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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:54:00 CDT
From:         P30JWP1@NIU.BITNET
Subject:      OERI: Single gender schools (62 lines)

The following is provided by the Office of Educational Research
and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education.  Please feel
welcome to distribute.

                  U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
         OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT


A RESEARCH FOCUS ON SINGLE-GENDER SCHOOLS

How effective are single-gender schools in meeting the
educational needs of today's students? Are these schools
especially responsive to the academic needs of populations that
have traditionally fared poorly in coed classrooms? What about
the social benefits and cost of single-gender education?

To help answer these and other questions about the benefits and
effectiveness of single-gender schooling for boys and girls, the
Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) recently
invited a small number of practitioners and researchers to a
meeting on single-gender schooling. The meeting was designed
not only to provide a forum for discussion, but also to furnish
OERI with more information about this topic, and to generate
material for a report for policymakers, parents, and educators.

Specifically, conference participants focused their discussion on
the following questions:

o    What are the arguments and evidence for and against single-
     gender education?

o    What are the claims for educational benefits? Are these
     valid?

o    What are the claims for single-gender schools and how do
     these relate to claims for single-gender classes?

o    What are the best judgments about both academic and other
     effects of single-gender education? In schools? In classes?

Participants included the heads of four private, single-gender
schools, as well as researchers who have probed the effects of
single-gender schooling at the secondary and postsecondary
levels.  A draft research synthesis on "Single-gender Policy and
Educational Effectiveness" provided a basis for discussions that
were lively and provocative.

Currently, only one percent of all students in the United States
attend single-gender K-12 schools, most of which are private
secondary institutions. And, to date, research on their
effectiveness has been generally inconclusive. Still, educators
are now pondering evidence which suggests that the academic and
social needs of girls and of young inner-city minority males are
better served in single-gender classrooms and schools. To help
shed new light on these schools' effectiveness and viability as
an educational option, OERI will publish the research synthesis
and conference proceedings later this year.

For information on the conference, contact Jackie Jenkins at
202-219-2079.
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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:59:00 CDT
From:         P30JWP1@NIU.BITNET
Subject:      OERI: NCES Educational Survey of Households (56 lines)

The following is provided by The Office of Educational Research
and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education.  Please feel
welcome to distribute.

                  U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
         OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT


HOUSEHOLDS YIELD EDUCATION INFORMATION

OERI's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has begun
collecting--for the first time--education data through a
nationwide telephone survey of households. Historically, data has
been gathered through school-based surveys and surveys of school
districts and state education agencies.

The new National Household Education Survey (NHES) is designed to
monitor the education experiences of both children and adults and
has the potential to look at issues previous surveys have not
addressed.

Beginning in 1993, NHES will be conducted annually. Topics such
as the participation of preschool children in early childhood
programs and of adults in adult education programs--topics that
cannot be addressed adequately through traditional NCES
surveys--will be covered by NHES on a rotating basis.

Although the exact sample size for a particular component of the
survey may vary somewhat from year to year, between 60,000 and
75,000 households will be screened for the annual surveys. Within
these households, between 15,000 and 20,000 extended interviews
will be conducted about the education activities of household
members.

The first NHES was conducted in spring 1991, and covered early
childhood education and adult education. The parents/guardians of
nearly 14,000 children ages 3 to 8 years old were questioned
about their children's educational activities in and out of the
home. At the same time, interviews were conducted with about
9,800 adult education participants and 2,750 nonparticipants.
(Survey findings are summarized in three publications:
EXPERIENCES IN CHILD CARE AND EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS FOR FIRST
AND SECOND GRADERS; HOME ACTIVITIES OF 3- TO 8-YEAR-OLDS; AND
ADULT EDUCATION PROFILE FOR 1990-91. (See PUBLICATIONS list for
ordering information.)

Each year NHES will study at least two topics, one of which will
always pertain to early childhood issues. Upcoming topics will
include: school readiness and school safety and discipline in
1993 and 1996; participation in nonparental care/education and
adult education in 1994; parental involvement and citizenship in
1995.

For further information about the NHES, contact Kathyrn Chandler
at 202-219-1767.
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Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 12:24:00 CDT
From:         P30JWP1@NIU.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Request for Minute Paper refs

I don't recall that being on ERL-L.  But to look through
headings of previous messages, send a message to
LISTSERV@TCSVM  The message should read INDEX ERL-L
When you find a promising looking message, send its
log number

Again, send a message to LISTSERV@TCSVM
This time, if the log number of 9002, your
message should read GET 9002 ERL-L
Good luck!
-Jean Pierce P30JWP1@NIU
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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:51:00 CDT
From:         P30JWP1@NIU.BITNET
Subject:      OERI: Education in Japan (38 lines)

The following is provided by the Office of Educational Research
and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education.  Please feel
welcome to distribute.


