April 10, 1985

Education Week, Vol. 04, Issue 29
Education Reagan Administration Opposes Nutrition Bill
A child-nutrition bill that would lower school-lunch prices and broaden eligibility requirements for reduced-price meals "cannot be justified," an Agriculture Department official told a House panel last week.
Alina Tugend, April 10, 1985
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Education Bennett Names Panel To Study Aid Programs
Secretary of Education William J. Bennett last week assigned an Education Department task force the job of studying how the department might streamline its financial-aid programs for college students.
James Hertling, April 10, 1985
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Education Activism: Reaching Broader Group Still a Problem
Citywide and statewide parents' groups are finding one of their biggest problems to be the relatively low participation rate of low-income and minority parents.

"There is a small number of parents in any city who are attracted to citywide school issues," said Marcia Klenbort, director of apple Corps in Atlanta.

April 10, 1985
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Education States News Roundup
Concerned that varying education programs are creating "two Connecticuts, one for the rich and one for the poor," the state's department of education is studying whether wealthy districts offer substantially better programs than poorer ones.

The department has initiated a statewide curriculum survey involving six subject areas and kindergarten, "so we can determine if the programs being offered are equal in some sense," said Betty Sternberg, director of the division of curriculum and professional development. The survey will also enable the department to assist districts in developing new curricula, Ms. Sternberg added.

April 10, 1985
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Education Out, Damned Comma! Out, I Say!
Nearly everyone in America recites the pledge of allegiance incorrectly, according to state education officials in Louisiana.

In a recent letter to the state's 1,500 school principals, department officials pointed out that there is no comma between "one nation" and "under God." Thus, when reciting the pledge, students should not pause between the two phrases, the letter stated.

April 10, 1985
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Education Research And Reports
The chances that a child will smoke, skip school, run away from home, or get into trouble with the law are "somehow related to the nature of families," according to a new Stanford University study.

Children living with stepparents or single parents are more likely than other children to exhibit "deviant" behavior, as are youngsters given autonomy in decisionmaking at an early age, the study found, according to Sanford Dornbusch, Reed-Hodge professor of human bi-ology, sociology, and education, and the author of the study.

April 10, 1985
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Education Arkansas Governor Defends Tests In Debate With A.F.T.'s Shanker
The Governor of Arkansas strongly defended his state's controversial teacher-competency examination here last week during a debate with the president of the American Federation of Teachers and a prominent education researcher.
Tom Mirga, April 10, 1985
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters To The Editor
I am astonished by the attention--and by the credence--given to Albert Shanker's call for a national teachers' examination ("Shanker Urges National Test for New Teachers," Education Week, Feb. 6, 1985). No one, it seems, has bothered to look behind the headlines that the president of the American Federation of Teachers/ afl-cio has won for himself.

A national exam is needed, Mr. Shanker argues, because incoming teachers ought to be tested the way prospective doctors and lawyers are. Journalists and politicians applaud. Don't they know that medical board and bar exams are state functions?

April 10, 1985
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Education Opinion 'It's Never Too Late To Help Children'
All these recent studies of American education, it seems to me, fail to deal with a major point: People don't learn subject matter or skills unless they want to.
Eric W. Johnson, April 10, 1985
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Education Opinion Parents Have Failed in Their Responsibility
Since the National Commission on Excellence in Education roundly indicted the public schools for failing to meet students' educational needs, individuals and communities have scrambled to discover how to improve education.
Edward M. Levine, April 10, 1985
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