June 19, 1985

Education Week, Vol. 04, Issue 39
Education State News Roundup
A group of 42 educators, parents, business leaders, and government officials has established a private, nonprofit corporation to help the state develop wider agreement on education issues.

The idea for the corporation, the Public School Forum of North Carolina, was developed after several legislators noticed that there were wide differences in public opinion on the education issues before the General Assembly, according to William J. Hancock, a Durham lawyer and former state senator who has been elected chairman of the forum's board of directors.

June 19, 1985
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Education News Update
The lawyers for a functionally illiterate man who sued New York State for failing to give him an appropriate education have appealed his case to the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds that he was deprived of his educational rights under the state constitution without due process of law.

Frank Torres, now 27, was institutionalized in a state child-care agency at the age of 7. He spoke fluent Spanish but did not subsequently learn to speak English, a problem his lawyers charged was the fault of the agencies that acted as his parents. (See Education Week, Jan. 9, 1985.)

June 19, 1985
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Education N.C.E.S. Planning Major Redesign
The National Center for Education Statistics has begun a thorough redesign of its data-collection activities at the elementary- and secondary-school levels.
Tom Mirga, June 19, 1985
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Education Several Agencies Join Fight Against Teen-Age Suicide
As concern about the increasing rate of youth suicide mounts, organizations ranging from a Cabinet agency to a fledgling nonprofit group have announced that they are undertaking ambitious projects to address the problem.
Alina Tugend, June 19, 1985
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor
Rosalie B. Icenhower, Teacher, Bothell, Washington

It was with utter horror, shock, and sickening disbelief that I read my own name among those listed as having received "fraudulent" degrees from Southwestern University in Tucson, Ariz. ("Recipients of 'Degrees' in Education-Related Fields," Education Week, June 5, 1985). I think it only fair that I should have the opportunity to clarify what occurred from my perspective.

June 19, 1985
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Education Opinion Racial Quotas Would Destroy, Not Reform, Boston Latin School
At present, there is a grave threat to the long tradition of excellence at Boston Latin, the nation's oldest public school.
John R. Silber, June 19, 1985
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