October 17, 1984

Education Week, Vol. 04, Issue 07
Education Opinion Know Your Rights
While the First Amendment may protect what a teacher says outside the classroom, it does little to shelter what is done inside a classroom. And, for the most part, a tenured teacher has no more protection than a nontenured teacher.
Perry A. Zirkel, April 1, 1993
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Education Opinion Connections
Short letter written by the current editor-in-chief.
Ronald A. Wolk, April 1, 1993
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Education Opinion Letters to the Editor

Rising Star


Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think an article would be written about me that captures my true essence. David Hill’s article [“Overnight Sensation,” March] is superb. I was overwhelmed when I first saw and then read it. You’ve also excited my school.
April 1, 1993
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Education Opinion No More Lesson Plans
Lesson plans are meant to be made in the mind and heart and adjusted continually. Precious time for reading and thinking is wasted writing them. Like the American Indian who believes a photograph steals the soul, I feel that a written lesson plan takes the life out of the thing it seeks to promote.
D. Labarbera, April 1, 1993
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Education Opinion Winning Words
The message comes during sixth period. My sophomores, busy at the word processors, barely notice the boy who enters the Writing Center and hands me the “while you were out” memo.
Susanne Rubenstein, April 1, 1993
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Education Opinion Remapping Geography
For several years, leaders in education, government, and business have bemoaned our students’ geographic illiteracy. In international comparative tests, we routinely rank at the bottom, with some students unable to locate even their own country on a world map.
William B. Wood, April 1, 1993
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Education Gap in Suburban, Urban School Spending Widens
The gap in per-capita spending for schools between central cities and suburbs grew between 1977 and 1981, even though central cities were spending relatively more on education than they had in the past, according to a new report by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
Lynn Olson, October 17, 1984
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Education Kean Says New Jersey Will Adopt Toughest Asbestos Standards
Gov. Thomas Kean of New Jersey said this month that his state will lead the nation in tough environmental standards for asbestos when proposals made by his asbestos-policy committee are adopted later this year.
Linda Chion-Kenney, October 17, 1984
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Education E.P.A. To Decide on School Program
In federal district court last week, a lawyer for the Environmental Protection Agency said the epa plans to make a decision on the future nature of its school-asbestos program by Nov. 30.

At that time, said Alan H. Carpien, epa officials will decide whether or not to pursue new regulations regarding asbestos in the schools, and, if they decide to proceed, what the general timeline for issuing those regulations would be.

October 17, 1984
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Education Modifications Proposed in Minnesota School-Aid Formula
A proposed change in the Minnesota school-aid formula would raise the level of state support for local districts by about 15 percent, but at the same time would reduce state-subsidized property-tax credits, thereby leaving the amount of money schools receive essentially unchanged.
Alina Tugend, October 17, 1984
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Education State Chief Seeks To Delay Use of Competency Test
Richard A. Boyd, Mississippi's superintendent of education, is expected to recommend to the state Board of Education at its meeting this week that the use of a competency test to determine whether students graduate from high school be delayed for three years.
Lynn Olson, October 17, 1984
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Education The Rise of the Fundamentalist Christian School
Leaders of independent-schools associations are re-examining their membership standards in light of a growing number of membership inquiries from fundamentalist Christian schools.
Cindy Currence, October 17, 1984
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Education Use of Strap on Students Is Upheld
Waynesville, NC--The superintendent of the Haywood County, N.C., schools has ruled that an elementary-school principal's use of a leather strap to whip students for talking too loudly on a school bus was appropriate under state law and school-board policy.

Angry parents protested the Sept. 14 incident in which 14 1st- through 6th-grade Fines Creek Elementary School students were each whipped five times. The president of the pta has resigned over the incident.

October 17, 1984
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Teaching Profession Oregon Panel Urges Shift to Alternative Certification for Teachers
The Oregon Educational Coordinating Commission, a seven-member panel appointed by the governor, has adopted a plan that would allow college graduates without training in schools of education to teach.
Linda Chion-Kenney, October 17, 1984
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Education Church-State Case Will Be Heard By High Court
The U.S. Supreme Court last week added another case involving religion and public education to its docket, this time agreeing to decide whether New York City can use federal compensatory-education aid to finance programs in which public-school teachers conduct courses in private religious schools.
Tom Mirga, October 17, 1984
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Education Experts Question Setting, Goals of Teacher-Education Programs
The questions of where, how, and for what purposes prospective teachers should be trained were raised by many of the witnesses who testified here at the second of five regional hearings on "Excellence in Teacher Education."
Anita Brewer Howard, October 17, 1984
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Education District News Roundup
Parents of seven white, non-Hispanic students in Fallbrook, Calif., have filed suit in state superior court against the board of education for the Fallbrook Union Elementary School District, alleging that the district is operating one or more segregated schools.

