November 9, 1983

Education Week, Vol. 03, Issue 10
Education More Districts Use New Screening Technique To Choose Principals
An intense, two-day testing method that simulates "real-life" situations such as committee meetings and school-board presentations is being used by an increasing number of states and school districts in the selection of principals and assistant principals.
Hope Aldrich, November 9, 1983
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Education Survey Finds Reagan Policies 'Out of Step' With Public Beliefs
The Reagan Administration's education policies are "out of step" with the beliefs of the American public, according to a survey on "prominent issues in the 1984 elections" commissioned by the Project on Equal Education Rights of the now Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Anne Bridgman, November 9, 1983
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Education Federal News Roundup
A coalition of women's groups, civil-rights organizations, and labor representatives last month accused the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of disregarding its obligation to enforce Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The National Committee on Pay Equity, made up of 150 organizational and individual members, including the National Education Association and the National Organization for Women, presented their charges on Oct. 27 to the House subcommittee on Employment Opportunities, which was conducting hearings on the eeoc

November 9, 1983
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Education Louisiana's School for Math, Science, and he Arts: 'A Happy Kind of Exhaustion' for the Participants
Earl Taylor was a 10th-grade pupil in a high school in Baton Rouge, La., last year when rumors began circulating that the state was going to establish a special boarding school for gifted students.
Susan Walton, November 9, 1983
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Education Educators Praise Aim of New Voc.-Ed. Bill, But Urge More Flexibility
Educators and lobbyists, testifying last week before the House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education, suggested a series of modifications to the bill that is intended to ''expand, improve, and intensify" the nation's vocational-technical training system.
Sheppard Ranbom, November 9, 1983
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Education Trial Begins in Six-Year-Old Kansas City Desegregation Case
A metropolitan school-desegregation suit involving Kansas City and 11 suburban school districts got under way in U.S. District Court here last week after more than six years of legal maneuvering.
Fred Schecker , November 9, 1983
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Education New Special-Education Official Seeking To 'Identify the Gaps'
Madeleine C. Will is the U.S. Education Department's assistant secretary for special education and rehabilitative services. She was nominated for the post in April and assumed her duties as the head of the department's office of special education, Rehabilitative Services Administration, and National Institute of Handicapped Research in July. She succeeded Jean Tufts, who died earlier this year after a lengthy illness.

For the past 11 years, Ms. Will has been a volunteer for several advocacy groups for the handicapped. In 1981, she chaired the governmental affairs committee of the Maryland Association for Retarded Citizens and that same year, served as a member of the governmental affairs committee of the National Association for Retarded Citizens.

November 9, 1983
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Education District News Roundup
Seven students at Elk River (Minn.) High School who led a demonstration in front of their school last week to protest U.S. involvement in Lebanon and Grenada were suspended for a day by the school's principal. Another 13 were suspended only for the hours that corresponded to the time they missed classes.

All were required to attend school during the suspension periods, but were permitted only to study, not to attend classes, said Nicholas Olsen, the school's principal.

November 9, 1983
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Education States News Roundup
An Ohio high school that closed its doors last year will be brought to life again with Hollywood magic.

Central High School, which was closed in 1982 when the Columbus Board of Education reorganized city schools, has been chosen as the site of a $10-million motion picture called "Teachers." The film, which stars Nick Nolte, is the story of a disillusioned teacher who regains his desire to teach.

November 9, 1983
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Education When Nobody's Left but the Waterboy: Punt
Like a referee stopping a prize fight because a boxer has received too many bloodying blows, the board of education in Clayton, N.J., has cancelled the rest of the Clayton High School football team's season.

Injuries had reduced the Clippers' ranks from 32 players to 13 when Joseph Mucci, the athletic director, stepped in and said he would be "an idiot" to allow the team to play its fifth game. And last week, the school board decided to call off the rest of the season even though many of the injured players said they were now healthy.

November 9, 1983
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Education People News Roundup
California's former state superintendent, Wilson C. Riles, has criticized the state's massive education-reform measure, saying the programs it calls for have little chance of success because they are inadequately funded.

Mr. Riles, who lost his elected position to Bill Honig last year, said in a recent interview that many of the reforms contained in the Hughes-Hart Education Reform Act of 1983, the omnibus bill passed by the state legislature last summer, are "gimmicks" designed to justify spending an additional $800 million on the states' school districts after years of budget cuts.

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Education Network To Seek 'Preservation' of Arts in Schools
Educators representing the growing number of schools that specialize in the arts met here for the first time late last month, pledging to work for the preservation of the visual and performing arts in the rush to "basics."
Junius Eddy, November 9, 1983
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Education Updates News Roundup
The Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education has asked the state's supreme court to reconsider its recent decision that the state legislature has authority to determine education policy in the state.

The board claims that the legislature overstepped its authority in passing a law that requires schools to teach "creation science" along with "evolution science."

