Illinois education funding push faces critic on state finances
Illinois education officials seek 280 million more for next year covering elementary, secondary, colleges and universities. Critics argue current requests are below needs to halt declining educational quality, noting gas price hikes and teacher salary increases could strain instructional funding. Governor James Thompson and decisionmakers face questions about fiscal policy behind the requests.
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Illinois
James Thompson
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Truthful words from Donald Woods urge South Africans to face reality
A column urges South Africans to heed Donald Woods as fear and censorship grip the country. It contrasts Woods’s outspoken critique of apartheid with Afrikaner nationalism, noting authorities suppressing him and risks to his life and family. The piece shifts to Illinois education funding, urging stronger state support to sustain schools.
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Donald Woods
South Africa
Mr. Woods
Woods
Village minds and world crisis in journalism critique
Richard Critchfield argues that three billion peasants in villages receive little Western reporting. He urges long term, immersive village coverage to reveal how peasant cultures shape revolutions, famines, and crises, proposing 20 to 30 reporters living with families in Asia Africa and Latin America to report from the ground.
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Richard Critchfield
Columbia Journalism Review
Mexico
Russia
Cuba
Angola
Vietnam
Washington Star
Hanoi
Cteck
Asia
Africa
Latin America
U.S
Sadat’s temperament won’t derail Middle East peace efforts
Speech analysis notes that Anwar Sadat’s outbursts won’t help resolve Middle East disputes. The piece says hard bargaining has begun and urges restraint from leaders on heated public remarks while negotiations proceed, acknowledging his stance on Sinai while warning against coercive tactics.
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Anwar Sadat
Middle East
Mr. Sadat
Sinai
Well-trained experts take over study of sex
New research by trained scientists broadens the view of human sexuality. Government funding rises to about 8 million dollars this decade for studies on rape, sexuality in humans and animals, and training for researchers and therapists working with the handicapped.
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Ly Jane E. Brody
New York Times
New York
Kinsey
Masters and Johnson
Richard Green
International Academy of Sex Research
State University of New York
Stony Brook
Green
Harold I. Lief
Center For the Study of
Sex Education
The
Reproductive Biology Research Foundation
St. Louis
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