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Education Graduates Often Lack Basic Skills, Critics Claim
High-school graduates who enter the worlds of business, college, or the military are likely to find themselves right back in a classroom if their basic reading, writing, and math skills are so poor that they cannot carry out their assigned tasks.
Susan Walton, November 9, 1981
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Education In Federal Agencies
Commission on education. The Department of Education announced, in the Oct. 28 Federal Register, an ad hoc meeting of the commission on Nov. 6 and 16, and a full commission meeting on Dec. 7 of the National Commission on Excellence in Education. An ad hoc committee met on Nov. 6 at the Marriott Hotel, New Orleans, to discuss certain portions of the commission's charter. An ad hoc committee will meet on Nov. 16 at the Science Museum of Minnesota, 10th and Wabasha, St. Paul, to discuss certain portions of the charter of the commission. The full commission will meet on Dec. 7 in Washington to discuss the entire charter and plan staff and member activities. All commission meetings are open to the public.
November 9, 1981
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Education Texans Approve Local Tax-Relief Measure
Over the opposition of the Texas Federation of Teachers (tft), Texas voters approved a measure that will allow school boards and other local governments to ease property taxes.

Under Proposition 6, local taxing authorities may exempt from property taxes up to 40 percent of the value of "homesteads," or owner-occupied homes.

November 9, 1981
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Education Opponents of D. C. Tax Credit Jubilant About Huge Victory
Opponents of tuition tax credits are jubilantly interpreting voters' overwhelming rejection of the controversial idea here last week as a major setback for the tuition tax-credit movement nationally.
Eileen White, November 9, 1981
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Education Drinking Age Linked To Drop In Accidents Involving Youths
Marked declines in traffic-accident rates in two states are the direct results of raising the legal drinking age, according to University of Michigan researcher.

Alexander C. Wagenaar, of the university's Highway Safety Research Institute, last week told members of the American Public Health Association that accident rates for 18- to 20-year-olds in Michigan and Maine fell by more than 17 percent after both states prohibited the sale of alcohol to teen-agers.

November 9, 1981
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Federal Quayle Bill To Dissolve Education Department Differs From Proposal Made by Secretary Bell
The Education Department would be reduced to a small education-assistance agency under a bill scheduled to be introduced by Dan Quayle.
Eileen White, November 9, 1981
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3 min read
November 2, 1981
November 2, 1981
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.
November 2, 1981
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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.
Eric A. Hanushek, November 2, 1981
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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.
November 2, 1981
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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.
Eileen White, November 2, 1981
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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.

November 2, 1981
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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.
Susan G. Foster, November 2, 1981
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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.
Tom Mirga, November 2, 1981
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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.

November 2, 1981
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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.
Peggy Caldwell, November 2, 1981
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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.

November 2, 1981
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Education Biology Teachers Focus Debate on Values, Issues
They spoke surprisingly little of a lack of federal funds and adequate resources for teachers.
Carla Carlson , November 2, 1981
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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.
Peggy Caldwell, November 2, 1981
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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.
Don Sevener, November 2, 1981
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6 min read

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