October 3, 1984

Education Week, Vol. 04, Issue 05
Education National Academy of Sciences Is Asked To Evaluate Work of Statistics Agency
The advisory panel responsible for overseeing the work of the National Center for Education Statistics has asked the National Academy of Sciences to conduct the first major evaluation of the agency in its 12-year existence.
Tom Mirga, October 3, 1984
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Education NEA-PAC, Labor's Largest, Wields Growing Political Clout
Thousands of teachers are scouring "the valley" of Texas--the expanse stretching south from Houston to the Gulf Coast and in the west along the Rio Grande--joining in the drive to register one million Hispanic voters before the state's Oct. 7 deadline.
James Hertling, October 3, 1984
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Education First Two Schools Selected To Test Ideas in Horace's Compromise
Theodore R. Sizer, author of Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School, has named the first two participants in a coalition of schools that will test the ideas presented in his book.
Linda Chion-Kenney, October 3, 1984
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Education Education Seen as Key Beneficiary of State Fiscal Gains
Education reaped the major benefit of states' strengthened financial positions in fiscal 1984, according to the National Council of State Legislatures.

At the end of 1984, 18 states had balances equal to 5 percent or more of their annual spending and only two states--New Hampshire and Vermont--had deficits, according to a new report by the council, "State Budget Actions in 1984," which polled fiscal officers in the 50 states following passage of this year's budgets.

October 3, 1984
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Education National News Roundup
Teachers' attitudes toward public education differ markedly from those of the general public, according to a new Gallup Poll completed in conjunction with Phi Delta Kappa, the professional education fraternity, and published in the October issue of Phi Delta Kappan magazine.

Of the 813 teachers who responded to the poll, 64 percent gave public schools a grade of A or B. Only 42 percent of the general public, an3swering a similar question in a Gallup poll last spring, gave schools those marks. (See Education Week, Aug. 22, 1984).

October 3, 1984
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Education Major Pennsylvania Asbestos Case: 'A Plot Hatched In the Courtroom,' Says Lawyer Representing Schools

The conflicts and problems inherent in school-asbestos litigation have been illuminated in recent months in the major Pennsylvania case, In Re: Asbestos School Litigation, which is being closely followed by school lawyers nationwide. So thorny are its issues that lawyers for the plaintiff group have spent almost as much time arguing among themselves as they have battling with the defense, according to some sources.
October 3, 1984
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Education School Bussing Banned in Massachusetts District
®MDBO¯ The Ware, Mass., school board has instituted a policy designed to curtail public displays of affection in the district's high school.

As of the start of this school year, the 500 9th through 12th graders at Ware High School are not allowed to kiss in the halls, according to Principal Peter Thamel. If they are caught bussing, according to the new rule, they will receive demerits that could lead to three-day in-school suspensions.

October 3, 1984
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Ed-Tech Policy Opinion Jumping Off the Computer Bandwagon
It's back-to-school time, and from all indications this is the year for computers in public schools. My kids' school newsletter informs me that of 12 instructional changes, eight will "expand the computer's role in the classroom." The number of microcomputers in schools continues to multiply, computer companies and software publishers are now fully involved in the school market, and three major bills asking for massive federal support for the school computer effort are awaiting Congressional action.
Douglas D. Noble, October 3, 1984
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters To The Editor
The well-meaning attempts on the part of the 600 educators who met at Harvard University last month will, I predict, come to naught ("Emerging Interest in Reasoning Skills Marks Meeting on 'Critical Thinking,"' Education Week, Aug. 29, 1984).

The "decline in reasoning and problem-solving skills among the nation's students" did not take place, as the article states, in the last 10 years. There never was any sustained or effective effort to teach reasoning and problem-solving skills in any subject.

October 3, 1984
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Student Absenteeism Rights Group, Schools Work To Cut Absenteeism Rates
Lowering rates of student absenteeism is the goal of new projects begun by a number of school districts and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Alina Tugend, October 3, 1984
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