March 6, 1985

Education Week, Vol. 04, Issue 24
Education Opinion Textbooks: 'There Has Never Been a Golden Age'
The latest discovery of the textbook critics is that editors of literature anthologies change words, omit passages, and even sometimes rewrite parts of literary works without clearly indicating such editing.
Edgar H. Schuster, March 6, 1985
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Education Governors Affirm Education as Priority Despite Threat of Federal Budget Cuts
Facing almost certain federal budget cuts that could force them to raise taxes or reduce services, governors interviewed here last week nonetheless reaffirmed their commitment to education reform.
J.R. Sirkin, March 6, 1985
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Education School Funds Voted
The South Dakota House of Representatives last week barely agreed to pass a $78.6-million appropriation for schools that includes $13.6 million to fund school reforms proposed by Gov. William J. Janklow.

The reform package features a controversial $3-million "family option" plan that would allow parents of students enrolled in high schools with fewer than 50 students to attend larger schools in adjacent school districts at the state's expense; a $3.5-million program to provide five additional inservice days for teachers; and a $2-million proposal to encourage smaller schools to share teachers, administrators, and staff- and curriculum-development programs.

March 6, 1985
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Education Report Says States Still Face Economic Woes
Despite the improved national economy, many states are still struggling to recover from the 1981-82 recession and can ill afford another round of federal budget cuts, according to a recently released National Governors' Association report.

The report, based on a survey of state budget officers late last year, reveals that the 50 states accumulated a $6.3-billion surplus in the 1984 fiscal year, and it estimates they will stockpile about $1 billion less than that this fiscal year.

March 6, 1985
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Education Federal News Roundup
On the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in Grove City College v. Bell, which limited the scope of federal laws barring sex discrimination in education, a group of civil-rights organizations gathered to lobby for legislation that would nullify that decision.

The groups--including the National Organization for Women, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund--last week urged passage of the bipartisan "civil rights restoration act of 1985."(See Education Week, Feb 16, 1985.)

March 6, 1985
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Education Schooling in Japan, Part Three Change and Constancy
A venturesome blending of old cultural values with new and foreign ideas has given Japanese education its dynamism. A cautious insistence on planning has given it stability.
Sheppard Ranbom, March 6, 1985
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Education Education's 'Wave of the Future'
If Harumi Aoki's students love to call her "a former housewife," it is not from any lack of respect. It's because the noted poet, recently honored with Japan's prestigious "H Prize" for one of her collections, is teaching creative writing to a class full of Osaka housewives.
Sheppard Ranbom, March 6, 1985
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Education Source Materials on Japan
Following is a list of source materials for "Schooling in Japan" and selected readings on the nation and its schools.
March 6, 1985
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Education 'I'm Not Very Optimistic About Change'
Nobuo K. Shimahara is a professor of educational anthropology in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and a senior researcher at the National Institute of Education, where he is participating in the Japan-America collaborative study initiated by former Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell.
March 6, 1985
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Education Little Power, Many Demands
Even in America, the idea is not as simple as it sounds: Give the best teachers extra pay and recognition and the whole teaching profession will be invigorated.
Sheppard Ranbom, March 6, 1985
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Education Doublespeak
A careful bureaucrat, Mr. T. tells me that he sometimes writes articles for the education journals. But because the Tokyo-based organization he works for is funded by the government and works with teachers, he cannot write exactly what he wants. He must find a middle ground, he says, to please both the conservative education ministry and the liberal teachers' union. His arguments have to be extremely refined to be able to be of interest to these polarized groups.
March 6, 1985
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Education Mama's Hospitality
Whenever I visit Kyoto, I usually stay near the T. family, because Mr. T.--a police detective, private-school owner, interpreter, boarding-house keeper, fortune teller, masseur, musician, etc.--is the best guide to Japanese culture I know and because his wife, "Mama," is a gracious hostess.

Whenever I drop by--no matter what the hour--Mama serves me something to eat or drink and tries to make me comfortable until the sensei (the term for a revered teacher) is free from his various business chores.

Sheppard Ranbom, March 6, 1985
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Education This Commission Is a Far More Independent Body Today
Following are excerpts of an interview with Linda Chavez, staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, by Assistant Editor Tom Mirga.

