| Show Salt Lake City—Sunday January 12 1992 SoMmi C11 I Big business getting involved in education Here's how employers rate business projects such as helping schools pay for band uniforms were supplemented by Education in America is a big business And in the 1990s big business looms large in educa- and renovate aging buildings buy computers and other modem equipment increase teacher pay maintain or improve teacher-studeratios and so forth The test of the business com- business-funde- d tion ion Growing concerns about a work force "skills gap" have experimentatwith new curricula and teach- nt ing methods The business community's brought business leaders and organizations into the forefront of the educational reform movement according to the Congressional Quarterly It is a development cautiously welcomed by educators who are eager for help in solving complex school problems but wary of some of the specific proposals favored by business munity's sincerity education groups argue is its willingness to push hard for taxes and bond measures the schools need to pay for improvements Business and education have been thrown together at a time when economic and political conditions pose major obstacles to new educational reform initiatives The federal budget deficit limits Washington's ability to support new programs and bold policy moves are in any event unlike- involvement in educational reform stems directly from concern about the size and quality of the work force Major employers have been reporting increasing difficulty in finding qualified applicants even for clerical jobs But the business groups working on the issue say they are interested in more than improved vocational education growing self-intere- the 1980s business helped shape the debate over educational policy in the states and at the national level At the same time business groups and individual businesses began to play a more active role in education policy at the local level Traditional In Educators have generally welcomed greater business involvement in the education reform movement But they also say that structural changes alone will not solve the schools' problems without more money: money to repair because ly of recent high school grads lems stemming from declining revenues and increasing demand for health and social services are putting many educational reform initiatives in jeopardy Even if the new ideas from individual business projects or the New American Schools Development Corp prove to be they are unlikely to produce of short-terkind statistical the progress that business executives are accustomed to seeing in the corporate world In that sense the key question is whether the business community will stay the course on educacamtional reform The paign promised by The Business Roundtable will require extraordinary efforts to maintain interest and support especially if con- Some experts have questioned the prevang view that today's graduates are leaving high school with weak academic skills But a recent survey indicates that the business community stilt is deeply concerned about their level of preparation for the job market Positive Negative Able to work cooperatively with fellow employees Having both 50 and the capacity to do so on the job 46 Good attitude in dealing 42 45 with those under them 39 58 Good attitude toward supervisors understand to arid read Ability 64 33 written and oral instructions work on to concentrate Capacity 66 done over an extended period of time 30 well 30 67 to Learning how read Motivated to give all they have 71 25 to the job they are doing 72 Capable of doing arithmetic functions 25 74 22 Learning mathematics well 20 78 Real sense of dedication to work 78 Real discipline in their work habits 19 m 10-ye- ar partisan disagreements between the Republican administration and the Democratic-controlle- d Congress As for the states fiscal prob 57 percent 41 percent the desire to learn more crete progress is hard to document 1 0 Ii ''' T EMPLOYERS - HE WE RECOGNIZE YOUR NEED TO QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS FOR YOUR SPECIFIC JOB OPENINGS CALL OUR NEW RECRUITIMNT DIVISION FOR INFORMATION ON SPECIAL SECTIONS AND SPECIAL ADVERTISING BUYS AVAILABLE 6e - 1 ) S001041 Kaoet - DI SI Itl I PROCEDURES ACUPRESSURE iiImintR Professionalism Small Personalized Classes Qualified Instructors Call St - CPR Ifit ACUPRESSURE & HERBS 815 E SIC 2100 So 1 401$ 84106 UT op Ai 0 V 0on UNEM PLOYED? 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