November 2, 1981
Education Week, Vol. 01, Issue 09
Education
Problem of Teacher Burnout Now Public, But Not Solved
New York--Meditation, assertiveness train-ing, avoidance, but above all, the old-fashioned remedy of being able to bend a sympathetic ear--these were among the ways of "coping" with the problem of job-related stress suggested to teachers by a panel of experts during a two-day "Stress and Burnout" conference last week at Columbia University.
Education
School-Board Members Support Abolishing E.D.
Although the official position of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is one of strong support for retaining the cabinet-level Department of Education, an informal poll conducted by the association's monthly journal says that the publication's readers are--by a 2-to-1 margin--in favor of dismantling the department.
Education
Excerpts From Students Essays
The following excerpts come from the writing samples of 11th-graders, written as part of Wisconsin's Pupil Assessment Program. Students were told to write about a photograph of a burning house. 
Education
Budget Cuts End Hartfords Model Program of Desegragation
A model one-way desegregation program begun 15 years ago in Hartford, Conn., is being phased out by order of the local school board, which argued that the district can no longer afford to send city students to suburban schools.
Education
Court Orders Rehiring Of Teachers and New Contract Negotiations
Members of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (pft) complied with a court order last Wednesday and returned to their classrooms, ending a walkout that had kept most of the school district's 213,000 students idle since Sept. 8.
Education
Research And Reports
Rubella, or "German measles," reached an all-time low in the United States in 1980, and the dramatic drop in the incidence of the disease is continuing, according to the Centers for Disease Control (cdc) in Atlanta.
Although the disease is relatively mild in children, prenatal exposure can result in birth defects--something that concerns female teachers of child-bearing age who may be exposed through pupils.
Education
Ruling in NY School-Finance Case Acknowledges Cities' Extra Burden
The argument that big-city school systems should be compensated for ''municipal overburden"--the fiscal strain imposed by disproportionate numbers of elderly, handicapped, and low-income residents--won approval last week from a New York state appeals court.
Education
Alabama May Link Certification With Teacher-Test Results
The Alabama Board of Education has agreed to wait until more evidence is in before deciding whether--or how--to link certification of teacher-education programs to their students' performance on the state's recently developed teacher-certification tests.
Such a move would have the effect of forcing all of Alabama's teacher-education programs to meet a uniform minimum standard of student achievement in order to retain approved status in the state. Not a popular idea among education-school officials, establishing the linkage between certification of teachers and accreditation of their institutions has so far been proposed in only a few states, including Florida and North Carolina.
Education
Biology Teachers Focus Debate on Values, Issues
They spoke surprisingly little of a lack of federal funds and adequate resources for teachers.
Education
NC City Unites to Fight Teen-Age Pregnancy
As the federal government released sobering statistics last week on the dramatic rise in out-of-wedlock births, school officials meeting here learned of one community's efforts to combat the problem of children having children.
Education
Illinois Seeks Ways to Cut Red Tape in Education
The Illinois state government has completed its first step toward modifying and in some cases eliminating programs in the schools which are mandated by state laws and regulations.
Education
Military Institute May Bar Women, Virginia Attorney General Says
Virginia's attorney general, J. Marshall Coleman, says the all-male Virginia Military Institute (vmi) has the right to exclude women.
The attorney general's opinion was requested by General Assembly Delegate Floyd Bagley "at the request of a male constituent" affiliated with the National Organization for Women, according to Mr. Bagley.
Education
Title I Parents to Join Lobbying Effort Against US Program Cuts
A nationwide lobbying effort aimed at preserving financial support for, and parental involvement in, Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (esea) may be gaining momentum.
Education
Cities News Roundup
Los Angeles school officials are considering disciplinary action against 87 school employees who allegedly submitted false college credits in order to obtain salary increases.
An official of the school system, who asked that he not be named, said that if an investigation by a five-member committee substantiates the allegations on a case-by-case basis, the Los Angeles school board will likely dismiss the 84 teachers and three principals implicated in the scheme.
Education
States News Roundup
The Pennsylvania State Senate has approved legislation that would allow the state's 505 school districts to finance schools through local income taxes instead of property taxes.
The bill--which was passed by a 30-16 vote--would offer school districts the choice of establishing an income tax of up to 3.5 percent or retaining the existing property-tax system to finance the schools.
Education
Maine Court Refuses to Enjoin State In Conflict With Christian Schools
A group of Christian schools has lost the first round of a legal battle to prevent the state of Maine from obtaining information on its students, teachers, and courses.
A group of Christian schools has lost the first round of a legal battle to prevent the state of Maine from obtaining information on its students, teachers, and courses.
Education
Reagan Task Force Divided on Fate of US Agency
Reagan Administration officials charged with developing a legislative proposal to dismantle the Education Department are in sharp disagreement over the agency's future structure, sources close to the situation said last week.
Education
Teachers Guide on Klan Divides Rights Groups
An instructional guide on the Ku Klux Klan developed for high-school teachers by the National Education Association (nea) has divided civil-rights groups over the proper way to depict the history and recent growth of the Klan.
Education
Armed With Microphone and Admitted Biases, Public Radio's John Merrow Covers Education
When John G. Merrow, producer and co-host of "Options in Education" on National Public Radio (NPR), wanted to illustrate the ease with which minors can obtain alcohol, he drove two 16-year-olds to liquor stores in Greenwich and Stamford, Conn., areas that had recently been the scene of serious automobile accidents involving minors who had been drinking.
Education
Foes Want Him Out, But Superintendent Defends Policies
In January 1980, Michael P. Marcase, superintendent of Philadelphia's public schools, told members of the city's board of education in his annual report that they had every reason to be proud of their administration of the school system.
Education
In Letters To Stockman, Bell Protests Education Cuts
The "12-percent cuts" in 1982 education funding proposed by President Reagan in September "are actually 27-percent" cuts, according to a letter written last month by Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell to Office of Management and Budget Director David A. Stockman.
Education
Write On, Wisconsin Officials Tell Students- And They Do
"Terry Wendall turned the channel on the television from his bed (He had a remote control.) His bed was littered with magazines, food wrappers and rumpled blankets. He comfortably laid within this pile of garbage.
Education
People News
"Outsiders ought to mind their own business," the Nebraska Council of School Administrators said in a public statement last week after the Rev. Jerry Falwell, head of the Moral Majority, led a rally last week in support of an unaccredited Christian school.
The demonstration, "organized and directed primarily by outsiders who have entered Nebraska in an attempt to impose their opinions on a Nebraska matter," prompted the statement, said Robert Peterson, executive secretary of the Nebraska Council of School Administrators. Nebraskans do not need "outsiders sticking their supercilious noses into the conduct of Nebraska business," Mr. Peterson said.
Education
In First Challenges, Federal Courts Disagree On Whether States Must Return Title I Funds
Two conflicting federal court decisions were handed down last month on the issue of whether states must repay the Education Department (ed) for Title I money the federal auditors say was "misspent."
Education
Opinion
The Tax Credit Debate: Arguments For and Against Aid to Private Schooling
We would be in a very different debate if someone would come forward
and say that American public schools have served their purpose, that
they are no longer any good, that because of all their faults it is
really time that they be abandoned, and that there is a strategy for
bringing about that abandonment.
Education
Opinion
Throwing Money at Schools
By our cultural heritage we are led to believe that the performance of students can be improved by providing more resources to the schools. This would allow schools to provide more individualized instruction, to hire more qualified teachers, and to expand program offerings.
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
The Tax Credit Debate: Arguments For and Against Aid to Private Schooling
The following are statements excerpted from a debate on federal tuition tax credits held in Washington on Oct. 22.