                  U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
         OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT

                            JUNE 1992


JAPANESE EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY

This second and final volume of a US study of education in Japan
provides 10 articles on a variety of topics, ranging from
Japanese cram schools to class management and student guidance to
a comparison of math and science proficiency in Japan and the US.
$26.95 from CJP.

How To Order

To expedite handling, please give the title(s) and order
number(s). If no order number is listed, no order number is
necessary. Match the acronym at the end of each description with
the list below to find out where to send your order.

Only single copies of the free items are available; however, you
are welcome to duplicate these materials. If a publication is for
sale, the price is given near the entry. Make out your check to
the organization receiving your order. GPO books require
prepayment.

CJP
Center for Japanese Studies Publications Program
108 Lane Hall
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1290
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:13:00 CDT
From:         P30JWP1@NIU.BITNET
Subject:      Vocational Ed. Research Center

Vocational Education Research Center

The Department of Education is inviting applications for the Nationa
Center for Research and Development in Vocational Education and
the National Center for Dissemination and Training for Vocational
Education.  However, the Department will give preference to any
institution or consortium that demonstrates ability to effectively
carry out both functions.

Project period:  5 years (60 months)
Projected funds per year: R&D Center - $4 million
                          Dissemination Center - $2 million

Deadline for transmittal of Applications: September 4, 1992

Complete information is available in the July 10 Federal Register.
Complete information is available in the July 10
Federal Register.
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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 22:15:00 CDT
From:         P30JWP1@NIU.BITNET
Subject:      OERI: 3 NAEP studies (58 lines)

The following is provided by the Office of Educational Research
and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education.  Please feel
welcome to distribute.

                  U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
         OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT

3 NEW NAEP STUDIES RELEASED

A pilot study that examines the viability of using writing
portfolios as part of large scale assessments is one of three
recently released National Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP) reports.

Researchers reviewed the writing of more than 2,000 students who
submitted a piece from their "portfolio" of classroom
writing--samples that students and teachers considered their best
work. Most writing tests require students to draft an essay on an
assigned topic within a specific time. Teachers and testing
experts have sought alternative methods that might examine the
complex process of writing now being taught in schools. A
portfolio approach allows a student to select writing samples
done over time that might indicate more accurately overall
writing ability.

The pilot study found that even when students were allowed to
polish their writing, the pieces were generally not well
developed and did not communicate effectively. The students, for
the most part, did not plan, think about, or revise their writing
even when they had the opportunity. The portfolio project will be
repeated and refined in future NAEP data collections.

A second NAEP study which assessed the science skills of nearly
20,000 students in grades 4, 8, and 12 found that less than half
of the elementary schools and only about one-third of the high
schools identified science education as a special priority. It
also found that despite recommendations that students "do
science," students in many high school classrooms are not gaining
extensive laboratory experiences.

According to the study, one-fourth of the high school seniors
taking science courses reported that they never did experiments
in their science classes and nearly 60 percent reported never
working on science projects that took a week or more.

The third NAEP report, released May 28, focused on the reading
skills of students in grades 4, 8, and 12 in 1988 and 1990.

The reports are available from GPO, Superintendent of Documents,
PO Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954. The cost and stock
numbers are: EXPLORING NEW METHODS FOR COLLECTING STUDENTS'
SCHOOL-BASED WRITING, $10; #065-000-00491-7; and THE 1990 SCIENCE
REPORT CARD, $11; #065-000-00490-9. Call the GPO order desk at
202-783-3238 for information about READING IN AND OUT OF SCHOOL.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 09:00:55 CDT
Reply-To:     Randall Legeai <BR01OAS@MUSIC.TCS.TULANE.EDU>
From:         Randall Legeai <BR01OAS@MUSIC.TCS.TULANE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: power lines -- book data
X-To:         LOGANT@LAFAYETT.BITNET

> Re John Naples' information for Sam Davila's interest:
>
> >>I would like to know the effects of living near high voltage electric
> >>transmission lines may have on human health.
=============================
The National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, of the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a Program Announcement
last spring (PA-91-53) entitled "Research on the Effects of Power
Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields".  This program also involves
the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and the
National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.  The
Program Announcement mentions a couple of items of interest:
1)  The energy of a 60Hz electromagnetic wave is too weak to
break chemical bonds.
2)  Natural electric fields in the body are orders of magnitude greater
than those induced by common EMF exposure.
3)  In vitro studies report effects on cell membranes, DNA synthesis,
RNA transcription, ornithine decarboxylase activity, calcium-ion
efflux, cellular response to hormones and cancer cells.
4)  Results of epidemiological studies are controversial.
5)  One study showed a weak association between EMF exposure and
leukemia and brain tumors.

