VOL. 2; NO. 1 Push for ‘Million or More,’ Says NEA Board NEA ae a I EF eS OR ST ee —— rare ey Speen eae nee tos Lue Fr RPO RTE Mg Ee IE (ME 5 Sa ie pe apacaeen Sern ey 9 tieeetironin ; : PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION To All NEA Members... The NEA belongs to its mem- bers. Your local and state affiliated associations send delegates to the NEA Representative Assem- bly, This Assembly adopts pol- icies in the form of resolutions; it determines the NEA program; it elects the officers; it detérmines the budget. The officers and staff do not select your delegates. This is your responsibility. You identify those who will present your views and express the opinions you want presented. Your repre- sentatives, the local and state delegates, are your voice and your vote. The Representative Assembly, consisting of delegates from all parts of the nation, constitutes the largest and most representa- tive body in any profession. These delegates sometimes dis- agree, but they resolve their dif- ferences. within the American democratic processes. And when these delegates .report back to you, they are fulfilling the obli- gations of true representatives. Issues in the Assembly are settled by informed voting in which each. delegate has one voice and one v and never less, Nor does it mat- ter what his position may be; all are working together to improve the status of the teaching profes- sion and to advance the cause of education. There are other channels of communication. Thousands of members serve on local, state, and national com- mittees and perform scores of other tasks that make the Asso- ciation a vital reality. : ~ Daily the staff receives thou- sands of letters, telegrams, and telephone calls. Advice, suggestions, and_re- quests for help are given thought- ful attention. Members of the staff, when in the field, want to learn about your views and your needs. What they learn modifies program and services. You are the NEA—choose and use your voice and your vote with care. initia A WILLIAM G, CARR EXECUTIVE SECRETARY BAT os = FEBRUARY 22, 1963 Other Board Actions In addition to the actions of the NEA Board of Directors reported elsewhere in this issue, the Board at its February 16-17 meeting: @ Discussed basic guidelines for professional negotiations and_ sanc- tions and authorized the staff to con- tinue to develop working papers, train- ing materials, and publications for ap- proval at the 1963 convention. ® Examined several proposed by- laws dealing with the budget authority of the Board, definitions of local as- sociations, and the authority of the NEA Committee on Professional Ethics in relation to the Code of Eth- ics.. (Members are asked to look for these amendments as published in an upcoming issue of the NEA Journal.) ® Agreed that members should be reminded to keep up their Association membership continuously if they do not meet the new requirements (which are not applied retroactively to those who maintain membership) that, after August 1964, all active members must have a regular teaching certificate and the bachelor’s or a higher degree. WASHINGTON, D. C. Board of Directors Hears Report, Then Urges No Peet be of Ashi eiertidhi Drive Efforts i 43> f =e 300000 wt ak “ee “ mae fF cee pean A Series & OD ee - “ew * TAO tate BY JANUARY 3, the number of NEA members had hit an all-time high of 816,669. By the sec- ond week of February the number of members rose to 834,258. The chart above shows NEA membership trends this year (the top line) and for the past five years, Urgent Advisory from NEA Warns of Problems in U.S. Overseas Schools (See related photo and story on page 4.) NEA has taken steps to inform all U.S. teachers who are consider- ing positions in the Overseas Dependents Schools that serious edu- cational and salary problems exist in these schools. Early this :month, following consultation with officers of the Over- seas Education Association, NEA dis- patched an Urgent Advisory, signed by Executive Secretary William G. Carr, to all state and local affiliates. The Urgent Advisory makes these points: e A comprehensive survey of the Overseas Dependents Schools in the fall of 1962 in general “criticized the schools severely.” ®@ “Teachers in the Overseas De- pendents Schools have not had a sal- ary schedule increase since September 1960.” “Salary Determination Proce- dures,” adopted to carry out a 1959 law (PL 86-91) affecting these schools, have been ignored. The pro- cedures require an annual review and adjustment of salaries to keep them in line with stateside salaries. e “As a group, overseas teachers have lost more than $4 million in the past three years by the failure of the Department of Defense to pay the sal- aries rightfully due them.” @ During the period that teachers’ salaries have stood still, other civilian federal employees have had two pay raises averaging 13 percent. e “The annual teacher resignation rate overseas is over three times the national average.” @ Despite these failings, “the De- partment of Defense asked Congress for a modest increase of less than 2 percent in the funding of its overseas schools for 1963-64.” Executive Committee ‘Shocked’ by Situation On February 15, the NEA Execu- tive Committee adopted the following statement concerning U.S. overseas schools: “The NEA Executive Committee is shocked by the failure of the Defense Department to request the necessary funds to meet the requirements of Public Law 86-91 with regard to over- seas teachers’, salaries. The recent survey of these schools, made at the direction of the Department of De- fense, revealed many serious short- comings in the overseas schools, which require more adequate budget requests and appropriations. “The Executive Committee there- fore reaffirms its concern for over- seas schools and teachers and instructs the staff to exert every possible effort to remedy the situation.” Membership Report Received With Enthusiasm; Late Figures Show 47,945 Lead over 1962 The NEA Board of Directors, at its February 16-17 meeting in Atlantic City, received with enthu- siasm a report of the NEA Field Services and Membership Division staffs and urged that there be no slack- ening of efforts to achieve “A Million or More by ‘64.” The Board mem- bers urged greater effort to achieve that membership figure. The report presented to the Board included numerous examples of out- standing cooperation among local, state, and national leaders working on membership, Several high lights of the report were: @ NEA membership as of February 14, 1963, exceeds the 1962 mid-Feb- ruary figure by nearly 48,000, ® About 20 percent of the national gain this year has been in the Pacific Coast States (including Alaska and Hawaii). ® Another 20 percent of the na- tional gain has been in the Deep South States (from Texas to Florida). ® The move toward: unification of dues has made substantial gains in all parts of the nation, but especially in the Mountain States. ® A special appeal was made for local and state leaders to continue vig- orous: efforts during the next months prior to the summer convention. © A number of states already have exceeded their 1964 membership goals. Others will do so before the 1963 con- vention. NEA membership at the end of the 1961-62 school year was 812,497. By January 31 of this year, that total had been topped by 4,172—enrollment of 816,669 members. was reported. Hearings Planned on Ethics Code Violations The NEA Executive Committee, at its meeting last week, accepted the recommendation of the NEA Com- mittee on Professional Ethics to hold hearings this summer on several cases of alleged flagrant violations of the NEA Code of Ethics. If the charges of code vidlation are substantiated at the hearings, the indi- viduals involved may be censured, suspended, or excluded. from Associa- tion membership, INSIDE THE REPORTER Legislative Commission chairman calls for action. New NEA insurance plan offers more benefits. Classroom Teachers continue expanded program. AASA offers new travel program for administrators. See page Massachusetts moves toward unified membership. See page See page See page mw Ww tw bo bo See page NEA Leaders Back Comprehensive Program Legislative Chairman Calls Administration Bill ‘Common Ground’ for Obtaining Federal Aid But ‘Hard, Uphill Fight’ Seen; - Members Urged To Write To President, Congressmen The proposed National Edu- cation Improvement Act “does not include all proposals which have long been sought by the NEA, or by other major education or- ganizations. The program does have great virtue, however, in affording a common ground for support among the many national education organiza- tions.” This comment, by NEA Leg- islative Commission Chairman Howard Sackett, was made after a Commission meeting in Washington, February 9-10. Encouraging Testimony “Testimony before the House Com- mittee on Education and Labor during ee The following policy state- ment, recommended by the Legis- | lative Commission, was approved by the NEA Board of Directors last week: “The National Education As- sociation believes that the inter- ests of public education will best be served by permanent, broad purpose, Federal financial sup- port rather than by limited - emergency aids for special pur- poses. However, in view of the crisis in financing education, the NEA will support those pro- posals providing financial aids for special programs that are sound - educationally and are otherwise consistent with NEA policy. Therefore, we urge the Congress to exert every effort to advance the comprehensive pro- gram for education. “The Association’s policy will be carefully interpreted and its position made clear on specific details of the proposal at appro- priate times.” a A A SRY the week of February 4 in support of the comprehensive program was most encouraging. The American Council on Education, the National Education As- sociation, and others went on record in favor of the comprehensive ap- proach,” Mr. Sackett said. Chairman Sackett elaborated: “Now that we have won agreement, at least on fundamentals, from most of the ed- ucational organizations, the individual members of those organizations must generate support for the program on Capitol Hill. We face a hard, uphill legislative fight—a fight which will re- quire the full support of the more than 800,000 NEA members. _ Must Prevent ‘Untying’ “Indications are that the opponents of federal aid to education will try to untie this comprehensive education package. ‘Untying’ must be prevented at all cost. For, if the comprehensive program is divided into separate bills, the American education community will be right back where it started. “Therefore,” Mr. Sackett empha- sized, “I urge every member of the Na- tional Education Association to write his Congressman and President Ken- nedy to tell them of his support for the comprehensive approach to federal ; school legislation,” Education Improvement Act Would Include Federal Aid for Public Schools at All Levels The National Education Im- provement Act (HR 3000-S 580) would provide aid for schools from 'the elementary through the postgraduate level. President Ken- nedy said the program constitutes a “selective application of federal aid— aimed at strengthening, not weakening, the independence of existing school systems and aimed at meeting our most urgent education problems and objectives.” He called the program “greatly realistic” in cost and essen- tial to the growth and security of the nation. The National Education Improve- ment Act provides: construction and teacher salary aid for public elementary and secondary schools; loans for aca- demic facility construction for public and private colleges; grants for con- struction of public junior colleges, public and private nonprofit college libraries, and graduate schools; a series of student loans and financial aid plans; plus other aid for teacher education and adult education. Most of the proposals would run for three years, although some would extend to four or five years. $5.2 Billion Total If the amounts requested for first year appropriations are projected for the number of years proposed, the ap- propriations total over five years would come to $5.2 billion. New obligation authority is estimated at $1,215,000,- 000 for the first year and actual ex- penditures at $143,600,000. (See EDUCATION ACT, page 4, column 1) Unified Code of Ethics Offered to Members A new, unified Code of Ethics for the Education Profession will be pre- sented for the consideration of the 1963 NEA Representative Assembly. The NEA Board of Directors, at its meeting in Atlantic City February 16- 17, approved consideration of the code by the Assembly. Walter F. Snyder, chairman of tHe NEA Committee on Professional Ethics, expressed gratification for the Board action and said that he hoped all NEA members would study the draft of the new code when it appears in the NEA Journal this spring. THE MANY ROLES of NEA and the Department of Classroom Teachers in advancing the interests of teachers are illustrated in this frame from the new DCT filmstrip, Tieline to Progress, now available. Department of Classroom Teachers Pushes Expanded Welfare Program; Negotiations Workshops Scheduled The NEA Department of Classroom Teachers has scheduled two workshops on professional negotiations and has released a filmstrip, TieLine to Progress, on the role of the Department. These actions are part of the expanded DCT welfare program launched last October. Copies of TieLine to Progress, a 15- minute, full-color, 35mm _filmstrip, have been made available to presi- dents of state departments of class- room teachers, executive secretaries and field service personnel of state education associations, and NEA di- rectors. Additional copies of the film- strip, with its tape-recorded narration, may be borrowed from DCT on a first- come, first-served basis as long as supplies last. TieLine to Progress may bé pur- chased directly from the NEA Publi- cations Sales Section ($5, Stock No. 118-03750). The filmstrip was pre- pared by the NEA Publications Divi- sion. A preview of the filmstrip was ap- plauded enthusiastically by the NEA Executive Committee and Board of Directors and the DCT Executive Committee and Advisory Council during the convention of the American Association of School Administrators in Atlantic City February 16-20. The two workshops on professional negotiations, set for next month, will be invitational. They will follow up the Round-Table Conference on Teacher- Administrator-School Board Relations and the Classroom Teachers National Study Conference on Professional Ne- gotiations, both held last November. One workshop will be held March 15-16 in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is being cosponsored by the NEA’s DCT and the Arkansas Department of Class- room Teachers, in cooperation with the Arkansas Education Association, Approximately 100 persons, in- cluding classroom teachers, adminis- trators, and school-board members, are expected to participate. T. M. Stinnett, NEA assistant executive sec- retary for professional development and welfare, will address the group. The second workshop, being co- sponsored by DCT and the NEA De- partment of Elementary School Princi- pals, will take place on March 30 in Oklahoma City. NEA’s special as- sistant for urban affairs, Allan M. West, will be the keynote speaker. Plans for a, third workshop are under way. in the NEA Journal this spring. _negotiations, set for next month, will under way, New NEA Expanded Coverage Life Insurance Offered A new life insurance plan, offering twice as much coverage as the present plan, will be added to the NEA group program on April 1. The expanded coverage is a result of favorable experience with the original plan to date. The new plan provides: @ Life insurance coverage of $10,- 000 for members under age 50, $5,000 for members from 50-59, and $3,000 for those from 60-69. e A guaranteed monthly income, for a period of 48 months when total disability prevents a teacher from working, of $100 for those under age 50, and $50 for those from 50-59, after a specified waiting period. @ An accidental death benefit. The semiannual cost is $9.10 for teachers under 30 and $22.60 for those 30 and over. The original plan has been revised to include a disability income benefit, By April 1, all NEA members should receive a brochure explaining the new NEA insurance plan in detail. ES and premiums for members under age 30 have been reduced by 60 percent. T. M. Stinnett, NEA assistant executive secretary for professional development and welfare, commenting on the expanded service, said: “We are especially gratified that the first year’s experience with the NEA insur- ance program permits these added services to members because it Te- flects wise, conservative planning by the NEA Insurance Trust. “I urge those who have not already enrolled to do so promptly, for the newly added disability income benefit does not take effect until one year after enrollment.” Details of the new insurance pro- gram, along with enrollment forms, will appear in thé March issue of the NEA Journal, OO CURRENT What's Going On in TV, Radio, Press, Films, and National Magazines Television During the week of February 25- March 1, Discovery ’63 will examine nocturnal animals on Monday, French Canada on Tuesday, Forest Indians on Wednesday, Plains Indians on Thursday, and astronomy on Friday (4:30-4:55 P.M. E.S.T., ABC-TV). Reading Room has chosen the sci- ence of communication as the theme for its March 2 program. Participants will discuss Bill Severn’s “Story of the Human Voice” (Saturday, 12:30-1 P.M. E.S.T., CBS-TV). On the same day, Exploring will present “The Pied Piper of Hamlin” Narrated by Eli Wallach; the New York Brass Quintet; a segment on mathematics in astronomy; a diorama depiction of the American Revolu- tion’s Battle of Saratoga; Italian songs; and a scientific discussion of purposes (Saturday, March 2, 12:30-1:30 P.M. E.S.T., NBC-TY). Who Goes There?—A Primer on Communism will examine the de- velopment and basic concepts of communism in an hour-long NBC-TV documentary next Friday (March 1, 7:30-8:30 P.M. E.S.T. NBC-TV). Magazines Teaching Career Month (April) gets an early boost from a March Glamour double feature, “The Teach- er’s Priceless World.” “GJamour Goes to School,” a regular feature, looks in on Hawaii’s East-West Center in “The East Meets the West in the U.S.A.’s New Educational Experi- ment.” Family Circle has an article on reading clinics entitled “Help For a Young Reading Rebel.” Ralph Waldo Emerson serves as a point of departure for Samuel Withers’ article in The Freeman, “Emerson in Suburbia.” The March Reader's Digest has four articles of interest; “The Man Who Wouldn't Quit,” by Alex Haley; “Columbia’s Extraordinary Teacher- Builder,” by Scott and Kathleen Seeg- €rs; “Seven Steps Toward Getting a Job,” by James N. Miller; and “The Legacy of Thomas Jefferson,” by Bruce Bliven. Milton J. E. Senn visited the So- Viet Union for his McCall's article, “Child Care in Russia: Better Than Ours?” “How We _ Discourage Creative Children,” a Redbook feature by John Kord Lagemann, is based upon find- ings of E. Paul Torrance. NEA REPORTER Published four times a‘ year in February, April, October, and December by the National Education Association of the United States, 1201 16th St. N.W, Washington 6, D.C. 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 os a part of membership), 20 cents. Second-class postage paid at the Wash- ington, D.C., post office. Hazel A. Blanchard William G. Carr as EE ee ened U.S. Public Schools Cost $19.5 Billion in 1962-63 The 1962-63 bill for U.S. public elementary and second- ary schools is estimated at $19.5 billion, an all-time high, according to NEA’s Research Division. This total includes teachers’ salaries and all other operating costs, capital outlay, and interest on debt. The Division staff points out that although $19.5 billion may appear alarmingly high to some people, one ‘must remember that this is the bill for six hours of daily school- ing for one-fifth of the nation’s population, At current rates, the public schools are providing education at.a rate of 45 cents an hour per enrolled pupil—10 percent less than the going rate for teen-aged baby sitters. For 45 cents an hour the schools provide buildings, books, furniture, and sometimes two-way transportation and a low-cost lunch, in addition to education. The 50 cents for a baby sitter provides few if any extras, The parent is expected to provide the building, furniture, a well-stocked refrigerator, TV, radio, all utilities, and some- times round-trip transportation. According to NEA’s re- search staff, public education would still be a bargain at twice the present cost. PROJECT MERCURY ASTRONAUT WALTER M. SHIRRA, JR., who orbited the earth six times last October, has recorded a special statement on “teach- ing as a career” in observance of Teaching Career Month, April 1-30, 1963. On the record, Mr. Schirra predicts that a future in teaching “is going to be as great a challenge as the exploration of space,” ond that “the teacher will be in the vanguard of the space. program,” Copies of the six-minute record, which also carries actual excerpts from Mr. Shirra’s in-flight conversation with Cape Canaveral, will be contained along with about 35 other promotional items in a special TCM packet available for $2 from NEA, \ Ce ES 6 Den oo NE amemcinn wala Aeertaneennt te? 1963 Golden Key recipient from Washington, D.C., greets the teacher who sparked his interest in journalism, HELEN HARRIS of Evanston, Illinois. The Golden Key award was presented to Mr. Block, a Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist of the Washington (D.C.) Post, at the annual convention of the American Association of School Administrators this week in Atlantic City. Miss Harris, 87 years old, was unable to attend the AASA cere- monies. es ideli t chool Guidelines Se The very nature of education needs to be re-analyzed in the light of the kind of world children live in today, ele- mentary school educators agreed in a recent conference at NEA Center. To help teachers and administrators make decisions about new practices, the conferees developed an evaluation guide for organization changes in elementary schools. A more complete report will be available at the end of March. Attending the conference were: Dwayne Huebner, George Manolakes, and Alice Miel, New York City; Mary A. Adams, Baltimore; Marion Cranmore and Willard C. Olson, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Muriel Crosby, Wilmington, Del.; Harold D, Drummond, Albuquerque; Sarah Lou Hammond, Tallahassee, Fla.; Helen Heffernan, Sacra- mento; Pauline Hilliard, Gainesville, Fla.; Anne Hoppock, Trenton, N.J.; Alice V. Keliher, Jersey City, N.J.; Dorris M. Lee, Portland, Ore.; Helen K. Mackintosh, Washington, D.C.; Gerthon Morgan, College Park, Md.; Maycie K. Southall, Nashville; Ruth Strickland, Bloomington, Ind.; J. Murray Lee, Carbondale, Ill., and from the NEA staff, Lyle Ashby, Ethel Thompson, Lois M. Clark, Lawrence Derthick, Robert W. Eaves, and Ole Sand. Three Reporters, Magazine Cited For Coverage Three news reporters and one magazine were honored for their edu- cation coverage this week by the Edu- cation Writers Association. Jerrold K. Footlick of The Indian- apolis Times received the top award for outstanding coverage of local and state educational issues. Rowland Bond of The Spokane Daily Chronicle was honored for his newspaper cover- age’ of the national educational scene, as was G. K. Hodenfield of the Asso- _ ciated Press for wire service reporting. Good Housekeeping won top spot among national magazines covering education. The annual EWA awards were pre- sented in Atlantic City in the course of the convention of the American Asso- ciation of School Administrators. En- tries this year numbered 125. Citations for local and state Cover- THE LIBRARY of the National University of Mexico (above) will probably be one of the stops on age went to Elmer Bertelsen, Houston the itinerary of school administrators in a newly announced venture, the International Field Study Chronicle; El Cajon (California) Val- Program of the American Association of School Administrators and the NEA Division of Educational ley News; Richard P. Kleeman, Minneapolis Tribune; and lan For- man, Boston Globe. Travel. The program includes five study projects—in Mexico, Japan, the Soviet Union, Germany, and Africa, Its purpose is to give school administrators the first-hand experience with world affairs that is essential to leadership in today’s world, said ‘Finis Engleman, AASA executive secretary. Participants in each of the five study programs will have opportunity to identify and face The Christian Science Monitor T€- the educational, economic, political, and social problems of the areas visited. The NEA Division ceived a citation for the diversity and of Educational Travel, from which detailed information may be obtained, will set up and operate depth of its national coverage. the travel projects and will coordinate the learning activities of the groups. dab RCRA SEAL aS eigegebacietil sheen fisted A inl Ae tile ld GRUB hdd agama, 5 en 1970 Goal Set Massachusetts Aims for Unified Dues The Massachusetts Teachers Association, through action by its board of directors, has taken a major step toward establishing Massa- chusetts as a unified professional membership state by 1970. As of September this year, all NEA memberships from Massachu- setts will be processed through the MTA office. In addition, MTA is or- ganizing a membership committee charged with planning and carrying out a strong local, state, and national membership drive during September and October. Finally, MTA officers are preparing a constitution and by- laws amendment that will require local associations to meet the standard of local, state, and national continuing membership by 1970. These actions were reported by Al- bert Johnson, NEA state director for Massachusetts, following an MTA board meeting January 12. NEA Executive Secretary William G. Carr, in a letter of congratulations to MTA President Sidney B. Roberts, called the actions “great steps toward realizing our Professional Priorities Program.” Dr. Carr thanked the MTA leaders for “issuing a call to the teach- ers of the state and the nation to build a strong, unified profession. We shall look forward now,” he said, “to the actions which will make these resolu- tions a reality.” The name of the NEA Di- vision of Press and Radio Relations has been changed to NEA Division of Press, Radio, and Television Relations. 