Class size cuts seen as costly, limited impact study says
Washington reports the Department of Education study finds shrinking public school classes is expensive and may yield little or no improvement in student achievement. It notes classes average 24 now, down from 30 in 1961, and that moving to 15 per class would require up to 1 million teachers and billions in cost.
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Washington
Department of Education
Tommy
M. Tomlinson
Department
Office of Educational Research and Improvement
Chester E. Finn Jr
Education
Finn
Mr. Finn
The
National Education Association
Keith Geiger
NEA
Utah
California
Geiger
Japan
Indiana
Robert Orr
Sadat to lecture at University of Maryland center
Anwar el Sadat widow Jehan Sadat signs a one year contract with the University of Maryland Center for International Development and Conflict Management to lecture on Middle East issues and women’s roles for fifty thousand dollars funded by the university foundation. She previously earned over three hundred fourteen thousand dollars at the University of South Carolina, prompting controversy over state funds.
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College Park
University of Maryland
Anwar el Sadat
Jehan Sadat
University of South Carolina
Edward Azar
Center For International Development and Conflict Management
South Carolina
Sadat
Egypt
Azar
University of Maryland Foundation
Supreme Court urged to require free bus transport for poor students
The Supreme Court heard a case from rural North Dakota where a family challenges busing fees. The issue centers on whether the state must provide free transportation to the poor, with the dispute focusing on whether districts that have not reorganized may charge parents. The plaintiff cites a $97 annual fee for her daughter Sarita, who travels 16 miles to school.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Duane Houdek
North Dakota
Bismarck
N.D
Byron R. White
Nicholas Spaeth
Paula Kadimas
Dickinson
Sarita
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