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g SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1962 MEDFORD HAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON . College Curricula Changes Result in Revisions in High By EARL H. ADAMS Mail Tribune City Editor (Third in a teries) Changes in university and college curricula dur ing the past few years have resulted in changes in the secondary school level. The relationship is ob vious. If c o 1 1 e g e-level courses are revised and re organized to meet demands of a changing society, so must secondary school level programming be changed to meet, not only the college-bound student's requirements, but also the needs of students not plan ning to continue in college. This is harder to do on the high school level, since perhaps half or more of the students may not continue Rickover's Enthusiasm for British System Not Shared in England HE'. pip We need clothing, shoes, dishes furmturt, end bedding. W Pick Up HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army 30 N. Holly 773-7335 Geo. 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In most junior highs and high schools, counseling is now considered one of the most By PETER KNOX United Press International ; London -IUPII- U.S. Vice Ad miral Hyman Rickover's en thusiasm for British education is not fully shared this side of the Atlantic. Rickover's report earlier this month to the House Ap propriations committee claim ing "English schools are far in advance of ours" pleased some Britons but left others unmoved. His praise coincided with a scries of scathing attacks, V i i iv THIS 12 beautifully IQI.SsUCtPM J .NsW1 y' ,v t'fl' Open Friday n , OHU a4HK& 4 Tenth end Central Pi w ?m Mi im jar v&yt .-.,1 i -e' r uiri Tr r i w m rar Jiwar i I "vf k TERMS $1 dWn' $1 aweek v "V - " com h I uuee pi . I tflvts ta, I IT tutrr im I . . - . ... . I QI. DUICH OVtH lfcV. .a-&m 3 StimlMi br(t I ! till toirti I "" - C " 1 1 ! LAY-AWAY for CHRISTMAS - NOW! important programs of fered. But without large curri cula to which students may be referred, the counseling program may not be effec tive. The two are neces sarily tied together. Curricula in many of the schools of Jackson county have changed considerably since 1958, not just in the direction of mathematics and science, but also in for eign languages, social stu dies, and other programs, such as industrial and phy sical education. There is increasing em phasis in providing for all types of youngsters who have varying degrees of abilities. Interests and needs. This is a national I mainly by British leftwingers, that even the free schools here I are riddled with snobbery and favor the privileged few. Room for Improvement It is not only radicals, how ever, who have shown them selves dissatisfied with the way things are shaping up here on the education front. Education Minister Sir Ed ward Boyle admitted in a newspaper interview two days after Rickover's flattering re marks that there was room for improvement. Sir Edward said: "We rightly ask of our edu cational system that it should give equal opportunities to climb a ladder irrespective of income or social class, but we tend to forget how easy it is for many children to lose their foothold on the ladder in many of our secondary (high) schools, even when they have made a good start at the primary stage." The minister's remarks hit ut the heart of the British problem - how to help a poor X7 lifts L&J ENCYCLOPEDIA 5. 7- -r OF 2.500 Tested Recipes! FULL-COLOR RECIPE BOOKS bound and gift boxed This beautiful "Cooking Magic" ency clnprdia holds all 12 recipe booki, which ran be attached or removed individually (mm the metal binding awmbly. Nire Till 9:00 QUALITY AT LOWEST PRICES Phone 77J-5201 trend, which is noted in high schools in this area. For example, in Ashland during the past few years, the shop program has been expanded, science offerings have been increased, the physical education program has been itensified, and the English program has been expanded. At Phoenix High school between 1955 and 1959, art, speech, trigonometry, vo cational agriculture, senior arithmetic review, and a reading improvement pro gram were added to the curriculum. Counseling also was added during this time. Since 1959, courses added at Phoenix High school in clude German, Latin, ad man's son get the same schoolr ing opportunities as a rich man's son. The situation is complicated from the start because the average middle and upper class family tries to send its sons to one of the elite fee paying private schools, para doxically called "public schools." At these schools of the Eton type, costing parents 300-500 pounds a year (between $1,- 000 and $1,500) boys usually can get a first class training. Public school men are apt to win most university honors and they hold a high percent age of top posts in the coun try, both in government and in business. Prime Minister Harold Mac millan and opposition leader Hugh Gaitskell are public school trained. Throughout history men of similar back ground have dominated Brit ish governments. Apart from the recognized 100 or so "public schools" there are a number of other private schools, including some maintained by religious orders. These often are rela tively inexpensive. The great mass of British children, however, get their education free. The figures show close to 500,000 fee pay ers against more than 7 mil lion who pay nothing-except through taxes. Local councils run the free schools with grants from the government. To give a child being schooled by the state a Dollars Dollars Saved 4 col Hed onfr By PETER J. HAYES United Press International Cupertino, Calif. - (UPD -A new do-it-yourself method of school administration has resulted in a dramatic sav ing of taxpayer dollars in a San Francisco