May 15, 1985

Education Week, Vol. 04, Issue 34
Education Small Districts Join Investment Pools
Because their reserves are typically small and they usually lack administrators with investment expertise, small districts have tended to benefit least from the burgeoning range of investments available.
J.R. Sirkin, May 15, 1985
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Education Urban 'Partners' Discuss Need For Leaders, Minority Teachers
The latest informal assessment of a nationwide program designed to develop collaborative projects between urban schools and universities indicates that the program is yielding benefits beyond what was anticipated.
Sheppard Ranbom, May 15, 1985
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Education National News Roundup
The College Board has awarded 350 Hispanic high-school seniors $1,500 scholarships as part of a program designed to increase the number of Hispanic students going on to college.

An additional 350 students received $100 honorable-mention awards, said Fred Moreno, a spokesman for the board.

May 15, 1985
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Education Research and Reports
If states are to address truancy problems adequately and provide more flexibility in education with greater choice for parents, compulsory-education laws must be overhauled, argues a new report from the Education Commission of the States.

The report analyzes compulsory-education laws in the 50 states and five territories and includes infor-mation from interviews with some 120 education leaders in 15 states.

May 15, 1985
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Education Teachers' Unions Bringing Reform Issues to Bargaining Table
As teacher-contract negotiations proceed this spring, union leaders across the country report that the reform movement is giving a new legitimacy to their longstanding efforts to improve salaries and working conditions, and that in some districts teachers have made startling gains in these areas.
Cindy Currence, May 15, 1985
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Education Senator Sets Panel To Make Chicago An 'Urban Lab'
In an action that follows several reports highly critical of the Chicago public-school system--one calling its dropout problem "a human tragedy of enormous dimensions"--U.S. Senator Paul Simon has taken the unusual step of creating a national task force to turn the city into an "urban laboratory" for educational experimentation.
Alina Tugend, May 15, 1985
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Education Investing Idle Funds: Some Risks, But Greater Yields
Franz Zwicklbauer doesn't pretend to be an expert in high finance. He has so many other responsibilities, he says, that he doesn't have the time to study the markets and stay current on esoteric new financial instruments.
J.R. Sirkin, May 15, 1985
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Curriculum Reading Report Lauded, But Cited for Failure To Resolve Key Issues
New Orleans--Reading specialists meeting here last week said the new report on reading research by the National Academy of Education's Commission on Reading settles some pedagogical issues but fails to resolve important controversies surrounding early reading instruction.
Lynn Olson, May 15, 1985
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Education House Panel Blocks G.O.P. Riders, Clears Child-Nutrition Bill for Vote
Heading off numerous Republican amendments to freeze or cut federal spending for child-nutrition programs, the House Education and Labor Committee last week approved a bill that would increase the programs' $5.3-billion budget by $119 million in fiscal 1986.
Alina Tugend, May 15, 1985
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Education Students Spending More Time On Homework, Study Finds
Secondary-school students who took part in the 1983-84 National Assessment of Educational Progress in reading and writing skills reported spending more time on homework than their counterparts in 1980.
Sheppard Ranbom, May 15, 1985
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Education Charges Traded Over Call for S.A.T.'s Abolition
The president of the Educational Testing Service, Gregory R. Anrig, has criticized the author of a new book, None of the Above: Behind the Myth of Scholastic Aptitude, for recommending the abolition of the New Jersey-based testing service's Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Nicholas Hentoff, May 15, 1985
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Education Special-Education Effort in New York Needs a Major 'Overhaul,' Says Panel
Special education in New York City's public-school system is "too often special in name only" and needs a complete overhaul, according to the report of a mayoral commission.
Alina Tugend, May 15, 1985
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Education Editor Recipient of Print Media Award
Assistant Editor Lynn Olson of Education Week last week was awarded the International Reading Association's 1985 Print Media Award for excellence in journalism on reading or a related topic.

The $500 award, presented to Ms. Olson at the 30th annual convention of the ira in New Orleans, cited her for "Learning To Read, Reading To Learn," a 3,000-word analysis of the debate over reading methods that was included in an Education Week special report on literacy. The 72-page report, "Cracking the Code: Language, Schooling, Literacy," was published in the Sept. 5, 1984, issue of the newspaper.

May 15, 1985
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Education People News
Gail Spitzschuh, a 7th-grade teacher at Holy Family School in the Bronx section of New York City, has been named teacher of the year by Today's Catholic Teacher magazine. The award, presented at the recent annual meeting of the National Catholic Educational Association, honors Ms. Spitzschuh as an "exceptional teacher, counselor, and friend."

May 15, 1985
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Education Sesame-Seed Bun Proves Theory of Relativity
Students now attending Einstein Junior High School in San Diego can be forgiven next fall if they feel like ordering a Quarter Pounder for lunch or if they get the urge to stretch during the seventh period of the school day.

