= = — = => Saar TEN Te cea Fen aE I A ae ea I RE AF artnet A ag Artin ts 1h i Sew alien NYC Teachers Fight Grievance Clause (See page 2) PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL ED == _— eS |S =—= <== = =—_ = —- <_< = = =— = — = = = = == Ss = ~ = ae —_— = SE > = = = = = = — ae = = = a _ = =: FH § ——— = — 1 LS OWS SSS = OCTOBER 12, 1962 CATION ASSOCIATION WASHINGTON, D. C. To All NEA Members... FOR THE FIRST TIME in 105 years of NEA history all members are receiving this na- tional newspaper. It is the first of four to be sent to you during the school year 1962-63. Your officers believe that the NEA REPORTER will reinforce your dedication to the ideals and pro- grams of independent, profes- sional associations. This summer more than 6,500 delegates from all parts of the country made a number of deci- sions on NEA policy. @ Many leaders of profession- al associations left the conven- tion with stronger convictions as to the goals and functions of autonomous professional groups. They will maintain these beliefs. @ Most now realize that many professional groups do not have the vigorous programs that the times require, These programs will be made more effective. ® Experienced leaders, long known for their efforts to ad- vance education and to lift the status of all teachers, now recog- nize the necessity of enlisting the young men and women who wish to share actively in our professional groups. Work will be found for all. @ Great emphasis was placed upon the importance of forward- looking boards of education that will work with the profession in evolving definite and fair per- sonnel policies and favorable conditions of work. Substantial gains will continue to be made. @ New meaning was infused in our long-time policy that “all teachers are workers in a com- mon cause.” Progress will be made by all, for all, through all, @ Delegates reminded them- selves of the importance of maintaining public confidence in quality education by adherence to higher standards of prepara- tion, performance, and ethics, Let us discipline ourselves to- ward this end, These are among the goals to which the. delegates renewed their allegiance. But this alone is not enough. The power of these good ideals must motivate action among all members. Each of us has a part, including the enrollment of an additional quar- ter-million teachers in the next two years. With unity and enthu- siasm, 1962-63 will become a year of outstanding achievement. WILLIAM G. CARR EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Classroom Teachers Department s, RET BN AE RR EN NEA PRESIDENT HAZEL A. BLANCHARD (at right) and ALBERTA MEYER, president of the Washington, D.C., Council of Administrative Women in Education, greet one of the guests at a reception held for Mrs. Blanchard by the Council at NEA Center last week. Last week Mrs. Blanchard also con- ferred in New: York City with*mass media officials and presided in Rockefeller Center at a press preview of "The Time of Their Lives,” NEA’s newest motion picture. Superintendent’s Role in Negotiations Stressed by Two Association Officials Two. NEA officials recently spoke out on the importance of the superin- tendent’s role in professional negotia- tions. T. M. Stinnett, NEA assistant executive secretary for professional development and welfare, told the NEA Board of Directors at their Octo- ber 6-7 meeting that “many superin- tendents mistakenly assume that the Membership Running 13% Over Last Year NEA membership on September 27, 1962, was 15,467 ahead of the number enrolled by that date a year ago—an increase of 13 percent, “This is only a first report, of course, but the favorable margin in these early returns is a tribute to state and local leadership,” said NEA Membership Director Ivan A. Booker. Paralleling the growth in early en- rollments, he reported, has come a no- table increase in associations achiey- ing 100% professional membership— three-way membership in local, state, and national associations. Among the earliest of such reports are: Wirt County, W. Va.; County Line School District, Franklin County, Ark.; Win- dom, Minn.; Avon, Mass.; Burt, lowa; Ellinwood, Kan.; Midwest, Okla.; and Shamrock, Texas. “Our national goal for this year should be 900,000 members,” Dr. Booker told the NEA Board of Di- rectors at their October 6-7 meeting. “This is an imperative.” he said, “if teaching is truly to keep ‘in step with the great professions.’ ” NEA resolution on negotiations seeks to exclude them from the profession, to divide them from the, teachers. “I have been involved in virtually all of the sustained, deliberative con- ferences that sought to develop the language and the meaning of the res- olution. Time and time again these matters were discussed and always the consensus was that the superin- tendent was meant to be included in the designation of teachers or profes- sional staff. “Over and over it was stated and accepted that ‘through professional channels’ meant the almost universal- ly acceptable procedure of dealing through the superintendent with the board. “There must be, in my judgment,” Dr. Stinnett said, “acknowledgement of the status of the superintendent as a member of the profession and as a professional adviser to the board.” Lyle W. Ashby, NEA deputy execu- tive secretary, speaking before nearly 600 members of the Southern Section, California. Teachers Association, at the Camp Sealy workshop September 29, said that more and more superin- tendents see the wisdom of coopera- tive determination of policy “as against a negative attitude toward staff par- ticipation through the voluntary pro- fessional association. “The superintendent should be ready to speak for the welfare of the staff at all times when the proposals are consistent with the achievement of quality education and within the realm of fiscal possibility,” he told the workshop participants. To Expand Program for 1962-63 Executive Committee Approves Addition of Four Welfare Projects NEA’s Department of Class- room Teachers—the largest mem- bership organization within NEA —has been authorized by the NEA Executive Committee to carry out four special projects this school year. The four proj- ects, approved by the Committee at its October 4-5 meeting, are an addition to the Department’s current program, which is em- phasizing teacher welfare. NEA Executive Secretary William G. Carr presented the Department’s proposals for expansion. The new proj- ects were recommended to the NEA Board of Directors October 7. The first of the four projects, de- scribed by the Department as “of most immediate importance,” deals with professional negotiations and is de- signed to develop guidelines for de- termining the respective roles of boards of education, superintendents, local associations, and state and na- tional associations in such negotia- tions. Work ‘in this area has been fragmented, the Department pointed out, and has never involved repre- sentatives of all the groups in a face- to-face situation. The Department plans to sponsor a conference involving key officials in national organizations of teachers, superintendents, school boards, and professional education associations. This meeting will be held November ‘18-19 at NEA Center, said Margaret Stevenson, DCT executive secretary. The second approved project will follow up the national level confer- ence on professional negotiations with two or three pilot state or regional meetings. “Since. professional negotia- tions is a new concept for the majority of the members of our profession and the groups with whom we work,” said the Department in a report to the Board, “we believe that consider- able effort should be put into inform- ing local groups of the concept and more particularly of how to go about working for its accomplishment.” DCT’s third project will be to test (See CLASSROOM TEACHERS, page 4, column 3) The next issue of the NEA REPORTER, Vol. 1, No. 2, will be mailed to all NEA mem- bers in December. The third and fourth issues for this year are scheduled for Feburary and April. | . ~— New York NEA Group Promises Legal Action on Grievance Clause NEA-affiliated teachers in New York City have launched a