peninsula school district. The idea was adopted last July 1 and school officials figure they have already gained the equivalent of 12 classrooms, or space for 350 pupils. Scene of the reorganiza tion is the Cupertino Union School District operating 30 elementary schools In six cities in the west Santa Clara Valley. Total attend ance: 17,000. Position! Eliminated To make way for the change, four assistant school superintendent p o s i t i ons were eliminated last July. A district deputy superin tendent's position was crea ted to replace them. In addition, numerous educational consultants and clerical workers were re moved from the tradltioal billeting in the central ad ministration offices. Their total salaries were estimat ed at more than $100,000 annually. Under the new system, principals at the 30 Cuper New Approach To Freeway To Open Grants Pass - Traffic be tween Interstate 5 freeway nnd downtown Grants Pass Is scheduled to start moving over the new E and F st. cou plet approach to the citv start ing at 11 a.m. Monday, state highway engineers have an nounced. At that time newly installed traffic signal lights will go Into operation on four down town intersections, and E and F sts. will become one-way from Fourth st. cast to their junction with the new free way approach. The new approach system, replacing the temporary D st. route which has been in use l since the freeway opened last i.vpring. is expected to facili tate easier access between downtown Grants Pass and 'he freewnv vanced mathematics, a .ee- ond speech class, journal ism, office practice, and a second art class. Chemis try and physics are now offered every year instead of every other year. Counceling service has constantly been improved and enlarged. In relatively recent years, elementary curricula at Phoenix have been in creased to include a reme dial reading program and additional library facili ties, and the program for the able and interested stu dents has been enriched. On the junior high school level, handicrafts, home economics, remedial read ing, modern math and a counseling program have chance to win a truly first class education the British have evolved a special system whereby the best pupils are singled out for special treat ment. This is where the snobbery charges begin. The privileged position of the fee - paying "public schools" and their graduates has long been a tar get for criticism. Now it is being said that a new privi leged class is growing up in side the national school sys tem. Dame Anne Godwin, out going president of the Trade Unions Congress, Britain's federation of trade unions, said in an address on Sept. 3 thtt "our educational system is riddled with class distinc tions and stratified by class assumptions." She charged that the nation al system had set out to create a "lavish imitation" of the public schools and "the pub lic school concept is that of an elite." She and other critics com plain that in picking out the best pupils for the best educa tion, new social patterns are being formed that divide, the community. I This is the way the system works: Aptitude Examination Children who are not at tending private establish ments go to free primary schools at the age of five and remain there until they are 11. Then they take a tough apti tude examination, known as Saved in tino schools are members of "complexes" or "clusters" of five schools each. One principal from each com plex sits on an overall dis trict advisory committee and works directly with the central administration. Sits In 'Complex' Teachers also play a role. Representative from each School News St. Mary's High Reported by Michelle Ely The Lancer club hosted a dance In the St. Mary's gym following the Phoenix -St. Mary's game recently. Win ning the game brought St. Mary's one step closer to a chance at gaining the State A-2 Championship. This idea changed the mixer from a dance to an impromptu pep rally. The Sodality is having a scries of six meetings in prep aration for the Ecumenical Council, which will begin Oct. 1 1 in Rome. Each member is looking up information on the Council to share with the oth er members. St. Mary's High school stu dents have joined with Cath olics all over the wcrld in spe cial prayers for the Ecumeni cal Council. These will con tinue until Oct. 11. when there will be a special Mass attend ed by the whole student body for the success of the Council. Probation Sodality lessons for new St. Mary's students in terested in Joining the Sodal ity began last week. Lenders of this training program are Linda Van Dyck. Charlotte So koloski and Dixie Duggan. Each of the girls is in charge of preparing and conducting weekly meetings for the fresh men candidates. A Welcome Party was given for the freshmen by the soph omores Oct. 4. The entire stu dent body attended, with the freshmen as guests. Entertain ment was provided by both the freshmen and sophomore classes, and refreshments were served. Martha Fitzpatrick. Jeanne Rossi, Marilyn Fellers, Mary Louise Truly. Alice Doyle, and Michelle F.ly were ln-(ds of vjtriou committors been added in the past couple of years. Since 1958, several changes in the program have been made at Medford High school. There has been an in creased tendency toward mathematics, science and foreign languages, and a move in the direction of adding advanced college placement courses plus sec ond year courses in chemis try, biology and other subject areas. Other programs have been added, or expanded, to serve the needs of all types of youngsters. Such programs include the recently created distri butive education program, which gives work experi the "eleven-plus," which vir tually decides whether they go on to good, bad or indiffer ent schooling. About 20 to 25 per cent of the children taking this exam - roughly one