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Reports that drug education is being offered at younger levels and that judgment, rather than fear, is being taught to help children stay off drugs.

Reports that in the wake of disclosures heard on tapes made by school superintendent Colman Glen, Chancellor Bernard Mecklowitz has suspended nine members of the board of School District 27 in Queens, New York for improperly influencing appointments. Other school board suspensions in New York City recently; What was heard on the tapes.

Reports that Colman Genn, 53, testified before the Joint Commission on Integrity in Public Schools in Manhattan that school board members in School District 27 in Queens pressured him into filling unnecessary jobs with their friends and supporters. Genn taped the conversations; Genn's contract renewal; Role of James C. Sullivan.

Reports on the visit to New York City of the new school chancellor, Joseph A. Fernandez, 53, the New York-born superintendent of schools in Miami. Mr. Fernandez's challenges to the city's way of running its schools: `no need' for the Board of Examiners; Would fight for longer school days and a longer school year; Central bureaucracy might need `flattening and streamlining.'

Part II. The second of three articles on skills vs. jobs, discusses the fact that workers are receiving instruction in basic reading and math at a growing number of companies that find employees unable to handle increasingly complex jobs. Business involvement in local school programs; Educator response; Results.

Examines the progress of 61 East Harlem students promised payment of college tuition if they stayed in school from sixth grade through high school. Details of the scholarship program sponsored by Eugene M. Lang, of the `I Have a Dream Foundation'; Lang's personal involvement with the students; Student response.

Discusses the fact that the future of US-Chinese exchanges that have brought tens of thousands of Chinese students and teachers to the United States and smaller numbers of Americans to China, has been thrown into doubt by the events in China. Confusion and fear of 39,000 Chinese students now here in America. Visas being extended for one year.

Analyzes the causes of increasing incidents of racism on college campuses nationwide. Resentment of white students against affirmative action programs and grants; Efforts of colleges and universities to devise new codes of campus conduct.

Examines a slowing pace for students completing a doctorate. Statistics from the National Research Council; Reasons for the slowing; Concerns of universities for filling professor positions; Option of shorter dissertations.

Reports on the efforts being made by school systems and universities to introduce studies on non-Western cultures in an effort to combat Eurocentrism. Debate on Eurocentrism examined.

Reports that Julliard, Columbia College, and Barnard College, three of New York's most distinguished schools, will collaborate in a program that will allow musically talented students to earn two degrees in 5 years, a bachelor of arts degree in any major and a master's in music.

Reports on the Educational Testing Service, the company which makes the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Process of designing questions; History of company.

Describes the approach used in P.S. 84 on Manhattan's West Side to give English-speaking elementary schoolchildren a truly fluent command of a foreign language, both spoken and written. The method, known as dual language, two-way immersion, or bilingual immersion, is revolutionizing both language instruction and bilingual education in many parts of the nation.

Discusses the mistrust and bickering that still persist a year after New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins moved to control a divided Board of Education by replacing its president. Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez believes his efforts to reform the public schools are being hobbled by the tensions on the board. Frustration of H. Carl McCall, president of the Board.

States that school officials accused New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins of diverting $67 million that the New York Legislature had pledged for education, and they warned that the lost money would force a harmful increase in class size in the early grades. But the city's budget director, Philip R. Michael, said that the increase in class size was the least distasteful of the unsavory choices the school system faced.

States that three New York City students, each from a different school, were arrested for carrying semiautomatic guns. Officials are wrestling with how they can stanch the flow of weapons into the city's schools. Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez says that much of the responsibility for the three fatal shootings this school year at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn should fall on cutbacks in the school system.

States that one day after the shooting deaths of two students at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez sought to calm fears and dampen anger by fashioning a plan to expand the use of metal detectors at the city's most troubled schools.

Tells of `Keys to the City, Kids Week,' organized by the New York City Board of Education to help parents through the virtually unprecedented winter school vacation this week. Breakfast and lunch served; Activities around the city.

Says that New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez is fashioning a plan to lengthen the school day by an hour and the school year by 25 days, both to improve student skills and to make a bid for a hefty share of the $1.1 billion the city hopes to gain through bond refinancing.

Tells what educators must do to get a job as a school principal in New York City since decentralization turned control of elementary and junior high schools over to 32 elected school boards. Competence alone won't get them a job.

Reports that six months after an early-retirement plan stripped the New York City school system of 211 of its principals, only 26 of those vacancies have been filled as parents and teachers have been bogged down in a new selection process. Donald Singer, president of the principals' union, said that the slowness of the selections has set off ripples of uncertainty that are undermining the education of the system's 975,000 children.

Presents the results after two months of condom distribution in New York City's schools--the first such large-scale effort in the nation. The number of students asking for condoms appears modest, and it may be that the condom program has heightened the fear of AIDS and caused many to abstain from sex altogether. Or perhaps students feel uncomfortable asking teachers.

States that the Dinkins Administration's official review of the deadly crush at a city College gymnasium last month blames virtually all the parties that arranged and oversaw the celebrity basketball game. It reproached student organizers, college officials, a rap promoter, the police and the spectators themselves. Some of its sharpest criticism was for the Police Department.

States that a City College administrator said that he pleaded with a police captain for help at a crucial moment around the time that a human crush ultimately killed nine people at a celebrity basketball game. But the captain, instead of responding promptly, reproached him for five to seven minutes about the college's mistakes before finally calling for an ambulance. The union that represents police captains denied the account.

States that the trustees and Chancellor of the City University of New York closely questioned top officials of City College about their roles in planning a celebrity basketball game that turned deadly for nine young people. They then announced that the college would create its own security force as early as July, with guards who will be given new powers to make arrests and carry pistols. Currently, the college uses Pinkerton's guards under a contract.

