20 years ago ...[SEPT. 29, 1982]
- The College Board reports that the nationwide averages on both the verbal and mathematics sections of the Scholastic Aptitude Test went up for the first time in 19 years.
- The U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights proposes a "results-based" approach to enforcing laws governing the education of language-minority children.
- NEA Today, the National Education Association's tabloid newspaper, makes its debut, providing coverage of politics and pedagogy for the union's 1.6 million members.
10 years ago ... [SEPT. 30, 1992]
- California becomes the second state to authorize charter schools, despite strong objections from the state teachers' unions.
- Pupils from the United States outperform their fellow 9-year- olds from nearly every other country in a 32-nation study of reading literacy.
- A report on the state of urban schools by the Council of the Great City Schools finds that urban students compare "surprisingly well" academically with nonurban students.
Vol. 22, Issue 4, Page 6Published in Print: September 25, 2002, as Retrospective