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Clearly his proposals have touched responsive chords in Americans of the 1980s, including some members of what Bennett sees as the education establishment. Bill Honig, California's superintendent of public instruction, observes, "He's saying the right thing and saying it strongly enough so people are paying attention." And, Honig adds, "he really has mellowed this past year." Congress has begun to mellow back. "Bennett got off to a bumpy start with me," says Vermont Republican Robert Stafford, ranking Republican on the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities. "But he's corrected that...
...need to defuse conservative critics have made the abstinence message politically popular to left and right alike. "Our preferred way to deal with sexual activity is to say no," says Patricia Davis-Scott, clinic director at two Chicago high schools. In the California school system, notes Bill Honig, state superintendent of public instruction, when a boy says, "If you love me, you will," a girl is taught to answer, "If you love me, you won't ask me." Illinois Governor James Thompson told a Republican meeting last month, " 'Just Say No' is a good slogan for drugs...
...proposals amount to potential giant steps for a profession that has been stumbling badly, often with little support from the communities it serves. The report, produced by a 14-member task force that included Mary Hatwood Futrell, president of the National Education Association, and Bill Honig, superintendent of California schools, and was chaired by IBM's chief scientist Lewis Branscomb, recommends putting teachers in control of the educational process...
...educators, such as California School Superintendent Bill Honig and State Commissioners Gerald Tirozzi of Connecticut and Gordon Ambach of New York, applaud the preschool push as providing more children with better education sooner. Comments Roberta Babb, director of Creme de la Creme: "For a long time, people didn't realize all the things that a little mind is capable of. We give them a big head start for school." But others are dismayed by a parental mania to overstuff little minds that are not ready. At the recent convention in Atlanta of the National Association of Independent Schools, hothousing...
...rebuff to religion but an endorsement of interesting, up-to-date books. The state is also demanding improved presentation of historical subjects like the Holocaust, which publishers have tiptoed around. "The publishers will publish the books we want if we are clear about what we want," says Honig. As the textbook makers considered ways to meet these sterner standards, there was a growing sense among educators that the demands of the big spenders might start to cure the affliction of simplistic books in U.S. classrooms...