June 19, 1985

Education Week, Vol. 04, Issue 39
Education Opinion 'Vivids' and Portfolios Do Not a Master Teacher Make
Some states have already enacted--and almost all others are considering--a statute that promises to reward outstanding teachers and to improve teaching in general. The "and" is instructive. In most cases, one bill is supposed to accomplish both goals.
Theodore W. Hipple, June 19, 1985
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English Learners Uniform Bilingual Rules Lacking, Report Finds
Washington--Estimating on the basis of a survey that there are approximately 1.3 million students with limited proficiency in English enrolled in public and private schools across the country, a new Education Department study suggests that there are still no uniform criteria at the elementary-school level for the identification and placement of such students.
Alina Tugend, June 19, 1985
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Education Analysts Advise Close Watch on News
Computer-industry analysts suggest that educators keep abreast of market news so they can anticipate new developments and the effects they might have on the systems they have bought, or plan to buy.

For example, Anne Wujcik of talmis Inc., a marketing-research firm, notes that:

June 19, 1985
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Ed-Tech Policy Computer Sales Fall, but Not in Schools
Despite signs of a computer-industry shakeout, including sharply falling sales and profits, management reorganizations, employee layoffs, and plant closings, educators in many states say they are buying more personal computers than ever before--but more cautiously.
Linda Chion-Kenney, June 19, 1985
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Education Federal Judge Rejects Denver's Request To Drop Busing Order
A federal judge in Denver has turned down the city school board's third request in as many years to declare the school system fully desegregated and to end mandatory busing for some 11,000 students.
Tom Mirga, June 19, 1985
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Education New in Print
Books

Teachers, Unions, and Change: A Comparative Study, by Dorothy Kerr Jessup (Praeger Publishers, 521 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10175; $33.95).

June 19, 1985
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Education Friday Club Helps Children of Divorced Parents
The Friday Club at the Douglas Alternative School in Columbus, Ohio, may sound like something a lot of students would want to join, but it's for only a select few: the children of parents whose marriages are breaking up.
Susan Hooper, June 19, 1985
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Education Schools Search For Yardstick To Gauge Reforms' Effects
In states that have poured millions of dollars into education reform, pressure is steadily building on public officials to demonstrate that the investment is producing better schools, educators agreed at a conference here last week.
Lynn Olson, June 19, 1985
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Education Louisiana Districts Challenge School-Finance Formula
Two Louisiana school districts have filed suit in federal district court in Baton Rouge in an attempt to force state officials to restructure the state's school-finance formula.
Anne Bridgman, June 19, 1985
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Education Hundreds in New Jersey Seek Alternative Teaching Certificates
New Jersey's alternative-certification plan, which allows prospective teachers to bypass traditional teacher-training programs, has attracted nearly 1,000 candidates, one fouth of whom are from the state's parochial and private schools, a state education official reported last week.
Blake Rodman, June 19, 1985
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Education Decision Imminent on Public Aid to Church-Affliliated Schools
When the U.S. Supreme Court interprets the First Amendment's admonition against state "establishment of religion," it usually does so in cases involving schools, and those cases generally fall into one of two categories.
Tom Mirga, June 19, 1985
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Education Lobbies To Combat President's Proposal on Tax Deductibility
As the Senate opened hearings last week on President Reagan's tax-overhaul proposal, educators and some Congressmen stepped up their attack on his plan to eliminate the federal income-tax deduction for state and local taxes.
James Hertling & Susan Hooper, June 19, 1985
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Education Research and Reports
Gifted children do not watch as much television as their nongifted counterparts, are limited by their parents in the type and amount of programming they watch, and have established bedtimes that are as much as an hour earlier than those of other children, a study has found.

The study, conducted by Juanita G. Roderick, professor of elementary education at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, was based on a survey of 65 gifted students and 65 nongifted students. Both groups attended "rather affluent" suburban Ohio middle schools, Ms. Roderick said.

June 19, 1985
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Education Caveats From Some Potential Emptors
They saw, they wrote--but they're not sure they conquered.

Latin students and teachers at two Virginia high schools are uncertain what the effect was of letters they sent to the Oldsmobile division of General Motors complaining about a Cutlass Ciera television commercial that they said took a cheap shot at the study of Latin.

June 19, 1985
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Education People News
Gov. Robert D. Orr of Indiana has named H. Dean Evans, a senior program officer and director of elementary and secondary education at the Lilly Endowment Inc. in Indianapolis since 1976, as the state's new superintendent of public instruction.

