March 6, 1985

Education Week, Vol. 04, Issue 24
Education Illinois Governor Seeks $200 Million for Reforms
Gov. James R. Thompson of Illinois, speaking before a special joint session of the state legislature, has proposed a $200-million school-reform plan anchored by merit pay for teachers and a student-literacy program.
Don Sevener, March 6, 1985
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Education Job-Plan Funding Cuts Challenged in Congress
Congressional leaders last week said they oppose the Administration's proposal to eliminate the $617-million Job Corps, which provides training for disadvantaged youths as part of the Job Training Partnership Act.
Alina Tugend, March 6, 1985
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Law & Courts E.T.S. Wins $300,000 in Copyright Suit
A federal judge in California has awarded the Educational Testing Service and one of its clients a $300,000 judgment in their lawsuit against a college student who used the firm's copyrighted materials in a seminar to prepare minority students to take graduate-school entrance exams.

ets and the Graduate Management Admission Council filed the lawsuit against Randolph M. Sydnor and his company, Education Preparation Service, for using their trademarks in advertisements and infringing copyrights on published tests that Mr. Sydnor copied and used in his seminars.

March 6, 1985
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Education Excerpts From President's Address to Independent Schools' Group
Following are excerpts from President Reagan's address to the National Association of Independent Schools on Feb. 28.

This spring, we mark the second anniversary of a Department of Education report entitled, "A Nation at Risk." That report concluded, "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war."

March 6, 1985
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Education Future of Cigarette Tax Uncertain
The nation's governors, looking for revenue sources to finance education reform, came away from their winter meeting here last week with mixed signals on an eight-cent federal cigarette tax that is scheduled to expire on Oct. 1.
J.R. Sirkin, March 6, 1985
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Education Half of Chicago Students Drop Out, Study Finds
Calling the dropout problem in Chicago "a human tragedy of enormous dimensions," a recent study has found that almost half of the 39,500 public-school students in the 1980 freshman class failed to graduate, and that only about a third of those who did were able to read at or above the national 12th-grade level.
Alina Tugend, March 6, 1985
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Education Curriculum Column
In Tulsa, Okla., academic achievers are "lettering" in high-school scholastics the way other students letter in track, football, and other sports.

The program, set up by the Tulsa World, a local daily newspaper, provides students with athlete's letters--embellished with an embroidered lamp of knowledge--based on their cumulative grade-point average.

March 6, 1985
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Education Federal File: Curran's Return?; In The Executive Suite; Making His Pitch

Edward A. Curran, who was dismissed in June 1982 by former Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell as director of the National Institute of Education, is expected to return to the federal education bureaucracy as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
March 6, 1985
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Education Sweeping School-Reform Bill Sails Through Georgia Legislature
The Georgia legislature has passed Gov. Joe Frank Harris's sweeping education-reform act without a dissenting vote. The lack of controversy was surprising to many legislators, who had anticipated that it would be the hottest topic of 1985.
Lynn Olson, March 6, 1985
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Education Health Column
The American Health Foundation has issued a set of statistics that offer a pessimistic picture of the future health of the nation's children.

The foundation, an independent research institute for preventive medicine, reported that as many as 40 percent of children between the ages of 10 and 14 have developed one of several risk factors for such health problems as heart disease, cancer, and stroke.

March 6, 1985
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Education Michigan Board Approves Test To Assess Critical-Thinking Skills
The Michigan State Board of Education has approved the development of a test to assess students' "higher-order" thinking skills.
Sheppard Ranbom, March 6, 1985
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Education Divided Court Refuses To Review Bisexual's Firing
The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to review a federal appeals court's decision permitting an Ohio school district to dismiss a bisexual high-school guidance counselor solely on the basis of her sexual preference.
Tom Mirga, March 6, 1985
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters To The Editor
It was good to see your coverage of the English-as-an-official-language debate ("National, State Groups Pressing for English as Official Tongue," Education Week, Feb. 13, 1985). However, a lot more needs to be said and looked at.

As a national civil-rights organization that specializes in the defense and promotion of the educational rights of language-minority children, we are very concerned about the implications of this movement.

March 6, 1985
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Education Opinion Schools Must Care About Families
As dawn breaks each morning across this nation, working parents wake up hoping that their children will be well enough to go to school, their babysitters will show up, and, above all, the school will be open.
Dorothy Rich, March 6, 1985
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