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Show SUPT. PEARCE EXPLAINS WHITE HOUSE CONFAB (With the pros and cons of education and educational methods being argued so vehemently, ve-hemently, many questions have been asked about the White House Conference on Education, set up by President Presi-dent Eisenhower. This article, art-icle, written by County Superintendent Su-perintendent D. R. Pearce, may answer some of the questions Beaver County citizens cit-izens are asking. Editor.) Some of the following Information Infor-mation may help you in giving the coming White House Conference Con-ference a boost. This conference confer-ence of course is for the people peo-ple of Beaver County. Following receipt of a letter from Dr. Adam S. Bennion, the Board of Education felt to support sup-port the movement, and authorized author-ized me as their representative to contact all civic clubs and organizations including all P.-T. P.-T. A. groups and extend to them a special invitation to have representatives at a regional re-gional meeting to be held at Cedar Cty, August 25. The response re-sponse was excellent and a representative rep-resentative group of 12 from the county met with similar groups from Iron, Millard, Washington and Kane Counties. Coun-ties. Most of the group felt the conference very much worth while, and that the information in-formation and insight they gained at the meeting will be of great value in our planning on a county basis. This conference of course was the first step in Southern Utah in setting up the machinery machin-ery for further study in area groups. Out of the conference same the idea of having a ron-ference ron-ference for Beaver County. This date has been set for the Minersville school, on Monday, Oct. 5, at 7 p. m. This will give time for the chairman and recorder of each of the six study groups to compile the thinking of the group and have it ready, for presentation to the state committee some time around the 10th of October. (The six areas of study are: 1. What Should Our Schools Accomplish; 2. In What Ways Can We O r g a n ize Our Schools More Efficiently and Economically?; 3. What Are Our School Building Needs?; 4. How Can We Get Enough Good Teachers and Keep Them?; 5. How Can We Finance Fi-nance Our Schools Build and Operate -Them?; 6. How Can We Obtain a Continuing Public Interest in Education. Educa-tion. Editor). These questions, and possible pos-sible solutions, should be studied stud-ied by persons who plan to attend at-tend the Minersville Conference. Confer-ence. ' I have the assurance that members of the 44-man committee will be with us and will help us in our thinking. From this conference the groups will formulate our recommendations rec-ommendations to be given at tha state conference. At the state conference the recommendations recommen-dations of the State of Utah will be drafted and a committee commit-tee representing Utah will make the report at the national na-tional conference some time the latter part of November. I particularly call attention of Beaver County school patrons pat-rons to two articles in the Sept. 12 issue of Time Magazine: "Wanted Bright Students," and "Every Man a Horace Mann." The latter explains the Call made by the President and some of the problems that face other states and communities the nation. A special invitation is extended ex-tended to every citizen of the county, to attend this County Conference on Education... Edu-cation... I believe the importance import-ance of the conference as an objective study based on facts rather than "fault finding," find-ing," cannot be stressed too strongly. D. R. PEARCE. |