July 14, 1993
Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 39 extra edition
Education
N.J. District's Effort Offers a Model for Fighting TB
Angelica Mendes, an 8th grader at Morgan Village Middle School here, stared nervously at the wall of the school nurse's office and pursed her lips in anticipation of a needle puncture in her forearm.
Education
State Journal
Officials in two states are stewing over alleged shortchanging of public revenues from the lottery.
Education
Parents of Delinquents Ruled Liable
California parents may be prosecuted and jailed for failing to supervise and control their delinquent children, the state supreme court has ruled.
Education
What, No Jerry Lewis?
A hard-luck school district in the Chicago area last month made the unusual decision to hit the airwaves with a fund-raising telethon to keep its schools afloat.
Education
Column One: Administrators
The National Association of Secondary School Principals has released a report on scheduling middle-level classes to meet the needs of adolescent students.
Education
N.Y.C.'s District 2 Gives Top Priority to Educators' Learning
NEW YORK--As the cab he is riding in darts through morning traffic in lower Manhattan, Anthony J. Alvarado is expounding on his favorite topic: helping people learn to teach better.
Education
Payzant Criticized for Policy Limiting Boy Scout Programs
Conservative Republicans on the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee this month grilled Thomas W. Payzant, President Clinton's choice to be assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, about his treatment of the Boy Scouts and other controversies during his 20-year career as a school superintendent.
Education
Capital Update
Capital Update tracks the movement of legislation, the introduction of notable bills, and routine regulatory announcements.
Education
Border System Defies Low Expectations for L.E.P. Students
CALEXICO, CALIF.--As its name suggests, this town on the nation's southern border seems as much a part of Mexico as a part of California. The border crossing bustles like any big-city intersection as thousands of Mexicans walk or drive here each day to work, to shop, and, sometimes, to stay.
Education
Board Sets Field-Test of National Teaching Certificate
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, which has been primarily concerned with research and development since its founding in 1987, is now preparing to offer the first national certificates to highly accomplished teachers.
Ed-Tech Policy
Technology Column
The Council of Chief State School Officers and the U.S. Commerce Department's national telecommunications and information administration have scheduled a free teleconference early next month to discuss a joint initiative to assess the role that telecommunications may play in helping schools meet the national education goals.
Education
Chicago Facing Setbacks in State Legislature
As they struggle to cope with a projected $415 million deficit, Chicago school officials cannot count on the Illinois legislature for much help.
Education
Ind. Lawmakers Override Veto Despite Warning on School Funds
In a special session bogged down by what some termed Washington-style "gridlock,'' the Indiana legislature passed a budget that could leave schools strapped for cash next winter.
Education
Standards Groups Working for Common Definitions
WASHINGTON--Nearly two years into the full-scale national effort to set standards for what students should know and be able to do, leaders of nine of the projects involved have begun to search for common terms to describe what standards are.
Education
$100 Million Gift Will Enable Peddie To Aid Eligible Students
For the first time in its history, and like very few other independent schools, the Peddie School in Hightstown, N.J., plans by fall 1994 to meet 100 percent of the financial-aid needs of all eligible students, thanks to a $100 million gift.
Education
G.A.O. Blasts Method for Reporting NAEP Results
The reporting of results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in a way that tells whether students are doing better or worse than experts think they should is "fundamentally flawed,'' a hard-hitting federal report released last week concludes.
Education
Sciences Academy Explains Approach to Standards Process
The National Academy of Sciences has released a document that outlines for the first time the approach it will take in developing standards for top-notch science teaching and assessment.
Education
Attention to Children Urged in Weighing Policies on Pesticides
The federal government's scientific and regulatory policies are "seriously deficient'' in protecting infants and children from the potentially harmful health effects of pesticides in their diets, according to a National Research Council report.
Education
Senate Approves Its Version of Direct-Lending Legislation
The Senate last month narrowly approved a budget-reconciliation bill that would achieve $4.3 billion in savings over five years by taking steps to replace the Federal Family Education Loan Program with one in which the federal government makes loans directly to students through higher-education institutions.
Education
House Approves $28.6 Billion Budget for Education
The House has approved a $259.8 billion social-services spending bill for fiscal 1994 that includes $28.6 billion for Education Department programs--an overall increase of $1.07 billion, or 4 percent, for the department from this year.
Education
PBS Plan Calls For Expanding Preschool Programs
The Public Broadcasting Service has come up with a plan to help make preschoolers even more "ready to learn.''
Education
Opinion
Standards and Diversity Down Under
Among American educators, the idea that we need tougher assessment to produce higher educational standards is high on the policy agenda
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
Joe Schneider writes in his June 9, 1993, Commentary, "Can the Schoolhouse Handle Systemic Reform?'', that "before we legislate systemic reform, let's insure that children's opportunity to learn isn't determined by the physical condition of the schools they attend.'' This disciple of Jonathan Kozol honestly believes that a state-of-the-art building coupled with on-site education, health, and social services (his idea of a holistic education) is systemic reform.
Joe Schneider writes in his June 9, 1993, Commentary, "Can the Schoolhouse Handle Systemic Reform?'', that "before we legislate systemic reform, let's insure that children's opportunity to learn isn't determined by the physical condition of the schools they attend.'' This disciple of Jonathan Kozol honestly believes that a state-of-the-art building coupled with on-site education, health, and social services (his idea of a holistic education) is systemic reform.