September 19, 1990
Education Week, Vol. 10, Issue 03
Education
Monitoring Panel Likely To Be Inserted in Bill, Aides Say
Washington--It appears likely that a provision establishing an independent panel to monitor progress toward national education goals will be incorporated into pending omnibus education legislation, Congressional aides said last week.
Education
State Journal: Governor's blast; Campaign blunder; Stop v. Go
One of the leitmotifs of California education over the past eight years has been the tension between Gov. George Deukmejian and the state's public-school community, in particular Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig.
Education
'Latchkey' 8th Graders Likely To Possess Emotional 'Risk Factors,' Study Discloses
"Latchkey children" are much more likely to be under stress, to be afraid when left alone, and to feel angry than children with more adult supervision, according to a new study. The University of Southern California study, reported in the September issue of Pediatrics, surveyed 4,852 8th-grade students in southern California. Of those, 67.8 percent reported caring for themselves after school for at least an hour each week.
Education
Mass. Requiring Lead Screening For School Entry
Responding to mounting evidence that children who have been exposed to lead are at higher risk of developing learning disabilities, Massachussetts has become the. first state to require entering kindergartners to show that they have been tested for lead poisoning.0
Education
Media News
John Merrow, the former education correspondent for National Public Radio and the "McNeil-Lehrer Newshour" on the Public Broadcasting Service, is adding another education program at his new television outlet, The Learning Channel.
Education
Early-Childhood Educators Bemoan The Scarcity of Males in Teaching
As the only male teacher at the Westwood School in Dalton, Ga., Jimmy E. Nations has found himself in some awkward situations.
Education
National News Roundup
Nike Inc., the athletic shoe and apparel manufacturer, has donated $1 million to the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education to create a dropout-prevention grant program for teachers.
Education
Educators, Entertainers To Study Music, Arts Instruction
A commission formed to give music and arts instruction a higher profile in the national education-reform debate is scheduled this week to begin a series of three regional hearings.
Education
Senate Panel Approves 15.2% Hike in E.D. Funding
A Senate Appropriations subcommittee last week approved a $176.3-billion social-services spending bill for the next fiscal year that includes $26.5 billion for Education Department programs, a 15.2 percent boost over current levels.
Education
News In Brief
Oklahoma Districts File School-Finance Lawsuit
Disappointed by a $223-million reform bill passed by the Oklahoma legislature this year, a group representing 43 school districts has filed a lawsuit challenging the adequacy of the state's public-education system.
Disappointed by a $223-million reform bill passed by the Oklahoma legislature this year, a group representing 43 school districts has filed a lawsuit challenging the adequacy of the state's public-education system.
Education
Broadcast of PBS's Series on Civil War To Be Accompanied by School Materials
For five nights next week, the Public Broadcasting Service will be bringing the terror and the tragedy of the Civil War into American homes and, through a variety of related educational materials, potentially into American classrooms as well.
Education
C.E.D. Urges 'Life Cycle' Strategy for Labor Force
A prominent panel of business and education leaders is calling for a "life cycle" strategy that would nurture Americans from infancy to old age to prevent serious skill and labor shortages in the next century.
Education
Lax Student-Loan Regulation Invites Abuses, Witnesses Tell Senate Panel
Washington--Regulations and procedures for federal student-loan programs are so loosely written and poorly enforced that they invite abuse by unscrupulous trade-school owners, a variety of witnesses told a Senate subcommittee last week.
Education
Scores on 'Enhanced' A.C.T. Remain Stable in 1990
Average scores on the American College Testing Program test remained stable in 1990, continuing a decade-long pattern of "modest" year-to-year changes, act officials announced last week.
Education
Ariz. Probes Alleged Misuse of Thousands in School Funds
Arizona law-enforcement and state-government agencies are conducting a far-reaching investigation into allegations that officials at the state and local levels stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in education funds over a more than eight-year period.
Education
Teaching Board Wins $3-Million Grant To Publicize Its Work
In a major boost to its efforts to communicate with the nation's teachers, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has received a $3-million grant to publicize its work, the board announced last week.
Education
Drive To Restructure Boston School Committee Dies
Although frustration with the workings of the Boston School Com mittee has been mounting for months, efforts to ask voters to re structure the committee appeared to have died last week.
Education
Dressing For Danger
Responding to a rash of random gunshot killings of children in New York City this summer, a company has begun marketing bullet-resistant vests and other protective items for pupils.
Education
Districts News
Three Chicago-area companies and their executives have been charged with rigging school-milk bids worth more than $4.3 million, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Education
Federal File: Career moves
Some former federal education officials have apparently followed a common, if often maligned, Washington career path by taking jobs in the industry they had regulated.
Education
People News
Jay B. Taggart has been named the new superintendent of public instruction for Utah.
Education
Va. Overhauls Department To Shift Focus From Regulation toResearch and Service
The Virginia Board of Education has embarked on what is being described as the boldest reorganization so far of a state education department, by shifting the role of the agency from regulation to research and service.
Education
Faced With Cuts In Funds, Seattle Postpones Rules
Faced with the loss of $3.2 million in federal magnet-schools aid and as much as $10 million in state construction funds, the Seattle school board voted last week to postpone for a year changes in its student-assignment guidelines that it had approved a week earlier.
Education
NAEP Board Reconvenes Standards-Setting Group
Saying that the panelists need more time to discuss their results, the National Assessment Governing Board has reconvened the group that met last month to set the first national standards for student achievement.
Education
Researchers Choose 6 Sites To Test Mathematics Project
Six schools have been chosen to participate in the first phase of the quasar Project, a national initiative to improve middle-school mathematics instruction for students in poor communities.
Education
States News Roundup
Florida teachers who fail the state certification examination are entitled to unemployment compensation, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
Education
250,000 Teenagers Have Used Steroids, Number May Be Growing, Studies Find
Washington--More than 250,000 adolescents have used steroids illegally and the number who use the potentially dangerous substances may be growing, two reports released by the Health and Human Services Department conclude.
Education
Cable Network Begins Second Season of High-School Sports
With a schedule that reduces the number of football games televised while adding girls' basketball and other sports, the cable network SportsChannel America was set last week to begin the second season of its controversial, five-year contract to broadcast high-school athletics.