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
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university or technical
school.
It is important to find
out early in the student's
high school career what his
ambitions are, what his
capabilities are, and what
his aptitudes are, so he can
be guided in a direction
most suited to his desires at
the time, even though these
may change before he is
graduated.
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Counseling services in
some of Jackson county
high school and even in the
junior highs, has been de
veloped and expanded to
meet this need. 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,
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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
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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
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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
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Grants Pass - Traffic be
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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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ford report that this course
gives them better prepara
tion for college classes that
students from schools
without this program do
not have.
More comprehensive Eng
lish programs pre offered
in many high schools in
Jackson county. They are
programs designed to meet
the needs of different
types of students.
Other courses have been
reorganized to meet chang
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for example, the science
over analysis also merited
some serious comment. One
British reporter in the United
States, Henry Brandon, re
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yet most Americans would not
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fact that only four per cent
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These changes, altera
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indicate the "upgrading"
which is taking place
among high schools, an
"upgrading" which has ex
tended into the elementary
school level.
Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield.
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noted that students are
learning more now than
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