00 eee EDUCATION ACT... (Continued from page 2, column 2) U.S. Education Commissioner Fran- cis Keppel has described the ele- mentary and secondary school pro- posal as “selective and stimulative,” as contrasted with the general across- the-board approach pursued in the last Congress. The bill (HR 3000-S 580) provides allotments to the states that could be used by public school districts to meet “critical” construction needs, by eliminating fire hazards or class- room overcrowding, and for specified types of teacher-salary aid. Grants would be authorized to the states for creasing maximum salaries, raising low starting salaries, and raising low average salaries in economically dis- advantaged areas. In addition, 10 to 20 percent of state allotments, which are based on a formula involving total population and per-capita income, are to be spent for experimental or demonstration — proj- ects aimed at meeting such urgent educational problems as school drop- outs in urban areas. Estimated authorizations to states under those programs with specific state allotment formulas, proposed for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, are shown in the following U.S. Office MEETING TO DISCUSS NEA’s Urgent Advisory on the Overseas Dependents Schools are (seated) CECIL DRIVER, Overseas Education Association president; CHRISTINE MITCHELL, OFA membership chairman; (standing, left to right) T. M. STINNETT, NEA assistant executive secretary for profes- ROBERT W. McLAIN, NEA staff contact for overseas teachers; and WILLIAM G. CARR, NEA executive secretary. sional development and welfare; Defense Department Survey Criticizes Overseas Schools, Suggests Reforms (See related story on page 1.) Just before NEA’s Urgent Advisory was dispatched to all af- filiates, the Department of Defense made public the report of a survey committee it appointed to examine the Overseas Dependents Schools and to make recommendations for their improvement. The survey reveals, in the words of NEA’s Urgent Advisory, “shortages at some posts, and unprofessional of supplies and current textbooks, _ salaries for teachers.” lack of needed specialist personnel, The survey report itself points to principals bogged down in paper four conditions as being “major de- work, an excessive teacher turnover terrents to providing the quality of rate, little provision for handicapped education in the Overseas Dependents or superior children, inadequate and Schools which parents and children unsafe school facilities in many loca- have a right to expect; (1) the severe tions, unsuitable housing for teachers limitation of insufficient funds under of Education chart: teacher salary improvement; i.e., in- National Education Improvement Act of 1963 (Estimated authorizations to states proposed for fiscal year ending June 30, 1964. includes only those programs with specific state allotment formulas) I II Ti IV vy vi Expansion — slo } apes S Improvement Expansion of opportunities an Strengthening elementary im rovement for individuals In higher improvement ad — i and secondary p of Expansion of continuing education education of higher ~ Sag education voeational . education’ = education Science, mathematics, 4 Student State and modern Guidance, State Total loans Public statistical Publie foreign lan- — counseling, . Public Student community services elementary. guage instruc- and testing Vocational General Aduk a. Ub: ft (Proposed work-study college Pr and tion equipment (Proposed education un versity basic pate y amendment program academic (Proposed secondary amendment (Amendment) ¢xtension education. Uprarree ) to Title I, facilities ee education (Proposed to Title ¥. education Amendmen N.D.E.A.) to Title X, amendment N.D,E,A.) N.D.E.A.) to Title TT, aie? : 3 oS Petes rw: N.D.E.A.) ban ao 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 il 12 13 Aggregate U.S. 50 States and $831,390,000 $135,000,000 $22,500,000 $50,000,000 _ $3,000,000 _$400.000.000_$75,000.000___$17.500.000_ $69,350,000 $9,040,000 __ $5,000,000 ___ $45,000,000 District of . Columbia ..-.-.. 815,207,821 134,087,273 22,847,880 49,420,654 2,952,000 389,971,366 73,702,201) 17,220,000 _67,633,740 8,916,537 4,805,821 44,150,349 Alabama 19,445,688 2,124,098 354,018 1,178, 102 60,140 10,697,648 1,828,093 351,370 1,754,396 163,852 116,922 817,056 tas 1,410,081 36,917 6,152 30,860 27,137 612,501 89.446 50,000 253,204 29,959 50,000 224,105 Arizona 6,833,809 1,150, 166 191,695 331,611 38,690 3,209,087 672,496 136,644 542,141 77,341 50,000 433,938 Arkansas ___- 10,996,304 1,175,608 195,934 715.851 43,530 6,082,702 956,046 185,055 954,381 98,659 60,191 528,347 California —-- 55,691,104- 18,328,738 2,221,457 3,333,866 150,000 22,286,945 4,379,988 1,446,082 4,350,613 712,110 236,246 8,245,059 Colorado _-_- 8,480,640 1,882,364 313,727 445,561 42,188 3,578,638 751,157 171,781 625,946 97,285 50,000 522,043 Connecticut __ 8,563,411 1,788,594 298,099 531,143 47,743 3,432,917 758,904 227,219 622,748 131,640 50,000 674,404 Delaware _. 1,755,536 223,589 37,264 73,745 9,204 604.317 147,160 50,000 233.571 - 39,653 50,000 267,033 Florida. —._- 22,698,849 2,702,653 450,442 1,173,196 69.537 12,551,438 1,879,028 445,069 1,925,694 238,043 118,130 1,145,619 Georgia _ 21,891,448 2,292,451 382,075 1,206,042 66.454 12,062,570 2, 144,256 414,226 2,033,925 193,696 147,455 948,958 3,024,738 410,144 68,357 203,584 31,639 1,311,290 268,637 66,370 263,454 47,864 50,000 903,399 3,968,852 2,7 88,787 266,984 32,254 1,863,599 369,028 72,616 483,375 49,380 50,000 310,101 35,761,277 6,722,729 1,120,455 2,235,162 115,182, 15,774,792 3,229,758 901,459 2,861,366 463,926 (90,491 2,145,957 21,794,486 3,794, 2,49 1,367,769 70.171 —-110,417,131 4,924,983 451,315 1,742,404 225.314 8,673 1,089,248 14,605,787 2,660, 115 443,353 969,932 51,564 6,685,243 1,293,725 265,480 1,327,191 141,429 50,000 717,755 Kansas... 11,269,989 2,240,292 373,382 660,716 45,524 5,206, 198 929,298 204,966 838,819 115,936 50,000 604,858 Kentucky 17.358, 658 1,892,622 315,437 982.9) 56, 158 9.513.025 1,707,334 811,548 1,558,091 153,786 97,181 772,480 Louisiana 19,020,202 2,561,476 426,913 1,038,451 59,868 9,928,426 1,960,819 348,687 1,592,082 163,424 124,944 B15, 162 5,158,452 584,414 97,403 330,65! 34,390 2,639,110 472,927 93,699 424,156 62,682 50,000 369,020 12,339,852 4,800,474 300,079 677,566 85,060 5,871,314 1,271,445 300,617 1,038,399 156,540 83,684 784,674 21,983, 172 5,452,945 908,824 1,404,241 70,326 8,895,769 1,700,123 452,877 1,572,359 246,718 94,950 1,184,040 34,305,332 5,941,444 990,240 2/283,418 102,716 16,203,451 3,189,161 776,918 2,703,631 364,496 134,233 1,705,624 17,679,624 3,203,964 548,994 1,241,129 58,88! 8,132,179 1,688,905 338,486 1,311,008 170,330 0,000 5,748 14,407,373 1,668,338 278,056 790, 182 49,463 8,015,251 1,266,348 244,397 1300417 115,915 73,240 604,766 19,547,599 8,385,822 564,304 1,167,277 63,802 9.424.539 1,678,775 387,678 1,545,589 210,224 97,169 1,022,420 3,767,653 616,173 102,695 290,405 31,926 1,685,580 322,462 69,103 298,006 49,714 50.000 811,589 7,316,021 1,298,356 216,392 455,309 438,269 3,297,725 648,992 132,740 640,853 82,148 50,000 455,227 1,302,600 135,49 22,583 46,710 27,597 886,293 89,541 0,000 226,183 $2,562 50,000 235,633 3,283,582 564,17 93,529 188,014 0,631 1,445,089 261,692 56,219 232.146 46,726 50,000 298,357 19,329,888 2,482,310 453,718 1,943,187 78,434 9,217,152 1,841,613 534,082 1,684,787 287,152 134,352 1,963, 101 New Mexico ....... _ 5,247,993 605,393 100,899 278,502 35,666 2,622,920 578,092 106,582 442,599 61,879 50,000 965,461 ew. York ..---.--> §3,929/449 10,730,404 1,788,401 3,283,104 150,000 22,724,650 5,018,299 1,423,049 4,241,995 759,012 357,767 8,452,768 North Carolina 26,650,242 3,303,468 550,578 1,587,936 73,753 14,204,466 2,495,202 487,233 2,484,817 220,631 173,649 1,068,509 271,384 665,550 110,925 276,476 31,722 1,916,246 369,918 67.151 432,210 47,850 50,000 403,336 323,412 * 6,422,177 1,070,363 2,641,744 117,524 —-19,578,224 3,616,056 924/884 3,258,837 447,428 173,307 2,072,873 2,567,619 427,937 849,850 47,358 6,339.43! 1,077,082 223,315 1,043,871 122,527 56.274 634,046 1,706,472 284,412 567,509 42.389 3,782,108 735,171 173,733 625,681 97,885 0,000 524,917 7\849,972 £,224,995 3,516,921 127,017 24,125,287 4,498,247 1,025,610 3,936,031 518,450 259,028 2,387,423 737,530 122,922 222,834 32.483 1,887,246 330,993 74,959 321,835 57,848 0,000 347,611 1,498,763 49,7 844,091 52,248 8,082,360 1,405,926 272,507 1,435,933 124,918 89,612 644,637 680,676 113)446 261,919 31,993 1,940,993 380,580 69,884 434,600 49,967 6,000 312,709 2,674,838 445,806 1,203,803 959 11,209,785 ‘1,875,318 959,569 1,842,961 (77,078 121,099 875,628 7,620,851 1,276, 142 2,417,524 (21.741 24,552,809 4,576,205 967,048 4,118,325 441,843 275,206 2,048, 161 1,519,627 253,271 349,261 34,995 2,309, 699 500,038 99,945 405,984 59,219 50,000 353,684 500,380 83,397 ° 139,544 28,845 1,047,839 211,067 50,000 226,183 37,168 50,000 256,032 Virginia __....-.-.. 2,298,420 383,070 1,021,494 64,312 10,708,784 1,911,222 392,754 1,867,637 194,686 197,342 953,606 bate ton 2,593,930 432,321 810,605 52.799 5,762,787 1, 101,938 277,973 991,587 145,642 50, 736,414 West vireinis 1,256,919 209, 48 756,749 44,767 5.532,089 1,026,527 197,548 901,372 101,924 55,373 542,606 yearn: = 3,180,720 530,120 1,297,917 63,421 8,884,866 1,916,847 384,165 1,429,581 194.017 70,303 950.648 yoming .2-.---.-- 267,692 44,61 99,926 28,396 692,397 157,583 50,000 226,183 84,535 50,000 244,368 Distriet of Columbia. 3,410,290 1,164,7 J gleriet at Ose 164,718 194,119 89,475 30,529 1,034,461 182,750 55,438 226,183 53,641 50,000 328,981 oft 48,000 128,463 194,179 849,051 he U8... - 16,182,179 912,727 10,028,634 1,207,799 260,000 1,716,260 which the schools operate and the inflexibility in the use of such funds; (2) the absence of any central co- ordinatior of educational leadership for these schools; (3) the insuffi- ciencies and out-datedness of the cur- riculum in most of these schools; and (4) the relatively low priority these schools have drawn within the De- fense establishment.” An estimated 160,000 pupils and 6,600 classroom teachers are in the overseas schools. In over-all size, the system ranks ninth among U.S. school systems. The survey Was made by six edu- cators, including Hazel Davis, asso- ciate director of NEA’s Research Division, and Waurine Walker, assist- ant director of teacher education and certification for the Texas Education Agency and a former NEA president. The survey team visited over 80 overseas. schools, mare than one- fourth the total number, in Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Taiwan, and the Philippines. TV Show To Present Pediatrics Professor Robert A. Good, American Legion Memorial Heart Research professor of pediatrics, will trace the authentic case history of a 12-year-old boy who is a patient at the University of Minnesota Hospitals, on Meet the Professor, Sunday, March 3, 1:30 P.M. E.S.T. on ABC-TY, This story of medicine in action will show the actual treatment given a seriously ill child at the skilled hands of the professor and his medical stu- dents. ‘ Meet the Professor is produced by the Public Affairs Department of ABC News in cooperation with the NEA Association for Higher Education, VOL. 2, NO. 2 To All NEA Members... These are times for confidence in your professional associations. Your local organizations are reviewing and expanding their programs and services. Your state associations have stepped up their plans and efforts. Your national association also reveals many reasons for confidence as we advance through the years immediately ahead: @ Increasing thousands of teachers are joining the NEA. Through their memberships, more than 850,000 have cast their vote for an independent, professional organization. @ Daily the NEA’s special projects are making important contributions to improving in- struction, exploring the school dropout problem, probing auto- mation’s effect on education, preparing guides for teaching the academically talented, assay- ing the effects of technological development, and experimenting with new trends in teaching Eng- lish composition. ® NEA departments are en- riching their programs and lifting the quality of their services in 33 major fields of education. ® NEA media of communica- tion are reaching increasing num- bers of members with reports on the Association’s activities, and with increasing speed. @ Steady improvement is be- ing made in the efforts to build public understanding of the needs of education and the problems of the profession. During this month—Teaching Career Month —you can see dozens of exam- ples of this effort. @ New leadership in key fed- eral positions gives the profession renewed confidence in the possi- bilities of growing moral and fi- nancial support from our nation- al government. ® Increasing thousands of members ate drawing upon the Association’s research and in- formation resources. @ Direct contacts with mem- bers through conferences, field work, and other means are in- creasing your depth of under- standing and the effectiveness of our cooperation. These are but a few of the manifestations of the strength and determination of your or- ganized profession. Through your own daily activities, service on committees, and other ways your professional spirit exemplifies the NEA in action. Yarra A, Keane — WILLIAM G. CARR EXECUTIVE SECRETARY PUBLISHED BY THE NATION AL EDUCATIO a APRIL 19, 1963 NEA-Endorsed $5.3 Billion Education Improvement Bill Remains Intact in Congress The NEA-endorsed $5.3 billion National Education Improvement Shown here with one of his students, ELMON OUSLEY is a strong believer in the value of independent study. Ousley Named as Teacher of Year Elmon Ousley, a classroom teacher at Bellevue (Washington) Senior High School, has been named 1963 Teacher of the Year. The award is made jointly by Look magazine, the U.S. Office of Education, and the Council of. Chief State School Officers, A former president of the Bellevue Education Association who has served as a delegate to both the Washington Education Association and the NEA Representative Assemblies, Mr. Ousley will attend a series of events in his honor in Washington, D.C., next week. He is scheduled to meet President Kennedy at the White House on April 22. On April 23 and 24, Mr. Ousley will visit NEA Center, where he will meet with Future Teachers of America groups, hold a press~conference, and attend a reception in his honor. Professional Negotiations Ac He LOOKING OVER THEIR PROFESSIONAL NEGOTIATIONS AGREEMENT in Champaign, Illinois, are EUGENE H. MELLON (seated), Champaign super- intendent of schools; WILLIAM FROOM (standing, left), president of the board of education; and KENNETH O. STRATTON, CEA president. Act—covering 24 new and existing programs of school aid intact as of April 19, N ASSOCIATION WASHINGTON, D. C. remains The Special, General, and Select Subcommittees of the House Over 850,000 NEA Members— All-Time Record NEA membership on April 11 reached 855,720, an all-time high for the Association and nearly 50,000 ahead of enrollment a year ago. “Encourage April and May enroll- ments and renewals,” advises NEA President Hazel A. Blanchard. “Some find it more convenient to pay dues at this time of year. They are assured of a full year of service. They will count as 1963 members, with credit to your association and perhaps increasing the number of delegates you will be en- titled to send to the Detroit conven- tion.” Fifteen states now enroll more than 75 percent of their potential. Seven- teen have -exceeded their 1964 Cam- paign Goals. Thirteen of the 17 are the same—enroll more than 75 per- cent and have also exceeded 1964 goals: Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Kan- sas, Kentucky, Nevada, North Caro- lina, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Wash- ington, West Virginia, and Wyoming. The two states enrolling more than 75 percent but still short of the ’64 goal are: Montana and New Mexico. Colo- rado, District of Columbia, Maine, and Maryland are over the °64 goal, but still are below 75 percent of potential. impasse.” Committee on Education and Labor are now considering various titles of the act (H.R. 3000). Receiving at- tention at this time are the vocational education section (by Rep. Carl Perkins’ General Subcommittee), the aid to federally impacted areas section (by Rep. John Dent’s Select Subcom- mittee), the section expanding the Li- brary Services Act (also by Repre- sentative Dent’s subcommittee), and college aid provisions (by Rep. Edith Green’s Special Subcommittee ). The one-package education program was assigned by titles, with instruc- pL eS LESS The Youth Employment Act of 1963, officially endorsed by the NEA, passed the U.S. Senate on April 10 by a 50-34 vote. Voting for the bill were 43 Democrats and 7 Republicans; 20 Republicans and 14 Democrats—most- ly Southern Democrats—opposed it. The bill is designed to furnish hun- dreds of thousands of job for youths in conservation camps and local pub- lic service projects, The House Com- mittee on Education and Labor has approved similar legislation. Efforts will be made to have the bill reported out by the House Rules Committee and to the floor for a vote sometime in May. SS tions that when the three subcommit- tees report on their respective titles the bill will be put together again by Rep. Adam Clayton Powell's full Com- mittee on Education and Labor. There- after, the committee will try to move the bill through the Rules Committee (See EDUCATION BILL, page 4, column 3) hieved in Champaign, Illinois Education Association, Board Agree On Principles, Procedures, Appeals The Champaign (Illinois) Education Association and the Champaign Board of Education last month reached final agreement on professional negotiation machinery, The local association, the board, and Champaign Super- intendent Eugene H. Mellon have been discussing pro- cedures for negotiation since October 1962. Allan M. West, NEA special assistant for urban areas, called the agreement “among the best yet negotiated.” The agreement establishes “procedures to provide an orderly method for the Board of Education and representa- tives of the Champaign Education Association to discuss matters of common concern, to reach a mutually satis- factory agreement on these matters, and to appeal through professional and educational channels in the event of The agreement covers four major areas: principles, pro- cedures, appeal, and strike prohibitions. The principles include recognition of teaching as a profession and approval of the idea of board-administrative staff-CEA meetings. OTe PSPS UNA Te Ta SOE POET Hee PRES Fern aE imam ein Four Conflicts Rage Across Every Effort for Federal Aid, Conference on Finance Told Byron L. Johnson, consultant, Agency for International Develop- ment, identified four separate contests “which rage simultaneously across every effort” to obtain federal aid to education in his address before the sixth annual National Conference on School Finance Problems. About 170 persons attended the invitational conference, sponsored by the NEA Committee on Educa- tional Finance April 7-9 in St. Louis. The conflicts identified by Mr. Johnson are: between rural and urban areas; between the rich states and the poor states; between the races; and the one centering on the issue of sepa- ration of church and state. The lat- ter, he charged, is the most persistent difficulty. In another address, John H. Fischer, president, Teachers College, Columbia University, said that every child in every state should be assured a reasonable educational foundation “through the use of federal assistance.” Beyond this, he added, “each state should be free and encouraged to exert initiative to build superior general pro- grams or to excel in particular fields.” Dr. Fischer said that the United States has been too preoccupied with comparisons between its schools and those of Russia. He said the principles by which we ought to pattern our programs are pro- found but simple: first, the idea that all men are created equal and are en- dowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and second, the proposition that every man should be free to achieve self-fulfillment. James L. McCaskill, NEA assistant executive secretary for state and fed- eral relations, pointed out to the dele- gates the difference between federal support and aid. The chief character- istic of support, he noted, is that it is directed to the general school opera- tion, whereas aid generally is aimed at specific subjects or functions. $215,000 Joint Project To Study New Media Use A study of how teachers can best use the new technological develop- ments in the classroom will be made by the American Association of Col- leges for Teacher Education (NEA) under a contract with the U.S. Office of Education. The $215,000 project will begin August 1. AACTE will work cooperatively in the project with the 11 national as- sociations who are members of the Associated Organizations for Teacher Education. Recommendations will be developed on ways the colleges and universities best can use the new media of instruc- tion to teach future teachers, and ways classroom teachers themselves can make the best use of technology in teaching their students. Convention Reminder NEA President Hazel A. Blanchard reminds members who plan to attend the NEA Convention in Detroit to bring with them valid evidence of their birth or U.S. citizenship if they intend to visit Canada, (Windsor, Canada, is just across the Detroit river.) She also suggests that convention goers bring opera glasses or field glasses to better observe proceedings during sessions in the large arena at Cobo Hall. : LY " Ss s ¥ SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN A FREE SOCIETY, the subject of an Educational Policies Commission upcoming report, was discussed by Commission members April 4-6 at NEA Center. Chatting during a coffee break at-the meeting are (left to right): A. JOHN HOLDEN, JR., Vermont commissioner of education and chairman of the Commission; FINIS E. ENGLEMAN, executive secretary, American Association of School Administrators, and ex officio member of the Commission; CLARICE KLINE, former NEA president, and Commission member; and JAMES E. RUSSELL, Commission secretary. Urban Educators Invited to Seminar During NEA Convention in Detroit All educators from urban areas who are attending the NEA Con- vention in Detroit are invited to a two-hour seminar on urban asso- ciation problems, Allan M. West, NEA special assistant for urban areas, announced this week. The seminar—from 2 to 4 P.M. Sunday, June 30, in Cobo Hall—will be di- rected by the NEA Urban Project staff. Two speakers have been scheduled: Frederick L. Hipp, New Jersey Edu- cation Association executive secretary, will speak on the urban association’s responsibility to advance the welfare of its members. John Christenson, Seattle Education Association execu- tive secretary, will discuss the urban association’s concern for improved education. Both men will face a panel of interrogators. 