Master teacher plan provokes debate on pay and standards
The Gazette notes Terrel Bell urges designating up to 20 percent of top public school teachers as master teachers with about 40 percent higher pay. He advocates limited federal leadership and targeted aid while states raise school taxes. NEA resists separating teachers. testing for competency gains traction in several states. Washington is urged to play a strong, coordinated role.
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Terrel Bell
Bell
National Education Association
NEA
Iowa
American Federation of Teachers
United States
National Commission On Excellence In Education
East Lansing
Mich
Commission
Tennessee
Lamar Alexander
Tennessee Education Association
Alexander
Senate
Hart
Legislature backs off on state ticketing plan for Iowa hoops
Richard Groth withdrew a proposal to require 20 percent of University of Iowa tickets be public. University officials pledged 200 basketball tickets for next year and 500 in three years, a concession seen as a fan win. The writer argues that ticket policy should be handled by the university, not by the Legislature, suggesting a nonbinding resolution instead.
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Richard Groth
Iowa
Albert City Democrat
University of Iowa
U of I
Hawkeyes
Groth
Saturn
Earth
Education debate may be a presidential litmus test
Washington analysis notes Education Secretary Ted Bell frames the national debate on schooling reform as a test of presidential stature for Reagan and Mondale. Bell backs federal aid, endorses master teacher pay, and seeks reforms in teacher quality, standards, and accountability amid pollster Teeter and Hart’s surveys on merit pay and tax funding.
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Washington
T.H. Bell
Bell
Ted Bell
Ronald Reagan
Walter Mondale
Robert Teeter
Commission
Reagan
Mondale
Hart
National Education Association
NEA
PIK satire shows nothing becoming something in farm bragging
A humorous critique of the payment in kind program features a Texan and an Iowan boasting about idled acres. The piece mocks government incentives guiding farmers to produce nothing while taxpayers subsidize surplus and mislead Soviet planners, ending with a flippant image of Granny entering empty jars at a county fair.
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PIK
Loch Ness monster debate ends in skepticism and wonder
The piece surveys Nessie sightings and scientific commentary from 1960 to 1976, noting limited evidence but lasting curiosity. It cites Smithsonian, MIT Technology Review, Harvard, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyses, while cautioning against dogmatic disbelief or excessive credulity about a large aquatic creature in Loch Ness.
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Loch Ness
Scotland
Columba
George Spicer
London
Britain
Europe
Smithsonian
Royal Ontario Museum
Harvard
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard Museum
MCZ
Technology Review
MIT
Stern Magazine
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Block
Soviet Union
Japan
West Germany
Aleksei Stakhanov
Stakhanovites
Kremlin
George Will
Nessie
Inverness
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Smithsonian Magazine
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