Education

Parents can work for better reading instruction using the ideas offered by Sandra Stotsky in the concluding chapter of her book, Losing Our Language. Assess Textbooks and Teachers Parents should assess their children's textbooks and teachers.

Passed in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty," Title I, Aid to Disadvantaged Children, receives the bulk of the $13 billion spent by the federal government to aid K-12 education. A new report from the U.S.

The Thurston County Superior Court fined the Washington Education Association (WEA) $15,000 on February 26 for failing to turn over a document detailing the union's political plan for the 1996 elections.

Educators in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, and Ohio are weighing the introduction of a value-added approach to teacher and school performance evaluation already used in Tennessee to analyze how well schools and individual teachers are doing their jobs.

In 1806, the Free School Society opened a school in New York City where one teacher, using student monitors, was in charge of a school of 1,000 students. That was the Lancasterian, or monitorial system, developed in England.

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) will introduce the following three bills to give American parents and communities direct control over their education dollars. Family Education Freedom Act.

With education a major public concern and the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) up for reauthorization, many reforms are being put forward. Most of them reduce simply to "more of the same.

While Vice President Al Gore praised what he characterized as the "great progress" made by American students in national reading tests, a Department of Education official offered a much more sober assessment of recent test results, saying only that

Joined by a group of schoolchildren and a banner reading "Save for Students," Representatives Kenny Hulshof (R-Missouri) and William Lipinski (D-Illinois) introduced on March 10 the House version of Georgia GOP Senator Paul Coverdell's Education Savings

California Part of the effort to organize school choice activities in California is now under the care of venture capitalist Timothy Draper. Last year Draper created a Web site designed to mobilize grassroots support for school choice (http://www.

With the state legislature scheduled to adjourn on March 20, New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson on March 11 vetoed the $1.

How much of a problem can a minor spelling error be?

The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled on March 11 that legislators, not voters, must decide on a new tax system to resolve the state's public school funding crisis . . .

"My view is, if Washington didn't overtax us so much on their end, we would have much more money to spend as individual states, and allow us to take care of our own education system.

"I am the product of a failing special education system." "My name is Saundra Lemons. I am a senior at Coolidge High School with enough credits to graduate in June. . . .

In her book, Losing Our Language, Sandra Stotsky notes that new elementary school readers require children to spend their time unproductively, learning non-English words and symbols unique to the story at hand and unlikely ever to be encountered again.

Florida * Illinois * Maryland * Montana Nevada * Pennsylvania * South Carolina * Texas FLORIDA Teacher Body Language Affects Student Learning Children don't take compliments from their teachers at face value, but weigh the content of

During World War II, the U.S. Army taught typing in rooms so large that the instructor--a non-certified soldier-teacher--used a microphone, and students listened on headphones. A public school not only could do this, at least one has.

A leading education expert says Congress must answer some tough questions about the purpose of federal aid to education when it reauthorizes the $13 billion Elementary and Secondary Education Act later this year.

The "Ed-Flex" educational flexibility bill authorizes the U.S. Secretary of Education to allow any petitioning state to waive certain federal statutory or regulatory requirements relating to seven major federal programs.

There comes a point in nearly all debates over school choice when the advocate of public schools appeal to the emotions of the audience by giving examples of misconduct in choice schools: financial mismanagement, fraud, unqualified teachers, or

In a March 3 decision likely to strain school district budgets across the country, a divided U.S.

"The primary purpose or one of the primary purposes [of a political action committee] is to affect government decision making by supporting or opposing candidates or ballot positions.

An attempt to decertify the Michigan Education Association, undertaken by 55 MEA members in Branch County, Michigan, was foiled when MEA intimidation and interference caused the employees to fear for their jobs and vote to continue union representation