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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.
September 7, 1981
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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.
September 7, 1981
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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.
September 7, 1981
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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.
Peggy Caldwell, September 7, 1981
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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.
Susan Walton, September 7, 1981
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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.
September 7, 1981
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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.)
Tom Mirga, September 7, 1981
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2 min read
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.
Tom Mirga, September 7, 1981
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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.
September 7, 1981
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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.
Susan G. Foster, September 7, 1981
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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.
Susan Walton, September 7, 1981
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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.
Peggy Caldwell, September 7, 1981
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Education Opinion Trashing The Coleman Report
What is it about the scholarship of James Coleman that so often makes him the target of calumny, denunciation, and unprofessorial mudslinging by his fellow social scientists, even as he is lionized in the popular press, asked to speak to distinguished gatherings, and invited to testify before Congressional committees?
Chester E. Finn Jr., September 7, 1981
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor
At the recent meeting of Chief State School Officers and State Higher Education Officers, I believe steps were finally taken that hold promise for ending the critical barriers that so unnecessarily divide us in education.
September 7, 1981
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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.
September 7, 1981
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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.
September 7, 1981
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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.
September 7, 1981
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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."
September 7, 1981
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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.
Margaret L. Weeks, September 7, 1981
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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.
Eileen White, September 7, 1981
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