EDUCATION WEEK PUBLISHER TO GIVE PUBLIC TALK DEC. 10 AT U.VA.

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Dec. 9 -- Ronald A. Wolk, publisher and
former editor of Education Week, will be the final speaker in the
semester's Curry Forum on Educational Issues at the University of
Virginia.

	Wolk will speak at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10, in Room 004C of
Ruffner Hall.

	During his talk, Wolk will discuss changes and trends in
education that he has witnessed over a 20-year period while editor of
Education Week, a weekly tabloid described as "American education's
newspaper of record."

	Wolk recently stepped down as editor of Education Week.  He is
chairman of the board of Editorial Projects in Education, the
non-profit organization that publishes Education Week and Teacher
Magazine.
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                                                       Dec. 8, 1997

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