Mr. Evans replaces Harold H. Negley, who resigned in April after being charged with using state education department employees to work on his re-election campaign. Mr. Negley was subsequently indicted by a Marion County grand jury and awaits sentencing. (See Education Week, May 1 and 8, 1985.)

June 19, 1985
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Education High Court Agrees To Accept Lawsuit Testing Pact's Agency-Free Provision
The U.S. Supreme Court last week agreed to review a federal appeals court's nullification of the agency-fee provisions of the contract negotiated in 1982 by the Chicago Board of Education and the city's local chapter of the American Federation of Teachers.
James Hertling, June 19, 1985
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Education Legislatures in 3 States Act on Education Measures
Following are summaries of how education measures fared in states that have concluded their current legislative sessions.

FLORIDA

June 19, 1985
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English Learners Bilingual-Education Lawsuit Filed
A group representing Hispanic parents filed suit in federal district court in Boston last week, charging Massachusetts officials with failure to comply with federal laws protecting the rights of the state's 14,000 Hispanic students of limited English proficiency.

According to lawyers for the Multicultural Education Training and Advocacy Project in Cambridge, Mass., the state officials' actions are directly correlated with the disproportionately high dropout rate among Hispanic students in the state.

June 19, 1985
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Education Accrediting Group Adopts Stiffer Standards for Education Schools
In an effort to upgrade the teaching profession, the organization that accredits teacher-education programs in the nation's colleges and universities has approved a set of tough new standards that institutions will be required to meet if they are to receive and retain national accreditation.
Blake Rodman, June 19, 1985
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English Learners Bilingual Class Action Settled; District To Hire More Teachers
A court-approved settlement has been reached by the Oakland (Calif.) Unified School District and nine families that had sued the district for failing to provide adequate bilingual education for its students.
Alina Tugend, June 19, 1985
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Education Groups Alarmed at Treatment of Troubled Youths
Educators, mental-health professionals, and parents this month told a Congressional panel of their growing concern that adolescents with drug or behavior problems are too often institutionalized rather than treated through other methods.
Alina Tugend, June 19, 1985
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Education New Report Urges Major Reforms in Teacher Training
The improvement of teacher-preparation programs in the South must become an "urgent" item on the agenda of policymakers and college presidents, concludes a new report by the Southern Regional Education Board.
Cindy Currence, June 19, 1985
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Education West Virginia: Epic Mandate, Historic Conflict
Lowell Johnson points to a two-inch thick stack of papers on the corner of his desk.
J.R. Sirkin, June 19, 1985
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Education A Farrago of Smart Kids in an Exciting Milieu
One contestant was an Amish girl from an Ohio farm whose favorite books are adventure stories. Another, a Cambodian refugee, learned English from television and from watching people talk.
Susan Hooper, June 19, 1985
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Education Federal News Roundup
Several school-related projects will share in $492,617 in grants awarded to eight state humanities councils this month by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Among the recipients of grants for "exemplary" projects were the Maine state council, which received $40,000 for a series of master seminars designed to encourage teachers to continue their education in humanities-centered recertification programs.

June 19, 1985
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Education District News Roundup
The Wyoming Board of Education this month approved a decision by Sheridan (Wyo.) County School District No. 1 to switch to a four-day school week.

The district is the first in the state to use the alternate-scheduling plan, according to state education officials.

June 19, 1985
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Education Consensus Elusive on Plan To Reorganize E.D.'s Research Arms
A rift in the education community over the future of the Education Department's research arms has become evident in recent weeks, as two factions circulate competing blueprints for the upcoming reauthorization of the National Institute of Education.
James Hertling, June 19, 1985
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Education Panel Halts Publication of Research Reports
Washington--An Education Department review panel has barred 17 federally supported education laboratories from issuing a number of publications related to research contracted for by the department.
James Hertling, June 19, 1985
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Education Rural Educators Seek Changes In Federal Research Agenda
Representatives of rural schools have told the federal government that the basic research data are lacking on which to make sound school-reform decisions affecting the large rural sector in education.

In a proposed agenda for research submitted this month to the U.S. Education Department, the Rural Education Association urges that the government support more study of rural schools' effectiveness, staff development and support, and curriculum and instruction, as well as the demography and taxonomy of rural education.

June 19, 1985
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