June 13, 2001

Education Week, Vol. 20, Issue 40
Education Take Note

Back to No. 2 Pencils

Students may think they're cool, but some teachers have had enough of gel pens.
June 13, 2001
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College & Workforce Readiness Low-Key ACT Avoids Uproar On College Tests
Headquartered in the rolling prairie of Eastern Iowa, the ACT has in many respects avoided the public scrutiny directed at the SAT, but it has been anything but a backup singer.
John Gehring, June 13, 2001
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School & District Management At Delta State U., Principals Find Focus
Thanks to a determined educational administration program at Delta State University, principals in the impoverished Mississippi Delta area are learning to tackle their jobs with better preparation, stronger skills, and greater inspiration.
Alan Richard, June 13, 2001
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Education Deadlines
A symbol (*) marks deadlines that have not appeared in a previous issue of Education Week.
June 13, 2001
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States Urban Renewal
Over the next decade, Newark plans to build 45 new schools and renovate all 30 others. Some see an urban renaissance. Others fear that hopes are too high.
At the ripe old age of 106, Hawthorne Elementary School is a fitting symbol of the widespread deterioration of this city's public schools.
Robert C. Johnston, June 13, 2001
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Kerry Mazzoni
Standards Calif. Considering Assessment Role Reversal
California lawmakers are pushing through changes in their state assessment program to downplay the standardized tests that have been at the heart of the system for the past four years and elevate the status of standards-based exams.
David J. Hoff, June 13, 2001
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Teaching Profession Wash. State Pension Plan Blamed For Educator Exodus
The Washington state retirement plan gives teachers and principals a fairly easy choice when they accrue 30 years of experience: They can retire, collect a yearly pension, and find a new job; or they can continue working, not collect pension benefits, and actually see their benefits docked when they stop.
Mark Stricherz, June 13, 2001
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School Climate & Safety Town and Country
Urban and rural communities across the country have gone to court in search of more help from their states in constructing and upgrading schools. A look at schools in Alaska and New Jersey shows why. The second of three parts. Includes:
June 13, 2001
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School Climate & Safety Out in the Cold
Alaska's struggle to define the state's role in paying for school construction is compounded by the long distances between its communities, and the drastic differences in how its people live.
Alan Richard, June 13, 2001
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Education Events
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** marks events that have not appeared in a previous issue of Education Week.

June 13, 2001
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Scott Elliot
Ed-Tech Policy Testing Firms See Future Market In Online Assessment
A growing number of testing companies are poised to offer online-testing systems to deliver statewide academic assessments, but experts caution that those companies may be overestimating the demand for the computer-based exams.
Andrew Trotter, June 13, 2001
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Curriculum Opinion The Classroom Conquest of World History
A new world history that slights the achievements of the West and concocts a pseudohistory to please multiculturalists has infiltrated the school curriculum, argues Gilbert T. Sewall.
Gilbert T. Sewall, June 13, 2001
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Curriculum Houghton Mifflin Acquisition Extends Industry Trend
Mark Twain, meet Eminem and the Mummy. Houghton Mifflin Co., one of the nation's oldest independent trade and educational book publishers, is being acquired by Vivendi Universal SA, a French media conglomerate with major interests in movies, publishing, video games, and music.
Mark Walsh, June 13, 2001
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Education ACT vs. SAT
Some 1 million students took the ACT college-admissions test last year, compared with 1.3 million students who took the SAT test. The ACT dominates in much of the Midwest and West, while the SAT is favored by colleges and universities on the East and West coasts.
June 13, 2001
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Teaching Profession Opinion 'Show Me the Power'
Unless we give teachers the power to make intelligent, student-based, and creative educational decisions, writes Jillian N. Lederhouse, we will never be able to attract and keep the type of teachers we most want in the profession.
Jillian N. Lederhouse, June 13, 2001
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School Climate & Safety Opinion School Climate
School climate matters, and it is inextricably tied to the community's values, write parents and community forum founders Palma Strand and Melinda Patrician.
Palma Strand & Melinda Patrician, June 13, 2001
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters
  • Labor, Management: Can They Change?
  • The Many Sides of State Leadership
  • Texas Accountability: No Ethnic Thresholds
  • Target Early Grades for Summer School
  • Principals Must Be Administrators First
  • Boosting Technology Via Teacher Training
  • High Social Stakes In Child-Care Crisis
  • Iowa Teachers and Graduate Courses
  • Longer School Year, More Teacher Pay
  • Severing a Link
  • Early Reading
June 13, 2001
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Special Education Opinion Market Forces and Special Education
The only way to ensure an adequate supply of teachers is to allow special educators to bargain collectively as a group.
Jay McIntire, June 13, 2001
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School & District Management Leadership

Growing a Journal

Most scholarly journals can't trace their roots to a food co-op where cherries, strawberries, and lettuce were sold. But an upcoming new quarterly on school leadership does.
June 13, 2001
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