September 7, 1981
Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 01
Education
Opinion
Will 'Bumping' Eventually Tilt Massachusetts' Schools?
There is a game of educational pinball currently being played in the schools of Massachusetts and, I suspect, elsewhere, that in the long run will be more detrimental to education than any financial burdens imposed by such tax-limitation measures as Massachusetts' Proposition 2.
Education
Opinion
Left Behind
As a parent and a teacher, Elizabeth B. Kean dreaded her daughter's entrance into junior high. "I feared disaster. I was right," writes Kean.
Education
Opinion
Fighting the Epidemic of Failure
An epidemic of academic failure is overwhelming black, inner-city male students. A staggering percentage of them drop out of school. Many who do graduate are barely literate and destined for economic failure.
Education
Opinion
'What Can I Deduct?'
When it comes to teaching, the more creativity involved, the better. But the Internal Revenue Service frowns on creativity—especially when it comes to deductions for career-related expenses.
Education
Cleveland School Officials Jailed
Two officials of the Cleveland public-school
system were jailed briefly last week for holding
up the paychecks of some 30 employees in
the system's desegregation department.
Education
Chicago's Schools To Open on Time
The Chicago schools will open this week
after all, on a $1.8-billion budget wrestled into
balance with a variety of budget cuts, onetime
revenues, and the power of the mayor's
office. The district, which is forbidden by state
law to open its schools without a balanced
budget, passed the last major obstacle
Wednesday, when the finance authority approved
its spending plan for this school year.
Education
Ohio Governor May Raise Taxes For Education
Ohio Governor James Rhodes, a Republican
who built his political reputation on keeping
his state's taxes among the lowest in the country,
says he will support a tax increase for
1982 if it is the only way to maintain the current
quality of public schools and universities.
Education
Busing Debate Intensifies As Washington's Signals Change
In East Baton Rouge Parish, La., in the
home state of an antibusing stalwart, U. S.
Senator Bennett Johnston, approximately
13,000 students rode buses last Monday to the
district's 67 newly desegregated elementary
schools.
Education
A Little Magic in The Chem Lab
Bassam Z. Shakhashiri was demonstrating how to conduct a lab demonstration. His audience was a ballroom-full of high school chemistry teachers, who were attending the American Chemical Society's (A.C.S.) High School Chemistry Day.
Education
Coleman: 'It's Gotten A Little Rough at Times'
More than any other scholar--and perhaps
more, even, than any one public official--James
S. Coleman has influenced the policies
that have changed America's schools over the
past two turbulent decades.
Education
1980 Graduates Rank Prosperity As Top Ambition
High school graduates of the class of 1980
were significantly more interested in making
money and less concerned about working to
correct social and economic injustices than
their 1972 counterparts, according to a recently
released survey by the National Center for
Education Statistics (N.C.E.S.)
Education
Cuts in Athletics Budgets Draw Fire from Communities
Under mounting pressure to
make do with fewer dollars while simultaneously
improving quality,
most superintendents and school
boards have been desperately
searching for the least painful ways
to reduce spending.
Education
Mississippi Schools Using Disputed History Textbook
After being deemed "unacceptable"
for the past six years by the
Mississippi Textbook Purchasing
Board, but "acceptable" by a federal
court last year, a controversial textbook
on the history of the state is finally
finding its way into Mississippi's
ninth grade classrooms.
Education
Up to 50,000 Teachers Face Layoff As School Opens
Not nearly as many teachers will
be out of jobs this fall as some earlier
estimates indicated, but declining
enrollments and local budget constraints
are taking a toll on the work
force in some parts of the country.
Education
New Dilemmas in The Ritual of Bargaining
In a year of budget-cutting, financial
crisis, and reductions in teaching
positions for school systems
across the nation, the rituals of collective
bargaining pose new dilemmas.
Education
Walking the Perilous Line Between Research and Politics
Despite six months of unrelenting criticism,
including three days of private grillings in
late July by some of the nation's top statisticians
and education researchers, sociologist
James S. Coleman says he stands by his contention
that in general private high schools do
a better job of educating students regardless of
their backgrounds than do public schools.
Education
Study Recommendations
Following are the recommendations of Limiting What Students Shall Read: Books and Other Learning Materials in Our Public Schools, How They are Selected and How They Are Removed. The report is based on a survey of school officials conducted by the the Association of American Publishers, the American Library Association, and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Education
Copyright YYYY, Editorial School children in Deerfield, N.H., will attend classes only four days a week this year if a plan to reduce school costs and preserve extracurricular activities goes into effect in September.
Education
Series on Testing Will Be Aired In Fall by PBS
The pros and cons of minimum-competency testing will be debated in a four-part weekly television series to be aired over PBS stations beginning Sept. 17.
Education
Influence of TV Called 'Pervasive'
Ten years after the first major national report on the effects of television violence, its author says the influence of television on children is now so pervasive that "the critical question is no longer, should something be done, but what that something should be."
Education
Strong Policies Protect Schools From Censors
Written policies governing the selection and review of books and other learning materials may help school systems resolve conflicts over those materials without restricting what students may read.
Education
New Presidential Commission To Seek Out, Publicize Successful Programs, Says Bell
The question of how effective the nation's schools and colleges are--a topic currently debated among education researchers--will also be looked into over the next year and a half by a blue-ribbon panel appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
Education
Administration Asks for More Cuts
The Reagan Administration announced last week that it will seek an additional $13 billion in 1982 budget cuts, including $2.65 billion in education reductions, beyond those agreed to by Congress during the budget-authorization process in July.
Education
N.T.E. Undergoes Changes
The National Teacher Examination, taken by nearly half of last year's prospective teachers, will undergo a major revision intended to counter charges of cultural bias.
Education
More Private Schools Found by Unusual Research Methods
There are probably more private schools than official records indicate, they have probably been growing at a faster rate than estimated, and most of that growth has been accounted for by small fundamentalist Christian academies.
Education
Appointments
Robert D. Barr, director of teacher education and extended services in the school of education at Indiana University at Bloomington, to dean of the school of education at Oregon State University, effective Jan. 2, 1982.
A. Richard Belding, business manager and director of development at Trinity School, Midland, Tex., to business manager and director of business services at the National Association of Independent Schools.
Education
Philadelphia Teachers May Strike Over Layoffs
Barring an unexpected--and unlikely--resolution to the city's financial crisis, about 13,000 Philadelphia teachers will be out on strike as of Sept. 8. In a Sept. 1 vote, union members reaffirmed the leadership's right to call a strike as necessary.
Education
Education Deregulation
Nutrition advocacy groups had little comment about the paperwork review for the school lunch program, but were concerned that it was part of a general trend towards reducing federal oversight of the program at the expense of children's health.