vigor- ous fight against denying teachers freedom to choose representation in grievance procedures. The City Teachers Association (NEA) has promised that “all necessary legal action” will be taken by the asso- ciation to protect teachers’ constitu- tional rights. Emil Tron, CTA president, warned that if the board of education does not modify its stand on this item of the proposed agreement with the United Federation of Teachers (AFT), a court fight will ensue. At issue is section b, item 6, of the union-proposed procedure, which Section b, Item 6 No officer or executive board mem- ber, delegate, representative, or agent of a minority organization shall repre- sent the aggrieved employee at any step in the grievance procedure. An agent shall include any person who, in behalf of a minority organization, performs such acts as: distributing literature, collecting dues, circulating petitions, soliciting memberships, or serving regularly as spokesman at teachers’ meetings. A minority organi- zation shall mean any organization, oth- er than the Union, which exists or acts for the purpose of dealing with the head of a school or any other school official for the improvement of work- ing conditions, or the handling of grievances, of employees in the bar- gaining unit. would prohibit any agent of any organ- ization other than the UFT from representing teachers in grievance cases. In another action, the CTA has submitted to the New York City board a 10-point program designed to deal with what a CTA-NEA survey showed to be the problem of most concern to New York City teachers: how to help seriously disturbed children in the classroom. The survey, which analyzed the opinions of 532 New York City teach- ers, indicated that 92 percent of them wanted improvement in this area. Executive Committee Issues Interim Guide On Television Teaching On October 5, the NEA Executive Committee adopted the following “Guidelines for Interim- Policy Con- siderations Concerning Rights and Responsibilities of TV Teachers.” Continuing discussions with teacher groups around the nation will bring suggestions which will be incorporated in a later statement. Status of Television Teachers The television teacher should be chosen on the basis of outstanding professional competence and posses- sion of special talents suitable to this medium. As a professional educator, he should be substantially involved in the planning, production, utiliza- tion, and evaluation of the television teaching assignment and should not be regarded as a television actor or performer. The above requirement shall in no way be construed to set limitation upon the utilization of talent as special guests from outside the teaching pro- fession, such as members of other professions, outstanding artists or mu- sicians, or experts in any field suitable to the content of the course. However, the accredited professional person should be involved in approving the guests to be invited. Compensation and Contractual Arrangements for Television Teachers Because of changing practices in the teaching-learning process due largely to the accelerated use of the new instructional media and techno- logical devices, the new roles created for and assumed by teachers must be recognized and defined. In fulfilling AEW School Visits Urged by President President Kennedy has urged par- ents of the nation’s 39 million public school students to visit the schools next month during American Educa- tion Week. In a proclamation, the President designated November 11-17 as a time to give special attention to “the aims and purposes of education and the programs and problems of our schools and colleges. “We should,” he said, “examine the quality of our educational institu- tions and assess the degree to which our educational programs and practices serve the interests of the individual and bring vitality and strength to our Nation and its culture. Every Ameri- can should be fully committed to the advancement of education.” NEA is one of the national spon- sors of AEW. Teachers Commended After Bribery Attempt By Board Members Two classroom teachers in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania, have been commended by Richard B. Kennan, executive secretary of NEA’s Com- mission on Professional Rights and Responsibilities, for their action in ex- posing bribery attempts by school- board members in their community. (Bristol Township is about 15 miles northeast of Philadelphia.) The teachers—James H. Middles- warth and John O. Lysinger—have testified that they were contacted by two school board members and told that they would be appointed to prin- cipalship vacancies in the Bristol Township school system provided they bought a few “key votes” on the board. The going price was $1,000. The teachers went to the local dis- trict. attorney, who asked them to play along with the board members and pay the bribes with marked money. As the teachers paid the board mem- bers, detectives were on hand to arrest the men, who were the president and vice-president of the school board. In praising the two teachers, Dr. Kennan commented that their prompt action in reporting the bribery attempt was a great service to the teaching profession. “Although such attempts as buying votes for advancement within a school system are extremely rare,” Dr. Ken- nan said, “we must be-alert to the fact that such incidents occasionally do occur. We urge any teacher who is approached with the promise of a pro- motion if he is willing to buy a few votes to contact the local district attorney immediately.” the new role of teaching via television, the teacher assumes a specialist role and an enlarged area of instructional responsibility. The role of “special teacher” has long been recognized and appropriately incorporated into salary scheduling. Similarly, the new role of the TV teacher must now be recog- nized. Various patterns now exist to ac- complish this. The present most com- mon method in the public schools is to make the TV teacher’s annual compensation large enough to cover the original preparation of special materials for the telecast; responsi- bilities for personal appearances on camera; revision, up-dating, re-use, rebroadcast, recording or re-recording of TV-course materials; and the rental or salé of video recordings to other school districts, agencies, or networks for re-use purposes. Often, usually at the college and university level, the TV teacher is (See TELEVISION TEACHING, page 4, column 1) Help Elect Candidates Who Are Friendly to Federal Aid, NEA Director Urges; NEA Position, Actions on Aid to Institutions of Higher Education Described On September 20, the House of Representatives voted to recommit John M. Lumley, director, NEA Division of Federal Relations, in conferences September 18-20 with NEA legislative leaders from 20 key states, urged educators to support candidates at the local, state, and national levels this fall who favor federal aid to public education. He emphasized that the NEA “fed- eral support of education” resolution, reaffirmed by the Representative As- sembly this year at Denver, could not be achieved unless such direct politi- cal support is forthcoming. “The American people have shown repeatedly in impartial public opinion polls that they favor general federal support for public education—both for school construction and_ teachers’ salaries,” Dr. Lumley said. “Federal aid to education is the paramount domestic issue facing the nation in this election. Candidates favoring federal aid to education are eager to know of your interest. They must have your support if the legis- lative goals of NEA are to be realized,” he said, Minnesota Poll In a recent impartial poll by the Minneapolis Tribune, 76% of the voting-age respondents expressed themselves in support of federal aid to education. Poll interviewers put this query to a representative cross- section of Minnesotans: “Some people favor, but other people oppose, having the Federal government provide funds for the public schools throughout America. In general, do you approve or disapprove of federal aid to pub- lic education?” The. replies: Total Men Women Approve 76% 76% 76% Disapprove 20 23 18 