June 22, 1994
Education Week, Vol. 13, Issue 39
Education
S.A.T. To Realign Scores for First Time in Half a Century
Scores on the Scholastic Assessment Test will rise automatically as the result of the test's first scoring realignment in half a century, College Board officials announced here last week.
Education
Baltimore's Amprey Backs Off Plan To Increase E.A.I. Role
Besieged by the city's teachers' union and unable to brandish enough data to convincingly defend his cause, Superintendent Walter G. Amprey of Baltimore last week pulled back from plans to have Education Alternatives Inc. manage more city schools.
Education
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of Rulings Favoring 'Full Inclusion'
The U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to disturb two lower-court decisions favoring "full inclusion'' in a regular classroom for a California student with a mental disability.
Education
In the Line of Fire
The sun was just beginning to set on that day in March 1987 when school Police Officer Roosevelt Ferrell spotted three young men trespassing on the grounds of the Compton, Calif., school he was patrolling. A half-hour after Ferrell ordered the youths to leave the campus, they returned and one of them shot the 51-year-old officer in the leg with a small-caliber handgun. Several days later, Ferrell died of complications from surgery.
Education
NASDC Grantees To Hammer Out Plan To Replicate Schools
The New American Schools Development Corporation is planning to put out feelers to up to 40 jurisdictions this month to see if they are interested in replicating its designs on a broad scale, officials have indicated.
Education
State News Roundup
Upholding a 1987 district court judgment, the Texas Supreme Court last week ruled that parents have a right to teach their children at home.
Education
Superintendent Proposes Private Foundation Run Baltimore School
The superintendent of the Baltimore school district has recommended that a private school in Maine take over a city high school threatened with state intervention.
Education
School Cuts Again Seen as Last Resort in Calif.
California lawmakers are preparing for yet another painful summer searching for ways to make up a huge shortfall in the state budget.
Education
Report Documents Benefits of School-Family Ties
There are so many studies demonstrating the benefits that occur when schools work with families to support children's learning that publishing them has become a "growth industry,'' a new report suggests.
Education
Federal File: Saying good-bye; Saying little; Principal addition
Billy Webster, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley's chief of staff, plans to leave Washington by the end of June.
Education
Math, Science Study Finds U.S. Covers More in Less Depth
Science and mathematics curricula for elementary and secondary students in the United States typically cover more topics, but in less depth, than those of other countries, according to the preliminary results of an international study.
Education
New In Print
Curriculum and Methods
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture, ed. by Debra Newman Ham (Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15250-7954; 300 pp., $24 paper; orders must have stock number: S/N 030-000-0025-7). An extensive overview, with bibliographies, pictures, and text, of the Library of Congress's vast holdings on the African-American experience, from slavery to present day.
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture, ed. by Debra Newman Ham (Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15250-7954; 300 pp., $24 paper; orders must have stock number: S/N 030-000-0025-7). An extensive overview, with bibliographies, pictures, and text, of the Library of Congress's vast holdings on the African-American experience, from slavery to present day.
Education
Study Finds Faculty Agree Many Enter College Lacking Skills
College professors in the United States are not alone in feeling
that students arrive on campus lacking adequate skills, according to a
study slated for release this week by the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching.
Education
N.J. Teachers Mobilize To Protest Governor's Budget
As New Jersey lawmakers hustle to pass a balanced budget before the July 1 deadline set in the state constitution, they find themselves caught between a coalition of 16 anti-tax groups and angry public employees, of whom the noisiest appear to be teachers.
Education
Teachers Column
Teachers in Alabama appear to be of two minds when it comes to tenure laws, competency testing, and other professional issues, a statewide poll shows.
Education
Successes, Limits of Calif. Welfare-to-Work Program Outlined
A California welfare-to-work program has reaped some significant earnings gains and welfare savings but is not a panacea for lifting people out of poverty, a new study suggests.
Education
Capital Digest
The House this month passed a bill that would reauthorize the domestic elementary and secondary schools run by the Defense Department.
Education
Church-State Ruling in La. Upholds Capital-Expenses Program
A federal judge has handed down mixed rulings on several church-state issues in a long-pending challenge to government-financed services provided to children in Louisiana's religious schools.
Education
News Update
A judge has ordered the District of Columbia school system to address its nearly 5,700 fire-code violations and told the fire chief to close any school that continues to have life-threatening hazards in September.
Education
News in Brief
Gov. Fife Symington of Arizona last week called a special legislative session in which he will revive a package of education-reform bills--without a voucher proposal that stalled the legislation earlier this year.
Education
People News
Three people who work with youngsters were among the 20 people to receive "genius'' awards from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation last week. They are:
Education
Disney Holds Up School as Model for Next Century
The Walt Disney Company, which created Tomorrowland and the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, or EPCOT, is about to build what it says is the public school of the future.
Education
State Journal: Vouchers and taxes
School vouchers won't be a hot topic during the Texas gubernatorial race after all, now that the Republican challenger, George W. Bush, has distanced himself from any plans to use state funds to help parents pay for private schools.
Education
Student Column
High school students are more worried about AIDS than they are about young people carrying guns, racial discrimination, drug use, or teenage pregnancy, although those topics are also prominent concerns, according to a recent national poll.
Education
Hughes Institute Gives $10.3 Million To Improve Science Education
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute last week awarded $10.3 million
to 42 biomedical-research institutions to help improve the quality of
K-12 science education in their communities.
Education
Hornbeck, Prominent Consultant, Tapped To Head Phila. Schools
After one of the two remaining candidates to lead the Philadelphia schools withdrew his name, the board of education last week offered the superintendency to David W. Hornbeck, a prominent national education consultant.
Education
Clinton Offers Plan To Break Welfare Cycle
President Clinton last week unveiled a welfare-reform plan that would target new sanctions and resources at young single mothers and enlist schools in a national campaign to prevent teenage pregnancy.
Education
Clarification
Columbus College in Columbus, Ga., has received renewed accreditation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. The school was inadvertently omitted from a list provided by NCATE for a story that appeared in the May 18 edition of Education Week.