October 17, 1984

Education Week, Vol. 04, Issue 07
Education Student Receives Surprise in Soviet Package
Christopher Foley, a junior at Milford High School in Oakland County, Mich., received a little something extra when he ordered information for a class project from the Soviet Mission at the United Nations. Nestled among the brochures and pamphlets were microfilmed specifications for a U.S. tank.

fbi agents are now in the process of trying to figure out how the micro-film of M-60 tank specifications got into a damaged package received by the student on Sept. 17. The microfilm was unclassified, according to John Anthony of the fbi's Detroit office, but "should still be afforded the proper security."

October 17, 1984
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Education People News
Richard Mallette, a West Haven, Conn., minister, has asked the local school board to cast out the "blue devil" that has served as West Haven High School's mascot for 39 years.

"What we object to is treating the devil as if he doesn't really exist," said Mr. Mallette, the founder and pastor of Living Word Ministries Inc. "They are making evil look good and good look evil. The devil does exist, and his mission is to steal, kill, and destroy."

October 17, 1984
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Education News Updates
Strike activity was down in most states last week, but teachers in St. John the Baptist Parish (La.) Public Schools were still out--the seventh week of that strike. (See Education Week, Sept. 12, 1984.)

In Pennsylvania, which has experienced much of the strike activity this fall, strikes have ended in Butler, Independent Unified School District No. 27, Mohawk, New Castle, South Fayette, and Springfield Township. The most recent strike there occurred in Laurel on Oct. 5.

October 17, 1984
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Education Change in School-Aid Formula Sought in Rhode Island
The Rhode Island Department of Education has proposed a change in its school-aid formula that could mean an increase in state aid to local school districts of more than $30 million over the next five years.
Alina Tugend, October 17, 1984
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Curriculum Curriculum Updates
Americans are constantly barraged with facts and figures they are asked to interpret, from results of the latest political poll to changes in the consumer-price index.
Lynn Olson, October 17, 1984
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Education Coalition of 138 Ohio School Districts Protests State-Aid Reforms
Representatives of 138 of Ohio's 615 school districts converged on the state capitol in Columbus last week to protest school-finance reforms they say have crippled their school budgets.
Carol Ellison, October 17, 1984
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor
Clarifying the Foreign-Language Requirements at Oklahoma State University

I appreciated your recent article on the rise in foreign-language enrollments across the United States ("Rise in Foreign-Language Enrollments Spurs Teacher Shortage," Education Week, Sept. 12, 1984). However, as a member of the faculty and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Oklahoma State University--a college that has probably done more than any other single unit in the state of Oklahoma to raise language awareness--I feel called upon to correct an error.

October 17, 1984
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Education Opinion Enlivening the Historical Parade of Kings, Presidents, and Wars
The advent of social history has caused the academic subject of history, as most historical researchers define it, to change greatly during the past quarter century.
Peter N. Stearns, October 17, 1984
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Education Opinion The Existance (sic) of Spelling Bees Should Only Embarass (sic) Teachers
A 12-year-old Washington 6th-grader recently won a citywide spelling bee that included the following words: narcohypnia, biophagous, stanniferous, stupulose, and pseudosyllogism. The national winner correctly spelled luge.
Morris Freedman, October 17, 1984
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