Qualified 2 | 2 No opinion 2 0 4 100% 100% 100% HR 8900 to the Senate-House Conference Committee. This decision was partly the result of objections to the bill raised by the NEA, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, the Ameri- can Vocational Association, the Na- tional School Boards Association, and the American Association of School Administrators. The objections of these groups were based primarily on two factors: (1) the bill made outright grants of fed- eral funds to build academic facilities for nonpublic colleges, and (2) the proposal introduced complex and un- necessary factors of federal control of education. Although Congress remained in ses- sion several weeks after the vote to recommit, no concerted efforts were made by the conferees to consider the problem. Congress adjourned without enacting substantial assistance either to the public schools or to the colleges. In reporting these events to the NEA Board of Directors at its Octo- ber 6 meeting, Executive Secretary William G. Carr gave the following chronology. This account, he ex- plained, is extremely important be- cause the actions of the Association have been misrepresented and mis- understood, In brief, the summary follows: In February 1961. President Kennedy urged Congress to provide loans for construction to all types of higher education institutions. The NEA en- dorsed this message. The Senate con- sidered and approved this loan pro- gram (S 1241). The House, however, eventually produced a bill which pro- vided grants to private institutions as well as to public colleges (HR 8900). The NEA stated repeatedly to mem- bers of Congress that, under NEA (See NEA POSITION, page 4, column 4) CURRENT What's Going on in TV, Radio, Press, Films, and National Magazines Magazines Look (October 23, on.sale October 9): The Minnesota Plan for the Con- tinuing Education of Women is exam- ined through the eyes of one of its participants in “A Mother Returns to Campus.” The Reporter (October 11): “Louisiana: The Expensive Way to Fight Integration,” by Ed Planer, de- Scribes the “Freedom of Education Plan” whereby the state offers $360-a- year grants to Negro and white chil- dren to attend private school. Harper's (October): Esther Raush- enbush, director of the Center for Continuing Education at Sarah Law- tence College, discusses “Second Chance: New Education for Women.” PTA Magazine (October): “Is In- dividualized Instruction a Myth?” Superintendent Earl H. Hanson of Rock Island, Illinois, says it is not, but admits “we talk a much better game of individualized education than we play.” Television Exploring: NBC-TV’s newest con- tribution to children’s programing Starts Saturday, October 13. Host is Albert R. Hibbs, senior staff scientist at Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory. First half of program directed to 5- 8- year-olds will delve into language, music, mathematics; second half, de- Signed to stimulate interest in social Studies and science should appeal to children from 8-11 (Saturdays, 12:30- 1:30 p.M., E.D.T., NBC-TV). Reading Room: Children from Stamford, Connecticut, schools will Participate in a discussion of Peggy Bacon’s book “The Good American Witch” (Saturday, October 20, 12:30- 1 P.M., E.D.T., CBS-TV). Discovery ’62: ABC-TV’s new daily late afternoon children’s program, launched October 1, will cover next week such diverse topics as the an- cestry of the piano (Tuesday, Octo- ber 16) and the history of attempts to explore the Arctic and Antarctic Friday. Discovery 62 is aired Mon- day-Friday, 4:30-4:55 p.m., E.D.T. CBS Reports in the current season is presented from 7:30-8:30 P.M. Eastern Time, Wednesday evenings three times a month. A-new guide for teachers has been prepared by NEA’s National Council for the Social Studies and the CBS Television Network. For CBS Reports—Resources for Teach- ers, write Public Information, CBS Telévision Network, 485 Madison Avenue, New York 22. NEA REPORTER Published four times a year in October, December, February, and April by the National Education Association of the United States, 1201 16th St., N.W., Washington 6, D.C. Hazel A. Blanchard President William G. Carr Executive Secretary Frank W. Hubbard... . Assistant Executive Secretary for Information Services Mildred §. Fenner Editor NEA REPORTER is mailed to all NEA members. Application to mail at second- class postage rates is pending at the Washington, D.C., post office. — KINDERGARTEN IS A SPECIAL PLACE: FROM NEA’S NEW FILM, “THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES.” ie Five-Year-Olds and Their Teacher Featured in NEA Documentary More than 300 television stations are expected to air the new NEA docu- mentary film “The Time of Their Lives” during its TV premiere week of October 18-28. Focusing attention on five-year-olds and their teacher happily engrossed in the important, exciting, and purposeful activities of kindergarten, the film has already received an award from the Columbus (Ohio) Film Fes- tival for “excellence of production.” Narrator Alexander Scourby com- ments on what is happening, but the class guides the script. Children and teacher furnish their own dialogue. Like “Summer Harvest,” the first TV film in the 1962-63 series pro- duced by NEA and its affiliated state education associations, “The Time of Their Lives” is also suitable for com- munity and school meetings. For de- tails, write Division of Press and Radio Relations, NEA, 1201 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washington 6, D. C. Golden Key Film The U.S. Information Agency has decided to distribute world-wide through its offices in all quarters of the globe NEA film, already seen on television in this country, of the story of Emma Belle Sweet and Ralph Bunche, 1962 Golden Key recipients. Fall Schedules Set for Science Conferences The National Science Teachers As- sociation, an NEA department, has scheduled a series of five conferences throughout the country as part of its nationwide drive to improve the teach- ing of science to all school children and to upgrade the science curriculum in all grades from kindergarten through high school. The schedule for the upcoming regional conferences is as follows: October 25-27, Atlanta, Georgia; Oc- tober 26-27, San Diego, California; October 26-27, Montana State Uni- versity, Missoula; November 2-3, Uni- versity of Washington, Seattle; and No- vember 9-10, Kansas City, Missouri. The nationwide drive will also be a topic of discussion at NSTA’s 11th Annual National Convention, March 29-April 2, 1963, in Philadelphia. TV Award Winner Dropout Project Aids Wide Area In Two Years NEA’s project on School Dropout, now beginning its second year, has provided consultative services to at least five states, UNESCO, the U.S. Office of Education, and numerous cities and counties, according to Daniel Schreiber, Project director. The State of Washington is now engaged in a study of dropout prob- lems, Mr. Schreiber said. Florida, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania have studies in the planning stage, and New Hampshire made a study over the past summer. In each state, he said, the services of NEA’s Dropout Project were requested and given, The governor of Kentucky, Bert T. Combs, recently stressed the impor- tance of combating dropout in that state by issuing a proclamation nam- ing 1962-63 as “Stay-In-School Year.” The proclamation said, in part, that the governor urged “all citizens and organizations to acquaint them- selves with the non-enrollment and dropout problems of their schools. The NEA Dropout Project assisted UNESCO with one part of its study of school services, and the Project di- rector served as a consultant for the U.S. Office of Education’s new book- let on pupil accounting. On December 2 through 4, the Project is planning a symposium on school dropout problems, About 30 consultants have been invited to de- liver papers or to offer suggestions at the meeting. Bernard Kaplan, formerly coordi- nator of Project Able for the New York State Education Department, is now assistant Project director. QUOTE FROM IDEA BA- ZAAR at the NEA Denver Convention: I belong to the NEA because in this democratic organization I count—-and the times demand that we stand and be counted. —Helen A. Kraus (New York) AHE’s “Meet the Professor” Returns to Air Next Month Meet the Professor, the award-win- ning television series produced by the Public Affairs Office of ABC News in cooperation with NEA’s Association for Higher Education, returns to the air at 1:30 p.m. E.S.T. Sunday, No- vember 11. A professor-turned-Sena- tor, Gale W. McGee (D.