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Show I I 1 I ! Chronicle-Advertis- er Sun k'L Thursday, August 5, 1971 Eagle American Sdhioo - ll n i- v v A'" t ?'z4q$ V S WAJsi ! ' - NEW SWEATER LOOK is actually a sleeveless sweatshirt. a big wardrobe booster for boys. styling makes it a perfect casual coordinate for slacks and sport shirts. In a Creslan acrylic and rayon fiber. It s fashion-consciou- s By Donald E. NATTY KNIT HELMET, with matching scarf and mittens, just the kind of thing a girl can snuggle up in on chilly school mornings. And, its a toasty-warsideline companion for football games. Creslan acrylic fiber. late-seaso- n The nations publicschools, as we prepare for tjre opening of the 1971-7- school year, face unprecedented problems at all three levels of government-local, state, and national. At the local level many educational programs are being cut back; teaching staffs are being reduced; overcrowded classrooms are increasing; the crises in the large-cit- y schools widen; the needs of the minority, handicapped, and disadvantaged children continue to be neglected; and school desegregation moves along at a snails pace. State governments, whose traditional role has been to be the leader in education, are evading their responsibility as too many state legislatures continue to give education a low priority and fail to come up with resources to education. Proposal Questioned And the Nixon Administration has proposed plan that threatens to provide even less money for education from the federal government. The myriad problems facing education will continue to grow and become more complex unless we stop employing the old ways of solving them. One of the reasons the American public school system is considered the best that man has ever devised is that it has held out hope for achievement of the American dream equal educational opportunities for children from all of the nations people. That ideal has never been realized nor can it be fully attained unless the federal greater government takes role not lesser in the education of the nations 46 million public school children. Times have changed. The mobility of our population has brought us, perhaps unwittingly, closer together. We are no longer justresidents of local community or even a state we are residents of the nation as well. Top Importance The American people have repeatedly said we consider our children and their education of top importance; we must now make a national financial commitment that confirms our words. For a single voice for education, pointing out the needs and priorities and helping ystem Called Best DONALD E. MORRISON, 45, a San Diego History and Social Studies teacher, is president of the 1.1 million-membNational Education Association. He has been a classroom teacher for 19 years. In other national leadership roles, Morrison is a former president of the National Council of Urban Associations, a member of the NEA Board of Directors from Cali- and Die NEA Planning and Orjani-zationfNs! Development Committee At the state level, Morrison was a member of the California Teachers Association State Council on Education and the CTA State Council on Education of Teachers. He is past president of the San Diego Teachers Association. He taught in Hillsboro, Ore., before coming to San Diego, received his B.A. and M.A degree from Pacific University, Forest Grove, Ore., and took further graduate studies at the University of California. ZOOMING IN on after-s- t hool is this pantscoat with frna details. By Misty Harbor; the camera, a Kodak Instamatic picture-perfec- t X-1- Improvement In Reading Major Goal of Schools That too many youngsters are unable to read properly at their own grade level has inspired a nationwide frontal attack on the problem. "Millions of our people are severely handicapped by minor difficulties in comprehension or total inability to read, is the way in which Sidney P. Marland, U.S. Commissioner of Education puts it, commenting on a series of conferences dedicated to exploring remedies and making recommendations for curing the problem. More and more educators agree that individualized instruction, with each child setting his own pace, is one of the best ways of coping with reading problems. s In some areas work as volunteer "teachers in the lower grades of their own schools. The "open corridor classes have reported reading gains using the "informal teen-ager- approach to education. In some schools children write simple stories and then speak them into tape recorders. As they listen to the playback, words seem to become more pertinent to their own life experiences. The successful "Sesame Street television program, originally aimed at the preschooler, has scheduled a new program intended to supplement classroom instruction of children aged 7 to 10. Some classrooms have adopted audio-visu- al pro- grams where the child sees a picture, hears a sound, then must select the correct word from several choices before going on to the next picture. The ability of the young to read, comprehend what they are reading, and to enjoy reading, is an unchallenged essential to progress in learning. s wrap-skir- for the married students of England Medical Center. At basement and ground level the building will house day care and health services. Tufts-Ne- w Send for Details Details of the Quincy complex project and other examples of shared financing of school construction are included in a new report entitled, JOINT OCCUPANCY, published by Educational Facilities Laboratories. EFL is a nonprofit organization established by The Ford Foundation to help schools and colleges with their planning and design. Single copies are available free by writing to EFL, 477 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. E3XES tt.a.a44aaa-4.