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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Friday, November Page T o Bell to chair panel seeking to set performance standards T.H. Bell, University of Utah professor of educational administration and former needed to be an effective principal and to develop an examination that would reflect U.S. secretary of education, will chair a national panel seeking to set performance standards for secondary school principals. Bell was appointed to head the National Commission on Professional Standards for performance standards. Bell said the panel was formed in reaction to the national education reform movement. As part of that movement, the Principalship by the National teachers pass a qualifying examination. "The feeling of the National Association of Secondary School Principals is that the Association of Secondary School Principals, based in suburban Reston, Va. The panel will consist of 12-1- 5 professors and principals from around the country, including Lloyd E. McCIeary, a U. professor of educational administration. The panel hopes to define the qualities 'fiction' Duarte government aground, be gaining lnm raffe fine answered all of the problems of the has but tt country's agrarian population, number improved the lives of a significant of people, he said. But any movement toward land reform offset by H has probably been more than Salvador's continuing civil war, in which leftist insurgents are attempting to many legislatures are requiring that overthrow the military-backe- govern- d ment. . Because of the war, Epstein said, there is a huge deficit, financed almost entirely by fueled the United States. The deficit has massive inflation, and there is record high public may turn around and ask why administrators are not required to undergo similar examination," said Bell. "This is unemployment. The war has claimed the professions's attempt to discipline itself thousands of lives and brought tremendous destruction to the country's infrastructure. and establish its own standards." El Salvador's widespread poverty can be added to this. "I would say it's more than likely that over the course of the last couple of years, conditions for the average person in El Salvador have simply deteriorated," Epstein said. said As with the Nicaraguan civil war, he IPmsuMy IB n? Steeps. ICE CREAM Watch for our ad Monday f it's hard to say w hich side has the upper hand in the battle. He has heard recently that the government and the military might Please submit items for Events weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. two days before publication. Items should be typed or legibly written on white paper or on a form from the Chronicle office, 240 Union. Please include date, time and place. Tomorrow section may be deleted when news space is limited. For quick U. calendar information anytime call, 581-Uof- U. WEATHER other side," he said. "Both sides are, however, capable of inflicting huge amounts of suffering and casualties on the other side. So the dying and killing continue at very high levels." Epstein said the U.S. has to take the blame for much of the suffering in the Third Vorld. Fear of communism has lead to authoritarianism and repression among many of America's allies in Latin America, he said. "These are conditions of brutalization and dehumanization, all in the name of the sacred fight to prevent communism," he said. "What does this mean in terms of people's lives, where those lives have been arrogated by tremendous suffering? "Our planners in Washington simply don't consider that important. They really don't care what happens to the people in Central America, for example. They seem more concerned with fighting ideological chess games with the Russians." 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Buchanan, Associate Professor of Educational Studies University of Utah Ski Report: Park Gty opens today and Alta opens Saturday. Partly to mostly cloudy skies with highs 25-3- 0. An Insightful Look at America's Largest Church-owne- d University wflima I Pf "A remarkable piece of research that has produced an amazing battery of instructive and interesting facts." M. McMurrin, Former U.S. Commissioner of Education Author of The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion "The authors have provided many interesting details, making the book enjoyable and honest. I read this volume with a great deal of interest." Caroline Eyring Miner, Class of 1929, A Biography co-auth- or 3 of Camilla: of Camilla Eyring Kimball Chapters focus on religious education, moral behavior, organic evolution, political philosophy, student organizations and publications, athletics, the arts, and research. The authors both graduated from BYU in 1980. 0 improving their position considerably in the last 18 months. But considering their position was very bad at that time, he thinks the war should be viewed as a stalemate of sorts. "No one seems capable of defeating the EVENTS THE BYU STORY Sterling 15, 1985 Vi New From i |