-Wyo.), will be featured. Senator McGee formerly was professor of American history and chairman of the Institute of Interna- tional Affairs, University of Wyoming. The November 11 program, in a departure from the format of Meet the Professor during its first two years, was shot on location in Senator Mc- Gee’s Capitol Hill office, at his Bethes- da, Maryland, home, and on the Uni- versity of Wyoming campus. In the program, the Senator dis- cusses issues in higher education with Senators Paul H. Douglas (D.-IIL.), Eugene J. McCarthy (D.-Minn.), and John G. Tower (R.-Tex.) in a Senate dining room coffee break, comments on the relative values in teaching and government service, confers with his office staff, and conducts a subcom- mittee hearing with Senator Clifford P. Case (R.-N.J.), Senator Alan Bible (D.-Nev.), and Teodoro Moscoso, assistant administrative U.S. coordina- tor of the Alliance for Progress. Meet the Professor won the 1962 School Bell Award “for distinguished interpretation of education on national television.” This year’s 26-program eee series will introduce different profes- sors in various disciplines from col- leges and universities throughout the United States every Sunday afternoon, A radio version of Meet the Pro- fessor will be broadcast by ABC later each Sunday. Be CORE py DISCUSSING ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION during the televising of the first program of this year’s “Meet the Professor” series (to be seen November 11, on ABC, 1:30 P.M. ES.T.) are: (left to right) SENATORS EUGENE J. McCARTHY, Minnesota; GALE W. McGEE, Wyoming; PAUL H. DOUGLAS, Illinois; ond JOHN G. TOWER, Texas. ian ae Medek Aen AR a yea SNARE PAE PSY OS 8 MAN ET DATE RD Oe PRES. ase om, 2 XE ¥ MARY ANDERSON (center), teacher-legislator of Nashville, Tennessee, and former chairman of the Citizenship Committee of the Davidson County Education Council, tells guests at an NEA Citizen- ship Committee luncheon at NEA Center about the citizenship activities in her area. Listening ore (left) ANNE J. McCLENAGHAN, Fauquier County Education Association, Warrenton, Virginia, and MARY MARSHALL, Citizenship Committee, Kentucky State Education Department. Kentucky Congress PTA, and staff member of the Teacher-Legislator Lauds NEA Citizenship Group “The NEA Citizenship Committee said, ‘Build a Platform,’ so we did and organized to work.” Thus Mary Anderson, Nashville, Tennessee, a teacher who has been elected a representative to the State Legislature, describes the impetus given to the organization of citizenship activities in her area, With three of her co-workers, Mrs. Anderson, former chairman of-the Citizenship Committee of Davidson County’s Education Coun- cil, attended the 17th National Con- ference on Citizenship in Washington, where she was a guest of the NEA TELEVISION TEACHING ... (Continued from page 2, column 4) given a special contract covering his television service. Such a contract re- tains for him certain professional rights such as those described above and/or entitles him to share in profits obtained from the sale or rental of the program to other school districts or educational institutions, or television. stations. Unless rights and privileges are ex- pressly reserved by contract prior to broadcast, the TV teacher may find that he has no claim to further pro- gram rights. Free Flow of Ideas Every effort should be made in contractual arrangements, program production, and the like, to continue the free flow of ideas which constitutes the basis of education. In view of the fact that the total program in educational television is still in an early stage of development and that the experience of school districts in this area is still limited, and in view of the rapid expansion and change in the status of utiliza- tion of this medium for classroom instructional purposes, contractual ar- rangements should not be for long- term agreement purposes, but rather open for continued reconsideration and re-evaluation so as not to be un- duly binding or restrictive on either party to the contract. Citizenship Committee at luncheon September 18. The success story of the Education Council’s Citizenship Committee, she told the luncheon group, began with the formation of the Council in 1959 by four teacher associations of Nash- ville and Davidson County. Officers of the teacher groups serve as_ the 24-member board of directors. Projects of the Committee to date have included: @ On two consecutive years, spon- sored an education booth at the city and county fair, demonstrating the use of voting machines and collecting valuable data on public opinion about key educational issues. © Formed teams in each election ward with a team leader to disseminate information about the platforms of candidates. ® Set up a Citizenship Action Com- mittee workshop. @ Joined with city and county civic organizations to sponsor eleven meet- ings to explain a proposed new charter on metropolitan government. Succeeding Mrs. Anderson as chair- man of the Committee is the vice- chairman, Nancy Douglas. aces IT SPEAKS TO THE PUBLIC THRU... * NEWS RELEASES - PRESS CONFERENCES NCATE Accredits 385 U.S. Institutions Three hundred and eighty-five colleges and universities—institutions which prepare approximately 75 percent of all new American teachers are now ac- credited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and are included in NCATE’s Ninth Annual List issued this month. NEA is one of the five constituent organizations of NCATE, appointing six of the 19 Council members. The American Association of Col- leges for Teacher Education (an NEA department) and NEA’s National Com- mission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards were instru- mental in establishing NCATE in 1954. Both NEA groups continue to provide financial and professional sup- port for NCATE’s work. NCATE added 24 institutions to the list of those accredited in 1961-62. During the same period, 43 institutions were reaccredited. During 1962-63, 90 additional institutions are sched- uled to be evaluated by NCATE—21 are requesting initial accreditation and 69 are asking for reaccreditation. Commenting on the progress made since the founding of NCATE, Don Davies, NCTEPS executive secretary, said: “The development of an effective national voluntary accrediting pro- gram in teacher education must be placed near the top of the significant events in American education during the past decade. CLASSROOM TEACHERS... (Continued from page 1, column 4) and make recommendations for re- visions of Guidelines for Evaluation of Classroom Teachers, a publication developed cooperatively by NEA’s Re- search Division and the NEA Office of Professional Development and Wel- fare. “This document,” the Depart- ment report said, “has been designed as a constructive approach to the problem of evaluation of classroom teachers, and hence needs careful evaluation itself.” The Department’s fourth project is the preparation of a filmstrip which will interpret the role of classroom teachers in the NEA program. The filmstrip will stress the Department’s role as a constructive force in the support and motivation of the NEA program and will portray the image of the classroom teacher and the role of DCT in proper perspective, accord- ing to the Department report. The Department’s regular 1962-63 program will place major emphasis on teacher welfare and will include at least seven aspects: @ The problem of professional negotiations will be studied at the IS YOUR VOICE RTT REE -REPORTS AND PROGRAMS ‘FILMS AND TV SPOTS ‘ AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK ft E FC ng os ee - administrators, “During the past five years,” he added, “29 states have recognized graduation from an