June 20, 1990
Education Week, Vol. 09, Issue 39
Education
Electronic Yearbook
While the yearbook staff at South Eugene (Ore.) High School assembles the photographs, advertisements, and layouts for the print version of the school's annual, a separate staff is hoarding electronic images, collecting sound bites, and videotaping school events to compile an electronic counterpart to the high-school standby.
Education
News In Brief
For the second time in about six months, North Dakota voters have rejected a proposal to raise state taxes for education.
Education
Private Schools Said Free From Anti-Drug Mandate
Washington--Exposing an apparent loophole in the drug-education bill adopted by the Congress last year, Education Department officials said last week that private schools are not required to have anti-drug policies and programs as a prerequisite to receiving federal funds.
Education
Georgia Ends Performance-Based Tests for Teachers
Georgia's "performance-based" teacher-certification system, one of the first to require teachers to demonstrate their skills in an actual classroom, came to an end last week.
Education
Children's Express Asks Media Focus on Youth Issues
Children's Express, the news service run by school-age journalists, celebrated its 15th anniversary last week with a two-day symposium here that focused on the need for more media coverage of children's issues.
Education
Thompson Seeks To Expand Learnfare Into Early Grades
Federal authorities have cleared the way for Gov. Tommy G. Thompson of Wisconsin to seek expansion of a controversial program that allows the state to cut welfare benefits to parents of children who do not attend school regularly.
Education
Little Progress Is Seen on National Education Goals
With barely a month to go before the governors' summer meeting in Mobile, Ala., the states' chief executives and the White House appear to have made little progress in furthering the nation's education goals.
Education
Senate Clears Family-Leave Bill, But Veto by Bush Is Threatened
The Senate late last week passed and sent to President Bush legislation requiring firms with more than 50 employees to grant workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave a year to care for newborn, newly adopted, or newly placed foster children or ill family members.
Education
Media Column
Many school boards today have their regular meetings televised to the community, usually on a local cable channel. In Los Angeles, such telecasts appear on KLCS-tv, a public-broadcasting station owned by the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Education
D.C., Museum To Open School for At-Risk Youths
In what is described as the first such collaboration of its kind, the District of Columbia public schools and a local children's museum have announced plans to open a school for 7th-grade students who are thought to be at risk for dropping out.
Education
75 Groups Sound Warning Over Expansion of Assessment
Warning that plans to expand the National Assessment of Educational Progress may be "dangerous," a group of some 75 education and civil-rights groups and researchers has urged policymakers to resist such moves without "careful review and consideration."
Education
Teachers, Administrators Skeptical of Detroit Choice Plan
The heads of teachers' and administrators' groups in Detroit are expressing ambivalence about school-based-management and parental-choice proposals that district officials are promoting nationally as a model for improving urban education.
Education
In Charleston, Desegregation Case Dismissed
A federal judge has dismissed a school-desegregation case against the Charleston County, S.C., public schools, ruling that the U.S. Justice Department and lawyers for black plaintiffs in the case have failed to prove their allegations that the unusual structure of the district violates the rights of black students.
Education
House Panel Nears Agreement on Omnibus Education Bill
Washington--Leaders of the House Education and Labor Committee were nearing agreement last week on an omnibus bill that represents a compromise between President Bush's education initiative and an expansive alternative drafted by the panel's Democrats.
Education
Counselors in Elementary Schools: Children's 'Prevention Specialists'
In a classroom at the Enterprise Elementary School here, six 4th graders are engaged in an unusual bingo game. Instead of letters or numbers, the blocks on their boards bear words that connote a positive self-image, such as "proud," "important," "relaxed," and "secure."
Education
Districts News Roundup
The superintendent of the Milwaukee public schools has ordered a freeze for 120 days on all major purchases of technology and has barred employees from attending events paid for by computer manufacturers.
Education
Conferees Make Progress On Child-Care Measure
Conferees from the House Education and Labor and Senate Labor and Human Resources committees made progress last week in reconciling some of their differences over child-care legislation.
Education
Early Years Column
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development is preparing to recruit subjects for a long-term study that could shed light on how day care affects infants.
Education
Action on Education Bill Seen in Renewed Budget Process
While continuing their budget talks with Bush Administration officials, Democratic leaders of the Congress have restarted the budget process on Capitol Hill.
Education
Education Honorario Found To Yield Scant Cash for Members of Congress
The 1989 financial-disclosure forms recently released by members of the Congress appear to support the widely held belief that specializing in education is not a route to impressive earnings from outside groups.
Education
Opinion
Philanthropy and The Restructuring Of Schools
Philanthropy has developed in this country as nowhere else on earth.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters To The Editor
To the Editor:
The arguments put forth by Darryl T. Yagi ("Counselors' Proper 'Mission' Is Serving Students," Commentary, May 2, 1990) are, as he suggests, current. They are not, however, new.
The arguments put forth by Darryl T. Yagi ("Counselors' Proper 'Mission' Is Serving Students," Commentary, May 2, 1990) are, as he suggests, current. They are not, however, new.