in four - win a place in a so-called grammar school. The grammar schools, generally well-equipped with top grade teachers, labora tories and modern equipment, give a solid academic educa tion that eases the path for pupils to go on to universities. At many grammar schools pupils wear uniforms and in other respects ape the public schools in methods of teach ing and handling students. For these and educational reasons there is, in local communities, a certain social status in hav ing a child at a grammar school. Academically many of the grammar schools rival public schools in public examination results. Rickover claimed the work of 18-year-old grammar school boys compares favor ably with that of U.S. col lege majors. It is the other 75 per cent of children, the ones who do not get to grammar schools and cannot afford the fees at private schools, who worry British educators. These children go on with their education in technical schools or in other secondary schools - known as "second ary modern" - which do not have the staffs or equipment to train children to the same level as the grammar schools. School school sits in on "complex" meetings, which also select a teacher member to at tend advisory committee sessions. Innovation is nothing new in the Cupertino dis trict. It has won attention for its adjustment-remedial classes: currently 45 chil dren with brain damage are connected with the party. Spe cial guests were the parish priests. Annual staff members met Wednesday to formulate plans for the 1063 yearbook. Pete Nannies, Mike Stinson, Jim Calhoun, Allan Wruck, Susie Latendresse, Stephanie Hol len, Nanette Sakraida, and Michelle Ely were appointed salesmen for subscriptions. An early cover deadline requires a down payment on each book to insure gottinj; one. Charlotte Sokolnski, who was elected president of the National Honor Society last spring, presided over the elec tion of the other officers dur ing a meeting held last week. Officers elected were Mike Latendresse, vice president; Jerry Vakoe, secretary; and Kathy Hout, treasurer. The NHS plans to conduct a pro gram modeled on the "Col lege Bowl'' in November. A similar assembly was success fully staged last year. Another post game dance followed the Sacred Heart St. Mary's game Saturday. Oct. fi. Honored guests were members of the Sacred Heart student body. The junior class sponsored the dance, with 1 jit,nHri'n Pnn Uprlc- i cr. Mike Soran, Dixie Duggan land Millicent O'Connor in I charge of arrangements. i j ATTENDING COLLEGE i Monmouth -Jerry Koop- jman, 1962 graduate of Crater High school, is attending Ore- U'on College of Education this tall as the recipient of a scholarship from the Central Point Carpenter Foundation. Xoopman is a freshman en rolled in secondary education I at OCE. He is the son of Mr. jind Mrs. J W. Koopman, louto 1. box 114. Gold Hill. ence and compensation for on-the-job work for stu dents who are not general ly college bound; an ex panded homemaking pro gram to serve many types of girls, including a home making seminar for senior girls wishing to continue their education at a college; and practical homemaking, a three-year sequence for girls who may not have the ability to handle the regu lar program. During the present school year, Medford offers high school students advanced placement courses in math, foreign languages, chemis try, American and Euro pean history. One emphasis of a com prehensive English pro Such youngsters, according to psychologists, often feel them selves condemned as failures because they did not get past the "eleven-plus" to a gram mar school. Many of them quit school as soon as they legally can, at age 15, without any real qualifications. Definite Distinction So there does exist, in the British educational system, a definite "have" and "have not" distinction. A clergyman in a north England town reported re cently he could not keep his youth club going because youths from the grammar school refused to mix with those from the secondary mod ern school. The Daily Herald, a paper which usually supports labor party policies, warned this month that "the state, which decides at 11 (or even earlier) whether a child should go on to one sort of school rather than another is putting him in a 'class' which may mark him for life as much as his accent or the way he holds his knife ever did." When Admiral Rickover launched his attack on the American system and com pared it unfavorably with the British, cartoonists here had a field day. One showed an angry schoolmaster telling an ob viously rebellious schoolboy "if you don't mind, we will leave Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover out of this." At the same time, the Rick- Change being aided using family welfare services and other community resources. It also has special classes for gifted children. Cupertino has the Presi dent's physical fitness pro gram in full swing. The dis trict is doing research on paper-bound textbooks. Orders Cutback Before Supl. Frank O. Fenley ordered the admin istrative cutback, a study group who recommended construction of a new ad ministration office addition costing about $250,000. State funds that normally go for classrooms would be needed to finance the ad dition. "Although our new ad ministrative realignment became effective last July 1," Fenley said, "we can now say that the need for a new administrative building has been erased." Actually the economy aspect of the new reorgan ization is a welcome side effect, the official said. Its main purpose was to elim inate red tape, place greater repsonsibility at the local level and remove central of fice department from policy making roles. "We're really excited about this." he said. "We're going to give it a good try." 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