December 1, 1993
Education Week, Vol. 13, Issue 13
Education
Teachers Column
Recruiting New Teachers, a nonprofit organization that runs public-service announcements to interest people in becoming teachers, has developed a resource guide to help prospective teachers enter the profession.
Education
Test Changes for Chapter 1 Are Predicted
Washington
With Congress poised to begin work on reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, most observers predict lawmakers will make major changes in the way Chapter 1 students are tested and in the way the success or failure of individual Chapter 1 programs is evaluated.
With Congress poised to begin work on reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, most observers predict lawmakers will make major changes in the way Chapter 1 students are tested and in the way the success or failure of individual Chapter 1 programs is evaluated.
Education
Books: New in Print
Higher Education
A Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard Chicano, by Ruben Navarrette Jr. (Bantam Books, 1540 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10036; 256 pp. $21.95 cloth). A 1990 graduate of Harvard University examines the issues of ethnic solidarity, affirmative action, and prejudice as viewed through the lens of his campus experience as a Hispanic student.
A Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard Chicano, by Ruben Navarrette Jr. (Bantam Books, 1540 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10036; 256 pp. $21.95 cloth). A 1990 graduate of Harvard University examines the issues of ethnic solidarity, affirmative action, and prejudice as viewed through the lens of his campus experience as a Hispanic student.
Education
Ky. Finance Study Pinpoints Costs for Schools
Kentucky officials have taken the first step toward a pioneering system for tying state funding formulas to local school budgets, which they hope will provide both a rationale for spending and a connection to results.
Education
Calif. Foundations Urged To Step Up Role in Reform
Reflecting a growing confidence in the potential leverage of private dollars on the public schools, education experts last week urged the California philanthropic community to act independently to influence state education policy.
Education
Differing on Diversity
These days, a photo essay in the student newspaper of Clearwater, Fla.'s Countryside High School can't be just a photo essay.
Education
Council Urges Teachers To Limit Use of Grades To Assess Writing
Teachers should refrain as much as possible from using grades to evaluate students' writing, the National Council of Teachers of English voted at its annual meeting here last week.
Education
Streets of Despair, School of Hope
It only takes 15 minutes to drive from the Congress Hotel in downtown Chicago to the Ida B. Wells Homes on the South Side.
Education
Reform Bill's Prospects in Ala. Appear To Dim
The prospects for enacting court-ordered education reform when the Alabama legislature convenes next month appear mixed at best, and the chances of fully funding the nearly $1 billion effort seem highly unlikely, observers said last week.
Education
Forum Seeks To Make Teachers Partners in Reform
The Education Department last month brought together more than 100 teachers for a two-day forum here on education-reform goals, marking the first time, observers said, that an administration has acknowledged through action that teachers are key players in reform.
Education
District News Roundup
Two South Korean citizens living in the New York City area on student visas have been arrested for their role in a sophisticated plot to hire impersonators to take English-proficiency and college-admissions tests for Asian students.
Education
State News Roundup
A federal judge has threatened to drag the state of Arkansas back into the Little Rock desegregation case unless it does more to monitor the district's compliance with court orders.
Education
San Diego's Bertha Pendleton Climbs to the Top
Plaques line most of the heavy brown shelves in Bertha Pendleton's office in Hillcrest, a clean, busy neighborhood north of Balboa Park and the city zoo in San Diego. Some of the awards form neat rows on the shelves; others seem to have been set down casually, as if they were intended for hanging one day.
Education
Cortines Vows To Refocus on Teaching, Learning
New York City's new schools chancellor, Ramon C. Cortines, said in a recent interview that he intends to refocus the massive school system's attention on "improving teaching and learning,'' but that he rejects pushing a specific blueprint for how that should be done.
Education
National News Roundup
The percentage of school districts that plan to spend more on computer hardware and software in the coming school year is the highest in five years, according to an independent market analysis.
Curriculum
Books: Readings
Teaching an 'Awareness of Interdependence'
Three years ago, the University of Chicago psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi presented an innovative theory of human happiness in a book called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, which documented states of heightened consciousness and satisfaction brought on by the creative process. His latest book, The Evolving Self, describes how the principles of "flow'' can be employed to help individuals and institutions gain greater self-knowledge and social awareness.
Three years ago, the University of Chicago psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi presented an innovative theory of human happiness in a book called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, which documented states of heightened consciousness and satisfaction brought on by the creative process. His latest book, The Evolving Self, describes how the principles of "flow'' can be employed to help individuals and institutions gain greater self-knowledge and social awareness.
Education
State Journal: California squabbling
State Treasurer Kathleen Brown of California and Del Weber, the president of the California Teachers Association, have been waging an unusual shouting match in the local media.
Education
Federal File: Berry is in; Clinton taps Goode
Ending an internal squabble, members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights last month confirmed the appointment of Mary Frances Berry as chairwoman of the independent, bipartisan agency.
Education
N.Y. Bill Mandates Comprehensive Child-Health Care
New York State will require most health-insurance plans to cover immunizations and well-child visits for children and adolescents, under legislation that is expected to be approved by both the legislature and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo.
Education
Disney Weekend Combines Fun, Serious Issues
For Kali Abdullah, a trip to the Walt Disney World resort here was the ultimate escape from her rough neighborhood in Washington, where drugs are sold on the streets, many teenagers carry weapons, and some children plan their own funerals because they do not expect to reach adulthood.
Education
News Updates
Having lost its challenge to Iowa's open-enrollment law, the Des Moines school district has allowed several white students to transfer to other districts.
Education
Legislation Aims To Curb Custodial Abuses in N.Y.C.
The New York State legislature has given final approval to a bill that would give principals in New York City more control over school custodians.
Education
Sampler of Avenues to English Standards Offered
Debate among English educators last week about standards that are being developed for what students should know and be able to do in that subject hinted at the complexity of the task.
Education
Capital Digest
The House last week rejected a deficit-reduction package that would have restricted education spending over the next five years, opting instead for Administration-backed cuts that barely touch education programs.
Education
Vocational-Education Column
No matter how it is calculated, education remains one of the most important contributors to a country's economic growth, a review by the RAND Corporation has found.
Education
Elders Offers Health-Care Prescription for Youths
When Bill Clinton, then the Governor of Arkansas, hired Joycelyn Elders to direct the state's health department, he may have gotten more than he bargained for.
Education
Opinion
Whittling the School Day Away
Earlier this year, the New York State
Board of Regents reaffinned its ban
on Christopher Whittle's "Channel
One," asserting that students
shouldn't be treated as "commodities
to be exploited."
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
I agree with Catherine Belter ("Message to Reduce TV Violence Becoming Louder, Clearer,'' Nov. 3, 1993) that the time has come for further action to reduce the violence on television. Children spend more time watching TV than in any other activity, except sleep. By the age of 18, the average child has spent about 165,000 hours in front of a TV set. The same child will spend less than 13,000 hours in school.
I agree with Catherine Belter ("Message to Reduce TV Violence Becoming Louder, Clearer,'' Nov. 3, 1993) that the time has come for further action to reduce the violence on television. Children spend more time watching TV than in any other activity, except sleep. By the age of 18, the average child has spent about 165,000 hours in front of a TV set. The same child will spend less than 13,000 hours in school.