1962-63 NEA Theme—“A Great Profession: Ours by Choice” Newark Association Wins Salary Increase for Teachers The Newark (New Jersey) Teachers’ Association—after negotia- tions with the Newark mayor and the Board of School Estimate— won an additional increase of $200 to $300 for Newark teachers, according to NTA President Ruth Buehrer. Newark teachers now at maximum get an additional $300; other teachers get $200. NTA and New Jersey Education Association officials took the request for an additional salary increase di- rectly to the mayor and the board after a budget-setting meeting of the board ended with an indication that only limited funds would be appropri- ated for salary raises. The additional gain gives a total raise of $600 to Newark teachers at maximum and $800 to others. President Buehrer called the in- crease “an important step toward bringing Newark teachers up to the $6,000 to $13,000 range that has been the NTA-NJEA-NEA goal.” Peace Corps Project In Morocco Planned By Physical Educators Last week the American Associa- tion for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (NEA) completed arrangements with the Peace Corps to administer a project in Morocco. AAHPER will assist in the recruit- ment, selection, and preparation of the 30 volunteers requested by the host country and will supervise their assignments in Morocco, The Morocco project is the third to which direct assistance has been given under the AAHPER Peace Corps Project initiated last fall. Twenty-seven volunteers have been serving in Colombia, South America, since January 20 under the first AAHPER project. For the second project, in Africa, seven volunteers were prepared for service in the Ivory Coast and nine in Senegal. More than 125 volunteers are needed for additional physical educa- tion projects this summer and fall. Many Share Responsibility To Design Curriculum, Sand Says ‘Scholars, Schoolmen, Laymen’ All Have Role, Project Director Tells Elementary Principals “Local school officials should have the freedom and the authority to make final instructional decisions about what to teach and how to teach (within state requirements),” Ole Sand, director of the NEA Project on Instruction, told the more than 4,000 conferees who at- tended the 1963 annual meeting of the NEA Department of Elementary Principals in Oklahoma City March 31-April 3. Dr. Sand stressed, however, that curriculum designing is a shared re- sponsibility in which “scholars, school- men, and laymen” work as partners, each making his special contribution. The curriculum is shaped by influ- ences at the societal, institutional, and instructional levels, he said. The key question, Dr. Sand said, is: Who should make what decisions about the instructional program? The NEA Project on Instruction, he re- ported, has identified twelve crucial areas of decision making and has formulated 32 recommendations. (These recommendations will be re- leased in the fall, in four volumes, with the titles: Schools for the Sixties, De- ciding What To Teach, Education in a Changing Society, and Planning and Organizing for Teaghing.) James E. Webb, administrator of (See ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS, page 4, column 2) es 2a “SOME ISSUES IN SEARCH OF DISCUSSION,” a presentation by the Oklahoma Mummers Theatre written by Mavis Kennedy of Easton, Maryland, dramatizes some of the issues and problems of concern to elementary principals. The play was presented in three acts at three sessions during the annual meeting of the NEA Department of Elementary Principals March 31-April 3 in Oklahoma City. CURRENT What's Going On in TV, Radio, Press, Films, and National Magazines Television ABC-TV’s weekday program Dis- covery '63 will take viewers on a trip to the U.S.S. Constellation on Monday, explain how stars are named on Tuesday, watch the Chinese Chil- dren’s Foo Hsing Theatre on Wednes- day, discuss “When Mommy and Daddy Were Young” on Thursday, and learn how animals talk on Friday (April 22-26, 4:30-4:55 P.M., E.S.T.). An Eskimo legend called “The Raven” will be narrated by Thomas Gomez on Exploring (April 27, 12:30- 1:30 p.m., E.S.T., NBC-TV). Addi- tional segments will feature Sylvia Meyer, harpist; Ritts Puppets explain- ing the infinity concept; Wolfgang Roth, who will sing German songs; Hal Hol- brook in a scene from “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” and a science segment on the elephant family. Reading Room has chosen Humor as theme for next week’s. show. The book to be discussed: will be Homer Price by Robert McCloskey (Satur- day, April 27, 12:30-1 p.M., E.S.T., CBS-TV). Magazines 1963’s “Teacher of the. Year” re- ceives top billing in the May 7 issue of Look (on sale April 18). The April 20 Saturday Review edu- cation supplement includes “Chal- lenging the Axioms,” an editorial by Paul Woodring; “The School Prayer Battle,” by Connecticut State.Depart- Ment of Education Consultant Theo- dore Powell; “School Segregation: At- tack in the North and West,” by G. W. Foster, Jr.; and Terry Ferrer’s profile of Barnard’s new president, Rosemary Park—one of SR’s “Movers and Shapers of Education.” Also in the SR education supplement is a re- View of Webster's Seventh New Col- legiate Dictionary. The May Better Homes & Gardens discusses post-high school vocational training in “What If Your Youngster Doesn't Go to College?” The author is Neil Kuehn); the article is the sixth in BH&G’s “How to Help Your Child in School’’ series. Cosmopolitan’s May issue contains “What School Could Do for Your Son,” by English Professor Bergen Evans. The May Parents’ Magazine includes “Will He Be a Leader?” by Eric W. Johnson—a discussion of leadership qualities spelled out by a second grade teacher—and “Plan for a Hazard- Proof Playground,” by Meredith Mayer, NEA REPORTER Published four times a year in February, April, October, and December by the National Education Association of the United States, 1201 Washington 6, D.C. Hazel A, Blanchard William G. Carr 16th St, N.W., President Executive Secretary Frank W. Hubbard... . Assistant Executive Secretary for Information Services Mildred $. Fenner Editor NEA REPORTER is mailed to all NEA members. Annual subscription price, 20 cents (included in membership dues and available only as a part of membership). Second-class postage paid at the Wash- ington, D.C., post office. ais ’ \d , SEVERAL UPCOMING TELEVISION PROGRAMS will show how Meet the Professor goes into different teaching environments. A professor of geology who believes that the earth's crust is the best text- book on geology takes his students into the Grand Canyon for study and observation, ABC television cameras make the descent with Robert L. Nichols, geology professor at Tufts Uni- versity, Medford, Massachusetts, and his students for Meet the Professor on ABC-TV, Sunday, April 28, at 1:30 P.M. E.D.S.T, Meet the Professor ventures 20 miles off the Southern California coast where the mile-deep ocean is a living laboratory for a professor of marine biology, CARL L. HUBBS of Scripps Institute of Oceanography, the University of California, La Jolla. Mr. Hubbs (above) teaches graduate students aboard a research vessel on programs to be telecast on the nationwide ABC-TV network in two parts on two consecutive Sundays, May 12 and May 19, at 1:30 P.M. E.D.S.T. News in Brief Projects, Symposium, Film Announced Three more state Departments of Classroom Teachers and 203 local as- sociations started projects this year on the Conditions of Work for Quality Teaching, as outlined by the NEA De- partment of Classroom Teachers. Ala- bama, Kentucky, and Maine are the latest to institute state-wide projects. During the week of April 29, Jen- nings Flathers, NEA field representa- tive, will assist the Maine DCT in con- ducting a series of workshops on con- ditions of work. William Stiles, DCT assistant exec- utive secretary, conducted a series of workshops in Alabama in March, and the week of May 5 will conduct work- shops in Kentucky. Guidelines and insights to help schools and guidance counselors to provide improved services for poten- tial school dropouts will be developed during an_ invitational symposium scheduled for May 5-7 in West Point, New York. It is the second in a series sponsored by the NEA Dropout Proj- ect. Symposium chairman is C. Gilbert Joint Efforts Win Tax Appeal for Teachers Legal assistance provided jointly by NEA and the Bay Section of the Cali- fornia Teachers Association has suc- cessfully appealed an income tax case for two teachers. The teachers—Mr. and Mrs. Woods Peters of Concord, California—were denied a 1960 claim for travel and educational expenses by the Internal Revenue Service. Legal action financed by the two education associations brought a reversal of the denial and full allowance of the claim. They were informed of the reversal in January this year. Mr. and Mrs. Peters took part in a CTA Bay Section educational travel course directed by the University of the Pacific, Stockton, during the sum- mer of 1960. The deduction finally accepted by IRS amounted to $4,300, Wrenn from the University of Minne- sota. A publication based on the sympo- sium papers and discussions will be released later. The U.S. Trust Territories of the Pacific need experienced elementary teachers, NEA’s Committee on Inter- national Relations announced last week. CIR is cooperating with the Trust Territories in efforts to obtain teachers for the 75,000 residents of the territories. Interested teachers should write to the Director of Personnel, Saipan, M.I. (8¢ air mail). NEA’s DuShane Defense Fund— set up in 1949 to aid in the correction of injustices which might have serious implications for the teaching profes- sion—has granted $2,450 in the past six months to help four teachers carry on litigation in behalf of their employ- ment rights. The Fund Committee also has re- cently agreed to bring two appeals on income tax deductions for educational travel. An NEA film, due to be released next winter, will show the history and accomplishments of American educa- tion. The film, on which work is now starting, will emphasize the commit- ment of the American people to edu- cation and national achievements re- sulting from that commitment. Technical adviser on the film is Felix C. Robb, president, George Pea- body College for Teachers, Nashville; producer is Vision Associates of New York. This firm also produced Emma Belle Sweet and Time of Their Lives for the NEA. Richard Barrett Lowe, UN ob- server for the NEA Committee on In- ternational Relations, has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Conference Group of U.S. National Organizations on the United Nations. Teacher: Told We need “a generation of Leonardo da Vincis” instead of narrow specialists, an engineer- ing professor told the more than 3,400 registrants who attended the 41st Annual Meeting of NEA’s Na- tional Council of Teachers of Mathe- matics, held in Pittsburgh April 3-6. The, bulk of the world’s population must become “creative and executive thinkers, with a broad knowledge of the basic principles of all sciences,” Saul Gorn, professor at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, told the teach- ers. Education must make men able to decide what machines can and can- not do, he said. One machine, he added, equals 5,000 clerks without judgment. Another speaker at the meeting, Max A. Sobel, of Montclair State Col- lege, New Jersey, declared that the solution to the problem of teaching mathematics to the slow learner rests with the resourcefulness of the teacher. He added that the general mathematics student should be given something new and interesting with which to start the school year and not be required merely to review fundamentals. Donald J. Dessart, University of Tennessee, told the teachers that pro- gramed materials are almost a neces- sity because “the mere increase in the amount of new mathematics to be in- cluded in the classroom makes the task of covering it by traditional meth- ods extremely difficult.” He said that the large increase in the school popu- lation in the next few years will “‘lit- erally force us to utilize many other methods,” such as instruction by tele- vision and team teaching. Membership Standards After August 31, 1964, a new member will be admitted to active membership in NEA only if he has (1) a bachelor’s de- gree or better; and (2) a regular teaching certificate, if this is re- quired for his educational posi- tion, not a temporary or emer- gency certificate. But anyone who is an active NEA member on~August 31, 1964, and pays regularly without missing any year, may continue his membership whether or not he meets these standards, 2 Tours Planned After Convention Two NEA post-convention tours have been planned by the NEA Edu- cational Travel Division—a five-day Great Lakes Cruise to Mackinac Island and a. one-day chartered bus sightseeing tour to the Ford River Rouge Plant, the Henry Ford Museum, and Greenfield Village. The cruise aboard the §.S. South American will leave Detroit Sunday, July 7, and stop at Mackinac Island on Monday. The ship’s other stops will include Munising and Hancock, Mich- igan, and Duluth, Minnesota. Participants on the bus tour Satur- day, July 6, will see early American art and antiques, antique automobiles and other machines, and an outdoor museum of early shops, stores, schools, and homes. Prices and details are available from the Educational Travel Division at NEA Center in Washington, D.C. ae ERR Ail EEN AL a TT NL al he 2S A es peat scafinte ACR ON yA RE Spiele rdgmecnp National TEPS Commission Reiterates Support of NCATE NEA’s National Commission on Teacher Education and Profes- sional Standards reiterated its support of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and reaffirmed its endorsement of national accrediting in teacher education at its April anes NM Nee PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION PIONEER B. F. SKINNER (right) and PHIL C. LANGE, of Teachers College, Columbia University, listen to a discussion during the NEA Symposium on Research in Programed Instruction held at NEA Center last month. Dr. Lange will coordinate NEA‘s National Conference on the Selection and Use of Programed Instruction, to be held in Detroit June 26-28, immediately preceding the NEA Convention, More than 500 teachers, supervisors, and administrators are ex- pected to attend the conference. Information about the conference is available from the NEA Division of Audiovisual Instruction Service. Conference of Classroom Teachers To Follow NEA Detroit Convention The NEA Department of Classroom Teachers 1963 annual con- ference—built around the theme “Spotlight on the Child”—will take place on the campus of Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Indiana, during the two weeks immediately following the NEA Con- vention in Detroit. The dates for the DCT in-service program are July 7-19. The heart of the academic part of the conference—*the real study situa- tions” —are the sessions and discussion groups planned on the topics of art, the culturally deprived, mathematics, teaching materials services, science, and linguistics, according to Earl A. Johnson, dean of the division of edu- cation at Ball State, and Margaret Stevenson, DCT executive secretary, who are coordinating the preparations for the conference. Among the educators who will ad- dress the conference participants are: Hazel A. Blanchard, NEA president; Ball State President John R. Emens; Donald T. Kent, director of the Spe- cial Staff for Aging, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Allison Davis, professor of education, University of Chicago; P. F. Ayer, ex- ecutive secretary, Council of the Southern Mountains, Inc.; and T. M. Stinnett, NEA assistant executive sec- retary for professional development and welfare. Early registration for the confer- ence is urged because the number of participants will be limited, Miss Stev- enson said, Fee for the two-week con- ference, including room and board, is $90. Preregistration information is available from the DCT office in Washington. Kentucky School Board Group Backs Federal School Support The Kentucky School Boards Asso- ciation, at its annual meeting in March, adopted a resolution stating that the KSBA “accepts the principle of fed- eral support to public elementary, sec- ondary, and higher education, Such support should be provided through the states without damaging and/or arbitrary control by the federal gov- ernment. Support programs should consider factors of ability to pay and needs of states.” There were only two dissenting votes to the resolution. ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS... (Continued from page 2, column 2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, told the principals that “space is, indeed, a new and challenging frontier, but it is a frontier of the intellect—one which challenges brain, not brawn, with creative intel- ligence our greatest weapon.” The issue of racial equality per- vaded the DESP meeting from the keynote speech by Ernest S. Griffith through the business meeting at which a resolution on the topic was passed. The resolution, passed April 2, strongly urged educators “to direct their efforts toward developing that complete interracial understanding which alone can achieve human dig- nity, opportunity, and happiness for all Americans.” : Dr. Griffith, dean of the School of International Service, American Uni- versity, told the conferees that “every denial of equality on racial grounds, every corrupt episode in our govern- ment or business life, every cheap and tawdry movie, every year that crime and juvenile delinquency grow—these are at great and even tragic cost to us in influencing the masses of men to disbelieve in us. Conversely, if we are true to the best in our tradition, CONTROLLING THE DESTINY of practically all federal education bills, in which the more than 850,000 members of the NEA have an equity, are the chairmen of the House Education and Labor Committee and its three education subcommittees. Reading left to right are REP. ADAM CLAYTON POWELL (D-N.Y.), chairman of the full Committee; REP. EDITH GREEN Public Personnel Study Set in N.Y. New York Governor Nelson Rocke- feller, at a press conference March 19, announced that he would name a com- mittee “to make an intensive study and recommendations for improving personnel policies and practices in the public service.” Appointment of the committee is in line with recommenda- tions of the New York State Teachers Association and NEA. In announcing his intent to appoint the committee, Governor Rockefeller said that “the relationship between government and its employees is unique and any personnel procedures must give appropriate recognition to the special character of public employ- ment. I do not believe,” he went on, “that improvements can be achieved simply by adopting the procedures ap- plicable to the private employer-em- ployee relationship.” Senators To Advise Teachers Scheduled to give “Practical Politi- cal Advice to Teachers” during the NEA Citizenship Committee’s De- troit Convention program July 2 are two U.S. senators, one named by the Democratic National Committee and one by the Republican National Com- mittee. 1-3 meeting in Washington, D.C. The Commission underscored . its conviction that participation and co- operation in such accrediting by all major elements of the professional community is of vital importance and emphasized the potentially significant contributions of each of these groups. The Commission also recognized that, if-rapid achievements in raising professional standards are to be con- tinued, it is important to emphasize both applying standards and fostering stimulation for the improvement of institutions preparing teachers. This action follows the more comprehensive statement issued by the TEPS Com- mission in December. The Commission’s position is the first official reaction to the recent re- port of the National .Commission on Accrediting on NCATE. Borden Pur- cell, chairman of the Commission, said, “The Commission believes accredita- tion by a national accrediting agency has made a significant contribution to raising professional standards. The NCATE has demonstrated that coop- erative action’ in accrediting by a group broadly representative of the profession can be effective. Despite achievements to date we recognize that procedures and standards for accred- iting can and should be improved. To this end the Commission has voted to participate in deliberations on ac- crediting which NCATE will initiate this summer or early fall.” Librarians Honor Washington, Maryland Schools Superintendents of the two schools selected as winners in the first Ency- clopaedia Britannica School Library Awards will be honored by the Amer- ican Association of School Librarians (NEA) at the 1963 NEA convention in Detroit. During National Library Week, April 21-27, the winning ecle- mentary schools, Bremerton, Washing- ton, and Anne Arundel County, An- napolis, Maryland, will each receive EDUCATION BILL... (Continued from page 1, column 4) and to the House floor for vote as a single, comprehensive bill. Thus the educational community’s unification behind a broad educational package seems to be paying dividends. It is believed that most mémbers of the House Education and Labor this will attract and arouse the hope of men everywhere, even behind the Iron Curtain.” $2,500 checks for the purchase of books and magazines. The AASL, whose advisory com- mittee administers the awards in co- operation with the Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, will honor the two library supervisors of the winning schools during the 1963 American Library Association conference July 14-20 in Chicago. Applications for 1964 awards will be ready in May. Committee, some of whom originally said the comprehensive bill was doomed to failure, now are convinced that the comprehensive education bill can be brought to the floor of the House for a vote—if the educational community remains united behind the program. The Senate has not yet taken up the National Education Improvement Act (S. 580). It is expected, however, that hearings will begin the week of April 29 before Sen. Wayne Morse’s Education Subcommittee of the Com- mittee on Labor and Public Welfare. (D-Oreg.), chairman of the Special Subcommittee on Education; REP. JOHN DENT (D-Pa.), chairman of the Select Subcommittee on Education; and REP. CARL D. PERKINS (D-Ky.), chairman of the General Subcommittee on Education. The three education subcommittees are now considering the comprehensive National Education Improvement Act (H.R. 3000-S, 580). Special Convention Issue aes VOL. 2, NO. 3 a7 JULY 19, 1963 WASHINGTON, D. C. Delegates Vote Suppo | PA. 3. - ib iS oy '\ cecal ‘ 5 t od rae es rt for Teachers of Utah NEA Representative Assembly Asks Local, State Affiliates To Desegregate The 6,800 delegates to the 10Ist NEA Convention in Detroit commended and actively supported the teachers of Utah in their efforts to improve school financial support in that state. Prior to the Convention, NEA had given the Utah Education Association $30,000 for public information purposes, supplied expert legal as- sistance, sent an investigative committee to Utah, advised NEA ex ~ ~ PROJECT 64—launched at the Convention—got off to a r Each person commissioned will seek five nonmembers. JOSEPH A. LETORNEY (second from right) of Avon, first commission in five hours. Mr. Letorney, who is vice- Massachusetts Teachers Association, k. With him at the Project 64 booth are (left accepting commissions. Project 64 recruiters by fulfilling his president and membership chairman for the second commission later during Convention wee to right) DEAN STREIFF, NEA field service staff member; SULLIVAN, New England NEA field representative. secretary for field operations; and JOHN D. Project 64's goal is to enroll a million or more commissions by writing to Project 64, NEA. V4 % fs) @ oe caring start with 3,061 NEA members ‘intent to join’ statements from Massachusetts, astounded fulfilled a KARL H. BERNS, NEA assistant executive NEA members by 1964. Members may receive Edinger Chosen NEA President-Elect; Wyatt Moves to 1963-64 Presidency Lois Edinger, a former television teacher and now an instructor in the School of Education, Woman’s College, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, was chosen as president-elect at the Detroit Convention. Miss Ed Buena Stolberg, the only other candi- date, 3,077 votes to 2,869. Robert H. Wyatt, executive secre- tary of the Indiana State Teachers As- sociation, became 1963-64 NEA pres- ident July 5, moving up from the vice-president and president-elect post he won last year. Hazel A. Blanchard becomes the immediate past president. Elected to the NEA Executive Com- mittee were Braulio Alonso, high school principal, Tampa, Florida, and a member of the NEA Board of Di- rectors;, Richard Batchelder, Newton High School, Newtonville, Massachu- setts; and E. H. Mellon, superintend- ent of schools, Champaign, Illinois. F. L. Schlagle, superintendent emer- itus, Kansas City, Kansas, schools, was re-elected to the Board of Trus- tees. Elected to the NEA Budget Com- mittee were Gladys Robinson, Lan- caster, South Carolina, and Floyd Smalley, Hawthorne, Nevada. Elected or re-elected members of the NEA Board of Directors are: Myrtle Flowers, George Staley, and Jack Robinson (California); Helen Samuel (District of | Columbia); Claude L. Purcell (Georgia); Clifford Sweat (Illinois); Carroll R. Phillips (Indiana); Arvil C. Parks (lowa); T. R, Palmquist (Kansas); T. K. Stone NEA vice-president and nger defeated se % € re ov i LOIS EDINGER Vice-president and president-elect and -Virginia Murrell (Kentucky); H. V. Cooper (Mississippi); Julia Bi. Schmidt (Missouri); Floyd Smalley (Nevada); James M. Lynch, Jr. (New Jersey); James A. Cullen and Harold T. Wiley (New York); John H. Lucas (North Carolina); Philip Rognlie (North Dakota); Lucille Carroll and Jennie L. Davis (Ohio); A. Clair Moser (Pennsylvania); Jose Joaquin Rivera (Puerto Rico); Gladys Robin- son (South Carolina); Joy Hamrin (South Dakota); Donald G. Sahli (Tennessee); Carl J. Mellor (Utah); Carrie R. Brown (Virginia); and Florence McGovern (Washington). Today’s Teacher Fits No Mold, Blanchard Says “Prepared to cope with a changing society, today’s teachers fit no mold,” 1962-63 NEA President Hazel A. Blanchard told the Convention on July 3. “Every day they become what they must be instructor, disciplinarian, psychol- ogist, supervisor, coach, counselor, banker, nurse, and on occasion, even a baby sitter. Able, attractive young men and women possessing an ever- increasing amount of professional training, skill, experience, and com- petence” replace the old concept of the proverbial pedagogue, she said. “The distinguishing marks of a pro- fession,” Mrs. Blanchard said, “are educational preparation, competence, and quality of service. “In addition to rendering a service to society, a profession must establish minimum standards for preparation and competence; develop and enforce a code of ethics; set requirements for membership therein. The National Education Association has taken ac- tion to meet these requirements,” she stated. School Dropouts Mrs. Blanchard also discussed the great numbers of school dropouts who are culturally deprived, economically underprivileged, and the victims of social and economic discrimination. Educators must be concerned that “decisive and dedicated efforts” be made to bring these young people se- curely into the continuity and main- stream of the American experience, she said, Mrs. Blanchard told the Convention about NEA’s Project on the Instruc- tional Program of the Public Schools —citing it as one example of “what the NEA is doing to help you to im- prove instruction.” She urged that the recommendations and publications of the project be used “as the focus for study by the teaching profession and large numbers of laymen.” Such study, she said, “can do much not only to im- prove education but also to give the organized profession a stronger image of concern about better education as well as salaries and working condi- tions.” members that Utah positions offered to them might not be vacant, and given nationwide publicity to the situa- tion, At the June 30-July 5 Detroit Con- vention, these prior efforts were ap- proved by the Representative Assem- bly, and the Executive Committee was directed “to remain ready at all times to continue such actions and to take promptly such further action as the Committee deems the situation re- quires, including the use of sanctions and other necessary measures.” Immediately following the Conven- tion, the NEA Board of Directors made available $500,000 “or more” to the Utah Education Association in the form of an interest-free loan. Desegregation, Civil Rights In 1962 a Representative Assembly resolution listed several principles to guide the Association with regard to the U. S. Supreme Court decision on school desegregation. To these princi- ples the 1963 Assembly added the following: “Extension of the principle of desegregation as it applies to pro- fessional membership in organizations affiliated with NEA.” The Assembly also approved a motion urging‘state and local associa- tions where racial membership restric- tions are still in effect to establish con- sultative committees to facilitate the removal of such restrictions. The As- sociation will assist local and state af- filiates through workshops, committees, and other activities to remove racial barriers in their associations. The Assembly adopted a motion urging Congressmen to support Presi- dent Kennedy’s civil rights program. The motion specifically asked Senators to do “all within their power” to: pre- vent a filibuster on the measure, In addition to the resolution on de- segregation, the Association approved — resolutions reaffirming the importance (See DELEGATE ACTION, page 4, column 1) NEA Reporter Replaces NEA News With this special convention issue, the NEA Reporter, which goes to every NEA member, su- persedes the NEA News, which was formerly sent to a smaller mailing list. The Reporter will be issued monthly except August (two issues will appear in Octo- ber). 