October 31, 1984

Education Week, Vol. 04, Issue 09
Education Hemp Seeds Are for the Birds ... Or Are They?
In Palm Beach County, Fla., what started out as just another student fad has turned into a murky legal issue that has district officials grappling with how to deal with students who are smoking bird seed to get high.

When Johnny McKenzie, director of security for the Palm Beach County School Board, heard that some youths in his 73,000-student district were mashing, rolling, and smoking hemp seeds--a high-quality bird seed that is sold in local pet stores--he decided to investigate further.

October 31, 1984
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Education National News Roundup
The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and College Retirement Equities Fund has announced that it will comply in full with federal court orders requiring it to pay equal monthly pension benefits to both men and women who retired after May 1, 1980.

The private pension company made the announcement shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court declined on Oct. 15 to review a federal appeals court's ruling that tiaa-cref's practice of paying women lower monthly pension benefits represented illegal sex discrimination. (See Education Week, Oct. 17, 1984)

October 31, 1984
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Education Warning Signs
Experts advise that parents and teachers watch for a number of suicide warning signals in adolescents. These include:

Changes in eating or sleeping habits.

October 31, 1984
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Education Coalitions in 4 States Battling Measures On Taxes, Lotteries as Election Nears
With Election Day just one week away, education and political leaders in four states are fighting to defeat property-tax-limitation ballot proposals that they contend will cripple education.
Anne Bridgman, October 31, 1984
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Education Books On Suicide
The Library of Congress/CBS Book Project has compiled the following list of books on the subject of youth suicide:

Coping with Teenage Depression: A Parent's Guide, by Kathleen McCoy, New American Library, 1982.

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Special Education City's Special-Education Programs Criticized
The Providence (R.I.) Advisory Committee to Special Education has told school officials that its study of the city's special-education programs uncovered numerous problems.
October 31, 1984
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Education Opinion 'The National Responsibility' For Equality of Educational Opportunity
The need to solve the problems of education in this country is as urgent today as it ever was. Whether one is talking about public or private education, lower or higher education, the need is critical.
John Hope Franklin, October 31, 1984
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Education Opinion Fun with Funding in Science and Math Education
They all agree: The nation is in the throes of a serious crisis in science and mathematics education. O.K. After drifting for a decade and a half, we're ready to get with it.
F. James Rutherford, October 31, 1984
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters To The Editor
I'd like to respond to Robert Primack's vociferous and shameful attacks on creationists ("'Miseducators' Offer Irrational Support of Creationism Theory" and "A Re-Reaction Against Offering Creationism a Place in the Curriculum," Education Week, May 30, 1984, and Sept. 19, 1984).

I find them shameful because I am a creationist and believe that much of his argumentation only skims the surface, and because I thought such name-calling should be confined to the school playground and not found in an education journal.

October 31, 1984
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