Acting on a committee recommendation and a poll of students, the board of education voted last week to rename their school in honor of Ray Kroc, the late founder of the McDonald's hamburger chain3and owner of the San Diego Padres baseball club.

May 15, 1985
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Education Group Raps States' Monitoring Of Block-Grant Expenditures
An independent assessment of the Education Department's initial review of how federal block-grant funds have been used charges that many of the 23 jurisdictions whose programs were evaluated by the department have not adequately monitored local school districts' use of Chapter 2 money.
James Hertling, May 15, 1985
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Education Books: New in Print
Challenge to American Schools: The Case for Standards and Values, edited by John H. Bunzel (Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016; 248 pages, $19.95).

May 15, 1985
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Education Humanities Laureate Cites Illiteracy As a Threat to American Democracy
Cleanth Brooks, the eminent literary critic who is the National Endowment for the Humanities' 1985 Jefferson Lecturer, said last week that functional and cultural illiteracy in the United States is a problem of "Pearl Harbor dimensions" that threatens the future of democracy here.
Sheppard Ranbom, May 15, 1985
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Education Senate Freezes Spending for Most School Programs
The Republican-controlled Senate last week voted to freeze spending for most elementary- and secondary-education programs next year and to preserve school-lunch subsidies for middle-income students, but recommended that $130 million in impact-aid payments be eliminated.
James Hertling, May 15, 1985
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Education Alumnus Gives $100,000 To 'Endow' Teacher Posts
The chairman of a Wall Street investment firm has pledged $100,000 to endow one or more teaching positions at the Raleigh public high school from which he graduated.
Bill Krueger, May 15, 1985
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Education Federal File: Advice on Drug Abuse; Cooperation; Grahm Going
High-school students from around the country last week told Secretary of Education William J. Bennett their concerns about the major education issues of the day, and much of the talk focused on school discipline and drug abuse among youths.

Mr. Bennett met with about 150 students who were in Washington under the sponsorship of the Close-Up Foundation, which brings young people from across the country to the capital to learn about U.S. government.

May 15, 1985
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Ed-Tech Policy Maryland Educators, I.B.M. To Test Futuristic Computer System
Maryland education officials, with the assistance of the International Business Machines Corporation, will begin installing an experimental computer networking system in five schools next month.
Linda Chion-Kenney, May 15, 1985
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Education Discipline Official Scrutinized Following Safety-Center Uproar
A key figure in the Reagan Administration's effort to promote school discipline may be relieved of some duties upon his return from administrative leave, a Justice Department official suggested last week.
James Hertling, May 15, 1985
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Education Schools Turning to 'Sure Bets' In Wake of Business Failures
School districts across New York State have been adopting conservative investment policies and otherwise tempering their use of investment vehicles, particularly repurchase agreements, since the failure last year of two financial institutions in which many of them had invested.

Repurchase agreements involve the sale of securities to a buyer with a pledge from the seller to repurchase them at a specified higher price on a subsequent date. The securities may be held as collateral by the purchaser or placed in trust with a third party, such as a bank or trust company. Investment advisers say "repos" are virtually as secure as a guaranteed loan, provided the lender takes possession of the securities as collateral.

May 15, 1985
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Education Publishing Column
The Center for Holocaust Studies of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has published the premiere issue of "Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies."

Designed for use by secondary-school teachers, librarians, and other educators, the journal focuses on the history and impact of the Holocaust and offers book reviews, listings of forthcoming events, and descriptions of resources on the Holocaust.

May 15, 1985
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Education Biology Texts Evaluated in 'Apolitical' Review
In what it calls "the first major apolitical effort" by an institution in the sciences or education to review the quality of biology textbooks, the American Association for the Advancement of Science has published more than 100 evaluations of 35 major biology textbooks and supplementary manuals used or scheduled to be used in middle and high schools across the country.
Anne Bridgman, May 15, 1985
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Education Ready, Set, Wait: Open Later, Say States
The tourism industry, seeking to maximize the lucrative summer travel season, has prevailed upon at least six states to prohibit local districts from opening their schools before Sept. 1, and is campaigning in several others.
Blake Rodman, May 15, 1985
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Education State News Roundup
Michigan schools may have to hire instructors without teaching degrees in order to avoid a teacher shortage, Phillip E. Runkel, the state's superintendent of schools, said in a recent interview with a local newspaper.

"We must look at alternative methods to attract people in other professions who already have academic skills but may not have educational backgrounds," he said.

May 15, 1985
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Education District News Roundup
School Volunteers for Boston Inc., a nonprofit organization designed to raise public awareness of the importance of community involvement in education, has launched a parent-education resource center.

According to a prepared statement, the center will enable the group to "help Boston Public Schools' parents to help their own children" and to "focus the attention of the community at large on the critical role that parenting, and the family, plays in children's success in school."

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