2e ASHES at, STEAL Ba cor rs ee a he SS SEIT A ee St aes Otto ew ii RA oe, a Re Whats Decisions at NEA Convention Affect Nation’s Future, Carr Tells Delegates “The times call for a high order of dedication and statesmanship on the part of delegates to this great Convention,” NEA Executive Secretary William G. Carr said in his report in Cobo Hall July 1. The decisions made at the NEA Convention, he told the delegates, “will profoundly affect the future of ed- ucation and of the teaching profes Commissioner Keppel Urges NEA To Act Creatively on Issues U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel took the NEA to task in his speech July 2. “Surely the prob- lem of racial discrimination in the schools was identifiable years ago as a significant public policy calling for analysis, discussion, and especially for creative action,” Commissioner Keppel said. “True, such a large and complex problem could not have been solved by any one group, but it is unfortunate that a problem of such eminent moral and educational dimensions should have been left so much to the good offices of the legal profession and the courts. Early initiative and counsel by the teaching profession would have served the public interest.” The commissioner added that the Association has for years issued policy statements about education but that “public confidence in the profession and the profession’s contributions to the larger issues of public policy have not measurably been increased.” Furthermore, he said, we must now declare that “without massive improve- ment in the quality of American edu- cation, there can be no future for our way of life. Our society is well beyond the threshold of a technological revolu- tion in which there can be no good life for the poorly educated. “The profession should see itself as a contributor to the development of national policy, with all the obliga- tions and privileges pertaining there- to,” the commissioner concluded. He spoke at a special general assembly arranged cooperatively with the Stu- dent NEA. Following Mr. Keppel’s address, 1963-64 NEA President Robert H. Wyatt presided for the installation of new Student NEA of- ficers. and security of our nation.” In discussing sanctions, Dr. Carr stressed that “the application of sanc- tions is a very grave step. Its effective- ness will be lost if it is taken hastily or for trivial or transitory reasons.” He urged local and state associations to study the NEA document, Guide- lines for Professional Sanctions, before considering action in this area. Dr. Carr pointed out that during a recent White House conference with educators “there was general recogni- tion that the early school dropout is one of the most critical educational problems.” He invited each delegate to make a “personal, special effort” this summer to help retrieve as many as possible of ———————————— A letter urging each member of the profession to reach personally at least one potential dropout this summer has been sent from NEA Center to school superintendents, secondary and ele- mentary school principals, presidents of local education associations, super- visors of curriculum development, the professional staff of state education as- sociations, and classroom teacher leaders. these youngsters. “Get in touch with one potential dropout and family. Show them that the teachers and the school systems care deeply about what happens to them and that they owe it to themselves and to their country to stay in school next fall,” he said. He noted that the NEA Dropout Project, set up two years ago, has esti- mated that 300,000 youth may decide to quit school this summer and that such a move “will gravely impair their claim, their rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Dr. Carr also said that NEA “will not cease or reduce its efforts to im- prove the Overseas Dependent Schools until the Defense Department and the Congress live up to their commitments and the children of military personnel have first-class educational programs.” sion. Even more significant, they will affect the future prosperity USIA ‘Shortchanged,’ Murrow Tells NEA Delegates in Detroit “The effort to speak for the United States abroad has been shortchanged,” Edward R. Murrow, director of the U.S. Information Agency, told the Convention on July 1. He reported that the U.S. House of Representatives had trimmed the $157.9 million re- quested by the USIA to $142.7 mil- lion. He will seek to restore the cut in the Senate, he said. “We are a great power and are ex- pected to render great leadership. We cannot expect miracles to flow from the folly of frugality.” Outlining the many ways in which the USIA works side by side with edu- cators in training tomorrow’s leaders today, Mr. Murrow, former radio and TV commentator, spoke of the Voice of America, films, TV, publications, exhibits, libraries, and classes spon- sored by the USIA around the world. Turning to the USIA task of “re- flecting with fidelity what manner of man it is who inhabits this country,” Mr. Murrow pointed out that “in the months to come, we shall either have real progress to report in the field of race relations, or we shall be obliged to try to explain failure. . .. What we say about this aspect of American life in the months to come will depend on what you and other community leaders will do. Our reporting will mirror your response to the personal challenge of making this a land of truly equal opportunity for all.” Colored PTA Commends NEA A plaque presented to the NEA during a general session by Mrs. Jerome K. Morris, president of the Na- tional Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers, commended the NEA for distinguished service to education. 1962-63 NEA PRESIDENT HAZEL A. BLANCHARD completed her term of office on July 5 at the Convention. Here, ot the final session of the Convention, Mrs. Blanchard introduces 1963-64 NEA PRESIDENT ROBERT H. WYATT. Dr. Wyatt, who was elected at last year’s convention, is execu- five secretary, Indiana State Teachers Association. Mrs. Blanchard plans to return to her post as principal, Rowell Elementary School, Fresno, California. SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY at the NEA Convention: ® ment. At left, delegates who are attending their first NEA the purposes and mechanics of the Convention. In the | a few of the 260 exhibits that filled Hall C at Cobo # De eee New NEA Theme Selected New NEA President Robert H. Wyatt announced at the Convention that he had chosen “Education for Responsible Freedom” as the 1963- 64 NEA theme. Convention Reports e A fifteen-minute, full-color filmstrip and taped narration pre- senting high lights of the 101st NEA convention will be avail- able at $5 from the NEA Publi- cations Division beginning about August 15. This 1963 NEA Con- vention High Lights filmstrip is also available, with printed script only, for $3. ® Tape recordings of general sessions addresses may be or- dered at $2.50 per tape from Lois Rogers, NEA convention coordinator. @ Mimeographed copies of major speeches for which text is available may be obtained from the convention coordinator at $1 per packet. @ All of the major addresses and complete minutes of the busi- ness sessions are contained in the volume of Addresses and Pro- ceedings, which will be mailed early in November to all life members who have requested it. For persons other than life mem- bers the cost of the volume is $5. 400 Study Programed Learning Tools At 3-Day Preconvention Conference Some 400 teachers, administrators, and curriculum specialists learned how to judge programed learning materials during a three- day pre-NEA Convention conference in Detroit June 26-28. The National Conference on the Selection and Uses of Programed Instruction was sponsored by the NEA’s Division of Audiovisual In- struction, using in part funds granted by the Carnegie Corporation. One high point of the session was the report—by N. Sidney Archer and Samuel Sanzatto of the Pennsylvania State Department of Public Instruc- tion—of a research study among state students and educators who used pro- gramed materials this school year. They found overwhelming support for the new teaching method by every group. M. Daniel Smith, director of self- instruction at Earlham College, Rich- mond, Indiana, suggested in a speech that program writers are not going far enough fast enough. School children are able to study profitably much more complicated material than is offered, he said. NEA REPORTER Published monthly except August (two issues in October) by the National Edu- cation Association of the United States, 1201 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. * Robert H, Wyatt President William G. Carr....Executive Secretary Frank W. Hubbard... Assistant Executive Secretary for Information Services Mildred S, Fenner NEA REPORTER is mailed to all NEA members. Annual subscription price, 60 cents (included in membership dues and available only as a part of member- ship). Second-class postage paid at Wash- ington, D.C., post office. ORES eee wT etal ona abaccae ahi ecis ule? nc paglbesipemihtamiennabeiaeamie bell Sacre SENS 95 I pa 2 and musicians from Interlochen represent 21 states. Mahalia Jackson, often called “The World's Greatest Gospel Singer,” presented a concert June 30. Other musical entertain- Convention week included vocal selections by Norman Clayton, Con- and organ music by Wendell Kennedy, Convention organist. ranged from commercial displays (including the school bus seen here) to booths of state delegations to demonstrations of NEA services and materials. At right, dancers from the Interlochen Arts Academy, the nation’s first boarding high school for students gifted in the arts, entertain during Classroom Teacher Night, July 4, The dancers Petings, exhibits, entertain- Convention are briefed on enter, conventioneers study all in Detroit. The exhibits ment during the vention song leader, Utah Situation, Size of Assembly, Many Other Issues Discussed at NEA Department, Current-Topic Meetings Implications of Automation, Illiteracy, Classroom Teachers Install Goebel; Teachers’ Economic Status Studied Within the framework of the 101st annual meeting of the NEA, there were clusters of smaller meetings. The largest of these, the Department of Classroom Teachers, held an election of its own and installed Henry Goebel as president. DCT members elected at Detroit were Thelma F. Davis, of Griffin, Georgia, as president-elect; Elizabeth D. Koontz, of Salisbury, North Caro- lina, vice-president; Ruth Trigg, from Barrington, Illinois, secretary, and Anna Virginia Locke of Huntington, West Virginia, and Evelyn S. Brown of Omaha, Nebraska, as regional direc- tors. The Department passed two resolu- tions dealing with the Utah situation: one supporting Utah teachers and ask- ing that the NEA establish a fund for their financial assistance, another au- thorizing the Department president to take immediate steps to promote such a project. DCT members and guests donated $3,125 toward the fund at the Classroom Teacher Night Banquet July 4. The Department also announced the launching of the two-year project on “Time To Teach,” financed by a $20,- 000 grant from NEA. The project will aim at improving the quality of in- struction through proper use of the teacher’s time, energies, and skills. Speakers at meetings of the special- ized units of the NEA covered a va- riety of specialized topics. Herbert L. Brown, Jr., editor, Changing Times, said at the joint meeting of the NEA and the Magazine Publishers Associa- tion that “the rationalizations for dumping every problem onto the schools come too easily,” while W. H. Ferry told the meeting of the Associa- tion for Higher Education that Ameri- can higher education is not quite up to snuff. For example, some colleges should be concerned with quality; in- stead, they focus on quantity. Next, because they need more money, they play down controversy which is thought to be bad public relations. The new media also popped up as a concern of professional rights and re- sponsibilities in a new policy statement to define the role of television teachers approved by the NEA Board of Di- rectors. After more than a year’s work, there now is a set of guidelines to deal with the selection, status, pay, and du- ties of the teacher whose words are amplified through TV to reach thou- sands of viewers. Most teachers, of course, still face real live students. They had an im- mediate interest in the presentation by Sam M. Lambert on “Improving the THE CLASSROOM TEACHER Hall. The banquet was a celebration Teachers. NIGHT BANQUET on July 4 attracted 4,600 conventioneers to Cobo of the 50th anniversary of NEA’s Department of Classroom Vigilantes, Censors, Critics Considered Topics which reflect the impact of social and economic change on education, or education’s response through the schools or the organized profession, were Convention on July 4. The larges Economic Status of Teachers.” The NEA director of research reviewed gains made in the past decade and then listed three major roadblocks to fur- ther progress: (1) the overreliance on the general property tax and the fail- ure to provide needed federal aid; (2) the unwillingness of employers to pay women as much as men; and (3) the widely held view that teaching is not a full-time job. Byron L. Johnson, consultant to the Agency for International Development, made a related point at the open meet- ing of the NEA Legislative Commis- sion: “I speak today . . . (for) a non- voting constituency—our children and youth of school age. . . .” He saw a need for “prudent uses of superior fed- eral taxing power” and expressed the hope that the Congress may yet recon- cile some of its different approaches to federal aid to education so as to pro- vide for better schools. Other speakers at the departmental meetings of the NEA touched on cur- rent fads, on meaningful innovation, and encompassed a review of the Man- power Development and Training Act of 1962, discussed at length by Ho- bart H. Sommers, regional representa- tive of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Member Suspended For Ethics Violation Following hearings held in Detroit on June 26, the NEA Executive Com- mittee voted to suspend one member of the Association and censure a sec- ond for violations of the NEA Code of Ethics. The cases were presented to the Executive Committee by the Com- mitte on Professional Ethics. A third individual was sent a reprimanding letter. The actions of the Association members were first reported to the Ethics Committee by the NEA Com- mission on Professional Rights and Responsibilities following an investiga- tion of the school system in which they were employed, discussed in nine major groups at the t working groups were those on “Affiliation and Representation,” com- posed of 800 state-designated dele- gates and local association representa- tives, and on “The Local Association Develops Effective Communication— Inside and Outside.” The purpose of these groups was to study various aspects of affiliation and representation: optimum size of the NEA Representative Assembly, ineq- uities of representation, definition of a local association, and the basis of delegate representation to the Repre- sentative Assembly. Recommendations will be referred to affiliates for study and will be used to initiate bylaws re- vision, A group on “The Educational Impli- cations of Automation” heard Manage- ment Consultant John Diebold state that it is important to understand how fundamental change is before we ask what are its implications. “We must determine how to educate people for a world in which the ground rules change every few years.” The “RX: Infectious Ignorance” meeting heard Raymond M. Hilliard and Deton J. Brooks, Jr., of the Cook County (Illinois) Department of Pub- lic Aid, describe Chicago's adult edu- cation program for illiterate public- welfare citizens. “Without literacy skills,” Mr. Hilliard said, “these indi- viduals not only become lifelong wel- fare recipients themselves, but set up the probability that their children will become relief recipients.” Various kinds of pressures on the schools were considered in the group on “Coping with the Vigilantes, Cen- sors, and Critics in 1963.” Chairman Robert H. Wyatt called attention to the fact that throughout history a mul- | titude of influences have sought to re~ strict the freedom of the public school — to serve the purposes of our demo- 7% cratic society. The “School Social Work” section | used a dramatic presentation, devel- — oped by a committee of Michigan © Visiting Teachers, to show the social — worker at work with the child, his — family, and the school to solve prob- —@ lems of adjustment which prevent ef- —@ fective learning. f Special Workshops Focus on Urban Affairs, Membership, Publications, New Delegates Four special workshops—for urban delegates, membership re- cruiters, editors of association publications, and new delegates— were conducted during Convention week. The Urban Project’s Sunday afternoon workshop, with NEA’s DELEGATE ACTION ... (Continued from page 1, column 4) of public education, urging teachers to assume their full status as citizens, stat- ing that professional salaries should range from $6,000 to at least $13,000, urging income tax deductions for pro- fessional expenses, calling upon all citizens to work cooperatively in im- proving the educational, economic, and environmental status of disadvantaged Americans, and deploring the failure of the Department of Defense to re- quest Congress for funds to keep salaries of overseas teachers in line with salaries of teachers in the United States. Other resolutions directed NEA of- ficers and staff to continue special ac- tivities and services to urban areas, re- affirmed the Association’s determina- tion to seek federal support of educa- tion, called upon the profession and boards of education to establish clearly the professional negotiation rights of teachers, reaffirmed NEA’s belief in sanctions as a means of preventing un- ethical policies and practices, urged further efforts to inform the public of the financial needs of schools, and called upon the profession to imple- ment its Code of Ethics as one way to raise professional standards. (Full text of all resolutions may be obtained af- ter August | from the Resolutions Committee, NEA Center.) New Bylaws Several new bylaws were approved by a vote of the delegates: (1) auto- matically suspending from membership any member convicted by a court of law of a crime involving moral turpi- tude; (2) requiring adherence to the Code of Ethics as a condition of mem- bership; (3) requiring that delegates _be members of both their state associa- tion and of NEA in states where both types of membership are required of delegates to the state’s representative assembly; (4) making the term of members of NEA standing committees five years with one member being ap- pointed each year and no one eligible Allan M. West presiding, focused on “The Power of Comprehensive Pro- grams” for urban associations. Some 400 urban leaders attended. Frederick L. Hipp, executive secre- tary of the New Jersey Education As- sociation, spoke frankly about the edu- cation associations’ “responsibilities in improving the economic and welfare status of members.” John T. Christenson, executive sec- retary of the Spokane Education As- sociation, outlined five major areas of concern in improving educational sery- ices in which urban associations could effectively provide Jeadership: im- provement of instruction, enforcing the code of ethics, advancing stand- ards, expanding in-service training, and developing public understanding. The Special Workshop on Member- ship, chaired by Ivan A. Booker, NEA membership director, featured Dean Streiff, NEA field representative, as keynote speaker. The workshop for editors was co- sponsored with the Educational Press Association of America. More than 200 editors of local, state, and na- tional publications met to study ways of improving their publications. to serve successive terms; and (5) providing that the Resolutions Commit- tee shall include as many. representa- tives from each state or commonwealth as each unit has NEA directors. Treasurer Lyman Ginger reported NEA assets as totaling $16,674,746 on May 31, 1963. About 60 percent of this total is the cost less deprecia- tion of the Association's real property. Chairman F. L. Schlagle, NEA Board of Trustees, and 1962-63 Pres- ident Hazel A. Blanchard burned the NEA Center mortgage before the Rep- resentative Assembly, symbolizing .that the ‘Association became debt free in spring of 1963. The net assets of -the Permanent Fund totaled approximately $12.5 million in May 1963; about $11.1 million is in land and buildings. The operating budget approved for 1963-64 is $9,486,000, a $500,000 increase over 1962-63. re SMALL GROUP MEETINGS were also a part of the Convention. Here delegates at one of the sessions of the urban workshop hear FREDERICK L, HIPP, executive. secretary, New Jersey Edu- cation Association, discuss associations’ responsibilities in improving the economic and welfare status of members. Too Many Teachers Run from Their Social Commitments, Lantos Declares “Too many teachers are running away from their social commit- ments,” Thomas P. Lantos, director of international programs, The California State Colleges, told the final session of the Convention on July 5. “To be safe and to be a teacher are incompatible goals 19 Winners Receive School Bell Awards For Fine Reporting Excellence in education reporting was in the spotlight at the Second General Assembly when National School Bell awards were presented to 19 winners in the fields of publishing and ‘broadcasting. Selected by six national organiza- tions in the educational field, awards this year went to Changing Times, Harper’s Magazine, Parents’ Magazine, Ebony, Better Homes & Gardens, Saturday Evening Post, Saturday Re- view, Look, The Reporter, The Ro- tarian, Architectual Forum, American Youth, and Tartan. Also honored were the Associated Press and the North American News- paper Alliance. For broadcasting, wal- nut-based bronze medallions depict- ing in relief an old-fashioned school bell also were given to three TV programs: Bell & Howell Close Up!, CBS Reports, and Hazel. Presenting the awards was E. Dale Kennedy,. executive secretary of the Michigan Education Association, and president-elect of the National School Public Relations Association (NEA), which serves as coordinating agency for the six national organizations that sponsor the awards. in this age—or indeed in any age,” he said. “The future of this nation rests where it began,” Dr. Lantos con- tinued, “in the ability of its citizens to identify and understand the big issues. This demands the cultivation of an open mind, and the fullest exer- cise of the right of free speech—for it must never be supposed that the menace of the closed mind can be overcome by the suppression of its right to be heard.” Among the “closed minds” in the nation, he said, are “the self-appointed patriot”—“the consummate example of ignorance in action.” This indi- vidual’s mind “is closed to the fact that most people in America are op- posed to communism. His mind is closed to the fact that we do have real problems in this country, cre- ated by major economic and social forces. He is more satisfied to find a conspiracy behind every problem, for it is much easier to be anguished and venomous about a mysterious and omnipresent conspiracy than it is to face the hard and often frustrating task of working at real problems,” Dr. Lantos told the conventioneers. “Unfortunately, the lunatic right has no exclusive franchise on the closed mind,” he added. Also closed is the mind of the “fuzzy-minded peacenik” who views his own expres- sion of concern as an end, as a substi- tute for an effective foreign policy. 'Mr. Novak,’ ‘The Great Adventure’ TV Series Previewed at Convention Mr. Novak attended his first NEA convention this year and found it to be The Great Adventure. Both are new hour-long weekly television series of spe- cial interest to educators, and representatives of each ap- peared at the Convention to brief delegates on what they can expect to see when NBC’s Mr. Novak and CBS’s The Great Adventure show up on their own TV sets in the fall, Treated to a special sneak-preview of the first episode of the Mr. Novak series, delegates attending the Third Gen- eral Session, July 3, also heard its creator and executive producer, E. Jack Neuman of MGM Television, explain how the series will strive to portray the problems and joys of a handsome young high school English teacher experiencing his first year in a large metropolitan, high school. On July 4, Robert F. Lewine, vice-president, pro- grams, Hollywood, CBS Television Network, introduced _ The Great Adventure as a major series on American history that will educate as well as entertain. The Great Adventure will feature a representative of the NEA on _ each program. _ Starting September 27, The Great Adventure will be _ Seen on CBS-TV each Friday. Starting September 24, Mr. _ Novak will be seen on NBC-TV each Tuesday. 