October 5, 1981

Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 05
Education Senate Witnesses Disagree About Effects of Integration
U.S. senators, who have been arguing for more than 15 years about the constitutionality of school busing, discovered last week that researchers are having similar difficulties reaching agreement on busing's effects on students.
Eileen White, October 5, 1981
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Education Cases Before the Supreme Court
Following are descriptions of the 11 cases related to education and youth that are on the list of 102 cases already accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court for its term beginning this week. Docket numbers, which should be used to identify the cases in checking their status, are given in parentheses. The Court is in the process of selecting from a list of 872 other cases the additional ones it will hear this term.

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

October 5, 1981
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Education Creationism Debate Planned For TV and State Legislatures
A prime-time television debate between an evolutionist and a creationist will set the stage for similar debates expected to take place this fall in legislatures around the country and in the courts of Arkansas and Louisiana.
Alex Heard, October 5, 1981
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Education To Save Money, Detroit Voters Abandon Model Regional Plan
While dozens of large school districts around the country have adopted regional plans in the past decade, Detroit appears to be the first to jettison one.

The Detroit school system's 11-year-old experiment with administrative decentralization--one of the oldest and most-emulated in the nation--has been ended by the voters.

October 5, 1981
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Education Heritage's Influence Is Rooted in Broad Network
The Heritage Foundation--the public-policy research organization in Washington--has grown in seven years from a small "New Right" organization to a $5.3-million bastion of mainstream political respectability.
Eileen White, October 5, 1981
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Education Minorities and Math Get Boost From Ford Foundation Grants
For the past five summers, minority students from a variety of high schools located east of the Mississippi have converged on the Phillips Academy campus in Andover, Mass., to participate in (MS)--Mathematics for Minority Students.
Susan G. Foster, October 5, 1981
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Education
Copyright YYYY, Editorial
A Report on Their Achievements and Aspirations
October 5, 1981
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Education Campus Group a Cornerstone of Conservative Movement
One of the most influential--and least publicized--of the organizations forming the intellectual framework on which the Heritage Foundation was built held a celebration here last week.
Eileen White, October 5, 1981
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Education Mortimer Adler's Greatest Idea: Teaching Kids How to Think
Twenty-three high-school students stood outside the entrance to the conference center of the Wye Plantation in Easton, Md., talking quietly amongst themselves. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors from eastern Maryland high schools, the students were waiting to begin a three-day seminar, held last May, on six Great Ideas: goodness, truth, beauty, liberty, justice, and equality.
Susan Walton, October 5, 1981
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Education Pittsburgh Votes New Priorities, Long Term Plan
The Pittsburgh School Board has approved a wide range of measures designed to improve the quality of education in the city's schools.
Thomas Toch, October 5, 1981
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Education Test Scores Hold At 1979-80 Level After Long Drop
The average Scholastic Aptitude Test (sat) scores of college-bound high-school seniors did not decline this year, marking only the second year that they have remained stable since 1963, the College Board announced in releasing its annual report last week.
Tom Mirga, October 5, 1981
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Education Promise of Teaching Job Fails to Lure Students in Florida
Last year, the college of education at the University of South Florida (usf) launched an innovative recruiting program designed to attract better-qualified students. The experiment, officials hoped, would produce a solution to the problem of student quality, which education-school officials nationwide say is among the most vexing they face.
Thomas Toch, October 5, 1981
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Education State Aid Cuts Threaten Schools In Washington
Schools in Washington State may be forced to lay off thousands of teachers in the wake of a budgetary crisis that has forced a sudden 10-percent cut in state school support.
Barry Mitzman, October 5, 1981
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Education Education Programs Slashed Again
President Reagan's request last month that Congress approve across-the-board "12-percent cuts" in 1982 federal spending actually would result in much larger reductions in education spending, Administration officials disclosed last week.
Eileen White, October 5, 1981
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Education Spell As I Say, Not As I Do, Say Alabama Teachers
A spelling bee for teachers in Alabama's Jefferson County school system was cancelled after "the fear and the paranoia about it expressed by the teachers was so strong the superintendent felt it was an exercise in futility to have it," according to a school system spokesman.

Superintendent John J. Hunt originally proposed the idea, the spokesman said, to boost camaraderie among teachers and improve communications skills.

October 5, 1981
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Education The President on Education
In his recent televised speech on the fiscal 1982 budget, President Reagan proposed to dismantle the Cabinet-level Education Department, slash federal spending approximately 12 percent beyond the level enacted in the budget "reconciliation" bill, and reduce the number of federal employees. Following are excerpts from the sections of the address that concern federal education programs:

First, I'm asking Congress to reduce the 1982 appropriation for most government agencies and programs by 12 percent....