NCATE-accred- ited teacher education program as the basis for issuing licenses to teach to out-of-state applicants. Other states are considering adopting this policy. This means that we are well on our way toward a realistic national system of reciprocity in the issuance of li- censes. Achievement of national reci- procity based on graduation from na- tionally accredited programs will be a historic landmark in the history of American education.” Dr. Davies pointed out that NCTEPS is urging teachers and ad- ministrators at all levels to become informed about the objectives, stand- ards, and procedures of NCATE. “Every teacher and school adminis- trator has a major stake in the national accreditation program because _ this program is having an important im- pact on the education of teachers, and other educators from the baccalaureate through the doctoral level,” he said. Classroom Teachers National Study Conference on November 23-24. ® The Department will step up its promotion of its project on conditions of work for classroom teachers and administrators. ® DCT will continue to work with NEA salary consultants on publication of Salary Guidelines and will cooper- ate in publishing a handbook for pro- fessional negotiations for salaries. ® Several workshops, some spon- sored by local: associations and others by the Department at its regional con- ferences, will involve many DCT members in the evaluation of ma- terials designed to help the individual teacher prepare for retirement. @ The Department will step up its service to classroom teachers in urban areas. ® The Department will continue to promote cooperative involvement of the American Association of School Administrators, the National School Boards Associations, and DCT in the problem of identification and recog- nition of teacher competence. ® Finally, the Department — will, through its regional conferences, di- rectly involve many classroom teach- ers in all of its activities. NEA POSITION ... (Continued from page 2, column 4) policies, the Association could support the provisions in § 1241 but not those in HR 8900. The Association and cooperating professional and civic groups asked that HR 8900 be re- committed to the Conference Com- mittee. The bill was recommitted on September 20. “The NEA was chartered by Con- gress,” Dr. Carr reminded the Board, “to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of education in the United States. Under the Association’s official policies HR 8900 could not be approved. Within these policies, the Association will continue to work for the improvement of education at all levels.” See Story On Page 2 Classroom Teachers Discuss Negotiation = === == > mem!’ dh S mi a SS. rm | Ba’ /e = Te 2) go) P24 Be = =] F*: © 2.522 2 Be a se = = aS SSeS es SSS_CSS aay SS DSS EPS e_—_ es PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION VOL. 1, NO. 2 DECEMBER 7, 1962 WASHINGTON, D. C. To All NEA Members... WHEN THE 88TH CON- GRESS of the United States convenes on January 9, 1963, some changes will have taken place as a result of the Con- gressional elections of Novem- ber 1962. In general, there is ground for reasonable optimism regarding the attainment of the legislative objectives of the Na- tional Education Association. In the Senate, the NEA con- cept of federal support of public education should have relatively smooth sailing. Even in the more conserva- tive House of Representatives, the outlook for federal aid to education is somewhat brighter than it was two years ago. House Speaker John W. Mc- Cormack announced after the elections, “We came out with a net loss of four seats, but the progressive influence on the 88th Congress will be greater than in the 87th In the field of aid to education I am confident we will get some legis- lation at this time.” The NEA, as the nation’s larg- est professional organization, will encourage Republicans and Democrats alike to move, at the earliest possible time in the 88th Congress, to enact legislation to assist the public schools and colleges. Therefore, I ask you— and every NEA member—to contact your two Senators, your Congressman, and _ President Kennedy, on or about January 10, 1963 and make known to them your attitude about na- tional support for strengthening the nation’s schools. An outpouring of 813,000 letters, telegrams, or telephone calls would virtually assure that federal aid to education—the paramount domestic issue facing this great nation—would re- ceive prompt attention by the Congress. The voices of NEA members —of all Americans, for that mat- ter—must be heard. If they re- main silent there will be no proper Congressional considera- tion of the vital issue of federal aid to education. The need for action is great and immediate. As an NEA member, as a responsible citi- zen, as a leader in your com- munity, you should act now to improve the whole of American education. ena de Seceen WILLIAM G, CARR EXECUTIVE SECRETARY NEA Conference on Programed Instruction, Open to All, To Precede 1963 Convention Plans were announced this week for a National Conference on the Selection and Use of Programed Instruction to be held in Detroit June 26, 27, and 28—immediately before the 1963 NEA Convention. The conference will be directed by NEA’s Division of Audiovisual Instructional Service and will be financed in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, According to Lawrence G. Der- thick, NEA assistant executive sec- retary for educational services, the summer conference is being planned for elementary and secondary school teachers and will also be of interest to supervisors, administrators, and teach- er education personnel. To be held in Rackham Hall adjoining the Wayne State University Campus, the confer- ence will be open to all interested edu- cators. Anna L. Hyer, director of NEA’s Division of Audiovisual Instructional Service, said that between 400 and 500 are expected to attend. Preregis- tration information about the con- ference will be available soon from the Division, she added. Dr. Hyer also said that a sound filmstrip and handbook on programed instruction will be made available to those who attend the conference. Dr. Derthick said that a grant of $50,000 from the Carnegie Corpora- (See NEA CONFERENCE, page 4, column 3) Public Education Responsible for U.S. School Officers Told; Blanchard, Carr “Public education, more than anything else, has made it possible for these United States to attain their present position of eminence.’ ’ With these words, Maine Commissioner of Education Warren G: Hill, representing the American Association of School Administrators, de- Action Reminder To NEA members wanting to par- ticipate in the nationwide drive urged by Dr, Carr in his column at left, the NEWS suggests that you clip Dr. Carr’s column to your calendar page of January 9, 1963, as a reminder. Also, please inform the NEA Divi- sion of Federal Relations which members of Congress you contacted, NEA Membership Moves Well Above November 29 Total Shows 573,461 on Rolls, 25,000 Margin On November 29 membership in NEA stood at 573,461, an increase of nearly 25,000 over last year’s member- ship on that date, the NEA Member- ship Division announced. Two states, Nevada and Washing- ton, have surpassed their 1964 Cam- paign Goals. (Last year it was Decem- ber 7 before any state reached its 1964 goal.) Nevada’s enrollment is 110 per- cent of, her last year's total; Washing- ton’s, 108 percent. Seven other states are beyond their last year’s total membership, though not yet over their 1964 goals: Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Ne- braska, Oklahoma, and Vermont. The state with the largest number of NEA members at present is Cali- fornia, with 34,000. Ohio shows the largest gain, with 8,400 more NEA members than it had reported by this date a year ago. Nine states have al- ready enrolled more than 20,000 mem- bers each: California, Illinois, Towa, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington. scribed his concept of the role of pub- lic education in America to chief state school officers and their representa- tives from 44 states and territories at a recent meeting of the Council of Chief State