4 eee. < COBO HALLS ARENA, one of the largest in America, had room to spare for the 6,800 delegates, 4,000 other educators, and numerous lay visitors attending the NEA Convention. $ NA ‘e) ale {= WS ° ® NEA President Sees Faster Legislative Pace (<é*32%) VOL. 2, NO. 4 SEPTEMBER 20, 1963 G7 WASHINGTON, D. C. Utah Teachers Reopen Negotiations After Governor Names Committee ).e- ; — NEA HAVE YOU BEEN Schools in State Open on Schedule; Delegates Vote 4 to 1 To Accept Committee as First Step to Solution All schools in the state of Utah opened on schedule after members of the Utah Education Association, by a four to one vote, agreed to proceed with contract negotiations. Their vote came after the Utah governor appointed a 12-man committee to study school COMMISSWNED? DISTRICT 2 (ALAMO DISTRICT) in Texas is one of thousands of NEA affiliates now laying plans for thei: current membership drives. Project 64 commissions will play a big part in the district's mem- bership push this year, At a planning session in Son Antonio on August 1, MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN JOE BERNAL (left) points to the map os he outlines the district's plans to (left to right) ESTHER BERNHARD, of San Antonio; JENNINGS FLATHERS, NEA field representative; GRACE M. SCOTT, an NEA director from Texas; and STEPHEN lL, CATALANI, president of the Alamo District. Over 7,000 Members Commissioned For Project 64 as Efforts Continue In NEA ‘Million or More’ Campaign More than 7,000 members have accepted commissions in NEA's Project 64, Karl H. Berns, NEA assistant executive secretary for field operations, announced this week. Each member who is com- missioned agrees to obtain declarations of intent to join the Associa- tion from five persons who were not NEA members last year. Project 64 was launched at the NEA Convention in Detroit, where 3,061 delegates were commissioned. The Project is part of the NEA “Million Or More” membership campaign. Dr, Berns said that one of the most effective persons who has received a Commission so far is James E. Bren- Nan, a classroom teacher from Berea, ae The NEA Journal, as part of the A roject 64 effort, will send five special “Look What You’re Missing ...” kits to each of the first 100 members to Write for Project 64 commissions after reading this announcement. The kits, designed as membership promotion Pieces, include reprints of recent Jour- nal materials. Members who want the free kits should write directly to the Journal, including their requests for Project 64 commissions. ae Ohio. Mr. Brennan; who is also chair- Man of his local association TEPS Committee, has filled 11 commissions to date—signing up 55 persons. _ Commissions, badges, and mate- Nals for Project 64 may be obtained from many local association leaders and from Project 64, NEA Center. New Code of Ethics Adopted by 5 State Education Associations Five state education associations and one NEA department have already acted to join with NEA in formally adopting the new Code of Ethics of the Education Profession. The new code, adopted by the NEA Representative Assembly at the De- troit Convention this year, has been accepted by the Alaska Education As- sociation, the Michigan Education Association, the Mississippi State Teachers Association, the Montana Education Association, the Oklahoma Education Association, and the Ameri- can Industrial Arts Association (an NEA department). Ed Elliott, chairman, NEA Commit- tee on Professional Ethics, expressed satisfaction with the warm response which the code is receiving and an- nounced that the committee is now working to develop guidelines for implementing the code at all levels of the profession. conditions in the state. On August 3, a special UEA convention passed, by 4,586 votes to 1.148, a resolution recommending that the appointment of the study cOmmittee “be regarded as a first step toward the resolution of the present impasse and that the con- dition of impasse be temporarily set aside pending the committee’s action and its review at a spring meeting of the [UEA] House of Delegates.” John C. Evans, Jr., UEA executive secretary, said he has “every expecta- tion that the study committee will give a full and fair hearing to the problems of education in Utah and that it will establish the machinery needed to bring about improvements.” He added that Utah teachers now have “confidence in the future of education in their state.” NEA Executive Secretary William G. Carr, in a telegram to UEA Presi- dent Moroni L. Jensen and Mr. Evans, congratulated the teachers of Utah for their action. “Utah teachers are to be commended,” Dr. Carr said, “for their insistence on a greater role in determin- ing educational policy, on higher edu- cation goals for their state, and for their firm position that these goals be achieved. “The substantial salary increases authorized by the legislature and now the promise of improvements in the educational program as a result of the recently appointed citizens committee are eloquent testimony to the effective- ness of the Utah Education Associa- tion,” Dr. Carr said. UEA Vote in March The UEA membership, at a special convention last March, voted to inter- rupt all contract negotiations with Utah boards of education for the 1963-64 school year until evidence was seen of steps toward improved quality educa- tion for the state’s children. In April, NEA promised “strong support” for the Utah teachers and urged Governor George D. Clyde to call a special ses- sion of the legislature to deal with education. At the NEA Convention in Detroit, delegates directed the NEA Executive Committee “to remain ready at all times” to continue NEA actions in (See UTAH TEACHERS, page 4, column 2) Tactics Used in New York City Decried by Carr The tactics used in New York City, prior to the opening of schools Sep- tember 9, “do not represent values that can be taught to American public school children,” NEA Executive Sec- retary William G. Carr said last week. “Deeply disturbing extremes were reached when some of. their leaders openly called on all teachers to defy both the statutes and a court injunc- tion.” Members of New York City’s United Federation of Teachers threat- ened to strike unless more money was found for their salaries. The strike was called off just prior to opening day when union leaders accepted a two- year contract proposed by a mediation panel. “In New York City,” Dr. Carr said, “a situation has been created where teachers have been led to be- lieve that better schools and salary gains can be won only by threats, “In terms of public acrimony and internal bitterness,” Dr. Carr went on, “the price was high for very small gains. The increases were chiefly in promises, to become effective over 16 months, beginning April 1964. In all of 1963-64, no teacher will receive an adjustment of more than $32.50 for the entire year. A striking contrast is provided by the adjustment this fall in Denver. With no civic crisis, no na- tional headlines, Denver teachers have received increases effective this month ranging from $425 to $750.” The NEA REPORTER is being sent to all NEA members this school year, It will appear monthly, but with two issues in October. 2 ne eceeleh Wage ware ae ne a ae ee eee Oi a aN ne Be] Congress May Yet Set ‘Substantial’ Record | In Education Legislation, NEA President Says: Wyatt Sees Passage of Several Bills, Including Civil Rights, Tax Reduction Congress is apparently resigned to remaining in Washington until “after the snow flies,” although it is beginning to quicken its pace and shape up a substantial domestic legislation record. Such is the as- sessment of NEA President Robert H. Wyatt after recent talks with congressional leaders and NEA legislative spokesmen. Deton J. Brooks, Jr. Project Coordinator 3 Urban Associations Will Offer Programs Of Adult Education Three urban education associations will take part this school year in a project to develop education programs for adults who have not finished high school. The associations—in three large cities to be announced later this month—will receive help for the project from the NEA Urban Project, the NEA Division of Adult Education Service, and the National Association of Public School Adult Educators, an NEA department. Coordinating the project work will be ‘Deton J. Brooks, Jr., director of research and statistics, Cook County (Illinois) Department of Public Aid. Mr. Brooks will also be the author of a booklet telling how an urban associa- tion can interest adults in going back to school and where and how to get financing for programs of basic adult education. The booklet will be made available to all NEA-affiliated urban associations. The project will involve the use of the TV literacy series, Operation Al- phabet. The TV series is scheduled to begin in January in the three cities. Dr. Wyatt told the NEA REPORTER: “Irrespective of the derisive cries of a ‘Do-Nothing Congress,’ present indi- cations are that the full year’s perfor- mance will be far better than the lead- ership once believed attainable—and not too far from the goals President Kennedy originally set. “Congressional leaders believe Con- gress will be here to celebrate Christ- mas and possibly New Year’s, break- ing every duration record since the Korean War: A new session of the Congress comes up on January 3 and that means legislation will not die over the year’s end, but could move through in the second session.” Dr. Wyatt emphasized that tax re- duction and civil rights are the two key programs that the Administration wants to see enacted now—in the first session. However, he added, “pros- pects are that many more bills, now stalled in one chamber or the other, will also be enacted into law this year. Major “Lesser” Bills To Move “Congressional leaders are not for- getting for a minute many major, but ‘lesser,’ bills on the House and Senate dockets,” Dr. Wyatt elaborated. “Rec- ognizing that as long as Negroes lack education and training, their economic plight and the tension of racial strife will remain grave, President Kennedy decided to put training and education in his civil rights message. The Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Departments developed a $400 million package emphasizing literacy courses and vocational education for youths.” This “job-opportunities package,” Dr. Wyatt pointed out, includes $100 million to expand the Manpower De- velopment and Training Act of 1962, primarily to teach courses in reading and writing and to increase almost six- fold the number of youths who could be trained for jobs under the act. It also includes $50 million for training (See LEGISLATION, page 4, column 1) NEA PRESIDENT ROBERT H. WYATT (left) and CONGRESSMAN JOHN W. McCORMACK, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, discuss the present legislative situation and the out- look for education and training bills in the 88th Congress. Photo by Purcell Teachers in Waterbury, Connecticut, Spurn Extracurricular Duty in Protest Teachers in Waterbury, Connecticut, have been asked by their local and state education associations to refuse to volunteer for extra- curricular activities ‘ formal teaching duties.” ‘which are not part of their regularly assigned The action has been taken as a protest against “public apathy and political expediericy”: which have brought about “‘a gradual decline” in the edu- cational program of Waterbury, the Waterbury Teachers Association said. Specifically, the WTA charged that a budget supported by the association has not been accepted by city author- ities. “The Waterbury _ teachers, through the Waterbury Teachers Asso- ciation, have struggled valiantly to halt the deterioration of the education pro- gram,” the WTA said. “In 1956, the State Commissioner of Education was asked to intervene. . . . The National Education Association was asked to help. A special committee of the NEA, upon request of the WTA and the Connecticut Education Association, reviewed the Waterbury program dur- ing the school year 1962-63 and issued a full report of its findings. “The Waterbury Board of Education this past summer submitted a budget which would make possible many of the suggested improvements,” the NEA Affiliates, Members Invited To Contribute: fo Fund For Free Schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia On August 22, a letter signed by NEA President Robert H. Wyatt invited all NEA affiliates and members to contribute to the Prince Edward Free School Association, which has been organized to pro- vide schools open to all children of Prince Edward County, Virginia. Most of the 1,700 Negro children of the comnty: have been deprived of an education since 1959, when the public schools there were closed in a move to avoid integration. The free schools opened on September 16. In the past few weeks, donations and promises of action have come to NEA Center from several large city associations and from the California state association. The first contribution to the Prince Edward Free School Association was made on August 20 by the NEA Cen- ter staff. The donation was more than $2,000. The NEA staff has also given assistance in the recruitment of staif. In his letter inviting contributions, NEA President Wyatt pointed out that “at Detroit, the Representative Assem- bly adopted a motion calling upon the NEA to seek ways to provide scholar- ships for students in Prince Edward County. . . . Since the Detroit Con- vention, a biracial group of distin- guished Virginia educators has organ- ized the Prince Edward Free School Association. . . . The plan is to provide free, privately supported schools for one year pending the opening of the public schools through legal proce- dures, Scholarships are unnecessary since a free school will be open to all children. “The Prince Edward Free School Association, however, does need sup- port,” President Wyatt’s letter said. “It needs about $1,000,000 from indj- viduals, organizations and foundations. The Executive Committee of the NEA believes that many state and local edu- cation associations, as well as individ- ual members, will wish to join in contributing (federal tax deduction al- lowable) to the Prince Edward Free School Association, Box 2000, Wash- ington, D. C., until February 15, 1964, or until the amount required is raised.” WTA said. “The city authorities have not, as yet, indicated a willingness to accept the recommendations of the Board of Education.” Connecticut Education Association support of the WTA action was an- nounced on September 5 by CEA Executive Secretary Wilfred J. Shee- han. “The CEA,” Dr. Sheehan said, “will continue to support all proper means of alerting the public to the plight of the Waterbury schools until city officials realize the shortsighted- ness of their past actions and take steps to return Waterbury to a position of prominence in support of its public schools.” Six Regional Salary Schools Set by NEA During Fall Months Six regional NEA salary schools will be held this year in place of a single national school, the NEA Salary Con- sultant Service recently announced. The schools will be conducted in Washington, D. C, (September 26-28), New York City (September 29-October 1), San Mateo, California (October 6- 8), Dallas (October 10-12), Lincoln, Nebraska (October 13-15), and Indi- anapolis (October 17-19). For the past five years, one salary school has been held annually at NEA Center. The decision to expand the number of schools was made, the Con- sultant Service said, “in order to in- volve a greater number of association leaders in this school program.” Each of the six invitational schools will include an opening address by T. M. Stinnett, NEA Assistant Execu- tive Secretary for Professional Devel- opment and Welfare, as well as ad- dresses by several other professional leaders. CURRENT What's Going On in TV, Radio, Press, and National Magazines Television With the start of a new season, all three networks will continue the type of programing for children begun last year. ABC-TV's Discovery ‘63 Moves this year into a once-a-week time slot, Sundays, 12:30-1 P.M., E.D.T. Exploring will again be shown on NBC-TV every Saturday afternoon (1-2 P.M., E.D.T.). Season premiere is set for October 12. CBS-TV has replaced last year’s Reading Room with a new informational series called Do You Know?, scheduled to debut October 12 (12:30-1 P.M., E.D.T.). NBC News will present The Wash- ington Negro, an hour-long appraisal by Chet Huntley of race relations in the nation’s capital, Thursday, Septem- ber 26 (10-11 P.M., E.D.T.). A new public affairs series titled Chronicle will premiere next month on CBS-TV. The programs will be de- voted to examining mankind’s ideas, culture, and institutions, and will com- Mence with a study of the French People as revealed through their litera- ture (Wednesday, October 2, 7:30- 8:30 P.M., E.D.T.). On October 9, the show will focus on American folk history from the time of John Quincy Adams through the words and memo- ties of people now in their late 80’s and 90’s (Wednesday, 7:30-8 P.M., E.D.T.). ABC News’ Direction '64 series will begin its fourth season with “Direc- tions in Israel,” a five-part study of Israel’s artistic culture and_ historic Past, on Sunday, October 6 (1-1:30 P.M., E.D.T.). Magazines Life Magazine will begin a four- Part series on the American High School with its September 27th issue. The October issue of Woman's Day Stresses the need for early identification Of gifted youngsters in a feature on “The Dimensions of Creativity.” The October Good Housekeeping asks parents “Are Your Child’s Text- books Outdated?” and tells what to do if they are. Also in GH: “Caroline’s Wonderful Little White House School,” by Helen Thomas and “Here’s What Public Schools Can Do About Re- ligion,” by Arthur S. Flemming, former Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The differences between school Phobia and truancy are defined by Dr. James M. Toolan in a Parents’ Maga- Zine article, “When a Child Is Afraid Of School.” “Not Like Other Children” explores the problems in educating slum chil- dren in a Redbook feature by Bernard Asbell, NEA REPORTER Published monthly except August (two is- sues in October) by the National Education Association of the United States, 1201 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Robert H. Wyatt President William G. Carr... ...Execulive Secretary Frank W. Hubbard. ...Assistant Executive Secretary for Information Services Mildred §, Fenner,.........+++++» Editor NEA REPORTER is mailed to all NEA Members. Annual subscription price, 60 cents (included in membership dues and Available only as a part of membership). Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C., post office. ON HIS WAY HOME from the August meeting of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession in. Rio de Janeiro, SADAMITSU MIYANOHARA, president éf the 500,000 member Japan Teachers Union, along with nine other members of the Japanese delegation to the WCOTP Conference, stopped at the NEA Center. During the visit Mr. Miyanohara presented a gift (on mantel in center) to WILLIAM G. CARR, WCOTP secretary general and NEA executive secretary, pointing out tha} the plate was made by an old, old process of baking and painting that has recently been revived in Japan. WCOTP, with a membership of 139 national associations (the Japanese group is second in size only to the NEA) from 85 countries, had as the theme of this year’s meeting ‘‘Con- ditions of Work for Quality Teaching.” 6 Industrial Arts Affiliates The American Industrial Arts Asso- Time To Teach Project Begun By NEA Grant The Department of Classroom Teachers has received a $20,000 grant from NEA to launch a two-year Time To Teach Project, Margaret Stevenson, DCT executive secretary, announced recently. The project’s purposes, she said, are to identify the conditions that contribute to teacher overload and to make recommendations to relieve pres- sures on the teacher. The project will aim at improving the quality of instruction through better use of the teacher’s time, energies, and skills, Miss Stevenson said. Emphasis will be placed on the well-being of the teacher and the student, and consider- ation will be given to such matters as class size, staff-pupil ratio, utilization of audiovisual and programed learn- ing materials, and the role of nonpro- fessional assistants in the schools. Maryland Teacher To Represent NEA ciation has recently received affiliates On CBS-TV ‘Great Adventure’ Show from the following six states: Maine, Indiana, Kansas, New Jersey, Florida, and Tennessee. This brings to 35 the number of state affiliates, with 92 student groups. There are also AIAA affiliates in Canada, the Philippines, . E.D.T.). and Puerto Rico. . President Kennedy Urges ‘Commitment’ During '63 American Education Week fy I, ie Biss AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK NOVEMBER 10-16 IN A SPECIAL PROCLAMATION, President Kennedy has designated American Education Week, November 10-16, as a time for all Americans to inform themselves regarding education and its problems “and to work toward the resolution of these problems with deep commitment and a sense of urgency.” : babe . If purchases of promotional and informational materials from the NEA are any indication, it appears as if this year's AEW observance will be the most extensive ever, Sales for June, July, and August are more than double what they were last year for those months. FRANK W. HUBBARD, NEA assistant executive secretary for information services, gave several reasons for the increase in AEW activity. He attributed it to “earlier availability of materials, increased participation by cosponsors, and the pertinency of the theme and daily topics to current concerns.” This year’s theme is "Education Strengthens the Nation.” It is developed by seven daily topics which place special emphasis on fuller educational opportunities for all citizens. AEW packets, con- taining more than 30 planning, promotion, and information items, can still be obtained from the NEA at $2 each. Order from American Education Week, NEA, 1201 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Refer to stock no. 058-01968. An AEW planning folder-order form, that lists all available materials, is available free upon request. A high school history teacher from Beltsville, Maryland, will repre- sent NEA on the new weekly CBS Television Network series The Great Adventure, premiering Friday, September 27 (7:30-8:30 P.M., He is Gerald F. Gough, 32, who teaches a problems of democracy course to 11th and 12th grade students in Beltsville’s High Point High School. His assignment in each hour-long TV program will be to comment on the historical episode portrayed and dis- cuss its educational implications. The Great Adventure series, a pio- neering effort in network commercial television, will move back and forth through time illuminating dramatic events or personalities in the history of the United States. Narrated by Van Heflin, the series will tap the talents of such actors and actresses as Jackie Cooper, Joseph Cotten, Lloyd Nolan, and Ethel Waters in various episodes. The September 27 opener will deal with the Confederate ship Hunley, the first undersea boat ever to sink another ship. Subjects of other shows in the series will range from Sitting Bull to Boss Tweed, from a battle of Cali- fornia farmers against a _ railroad monopoly to Andrew Jackson’s excit- ing adventures in the American Rev- olution. In addition to Mr. Gough’s appear- ances on each program of the series, another educational tie-in with The Great Adventure will be provided by the' free classroom discussion guides and reading lists being prepared by the National Council for the Social Studies, an NEA department, in cooperation with CBS Television. Teachers who wish to use these study guides to pre- pare students for viewing the pro- grams should contact their local CBS Television Network station for infor- mation. 100 at Citizenship Luncheon More than 100 educators attended an invitational luncheon for delegates to the National Conference on Citizen- ship, held this week at the NEA Cen- ter. Thomas E. Robinson, NEA Citi- zenship Committee chairman, presided at the luncheon, which included a brief- ing session and a period for reactions on the focus and immediate goals of the committee. aS aR aa MN HA hg SINAN ce es SN nee AS i ¢ fe aetlR fi earraeY VAS NPAT ML RI AIS Arman 75,000 to 100,000 Dropouts Rescued Efforts throughout the nation this summer to persuade students not to drop out of school have been, “without a doubt, very success- ful,” NEA Dropout Project Director Daniel Schreiber said last week. “From the figures I’ve seen,” he said, “I think that 75,000 to 100,000 dropouts and potential dropouts will be back in school this fall.” NEA and five of its departments launched an “Each One Reach One” drive in July aimed at retrieving “as many as possible of the boys and girls who are teetering on the edge of drop- ping out.” During July, nearly 100,- 000 letters went to educators through- out the nation urging “every member of our profession to make a personal effort.” The letter was signed by the American Association of School Ad- ministrators, the Association for Pauper: vision and Curriculum Devclobunnn, the Department of Classroom Teach- ers, the National Association of Sec- ondary-School Principals, the Depart- ment of Elementary School Principals, and the NEA. At a news conference on August 2, President Kennedy announced that he was “asking school principals, clergy- men, trade union leaders, business leaders, arcane in this ae to Ser : THE HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP was attended by members from 13 nations during a two-week meeting this month at NEA Center. Israel, Malaya, Haiti, LEGISLATION... (Continued from page 2, column 2) people on relief rolls so that they could get jobs. Under another part of the proposal, $150 million in federal funds would be channeled into high school vocational education courses, with special em- phasis placed on work-study programs in big cities to keep potential dropouts in school. Finally, it asks for $100 million to double the size of the pro- posed Youth Conservation Corps and the Home Town Youth Corps. All of the job opportunities pro- posals have been endorsed by the Na- tional Education Association. Dr. Wyatt added: “As you know, ever sincé President Kennedy sent his message on Civil Rights and Job Op- portunities to the Congress in mid- June, most press, radio, and television coverage has centered on non-discrim- ination in public accommodations, and the establishment of a Fair Employ- ment Practices Commission. “In Congress, however, the job op- portunities sections of the across-the- board civil rights program—that is, those provisions more directly con- cerned with education—have been progressing more satisfactorily through the Congress. These measures consist 2 Elementary Schools Given Library Grants Two elementary schools—one in New York state and one in the state of Washington—have been selected as demonstration centers of advanced library programs. The schools will receive grants as part of a five-year $1,130,000 project supported by the Knapp Foundation and directed by the American Library Association through the American Association of School Librarians. The two schools are the Central Park Road Elementary School, Plain- view, N. Y., and the Marcus Whitman Elementary School, Richland, Wash. Each school will receive more than $40.000, In a session above are members from Belgium, Ecuador, the United States, and two from Cyprus. The workshop is Sponsored by the International Council on Health, of State. of four series of bills which remain separate from the omnibus civil rights bill.” To a reporter’s question, “Does ty- ing the several educational and job- training proposals into the civil rights crisis hurt them, help them, or make any difference at all?” Dr. Wyatt re- plied: “There are indications that the intensity of the civil rights battle will boost the chances for enactment of some of these proposals, The voca- tional education program and the man- power development training program already had considerable bipartisan backing, and the adult literacy bill and the youth employment bill faced tough sledding before the civil rights crisis de- veloped and are probably no worse off now.” (Already, the vocational educa- tion bill has passed the House. Some amendments to the Manpower De- velopment and Training Act have passed the Senate, as has a youth em- ployment bill. ) “Moreover,” Dr. Wyatt added, “be- cause President Kennedy has commited the authority and prestige of his office to civil rights legislation, and because of pressure from Congressional liberals of both political parties, it is generally UTAH TEACHERS... (Continued from page 1, column 3) support of the Utah teachers and “to take promptly such further action as the Committee deems the situation re- quires, including the use of sanctions and other necessary measures.” Immediately following the Conven- tion, the NEA Board of Directors ap- proved a loan of $500,000 or more to the UEA. Had the schools in Utah not opened this fall, the money would have served as “unemployment insurance” for the teachers, UEA Executive Secre- tary Evans said. The study committee appointed by the Utah governor is charged with pre- senting a progress report in time for action to be taken for improvement of the school situation for the 1964-65 year. “This means the committee should have a report by about April 1,” Mr. Evans said. concern themselves” with the dropout problem. He also announced that he was providing $250,000 from the Presidential Emergency Fund “on an emergency basis for guidance coun- selors in the month of August to see if we can get some of these boys and girls back to school.” Mr. Schreiber said that reports had come to him that 1,500 boys and girls had been persuaded to return to school in New York City; 800 in Washington, D. C.; and more than 200 in Kansas City. He said that newspaper editorial support of the campaign had been excellent, and that in some summer education school sessions teachers had been urged to work with dropouts. Physical Education, and Recreation in cooperation with the U.S. Department NEA's American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation is host to the group, which will spend severcl weeks in educa- tion travel while in the United States. ICHPER is an international member of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession. felt that resolution of the racial prob- lem will override everything else.” As for the Administration’s omnibus education bill, the National Education Improvement Act (S 580), Dr. Wyatt said that the Education Subcommittee of the Senate Labor and Public Wel- fare Committee decided on September 11 to treat the omnibus bill on an installment basis—a decision already reached in the House. Some observers expect an amendment to the college facilities bill, already passed by the House, to limit construction grants to certain types of buildings, probably those used for instruction in science, mathematics, engineering, and foreign language. Also awaiting Senate ac- tion is the House-approved measure to aid vocational education. “Beyond these two measures, we will just have to wait and see. There seems to be considerable congres- sional support for extension of the impacted areas program, and for ex- tension and expansion of NDEA. While mindful of the obstacles, we are hope- ful that we will see some favorable action on general aid to public elemen- tary and secondary schools in the current season.’ Mr. Evans sie out that Utah’s teachers have already won “consider- able” salary gains for the current year. He estimated the average 1963-64 in- crease for Utah teachers at between $600 and $700. , He added that salaries alone were not the reason for the interruption of contract negotiations. Rather, he said, the chief concern of the UEA’s 10,000 members is for improved educational opportunities for children in the state. A special NEA committee, oper- ating under the National Commission on Professional Rights and Responsi- bilities, has been aiding the UEA. The committee has scheduled a one-week visit to Utah this fall to support the UEA in its work. In a UEA news letter dated July 30, Mr. Evans expressed “hearty and sin- cere” appreciation to NEA for its “rec- ord of prompt and vigorous action” to aid the Utah teachers. NAMES 20) 180% NEWS Elmon S. Ousley, 1963 Teacher of the © Year from Bellevue (Wash.) High School, and Walton Bliss, former ex- ecutive secretary of the Ohio Educa-— tion Association who is retired, have © joined the staff of the NEA in promot- ing membership through Project 64. ~ They will travel extensively, working — with state associations affiliated with | Henry S. Noerdlinger, — the NEA. ... motion picture research consultant and | author who was with M-G-M for many years, NEA’s newly established Motion Pic- ture, Television, and Radio Information Center in the Kirkeby Center, 10889 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. . . . Reba has been named manager of | I. Anderson, teacher in the Hutchinson ~ (Kans.) Junior College, Legislative Commission’s new chair- man. Newly appointed to the Com- mission this summer Doran, president of Morehead (Ky.) is the NEA ™ were Adron— State College, and William H. Hebert, © assistant executive secretary of the | Massachusetts Teachers Association. 7 . Elected chairman of the Educa- 7 tional Policies Commission is Arthur 7 F. Corey, state executive secretary of the California Teachers Association at } Burlingame. . . . Charles E. Bish, di- rector of the NEA Project on the Aca- 7 demically Talented Student, has also been appointed head of the NEA’s English Composition and Language Laboratory Projects, Jewett. Dr. Jewett has returned to the U.S. Office of Education after a year’s | leave of absence to initiate the NEA | . James D. Gates is acting © executive secretary of the National © projects. . . Council of Teachers of Mathematics since the resignation this summer of 7 Myrl H. Ahrendt, who has joined the staff of the National Science Founda- tion... replacing Arno © . Sigurd J, Ode, Duluth, Minn., ~ school administrator, is now associate executive secretary of the American Association for Health, Physical Edu- © Edward © J. Pollock, writer and associate editor © for 11 years, with the Bruce Publishing ~ cation, and Recreation. . . . Company in Milwaukee, has joined the NEA staff as editor with the American Industrial Arts Association and the National Commission on Safety Edu- | Solon B, Sudduth, chair- © cation. . .. man-elect of the National Commission | on Safety Education, died following a heart attack in Nashville, Tenn., in JUS Walter W. Cook, dean of the College of Education, University of ~ Minnesota, long active in TEPS, AACTE, and past president of AERA, died in Minneapolis on September 9. . Robert R. Richards, consultant for student programs of the Michigan Edu- — cation Association, Lansing, has been — appointed executive secretary of the Teachers’ Association of Baltimore — County, Maryland, to take over Octo- | ber 35. Associations that have | recently employed executive secretaries — for the first time are: Public School — Teachers Association, Baltimore (H. Orville Berwick, formerly in field serv- ices with the Maryland State Teachers — Association), and Riverside City © Teachers Association, California (John | M. ‘Secor, a former president of the | Oakland Teachers Association). . . . } Robert Bogen, formerly in Nashville, — is Arlington (Va.) Education As- — sociation’s first full-time secretary. Other new executive secretaries are | Patrick Basile, formerly in Livonia, — now with the Detroit Education Asso- ciation; and George Wichman from — Los Angeles, now with the Teachers — Association of Long Beach. 4 hava b ' Se ee Toe EME he ante oa ngicchiene Seo ERAN Sa) nu mm MH é { VOL. 2, NO. 5 HEMT my culate yO i OCTOBER 11, 1963 WASHINGTON, D. C. Senate Expected To Approve School Aid Bill James B. Conant AACTE Speaker Conant To Speak During AACTE Annual Meeting James Bryant Conant, president emeritus of Harvard University and author of the recent book, The Educa- tion of American Teachers, will give the fifth Charles W. Hunt lecture at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in Chicago February 19. Dr. Conant, a former U.S. Ambas- Sador to Germany, U.S. High Com- Missioner of Germany, and member of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, accepted AACTE’s invitation in July. He is currently serving as an adviser to the Ford Foundation. _ AACTE President Warren C. Lov- Inger said that “ample time” will be Set aside at the meeting for discussion of Dr. Conant’s recent book. 7,600 Sign Up In Project 64 By early October, more than 7,600 Project 64 commissions had been is- Sued by NEA and more than 900 Commissions had been completed and teturned, Each member who accepts a Commission agrees to obtain intent-to- JOin statements from five persons who Were not NEA members last year. The NEA Membership Division re- Ports that a large number of schools and school systems have already achieved 100 percent membership this year. The first county to submit 100 Percent membership was Wirt County, €st Virginia, on August 31. The NEA Reporter is being mailed to all NEA members. If you receive more than one copy, Please share the extra with a nonmember. Voting Imminent on Senate Version of School Bill Passed by House; Would Provide Sizable Expansion of Programs, Including Funds for Vocational Training, Impacted Areas, Three-Year Extension of NDEA The United States Senate was viewed on October 7 as being on the verge of giving approval to HR 4955, a bill that would provide sizable expansion of several current federal aid to education programs. The Senate version of HR 4955 is in line with National Education Association federal legis- lative policy and has the support of the Association. The bill would authorize $702 million for grants to the states fo Late News Items Meriden, Connecticut, Association Wins Election The Meriden (Connecticut) Education Association was elected the official representative of all the members of the professional staff of the Meriden pub- lic schools on September 25. The MEA was chosen by the staff over the teachers union by better than two to one. On September 30, MEA members voted unanimous approval of new salary proposals prepared by its personnel policies committee and authorized the committee to negotiate with the Meriden board of education on the basis of the proposals. On the same day, the proposals, calling for salary increases from $400 to $600 effective January 1, were submitted to the school board. The proposals also ask additional $200 increases effective September 1, 1964. 9 Negotiation Agreements OK'd in Washington At least nine school districts in the state of Washington have adopted pro- fessional negotiations agreements, according to reports received by the Wash- ington Education Association. The nine districts whose agreements are filed with WEA are: Bethel, Cheney, Franklin Pierce, Renton, Edmonds, Kent, Raymond, Auburn, and Shoreline. Cleveland Association Requests Teacher Election The Cleveland Education Association has asked that city’s school board for an immediate election “to determine which organization shall be the exclusive representative of the Cleveland teachers in negotiations with the board. about salaries, working conditions, and other matters of mutual concern.” The request was made via a telegram: sent to each member of the board early last week. The telegram was signed by Dave Long, president of the 1,800-member association. The telegram also requested that “a meeting be held with the board to discuss the procedures for holding such an election,” Ohio Board Asked To Force Prior Service Pay The Cleveland Education Association has filed a complaint with the Ohio state board of education asking that Cleveland be forced to pay its teachers nearly $300,000 owed them as credit for prior service. The complaint asks the state board to withhold over $11 million in state aid if the Cleveland board of education does not agree to pay the teachers. George S$. Womer, CEA executive secretary, said in a letter to the state board president that under Ohio law a board of education must give teachers “full credit for each year of service outside the district as a regular public school teacher or for service in the armed forces of the United States or a com- bination thereof to a total of at least five years.” Cleveland's teachers are en- titled to an additional $200 for every year of prior service, he said. The situation has “created not only salary inequities,” he added, “but an ever- increasing low morale factor among the certificated employees.” Mr. Womer said that the CEA had made “over 12 requests” to the Cleveland: board to correct the situation over the past three years. : Ohio state board of education hearings on the CEA complaint have been scheduled for October 14. County Association in Utah Wins Recognition The Davis Education Association was formally recognized as “the represent- ative of its member teachers” by the Davis County (Utah) Board of Educa- tion on September 26 after the teachers, who were working without contracts, voted to withdraw their services. DEA members, at an afternoon meeting on September 26, voted 440 to 153 to withhold their services “until such time as the points of negotiation have been mutually agreed to by the Board of Educa- tion and the Davis Education Association.” At a board meeting that night, the DEA was recognized and a policy statement was approved. Schools opened as usual the morning of September 27. r vocational training in the. next four years, This compares with $450 million voted in the same vocational education bill as passed by the House of Representatives, and would be in addition to $55 million now being spent for existing vocational education programs. In addition to providing new funds, the bill seeks to re-orient the present vocational education program in the direction of modern technical and business courses. It also authorizes $50 million for this year plus sums needed for the next four years for grants to the states to give part-time jobs to students in vocational courses. It further authorizes $5. million. this year plus sums needed in the next four years to help establish work-resi- dential schools for vocational training. Two Proposals Attached Attached to the Senate vocational education bill are two other major legislative proposals. One would ex- tend for three years the program of grants to school districts crowded by nearby federal installations (Public Laws 815 and 874). This program, now running at about a $258 million annual spending rate, was modified only by the inclusion of the District of Columbia within the program. A third major provision of HR 4955 would extend for three years the National Defense Education Act (NDEA). NDEA now provides $229 million annually. Included in the new NDEA provisions would be a four- step expansion of the college student loan program from $90 million this fiscal year to $150 million in 1967. The Senate bill would also increase from $250,000 to $800,000 the amount of loan assistance which could go to any one educational institution, and expand NDEA “Title V” to in- clude the seventh and eighth grades in the guidance, counseling, and testing programs, House Approach Differs While the House on August 6 ap- proved a less generous expansion of vocational education in its version of HR 4955, introduced by Rep. Carl Perkins (D-Ky.), the full House has as yet not acted on NDEA and impacted areas legislation. A plethora of House bills aimed at extending and expand- ing NDEA have not advanced beyond subcommittee hearings. In addition, the House bill aimed at extending the impacted areas pro- gram includes a_ so-called Powell (See SCHOOL AID BILL, page 4, colunm 1). WAS FU al a APRN et att AREA Se Baguette sm Sik ee NA NR POR neath Carr Lauds Achievements Of ‘Operation Education’ In Waterbury, Connecticut “Operation Education,” an effort by the Waterbury (Connecticut ) Teachers Association to marshal public opinion behind educational improvements in that city, was lauded recently by NEA Executive Secretary William G. Carr as “a sterling example of responsible teacher association activity. The officers and staff of the National Education Asociation join me in salut- ing WTA’s ‘Operation Education,’ ” Dr. Carr said September 27 in a tele- gram to WTA President Henry Ca- pozzi. On September 26, pro-education mayoralty candidate Joseph McNellis won nomination in Waterbury. Mr. McNellis used WTA-developed ma- terials during his campaign and capi- talized on the WTA effort to improve Waterbury education. He won by a 486-vote margin; 16,845 votes were cast. “The willingness of the teacher to assert himself fully as a citizen is vital to the pursuit of high quality in edu- cation,” Dr. Carr’s telegram went on. “It is our sincere hope that WTA’s effort in support of the budget adopted by the Waterbury School Board will be completely successful.” WTA members have refused to ac- cept extracurricular assignments this school year in a protest against “public apathy and political expediency” in Waterbury. Specifically, the WTA is asking city authorities to pass a larger school board budget. On September 19, the Connecticut Education Association, in a letter to all state local association presidents, re-asserted CEA support of the WTA program and requested that local asso- ciations ask their members to cooper- ate with the WTA effort by carefully assessing the situation “prior to con- sidering any assignment or position in Waterbury’s extracurricular day or evening program.” The letter was signed by CEA Executive Secretary Wilfred J. Sheehan. The NEA Commission on Profes- sional Rights and Responsibilities is- sued a report of investigation in NEA Initiates Project On Language for Deaf The NEA has undertaken a contract with the U.S. Office of Education for phase one of a Project on Language for the Deaf. The project, initiated on July 1, is expected to be conducted in three parts, with phase one, the plan- ning stage, scheduled to terminate about December 31, 1963. Harley Z. Wooden, who retired re- cently as associate executive secretary of the NEA Council for Exceptional Children, is directing the project. Questionnaire results and a pro- spectus are now being prepared and interviews are being conducted in prep- aration for the projects advisory com- mittee meeting in late fall. Quality Control about FREE SCHOOLS IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, Virginia, opened September 16 for 1,700 children, mostly Negro, who have been deprived of an education since 1959. Shown here on opening day in Farmville are (left to right): WILLIAM VANDEN HEUVEL, representing the U.S. Justice Department; NEIL SULLIVAN, superintendent of the Prince’ Edward Free Schools; and LYLE W. ASHBY, NEA deputy executive secretary. “Without the help of the NEA in the recruit- ment and screening of teachers, the Prince Edward Free Schools could not have gotten under way at this time,” Superintendent Sullivan said at a press conference on opening day. He also expressed his thanks to several other important sources of help. Contributions to the Prince Edward Free School Fund (Box 2000, Washington, D.C.) continue to pour in from teachers and laymen. Typical of recent contributions are these: La Mesa-Spring Valley County (California) Teachers Association, $50; Muskogee (Oklahoma) Education Associa- tion, $400.76; Windsor Southwest District Teachers Association, Weston, Vermont, $10; West Orange (New Jersey) Education Association, $50; St. Paul (Minnesota) Education Association, $1,500. The Washington Education Association has under way a statewide campaign aimed at raising $30,000. Ad Hoc Committee To Study Selection of NCATE Teams An ad hoe committee to study the selection and preparation of school teachers and administrators of the visiting teams of the Na- tional Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) has been named by NEA’s National Commission on Teacher Edu- cation and Professional Standards. Typically, one istrator, selected by the state education association, serves on an NCATE vis- iting team. The seven-member ad hoc commit- tee has been asked to develop recom- mendations for the selection and prep- aration of prospective teacher and ad- ministrator members of NCATE visit- ing teams, and to suggest ways to keep all teachers and administrators in- formed about national accreditation of fession are ready and prepared to as- sume appropriate professional respon- sibility in the accreditation process.” Dr. Davies also pointed out that the © establishment of this special commit- tee supports the conviction of the Na- tional TEPS Commission that non- college people should take an active part in the NCATE program. teacher or admin- In announcing the appointment of the committee, Don Davies, NCTEPS executive secretary, stated: “The Na- tional TEPS Commission feels an ob- ligation to do all it can to ensure that the participation of school teachers and administrators of visiting teams will be as useful and effective as pos- sible. The work of this committee should contribute to ensuring that rep- resentatives of all segments of the pro- This Fall in Denver, Miami Beach Traditionally held in the spring months, the NEA Regional Con- The seven members of the ad hoc committee are: Lois Williams of Cali- fornia, who will serve as chairman; Charles Allen of Illinois; Babetta A. Breuhaus of Ohio; Alex Daughtry of Kansas; Joy Hills Gubser of Oregon} Helen Paynter of Illinois; and Forrest ferences on Instruction have been moved this year to early fall. The first is scheduled for November 10-13 in Denver and the second, for November 17-20 in Miami Beach. Five hundred teachers have been invited to attend each conference. Coming from Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, and Wyoming, teachers attending the Denver meeting will focus on the theme, “Pupil Values, Curiosity, Creativity: New Perspec- tives.” The Miami Beach conference theme will be “Keys to Better Teach- ing.” Teachers taking part will be from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee. As in the past, both conferences will be workshop-type meetings devoted exclusively to discussion of ways to improve instruction in the nation’s schools. Educators of national promi- nence are scheduled to speak at each of the conferences to discuss new trends and techniques in teaching and learning. NEA headquarters offi- cials will describe instructional serv- ices offered by the Association. Superintendents Visit Schools in Sweden Eighty-five superintendents _ of schools from 35 states left September 16 for a six-week visit to schools in Sweden. The tour was arranged by the Experiment in International Living in cooperation with the Swedish govern- ment and the American Association of School Administrators. The superintendents will spend three of the six weeks living with Swedish families in small towns. The tour will end October 24. Shirley Cooper, AASA deputy ex- ecutive secretary, and Mildred S. Fen- ner, NEA Journal editor, are accom- panying the superintendents. A THREE-MAN EDUCATIONAL SURVEY TEAM, headed by FINIS E. ENGLEMAN (left), retiring execu- tive secretary of the American Association of School Administrators, departed September 28 for the Near East and South Asia, The Agency for International Development contracted for the services of NEA to conduct the survey. The other members of the team are EUGENE YOUNGERT (center), former superintendent of schools, Oak Park and River Forest School District, Oak Park, — Illinois, and senior associate to James 8. Conant in his studies of American education; and B, MELVIN COLE, director of elementary education, Baltimore County, and a former NEA vice- president. The team will assist U.S. overseas posts in 17 countries in developing an assessment of dependent school requirements. Purcell photo. CURRENT What’s Going On in TV, Radio, Press, and National Magazines Television Fredric March will be the voice of Christopher Columbus on “1492,” the first program in a four-part series en- titled Saga of Western Man, produced by ABC News (Wednesday, October 16, 10-11 p.m., E.D.T., ABC-TV). Filmed aboard replicas of Columbus’ Ships in Spain, Italy, and the Bahamas, the program will recreate the major events of 1492. The Great Adventure will dramatize the story of courageous California raisin farmers who in 1907 battled against exorbitant railroad freight rates in “Six Wagons to the Sea.” (Friday, October 18, 7:30-8:30 P.M., E.D.T., CBS-TV). On October 25 the Program will present a narrative con- cerning Nathan Hale. _CBS-TV’s new weekly series, East Side, West Side, depicting the life and hard times of a social worker, will base its October 21st episode on the prob- lems of a teacher who attempts, suc- cessfully, to gain the respect and interest of a small group of defiant Puerto Rican children in a New York City public school (Monday, October 21, 10-11 p.M., E.D.T.). A-¢close-up of the people involved in the June integration crisis at the Uni- versity of Alabama will be telecast Monday, October 21 (7:30-8:30 P.M., E.D.T., ABC-TV). Do You Know? will base questions for its ,youthful participants on A Bridle for Pegasus, by Katherine Ship- pen, October 19; and American Indian, by Oliver La Farge, October 26 (Sat- Urdays, 12:30-1 P.M., E.D.T., CBS- TV), Exploring has planned its next two Programs around Johnny Appleseed (October 19) and Frank Lloyd Wright (October 26), (Saturdays, 1-2 P.M., E.D.T., NBC-TV). Magazines The October education supplement Of the Saturday Review (October 19, On sale the 15th) contains a major article by John Scanlon on “Strikes, Sanctions and the Schools.” Subse- quent articles deal with integration, Harvard College, and colleges chosen Y America’s upper class today and a Seneration ago. _ Look magazine dated October 22 features a piece by Tom Braden, pres- ident of California’s State Board of ‘Education, titled “I Was the Target of a Hate Campaign.” Also in this issue 's Jack Star’s article on parochial schools, “Trouble Ahead for the Catholic Schools.” November Good Housekeeping dis- Cusses lay readers in its “Better Way” feature, “Teachers’ Aides: A New Way to Help Schools.” NEA REPORTER Published monthly except August (two is- sues in October) by the National Education Association of the United States, 1201 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Robert H. Wyatt. .....-..++++- President William G. Carr. ..... Executive Secretary Frank W. Hubbard... .Assistant Executive Secretary for Information Services Mildred §. Fenner...,...--...