March 27, 2002

Education Week, Vol. 21, Issue 28
School & District Management Doing It Their Way: Teachers Make All Decisions at Cooperative Venture
Gigi Dobosenski is a first-year teacher at Minnesota New Country School. She's also a curriculum developer, a staff recruiter, a performance evaluator, a school spokeswoman, and a maintenance worker.
Julie Blair, March 27, 2002
13 min read
Federal Democratic, GOP Education Plans Differ by Billions
The education bidding wars began last week on Capitol Hill, as Democrats sought to one-up—or even two- or three-up—President Bush and congressional Republicans. The result is a multibillion-dollar disagreement over how much to spend on the Department of Education.
Erik W. Robelen, March 27, 2002
8 min read
Student Well-Being Officials Seek to Refine Lunch Program Tallies
More children around the country are signed up to receive free or reduced- price school lunches than are eligible, program officials say, a discrepancy that affects billions of dollars in federal grants as well as local school district policies.
Michelle R. Davis, March 27, 2002
5 min read
Education News in Brief: A State Capitals Roundup
  • Ohio School Finance Case Heading Back to Court
  • Md. Must Meet Title I Testing Rules
  • Alanis Named Texas Commissioner
  • N.J. Chief Signals Hike in Pre-K Aid
  • Swift Exits Mass. Governor's Race
March 27, 2002
5 min read
Federal Negotiators Retain Heart of Ed. Dept. Proposals
A negotiating committee reached consensus last week on proposed federal rules for state standards and assessment systems under the revised Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Includes the story "Reaching Consensus."
Lynn Olson, March 27, 2002
7 min read
Education Federal File

Movin' On Up

Question: If the undersecretary of education is no longer in an office space underneath the secretary, does he need a new title?
March 27, 2002
1 min read
Law & Courts Supreme Court Hears Case On Expanded Drug Testing
Drug testing in schools stoked an intense argument in the U.S. Supreme Court last week, with a seeming majority of the justices willing to expand a 1995 decision that allowed drug testing of student athletes, and thus uphold an Oklahoma district's policy of testing a wider group of students.
Mark Walsh, March 27, 2002
6 min read
IT Infrastructure & Management Opinion Filtering the Internet
As schools and districts try to comply with the Children's Internet Protection Act, Nancy Willard looks at ways to do that and teach students responsible internet use.
Nancy E. Willard, March 27, 2002
9 min read
Curriculum Wizards and Web Sites: Diversified Scholastic Thriving
Richard Robinson's $2 billion-a-year company, Scholastic Inc., is known for classroom magazines and other supplementary educational materials, school book clubs and fairs, TV and Internet ventures, and U.S. children's book publishing that includes a character by the name of Harry Potter.
Mark Walsh, March 27, 2002
6 min read
School Climate & Safety Opinion Beating and Starving Them ... And Other Ways of Teaching
Daniel Born warns against punishments that are destructive of learning, such as assigning reading and writing assignments for bad behavior.
Daniel Born, March 27, 2002
5 min read
Education Opinion Why Must They Learn That?
Marcus L. Herzberg suggests answers for the question, "How do you justify to students having them learn something that they don't want to, despite your attempts as a teacher to foster interest or increase motivation?"
Marcus L. Herzberg, March 27, 2002
3 min read
School & District Management Opinion What Next for OERI?
Educational research is not going to produce the instant results that Americans are looking for, but that does not make it useless, according to James J. Gallagher.
James J. Gallagher, March 27, 2002
5 min read
Education Letter to the Editor Letters
  • Democracy Needs Critical Thinkers
  • Nursery Rhymes Boost Literacy
  • Add 'Demonstration' to Assessments
  • '10 Steps' Work for Rural Schools, Too
  • Whole Language and Its Platitudes
  • 'Blueberry' Flaws
  • Shanker's Legacy
March 27, 2002
14 min read