October 26, 1981

Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 08
Education The School Nurse: Her Role Has Changed With Changing Time
At one Montgomery County, Md., high school, the school nurse is called "Grandma," a nickname that has nothing to do with age.
Caroline Auvergne , October 26, 1981
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Education Appointments
In the Districts

Stephen Sexton, assistant superintendent of schools in Kirkwood, Mo., to superintendent of schools in Manchester, Tenn.

October 26, 1981
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Education Vocational Education Efforts Lack Focus, New Study Says
A four-year study of vocational-education programs in the nation concludes that the federal government attempts to do too much with too little money; seeks results from the states without offering a plan for achieving the intended goals; and establishes policies without regard to the desires or abilities of the states to carry out those policies.
Susan G. Foster, October 26, 1981
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Education City News Roundup
The Los Angeles Unified School District has found a new name for the 298 overcrowded inner-city schools it has been calling rims--for Racially Isolated Minority Schools.

The school system has used that acronym since 1978 to identify the schools for which a court order required the district to hire extra teachers, improve facilities, and upgrade instructional materials. More than 300,000 Hispanic, black, Asian, and American Indian students attend those schools, which are located too far from mostly-white schools to be included in busing plans.

October 26, 1981
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Education U.S Will Push Desegregation Suits, But Will Shun Busing
The U.S. Department of Justice has decided to press ahead with three school-desegregation suits filed in the last days of the Carter Administration, but the department intends to stick by the Reagan Administration's policy of seeking remedies other than mandatory busing.
Peggy Caldwell, October 26, 1981
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Education Federal News Roundup
In keeping with budget cuts imposed this summer by Congress, the U.S. Department of Agriculture last week issued final regulations covering several aspects of federally sponsored school-meal programs.

On Sept. 16, the agency released regulations that tighten eligibility for the "severe-need" category of the school-breakfast program.

October 26, 1981
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Education Schools in Michigan Will Close as Voters Reject Tax Increases
Residents of this blue-collar Detroit suburb had a clear choice at the voting booth on Oct. 19: increase school taxes or allow the public schools to close.
Glen Macnow, October 26, 1981
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Education People News
John H. Lawson, superintendent of the Lexington, Mass., public schools, has been selected by the Massachusetts Board of Education to serve as state commissioner of education.

Mr. Lawson, 58, who has been an education administrator for some 20 years, replaces Gregory R. Anrig, who resigned earlier this year to become president of the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J.

October 26, 1981
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Education Research and Reports
Despite federal budget cuts in many summer "enrichment" programs for high-school teachers, 50 chemistry teachers will have the opportunity to participate in a similar program funded entirely by private sponsors.

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, with support from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, will hold a month-long institute in Princeton, N.J., next summer for the teachers. The program is intended to provide an "expanded perspective on the teaching of chemistry," according to foundation officials.

October 26, 1981
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Education State News Roundup
Michigan Governor William G. Milliken has withdrawn his proposal for a property-tax cut this year because of the state's growing budget deficit.

Michigan's deficit--largely because of continuing high unemployment--is now estimated at more than $200 million, and the governor said the state simply could not afford a tax cut now.

October 26, 1981
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Education Growing Proportion of Lay Teachers Concerns Catholics
Because Catholic schools now employ a higher proportion of lay teachers than they once did, the transmission of religious vision and values to students is becoming more difficult, according to leaders of an organization of Catholic school administrators.
George Neill, October 26, 1981
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Education Experts Gather To Debate the Merits of Tuition Tax Credits
Fourteen scholars gathered here last week at an Education Department-supported seminar to examine the implications--economic, political, social, and legal--of the concept of offering parents a credit on their income taxes for payment of private-school tuition.
Eileen White, October 26, 1981
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Education Look for Signs of 'Problem Behavior' Early, Educators Told
Clues to the likelihood of "problem behavior" in adolescents may emerge as early as the first grade. But the behavior itself--drinking, use of drugs, and smoking--may simply be a natural part of a young person's transition to adulthood.
Susan Walton, October 26, 1981
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Education Church, Town Feud Continues in Miracle Valley
"There is one thing about which I am deadly earnest and that is Jesus. He is my life, my business, my holiness, my hobby, my sweetheart, my husband, my wife, my bread, and my meat. I work to please him in the day and dream of his cause at night."
Alex Heard, October 26, 1981
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Education Denver School Board Seeks Racial Balance Without Busing
The Denver School Board is trying to alter significantly the effects of a landmark 1973 court case that paved the way for school desegregation in the North and established the principle of "district-wide" busing.
Alex Heard, October 26, 1981
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Education Lexington, Ky., School Board Rejects Creationism After Long Controversy
A proposal to require that "scientific creationism" be taught alongside the theory of evolution was rejected last week by the metropolitan Lexington school board.
Becky Todd, October 26, 1981
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School Climate & Safety 'Perennial' TV Violence Issue Argued - Again
"We have these hearings year after bloody year," said U.S. Representative James H. Scheuer, Democrat of New York, at a House subcommittee hearing on televised violence last week.
Alex Heard, October 26, 1981
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Education After Bitter Campaign, D.C. Voters Are First To Decide on Controversial Tuition Tax Credits
The concept of tuition tax credits, which has attracted growing interest across the country and the backing of the Reagan Administration, faces its first electoral test next week in a District of Columbia referendum that many view as the beginning of a nationwide push.
Robert C. Benjamin, October 26, 1981
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Education District Plans New Corporation To Raise Funds
Officials of an affluent California school system are exploring the idea of establishing a nonprofit charitable corporation as a fundraising entity that could conceivably reduce the system's dependence on state funds.

Details of how the corporation would operate and the "concepts" for raising money are being closely guarded by planners of the project, according to Deryl Cram, assistant superintendent for business in the Cupertino Union School District.

October 26, 1981
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Education Migrants Found to Need More Help
The federal government's Migrant Education Program could do more to find, as well as to help, the children of migratory workers, according to a series of studies sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
Jeffrey Mervis, October 26, 1981
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Education Discipline: Is It Really as Serious a Problem as the Public Thinks?
For 13 years the Gallup Organization has been asking people what they consider the foremost problem facing the nation's public schools. In all but one of those years the most common response has been "a lack of discipline."
Tom Mirga, October 26, 1981
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Education Reagan Pledges He Will Support Tax-Credit Bill
President Ronald Reagan delighted administrators of the nation's Catholic elementary and secondary schools last week by promising to initiate tuition tax-credit legislation "later in the 97th Congress."
George Neill, October 26, 1981
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Education Opinion The Incompetence of Competency Testing
If secondary-school teachers of English respond less than enthusiastically to competency-testing programs, their tepidity is both understandable and warranted. Largely confined to items that assess the low-level skills of usage, editing, and functional reading, the tests imply a narrow public definition of English, one that is at odds with what teachers believe the subject to be.
Edmund J. Farrell, October 26, 1981
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor:
To the Editor:

I guess I would resent Edmund Janko's pejorative metaphor--"Blue Smoke and Mirrors" [Commentary, Oct. 5]--to explain the success of private schools if it were not so tired.

October 26, 1981
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