July 11, 2001
Education Week, Vol. 20, Issue 42
Teaching Profession
Reporters' Notebook
- NEA President Blasts Testing Proposals
- Delegates Debate Partnership With AFT
- Two New York NEA Affliates Vote Switch to AFT
- Refining Union's Stance on Charter Schools
- Considering Candidates for Next NEA President
Education
Deal Reached To Keep Edison In S.F. School
In a compromise that ends the threat of losing a high-profile contract, Edison Schools Inc. will sever its relationship with the San Francisco school district but is poised to continue managing an elementary school there under a state charter.
Assessment
Princeton Review Stock Dips After First Public Offering
Princeton Review Inc. has taken its big admissions test on Wall Street. Its scores didn't quite put it at the head of the class. Includes an accompanying story, "Deal Reached To Keep Edison in S.F. School."
Princeton Review Inc. has taken its big admissions test on Wall Street. Its scores didn't quite put it at the head of the class. Includes an accompanying story, "Deal Reached To Keep Edison in S.F. School."
School & District Management
Army Pact To Ease Students' School Transfers
To help students who are forced to change schools frequently because of their parents' military careers, the U.S. Army last week announced a plan designed to ease such transitions for students and administrators in nine districts.
School & District Management
System Thwarts Teacher's Bid To Transfer To Needy School
Bureaucratic red tape kept the Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year from transferring to a low-income school and landed her instead in one with higher test scores.
Education
News in Brief: A National Roundup
- Chicago Catholic League Votes To Admit School
- Corning, N.Y., Voters OK Plan
- Review Raps Dallas District
- Couple Charged With Kidnapping
- Kansas Superintendent Charged
- Miami District Declared Unitary
School Choice & Charters
New York, Boston Grant Some Schools More Flexibility
Leaders of the Boston and New York City districts have announced that some of their high-performing schools will be rewarded with greater flexibility over regulations and budgets.
States
Ala. Court Sides Against Schools In Fight Over Aid Cuts
Reversing a lower court ruling that would have cushioned the impact on school districts of midyear state budget cuts, the Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that public schools and higher education institutions have to share the burden of such cuts equally whenever state revenues fall short.
Education
People in the News
Neil L. Rudenstine, the president of Harvard University, has appointed Judith D. Singer and John B. Willett to jointly fill the post of acting dean of the university's graduate school of education in Cambridge, Mass. Jerome T. Murphy, 62, stepped down last month after nine years as dean.
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Early Childhood
Looking To France
As efforts to expand preschool programs in the United States have increased, so has interest in looking abroad to see how other countries are educating their youngest children. And perhaps no system of early-childhood education has captured the attention of U.S. educators and policymakers quite like the French model.
Education
Capitol Recap
- Florida
- Maine
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nevada
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Virginia
- Washington
College & Workforce Readiness
Report Urges Stronger Ties From Pre-K Through College
Most states could learn from New York City when it comes to creating a more unified education system that promotes partnerships between higher education and secondary schools, according to a report that highlights the city's efforts in making pre-K-16 collaboration a priority.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters
- Parenting Classes Teach Empathy
- Online-Test Market:'A Bit More Complex'
- Cost of Competitions May Force Some Out
- In Training Leaders, Change Is Slow
- End-of-Course Tests:A Big Downside
- Senate Shift Means Education Victory
- Reaching Everyone in High Schools
- Protect All Students From Harassment
- TEAC Audit Process of 'Grave Concern'
- A View of Standards From the Chinese
- More on Elitism and Advanced Placement
- World History: Issues Other Than the
"Downfall of Western Culture" - Bell Curve Redux: Straw Men
And Metaphorical Battle Zones
Federal
Opinion
Investment Without Invective
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley offers his opinions on the new administration's education initiatives.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Dead Horses, Buried Assumptions
Beneath the surface of the contemporary debate over standards and testing, a set of assumptions has congealed in which most of the participants are stuck, says education professor William A. Profriedt.
School & District Management
Opinion
My Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
Rather than rail at the injustices of life and the bad taste of the American public, Arthur Levine has decided that it's time to take the road not taken. He's decided to write books people are willing to buy.
Reading & Literacy
Well-Crafted Assignments Key to Good Writing, Researchers Find
Constructing an assignment that elicits good writing may be as difficult for teachers as writing the essays is for students, a forthcoming study suggests.
Education
Corrections
The People in the News column in the June 20, 2001, issue of Education Week gave the wrong founding date for the Council for Basic Education. The council was founded in 1956.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Panel Criticizes College, High School Sports
College athletes should be treated the same as other students in admissions decisions and graduation requirements, a commission that has studied college sports for more than a decade says.