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Education Critic Assail Cuts in Health Program
Child Health Day came and went quietly Oct. 5, but most of the witnesses at a hastily convened special Congressional hearing on child health agreed that there was little cause for celebration anyway.
Susan Walton, October 12, 1981
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Education School Board Appeals State Ruling Admitting Deaf Pupil to High School
When Mary Ewell completed a government-sponsored training program three years ago, she had marketable secretarial skills that landed her a job, but no money to pay someone to care for her daughter.
Susan G. Foster, October 12, 1981
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School Board Is Appealing
October 12, 1981
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October 5, 1981
October 5, 1981
Education Opinion Educating the Inexcusably Ignorant
One day recently, a colleague of mine asked her college English class to name a contemporary of the medieval poet Chaucer. No one had an answer, except one student. His reply: Robert Frost. I was not amused. Perhaps I would have been if such students were the rare exception. But they are not. College students today, by and large, are amazingly lacking in important knowledge, and it's no laughing matter.
Bruce Bawer, October 5, 1981
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Education Opinion The Magical Success of Private Schools: It's Mostly Blue Smoke and Mirrors
It's as though the Enlightenment had never happened. What I can only call a medieval frame of mind still persists among us. Some people who should know better still want to believe in magic when they're faced with knotty and irksome problems.
Edmund Janko, October 5, 1981
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor
David G. Imig Executive Director American Association of Colleges For Teacher Education Washington

We have read with some dismay Thomas Toch's article "For Teachers of Teachers: A Crisis of Quality" (Education Week, Sept 14). We are extremely concerned over both the one-sided presentation of opinions, and the selection of quotes that the reporter has offered. While the first paragraphs of the article set a critical but realistic tone, they in no way justify the use of the title "... A Crisis of Quality."

October 5, 1981
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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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4 min read
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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5 min read
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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5 min read
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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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3 min read
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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4 min read
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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3 min read

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