Wednesday. Jan. 20, 1960 University Daily Kansan
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Surveys Study Problems in Education
By Priscilla Burton
(Editor's Note: This is the last in a series of articles on education in American colleges and universities.)
Surveys are being started almost every day to study the rapidly increasing number of problems that are constantly springing up in education.
Any person interested in these
Languages Theme Of KU TV Series
A series of 12 live television shows originating in the KU studios will be shown over WIBW-TV, Channel 13, from 3:30 to 4 Friday afternoons, starting Feb. 26.
The programs, carrying a foreign languages theme, will show modern methods of instruction, explain language programs of elementary and junior high schools, and provide a layman's orientation in Chinese, Russian, French, German, and Spanish.
This will be the second educational program televised from KU as a regular series on WIBW-TV this year. "Notes from Mount Oread," a half hour of art, music, and theater, began a regular schedule from 12:30 to 1 p.m. last Saturday.
Tom Rea, coordinator of university extension, will direct the series on foreign languages. Alternating as hosts and planners of content will be Richard Strawn, visiting associate professor of Romance languages, Arnold H. Weiss, assistant professor of Romance languages and R. Johnson Watts, instructor in German.
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Dr. H. S. Mosby, wildlife researcher at Virginia Tech, says such small animals, vital to research, often suffer fatal shock when trapped alive, apparently due to nervous tension.
problems may gather information and data concerning the subject. These studies are not used to help individual students, but are used in the formation of policy and in setting up criteria for placement examinations.
Researchers have to be sincerely interested in these problems as the studies are usually done in sparetime hours after their regular jobs and they seldom receive any pay for this work.
Some educational studies in this area include the University of Kansas Bulletin of Education, Kansas Studies in Education (also published by KU), and publications put out by the Commission of Institutional Research and the University of Kansas Guidance Bureau.
The School of Education has a committee on publications which has part of its budget set aside to use for the printing of educational information, said Kenneth Anderson, dean of the School of Education.
Issues Three Publications
The Kansas Studies in Education issues three publications a year and has a budget of approximately $35,000. he said.
About 35,000 copies of the study are printed. It is mailed to all Kansas high school superintendents and principals, elementary superintendents, county superintendents, university libraries and a number of foreign countries. These studies, which cover a number of years, began here in 1954.
"Research can serve education in the same way that it serves such fields as medicine and agriculture." Dean Anderson writes in the "American Educational Research Association Newsletter."
Research on educational problems is increasing because of financial support from the federal government, foundations, and institutions.
Council Being Formed Educators throughout the nation are working now to form a National Council for Research in Education. A meeting for interested organizations convenes next week for the purpose of approving the by-laws, electing officers, and forming the Council for Research in Education.
A "Topeka Daily Capital" editorial included this communication to the editor printed in the "Norton Daily Telegram":
"Some of us who have signed this letter are alumni of Kansas State, some of Fort Hays State, some of KU. Some of us are alumni of none of these schools. Some of us are Republicans and some of us are Democrats. We have only this in common: All of us are deeply concerned with the educational opportunities of the children of Kansas.
"We believe that all of the children of Kansas should have the opportunity to get a first-rate education in the colleges of Kansas. To provide them with less is to cheat them and ourselves . . ."
The letter went on to urge that faculty members of state schools be paid salaries sufficient to keep them in Kansas instead of going to higher-paying institutions elsewhere and that the physical plants of the Kansas universities and colleges be expanded to care for anticipated enrollment increases.
Only five of 236 persons asked to sign the public letter declined, the newspaper reported.
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