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Show 1 Kendell attends conference . 1 to see school of the future - p By DONETA GATHERUM c g FARMINGTON - Schools of 5. the future will be more skills-Sp skills-Sp training oriented and market-place ss driven, according to Superintendent 3 of Schools, Dr.Richard Kendell. li Dr. Kendell was one of 100 B school superintendents from 40 s states invited to attend a special conference oil schools with em-. em-. phasis on the relationship between schools and economic development that was. held on the campus of the Q University of Southern California. He was the only Utahn invited to at-e at-e tend the conference. T -S Dr. Kendell's report to the board '3 of education last Tuesday evening contained a general description of 5 schools of the future. "Schools tr 'z, day are highly planned and regulated,"; Dr. Kendell. noted., "This makes change difficult to achieve. If the national experts are correct, schools of the future will be market-driven with performance as :h the criteria for success. The state will offer financial support but most of the regulations about how money will be spent, what will be taught in schools and what teacher quaUfica-2 quaUfica-2 tions are will be taken out of the ' . state's hands and given to the school community." ; This would establish a system of checks and balances. If a school or - i a teacher did the job well, there j; would be: financial rewards. A '" school program that was run poorly , . would fail to attract students and fi-: fi-: nancial support would dwindle. "It : is conceivable that teachers and schools would advertise and . com- pete for students," Dr." Kendell concluded. The instructional programs pro-grams would be less comprehensive than they are at the present time. Each school governing board of a parents and teachers could determine deter-mine what would be offered. "There would be clear incentives for good performance by teachers . and students," the superintendent explained. i - . Dr. KendeH said many other im- , portant concepts came out of the conference. "Most authorities expressed ex-pressed deep concerns about die American economy. They are worried wor-ried . about our dependence on ' borrowed money and foreign debt, trade . imbalances and foreign ownership of U.S. assets," he -Stated . The experts addressing the conference con-ference participants also raised se-- se-- rious questions about the American value system. They felt Americans don't value education in and of itself. We see education as a utilitarian utili-tarian process that we go through to enable us to do what we want. All seemed to agree that more money needs to be invested in people peo-ple and educational training, especially espe-cially in the urban area. "One speaker noted the U.S. system is servicing the 30 percent of the students that are college bound well but the remaining 70 percent are under-educated, unskilled and not competitive with their counterparts in other developed countries. The Japanese claim they have the best educated and trained bottom half of the intellectual spectrum in the ; world," SupL Kendell concluded. |