December 14, 1983
Education Week, Vol. 03, Issue 14
Education
Comprehensive Schools Said To Shortchange General, Voc.-Ed. Pupils
Comprehensive high schools, designed to provide in one setting the best of all types of education to all students, may provide the best education only to the best students, a new study asserts.
Education
Best Writing Instruction Uses All Classroom Resources, Study Says
A synthesis of 72 studies of various methods of teaching writing indicates that the traditional mode of instruction--in which "the student acts as passive recipient of rules, advice, and examples of good writing" from the teacher--is about half as effective as the average experimental approach.
Education
National News Roundup
The Service Employees International Union has filed a rule-making petition with the Environmental Protection Agency intended to force the agency to establish rules on the levels of hazard and on removal requirements for asbestos in schools.
Earlier this year, the union conducted a survey of asbestos in the schools, which estimated that about 10 percent of all schools have hazardous asbestos. The union's members include 90,000 school employees.
Education
News Update
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials will not appeal federal-court rulings that prohibited implementation of regulations that would have required federally funded health clinics to notify the parents of minors who request prescription birth control.
The department had until Dec. 5 to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, but did not do so.
Education
Opinion
Uncle Miltie's Inservice Special: The Teacher as Stand-Up Comic
Amid all the furor over our problems in public education, a lot of suggestions for improvement have been put forward. One idea frequently mentioned is that teacher training has to be upgraded. I'm not exactly sure what the pundits mean by this, but I do know that teachers today need a lot of help in developing techniques for coping with difficult "audiences."
Education
Opinion
Readying Future Workers To Move From Challenge to Challenge
The Nov. 28 issue of Fortune contains an article of extraordinary significance for anyone concerned with the prospects for education in this country. Entitled "The Mass Market Is Splitting Apart," it tells us that "economic forces are propelling one family after another toward the high or low end of the income spectrum."
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters To The Editor
Despite Loel Barr's protest in her letter, "Artist Responds to Charge of Racial Insensitivity" (Education Week, Oct. 19, 1983), it seems she is not conscious enough of racial issues. On what does she base her statement that three blacks out of 30 constitute "a proportionate number?" I, too, saw her illustration as lacking sensitivity to black teachers. Why did you print such a picture? 