The proposals in response to this announcement were due June 1 and
October 1, so no awards have yet been made.  At any rate, there
are efforts to support research in this area, not only at NIH,
but at other agencies as well.
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:52:38 EDT
Reply-To:     altman@AMETHYST.BUCKNELL.EDU
From:         altman@AMETHYST.BUCKNELL.EDU
Subject:      electric power
X-To:         biosph-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu

Calling the Earth's resources finite is not gloomy but truthful.  By only
looking at the economics of energy and neglecting the enviromental aspects
you are asking for disaster.

Ken Meinken writes:
>such hysterics remind me of the assertions back in the 1970s that said the
 world would run out of oil >within 5-10 years.  For a >comodity that is heavily
 influecnced by supply/demand, it's interesting that before tax cost of gasoline
 is cheaper now that it was >in 1978! (sic)

Maybe if we had run out of oil the earth would be a cleaner place.  In the
seventies when this was a possibility we were searching for alternatives.
Then the price of oil dropped and we stopped.  This was both lazzy and
cheap.  If you want to talk supply and demand, the populace should have
demanded a safe, efficant and clean energy source.

I realize this gets away from the Ceaucescu arguement.  I still back the 5%
reduction because you have to start somewhere.

I am not a radical even if I may sound like one.  Reasonable people realize
real problems.
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:09:00 +0100
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From:         ALDO DE MOOR <ADEMOOR@KUB.NL>
Subject:      Coal Ash Disposal/Treatment Systems

Dear friends,

From a student at the Environmental Science Dept., Agricultural
University of Malaysia, who does not have access to electronic
networking facilities, I got the following request for assistance.
If you have any information, please mail it to me, I will forward
it to his address.

Thanks,

Aldo de Moor
Tilburg University
The Netherlands

===================================================================

I need your help. I have chosen this topic for my final year
project: 'Technological-economic Evaluation of Appropriate
Coal Ash Disposal/Treatment Systems'. Malaysia's first and only
coal-fired power plant, commissioned in 1988, will consume an
estimate of 1.5 million tonnes/year of coal. This produces a
substantive amount of coal ash now and in the future and needs
to be looked after. I seek your help in furnishing me with
any information on experience in the

a) Economic studies
b) Environmental considerations
c) Possible usage

of the usage and disposal of the coal ash, especially of bottom
ash. Your help would greatly enhance towards maximum and
economic usage/disposal of coal ash in Malaysia.

Thank you in advance.

Working together for our Earth,

Yours sincerely,

Lee Eng Chai
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:03:00 MST
Reply-To:     JALOVE@ADMN.SAIT.AB.CA
From:         JALOVE@ADMN.SAIT.AB.CA
Subject:      CDN NEWS: Beer Wars
X-To:         biosph-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu

US SLAPS TARRIFF AGAINST CANADIAN ECO-TAX

The US has slapped a tarriff on Canadian beer because it claims that
Ontario's new Eco-tax on non-refillable bottles is an unfair trading
practice and not allowed under the Free Trade agreement.

Canada has retaliated with a 50% duty on American beer coming into Ontario.
They do not intend to remove the duty until the US removes the $5 a case
duty on Canadian beer.

{Personally I don't know who is drinking US swill in Canada;
old alcoholics and teen agers I bet. :) }


James (Jim) Arthur Love, B.Comm
Calgary, Alberta, *CANADA*

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Voice : (403)-282-3020
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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 16:57:56 EDT
Reply-To:     Peter <EVBKEVAN@VM.UOGUELPH.CA>
From:         Peter <EVBKEVAN@VM.UOGUELPH.CA>
Subject:      Capitalism and the Environment

It is worth keeping in mind that nature herself is not the benign giver o
of unlimited goods. Organisms in nature compete and co-operate, but,
whatever way one tries to fathom the processes, they tend to come back
to arguements about the "selfish gene" and the apparent validity of that
view of nature's and life's workings. One can find numerous examples from ecol
ecology in which co-operators co-operate and co-operators compete, and in
which competitors compete, and vice versa. What does this have to do with
capitalism and communism? Not very much really, as the two modes of
government are human constructs which have both provided for expansions
of human populations at the expense of other organisms. Communism or socialism
in nature may be represented by highly social, colonial, co-operating
orgaisms. Try honeybees: they co-operate in the colony, they co-operate
with plants (pollination); colonies compete with each other and may drive
competitors to extinction (Africanized bees in S. America). The honeybee is
a socialist capitalist par excellence, a ravaging opportunist, and each
colony concerns itself with its own perpetuation and imperialist expansion
of its genes first and foremost. The activities of people show the same
apparently paradoxical quirks, which have profound bases in evolution and
ecology and can be explained almost fully by the "selfish gene".

