February 8, 1995

Education Week, Vol. 14, Issue 20
Education People
The National Council of Teachers of English has presented its 1994 George Orwell award to Garry Trudeau, the creator of the comic strip "Doonesbury." The council each year honors a conspicuous opponent of evasive or misleading language, an offense Orwell called "doublespeak."
February 8, 1995
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Education Bemoaning State Control, Kan. Critics Eye Accreditation Law
Critics in the Kansas legislature are targeting the school-accreditation program approved in 1992 by state lawmakers, arguing that it is overburdening local educators and overstepping the mission of the state's schools.
Melanie A. Lasoff, February 8, 1995
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Education Arkansas Educators Worry Plan Spells Consolidation
He has barely mentioned the "C" word, but consolidation is all Arkansas school administrators, teachers, and families are hearing from Gov. Jim Guy Tucker's drastic plan to equalize school funding across the state.
Laura Miller, February 8, 1995
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Education Take Note: Counting their chickens; Java in Juneau?
A national restaurant chain that boasts about its tasty chicken is eating crow after a high school mathematics class cried foul over a television ad.
February 8, 1995
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Education NCATE Accreditation of Ed. Schools Advocated
The Holmes Group's new blueprint for revitalizing education schools in research universities will include a requirement that they become nationally accredited, members of the group have decided.
Ann Bradley, February 8, 1995
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Education References to God in Mich. Board Mission Statement Stir Flap
Michigan's new Republican-dominated state school board has set off an uproar by passing a mission statement containing references to God and religion.
Peter Schmidt, February 8, 1995
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Education States: Illegal Aliens in Calif. Face Higher College Tuition
The California State University system must charge out-of-state tuition to students who live in California but who are in the United States illegally, a state appellate court has ruled.
February 8, 1995
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Education Update: Edison Receives Approval To Run Wichita School
The Edison Project has received the go-ahead to operate an elementary school in the Wichita, Kan., district beginning in the fall.
February 8, 1995
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School Choice & Charters Va. Legislators Scrap Charter, Sex-Ed. Bills
Virginia lawmakers last week rejected the cornerstones of Gov. George F. Allen's education agenda, scrapping plans to abolish the state's sex-education requirement and to promote charter schools.
February 8, 1995
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Education 'Considerable Movement' In and Out of Poverty Tracked
The ranks of the nation's poor include many people who have fallen into poverty for just a few months, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released last week.
Peter Schmidt, February 8, 1995
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Education Ohio Governor Seeks More Money To Equalize Funds Between Districts
Gov. George V. Voinovich of Ohio has called on state lawmakers to find new revenues for schools and to equalize funding between districts.
February 8, 1995
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Education Riley Launches Defense of Federal Role in Schools
Arguing that U.S. public schools are "turning the corner," Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley led a spirited defense last week of the Clinton Administration's education agenda and of public education in general.
Mark Pitsch, February 8, 1995
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Education Texas Supreme Court Upholds Finance System
The Texas Supreme Court last week ended the state's five-year legal ordeal with its school-finance system, ruling in a split decision that the system imposed by the legislature in 1993 passes every constitutional test.
Lonnie Harp, February 8, 1995
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Education Appointments: In the Districts
Jeanette M. Galvin, coordinator for educational planning and assistant to the director of special education, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn (N.Y.), to assistant for administration to the superintendent of schools, Archdiocese of New York, New York City.
February 8, 1995
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Education Financially Strapped D.C. Axes 300 Teaching Positions
As the District of Columbia struggled to stay financially afloat last week, its school board agreed to jettison 300 teaching and 180 central-office positions, hack seven school days off the calender, and abandon a variety of programs.
Peter Schmidt, February 8, 1995
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Special Education Research Report: Special Education
The U.S. Education Department has begun circulating a series of questions and answers on the inclusion of students with disabilities in regular classrooms.
Lynn Schnaiberg, February 8, 1995
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Education Welfare Plans Must Include Services To Poor Children, Governors Agree
While the nation's governors failed to rally behind a single recommendation last week on how Congress should structure a new welfare system, they did agree that any overhaul should include services to poor children and provide assistance to prevent teenage pregnancy.
Jessica Portner, February 8, 1995
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Education Opinion Breadth Versus Depth
The "Scaling Up" series that has appeared in these pages over the last several months reports on the great difficulties involved in replicating and extending the good work of exceptional schools. "Going to scale is one of the killer issues now facing us," we read in the Dec. 14 issue. A Nov. 2 subhead tells us: "Educators have learned how to create good schools. Now, they're struggling to make them a reality for every student."
Robert L. Hampel, February 8, 1995
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Education Opinion Real-Life Research
I began a new career this year, leaving a high school principalship to teach educational leadership at a state university.
Martha Bruckner, February 8, 1995
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Education Opinion Using the News--and the 'M' Word
The first time I ever saw the word masturbation in print was when I was a junior in college. I read it in a chapter on Freud in my abnormal-psychology textbook.
Deborah M. Roffman, February 8, 1995
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