February 29, 1984
Under a policy started in the fall of 1982, the private 650-student college is guaranteeing elementary- and secondary-school principals that the graduates of its teacher-preparation program will perform well in the classroom. If the new teachers do not, the college will provide free inservice training. Also part of the deal is the use of Doane faculty members to help supervise the teachers' first year. Doane faculty members also serve as substitute teachers so that a full-time teacher can help as a "master teacher" in the early part of the school year; that teacher, a Doane official says, acts as a "support system" to new teachers.
Representative Carl D. Perkins, Democrat of Kentucky, has been chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee for the past 17 years. Who was his predecessor? (The answer will be included with next week's quiz.)
The Assembly Education Committee deferred for one week a vote on the 69-page bill by Senator Gary K. Hart, a Democrat from Santa Barbara who offered a school-finance reform measure that is more sweeping than that enacted last year.
Mr. Steele, dubbed the "singing superintendent" after he cut a record with the country singer Tammy Wynette to provide funds for the school district's college-scholarship fund, has joined the staff of the Seattle-based Pacific Institute, a firm that specializes in international corporate education.
The students placed more than 80 calls to the Hustler magazine hot line, which featured recordings of graphic accounts of imaginary sex-ual exploits, from the Brick Township High School's student-operated radio station.
The Cleveland school system has sued 28 manufacturers and vendors of asbestos-containing building materials. The suit, filed this month in a state common pleas court, asks $20 million to pay for removal and containment of the hazardous substance and $20 million in punitive damages.
The university's education department, with the support of a $290,000 grant from the George W. Brackenridge Foundation, will provide up to $26,000 in college loans to selected San Antonio high-school students. The students must be in the top 10 percent of their graduating class.
State aid to school districts is expected to remain at about $175 million, although the education department is seeking some refinements in the way the money is distributed. (See Education Week, Feb. 22, 1984.)
The mission of the committee, which will be appointed this spring, will be to assess and evaluate the condition of science education, to make policy and planning recommendations, to evaluate program performance, and to establish a mechanism by which the foundation can communicate with schools and other agencies. The members will be appointed by Laura P. Bautz, acting assistant director for science and engineering education.
The three-year project, which began this month, is reportedly the nation's first "upward-bound program" for the handicapped. It is being funded by the U.S. Education Department and will be administered by the university's Metropolitan Center for Educational Research, Development, and Training.
And the presence of a numerical goal--enforceable through mandatory means if voluntary methods fail--also appears to be a powerful influence on the relative success of magnets.
As of mid-February, outbreaks of influenza had occurred in 33 states and in the District of Columbia, according to cdc, the Atlanta-based federal agency that monitors outbreaks of communicable diseases.
This month, school officials in Little Rock and San Diego caught up with students who had tampered with school records, and a judge in Grants Pass, Ore., sentenced four of seven students caught in connection with a theft of $100,000 worth of computer equipment.