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Show I ' Page Eight FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1971 Project Plan in Utah Schools Relies on Advanced Methods Moss Two little girls wearing earphones peer into the screen of a small machine. A freckle faced boy takes a test. Six boys and girls sit on the carpet planning a presentation. All over the class room each student is busy. Some work alone, others with a partner and others in small groups. A computer keeps track of where each student is, what materials hell need next, what way he learns best, how well he has learned his lessons and a hundred other things. The teacher does not stand and lecture to the whole class, but rather quietly checks the progress of each student, deciding when each is ready for new material. This is the scene of three Utah schools where students are learn ing. through Project Plan. The program is an extensive one designed to let students progress at their own rate, take responsibility for their own learning and learn to accent responsibility as a member of a group. The project is financed largely through federal funds available through Title III of the Elementary Secondary Education Act, money which is available for available for experimentation or innovation in school programs. Project Plan was developed by educators and was later purchased by Westinghouse Learning Corporation. School districts purchase the program which includes teacher training, access to the compputers, instructional revision, reassessment and reorganization is in store for higher education in the 1970s, according to Utah Commissioner of Higher Education, G. Homer Durham. Speaking before the Hill Air Force Base Adminstrative Club, he said that the new funding approaches, changes in the draft law, a broadened scope for high education and shorter degree qualifying programs would more than likely characterize the new A period of decade. Utah has functioned as a pilot plant for the nation for at least 25 years. Utah faced and solved before 1950 most of the major issues now confronting the nation. But the new decade could have a greater effect even on Utahs progressive system, according to the Commissioner. Should three year baccalaureate degree programs find public favor, interesting consequences could develop for Utahs three community colleges, Snow, Dixie and College of Eastern Utah. In Utah, the future of education boils down largely to a question of finance, he said. Increased services required at the member institutions seem to justify the $53.6 million the Board has suggested to the Legislature as the appropriation for fiscal year 1971-7It will, according to him, take at least that to absorb the 2,373 more students, adjust salary and wages and hire the new teachers needed to accommodate the new student loads; provide funds to maintain the 450,000 additional square feet of space; yield the $140,000 needed for cooperative nursing programs, to step up the much needed health manpower supply; supply $260,000 2. Co-spons- or ITS YOUR BUSINESS Of Amendment To Social Security Senator Frank E. Moss anpackages for the students, test- nounced this week he will coeffort to ing, professional day to day help sponsor a in getting the program opera- remove the earnings limitation placed on persons over 65 years tional, etc. Utah schools involved are Rob- of age who receive Social Securert Frost Elementary, Blaine ity payments. The authored by Elementary, both in the Granite Senatoramendment, Brooke Edward of MasDistrict and Valley View Eleto the offered sachusetts, will be mentary in Weber District. The project grew out of edu- Social Security Bill when it is cators realizing that the tradi- on the Senate floor. I agree with Senator Brooke tional classroom simply does not and other that the provide the differences in vari- limitation amount an the upon inous students' achievement, earn older before person may terest, vocational and educational aspirations and even in losing part or all of his Social Security benefits should be rethe way they learn. Under Project Plan, many dif- moved entirely, he said. citizens ferent methods are available to are Many of our older of continuperfectly capable teach student the same material. work after reaching productive Under Project Plan, many different methods are available ing retirement age, but the presto teach students the same ma- ent system penalizes them for terial. Perhaps a student learns such efforts. Our senior citizens should be best by reading, while his class made responds better to a more encouraged to be productive and visual approach. Some children earn a living as long as they work best in a group, others best can. This will help them to be dependent alone. The computer keeps track more active and less benefits and retirement upon of these kinds of things and fixed incomes. maps out the best program for each student. The computer does State Employees no teaching but keeps records. met with The program has Minuteman Flag considerable success, especially Fly Utah State Employees have in the improvement of reading. stuwon the right to fly the to new well itself again It adapts Minuteman a student goes dents also. When Flag and now hold honor of the into the area, instead of trying being the first state to catch up with his classmates in the Nation for State Employor waiting for them, to catch up ees participation in the U.S. Savwith him, he is simply tested and ings Bond Payroll plan for the then starts right where he is to year of 1970. An impressive Awards Cerecontinue his education. mony marked the occasion and was held Friday, December 11th bi-parti- san co-spons- ors Outlook for Higher Education In 70's Given by Commissioner for disadvantaged students; and raise $600,000 to meet price increases for necessary supplies and expenses and purchase the new equipment, so long pushed into the background. If it is the wisdom and choice of the people to appropriate less than the boards request, the Commissioner said that some of the following might occur. 1. Some increases in student fees in order to secure revenue to maintain the present approved level of operations. 2. Some reduction in the level of maintenance, supplies, and equipment components. 3. Little or no salary and wage adjustments which could amount to loss of real income in view of inflation, increased costs and consequences similar to those flowing from the General Motors settlement. 