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THE 1980s: EDUCATION

CONTENTS

CHRONOLOGY 172
OVERVIEW 182
TOPICS IN THE NEWS

Academic and Athletic Reform—186
AIDS: Catalyst for Change in the Schools—187
Apartheid Spurs Campus Protests—188
"Stereo Divestiture"—188
Bilingual Education—188
Black Educational Progress Slows—189
Replacing the Canon—191
Federal Educational Intervention: Harmful or Helpful?—192
The Coalition of Essential Schools: Principles for Secondary Reform—193
Guns, Drugs, and Suicide—193
A Story of "Institutional Child Neglect"—195
1983: "The Hinge of History" for Reform—195
Low-Tech Education in the High-Tech World of the 1980s—197
Rise in Censorship—198
Channel One Brings TV to Nation's Classrooms—198
Teachers under Fire—201
The Paideia Proposal—201
The Closing of the American Mind—202
Women's Issues in Education—203

HEADLINE MAKERS

William J. Bennett—204
Ernest L. Boyer—205
Joe Louis Clark—206
Marva Collins—207
Jaime Escalante—208
John I. Goodlad—208
Madeline Hunter—209
Christa McAuliffe—210
Albert Shanker—211

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS 212
DEATHS 214
PUBLICATIONS 216

Sidebars and tables are listed in italics.