the plan with the district's 140-member teaching staff, he found "quite a bit of negative reaction" and decided to abandon the plan, said Carl Mock, a district spokesman."There was a skepticism about the unknown," he added.
Marion Perlmutter, professor of child development at the University of Minnesota, says an experiment involving preschool children revealed that children work together more when they use computers than when they work on other projects.
Many of the awards were made in June, but because of staff cutbacks at the fund, some of the institutions were not notified until this month, a spokesman said.
Rather than "pounding away at the broadcaster," he told coalition members, "our job is to research further into the motivations of the audience." The fact is, he said, that millions of people voluntarily watch violent programs.
The computer, which contains a national compilation of information on missing children, alerts police in jurisdictions across the country to missing-child cases and also lists more than 5,000 unidentified bodies found each year.