Show aaA ix w ryas e n v u I t I. I It fi f-fi li North rih Summit School Board Tells i of Action in in Recent Convention COALVILLE f In a ft report of the American Ass Association of School tors convention contention at Atlantic tl City a Dri Francis Keppel tt US U.S. S. S corn com missioner of education Department Department Depart Depatt ment of Health Education and Welfare stated staled that we are called on to bring all aU our public schools Into the century and to pre pare them for tor the demands of ot the century lie He stated also that Congress and the administration are considering con two major measures to further strengthen our schools The first calls on federal aid aidI I for for the selective raising of teach er salaries and the construction of classrooms classrooms l for tor public elemen elemen- tary and secondary education He lie further stated that It Is la latime time special Interests stand aside tor for the sake of American The second measure la is somethIng something something some some- thing new It will be designed asart as art ati attack through education on some some soma of the problems of poverty and d deprivation It will call for federal assistance to strengthen education c specifically lamo m 0 jig fig g gAme Ame Americas America's poor to balance the scales of opportunity for children who need the best of education r but seldom receive It It will re reo I 4 gard poverty as as a prime target for education SUCCESSFUL TEACHER If It we mean to succeed we can I no longer accept a the idea that hat It 3 Is enough tot for school administrators tors to administer the status quo when our cur proper role rolp Is Ie to give creative leadership to new and challenging possibilities Above all we need teachers who are trained and gifted In teaching these children All to often orten teach Ing our deprived children has seemed a personal deprivation to the teachers we send to their classrooms They are usually unfamiliar un un- 1 familiar with the home and com corn life Ufe of their students The successful teacher of these children needs warmth and insight insight in in- insight sight which no legislative act can accomplish These qualities must be inherent at the outset In the second general session of the convention David BrinkleY television news new s commentator NBC was the ha 1964 recipient of the Golden Key Icy presented each year at the AASA RASA convention to a I person person who has contributed sign to the national welfare The wisner In turn chooses the teacher leacher w who o most Influenced his career to share the award with him For Brinkley that teacher was Mrs L. L Burrows Smith On Saturday night the newsman and nd his teacher received their Golden Keys E. E Dale Dae Kennedy Lancing Mich president of the National School Public Relations Association tion and coordinator of Golden Key program presented Mrs Smith with a check for 1000 NEW REFORMS In the fifth general session In I which Dr Luther H. H Evans dl rector of International and Legal I Collections Columbia University spoke of new reforms in education education tion which are required by in creased automation He stressed the urgency of new ed educational thrust to reduce dropouts guide youth and retain adults He said Our national policy must tackle with greatest Intensity the problem problem lem of youth training and the the development of employment O op on the gross national product front Fourthly we must have a great expansion moving in step with the actual achievement we make at the lower levels In university I education Fifthly we must recognize rec that one time through school will not do any l longer nger I Everyone no matter where he ori leaves off oft his formal education education edu edu- cation must face the of returning to the educational task from time to time |