School Officers in Mjami Beach, . “Our public schools are not per- fect,” Dr. Hill told the school officers. “Nor are all children perfect. Nor can the public schools make all chil- dren perfect. But there is no greater ogee December 1 TE Total 812,497 765 616 Comparative NEA Membership December 1 and End of Year Eminence Today, Talk at Meeting or more positive force in this country than the public schools—guardians of our culture, wellsprings of patriot- ism and proficiency, and generators of competency, humaneness, and accom- plishment.” Three other NEA speakers at the meeting, held November 18-23, were NEA President Hazel A. Blanchard, NEA Executive Secretary William G. Carr, and Richard I. Miller, associate director of the NEA Project on In- struction, President Blanchard, speaking on Thanksgiving evening, reminded the (See SCHOOL OFFICERS, page 4, column 2) Half Million Mark Urban Membership Reaches New High For Time of Year As of November 21, urban NEA memberships totaled 101,308—a new high in urban membership for this time of the year. Of the 166 large urban districts included in the urban group, 92 had exceeded their achievements as of the same date last year and 28 had exceeded their total 1961-62 mem- berships. Of the 28 urban districts currently in the lead on membership growth, Minneapolis led all the rest. As of November 21, Minneapolis had a gain of almost 600 over last year’s total and the drive is still on. Horace M. Mayo, City of Minne- apolis Education Association president, noted that this membership growth is particularly gratifying since CMEA adopted unified dues effective this year. He also credited membership growth to the combined efforts of past and present local, state, and NEA leaders and consultants, the outstanding job done by building representatives, and CMEA’s expanded program. RE RS AES, TCS SR UR te eee REE, oe RS RTE te RT ea IES f 55 Classroom Teacher Delegates Focus on Professional Negotiation Representatives from All Sections of Nation Meet at NEA Center Why is professional negotia- tion machinery necessary if a school system is already provid- ing fine benefits and good work- ing conditions? T. M. Stinnett, NEA assistant executive secretary for pro- fessional development and _ welfare, answered this question at the Class- room Teachers National Study Con- ference at NEA Center November 23 and 24. “The answer to that question is this,” Dr. Stinnett told the 55 dele- gates. “However generous and benev- olent unilateral decision making may be, it still falls short of the stimula- tive power of involvement. It still has something of the debilitating effect of a kind of paternalism.” The conferees also heard Robbins W. Barstow, Jr., director of field service for the Connecticut Education Association, who said: “Much as we might wish it were so, we cannot unilaterally resolve professional nego- tiations into being. We have to go out and win these rights.” The 55 delegates to the sessions, which were sponsored by the NEA Department of Classroom Teachers, exchanged ideas on the effective imple- mentation of professional negotiations, the use of sanctions, and the roles of the professional association, the super- intendent, and the school board in negotiation. The classroom teachers heard pres- entations from Eugene M. Peshel, president of the San Diego Teacher Association; James J. Forcellina, pres- ident of the Norwalk (Connecticut) Teachers Association; S. Herbert Star- key, director of research for the New Jersey Education Association; and Morris Beider, president, Ferndale (Michigan) Education Association. Noting that participants had been nominated by state presidents of de- partments of classroom teachers, Rita Jacoby, DCT president, charged them to share the knowledge gained at the conference with all the teachers in their states. “Establish a preventative measure—good human relations,” she George Campbell photo PROFESSIONAL NEGOTIATION AND THE USE OF SANCTIONS were topics when 55 classroom teacher leaders from all sections of the United States met at NEA Center November 23 and 24. At the discussion group meetings, such as the one shown here, delegates debated these topics from their various points of view. NEA Academically Talented Project Schedules More Big-City Workshops NEA’s Project on the Academically Talented Student has co- operatively worked with at least eight NEA departments and sev- eral non-NEA professional organizations in developing 14 publica- tions, has conducted programs in 11 of America’s largest cities, and has issued publications that have reached nearly half a million people. In addition, according to Project Director Charles E. Bish, four more large cities have scheduled workshops that will be conducted by the Project. They are: Miami (January 7-11), Honolulu (January 21-25), Dallas (February 25-March 1), and Tucson (March 4-8). Dr. Bish estimated that 15,000 educators have attended the 13 big- city workshops already held in Cleve- land, Akron, Pittsburgh, Boston, Syracuse, Chicago (Southside), At- lanta, Seattle, Los Angeles (city and told them. “Realize that there are others in the educational picture who have a role to play, too. If we meet on a common ground, we will not have to put into action the corrective measures, because we shall have suc- cessfully used the preventative ones.” county), San Francisco, Detroit, and Chicago. (Northside). Typical programs in these cities, Dr. Bish said, involve teachers, principals, superintendents, supervisors, counse- lors, librarians, psychologists, and others. The Project’s major publications have dealt with identification and education of the academically tal- ented, administrative procedures for the talented, guidance for the talented, and with the academically talented in the following subject areas: mathe- matics, English, foreign languages, social studies, music, art, business education, and elementary education. In addition, a publication on research on the talented and an annotated bib- liography on the academically talented have been issued. The Project, now four years old, is financed by NEA and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Income Tax Break Gained For Retirees NEA organizations interested in teacher retirement cooperated this year with other groups of public employees to encourage passage of HR 6371, which more nearly equalizes the tax treatment of retired persons’ income by the fed- eral government. Newell Walters, NEA consultant on teacher welfare, noted that the National Council on Teacher Retire- ment (NEA), the National Retired Teachers Association (NEA), and the NEA Division of Federal Legisla- tion worked with the National Confer- ence on Public Emplovee Retirement Systems, the Fraternal Order of Po- lice, the International Association of Firefighters, and the American Asso- ciation of Retired Persons to secure passage of the bill. “The teachers of the nation owe much to these cooperating groups,” Mr. Walters said. “In addition, the members of the House Ways and Means. Committee and the Senate Finance Committee were most helpful. The Democratic Policy Committee was of assistance in steering the legis- lation; the Republican leadership was essential, for without it the bill would never have gotten out of committee. Senators Byrd and Kerr and Repre- sentatives Mills and Mason were among the leaders to whom we are grateful,” The new law boosts from $240 to $304.80 the maximum direct credit against taxes that can be claimed on retirement income. Most people have to be 65 to qualify, but a retiree get- ting paid under a public retirement system can apply the credit against his pension income prior to age 65. Ruth Little, Former Assistant Editor of NEA Journal, Dies Ruth Coyner Little, assistant edi- tor of the NEA Journal from 1945 to 1955, died of a heart attack Novem- ber 24 while attending the national convention of social studies teachers in Philadelphia. At the time of her death Dr. Little was editorial direc- tor of elementary school publications of Wesleyan University. HOW THE ELEMENTARY-SCHOOL TEACHER DIVIDES THE WEEK (Average work week of 48 hours, 30 minutes) Class instruction, 29 hrs., 30 min, Correcting