The parents claim that minority enrollment in some of the district's schools is so disproportionately high that minority students are isolated from other students, thus depriving all students of an "integrated educational experience."

October 17, 1984
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Education Associations
Local school-board members and school officials who participated in an August survey of their Presidential preference conducted by The American School Board Journal favored President Reagan by a 65-percent to 32-percent margin over the challenger Walter Mondale.

Reporting on the poll in its October issue, the journal notes that "among Mr. Reagan's strong supporters are those to whom moral issues take precedence over others." The editors quote one Reagan supporter from Texas as saying, "By far the greatest number of problems facing education today stem from moral issues. We need good moral standards in places of leadership."

October 17, 1984
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Education Education Gets Millions in Last-Minute 'Christmas Tree' Bill
In the middle of the night on Oct. 3, as the 98th Congress neared adjournment, a group of lobbyists and Senators turned the reauthorization for Head Start programs into a legislative "Christmas tree" bearing more than $200 million in new education initiatives.
James Hertling, October 17, 1984
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Education Congress Sets Education Funding at $17.6 Billion
Not willing to risk a Presidential veto of a huge catchall spending bill and seeking to make good on a political vow to pass their own appropriations bill for the second straight year, key congressional leaders pushed through a weary 98th Congress, a record $17.6 billion in fiscal 1985 Education Department funding last week--not as part of the continuing resolution but in the $101-billion bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.
James Hertling, October 17, 1984
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Education Education Department Developing New Measures of Schools
In an attempt to sustain the current wave of education reform, several divisions of the Education Department are developing a new publication that will provide the public with a means of assessing the schools' progress, using a wide array of indicators of the resources that go into schooling and the outcomes they produce.
Tom Mirga, October 17, 1984
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Education House Panel Backs Federal Tax Benefits for Child Care
Following a year of testimony on day care, a House committee has issued a 162-page report recommending an increase in federal tax benefits for child care and incentives for schools and employers to provide day-care services for children of working mothers.
Anne Bridgman, October 17, 1984
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Education Disqualification of Master Sought in Alabama Desegregation Case
Plaintiffs in the Mobile, Ala., school-desegregation case have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to disqualify a court-appointed master who would have broad discretion in identifying problems and recommending solutions to desegregate the district, according to Richard Blacksher, the plaintiffs' lawyer.

Mr. Blacksher characterized the special master, Lino Graglia, a Uni-versity of Texas law professor, as a staunch opponent of court-ordered desegregation and said that he is therefore unacceptable to mediate in the 21-year-old dispute.

October 17, 1984
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Education Federal File
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, whose new leadership last year suspended publication of its periodical, Perspectives, has published the inaugural issue of a new quarterly magazine, New Perspectives.

Edited by Linda Chavez, staff director of the commission, New Perspectives calls itself a "forum for the expression of all points of view in the ongoing debate over how best to eliminate discrimination and its pernicious effects from our society."

October 17, 1984
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Education The Rise of the Fundamentalist Christian School
While enrollment in Roman Catholic schools declined by 6 percent from 1980 to 1983, during the same period the number of students attending non-Catholic religious schools increased by 26 percent and the number of students enrolled in private schools claiming no religious affiliation increased by 40 percent.
Cindy Currence, October 17, 1984
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Education Tax-Rollback Plan Would Cripple Michigan Schools, Group Charges
A tax-rollback plan in Michigan would cripple the state's education system and short-circuit efforts to meet national calls for excellence in education, a group of leading educators is warning in a series of press conferences throughout the state this month.
Cassandra Spratling, October 17, 1984
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Education Federal News Roundup
A Hispanic advocacy group, maintaining that parents' access to information is essential to community oversight of the Chapter 2 block-grants program, reports that some school districts were reluctant or unable to provide adequate documentation about the program.

The Washington-based group, National Council of La Raza, asked Hispanic groups in 31 school dis across the country that have large Hispanic enrollments to gather information on the effect of Chapter 2 on Hispanic students, on whether school districts were keeping data on their Chapter 2 programs, and on whether such data were made available to the community.

October 17, 1984
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Education National News Roundup
American families are changing as fast as, if not faster than, society at large, argues a new report, and families of the future will be radically different from those of today.

The report--"The State of Families 1984-85"--was prepared by Family Service America, the headquarters of a national nonprofit voluntary movement to help families. The study assesses the economic, political, social, and technological trends that affect family life, including crime, housing, and voting patterns, inflation, child care, and family violence.

October 17, 1984
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Education State News Roundup
A Washington State panel has issued a draft report containing 139 proposals for improving the state's public schools.

Among them are recommendations that high-school graduation requirements be stiffened to include more English, science, and social science, and that teachers' salaries be raised.

October 17, 1984
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