- iss onderfd V0UN4 a Co-r- wt IHOt FASHIONS Cfocc luant bAck-T- 40" 'fco'u O CAMPUS tO OR 1499 CAREER! two strap 60011 Two-ton- e shoe Cjou. twudr Lv OuA. Melvin's Shoes IL Clearfield, Utah Bikes Have Own Rules of the Road Youngsters who own bikes and especially those who ride them back and forth to school should be provided with a "safety code by their parents, advises the American Automobile Association. The AAA says that as the number of cars on the road increases, the number of bicycle mishaps also soars. In 1963, 573 deaths resulted from these accidents in 1969, there were 820. Iftf S al generate and unite all lobby- in resolving school financial ing power necessary to have crises for example, more funds approved, would be a equitable tax assessment laws potent force in achieving and practices, better equalimore equitable financial supzation of support between port for education at the fed- wealthy and poor districts, eral level. redistricting to provide broadFederal aid earmarked for er tax bases, use of various specific educational programs other taxes to supplement the has been worthwhile. Beyond overloaded property tax this, however, the NEA has structure, and greater finanlong favored general federal cial effort on the part of some aid to public education over states. Parents and other interand above existing categorical programs. We believe this ested citizens should join in would be a sounder way to this crusade to help maintain help finance the nations and improve the educational schools. system if we are to fulfill our At the same time, there obligation to the nations are many steps at the state elementary and secondary and local level that could help pupils. Time was when school used hour. In some cases afterto be a place one went to lunch activities are now sponpass the hours between 9:00 sored by volunteers from the am and 3:00 pm, five days a community. week, 10 months a year. At Baltimores Steuart Hill Todays budget conscious Elementary School members administrators consider such of the community may use an underused building an the schools gym, game economic luxury. As school rooms, and meeting rooms. concerns expand to include The Department of Recreabroader community concerns, tion operates programs on they are increasingly being afternoons, evenings, and planned for activities other weekends, and it is not unthan formal schooling of kids. common to see a member of the golden age group pracAiding the Elderly In 1967 schools in Massaticing billiards alongside an chusetts were authorized to eighth grader. ROMPAROUNl) SUIT is hot use their cafeteria facilities to When Bostons trail for serve lunches to poor elderly Quincy completed, on the Complex will be a t and gals. Button top persons. Far from disrupting single structure are thevron jacquard, the school schedule, it was a that includes an elementary smartie pants are solid. Acrylic matter to extend the school, community facilities, simple Russ. double knit; by serving period by half an services, parking and housing back-to-clas- children on er Elementary Schools Do Double Duty jaunts Thursday, August 5, 1971 Mormon adequately finance public is er But Maintaining Nations Standards Now a Major Problem Says Educator 2 V Review-Advertis- rUAO Elaines 1966 West 5700 South A recent study by the National Safety Council found vehicle that the bicycle-moto- r accident rate is about 50 higher among youngsters from 10 to 14 years old than below the age of 10. Thats why the safety code is so important, says the AAA, recommending that the following points be included in it. INNOVATIVE OPEN SCHOOL ROOMS such as the above at the Stuart Hill school In Baltimore, are planned to stimulate the natural curiosity of children to learn, by furnishing them with a wide variety of interests. Teachers take over on an Individual basis with instruction in the fundamentals as related to the enraptured interest of the pupils who are granted the widest freedom to express themselves. Photo from Educational Facilities Foundation. A bicycle Boredom Being Taken Out Of Grade School Classes Think of himself as a driver, and responsible for his own safety and the safety of others on the road. Something new has been added to many of todays school the classrooms school corridor. Something else also has been added to the classroom joyful children who are to learn. And, they are learning in "open classrooms and "open corridors. had adopted an "informal approach. Patterned on the successful British "open classroom Signal for turns and slowing and stopping with the same hand motions that car drivers use. system, children wander around their classrooms and adjoining corridors at will. Learn and obey all traffic signals as well as the direc- Assuming that children have a natural eagerness to learn, and that they learn best at their own pace and Educators, and parents, interest in an enriched enhave been troubled for some vironment, informality is retime that boredom and apathy slavish adherence to placing were interfering with the rigid routine. learning process. Kindergarteners may be Cause and effect had to be in the and cutting evaluated. Something had to corridors. Olderpasting children may change. over chairs be "draped "It is not possible to spend Arithmetic may be reading. any prolonged period visiting learned by guessing a visipublic school classrooms without being appalled by the tors weight. Art work and sculpture can mutilation everywhere mube seen everywhere. Plays tilation of spontaneity, of joy in learning, erf pleasure in are written and enacted by-tstudents theniseives. creating, of sense of self.' In a P.T.A. booklet of one This was one of the dismal school comes large inner-cit- y findings of the report on American the information that 99 per public education, "Crisis in cent of the students were reading by the the Classroom, commistime they left first grade. sioned by the Carnegie FounThat had never happened dation of New York and authored by Charles E. before in that school. Silberman. As classrooms and corriThe one ray of hope obdors open up, young minds served by Silberman and seem to be reaching out . . . his staff, were schools that with joy. -- much-discusse- d open-corrid- driver should: he tions of officers traffic. guiding Always bicycle. Always keep both hands on the handlebars unless signaling. Never drive at dusk or after dark unless the bike is equipped with a horn or bell, a strong headlight and a red taillight reflector. Always wear light colored c.lpjhing after dark. Keep the bike in top condition. Parents also should be familiar with local laws affecting cyclists. Some require licensing of bicycles, some forbid their use on sidewalks and some give parents the responsibility for equipping their childs bike with proper lights and warning devices. |