October 24, 1984

Education Week, Vol. 04, Issue 08
Education Quaker Cemetery
The cool darkness and deep silence of the woods greet us. A knobby dirt lane, crowded with blackberry bramble, might discourage casual entry. But our vehicles manage to screak through and emerge. There, at the center, is the Monument to Quaker Martyrs and, around it, perhaps a dozen headstones.
Wendy Clark, May 1, 1993
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Education Identity Crisis
It was an odd, unsettling experience. For seven years, I have identified, introduced, and described myself as a teacher. It is as a teacher that I know my colleagues, my friends, and myself. Was that now to be taken from me and hidden? Swept from my past as a liability to my authority?
Steven Vanderstaay, May 1, 1993
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Education Opinion Letters to the Editor
Letters written to the editor by Teacher Magazine readers.
May 1, 1993
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Education Opinion Connections
Letter from the Editor describing the content of the issue.
Ronald A. Wolk, May 1, 1993
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Education Anti-Union Group Cited by N.E.A.
The National Education Association has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission, alleging that the National Right to Work Committee, an anti-union organization, violated federal campaign-finance laws by hiring investigators to infiltrate the Democratic Presidential campaign.
James Hertling, October 24, 1984
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Education APPOINTMENTS
In the Schools

October 24, 1984
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Education Chicago Board's Change in Medical Benefits Sparks Strike Threat
The Chicago Board of Education announced this month that on Nov. 16 it will begin to deduct partial payments on medical-insurance premiums from employee paychecks--a move union officials say will trigger a strike in the nation's third-largest school district.
Linda Chion-Kenney, October 24, 1984
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Education E.C.S. at 20: The Compact's Potential Is Still To Be Realized
"Some degree of order needs to be brought out of this chaos," wrote James B. Conant, the former President of Harvard University, in 1964, in reference to education policymaking in the nation.
Thomas Toch, October 24, 1984
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Ed-Tech Policy Computer Literacy: A Survey of InitiativesFor Teachers and Students Across the States
This past summer, Electronic Learning magazine polled 50 state education departments to compile information for its "Fourth Annual Survey of the States."

The results, printed in the magazine's October issue, "reveal a shift in educational computing in American classrooms today." According to the magazine, computer education no longer is defined by programming; it has emerged into a discipline that focuses on computer applications, such as word processing, spreadsheets, and database management.

October 24, 1984
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Education 'The Wax Is Warm,' Says National Endowment Chairman
As the drive to improve education continues, there are signs that influential figures in the political, foundation, and academic sectors are seeking ways to sustain, and in some cases expand or redirect, the reform agenda.
Thomas Toch, October 24, 1984
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Education Value of Pell Grants Said Declining
Pell Grants, the federal government's major program to provide financial aid to needy undergraduate students, in recent years have covered a declining proportion of the students' college costs, according to the American Council on Education.

While the Consumer Price Index rose 57 percent between 1978-79 and 1982-83, the council's policy-analysis and research division reports, the average Pell Grant rose by 13 percent, from $921 to $1,023.

October 24, 1984
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Education State News Roundup
Twelve students have appealed the reversal of an administrative judge's ruling that the implementation of New Jersey's new 23-credit rule for athletic eligibility be postponed until next year.

Last December, the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, which represents 431 public and private schools, voted to require student athletes to complete at least 23 credits in the previous semester to be eligible for competition. The requirement had been 15 credits.

October 24, 1984
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Education Connecticut Panel To Weigh Admission of AIDS Students to Schools
Connecticut's commissioner of education has appointed a panel of educators and health officials to determine whether students with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) or related diseases should be admitted to public schools.
Anne Bridgman, October 24, 1984
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Education Districts Failing To Give Funds To Private Schools, E.D. Says
In an unusual rebuttal to a national education group's research report, the Education Department has charged that "a significant number of school districts" may be failing to comply with regulations requiring that private-school students receive an equitable share of federal block-grant funds.
James Hertling, October 24, 1984
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Education Lobbyists, Aides Say 98th Congress Reasserted Federal Education Role
There are those who view the 98th Congress, which adjourned a week later than scheduled and failed to complete action on a number of major initiatives, as a most contentious and unproductive body.
James Hertling, October 24, 1984
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Education Mondale Voted Better for Education
Dearborn, Mich--Nearly two out of three members of state boards of education say that Walter F. Mondale would be more likely than President Reagan to improve the quality of education in the United States if he is elected to the nation's highest office next month.

Sixty-two percent of those board members responding to a poll taken at this month's annual meeting of the National Association of State Boards of Education here said the Democratic candidate for the Presidency would be more likely than Mr. Reagan to improve the quality of American education; 36 percent said President Reagan would support education more, and 2 percent said they were undecided.