4. Possible reduction in either quantity or quality of services. In terms of tax dollars appropriated per student, the quantity and quality of usability, Utah undoubtedly has the most efficient and economical system of public higher education. The Commissioner enumerated some 11 fruits of the Utahs $45 million invested in higher education this year: (1) education for 41,886 individuals in daytime degree programs; (2) 7,000 awarded degrees; (3) nine summer sessions and divisions of continuing education with no additional cost to the state; (4) statewide educational television; (5) intercollegiate athletics; (6) an estimated $39 million in payrolls derived from outside grants to the two system universities; (7) $12.5 million in expenditure from the 6,300 nonresident students attending state institution; (8) dramatic and cultural per- - THE SALT LAKE TIMES Here's How to Trigger Exports And Strengthen the Dollar It is generally accepted that the sale of United States goods overseas has the beneficial effect of strengthening the dollar, an increasing the number of jobs in a manufacturing labor force. It is also generally accepted that the use of American goods overseas has a resultant benefi-cial- y effect on the economy of the customer nation.. Why is it, when the achieve-me- n is so universally and reciprocally worthwhile, 90 per cent of the United States companies do not engage in export trade, and only four per cent of our gross national product is sold overseas? These extraordinary percentages exist after 200 years of national growth, and in spite of enormous educational efforts by federal and state departments, and by all levels of chambers of commerce and trade develop-me- n organizations. Why? Because these lines of communications have not yet touched and aroused the great mas of Amreican businesses, 90 percent of which are defined as small. This untapped force can be activated by using the same practical method now used in the strongly competitive foreign countries. It would attract the profit minded tax conscious American by offering a tangible in the Capitol Rotunda. tax incentive to expand into the Governor Calvin L. Rampton lucrative world markets. personally thanked the employees and the committee who worked so diligently to achieve the honor. Mr. Elmer L. Rustad, National Director of the U. S. Savings Bond Division who came to attend from Washington, D.C., personally presented Governor After a public hearing Rampton the Minuteman Flag Salt Lake stormy Commissioners County and complimented all personnel a proposed salary have rejected who had been involved in this increase for themselves and the outstanding drive that enabled other elected county officials. Utah to take first place. Commissioners Oscar Hanson, Mr. Wendell E. Gile, Sr., the State Volunteer Chairman, per- Jr., and Royal K. Hunt, both of sonally congratulated the execu- whom will leave office this year, tive committee for their accom- voted against the raise and Commissioner Phillip Blomquist, the plishments. Introductions were made by J. lone holdover, abstained from Clark Elmer, the Master of Cere- voting. He had championed the monies, and .the Organizational raises. Mrs. Jeradean Martin, recorder-elChairman. Those introduced were: Mrs. Cleone Bluck, Chair- ect, the only elected official ElMoine to attend the hearing, said she Kirkham, man; Mrs. Ellen J. Wandell, would turn down the raise if Secretary; Paul L. Wiser, Report voted. She said she doesnt want Chairman; William Jones, Charts more money. She would have reChairman; and Chester Oliver, ceived $2,000 a year more under the Awards Chairman. The Executive Committees paign, August 1st, the percentage personal congratulations to the had raised to 59.4 4,426 of the Minuteman and the Chairman of 7,449 regular employees particithe Divisions of State Govern- pating. The monthly deduction ment was given by Mrs. Bluck, as of May 1st was $28,007.67, and Chairman, and she challenged as of August 1st, the amount had those who had succeeded to raise been raised to $43,193.03. the Minuteman Flag their symThe program started with bol inch by inch, to continue to Dixie ollege singing two impressupport the program by encour- sive patriotic numbers and folaging each new employee and lowing the festivities indoors, contact all employees whenever they assembled on the Capitol possible to participate to keep Building steps as the Governor, the interest alive until the next Mr. Rustad, and the Executive committee was assigned to the Committee proceeded to the base 1971 drive. May It Ever Wave of the steps to raise the Minute-ma- n has been the theme and it will Flag again to wave beneath remain a good one to remember. the flag of the nation, and the On May 1st, 36.6 of employ- state flag. As the flags ascended, ees were on the payroll savings the Dixie College sang This Is plan, and at the close of the cam- - My Country, their beautiful clear voices ringing out their medical finest formances; (9) joys of Americanism, and red, center for the care white and blue balloons rose into research and $200,-000 the sky as the state employees lowest state appropriation, in the country. symbol of victory. The small businessmen of the U.S., representing a solid wide spread block of private enter- prise creators of American merchandise, equipment and farm produce, useful and saleable in world markets, urge the Congress of the US to adopt the legislation known as DISC (for Domestic International Sales tof the Departmen Treasury, is designed to stimulate and encourage export through the use of the powerful leverage of tax incentives. Our opinion is that the successive decades of intertia can be thus overcome by pragmatic appeal to the profit motive, on a grand scale, and with a new American technique benefitting the American businessman and his customer overseas. In turn this would create new American jobs, stimulate foreign economies by trade, and strengthen the American dollar. This legislation is so vital to the economic health of the US that it should be passed as separate from ond not dependent on any other legislation. We can activate on a worldwide basis the American ability to produce, to serve, to improve, to compete energetically rather than complain of competition, offering our manufacturers the same type of financial inducement offered foreign manufacturers by their nations tax export laws. County Commission Votes Down Pay Increase for Officials Co-Chairm- an; the plan. Only two speakers SaltPal-ac- e Board Chairman McCown E. Hunt and Data Processing Director Thomas E. Rowe called for the increased pay as a means of providing managerial talent. Mr. Blomquist later termed it unforgivable that the countys elected officials must moonto an income consisthave light ent with their responsibilities. The opposition didnt even consider the people and the jobs theyre doing, he stated. There never is a right time for anyone to raise their own salary. Commissioner Hanson, who was criticized by his colleagues for being stampeded into a vote at the climax of an emotional situation, said he believed this was not the time for . raises. He called for a thorough study by a citizens group. Explaining why he called for the vote at the close of the hearing, Mr. Hanson said he just wanted to get it over with. I dont think holding off the decision would have helped. Commissioner Hunt said he believed time should have been taken to consider the matter rationally. His no vote was based on feelings that a decision on hiring a county administrator must be made first. He also said newly elected officials should have taken a stand on the matter. . , Hopping from lane to lane on the highways is not only illegal but dangerous. Road signs are posted to help have lives. |