November 2, 1983

The Kanawha County Circuit Court last month issued a temporary injunction forbidding the ssac, which governs interscholastic competition in the state, to bar the Milton High School girls' cross-country team from a state meet.

George Hillman, vice president of the Suffolk (N.Y.) II Board of Cooperative Educational Services and a school-board member for 26 years, has received the Everett R. Dyer Award for Distinguished School Board Service from the New York State School Boards Association, an award given annually to a present or former school-board member who has displayed "exceptionally dedicated service" to the children of public schools in New York State.

However, the deans postponed discussion of a major item on their agenda--a proposal to form a new association of education schools that would set higher accreditation and admissions standards than those now set by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. (See Education Week, Oct. 12, 1983.) Until now, ncate has dominated the standard-setting in the field, and some of those who organized the deans' meeting in Wisconsin said they felt the time for a new associ-ation might have come.

The fact that 20 percent of all youths and 50 percent of black teen-agers are out of work, the Gallup Poll's president said, has resulted in major social problems such as teen-age crime, drug abuse, and alcoholism.

And although a significant amount of disagreement remains over what distinctions should be made between custodial and educational services, for many educators those distinctions seem less important than the goals of caring for children, broadening educational opportunities, and using the capacity of schools to the fullest extent possible.

The Maine High School Teachers Scholarship Program will cost the college $200,000 over four years, beginning in 1984.

Gnassingbe Eyadema, in Washington during his first visit to the United States since assuming control of the small West African country during a military coup in 1963, told Congress Heights students (in French) of his country's commitment to education. He also offered the Togolese Embassy's staff members as tutors in African history, contemporary African politics, and French.

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Nevada currently has a statutory provision that allows home education if parents can provide "equivalent instruction," according to Myrna Macdonald, deputy superintendent of public instruction. Local districts last summer asked the board for guidance in determining what constitutes equivalency.

Review their high-school graduation requirements and course offerings, with particular attention to strengthening the curriculum in English, mathematics, science, social studies, computer science, and foreign languages.

The rate of participation in the labor force of women aged 16 and over rose from 36 percent in 1960 to 52 percent in 1980, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

"The Technology Education Center," said Shirley B. Gillette, director of educational programs, "is the education division's direct response to the challenge posed by the technology explosion--how and where to find up-to-the-minute information, resources, and expert training in the uses of technology."