The real issues are the ability of people to think and their apparent
refusal to do so. The thinking population is growing and softening the
the ravages of human-kind on the world, as best it can. The human condition
I hope will evolve to some sort of harmony, which has to contain an
extractive element, with life on earth. The balanced harmony for the
human condition can not be stable at some maximum population, unless the
vagarities of changing epochs, and somehow mutually agreed upon standards
for the quality of life, can be factored into the meaning of "maximum".
I am optimistic that some sort of "utopian" flexible, resilient, compassionate,
and diversified global human community will come about. I don't expect
that I shall live to see it.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:29:00 EST
Reply-To:     "TRACY LOGAN, LAFAYETTE COLLEGE,
              EASTON PA" <LOGANT@LAFAYETT.BITNET>
From:         "TRACY LOGAN, LAFAYETTE COLLEGE,
              EASTON PA" <LOGANT@LAFAYETT.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: power lines -- book data

Re John Naples' information for Sam Davila's interest:

>>I would like to know the effects of living near high voltage electric
>>transmission lines may have on human health.
>
>There was a series of articles in "The New Yorker" magazine followed
>by a book by Paul Brodeur, all published within the last year or so.

Since I'd grabbed the data, I will pass it on:

 AUTHOR       Brodeur, Paul.
 TITLE        Currents of death : power lines, computer terminals, and the
      attempt to cover up their threat to your health / Paul Brodeur.
 PUBLISHER    New York : Simon and Schuster, c1989.
 SUBJECT      Electromagnetic fields --Health aspects.
    ELF magnetic fields --Health aspects.
    Electric lines --Health aspects.
    Computer terminals --Health aspects.


There is also this book, about the efforts of rural "solid
citizens" to stop a line through their farms in Wisconsin (MN?),
an effort that involved the courts and eventually sabotage:

 AUTHOR       Casper, Barry M.
 TITLE        Powerline : the first battle of America's energy war / Barry M.
      Casper and Paul David Wellstone.
 PUBLISHER    Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1981.
 SUBJECT      Energy policy --Social aspects --Minnesota.
    Electric lines --Overhead --Social aspects --Minnesota.
    Electric lines --Minnesota --Location --Citizen participation.

                - tracy
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 06:18:00 PDT
Reply-To:     Marianne Dugan <MDUGAN@OREGON.BITNET>
From:         Marianne Dugan <MDUGAN@OREGON.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: electric power

KB writes:

>The future of the ecosystem is to important to make it a subject for
>rattles and e-mail flaming.

I thought this was a good, hearty discussion, not flaming.  Does
someone feel they're being "flamed"?

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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 14:37:00 PDT
Reply-To:     Marianne Dugan <MDUGAN@OREGON.BITNET>
From:         Marianne Dugan <MDUGAN@OREGON.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: beer wars

>
>The US has slapped a tarriff on Canadian beer because it claims that
>Ontario's new Eco-tax on non-refillable bottles is an unfair trading
>practice and not allowed under the Free Trade agreement.
>

For anyone interested in this subject, the Journal of
Environmental Law and Litigation at the Univ. of Oregon, Eugene,
Oregon, which I help edit, is publishing a symposium on trade
agreements and the environment in September.

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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:08:55 GMT-0500
Reply-To:     scott@MA.NEAVS.COM
From:         scott@MA.NEAVS.COM
Subject:      capitalism, patriarchy, environment
X-To:         biosph-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu

Excellent work on these subjects has been done!


"Ecology As Politics" by Andre Gorz examines how human society is
part of nature, and provides a clear analysis of the inherent
conflict between capitalism and a society based on justice and sound
environmental policies. He examines food production, mass transit,
nuclear power, consumer goods, etc.

"Pathways To A Green Future" by Murray Bookchin also addresses why we
need to address economic power when fighting against environmental
degradation. Bookchin also criticizes brands of ecofeminism which
would establish a new hierarchy based on mythical goddesses.


Both books are available from South End Press, 617/266-0629.

Scott VanValkenburg
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