November 9, 1983
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Education Boston Universities Announce New Plan To Assist Public Schools
Twenty-five Boston-area colleges and universities announced last week that they will markedly expand their efforts to help the Boston Public Schools reduce student dropout rates, improve the teaching of basic skills, and strengthen their curricula by providing "technical assistance, training, and other services."
Sheppard Ranbom, November 9, 1983
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Education High Court To Rule on Legal Fees for Parents
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case involving the right of parents or guardians of handicapped children to collect lawyers' fees in suits successfully argued under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (P.L. 94-142).

Lawyers for groups representing the handicapped say the Court's decision in Smith v. Robinson (Case No. 82-2120) is likely to affect the willingness of parents and others to seek relief for handicapped children in federal courts.

November 9, 1983
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Education President Orders Cabinet To Cut 1985 Budgets
President Reagan, expressing his opposition to election-year spending increases in domestic programs, last week directed his Cabinet members to cut their fiscal 1985 budget requests to levels below those projected for each department and agency in the fiscal 1984 budget he sent to Congress last January.
Thomas Toch & Tom Mirga, November 9, 1983
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Education Chicago To Get $20 Million in Desegregation Aid
The U.S. Education Department regained control of a portion of its fiscal 1983 budget last week following the Reagan Administration's decision to provide the Chicago public schools with $20 million in school-desegregation assistance.
Tom Mirga, November 9, 1983
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Education $12 Million Given to N.J. School
Hightstown, N.J.--In what school officials say is the largest individual donation ever made to an American private school, the publisher and former U.S. ambassador Walter H. Annenberg has pledged $12 million to the Peddie School here.
Peter Marks, November 9, 1983
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Education South Carolina Panels Agree on Five-Year Reform Plan
Two committees studying South Carolina's education system have reached an agreement on the major points of a five-year reform package that includes an array of new programs ranging from remedial education to teacher improvement. In its first year, the plan would increase state spending on education by about 25 percent.
Charlie Euchner, November 9, 1983
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Education Bell's Forum To 'Showcase' State, Local Reforms
The Education Department is organizing its upcoming "national forum" in Indianapolis to "showcase" new state and local education-reform efforts that reflect the recommendations of the department-sponsored report, "A Nation at Risk," according to department officials.
Thomas Toch, November 9, 1983
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Education E.T.S. Forum Cites 'Paradox' in Reliance on, Criticism of Tests
The recent heightened public focus on measurable academic standards for students has brought to light a "paradox" in the public's attitude toward tests, according to participants in a conference here on standardized testing.
Eileen White, November 9, 1983
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Education National News Roundup
More than half of the high-ranking corporate executives polled in a recent survey are "seriously concerned" about the nation's educational system, support prayer in the classroom, are in favor of merit pay, and endorse competency tests.

The Business Poll--a quarterly survey in which 108 top executives of Fortune 1300 companies are questioned on educational issues by the New York-based opinion firm, Research and Forecasts Inc.--found that 90 percent of those surveyed support educational improvements and 46 percent believe that education should be an "immediate" national priority.

November 9, 1983
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Education Schooling Without Schools: Radio-Assisted Education Program in the Dominican Republic
Barahona, Dominican Republic--It is 4:30 P.M. and the temperature has dropped to 89 degrees. In a small, unlit room, 31 children, ages 7 to 14, sit on a bare cement floor with clipboards in their laps. In the middle of the room is a radio. As it emits the sounds of various animated voices, the children circle letters and numbers on their worksheets and answer questions loudly in unison.
Anne Bridgman, November 9, 1983
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Education Scholars Call for Improvement In Teacher-Training Programs
Raising teachers' salaries is not necessarily the answer to excellence in education; other solutions--such as improved teacher-training programs and recruitment of high-caliber students--would probably be more effective, academicians told the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources during a hearing on quality in education last week.
Cindy Currence, November 9, 1983
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Education Few Blacks Passing Ga. Teacher Test, Study Finds
A newly released five-year summary of Georgia's teacher-testing program reveals a wide gap between the scores of black candidates and those of their white counterparts.
Hope Aldrich, November 9, 1983
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Education Missouri Will Require Students To Pass Skills Test for Graduation
The Missouri State Board of Education late last month approved a measure that will require that all students pass every part of the state's Basic Essential Skills Test (best) to receive credit for 9th-grade courses needed for high-school graduation.
Sheppard Ranbom, November 9, 1983
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Ed-Tech Policy Special-Education Group To Form Computer-Software Corporation
Chicago--Members of the National Association of State Directors of Special Education, meeting here last week, outlined plans to form a subsidiary corporation to develop and market computer software for sale to educators and parents of handicapped children.
Susan G. Foster, November 9, 1983
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Education Administration Now Plans To Retain Special-Education Rules, Will Says
The U.S. Education Department has decided not to offer any new proposals for revising regulations for P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, but will work instead with school districts to solve any problems that arise over the existing regulations.
Susan G. Foster, November 9, 1983
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Education Opinion State Regulation Of Private Schools: State Regulation of Private Schools Exceeds Acceptable Limits
The authors of state regulations for private schools seem to feel no similar need to justify their wall-building. Their regulations seldom reflect any defensible rationale, specifying the good things to be walled in and the bad things to be walled out.
Donald A. Erickson, November 9, 1983
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