American Decades

Important Events in Education, 1980–1989

A Gallup poll shows that parents believe the top four problems in schools are discipline, drug use, poor curriculum, and low standards.
Poll results show that African Americans from the Northeast gave public schools a "D."
Seventy-nine percent of respondents favor instruction in morals.
Dade County Florida School District decides not to provide special programs for twenty thousand refugees inundating south Florida.
A court orders Rand-McNally Corporation, a publisher of junior-high chemistry textbooks, to pay $155,000 to two eighth graders injured while conducting an experiment outlined in their text.
In July, a federal judge strikes down a Texas law excluding most illegal alien children from public schools, saying "the rights of man are not a function of immigration status."
On July 4, the National Education Association (NEA) endorses Democrat Jimmy Carter for a...

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