September 23, 1992
Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 03
Education
At a Kansas University, Teachers Get Their Own Hall of Fame
The call that changed Anna S. Alfiero's life came one Sunday night last spring, just as she had settled in to watch "Murder, She Wrote'' after a long day working in her yard.
Education
Report on Teenagers' Jobs Outlines Adverse Effects
Far from instilling positive values in young people, the jobs American teenagers hold outside school can have an "adverse effect on their lives,'' according to a report by a national advocacy group.
Education
N.Y.C. Choice Plan Will Open Boundaries of 800 Schools
Beginning next fall, New York City parents will be able to send their children to any public elementary or middle school in the city provided that space is available, Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez announced last week.
Education
Private Schools in Fla., La. Recovering From Storm
Independent and parochial schools in Florida and Louisiana last week were assessing the damage caused by Hurricane Andrew and making plans to reopen.
Education
Cost Controls, Pay Cuts, More Funds Prescribed for L.A.
An independent commission last week concluded that the Los Angeles Unified School District need not impose the "drastic'' employee salary cuts of up to 17.5 percent that had been proposed as a way of closing the district's budget gap, but it warned that some salary reductions will be necessary.
Education
Capital Update
Capital Update tracks the movement of legislation, the introduction of notable bills, and routine regulatory announcements.
Education
Schools on Kauai Set To Reopen After Battering by Hurricane
Public schools on Kauai, the target of the second brutal hurricane to strike the United States in less than three weeks, were set to begin reopening this week, according to Hawaii education officials.
Education
Agency Seeks To Identify Its Best Education Projects
The Energy Department has given $1.76 million to a Massachusetts-based education-research center to identify the best precollegiate mathematics and science education programs undertaken by the department's national laboratories.
Education
Gallup Poll Finds Wide Support for Tuition Vouchers
WASHINGTON--Seven out of 10 Americans say they would back a government-supported voucher system under which parents could send their children to the public, private, or parochial school of their choice, a Gallup poll released last week indicates.
Education
Scuttled Program's Work, Skill Themes Enjoying Resurgence
The career-education movement, which was banished by the federal government a decade ago as a fad with little political clout, is being revived in a new form by reformers searching for stronger bridges from school to work.
Education
The Class You've Known for All These Years
The Beatles may have gone in and out of style, but a spoof of their "Sgt. Pepper's'' look is guaranteed to raise a smile for an Ohio high school class that graduated 20 years ago ... this year.
Education
Publishing
The National Archives is producing a series of "primary source'' document packages intended to give high school, college, and adult readers the information and analytical tools they need to examine texts from difficult passages in American history. The first three titles in the series were released this summer. They explore "Watergate,'' "Women in Industry in World War II,'' and "Internment of Japanese Americans.''
Education
Energy Dept. Lab's Education Report Still On Hold
When analysts at a federally funded research laboratory wrote a report in 1991 questioning the idea of a systemwide crisis in American education, it created an uproar without even being published.
Education
House, Senate Begin Talks on Bill To Assist School Reform
Washington--Congressional aides began negotiations last week aimed at producing a final version of the year's chief piece of school-reform legislation.
Education
Early-Childhood Education Column
The federal Chapter 1 program should be redirected toward providing more support services for disadvantaged children in the early grades, an architect of Head Start has concluded.
Education
News Update
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $2.9 million grant to a nonprofit educational-consulting firm to provide technical assistance to participants in the foundation's State Systemic Initiative Program.
Special Education
Special Education Column
A new report suggests that negative media publicity about the prescription drug Ritalin may have contributed to decreases in use of that medication to control hyperactive behavior in schoolchildren.
Education
State Journal
Gov. James J. Florio of New Jersey has used a high school as a forum for issuing a new challenge in his bruising political battle with the Republican-majority legislature.
Education
Ky. Family-Support Centers a Success, Study Finds
Kentucky's ambitious effort to establish school-based centers offering support for poor children and families statewide is being phased in successfully and has been received enthusiastically by schools, communities, and policymakers, the first study of the program concludes.
Education
People News Roundup
Steven McAuliffe, the widower of Christa McAuliffe, the schoolteacher who was killed in the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, has been nominated by President Bush for the federal bench.
Education
District News Roundup
Violent and other serious crimes increased 29 percent in New York City public schools in the 1991-92 school year over the previous year, district officials reported this month.
Education
Column One
The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education has received a $1.4 million grant from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund to help incorporate health and human-services training into teacher education programs.
Education
Survey Charts Rise in Health Problems Among Pupils
Nearly two-thirds of elementary school teachers
responding to a recent national survey believe that more of their
students have health problems today than in the past, according to a
report released here last week by the American Academy of Pediatrics
and the National PTA.
Education
Q & A: Teachers' 'Declaration' for Future
In March 1991, Impact II, a national nonprofit network of teachers and funder of innovative teaching projects, released a report that outlined a radical future for American schools.
Education
Review Threatens Teacher-Training Institute in Chicago
Two years ago, the Nobel-laureate physicist Leon M. Lederman was able to persuade Congress, in near record time, to fund a promising teacher-training academy designed to upgrade the mathematics and science skills of Chicago's public school teachers.
Education
Down But Not Out, Patched Dade Schools Open
Students, parents, teachers, school employees, and Dade County school officials, full of spirit and vigor, stared down adversity last week as they opened schools three weeks after enduring the fury of Hurricane Andrew.
Education
Legislative Update
The following are summaries of actions by legislatures on education-related matters.
Education
Ballot Box
The 29-page economic plan released by President Bush lists education reform as one of 13 priorities he would pursue in a second term.
Education
Pa. Board Delays Vote on 'Learning Outcomes' Plan
The Pennsylvania state board of education has put off until November a vote on adopting a set of student "learning outcomes,'' amid warnings that the proposal in its current form could be rejected by the legislature.