March 6, 1985
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Education Reconstituted Civil-Rights Commission Steams On New Course
Washington--Last month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency charged with enforcing the nation's employment discrimination laws, announced that it will drastically reduce the number of lawsuits it files aimed at obtaining relief for entire classes of employees, such as blacks and women, and will instead focus more attention on complaints filed by individuals.
Tom Mirga, March 6, 1985
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Education E.D. Drafts Rules for Equal Access
The Education Department has prepared regulations for the Equal Access Act, despite a request from a broad coalition of groups that it refrain from doing so.
James Hertling, March 6, 1985
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Education Pupils Send Peace Messages to Japan on Hiroshima Anniversary
To mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, students from across the United States are sending drawings and messages of peace to students in Japan.
Sheppard Ranbom, March 6, 1985
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Education Minnesota Governor's Voucher Bill Disregards Suggested Changes
Gov. Rudy Perpich of Minnesota last week sent to the state legislature a version of his public-school voucher plan that disregards many of the recommendations of a task force established by the commissioner of education to analyze the proposal.
Anne Bridgman, March 6, 1985
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Education Wildcat Strike Spreads in Mississippi; 74,000 Pupils Out of School
About 74,000 Mississippi students had an unexpected holiday last week, after teachers in 20 districts defied a court order and went on strike.
Lynn Olson, March 6, 1985
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Education Reagan Pledges Administration Focus on Choice
In his first address on education since he began his second term, President Reagan last week termed "choice"--the right of parents to "greater freedom to send their children to the schools they desire without interference by ... government"--the first of five "guideposts" in education to which his Administration would give full attention.
Anne Bridgman, March 6, 1985
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Education New Regulations Causing Concern
Concerned about the tight schedule states face to meet the requirements of the new Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, the National Governors Association convened a special one-day meeting here last month at which state officials discussed the law's details and how they might mesh vocational programs with other employment and training efforts.
Pamela Winston, March 6, 1985
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Education Detroit 'Sweep' Searches Challenged In First Use of T.L.O. Standard
An important component of Detroit's three-month-old school-security initiative could be threatened by a lawsuit planned in response to a surprise "sweep search" of students at a city high school late last month.
Tom Mirga, March 6, 1985
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Education Research and Reports
Strategies to prevent teen-age pregnancies might be more effective in reducing the number of women who require public assistance than strategies that help teen-age mothers after they give birth, according to two Washington, D.C., researchers.

The researchers, Kristin A. Moore, a senior research associate at Child Trends Inc., and Richard F. Wertheimer, director of public economic service at Data Resources3Inc., base their findings on seven computer simulations.

March 6, 1985
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Education District News Roundup
A high-school principal in Gallup, N.M., has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his superintendent.

Osmond C. Fero, principal of Tohatchi High School, was arraigned last week in state court for the murder of Gallup-McKinley County School Superintendent Paul Hanson. At the arraignment, Mr. Fero declined to enter a plea so the court entered a plea of not guilty for him, District Attorney Robert A. Aragon said.

March 6, 1985
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Education State News Roundup
Gov. Ed Herschler of Wyoming has signed into law a bill that permits school districts to develop alternative scheduling as long as they continue to meet state educational requirements.

The new law, which was approved by the state legislature last month, will permit local districts to offer such innovations as a longer school day and a four-day week, said Audrey M. Cotherman, deputy state superintendent of public instruction.

March 6, 1985
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Education News Updates
The Cincinnati Board of Education and the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers have reached an "agreement in principle" on a new three-year contract.

The agreement came three hours before a scheduled one-day strike and marked the end of four months of heated negotiations over salary, benefits, and a variety of educational-improvement issues. (See Education Week, Feb. 20, 1985.)

March 6, 1985
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Education OTHER VOICES: Some Perspectives on Reform
Following are the comments of a broad range of interested parties on how, and whether, the Japanese education system should be changed.
March 6, 1985
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Education 'The Hidden Law'
Twenty-seven-year-old Yukiko Kunishige is a bright, free-thinking woman who excelled in school until a high-school experience she describes as "closed and narrow" ended her desire for formal education. She skipped college, opting instead for what she calls "the reality of the world."
Sheppard Ranbom, March 6, 1985
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Education 'Excellence' Panel Urges Rigorous Teacher Training
The report of the National Commission for Excellence in Teacher Education, released here last week, calls for longer and more intellectually rigorous training programs for prospective teachers.
Cindy Currence, March 6, 1985
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Education Hatch Regulations Misinterpreted, Bennett Asserts
Secretary of Education William J. Bennett said last week that the controversial Hatch Amendment regulations are much narrower in scope than conservative groups' interpretations have claimed.
James Hertling, March 6, 1985
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