+05 Editor NEA REPORTER is mailed to all NEA members. Annual subscription price, 60 £ents (included in membership dues and reba only as a part of membership). econd-class postage paid at Washington, dC, Post office, peyyanfanaeripwndnt Sains emaaarhnnmner—e Presets fe eT nen ales SY orit \ dokeddamaes Ricans on tdebene oa ‘Mr. Novak,’ NBC Series Produced with Advice of NEA, Wins Hearty Nationwide Applause from Television Critics Teacher Novak won some polished apples from a tough “class”—the TV critics of the nation— following the debut late last month of the new NBC-TV series featuring a high school English teacher and his sympathetic principal. Some quotes from the critics: “This one won't be a ‘dropout’” (New York Journal-American); “. . . Mr. Novak is authentically done with emphasis on reason and believability” (New York Daily News); ~. . . ought to be- come a favorite with parents, teen-agers and teachers” (New York World Telegram & Sun);"... promises to be as real- istic as the 1000 actual students used in the debut” (Holly- wood Reporter); “. . . should be around for a number of semesters” (Daily Variety); “. . . the best thing that’s hap- pened thus far in the current TV season” (Denver Post); _ this series may make teaching as attractive as neuro- surgery” (San Diego Union). The Mr. Novak series, starring James Franciscus in the title role and Dean Jagger as high school principal Albert Vane, appears on the NBC-TV network Tuesday evenings at 7:30 p.M. E.D.T. NEA provides a panel of principals and classroom teach- ers to read first drafts of the Mr. Novak scripts to help Executive Producer E. Jack Neuman attain the authenticity he is seeking. Says Mr. Neuman: “We want to be com- pletely factual in our stories and situations. Our stories sometimes will be provocative and controversial, they'll sometimes show the bad as well as the good among stu- dents and teachers. But we aim to keep everything in its proper, true perspective.” Jomes Franciscus as “Mr. Novak” 12 Fellowships Offered For Young Composers Applications are now being accepted for Fellowships to Young Composers, part of the recently innovated project of the Music Educators National Con- ference, an NEA department. Applica- tion deadline is January 1, 1964, for composers under 35 years of age who are qualified for assignment to selected school systems during the 1964-65 school years. Approximately 12 com- posers will be selected. Fellowships to Young Composers are part of the Contemporary Music Project for Creativity in Music Edu- cation, administered by MENC under a five-year grant from the Ford Foun- dation. The project will also include seminars and workshops in colleges and universities and pilot projects in selected public schools. Information on the fellowships is available from the MENC at the NEA Center. Science Teachers Delegates Call for More Local, State, National Support Presidents and other official delegates of 32 science teacher organizations called for increased support of science programs at all levels during a conference sponsored recently by the National Science Teachers Association, an NEA department. Stating that improvement of science courses and science cur- NEA Insurance Plan.Coverage Quadruples in 1963 Summer The NEA Insurance Trust’ reports that this summer more than $15 mil- lion of coverage was issued under the NEA Insurance Plan, This is almost four times that of last summer. Mem- bers applying for Plan B, which carries the higher amounts of coverage, out- number those applying for Plan A by four to one. The Insurance Trust also reports that insurance in force has reached over $300 million, and that over 180 claims have been paid. THE ABOVE ARTWORK, a television slide, will serve as the video over which spot announcement copy is read by a local announcer for American Education Week. Both were produced and dis- tributed as part of a TV kit by the NEA Division of Press, Radio, and Television Relations to every television station in the country. This year’s AEW theme is “Education Strengthens the Nation.” Daily topics are: Sunday, November 10—Values of Free Men; Monday, November 11—Learning Opportunities for All; Tuesday, November 12—Quality Teaching; Wednesday, November 13— Balanced Curriculum; Thursday, November 14—Community Resources; Friday, November 15— Financial Support; and Saturday, November 16—Goals for Tomorrow. riculums for students in the lower 50 percent in ability has been neglected and identifying this as a critical prob- lem in science education, the represen- tatives from 28 states and Puerto Rico resolved: “That this conference call on local schools, school systems, state depart- ments of education, the U.S. Office of Education, the National Science Foun- dation, the National Education Associ- ation, other concerned agencies and or- ganizations, and legislatures to increase promptly and significantly their sup- port of appropriate programs to de- velop courses, curriculums, and sup- porting instructional materials better designed for effective education in science for all students at all educa- tional levels from kindergarten through high school and into the college levels,” Journal Seeking Items About Teacher Heroes The NEA Journal is seeking infor- mation about teachers as travelers, as inventors and writers, as heroes and heroines, If you have an interesting travel story, haye patented a worth- while invention, sold short stories or novels, or articles; if you know any teachers who acted heroically in some school-connected disaster (or near disaster), send the facts in a brief letter (50-200 words) to the Journal for consideration. Write to Mrs. Eva A. Cross, 1201 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. 1963-64 NEA Theme— “Education for Responsible Freedom” TEACHERS gather in informal discussion groups to talk shop and com- g the annval Classroom Teachers National Con- ference this past summer at Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Indiana. The approximately 400 teachers who attended exchanged views of their pare experiences durin room Teachers. Sessions an Rural Youth Problems Yield Over 250 Recommendations More than 250 recommendations evolved from the National Conference on Problems of Rural Youth in a Changing Environ- ment held at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, September 99.25. The recommendations call for action programs to help rural youth bridge the gap between a rural environment where they grow up and an ‘unfamiliar, and often un- friendly, environment where they have to live and work. Sponsored by the National Com- mittee on Children and Youth, the conference was an outgrowth of the National Committee’s 1960 White House Conference and the 1961 meet- ing on. problems of unemployed out- of-school urban youth. The 20 work groups, to which the rural youth conference participants were assigned, had available as re- source material almost 60 background papers prepared in advance. These brought together facts and_ statistics on dropouts, juvenile delinquency, un- employment, underemployment, and inadequacy of educational and train- ing opportunities. More than 500 national, state, and local professional and lay leaders in fields related to rural youth. attended this working conference. Participating from the NEA staff were Robert M. Isenberg, director of the NEA Depart- ment of Rural Education, and Lewis R. Tamblyn and Lois M. Clark, as- sistant directors; Lyle W. Ashby, NEA deputy executive secretary and treas- urer of the National Committee; and Daniel Schreiber, director of the NEA Project on the Dropout. Maehling Fellowships Applications Due Soon Applications for the 1964 Hilda Maehling Fellowships are due on or before November 15, 1963. Stipends for Hilda Maehl- ing Fellows are derived from in- come accruing on a fund of vol- untary contributions now totaling more than $100,000. Applications for the fellow- ships, which are open to qualified classroom teachers, and informa- tion may be obtained from the NEA Department of Classroom Teachers, 1201 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. profession and heard experts discuss subjects rangin grams for the culturally disadvantaged to the new mathematics program, The conference is sponsored each year by the NEA Department a ee ee * 1 g from school pro- of Class- Project on Instruction Lists Recommendations On Educational Issues Thirty-three recommendations on crucial issues in American: education, ranging from school board decision making to automation and programed instruction, have been made by the NEA Project on the Instructional Pro- gram of the Public Schools. The proj- ect wraps up its efforts this month with the publication of the recommen- dations and of three supporting docu- ments, The project has operated from NEA Center since 1959 under the di- rection of Ole Sand. A 14-man_ na- tional committee, chaired by Portland, Oregon, Superintendent of Schools Melvin W. Barnes, was appointed to carry on the project’s work. The basic recommendations of the project will be published by McGraw- Hill October 13 under the title Schools for the Sixties. The three sup- porting documents, Education in a Changing Society, Deciding What To Teach, and Planning and Organizing for Teaching, will be issued by NEA later this month, Needed: Seven Executive Secretaries The San Juan Unified District Teachers Association, Sacramento, Calif., is seeking an executive secre- tary for this newly established position in its organization. Applicants will be accepted until March 1, 1964, for taking over the post by August I; 1964. Information is available from SCHOOL AID BILL... (Continued from page 1, column 4) amendment, denying funds to schools without a plan for integration. This bill, reported by House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.), has not cleared the House Rules Committee. Conference Motion Imminent Senate approval of the expanded version of HR 4955, using the bill as a vehicle for NDEA and impacted areas provisions, is expected. How- ever, Senate approval will then send the bill back to the House with a re- quest for a Senate-House conference. A. single objection from among the 435 House members would prevent sending the bill directly to conference. It is probable that the conference mo- tion will receive an objection, and that the legislation will be thrown into the House Rules Committee. A Senate- House conference can then come about only by approval of the Rules Committee—a body noted for its cool- ness toward aid-to-education legisla- tion. At this time, it is felt the best hope for increased financial aid to the na- tion’s schools lies in Congressional support for the Senate version of HR 4955. This “little omnibus” bill, to quote the Senate Committee staff, “in- cludes more money for financing ele- mentary and secondary education than any bill before Congress since 1958.” Legislative Facts of Life The Senate bill embodies extension and expansion of existing laws, all of which have been supported in keep- ing with NEA federal legislative pol- icy as adopted by the Representative Assembly. It is believed that the legis- lation will pass the Senate and then be thrown back into the House Rules Committee. The Rules Committee, in turn, will permit a Senate-House con- ference only if it senses that the tem- per of the House supports the legisla- tion, NEA members who wish to express their views on the Senate version of HR 4955 should communicate with their Senators and Representatives at once. Everett W. Daugherty, Candidate Committee Secretary, San Juan Teach- ers Association, 4449 Edison Avenue, Sacramento 21, Calif. Five other associations currently seeking first-time executive secretaries are the Philadelphia Teachers Associ- ation, St, Louis Teachers Association, the Fresno (California) Teachers As- sociation, the Montebello (California) Teachers Association, and Highline Education Association (Washington). One association seeking a replace- ment is the Grand Rapids Teachers Association in Michigan, Internationally Known Language Labs Expert Joins NEA Center Staff Elton Hocking, an internationally recognized authority on language laboratories, has become a part-time member of the NEA staff for 1963-64. A major portion of Dr. Hocking’s time will be devoted to speaking, dem- onstrating, and consulting on the sub- ject of language learning technology. A professor of modern language education at Purdue University, Dr. Hocking has become an NEA guest staff specialist through the coopera- tion of the Educational Facilities Laboratories, Inc., a nonprofit cor- poration established by the Ford Foundation in 1958. NAMES Ii as08 NEWS NEW PRESIDENT of the Association for Higher Education is H. T. Morse, dean of the General College of the University of Minnesota. Elected AHE vice-president is William H. Conley, president of Sacred Heart University. _. . Fred T. Withelms, formerly head of the Department of Secondary Edu- cation at San Francisco State College, is associate secretary of the National Association of Secondary-School Prin- cipals. . . . Robert D. Strom, who was chairman of education at Purdue Uni- versity, the Hammond Campus, is new assistant director of the NEA Dropout | Project, replacing Bernard A, Kaplan. Dr. Kaplan has returned to Project ABLE, the culturally disadvantaged | program of the New York State De- 4% partment of Education. . . . Stanley J. McFarland, formerly assistant to the Montgomery County (Maryland) super- ‘ intendent of schools, is now assistant ] director of the NEA Federal Relations § Division. . . . In late October Newell } B. Walters, NEA consultant on teacher } welfare, becomes director of teacher | annuity sales for the Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company in Washing- ton, D.C. David D. Darland, 7 associate executive secretary of the National Commission on Teacher Edu- cation and Professional Standards, is | on a year’s leave of absence in Bogota, Colombia, as program specialist in| teacher education for the Latin Affairs Division of the Ford Foundation, Dr. — Darland will work in Colombia and ~ other Latin American countries, help- ing several universities develop teach- er education programs. Mrs. Elinore M. Darland, information director for the American Association for Health, 7 Physical Education, and Recreation, will also take a leave of absence to be with her husband. Beulah Fontane, professional services consultant for the | Kentucky Education Association, and | a former National TEPS Commission — chairman, has taken a nine months’ | leave to join NCTEPS. Mary Isabel Epley, former chairman of the | NEA Ethics Committee, was one of ten teachers in the Pittsburgh Public Schools who received a Merit for Teaching award in an Honors Con- vocation this month. Miss Epley ~ teaches mathematics in the Langley ~ High School. . Jack T. Parker, — assistant executive secretary of the National Association of Public School Adult Educators, has resigned to ~ join Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., in New York. Mr. Parker will © evaluate the company’s adult education program and make recommendations. ~ . . . Raymond K. Butler, Jr., now | heads the NEA Records Division, re-” placing W. L. Christian who has retired. / .. . New executive secretaries of ‘local associations are Joseph Goss, Educa- | tion Council of Nashville and David- son County, Tennessee; Joseph Brooks, Los Angeles Teachers Associ- | ation; Lynn Q. Gilmore, Livonia | (Michigan) Educators Association; and | Pat L. Tornillo, Dade County (Flor-— ida) Classroom Teachers Association. _ . . New state education association | presidents are; Octavia Hansen in ~ Alaska; Frank R. Rice, Jr., Colorado; Frank A. Formica, Connecticut; John ~ H. S. Kwon, Hawaii; Sara Kugler, — Idaho; Murvil Barnes, Illinois; Octavi- us Townsend, Michigan; V. L. Big- 7 ham, Jr., Mississippi; and Juanita — Kidd, Oklahoma, President of the Kansas State Teachers Association is now William A. Black, and of the | Virginia Teachers Association, Al- fred K. Talbot, Jr. D BY THE NATIO Fe ena P< Rene za 2 S= = = “2 2 8: VOL. 2, NO. 6 OCTOBER 25, 1963 Be WASHINGTON, D. C. Center for Study of Instruction Established; LEADERSHIP PLANNING SESSION: The NEA Executiv Tight at the meeting are Braulio Alonso (Fla.); Gladys E, Nunn : 4 o oa a immediate past president; Louise Oglebay, recorder for the committee; William G (Ind.), president; Lois V. Edinger (N.C.), vice-president and president-elect; F. L. cha Trustees; Lyman V. Ginger (Ky.), treasurer; T. M, Stinnett, assistant executive secretary for professional development and Welfare; Mary Ruth LeMay (Ill.); E. H. oF he : 4, * " ed tne 2a “ a oe ceel : F z - peg oe i me e Committee met October 17-18 at the NEA Center. From left to (Okla.); Richard Batchelder (Mass.); Hazel A. Blanchard (Calif.), Carr, executive secretary; Robert H. Wyatt Schlagle (Kans.), chairman of the Board of ee — my — Mellon (Ill.). G. Baker Thompson (Pa.) was unable to attend the meeting. Senate, By 80 to 4 Vote, Approves Bill for Expansion of Vocational Education, NDEA, Impacted Areas Programs As predicted in the last issue of the NEA REPORTER, the United States Senate on October 8 approved an NEA-backed three-part education package to step up spending for vocational education, ex- Pand and extend the National Defense Education Act (NDEA), and extend the program of grants to the so-called impacted areas (Public aws 815 and 874). The vote was 80. to 4. _ As it cleared the Senate, HR 4955 1S a considerably expanded version of What originated in the House as a Vocational education bill. HR 4955 48 gone back to the House with a request for a compromise conference. he House has not acted yet to amend °F expand the NDEA, and the House “ducation and Labor Committee's proposed one-year extension of the impacted areas program is tied up in the House Rules Committee. Several members of the Rules Committee, the panel which clears bills for floor action, object to a rider on the im- pacted areas bill which would prohibit assistance to segregated schools. The final vote came after two days buried 52-23 an amendment by Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) to slash the amount of vocational aid sharply. On October 8 the Senate rejected the latest attempt by Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) to attach civil rights pro- visions to an education bill, Senator Javits proposed to authorize construc- tion of nonsegregated schools for chil- dren of federal employees who live away from government installations. The Javits amendment was killed 54 to 35. HR 4955, as passed by the Senate, would authorize $702 million for (See SENATE BILL, page 4, column 1) of debate. On October 7 the Senate NEA Committee on Professional Ethics Dispenses Severe Reprimand to Member for Flagrant Viol The NEA Committee on Professional Ethics recently voted to Severely reprimand in private a member who was found to have fla- tantly violated the sections of the Code of Ethics of the Education rofession requiring adherence to a contract and the responsibility t0 give due notice. Ethics Committee Chairman Edward liott announced that this action con- Stituted the first of a series of steps ®ading to a program of professional 4Ssociation responsibility for up-grad- 'N8 respect for the sanctity of the con- tract on the part of educators. “While the profession expects districts to live §P to contracts scrupulously,” he said, _ re is little practical recourse for eeu trict when an educator breaks the geet except as the profession itself Teises discipline.” eae Elliott announced that the sig who was reprimanded had re- Diperi without notice to accept a So alaereee | in another district in er state. The teaching contract required the teacher’s services to begin in late August. The teachet did not report to work, but called and indicated his intention to return. Late on the evening of Labor Day, the teacher no- tified the principal that he had accepted a superintendency in another state. Although the committee regarded this behavior as a serious violation of the Ethics Code, in line with its policy to put first priority on raising standards by putting the profession on notice and counseling, it elected to limit action on this first case to a severe reprimand. Mr. Elliott said that the committee agreed unanimously that similar cases will be dealt with much more severely in the future. The Ethics Committee ation of Ethics Code believes, he said, that the ability of the profession to obtain respect for educa- tors’ obligations to the contract will constitute the first real test of the effectiveness of the ethics program. Dallas Chosen as Site Of 1968 NEA Convention Dallas has been chosen as the site of 1968 NEA Convention. The decision on the Convention city was made by the NEA Board of Directors during its October 19-20 meeting at NEA Center. Next year, the Association will hold its annual meeting in Seattle. In 1965, New York City will be the Convention city; in 1966, Miami Beach; and in 1967, Min- neapolis. The NEA Executive Commit- tee and the NEA Board of Di- rectors, at meetings this month, approved recommendations for an NEA Center for the Study of Instruction and for the wide distribu- tion of an NEA statement on profes- sional sanctions. The Executive Committee, meeting October 17. and 18, approved the establishment of the Center for the Study of Instruction, The Center builds on groundwork laid by the recent NEA Project on Instruction, Initially the Center will concentrate on disseminating recommendations made by the Project and on helping schools and colleges to put them into practice. Teams of educational con- sultants will assist the Center in work- ing with schools and colleges, in re- porting new instructional matters from their areas, and in evaluating sug- gestions for future NEA action. The NEA Board of Directors, meet- ing October 19 and 20, approved a statement of guidelines for professional sanctions prepared by the staff of the NEA National Commission on Profes- sional Rights and Responsibilities in cooperation with the entire staff of the Professional Development and Welfare area of NEA. The Board sug- gested some changes in the document (See BOARD, COMMITTEE . . . page 4, column 2) Statement on Professional Sanctions Planned ni je 0 iH eee £ ce) + Rhee i isa a = Ga? j Canc of Math Teachers Given $276,490 Grant The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has received more than a quarter of a million dollars from the National Science Foundation to make 15 films aimed at helping to increase elementary school teachers’ understanding of the new mathematics. The films will be ready for distribution by the summer of 1965, according to James D. Gates, NCTM acting exec- utive secretary. Harry D. Ruderman, chairman of the mathematics department of Hunter College High School, New York City, will direct the $276,490 project for NCTM. The project was conceived as one way of attacking the problem created by the fact that most elementary teachers are not trained in the new mathematics, Mr. Gates said. The pro- posed film series will offer in-service education to provide this training. “As more and more schools re- examine their mathematics programs with a view toward improving them,” he added, “the need for in-service orientation of elementary school teach- ers will become even greater.” Opa RUNES: 6 a8 coco cerca PER cash aes ea ha ol trea a act Denver Classroom Teachers, Reach Consensus on Further The Denver Classroom Teachers Association and the Denver board of education have reached a consensus on annual salary schedule increases ranging from $200 to $390. The consensus, announced October 12, over a period of several weeks. If adopted officially on November 6 by the board, the increases will take effect for the 1964-65 school year. Al- ready in effect this year in Denver are salary increases ranging from $450 to $725. The consensus was announced jointly by Ronald E. Carlson, DCTA president, and Palmer Burch, board president. The agreed-upon schedule provides for a $5,100 minimum salary for beginning teachers, an $8,925 max- imum for teachers with an M.A. de- gree, and a $9,825 maximum. for teachers holding a doctorate. It also provides for immediate recognition of the master’s degree by a one-increment came after a series of negotiation sessions extending differential of $225—a change which DCTA has sought for several years— and for a $300 increase in the annual increment at the top step in the salary schedule. The increases will add an estimated $416,512 to Denver’s 1964 education budget. Allan M. West, NEA special assist- ant for urban affairs, in a telegram to DCTA Executive Secretary Betty Jean Lee, congratulated the DCTA leader- ship on the achievement. “I feel you have done an excellent job of repre- senting the best interests of DCTA members and the boys and girls of the Denver school system,” he said. Technological Change Topic Elicits Hot, Cold Reactions at Rural Education Conference “The more we learn about human interaction, the more con- vinced we become that the ‘human touch’ is the prime ingredient of the teaching-learning situation which cannot be automated,” a panel member declared during the NEA Department of Rural Education national conference in Detroit early this month. “Any teacher who Actress To Speak At Social Studies Annual Meeting Movie and TV actress Lucille Ball will be one of the main speakers at the 43rd annual meeting of the Na- tional Council for the Social Studies in Los Angeles November 27-30. Miss Ball, who is president of Desilu Pro- ductions, Inc., will address the meet- ing Saturday morning, November 30. Her topic will be “Citizenship and the School Dropout.” The meeting’s first general session speaker will be Gerard Piel, publisher of Scientific American. He will speak on “Population, Production, and the Living Generation.” Other highlighted speakers will in- clude Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, whose topic is “The Human Condition”; and: John Hope Franklin, chairman of the De- partment of History, Brooklyn College, whose topic is “The Dignity of Man: Perspectives for Tomorrow.” Gerald Gough, social studies teacher in the Prince Georges County, Mary- land, schools, will chair a behind-the- scenes presentation on the CBS-TV series The Great Adventure at the fifth general session on November 30. Mr. Gough appears on each Great Ad- venture show. Conference Will Examine New Teachers’ Role An invited group of about 56 teach- ers and three state association repre- sentatives will meet November 29-30 at the NEA Center to study how pro- fessional associations can most effec- tively cultivate and use the potentiali- ties of new classroom teachers. Con- ference sponsor is NEA’s Department of Classroom Teachers. can be replaced by a machine ought to be,” added Rachel Brake, consultant for the Wayne County (Michigan) In- termediate School