May 24, 1995
Education Week, Vol. 14, Issue 35
Education
State News Roundup
The results of a high school's student-government election are not a matter of public record, a circuit judge in Virginia has ruled.
Education
Fasten Your Seat Belts
An invisible hand has Kara Shultis firmly in its grip, forcing her into the aluminum deck of the Gerard P. Kuiper Airborne Observatory.
Education
Wash. Law Hailed as New Tool To Rescue Runaway Children
A new law in Washington State gives police and parents greater authority to find and rescue runaway children in a state that has become known as a haven for young people fleeing their homes.
Education
News In Brief
A revised revenue estimate from the Michigan state treasurer will mean less money for the state's schools.
Education
$25 Million Hewlett Gift To Support S.F. Reforms
Less than two years ago, when the retired publisher Walter H.
Annenberg announced his plans to give $500 million to America's public
schools, one of his hopes was that other foundations, corporations, and
wealthy individuals would join his philanthropic crusade for
education.
Education
Honors & Awards
The National Teacher of the Year Program, sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers and Scholastic Inc., has honored the state teachers of the year for 1995. Teachers from each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Dependents Schools, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico are represented. The National Teacher of the Year is Elaine B. Griffin of Alaska. The winners are listed below by state:
STATE TEACHERS OF THE YEAR
The National Teacher of the Year Program, sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers and Scholastic Inc., has honored the state teachers of the year for 1995. Teachers from each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Dependents Schools, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico are represented. The National Teacher of the Year is Elaine B. Griffin of Alaska. The winners are listed below by state:
Education
Federal File
Education Department officials found themselves in a quandary last week over the release of data that for the first time demonstrated a link between education and workplace productivity. (See related story .)
Education
Books: New in Print
Surviving School Micropolitics: Strategies for Administrators, by Jane Clark Lindle (Technomic Publishing Inc., Box 3535, Lancaster, Pa. 17604; 165 pp; $35 cloth). A guide to applying theory and research about school politics, also known as micropolitics, to typical problems confronting school administrators.
Administrators
Surviving School Micropolitics: Strategies for Administrators, by Jane Clark Lindle (Technomic Publishing Inc., Box 3535, Lancaster, Pa. 17604; 165 pp; $35 cloth). A guide to applying theory and research about school politics, also known as micropolitics, to typical problems confronting school administrators.
Education
Four-Day Week Finds a Niche in the Rural West
School officials in Pritchett, Colo., recommend an interesting cure for the Monday blues: Wait till Tuesday.
Education
NAEP Will Defer Special Accommodations for the Disabled
Washington
Efforts to include more special-needs students in large-scale testing programs ran into a setback this month, when the governing board that oversees the "nation's report card" voted not to allow any nonstandard administrations of the exam.
Efforts to include more special-needs students in large-scale testing programs ran into a setback this month, when the governing board that oversees the "nation's report card" voted not to allow any nonstandard administrations of the exam.
Education
G.O.P. Lawmakers Weighing Intervention in D.C. Schools
While Republican lawmakers have argued repeatedly in recent months for a reduced federal role in education, G.O.P. leaders are apparently ready to make an exception for the District of Columbia.
Education
House Approves Budget Bill That Would Force Cuts
House Republicans last week easily won approval of a 1996 budget resolution that would cut total spending on the budget category that includes education by more than $10 billion in the next fiscal year.
Education
Clinton Vows To Veto Bill That Would Slash E.D.'s 1995 Budget
President Clinton last week vowed to veto a bill that would cut $874.5 million from Education Department programs during the current fiscal year.
Education
Opinion
Prerequisites for 'Scaling Up'
Higher standards" and professional development have become unifying
battle cries of school reformers. Like apple pie, few can oppose
efforts to "professionalize" education, but the real questions are:
which standards, decided by whom, and assessed how? And professional
development for what?
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters To the Editor
Remedial-Classes Question: How Effective Are They?
Education
Opinion
Teaching Citizenship Is Not Slavery
Even as Republicans in Congress are touting the virtues of local
control over government programs, a libertarian legal group in
Washington is asking federal courts around the country to usurp control
over high school curricula. The Institute for Justice has filed suit
against elected school officials in Chapel Hill, N.C., claiming that a
community-service requirement for high school graduation violates
students' constitutional rights.
Education
Opinion
Rethinking Indoctrination
Consider a Christian academy that requires students to study fundamentalist theology for 12 years but requires no coursework in science (though scientific beliefs are occasionally mentioned in history textbooks which are, of course, written by fundamentalist theologians). Biology recapitulates the first chapter of Genesis, history begins with Adam and Eve, and morality is essentially a matter of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes. Needless to say, the academy's teachers are not themselves required to have done any coursework in science--and few have.