October 24, 1984
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Education Florida Chief Seeks Data on Revocation of Teacher Licenses
The commissioner of education in Florida, where 70 percent of the 15,000 applicants for new teaching certificates each year come from out of state, has asked school chiefs across the country to help improve interstate information-sharing on teachers whose licenses have been revoked.
Lynn Olson, October 24, 1984
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Education Expanded Special-Education Services at High-School Level Urged
Jackson Hole, Wyo.--State directors of special education meeting here last week said that it is time for professionals and policymakers to expand special-education services at the secondary-school level.
Alina Tugend, October 24, 1984
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Education State Boards Expect Demography To Influence Reform
Dearborn, Mich.--Identifying emerging societal trends and shaping policies accordingly will be one of the major tasks facing state boards of education as they enter the "second generation" of the current wave of school reform, members of the National Association of State Boards of Education said at their annual meeting here this month.
Tom Mirga, October 24, 1984
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Education NCATE Debates Key Changes in Accreditation
The organization that accredits the schools of education that produce most of the nation's teachers is considering changes that could result in excluding some of the 550 teacher-training programs that have already received accreditation.
Cindy Currence, October 24, 1984
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Education College Costs Seen Soaring Out of Reach, Poll Finds
Nearly 80 percent of the adult Americans surveyed in a new nationwide poll said they believed college costs were rising at a rate that would "put them out of reach of the average person in the foreseeable future."

Over 75 percent said they would be able to afford college tuition now "only with low-interest loans or grants." And 61 percent said they did not think college costs were affordable "for the average person.''

October 24, 1984
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Ed-Tech Policy Issues in Educational Technology
In its final report on a two-year federally funded project designed to give technical assistance to state officials involved in educational technology, Education turnkey Systems Inc. identified these emerging issues and trends:

For every computer in public schools, there are more than 10 in the homes of students. As a result, school officials are faced with equity concerns; opportunities for closer relationships with parents; possibilities for schisms between community, schools, and parents; and an increased demand for individualized instruction, particularly among children who come from computer-using families.

October 24, 1984
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Education Colleges
Presidents of colleges and universities with major intercollegiate sports programs have been meeting in recent weeks to discuss what one has called "the triple crisis" in athletics--ethical abuses, costs, and the poor academic performance of athletes.

In the same week that The New York Times ran a major sports story on abuses of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules by the University of Florida, Walter Byers, the association's executive director, reportedly told members of the ncaa's presidents' commission that the current crisis in intercollegiate sports was more serious than any he has known in 35 years. At a later press conference, John W. Ryan, president of Indiana University and chairman of the commission, said the presidents planned to undertake studies of "the integrity crisis" and the cost-revenue structure of intercollegiate sports.

October 24, 1984
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Ed-Tech Policy Computers
Researchers from The Rand Corporation found the biggest hurdle to overcome in what they called "the first systematic examination of how teachers use micrcomputers" was to find enough teachers who were successfully using computers to study.

"We call it the 'vanishing computer-using teacher phenomenon,"' said Richard J. Shavelson, principal author of the study, which was sponsored by Rand and the National Institute of Education. "No sooner does a teacher become adept with microcomputers than he or she disappears into an administrative position or private industry."

October 24, 1984
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Education Teachers Encouraged To Participate in Reforms
Charging teachers to take more responsibility for creating as well as carrying out educational policy, Patricia Albjerg Graham, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said here last week that "if we have learned one thing from the implementation research of the last two decades, it is that top-down reforms undertaken without the participation of those who must carry them out are doomed to failure."
Pamela Winston, October 24, 1984
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Education Board Approves Bible Instruction
A week after U.S. District Judge Richard A. Enslen issued a temporary injunction barring an evangelical group from conducting Bible-study classes during school hours in one Michigan district, the board of education in a nearby district voted to continue religious classes conducted by the same evangelical group in its schools.

Judge Enslen issued his injunction this month at the request of the state attorney general on behalf of the state board of education. He said the lunch hour is part of the school day and that Bible-club meetings in public-school buildings during school hours are impermissible and unconstitutional, according to Richard L. Miller, superintendent of the Tri-County School District.

October 24, 1984
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Ed-Tech Policy State Officials Report Their Intention To Expand Role in Computer Policy
Pressured by the grass-roots movement that brought computers into schools, state officials now believe they must play a pivotal role in coordinating the use of educational technology if its benefits are to be realized, according to a report prepared for the U.S. Education Department.
Linda Chion-Kenney, October 24, 1984
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Education Federal News Roundup
A coalition of education groups urged President Reagan last week to sign an omnibus education bill to reauthorize impact aid, the Women's Education Equity Act, the National Center for Education Statistics, and programs in adult, bilingual, and migrant education.

Capitol Hill observers speculated last week that President Reagan might resort to a "pocket veto" to kill both this omnibus bill, S 2496, and the $7-billion Head Start reauthorization, which also included authorizations for more than $200 million in new education programs and provisions for latchkey children.

October 24, 1984
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Education National News Roundup
After two days of discussion, the policy committee of the National Assessment of Educational Progress voted 19 to 2 last week to adopt a controversial new assessment program that will allow states and localities on a voluntary basis to compare the educational progress of their students with that of students in other states and localities.

"Some people on the committee thought it was a nice feature and others were not clear on whether it was a wise capability to facilitate," said Ina Mullis, associate director of naep, a Congressionally mandated and federally funded program that regularly surveys the educational attainments of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-old students. The assessments are administered by the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J.

October 24, 1984
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