August 4, 1993
Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 40
Education
Capital Update
Capital Update tracks the movement of legislation, the introduction of notable bills, and routine regulatory announcements.
Education
Highlights of E.S.E.A. Proposal
The Clinton Administration's proposal for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will not formally be released until next month. But interviews with Administration officials, lobbyists, and Congressional sources, as well as a draft outline obtained by Education Week, have revealed many of the proposal's likely features:
Education
National News Roundup
Many environments where young people live fail to provide adequate support and opportunities to prepare them to be healthy, productive adults, a National Research Council study concludes.
Education
E.C.S. Mulls How To Counter Public Hostility Toward Change
Members of the Education Commission of the States met here last month to grapple with the budget woes that have plagued them for the past several years and to ponder what many described as a growing trend: public hostility toward reforms sought by education experts and school officials.
Education
Appointments
In the Schools
Sue A. Bloemer, associate principal of the upper school, Pembroke Hill School, Kansas City, Mo., to principal of the upper school.
Sue A. Bloemer, associate principal of the upper school, Pembroke Hill School, Kansas City, Mo., to principal of the upper school.
Education
District News Roundup
The school board in Fort Smith, Ark., must pay lawyers' fees to parents who took the district to court in an effort to enforce a ruling in a special-education dispute, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Education
Mich. Law Bans Property Tax Use To Fund Schools
Michigan lawmakers have set the stage for a comprehensive overhaul of the state's education and tax systems by voting to scrap all property-tax funding for the state's schools beginning next year.
Education
Gore Seeks E.D. Employees' Opinions On Increasing Efficiency
WASHINGTON--Vice President Gore last month took his "reinventing government'' road show to the Education Department, where he solicited suggestions from employees on how to make the agency more efficient and effective.
Education
Column One: Curriculum
Hoping to give budding artists the same status as athletes, officials at Waterford (Conn.) High School have begun awarding comprehensive letters to students who demonstrate achievement in the arts.
Education
New In Print
Education Policy
Changing Schools: Progressive Education Theory and Practice, 1930-1960, by Arthur Zilversmit (The University of Chicago Press, 5801 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60637; 251 pp., $14.95 paper). Documents the implementation of John Dewey's progressive-education reforms in Chicago schools from the Depression through the post-World War II period.
Changing Schools: Progressive Education Theory and Practice, 1930-1960, by Arthur Zilversmit (The University of Chicago Press, 5801 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60637; 251 pp., $14.95 paper). Documents the implementation of John Dewey's progressive-education reforms in Chicago schools from the Depression through the post-World War II period.
Education
Geography Educators Release First Draft of Curriculum Standards
Emerging standards in geography education sketch a broad, ambitious view for teaching that subject in classrooms nationwide.
Education
People News
Constance E. Clayton, the superintendent of the Philadelphia public schools since 1982, has announced her retirement effective the end of this month.
Education
Colleges Column
Fiscal constraints on college campuses are leading to changes in enrollment policies, faculty hiring, and teaching, according to a report issued last week by the American Council on Education.
Education
Change in Course Eyed for Flagship Federal Program
The fundamental changes in the Chapter 1 compensatory-education program envisioned by the Clinton Administration and by a consensus in the education community are likely to include a shift in the program's primary focus from remedial help for individual children to efforts to transform high-poverty schools.
Education
Midwest Districts Assess Flood Damage, Weigh School Openings
West Alton Elementary School, northeast of St. Charles, Mo., has survived floods before.
Education
St. Louis Summer Law Internship Hailed as National Model
Mark Zoole is lecturing the class on the cross-examination of witnesses.
Education
Phila. Embraces Whole-School Approach Wholeheartedly
For backers of Chapter 1 schoolwide projects, this district is an example of what a whole-school approach to compensatory education can achieve.
Education
Measure To Break Up L.A. District Dies in Assembly Committee
A plan to break up the Los Angeles Unified School District has died in the California legislature.
Education
Curriculum Seeks To Hook Students Into Aquaculture Careers
Steven Lazelle shuts down a bubbling aerator to give a visitor a clear view of the pale fish milling about in the 1,000-gallon tank below.
Education
Difficulties Seen in Updating Poverty Figures for Districts
WASHINGTON--Updating poverty figures between decennial census counts to better target federal education funds would be both difficult and expensive, and estimates for small school districts could prove unreliable, statisticians told lawmakers last month.
Education
8th-Grade Math Achievement Tied To Focus on Algebra, Geometry
Eighth graders' achievement in mathematics may be linked to how much teachers emphasize algebra and geometry in their classrooms, an analysis of results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress suggests.
Education
School Nurses Issue Standards for Practice
Acting independently of the wider nursing profession for the first time, the National Association of School Nurses this summer released a new set of standards for members of the profession.
Education
State Journal: Talk-show crusade; Tropical trepidation
What began as a talk-show conversation in West Virginia has evolved into a state supreme court case pitting a construction worker and a mother of three against a state agency.
Education
N.C. Law Revoking Tenure for New Principals Upsets Teachers
A new North Carolina law revoking tenure for newly hired principals has polarized education groups and sent ripples of anxiety through the state's public schools.
Education
Catholic Gathering Draws Youth to Denver Meeting With Pope
Some 164,000 young people from the United States and around the globe will make a pilgrimage to Denver next week to see Pope John Paul II and to entreat their peers to draw nearer to the Roman Catholic Church.
Education
Cleveland Board Adopts Plan for Reducing Busing
The Cleveland school board has approved a reform plan that drastically reduces crosstown busing for desegregation in favor of improving the quality of neighborhood schools, opening more magnet programs, and enhancing the curriculum.
Education
Legislative Update
The following are summaries of final action by legislatures on education-related matters.
Education
Half of Schools Found Not Monitoring Voc.-Ed. Students
WASHINGTON--About half the nation's high schools fail to track whether vocational students find jobs or continue their education after they graduate, according to a report by the General Accounting Office.
Education
Vocational-Education Column
Any youth-apprenticeship system, American-style, should take into account the needs of the nation's Hispanic youths, more than two-thirds of whom are unlikely to attend college, a report released last month by the National Council of La Raza concludes.