October 28, 1992

Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 08
Education Federal File: Lobbying; Farewell?
The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee cried foul last week over an "open letter to Colorado voters'' in which Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander lobbies for a voucher measure that will be on the ballot in next week's election.
October 28, 1992
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Education Design Contracts For New Schools Snag Over Rights
Concerns over intellectual-property rights have thrown a wrench into contract negotiations between the New American Schools Development Corporation and many of its design teams.
Lynn Olson, October 28, 1992
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Education Fiscal Referendums in Several States Pit Education Against Business
Fiscal-policy referendums on the ballot in several states next week are opening wide and at times bitter chasms between educators and business leaders.
Lonnie Harp, October 28, 1992
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Education Most Teenagers Found To Notify Parents of Abortions
A new study of unmarried teenage girls by the Alan Guttmacher Institute questions the need for state laws mandating parental involvement in their daughters' decisions to have an abortion.
October 28, 1992
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Education Study Showing Rise in Drug Use Called Into Question
Several drug-abuse researchers have questioned the validity of a study released last week that reports a sharp rise in student drug use during the past year.
Jessica Portner, October 28, 1992
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Education Capital Digest
Congressional leaders have delayed sending to President Bush a tax bill that contains several child-welfare and education-related provisions, apparently hoping that he might reverse himself and sign the bill if he does not have to act until after the Nov. 3 election.
October 28, 1992
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Education A Scare Tactic
This Halloween, some children will leave their Dracula costumes and skeleton suits in the closet to dress up as something truly frightening--an endangered species.
October 28, 1992
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Education Books: In Review
The premise of Rethinking School Finance is that the financial issues raised by today's broad-scale education-reform strategies represent a school-finance agenda that is "dramatically different from the traditional concern with fiscal disparities across school districts within states.'' The book, edited by Allan R. Odden, the University of Southern California school-finance scholar, offers what it calls "a first analytical discussion'' of these emerging issues.
October 28, 1992
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Education 14 Teams Get Grants To Develop New N.Y.C. Schools
Fourteen teams representing a wide variety of agencies and professions have been awarded grants to plan innovative New York City public schools.
Peter Schmidt, October 28, 1992
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Education Tax Limits, Bonds, Board Races on Local Ballots
Fiscal issues with implications for schools will figure prominently in local elections around the country next week.
Ann Bradley & Peter Schmidt, October 28, 1992
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Education Claims for Choice Exceed Evidence, Carnegie Reports
Claims about the benefits of school choice "greatly outdistance the evidence,'' and most public school parents have little desire for such a system, according to a study to be released this week by one of the nation's most prominent education-policy experts.
Lynn Olson, October 28, 1992
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Education 1 in 14 Youths Tried Suicide in One-Year Period, Study Finds
Nearly one in 14 high school students said they had attempted suicide within a recent 12-month period, researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported this month.
Jessica Portner, October 28, 1992
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Education High Court Refuses Tenn. Special-Ed. Reimbursement Case
The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to review a special-education case in which a Tennessee school district was ordered to reimburse the parents of an emotionally disturbed child for educational expenses associated with his psychiatric treatment in a hospital.
Mark Walsh, October 28, 1992
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Education Participation in School-Breakfast Program Jumps 8.9 Percent
The number of schools participating in the federal school-breakfast program jumped 8.9 percent this fiscal year--the biggest increase in 13 years--due to a sluggish economy and stepped-up efforts to sign up schools, a research and advocacy group reported last week.
Jessica Portner, October 28, 1992
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Education Opinion When Ability Grouping Makes Good Sense
The recent educational literature has been filled with discussions of the effects of ability grouping, tracking, etc., and new virtues have been found in the concept of heterogeneous grouping of students. The homogeneous grouping of slow-learning children does not appear to be profitable, but the homogeneous grouping of bright students is a very different matter, and often ignored in these discussions.
James J. Gallagher, October 28, 1992
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters To The Editor
To the Editor:
Your Oct. 14, 1992, article entitled "Senators Ask G.A.O. To Investigate Grants for a Political Taint'' includes at least two serious and knowingly false statements issued by Diane Ravitch, the U.S. Education Department's assistant secretary for educational research and improvement.
October 28, 1992
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Education Opinion Common Understandings for Complex Reforms
A crucial link is missing between the goals of current reform initiatives and the strategies used to implement them. This missing link is significant enough to impede achievement of the goals, for without it reform initiatives will remain simply that: initiatives from without, rather than understandings shared by those integral to the delivery of education.
Jean Moon, October 28, 1992
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Education Opinion Like Democracy, Reform Is Not a Spectator Sport
As Presidential candidates crisscross the nation on tour buses talking about a "new covenant'' between individuals, communities, and government, Americans are putting the power of community organization to work for education.
Robert F. Sexton, October 28, 1992
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