ON Saturday, Ernest L. Buyer will step down as the United States Commissioner of Education. Since April 1, 1977, Mr. Boyer, the former Chancellor of the State University of New York, has been the principal educational spokesman for the Carter Administrati...View free preview
BERKELEY, CALIF. AFTER leading a legal revolution that helped change the economic foundation on which much of American public education was built, what do you do for an encore? John E. Coons and Stephen D. Sugarman faced this question and decided to try t...View free preview
WASHINGTON, May 7 (AP)--Soon after creating the Office of Education in the 1860's, Congress had second thoughts and demoted it to a bureau in the Department of Interior. Today it achieved full Cabinet status as the new Department of Education and celebrat...View free preview
Mayor Koch said yesterday that the cost of educating handicapped children had grown to the point where the drain on funds was "jeopardizing the quality of education" for those not handicapped....View free preview
Nearly 700 people have been given high-paying jobs at Board of Education headquarters and in local school districts through a hiring system that bypasses Civil Service law, often requires minimal qualifications and rewards some holders of administrative j...View free preview
THE Federal education bureaucracy is in disarray. Its top posi tion of United States Commissioner of Education has been vacant since July 1, and there has been no Acting Commissioner since Aug. 1....View free preview
BY upholding a New Jersey regulation that requires bilingual-education teachers to demonstrate their proficiency in both English and Spanish, a Federal court in Trenton may have put the spotlight on one of the more controversial issues in public education...View free preview
CENTER, Colo.--Bilingual education programs have contributed to community power struggles in rural Colorado as Hispanic Americans use such social programs to challenge the political leadership in areas that seem to change as slowly as the snow-capped peak...View free preview
The Federal Government's tentative regulations on bilingual education, already being criticized by those who accuse Washington of overstepping its authority, were praised in New York yesterday by a steady stream of supporters who urged that the rules be m...View free preview
HARVARD has launched a comprehensive review of its relationship with the nation's elementary and secondary schools. The university's Graduate School of Education ......View free preview