papers—3 hrs., 54 min. Preparing materials—3 hrs., 42 min. Personal preparation—2 hrs., 30 min. Individual help—54 min. 54 min. Parent contacts— Monitorial duties—2 hrs., 54 min. Records and reports—1 hr., 54 min. Official meetings—~48 min. Other—1 hr., 30 min. Miscellaneous, 7 hrs., 6 min. ee Related out-of-class instructional activities, 11 hrs., 54 min. NEA Research Division HOW THE HIGH-SCHOOL TEACHER DIVIDES THE WEEK (Average work week of 45 hours, 54 minutes) Class instruction, 23 hrs., 36 min. Correcting papers—4 hrs., 54 min. Personal preparation—3 hrs., 30 min. Preparing materials—2 hrs., 30 min. Individual help— 1 hr., 36 min. Parent contacts—48 min. Study halls—1 hr., 48 min, Monitorial duties—1 hr., 30 min, Records and report cards—1 hr., 30 min. Coaching athletics—54 min. Sponsoring clubs, pupil activities—54 min. Official meetings—48 min. Other—1 hr., 36 min. BeES4 Miscellaneous, 9 hrs. Related out-of-class instructional activities, 13 hrs., 18 min. 19.6% NEA Research Division THESE TWO CHARTS, based on information gathered by the NEA Research Division, present some of the preliminary findings of a study of teaching load in 1960-61, The charts, along with some description of teaching load, appeared in the October 1962 NEA Research Bulletin, Further details on the study of teaching load will be published in a Research Monograph now in preparation, to be titled The American Public-School Teacher (Personal and Professional Characteristics, As- signments, Attitudes). CURRENT What's Going On in TV, Radio, Press, Films, and National Magazines Television Spaceship “Mariner II” is due to pass Venus December 14. The fol- lowing day Albert Hibbs, host on NBC-TV’s Exploring, will discuss the spacecraft, its instruments, and the experiments it carried out. Other seg- ments of the December 15 edition of Exploring include an original story based on the first balloon flight, re- peat of an original football ballet, and a math feature on the principle of Overlapping sets. (Saturdays, 12:30- 1 p.M., E.S.T., NBC-TV.) Edward Teller, University of Cali- fornia at Berkeley, and Professor Fred Hoyle, Cambridge University, will be among the world’s leading scientists interviewed next Wednesday on a CBS Reports program titled “109 Days to Venus.” (December 12, 7:30-8:30 P.M., E.S.T., CBS-TV.) ABC-TV’s Discovery ’62 will cover the following topics during the week of December 10-14: a visit to the Arctic on Monday, how to use a dic- tionary on Tuesday, pointers on ice skating on Wednesday, unusual birds and ducks on Thursday, and a visit with Miccosukie Indians in the Florida Everglades on Friday (4:30-4:55 PM, E.S.T:). Reading Room has invited children from the Princeton, New Jersey, schools to participate in a discussion of James Dugan’s book,. “Undersea Explorer (Captain Cousteau)” next Saturday, December 15, 12:30-1 P.M., E.S.T. CBS-TV. Magazines (December) According to the December For- tune, “College Football Has Become a Losing Business.” The article sug- gests three solutions. Saturday. Review's education sup- plement dated December 15 (on sale the 11th)-has an editorial by Paul Woodring on “The New U.S. Com- missioner of Education,” Francis Keppel. Other SR articles include “Educa- tional Research: Investigation or Vindication?” by Geraldine M. Jon- cich, assistant professor of education at the University of California at Santa Barbara; “Colleges Can Operate All Year,” a four-part feature out- lining various quarter and tri-semester systems; “Why Clea Can’t Write” (details in a teacher’s life); and the “Movers and Shapers of Education,” Segment which features Calvin Gross, new superintendent of the New York City schools. NEA REPORTER Published four times a year in October, December, February, and April by the National Education Association of the United States, 1201 16th St., N.W., Washington 6, D.C. Hazel A. Blanchard William G. Carr.... President Executive Secretary Frank W. Hubbard.... Assistant Executive Secretary for Information Services Mildred S. Fenner Editor NEA REPORTER is mailed to all NEA members. Annual subscription price (in- cluded in membership dues and available only as a part of membership), 20 cents. Application to mail at second-class post- ge rates is pending at the Washington, D.C., post office. PARTICIPANTS on an NEA Educational Travel Tour visit Chinese opera stars in Taipei, Taiwan, Spirited Discussions Are Forie of Professor rags a ao © reerennes Gi fee KAane te Lists Requirements For Certification Among the NEA units which col- lect and publish information to help members seeking initial or new place- ment information is the National Com- mission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards. Teacher place- ment services are provided by some of the state education associations. A Manual on Certification Require- ments for School Personnel in the United States, published in alternate years by the TEPS Commission, gives certification requirements for all teach- ing positions in the 50 states, the Dis- trict of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, includes information about teaching positions in the Overseas Dependents Schools and other assignments abroad, and has a listing of teacher placement agencies in the respective states. (Price is $4.00. from NEA Publica- tion-Sales. It is also available in the libraries of teacher education colleges and universities and in the libraries of many local school systems. ) The Commission also publishes A Tabular Summary of Certification Re- quirements (free upon request). 1962-63 NEA Theme — “A Great Profession: Ours by Choice” Manual by NCTEPS ECONOMICS PROFESSOR CHARLES F. PHIL- LIPS, Jr. (left), of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, will be featured on Meet the Professor Sunday, December 9, 1:30 P.M. E.S.T. on ABC-TY. The program will be broad- cast on ABC radio at 3 P.M. E.S.T. the same day. In his university classrooms, Professor Phillips encourages spirited discussion. The Meet the Professor series is produced by the Public Affairs Department of ABC News in cooperation with NEA‘s Association for Higher Education. Twenty Experts To Attend NEA Elementary Conference Twenty education experts from throughout the United States have been invited by the NEA Department of Elementary-Kindergarten-Nursery Education to participate in a special Conference on Elementary Education January 11-13 at NEA Center, ac- cording to Ethel Thompson, EKNE staff liaison. The group, along with NEA staff expérts meeting with them, will prepare a statement on elementary education that will be published as a leaflet by EKNE. ECHO VALLEY ‘ Re Ai 7 ew.) " IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE HEARD...JoIN NEA NEA Travel Can Lead to World View “The domestic scene viewed from the schoolroom window can shift to a world view for persons who participate in the educational travel program of the NEA next summer,” Paul Kinsel, director of the NEA Division of Educational Travel, said in a re- cent interview. Groups of educators traveling under NEA sponsorship dur- ing the coming year will visit 112 countries, touching on all the con- tinents but Antarctica. “This statement of an NEA travel participant,” he said, “spotlights the purpose of the travel program: ‘T learned much about the people and the country in a relatively short peri- od of time, which was the result of planning.’ ” Careful advance planning, Mr. Kin- sel pointed out, a world-wide network of advisory personnel, and group lead- ership by experienced educators are methods used by the Division in achieving this purpose. The 1963 educational travel pro- gram of the NEA, described in the folder ‘Windows on the World” (available from the Travel Division at NEA Center), includes projects in Europe, the United States and Canada, Russia, Africa, around the world, the Pacific Area, and Latin America. Reservations at Trail Lake Ranch in Wyoming and the Washing- ton-United Nations Seminar have again been scheduled. Academic credit may be earned for participation in many projects. Economy travel by bicycle and Volkswagen bus will be offered for the first time and will be available for as little as $498, including trans- Atlantic air transportation. "% . ; RT RII TS Moana vac? Ne iN wat 1962 AEW: Center of attraction at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, American Education Week exhibi- tion in November was the tableau (above) representing the superintendent of schools sitting down with the school board. Signs explaining the responsibilities of the superintendent and school board were in place by the time crowds arrived for three nights of touring the more than 100 exhibition booths designed to give citizens a better understanding of their school system. FRANCIS KEPPEL Carr Comments On Appointment Of Dean Keppel On November 24, President Ken- nedy appointed Francis Keppel, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to the post of U.S. Com- missioner of Education. Following the announcement of the appointment, NEA Executive Secretary William G. Carr issued this statement: “I am pleased that a Commissioner of Education has been designated who is fully committed to a sound program of national school legisla- tion as formulated by President Ken- nedy’s 1960 Education Task Force, of which he was a member. “Dean Keppel will receive the full support of the National Education As- sociation in his efforts to secure en- actment of that program of national support for public education which the President has rightly described as the most important item of domestic legislation. “The new commissioner has served the National Education Association on several important national com- mittees. His knowledge of educational needs and problems provides a firm basis for a successful administration of his office. “TI urge members of the profession and of the public without regard to political or other forms of partisanship to give our new commissioner of edu- cation every assistance in advancing the cause of education in the United States.” SCHOOL OFFICERS... (Continued from page 1, column 4) delegates that “among the things we have to be thankful for this evening is the secure status of public educa- tion in America.” She pointed out that “before education entered the relative- ly calm waters on which it sails today, it was necessary to win, during ap- proximately the first century of our existence as a nation, seven major battles” for the schools. Dr. Carr told the school officers about the growth and tasks of the World Confederation of Organiza- tions of the Teaching Profession. Few organizations have shown the remark- able growth in membership (from 27 national organizations to 132, from 27 countries to 78, from a strength of slightly more than two million teachers to four million) experienced by WCOTP, he said. “Its influence continues to grow,” he added. “Its future is inherent in the needs of the teacher for greater professional training, for improved salaries and conditions of work, for more prestige and status, for more freedom of thought and teaching. But above all, its future is also inherent in the determination of the teaching profession to cope with the great obstacles to international understand- ing that exist in all countries—illiter- acy, national parochialism, and bigotry.” Dr. Miller, in his address on “Teaching About Communism in the Public Schools,” made a number of suggestions for improving teaching about communism in the public schools of the United States. NEA President Calls Meeting on Legislation A one-day meeting of heads of national organizations was called by NEA President Blanchard for De- cember 4 at NEA Center to discuss common legislative objectives in terms of the next session of Congress. Participating were representatives from the National Congress of Par- ents and Teachers, Council of Chief State School Officers, Bipartisan Citizens Committee for Federal Aid to Elementary and Secondary Schools, National Committee for the Support of Education, Association of State Colleges and Universities, and Asso- ciation of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. Representatives of several NEA departments also met with the group. 1963 AEW: Representatives of the four national American Education Week sponsors meeting recently at NEA Center to set the dates, general theme, and daily topics for the 1963 American Education Week observance are (left to right) MRS. CLIFFORD N. JENKINS, president, National Congress of Parents and Teachers; ED WIELAND, assistant director, education and scholarship program, Ameri- can Legion; FRANK W. HUBBARD, assistant executive secretary for information services, NEA; and JOHN LLOYD, chief, Reports Section, U.S. Office of Education. Plans Under Way for 1963 American Education Week Even before American Education Week was being observed throughout the nation in November, a group met at NEA Center to formulate plans for next year’s activities. In October, representatives of the four national AEW sponsors met in Washington to set the dates, general theme, and daily topics for the 1963 AEW observance. “Education Strengthens the Na- tion” was selected as the general theme. AEW will be observed Novem- ber 10-16. Among the thousands of American Education Week observances _ this year was an unusual one at Chatta- nooga, Tennessee, where more than 100 exhibition booths, demonstrating Insurance Protection Up 25 % For NEA Policyholders student work at all grade levels and in all subject areas, were set up in the city’s largest field house. Thousands of citizens, who visited the AEW project on each of the three nights it was open, got an_ inside look at Chattanooga education. “Every inch of the field house was filled,” reports Beulah Pennington, AEW chairman for the Chattanooga Education Association. “Every school in the system had some part in pre- paring the exhibition.” Insurance protection for those participating in the NEA Term Life Insurance Plan, as well as for new participants, was increased 25 percent on December 1— with no increase in the member’s con- tributions. “Although this increase was anticipated when the plan TV CONSULTANT FROM UCLA Lawrence E. Vredevoe, professor of education at the University of California at Los Angeles, is representing the NEA as an educational con- sultant to a proposed new television series built around the life of a male high school teacher. A veteran edu- cator of some 34 years’ experience, Dr. Vredevoe has done considerable work in television. He belongs to several pro- fessional organizations associated with NEA, in- American Association of School the American Educational Re- and the National Associa- cluding the Administrators, search Association, tion of Secondary-School Principals. NEA CONFERENCE... (Continued from page 1, column 4) tion will be used “in part to develop the finest possible program for this conference.” He also announced re- lated NEA activities in the area of programed instruction that will be made possible by this assistance from the Carnegie Corporation. He said that a National Symposium on Research in Programed Learning will be convened in Washington early this spring at which the nation’s lead- was initiated,” said Newell Walters, NEA consultant on teacher welfare, “the favorable experience of the group to date further emphasizes what can be done for members of the profession if large numbers join together and participate in programs like the NEA Insurance Plan.” Already more than 75 families and friends of a like number of NEA mem- bers have been assisted by the plan. Claims have been paid in 30 states; more than five claims have been paid in each of five states: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, and California. Death plays no favorites either by location of residence or by age. Of the claims paid to date, one was paid on a participant age 26, another on one age 67. The majority were between 49 and 59. Individuals or local association of- ficers may secure enrollment materials for the plan from the NEA Insurance Trust, Box 888, Newark 1, New Jersey. ing authorities on programed instruc- tion and teaching machines will pre- sent papers, The symposium will be coordinated by Robert Glaser of the University of Pittsburgh, who will also serve as senior editor of a book to be published as a result of the symposium.