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O ctober 18, 1995 • T he P ortland O bserver
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Cable Sends Kids Around The World
What 14-year-old Sean Ness
can ’t forget is the car It was no
bigger than a pup tent and about as
shapely. He’d never seen one so small.
Yet it carried a whole East German
family
Now here it was, right in front of
his eyes - and 3,000 miles away. How
can that be? Last May, Sean was
am ong eight e ig h th -g ra d e rs at
Lawrenceville’s Sweetwater Middle
School who took an electronic field
trip to Berl in From his school’s com
puter lab, he watched a program about
World War II and talked live with
experts and Berliners.
“ I wish we could have more
classes like this,” Sean said. So does
I umer Adventure Learning, which
conducted the Berlin field trip for
some 200,000 students nationwide.
I his unit of Atlanta-based entertain
ment conglomerate Turner Broad
casting System Inc is trying to sell
schools - for a profit - on a new way
o f learning.
The “field” trips, which usecom-
puters, cable TV and satellites to
transport children around the world,
are divided into three consecutive
one-hour sessions In addition to
Berlin, Turner Adventure has taken
students to the Rift Valley in Kenya,
the Gettysburg battlefield in Penn
sylvania and the Okefenokee swamp
in Georgia.
At each place, there were ex
perts and residents who answered
students' questions. They did so by
telephone or through electronic mas-
saging on America Online, the com
mercial computer online service.
"It’s much better than reading a
textbook,” says Laura Frick, an
eighth- grader at Berkm ar High
School in Lilburn, where students
also have taken electronic field trips.
Laura’s words are just what Gary
Rowe wants to hear. He runs Turner
Adventure. And Rowe’s looking for
kids and teachers interested in a learn
ing experience outside textbooks and
lesson plans.
We re putting the idea out in
the schools and asking teachers and
students to help us finish this inven
tion, says Rowe. Many are skepti
cal. “ W e’re trying to inspire schools
to do new things," Rowe says. “W e’re
asking them to set aside the bell
schedule for a few days. “Some
schools are ready and jum p on the
opportunity, adds Rowe. Many oth
ers are not. While schools may be
reluctant, kids are not, Rowe says.
W hat they like is live e x p e
rience, he ex p lain s. “ They want
re a l-w o rld s tu f f .” T h a t m eans
c h ild re n s tu d y in g G e tty s b u rg
“ w ant to know w hat it felt like to
carry a heavy rifle w earing a wool
uniform in 9 0 -d e g re e h e a t,” a c
co rding to Rowe.
For Sean, seeing the car, the
I ravant — then talking about it with
an East German teenager — trig
gered a revelation. “ I had no idea
how different other places are from
my home,” he says, still slightly
amazed.
Putt For Education Helps Local Schools
T he p u ttin g g reens are closed
and the re su lts have been tallied
P u tte rs o f all ag es h elped raise
m o re th a n $ 9 6 ,0 0 0 fo r lo c a l
sc h o o ls d u rin g W ash in g to n M u
tu a l’s th ird an n u al Putt for E du
ca tio n co n test.
The checks, ranging from $50 to
$2,300, are being distributed to 665
p u b lic and p riv a te e le m e n ta ry
schools, junior highs, high schools
and colleges in Oregon and Wash-
ington as part o f Washington Mutu
al’s sponsorship o f the Pro-Am at the
Fred M eyer Challenge golf tourna
ment.
B etw een June and A ugust,
W ashington M utual sponsored 59
Putt for E d u catio n ev en ts. M em
b ers o f the general p u b lic w ere
in v ited to a ttem p t to sink three
out o f three putts and w in $50
d o n a tio n s to the school o f th e ir
ch o ic e .
This was the third year Wash
ington Mutual sponsored Putt for
Education. In 1993, $50,000 was
raised for schools. Last year, suc
cessful putters raised that total to
$71,000.
“W e’re very excited to help lo
cal schools through the Putt for
Education," said Mike Amato,
W ashington M utual’s senior vice
president for Oregon consumer bank
ing. “Schools are the cornerstones o f
our neighborhoods and we feel it’s
important to support their work.”
Putt for E d u catio n is a p ro
g ram o f W a s h in g to n M u tu a l
CAN! (C om m itted A ctive N eigh
b ors), the c o m p a n y ’s com m unity
involvem ent p rogram . For d e
cad es, W ashington M utual and
its em ployees have been actively
involved in h elp in g m ake their
com m unities b etter p laces to live
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$200,000 Early Childhood Education Demonstration Project grant to the
Columbia Villa/Tamarack (CV/T) Resident Council.
I he council applied for the grant last June in response to a survey o f
residents todeterm ine areas of most need. Residents listed child care as the
number one priority and a major obstacle in seeking training or em ploy
ment. O f the 598 housing units at CV/T, 478 arc family units with a total
of 1,099 children under age 14
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day child developm ent center and also to develop an m-home child care
program that provides training, support and oversight for in-home child
care providers.
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a center with a developmental orientation rather than just providing basic
child care. Resident parents will gain by having dependable, quality care
for their children so that they can pursue educations, training or em ploy
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excellent curriculum and enjoy hearty meals and snacks, all within a safe*
healthy environment. Parents benefit by having a major obstacle removed
from seeking employment and job training.”
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vote on the Portland Public School District bond measure, 2 6 -3 1.
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have adequate physical facilities. It supports the effort to make Portland’s
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