Comments on the confusion following the death of eight young people waiting to get into a basketball game at City College in New York City on December 28. Explanation of the whereabouts of the money raised by the event; Dispute with promoter; Rap stars; Investigations.

Says that New York City became the first in the nation to begin making condoms available to all its public high school students. There were no throngs of angry parents and no other visible protests--just knots of teen-agers, some giggling about something novel and faintly forbidden.

Presents an obituary of Bishop Horace W.B. Donegan, the Episcopal Bishop of New York from 1950 until 1972 and an early church advocate for the rights of blacks, women and the poor. He died of cancer of the throat on November 11 at his home in Sanibel, Fla. He was 91 years old.

Reports that the president of City College in New York City said that he considered Dr. Leonard Jeffries Jr.'s conduct `racist' and `anti-Semitic,' but decided not to dismiss him as chairman of the black studies department because it would `deepen the sense of crisis on campus.' Jeffries had attracted public attention for his remarks about Jews.

Discusses the national debate over the cultural biases of the American college curriculum. It has now reached Hunter College in New York City, and professors are battling over a far-reaching proposal to require three courses--on women, American minorities and non-Western civilizations--known as `diversity requirement.'

Discusses the deteriorating conditions in New York City's school system. Overcrowded classrooms, outdated textbooks, scarcity of writing paper, narrowed variety of sources, and fewer guidance counselors are the result of a $430 million cut in theschool system's $7 billion budget and an increase of 25,000 students.

States that two current and two former officials of the New York City Board of Education were accused of conducting a cursory investigation of a colleague's conviction for sexually abusing a child and then letting him keep his job. Jerry Olshaker, administrator of food supply, who pleaded guilty in 1987 to sexually abusing a neighbor's daughter in Matawan, N.J., was dismissed by Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez.

Comments on increased number of female and Hispanic principals in New York City's public school system, as the city filled vacancies created by the departure of more than 200 principals under an early retirement plan. Results of a study that analyzed the race and sex of the 221 principals who retired and the 211 who have replaced them so far.

Describes the hundreds of family circles or associations that are functioning in the US. Members hold regular meetings with parliamentary formality, at which they assist faltering relatives, resolve family crises, arrange burial plots, trace clan history and dispense charity. Gives the example of the Tenzer family.

Analyzes the condom issue in New York City high schools. The problems that will surface when the program is started sometime in the next few months; The unmapped wilderness of philosophical and legal questions as the city becomes the first in the nation to make condoms widely available without any say by parents.

Says that student leaders at the City University of New York (CUNY) spent $49,000 on a three-day lobbying excursion to the Albany Hilton and $13,000 on limousine service, in an effort to keep tuition low. They also spent $4,500 for a trip to the Ivory Coast by three students for an African-American Summit. All this was done with the knowledge and approval of the university's top officials, who gently admonished the students to be a little more frugal.

Analyzes the condom issue for New York City schools. Importance of the issue for Mayor David N. Dinkins. His surprising intervention with the Board of Education; His worries about his chances for re-election in 1993.

Discusses the large number of new principals in New York City schools, due to an early retirement incentive plan that stripped the system of nearly one of every four of its seasoned principals. Opening day jitters.

Describes the situation at New York City schools. It is expected that this will be the toughest school year since the mid-1970s fiscal crisis. Crowded classrooms; Shortages of teachers; Unprecedented turnover in principals; Layoffs averted but much experience lost.

States that New York Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez appeared to resign himself to allowing parents to bar their youngsters from receiving condoms, and he revealed proposals to make the idea work. Details of the proposals.

Profiles the seven members of the New York City Board of Education, seven distinctly chiseled personalities who together set policies for a system of 956,000 students. They labor in relative anonymity, with Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez making the news.

Comments on New York State Education Commissioner Thomas Sobol's criticism of the state's social studies curriculum. His poor choice of Christopher Columbus as an example; The storm raging around multicultural education.

Covers the funeral of Isaac Bashevis Singer, a rabbi and the winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature for his depiction of Jewish life in Poland and the bitter absurdities of immigrant life here. He died on July 24 in Florida at age 87. The funeral service was held July 28 at Riverside Memorial Chapel in Manhattan.

Profiles Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel-Prize winning author, who died on July 24 in Florida at age 87. (Obituary on page B5: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel Laureate for his Yiddish stories, is dead at 87, by E. Pace; Related articles on page B5:A storyteller on the truth of fiction; Fellow writers remember the charm, wit and irony and the child, by E. Blau.)

Discusses the public bickering between New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez and the seven members of the Board of Education. Fernandez accused of choking off the board's access to his staff to minimize any appearance of dissent.Fernandez's criticism of the board.

Says that New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez is growing increasingly frustrated with the seven-member Board of Education that oversees him, telling associates that the board's unrelenting stream of memorandums is encroaching upon his day-to-day managerial authority and hampering his work. Tensions; Fernandez' veiled threats of quitting.

Discusses the New York City Board of Education's debate over distributing condoms to students. Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez was infuriated by the board's voting to consider whether parents should be allowed to bar their children from getting them.

Presents a periodic look at the effects of New York City's financial plan on various agencies and services. Says that art, music and electives will be cut, there will be fewer guidance counselors, textbooks will have to make it through another year, and experimental programs will be abolished.

Comments on the election of H. Carl McCall as president of the New York City Board of Education in an atmosphere of disharmony and some bitterness that may cloud his efforts to shape the board into an effective policy-making body. Public show of resentment; Complaint of Mayor David N. Dinkins' influence.