Ford official comments on school ills
In the view of Mario D. Fantini, program officer for public education for the Ford Foundation, the problem with American schools is this:
"We are expecting an educational system rooted in the nineteenth century to solve twentieth- and twenty-first century problems."
If, in the 1970's, the nation is to avoid the costly errors of the 1960's, the schools need an entirely new set of guiding assumptions, Fantini said.
In the 60's, Fantini said in an article in the April issue of Today's Education, journal of the National Education Association, schools reacted to crash programs
St. Louis TV stations subpoenaed for films
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UPI) — U.S. Attorney Daniel Bartlett Jr., said Wednesday that area television stations had been subpoenaed to appear with film clippings before a U.S. grand jury investigating recent disturbances at Washington University.
Bartlett said on television station, KMOX-TV, had already turned over films to his office. Bartlett would not name the other stations subpoenaed.
The attorney said the subpoenas involved "nothing that would constitute the invasion of newspaper privileges."
"The subpoenaes are simply for film and photo mats, motion picture film and photographs," he said.
dealing with the poor.
"They are returnable forthwith," Bartlett said, "but usually by agreement we sit down and work out some time for the convenience of the media."
Bartlett said the films would be used primarily to identify persons.
a spokesman for KSD-TV said his station had received word that
Winn sponsors bill for ecology college
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan., sponsored a bill Wednesday to set up a national college of ecological and environmental studies.
The use of such terms as "culturally disadvantaged," he said, implied something was wrong with the learner when, in fact, the problem was with the institution.
The bill is similar to measures introduced by other Republicans Wednesday.
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members of the U.S. attorney's office would probably be coming Friday to view its film.
A spokesman for KTVI-TV said the station had received a subpoena for films used on the air and all other clippings.
At KPLR-TV, a spokesman said the station had not received a subpoena, but added that federal agents had already viewed the file of films on the university disturbances.
"In a pluralistic society, diversity is an important value that our educational institutions should express," he said. In the existing institutions, however, there is one way of doing things
Fantini said the "direction of desired reform" appears to be:
- A parental and community role in matters of budgeting, personnel and curriculum.
the total educational system has been ponderous and unresponsive to the growing aspirations of those who use the schools—both consumer (students, parents) and practitioner (teachers, administrators)."
bear some relevance to the students' lives and with newer kinds of content and procedures that will help students answer deep personal concerns and rediscover their own integrity.
Some consumers may therefore seek other options—such as private schools. But, Fantini said, many others are demanding change and reform through direct participation — decentralization and community control.
- The present heavy emphasis on cognitive subject matter to be tempered with materials that
- A wider spectrum of staff to include professionals, laymen (parents, community residents and students) and specialists from other disciplines and professions.
"The participants who lead reform in the 70's will be those closest to the action—teachers, parents, students. Participation of these publics in the governance of urban schools carries the potential for triggering changes in substance and personnel," he says.
"However, the embassy stressed there will be no meeting with government officials or Red Cross representatives should we be allowed in," Mrs. Wood said.
"The Polish embassy in Stockholm told us we will have final word in the matter when we go to Vienna on Thursday," Mrs. Wood said.
COPENHAGEN (UPI) — Four American women touring Europe on behalf of more than 1,000 U.S. servicemen either missing or held captive in Vietnam said Wednesday night they had not given up hope of visiting Communist Poland although official doors had been closed.
visas.
Mrs. Laird Gutterson, Mrs.
Patrick Wood, Mrs. Jack Vanloan
and Mrs. Ivan D. Appleby, all of
Tucson, Ariz., made a second
stopover in Copenhagen on their
mission. They told UPI they may
get to Warsaw on ordinary tourist
Wives hope to tour Poland
"But talking to the people in the streets would be almost just as good," she said.
The women will fly to Vienna Thursday.