Show NEA Official Proposes New School Plan By G. HODENFIELD breakthrough in the quality public education could save taxpayers millions of dollar an official of the national education association SAM M. of the NEA's research division said there are two obvious waS in which the schools the public more for its education 11 the brightest 15 to 20 cent of ninth P ner their high school work in tV years instead of a saving roughly million for this group provide intensive remedial reading work for lagging students so that they can graduate from high school in 12 years instead of 14 or even 15 saving from to for each such BOTH for the bright students and the laggards require better Lambert He suggested a six-year minimum teacher-training instead of the usual Lambert told a group of teachers meeting here to discuss salary as long as I can most schools have held the concept that it should take 12 years to move children from their ABC's through That is the way we organized back at the turn of the and we haven't changed much Probably 5 per cent of the first he are bright enough to finish the normal 12 grades in 10 or 11 He suggested that all prospective teachers take four years of general education with some exposure to every field of human knowledge including chemistry and THIS WOULD be followed by two solid years of what and how to am sure that if we offered the American public this new concept of teacher the people would be willing to pay beginning and top salaries of or Lambert |