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Learning about disabilities

Description: David DiPesa, a mentally retarded adult, visits Boston-area classrooms to speak to children about living with a disability.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/29/1989

Local advice to drug czar

Description: Police Commissioner Francis Roache calls fighting drug crime and abuse World War III, for which resources are inadequate. He hopes drug czar William Bennett will focus on drug education. Drug packet.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/01/1989

MIT Lego chair

Description: MIT professor Seymour Papert is appointed to Lego chair in learning. He hails computer as lively teaching tool in elementary grades. Children automate Legos structure with Logo programming.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/22/1989

Per pupil expenditure in Boston

Description: Examination of per pupil expenditures in Boston Public Schools. "Fixed costs" keep increasing. Special education requires disproportionate funding. Elementary classroom and kindergarten file.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/22/1989

Revenues, services, taxpayers

Description: Explainer on where state funds go: human services, corrections, education, highway construction, job training, health care, etc. Per capita spending and increase therein rank above national average.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/12/1989

Students support tuition hike

Description: Board of Regents approves tuition hike at state universities. University of Lowell students show support for the decision in the interest of improving their education. Paul Tsongas, Franklyn Jenifer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/09/1989

Wayland High School

Description: Wayland invests strongly in public education. Its schools are in good condition and students' test scores are high. Wayland High classrooms, library, golf lesson.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/12/1989