August 21, 1985

Education Week, Vol. 04, Issue 40 & 41
Education Schools Facing Logistical Quagmire on Chapter 1
With classes set to begin in a few weeks, public-school officials in the nation's largest cities say they do not know how they will provide Chapter 1 remedial instruction to parochial-school students, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has invalidated the way that almost all 183,000 of those students have received the aid.
James Hertling, August 21, 1985
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Education Q&A: Education Department Issues Guidelines for Chapter 1 Programs
The Education Department last Thursday provided guidance in the form of questions and answers to state education authorities on how to administer Chapter 1 remedial-education programs for religious-school students, following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Aguilar v. Felton.

Following are excerpts from the guidelines:

August 21, 1985
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Education N.I.E. Awards $56 Million for 6 Research Labs
The Education Department recently awarded contracts totaling $56 million over five years for the operation of the bulk of its system of educational-research laboratories.
Tom Mirga, August 21, 1985
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Education Authors Sue To Overturn Ban On 'Secular Humanism' Funds
A group of prominent authors has asked a federal district court to strike down a little-known education statute that forbids the teaching of "secular humanism" in certain federally funded magnet schools.

The science writer Isaac Asimov, who is also president of the American Humanists Society; the photographer and author Gordon Parks, whose book The Learning Tree has been banned in some schools; and the behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner, joined with a number of New York teachers and students in bringing the suit against the U.S. Education Department and other federal agencies that might become involved in enforcing the measure.

August 21, 1985
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Education Schools Not Included in Firm's Offer To Settle Asbestos Suits
Three years after declaring bankruptcy, the Manville Corporation--one of the world's leading asbestos suppliers--has offered to pay victims of asbestos-related health injuries $2.5 billion, in what could be the largest health-related settlement ever made by an American company.
Lynn Olson, August 21, 1985
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Education Governors Study 'Toughest Issues' Facing Schools
In an effort to "set the American education agenda for the next five years," the National Governors' Association will develop policy recommendations this year on seven of the "toughest issues'' facing public education, Gov. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee announced here this month.
Cindy Currence, August 21, 1985
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Education Day Care, Aggressive Acts Linked
Academically oriented day-care centers may make children more aggressive than others of the same age, at least during the first few years of school, a federally funded study has found.

The study, directed by Ron Haskins, associate director of the Bush Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, found that children who had attended a center designed to improve their iq's were more likely to hit, kick, push, threaten, and argue than others.

August 21, 1985
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Education Phone Firm Offers Student Career Seminars
U.S. West Inc., the Denver-based parent company of Pacific Northwest Bell, Northwestern Bell, and Mountain Bell, has established an education foundation to promote a seminar on career and academic choices for high-school students nationwide.

The U.S. West Education Foundation, based in Seattle, will sell to major corporations around the nation training materials and licenses to distribute a two-hour curriculum program for 9th and 10th graders in local high schools.

August 21, 1985
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Education Isolation of Black Girls Said To Begin Early
The treatment of black girls by their teachers in the early grades helps produce a pattern of school isolation among the girls later on, even though they tend to start school with a high degree of sociability, two university of Florida researchers argue.

The researchers based their findings on a review of more than 60 desegregation studies conducted over the past 10 years.

August 21, 1985
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Education Mississippi Resolves School-Aid Disparities
School districts in 24 northern Mississippi counties this month will begin receiving additional state funds to offset financial inequities caused by an 1832 Indian treaty involving the sale of school-trust lands. (See Education Week, Nov. 28, 1984.)

The added funding was approved by the 1985 legislature.

August 21, 1985
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Education 'Boat' Children Excel in School, Study Says
A study of "boat people," refugees who came to the United States after fleeing Indochina by sea, suggests that cultural values and family-centered achievement goals can promote high levels of academic attainment, even where financial resources and educational services are minimal.

The study, directed by Nathan Caplan of the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Resources and John K. Whitmore of the university's Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, examined the academic progress of children in 200 refugee households in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Seattle, and Orange County, Calif.

August 21, 1985
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Education Appointments
In the Districts

Cecil F. Carter, deputy to the secretary of education for the Virginia State Department of Education, to deputy superintendent of the Savannah-Chatham County (Ga.) Public Schools.

August 21, 1985
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Education State News Roundup
Washington state's constitutional mandate to provide "ample" education to children does not mean students can attend whatever school districts they choose, the state supreme court ruled this month.

The Aug. 8 opinion overruled by a 7-2 vote a superior-court decision that the North River School District must allow two children from that district to attend school in nearby Cosmopolis because the children's parents felt they would receive a better education in Cosmopolis.

