|
News
& Views -
May, 2001 Issue (page 2)
|
Page 2 of 3 -
Previous | Next
ZERO TOLERANCE HAS LIMITS
(April 8, 2001) In an article “Zero tolerance has limits,” the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20010408zerotolerance3.asp, reports “More than 87,000 students were expelled nationwide in the 1997-98 school year, according to the Office for Civil Rights…. There were more than 3.1 million children suspended that year, up from 1.7 million in the 1974-75 school year, and 2.4 million in 1991-92.”
WEB-ENHANCED COURSES PREFERRED
(April 16, 2001) Heller Reports, http://hellerreports.com/dte/lead04-20.html, reported a poll showing a strong faculty preference in higher education “for web- enhanced classroom instruction over either traditional classroom- only instruction or online-only ‘distance’ education.”
INTERIM YEAR
(April 17, 2001) The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com, features educational consultant Cornelius Bull, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in an article entitled “Before College, Year Off Beckons to Well Off,” who is quoted as saying “I don’t think any 18-year-old, for any reason, should be in college. If you’re older, you do it better. You don’t fall down drunk and waste your time.”
QUIET CRISIS FROM HIGH-STAKES TESTS
(April 18, 2001) Education Week, http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=31catchup.h20, reports throughout the country demands for higher academic standards and tests are showing “a large proportion of students who are already in high school are not yet doing high-school-level work.”
IS VOTING AND SENDING TAX DOLLARS ENOUGH?
(April 18, 2001) In a poll sponsored by the Washington-based Public Education Network and Education Week, they found that 37% of the respondents choose education as the most important public-policy issue, 91% “said every American child should be guaranteed a high-quality public education,” and 8% “saw volunteering in schools as a citizen’s primary responsibility to the schools.” Reported at http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=31PEN.h20, a spokesman concluded among other things, “Americans seem content to sit back and let the advocates, experts, and educators take over.” Michael K. Grady, with the Annenberg Institute for School Reform said “You’re beginning to see a heightened sense of collective responsibility” for schools.
This
article copyright © 1999-2001, Woodbury Reports, Inc. (This
article may be reproduced without prior approval if the
copyright notice and proper publication and author
attribution accompanies the copy.)
|