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Former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, who has just been named president of the University of Tennessee system, promotes an in-school suspension system that he brought in as Governor as part of his "Better Schools Program" in 1982. Trouble makers booted out of regular classes are sent to designated rooms. There, they must continue to study under the guidance of a disciplinarian like the football coach, or someone else with a touch of intimidation, until they have shaped up for re-entry into regular classes. "This way, getting kicked out is not a free ride," he explains. Alexander, along with...
With $500 "seed money" from Philips Brooks House, Nhan Truong this fall started a program providing in-school and after-school tutoring to the refugee children of Allston-Brighton. The program places Harvard student volunteers into the classrooms of Jackson-Mann School, where about 250 Vietnamese children from throughout the Boston area are currently enrolled in a bilingual program from kindergarten to fifth grade...
...GUARANTEED Student Loan Program would continue, but it would be cut 61 percent, from $3 billion in FY 1987 to $1.2 billion in FY 1988. Ending the federal subsidy of in-school interests and substituting a nine percent "guarantee fee" for the current five percent origination fee would increase costs to borrowers. Meanwhile, new caps on interest rates would make the program less attractive to lending institutions and might induce them to end their participation altogether...
...Boston, Superintendent Robert Spillane is improving one of the nation's most racially torn school systems. An apt symbol is South Boston High School, where whites clashed with blacks in the mid-'70s. Today Southie is a well-balanced school with a population of 856 students that is 43% black, 34% white, 11% Asian and 12% Hispanic. In 1976 Headmaster Jerome Winegar began an in-school suspension program: students who get into trouble are assigned special help under a supervising teacher instead of being
...recommended nonsectarian prayer and Pennsylvania's Bible readings and Lord's Prayer recitations. Just last January the court threw out a Louisiana law allowing students or teachers to offer their own prayers. Eight months ago, the Justices also refused to review a decision forbidding students to form in-school prayer meetings on their own before classes. Some states allow a "moment of silence" for students to pray if they wish; the Supreme Court has not ruled on that...