November 1, 1995
Education Week, Vol. 15, Issue 09
Education
Milestones
Marilyn Morheuser, the lawyer who led the challenge to overturn the New Jersey education-funding system, died of cancer Oct. 22 at her Newark, N.J., home. She was 71.
Education
Cuts in College Remedial Courses Proposed
Two major state university systems--in California and New York--have stepped into the center of a national debate with proposals to scale back their responsibility for remedial coursework.
Education
Ax Education Agency, Okla. State Employees Urge
A panel of Oklahoma state employees recommends completely revamping the state education system and abolishing the education department in a report aimed at streamlining government.
Education
U.S. Judge Declares Buffalo Schools Desegregated
A federal judge has declared the Buffalo, N.Y., school system desegregated, ending nearly two decades of court supervision and surprising local civil-rights activists who did not know such a decision was in the works.
Education
N.J. Measure Seeks Constitutional Ban on Unfunded State Mandates
When it comes to unfunded state mandates, these are the types of measures that have raised the hackles of New Jersey school officials:
Education
Army To Fall Short of 1997 Target for JROTC
Nearly four years into an ambitious five-year expansion of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, U.S. Department of Defense officials say there is not enough money to meet the Army's growth target for 1997.
Education
Media Column
Christopher Whittle, the flamboyant founder of the Channel One classroom news show and the Edison Project school-reform venture, comes under the spotlight in a new biography.
Education
It's Fields vs. Foster for La. Gov.
In a race where education issues are expected to take a back seat, U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields will face state Sen. Mike Foster on Nov. 18 in Louisiana's gubernatorial election.
Education
Riley Backs Reversing Title I Felton Ruling
Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley declared last week that he would support reversal of a 1985 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that barred public school teachers from delivering remedial-education services on the premises of religious schools.
Education
Opinion
The Human Cost Of Teacher Education Reform
Julie's mother called me the first day of last semester. At first, I thought she wanted to know why her daughter had received a D in my educational-foundations course the semester before. It took about 30 seconds for me to figure out that the point of the call wasn't to discuss Julie's performance, but for Mrs. James to call me names.
Education
Opinion
Educating African-American Children: Higher Than Hope
Almost from the beginning of the American republic, African-Americans have struggled for the right of self-determination and of full participation in the political, social, and economic life of the nation. No goal has been more important to this struggle than education.
Education
Opinion
Teacher Signed for $45 Million!
After weeks of dramatic, often bitter, wrangling and bidding among the country's top three urban school districts, Amy Pomeroy, 38, an 11th-grade teacher of English at the inner-city McDonnell High School, signed on today with the Atlanta board of education to teach next year at a new school she herself will design and staff in South Atlanta.
Education
Opinion
The Myth of Failed School Reform
In some upscale hotels over the registration desk, there are clocks showing times across the globe. The San Francisco clock shows 7 a.m., the one for New York says 10 a.m., London is at 2 p.m., and Tokyo, 11 p.m. Different time zones alert travelers seeking to contact clients or friends what time it is in the city they wish to call. There are such clocks for school reform also. They signal that what is said about reform, what is done, what actually occurs in classrooms, and what students learn operate on different time zones. But these school-reform clocks are hidden. Were they in public view, policymakers, administrators, practitioners, and researchers would see that the different time zones for school reform confirm that important changes in schooling have occurred and that the prevailing belief that most school reform fails is a myth.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters To The Editor