August 21, 1985
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Education Constitutionality of Vouchers Uncertain, Says Bennett; Defends Religion Stance
Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, while chastising the U.S. Supreme Court for striking down certain public-aid programs in religious schools, last week acknowledged that his proposed education-voucher plan might not pass constitutional muster.
James Hertling & Alina Tugend, August 21, 1985
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Education Reagan Threatens to Veto Bills Above Senate Spending Cap
Dissatisfied with the spending cuts in the Congress's mid-summer budget resolution, President Reagan last week threatened to veto fiscal 1986 appropriations bills that exceed funding levels approved by the Senate last spring.
James Hertling, August 21, 1985
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Education Repeal of Kansas City Desegregation Order Sought
The fate of a new, $87-million school-desegregation plan for Kansas City, Mo., has been thrown into doubt by the response of the state of Missouri, the city school board, and the black parents whose lawsuit prompted the plan. All have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to overturn the court order establishing it.
Tom Mirga, August 21, 1985
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Education Graham's Veto of School-Construction Funds Challenged
The Florida House of Representatives has filed suit in state supreme court alleging that Gov. Robert Graham's line-item veto of $5.8 million in a $232-million school-construction bill violates the state constitution.

The suit seeks to have the vetoes expunged from the record.

August 21, 1985
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Education Organization Seeks Limits on Massachusetts Income Tax
The grassroots Massachusetts organization that led a successful 1980 campaign to limit property taxes statewide has set its sights on state income taxes, but without the support of a former key ally.

Citizens for Limited Taxation--the group that initiated Proposition 2, one of the first property-tax-limitation measures in the nation--filed two new initiative-petition proposals this month.

August 21, 1985
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Curriculum Chicago Scuttles Mastery-Reading Plan After $7.5-Million, 5-Year Commitment
The Chicago Board of Education last week unanimously agreed to stop requiring a controversial reading program that has cost the city approximately $7.5 million in the last five years.
Lynn Olson, August 21, 1985
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Education National News Roundup
Secondary-school principals questioned in a recent survey by the National Association of Secondary School Principals cite the lack of money as the "biggest problem" facing their schools.

Of the 230 principals responding to the nassp's first membership poll, 53 percent agreed that their major concern was money, 19 percent said it was truancy, and 16 percent cited discipline.

August 21, 1985
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Education Vocational Programs 'Seriously Flawed,' Need Retooling, Says Finn
Calling current vocational-education programs "very seriously flawed," a high-ranking U.S. Education Department official told state legislators meeting here this month that schooling for non-college-bound students must be re-examined to strike a balance between the "educational excellence" desired by school reformers and the employment training needed in a rapidly changing workplace.
Cindy Currence, August 21, 1985
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Ed-Tech Policy Report Calls for Computer-Use Strategies
By 1990, Close To Three Million Microcomputers Will Be Installed In american Schools, But Their Successful Use Will Depend On Whether education Officials Adopt Effective Planning, Staff-training strategies, Implement Necessary Institutional Reforms & An
August 21, 1985
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Education Research and Reports
Television programs and commercials geared to young children foster sex-role stereotypes, according to a study conducted at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

The study, which looked at programming produced by ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS, found that children's programs contain 200 percent more "gender-indicative" language than occurs in normal conversation.

August 21, 1985
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Education Rural Educators See Bright Future, Innovation Despite Fiscal Woes
Despite the farm problems that limit the financial resources available to rural school districts and the state reform mandates that add heavily to the districts' costs, many of the rural educators gathered here for the second annual National Rural Education Forum offered an optimistic view of the future.
J.R. Sirkin, August 21, 1985
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Education Paul Salmon Killed in Plane Crash
Paul B. Salmon, who served as executive director of the American Association of School Administrators from 1971 until he retired last April, was killed Aug. 2 in the crash of Delta Airlines flight 191 in Dallas.

Mr. Salmon, 66, had spoken to a group in Miami the day of the accident and was scheduled to address a technology conference in Dallas the following day.

August 21, 1985
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Education U.S. Loan Agency Presents Teacher Awards
The Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) has selected 100 first-year elementary and secondary teachers for the Sallie Mae Teacher Awards.
August 21, 1985
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Education Rural-School Groups Skirmish Over Research Agenda
Although there was near unanimous agreement here about the need to stimulate more research on rural-education issues, a sharp dispute occurred over which research agenda the U.S. Education Department should endorse--one submitted earlier this year by the National Rural Education Research Consortium, or another proposed by the Rural Education Association.
J.R. Sirkin, August 21, 1985
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Ed-Tech Policy E.D. Panel Urges Technology Training for Teachers at All Levels
Boston--Teachers at all levels, from kindergarten through college, should be trained to use technology where appropriate, and each state should have at least one school-based demonstration site to display the best applications of technology, according to a series of recommendations drafted by the National Task Force on Educational Technology.
Linda Chion-Kenney, August 21, 1985
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Education News Updates
The Carlstadt-East Rutherford (N.J.) Regional School District cannot require its 516 high-school students to provide urine specimens for tests designed to detect drug use, a state judge ruled last week.

Judge Peter Ciolino of State Superior Court in Hackensack barred implementation of the new policy until Sept. 3, when he will conduct hearings on whether to make his ruling permanent.

August 21, 1985
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