September 18, 1996
Many of the nation's young children already are faltering when they start kindergarten and achieve far below their potential during the early grades, a new report from the Carnegie Corporation of New York says.
N.J. Extends Takeover
The New Jersey state school board has voted to extend its control of the Jersey City schools for at least another year, despite recent test scores that are the best since the state took control of the troubled district seven years ago.
Fed up with accounts of crime and educational blight, Valyncia Lindsey decided to teach at her old elementary school in the District of Columbia. |
Closing a turbulent chapter in Philadelphia's school-desegregation saga, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania last week overturned a lower-court ruling that had declared the state derelict in its duty to the city's public schools.
When Terry K. Dozier started her new job at the Department of Education, speaking her mind in meetings so unnerved her that the veteran teacher returned to her hotel room sick to her stomach.
In the past two months, perhaps no trio of Republicans has shared the spotlight with Bob Dole as much as Jack F. Kemp, William J. Bennett, and Lamar Alexander.
West Virginia has relinquished the reins of a struggling school system, leaving behind a rare state-takeover success story: a state-hired superintendent in charge of a system with higher test scores and better management and buoyed by local acceptance.
Armed service
The debate over President Clinton's Corporation for National Service is so intense that a fight almost broke out last week over a seemingly minor matter: whether a corporation official would be considered a witness or an aide to a witness at a congressional hearing.
Turnabout is not fair play
More than half the high school victims of sexual harassment admit having harassed a schoolmate themselves at some point in their school careers.
A fair fight
A South Dakota lawmaker plans a fight to stop children from returning to school before Labor Day.