October 5, 1981
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Education El Paso's Bright Students, Grades 7-12, Are Offered Special Learning Program at the University of Texas
Facing the possibility of declining enrollments caused by an ever-shrinking pool of high-school seniors, colleges and universities have increasingly welcomed "non-traditional" students on campus.
Sheppard Ranbom, October 5, 1981
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Education In Federal Agencies

Commission on excellence. The Department of Education announced, in the Sept. 29 Federal Register, the first meeting of the National Commission on Excellence in Education on Oct. 9, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and Oct. 10, 9 a.m.-12 noon, in Washington. The notice also described the functions of the commission.

Continuing education. The Department of Education published, in the Sept. 23 Federal Register, final regulations for the Continuing Education Outreach--State-Administered Program which implement statutory changes resulting from the education amendments of 1980. Activities previously carried out by the states under the Community Service and Continuing Education Program, the Educational Information Centers Program, and the State Postsecondary Education Planning Commissions Program have been consolidated into a single program and revised. A staff member of the Department of Education told Education Week that Congress probably will not appropriate funds for this program for the 1982 fiscal year.

October 5, 1981
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Education Federal News Roundup
Under criticism and ridicule from Democratic members of Congress, the press, advocacy groups, and even stand-up comedians, the Reagan Administration has withdrawn its proposal for changing meal patterns and reducing nutritional requirements for the school-lunch program.

The withdrawal, which surprised even officials of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (usda), was announced on Sept. 25 by David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget. Mr. Stockman said the proposed guidelines were the result of a "bureaucratic goof," and said that the agency had not only egg, but ketchup on its face.

October 5, 1981
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Education State News Roundup
Verne A. Duncan, Oregon's superintendent of public instruction, thinks there may be alternatives to school strikes--and he will ask the State Board of Education this month to appoint an independent task force to look for them.

"School strikes hurt everyone," says Mr. Duncan. "The only people who make money out of it are the negotiators."

October 5, 1981
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English Learners Federal Studies Debunk Bilingual Education, Suggest That States Choose Teaching Methods
The federal government should stop focusing on bilingual-education programs to help non-English-speaking students because there is little evidence that those programs work.
Arthur E. Levine, October 5, 1981
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Education Florida Launches $6-Million Writing Program for Seniors
If high-school students in Florida begin complaining of writer's cramp, credit--or blame--should probably go to the state's recently implemented "writing enhancement program."

With a budget of $6 million for the 1981-82 school year, the program is getting underway in high-school "language-arts" classes in 42 Florida districts.

October 5, 1981
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Education U.S Supreme Court to Hear Title IX, Other School Cases
A sex-discrimination suit, a dispute over the educational rights of illegal aliens, and several other education-related cases await the attention of the U.S. Supreme Court as it begins its new term this week.
Peggy Caldwell, October 5, 1981
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Education City News Roundup
An 11-year ban on school construction in Los Angeles has been lifted, but too late to do much good, school officials say.

Overcrowding, particularly in Hispanic neighborhoods, is so severe that the Los Angeles Unified School District has resorted to year-round classes, doubling-up of first and second grades, portable classrooms, boundary changes, and the busing of children to less-crowded schools. Some 140,000 students--one-quarter of the system's total--attend 125 overcrowded schools, officials say.

October 5, 1981
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Education Manufacturers May Be Liable For Cost of Asbestos Removal
School systems faced with the prospect of spending thousands of dollars to remove asbestos from school buildings may be able to recover the costs by taking asbestos manufacturers and processors to court, according to a new document sent to the Congress by Attorney General William French Smith.
Susan Walton, October 5, 1981
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Education National News Roundup
A grant from the Ford Foundation will enable the Education Commission of the States (ecs) to expand its education-policy seminars to the people who increasingly are making educational decisions--the state legislators in charge of appropriations.

"We're trying to involve not just education-committee chairmen, but finance-committee chairmen, house speakers, the types of legislators who traditionally haven't come to education meetings," said Robert C. Andringa, executive director of the Denver-based interstate commission. "The [education] committees don't really have leverage on the funds. Those decisions are now made by the finance committees."

October 5, 1981
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Education Parents in South Dakota Protest Secular Humanism
Administrators of a southwestern South Dakota school system, acting on the advice of the state attorney general's office, have rejected the "laundry list" of demands of a group of parents who sought to shelter their children from school activities they found objectionable on moral and religious grounds.
Tom Mirga, October 5, 1981
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Education N.Y. Regents Order Schools To Lower Their Dropout Rates
Public and private high schools in New York with chronically high dropout rates could lose both state and federal aid and their right to grant diplomas under a program last week approved by the state's Board of Regents.
Tom Mirga, October 5, 1981
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Education Dallas Program for Gifted Students Thwarts Desegregation, Group Says
A program for gifted students in Dallas is under attack for allegedly discriminating against minorities. Civil-rights advocates, including the president of the board of education and an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (naacp), charge that the disproportionately high number of whites in the program for grades 4-6 thwarts a 1976 court-ordered desegregation plan.
Arthur E. Levine, October 5, 1981
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