District. Mrs. Brake, one of four panelists at a session on the implications of technological change for education, said that “in the final analysis, it is each child’s self-concept which deter- mines how much and how well he will learn—and not the number of auto- mated gadgets in his classroom.” Another panelist, Samuel I. Hicks, director of the Center for Educational Service, Ohio University at Athens, said he believed that “automation will and should displace a number of teachers." He added that with auto- mation schools should be able to pro- duce a better product with fewer persons. Speech by Venn The panel discussion followed a speech by Grant Venn, consultant to the American Council on Education, who stressed that “education must come into its own in a technological age; its responsibilities and opportun- ities are greater than ever.” Mr. Venn discussed eight “implica- tions for education” presented by changing technology. Among them, he said, were that “today the major re- sponsibility for individual selection of proper educational programs and oc- cupational preparation rests with education,” and that “education must accept .the responsibility of entry job placement or educational re-assign- ment for every student.” At a seminar session on October 8, Perley E. Ayer, executive secretary of the Council of Southern Mountains, Berea, Kentuckv, said that “education has prostituted itself as job opportunity. What can we tell a student when he knows that many dropouts do pretty well financially and when we know he can graduate from high school and still not find a job?” School Board DuShane Fund Gives Pay Increases Last December, Denver’s school board adopted a “Statement of Teacher-Administrator-Board of Edu- cation Relationships” providing for professional negotiations with DCTA. DCTA members approved the pro- cedure by a six to one vote in January. “DCTA members appreciate the op- , portunity that has been provided to discuss teachers’ salary needs directly with board members,” DCTA Presi- dent Carlson said. “We believe that real progress has been made. Negoti- ating sessions have led to a close working relationship with the-Board of Education and to an improved under- standing of both teachers’ views and the position of board members.” The Denver procedure for negoti- ation on matters of mutual concern provides for meetings whenever such questions arise. A DISCUS THROWER FOR THE PRESIDENT: The American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, an NEA department, presented an award on October 9 to President Kennedy for “his distinguished leadership in im- proving the physical fitness of American youth.” The award statue—a representa- tion of a discus thrower—was sculptured by Joseph Brown, Princeton University. In presentation ceremonies with the President above are AAHPER'’s past president, Anita Aldrich (left), of Kansas City, Mo.; President Ben W. Miller, Los Angeles; and President-Elect Catherine L. Allen, Medford, Mass. Also taking part in the White House ceremonies was Carl A. Troester, AAHPER executive secretary. Dr. Aldrich is a member of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness. eh Sep aa eae gail, Se THE AGENDA—DETROIT SCHOOL PROBLEMS: NEA’s special assistant tor urban areas, Alan West (right), greets several participants arriving from Mich- igan for a one-day workshop session October 7 at the NEA Center. ‘ Patrick Basile, executive secretary, and Eugene Straley, president, of the Detroit Education Association; and E. Dale Kennedy, executive secretary of the Michigan Education Association. Meeting discussions centered on DEA’s proposed expanded program for the Detroit schools and for the local association, Detroit voters go to the polls on November 5 to decide the millage rate that provides school support. Last April voters defeated a proposed millage increase. Journal materials. Free Journal Membership Kits Still Available NEA Journal special “Look What You're Missing . . .” kits are still available. Five kits will be sent to each of the first 50 NEA members who write to the Journal office requesting Project 64 commissions. The kits, designed as membership promotion pieces, include reprints of recent Further Aid to Dismissed Teacher NEA’s DuShane Defense Fund has provided an additional $1,150 to Mil- dred Roberson, who is continuing liti- gation to regain her classroom teach- ing post in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Mrs. Roberson was dismissed by the Santa Fe board of education in 1959 under the state tenure statute. At that time, the NEA Tenure Committee pro- vided $500 to assist in her appeal. The DuShane Committee agreed to provide Mrs. Roberson with $2,075 during the 1959-60 school year to assist her in meeting living expenses while the case was pending in the courts. The case went to the Supreme Court of New Mexico and was re- manded to the Santa Fe board for pro- ceedings de nova. The board again dis- missed Mrs. Roberson, and the case now must go to the courts a second time. Pureell phot From left are: CURRENT What's Going On in TV, Radio, Press, and National Magazines Television Mr. Novak (NBC-TV, Tuesdays, 7:30 p.M., E.S.T.). “Hello, Miss Phipps!” November 5: threatened dis- missal of a veteran biology/sex educa- tion teacher. “To Break a Camel’s Back” November 12: coed _ rebels against school authority. The Great Adventure (CBS-TV, Fridays, 7:30 P.M., E.S.T.). “Go Down Moses” November 1: story of Harriet Tubman, first woman con- ductor, Underground Railroad. “The Great Diamond Mountain” November 8: discovery in the American West a century ago. Do You Know? (CBS-TY, Satur- days, 12:30 p.m. E.S.T.). ‘Picture Story of Japan” by Rachel Carr, No- vember 2; “Young Thomas Edison” by Sterling North, November 9; “Ex- ploring the Weather” by Roy Gallant, November 16. Exploring (NBC-TV, Saturdays, 1 p.M., E.S.T.). “Eleanor of Aqui- taine’” November 2; “Explorers and Exploring” November 9; “Montezuma and the Aztecs” November 16. Discovery '63 (ABC-TV, Sundays, 12:30 p.m. E.S.T.). “Heroes, Bal- lads and Legends” November 3, 10; “Carnival of the Animals” set to verse by Ogden Nash, November 17. NBC Children’s Theatre (NBC- TV, Sundays, 6 P.M. E.S.T.). Musical adaptation of “Quillow and the Giant,” James Thurber fantasy, No- vember 3, Magazines Harper’s (November). “The Multi- versity: Are Its Several Souls Worth Saving?” by President Clark Kerr, University of California. Also “How Not To Integrate the Schools” by Inge L. Gibel, white wife of a Negro and mother of two. Saturday Evening Post (November 9). “The Scandal of Educational Testing” by Hillel Black. Ladies’ Home Journal (Novem- ber). “Help Is a Warm Puppy,” on mentally retarded children. Parents’ Magazine (November). Debate on public funds aid to paro- chial schools; also “The Integrated Club,” about an all-day neighborhood school, and “Hazards of Teen-Age Smoking.” Glamour (November). Brown Uni- versity’s Academic Potential Project to aid young underachievers. Woman's Day (November). Par- ents keep up with modern math in Chappaqua, N.Y., public schools. Ingenue (November). “Study Less and Learn More.” Tips for students. NEA REPORTER Published monthly except August (two is- sues in October) by the National Education Association of the United States, 1201 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Telephone: Area Code 202, 234-4848 Robert H. Wyatt President William G. Carr Executive Secretary Frank W. Hubbard... . Assistant Executive Secretary for Information Services Mildred S, Fenner Editor NEA REPORTER is mailed to ali NEA members, Annual subscription price, 60 cents (included in membership dues and available only as a part of membership). Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C., post office. 45-Minute Special Radio Program Highlights Critique of DISCUSSING DR. CONANT’S PRESCRIPTIONS: On a CBS radio special sched- uled for October 29, James B. Conant and five other educators discussed Dr. Conant’s latest book, The Education of American Teachers. Ex-college President Harold Taylor (left), Teachers College President John Fischer (seated center), and NEA’s Don Davies (right) record their comments for the radio show. Moderator for the special, Charles Collingwood, is standing. NEWS BRIEFS Judges from about a dozen surrounding states participated in the seventh institute of the National Council of Juvenile Court Judges held October 20-26 in Estes Park, Colorado. The workshops, conducted by the National Training Laboratories of the NEA, are designed to increase the effectiveness of the judges in working with young people in trouble and in developing teamwork among those whose col- laboration is needed. The project is now in the second year of a three-year grant from the Institute of Mental Health of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Five regional institutes and five local work conferences are scheduled each year. Membership in the Student Education Association at Montclair State College (SEAM) in New Jersey is breaking all records. With more than 1,400 members already enrolled, this chapter of Student NEA has more than doubled its membership of last year and has surpassed by more than one-half the previous national high of 910 for any local unit. Membership campaign efforts included letters to all students explaining the benefits of unified membership, a SEAM booth near the registration line, and campus tours and an orientation dance for freshmen. Many freshmen had already heard about SEAM through its speakers bureau, which provides speakers to FTA groups in high schools. The West Coast regional conference of the National Science Teachers Asso- ciation, NEA, is being held October 25-26 at San Jose, California. The program highlights new curriculum developments of interest to K-12 science teachers. Two of the nine NSTA regional conferences are sche- duled for November and will complete the 1963 season. The North Central conference, set for November 7-9 in Cincinnati, will have the theme “Science Goals in Focus.” The program will acquaint teachers with the latest science teaching techniques and course content improvement pro- grams, “The Merging Sciences” will be the theme of the Midwest conference November 8-9 in St. Louis. The inter- dependence of the different science areas will be emphasized. NSTA regional conferences were also held in August through mid-October in Estes Park, Colo.; Newark, N.J.; Omaha, Nebr.; Grand Forks, N. Dak.; Nashville, Tenn.; and Portland, Maine. Se eS nde Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique, has been scheduled as one of the main speakers for the March 18-22, 1964, convention of the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, NEA. The meeting will be held in Portland, Oregon, The Oregon Department of Classroom Teachers has launched a survey of the use of teacher time in state public schools. The project is financed by a $1,000 grant from the research committee of the Oregon Education Association. A questionnaire is scheduled to be sent in mid-November to 1,000 of Oregon’s 20,000 classroom teachers. It is de- signed to determine their personal characteristics, economic status, professional preparation and experience, teaching load, and opin‘ons about their teaching assignments and working conditions. New Conant Book About Education of American Teachers Several leading authorities in teacher education, including Don Davies, executive secretary of NEA’s National Commission on Teacher Education and Pro- fessional Standards, are scheduled to appear on a special CBS Radio Net- work broadcast Tuesday October 29, to offer an analysis and critique of the new James B. Conant book, The Education of American Teachers. The broadcast time of the 45-minute radio special is 8:15 P.M. Comments for the program, titled “Our Teachers—Educated or Mis- educated?”, were taped in advance from Dr. Conant himself, interviewed in Germany; from James E. Allen, Jr., commissioner, New York State De- partment of Education; John Fischer, president, Teachers College, Colum- bia University; Maxwell Rafferty, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction; Harold Taylor, former president of Sarah Lawrence College; and Dr. Davies. Anchor man was CBS News Correspondent Charles Collingwood. Dr. Davies, in his taped comments, said he hoped the Conant book would result in a “new commitment to the importance of teacher education.” Expressing a fear that “bits and pieces of Conant’s advice” will be misused by some states to save money, he noted, however, a hopeful trend in some states which have already indi- cated they are embarking on some of Conant’s more important recommen- dations, particularly those relating to improving student teaching programs. Dr. Davies added that although we tend to expect too much from the process of accreditation, “teacher edu- cation is too important and too com- plex to be conducted entirely on a laissez-faire basis. Our job is not to get rid of certification and accredita- tion, but to make them work.” Dr. Fischer said that Dr. Conant has failed to point out which institu- tions are doing a superlative job in turning out new teachers, This would have been helpful, he said, because “we need imaginative leadership in inventing new proposals.” He also took issue with Dr, Conant’s thesis that certification should be left up to individual colleges. CRS—Lautenberger photo DECISION-MAKERS’ POSTER: This year’s president of the NEA Department of Classroom Teachers, Henry E. Goebel, stands before the poster illustrating the Department's 1963-64 theme, “Time for Decision.” “Through this theme,” Mr. Goebel said, “the Department hopes to project classroom teacher thinking on the host of problems confronting the pro- fession—teacher-school board negotiation, the role of the new teacher, time to teach, school dropouts—and to summon the profession to action.” Copies of the poster and reproduction proofs of the illustration are available from the Department. An American Red Cross-Industrial Arts team, in a two-week period last summer, introduced a mass production method of making sandals to Liberian teachers and students who had never seen an assembly line. “After one demonstration,” said Kenneth Dawson, executive secretary of NEA’ s American Industrial Arts Association, who was a team member, “one group of Liberian students was able to make 20 pairs of sandals in one hour by this method.” Others on the team were Glenn Hall, Arlington, Virginia, junior high school student; William Dyson, industrial arts teacher in Arlington; and Maurice Flagg, Ameri- can Red Cross Journal editor. The summer trip was the imple- mentation and testing phase of a project begun some six months earlier in an effort to control the invading hookworm in Liberia by popularizing the wearing of footwear. At the re- quest of the Office of Educational Relations and the Arlington County (Va.) Chapter of the American Red Cross, five junior high school indus- trial arts classes in Arlington County set up pilot programs last year to ex- periment with designing and con- structing sandals, on a mass produc- tion basis, which could be made in- expensively out of material locally available in Liberia. The request had come originally from the Liberian Red Cross. Each of the five pilot schools in Arlington solved the problems in dif- ferent ways, but all agreed that used rubber tires and tubes were the most practical materials found in West Africa. After the pilot programs had tested the effectiveness of the project, each school produced a chest containing production line procedures, jigs and fixtures, prototypes of the sandals, de- tailed instructions and designs, basic tools, and samples of raw materials. During the two-week tour the team gave nine demonstrations to 17 schools in most of the populated areas of Li- beria. In each school one teacher was trained in the entire production line process as well as two groups of stu- dents who became proficient in each production step. Before the team left Africa the Li- berian Red Cross staff, who had also learned the complete operation, were able to set up the assembly line, dem- onstrate each step in the process, and have the students produce sandals without assistance from the Ameri- can team. They also learned to make new jigs and fixtures, develop instruc- tional charts and aids, and to service tools and materials. The success of the venture, Mr. Dawson commented, is evident inas- much as the assembly line technique, which is new to Liberia, can now be conducted for the making of simple footwear with only hand tools being ie xaaee from eee. SENATE BILL... (Continued from page 1, column 3) grants to the states for vocational train- ing in the next four years. This com- pares with $450 million voted in the same vocational education bill as passed by the House of Representa- tives, and would be in addition to $55 million now being spent for existing vocational education programs. In addition to providing new funds, the bill seeks to re-orient the present vocational education program in the direction of modern technical and business courses. It also authorizes $50 million for this year plus sums needed for the next four years for grants to the states to give part-time jobs to students in vocational courses, It further author- izes $5 million this year plus sums needed in the next four years to help establish work-residential schools for vocational training. (The House-passed vocational aid bill does not include either of these two new programs voted by the Senate.) HR 4955 extends the NDEA for three additional years and lifts in steps the ceiling on the amount that can be appropriated annually for student AEW School Visits Urged By Mr. Novak’s Principal Dean Jagger, Principal Albert Vane in the Mr. Novak series, will urge parents and other inter- ested citizens to visit their schools during American Educa- tion Week (November 10-16). One-minute and 20-second spot announcements, produced as a public service by MGM-TV and NBC, will be aired on the NBC Television Network during the first two weeks of November. loans from $90 million to $150 million by fiscal year 1967. Also, the amount that could be contributed annually to any one college or university for a student loan fund would rise from $250,000 to $800,000. NDEA “Title V” would be expanded to include the seventh and eighth grades in the guid- ance, counseling, and testing programs. Finally, HR 4955 extends for three yéars the program of grants to school districts crowded by nearby federal installations (Public Laws 815-874). This program, now running at about a $258 million annual spending rate, was modified by inclusion of the Dis- trict of Columbia within the program and provision for a study of the aid to impacted areas program. Rules Committee Roadblock As expected, an immediate Senate- NEA Industrial Arts Association Helps Red Cross Project; Assembly Line for Sandal Production Introduced in Liberia ry ae one | FROM OLD TIRES, NEW SANDALS: The American Red Cross-Industrial Arts team found the Liberian boys and girls working on the sandals project eager to get involved and to try something new. Here students crowd around a table for a closer view of a production line which has been set up to begin a project. All Utah Districts Offer Pay Increases, Education Association Survey Shows Every one of the 40 public school districts in Utah offered pay increases to teachers this year, according to a survey made by the Utah Education Association. One district, North Summit, upped the beginning teacher’s salary by $725; another district, Morgan, in- creased its maximum by $1,100. In addition, 29 of the districts House compromise conference on HR 4955 was blocked on October 15, when Rep. Paul Findley (R-Ill.) ob- jected to a conference. (A single ob- jection from among the 435 House members can prevent the sending of a bill to a Senate-House conference.) Thus the legislation has been thrown into the House Rules Com- mittee. Approval of a Senate-House conference can now come about only by action on the part of the Rules Committee. NEA members who wish to express their views on the desirabil- ity of a Senate-House conference should immediately write or wire their Congressman and urge him to relay their views to members of the Rules Committee. BOARD, COMMITTEE... (Continued from page 1, column 4) and authorized its wide distribution. The office of the National Commis- sion at NEA Center predicted that the statement would be ready for dis- semination in early November. Long-Range Center Plans Long-range plans for the Center for the Study of Instruction include con- tinuing study and redefinition of edu- cational priorities and innovations in instruction, the Executive Committee was told. “Establishment of the Center em- phasizes the NEA’s continuing con- cern with the quality of education and also the expansion and redirection of the NEA role of providing leadership in this area,” NEA Executive Secretary William G. Carr said. Ole Sand, who was director of the Project on Instruction, will serve as director of the Center. Communications Report Also at the October 19-20 meeting, the NEA Board of Directors accepted for further study a subcommittee re- port on an expanded program of com- munications to members. The report includes suggestions for improved serv- ices in four directions: through an ex- panded role for the NEA REPORTER; through development and maintenance of a corps of effective, informed build- ing representatives in school buildings throughout the nation; through serv- ices to higher education faculties pre- paring teachers; and through greater efforts to bring young teachers into the profession. The subcommittee report was pre- sented by Chairman Helen E, Samuel of the District of Columbia, Garland Godfrey of Oklahoma, and Kathryn Stilwell of New Jersey. The NEA Executive Committee and the NEA Board of Directors are scheduled to meet again in February. decreased the number of steps re- quired to reach the maximum salary. Typical of the gains for Utah teach- ers are those reflected in the new Salt Lake City schedule. Salt Lake begin- ning teachers started this year $450 higher than previously; teachers at maximum got a $798 increase. The Salt Lake schools also cut one step from the number needed to reach the maximum. One district, Cache, increased sala- ries only modestly, but cut seven steps from the number needed to reach the maximum. Recent reports from Utah also point out that 11 of the 40 local education associations in the state have been recognized as spokesman for their members. In addition, 15 local asso- ciations have informal recognition. McMurrin To Address Exceptional Children Regional Conference Sterling M. McMurrin, professor of philosophy, University of Utah, and former U.S, Commissioner of Educa- tion, will talk on Purposes of Education” at the Presi- dent’s dinner session during the West- ern Regional Conference of the Coun- cil for Exceptional Children, NEA. — The CEC conference will be held No- vember 6-9 in Salt Lake City. Frances P. Connor, CEC president, — will open the conference with an ad- — dress at the first general session on © “Excellence in Special Education.” Programs for sectional and general sessions reflect the “The Aims and | interest of the 7 Council in all children who, because ~ of some deviation from the normal, require special educational tunities. Oppor- — —— CATION ASSOCIATION NOVEMBER 15, 1963 Bei WASHINGTON, D. C. Second Advisory on Overseas Dependents Schools Issued by NEA For the second time in 1963, the NEA has issued an Urgent Ad- visory on the schools operated for the dependents of American servicemen overseas. The new advisory, similar to one issued in early February, informs teachers who are considering teaching positions in the Overseas Dependents Schools that “serious problems exist in INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP: The president of the World Confederation of rganizations of the Teaching Profession, Sir Ronald Gould (right), and NEA Executive Secretary William G. Carr (left), who also serves as WCOTP secretary general, meet on October 25 with United Nations Secretary-General U Thant at UN headquarters in New York. Sir Ronald invited the UN leader to address the 1964 WCOTP Assembly of Delegates in Paris. On October 28, Sir Ronald spoke before the NEA Center staff in Washington. United Nations photo House Okays Higher Education Bill, Senate Approval Seen Close at Hand A $1.2 billion compromise bill, HR 6143, authorizing the first general college construction federal aid program in history, passed the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6 by a vote of 258- 92. Congressional managers of the legislation predict it will be ac- cepted momentarily in the Senate and soon become law. Detroit Voters Say Yes To Teacher-Supported Levy for School Funds A 7.5 mill levy for the support of Detroit schools, recommended and Supported by the Detroit Education Association, won approval of the city’s Voters November 5 by a vote of 180,673 to 104,633. The vote con- tinues the levy for 10 years. DEA President Eugene Straley de- Scribed the millage victory as “the first Step forward in providing Detroit's Children with the quality education be- fitting a first-class city.” DEA began its efforts for the mill- -88¢ election after Detroit voters de- feated a proposed 12.8 mill levy on April 1. DEA asked the school board to schedule a special election in the fall. Working with the Michigan Edu- Cation Association, DEA backed state legislation needed to allow Detroit to hold such an election, Through the period following the April millage defeat, DEA, in pres- Entations to the school board, op- Posed cuts in school programs and teacher salaries. At the same time, the Ctroit Federation of Teachers was Urging an austerity program. Over the past summer, Detroit board members, following a DEA recommendation, held a series of pub- '€ forums, discussing school issues With citizens, ‘ During the weeks before the elec- 'on and on election day, DEA mem- tele, rea as poll challengers, on aa One teams, and on teams to give Tuction about voting to citizens. The bill, a Senate-House com- promise, accepts the House three-year authorizations totaling $1.2 billion in- stead of the $1.9 billion, five-year total voted by the Senate, provides $180 million annually in grants for four-year colleges, $120 million annually in loans for the same schools, and $25 million the first year plus $60 million each of the next two in grants for graduate schools. Both public and private colleges would be eligible for the grant and loan funds. The bill also authorizes approximately $50 million annually in grants for public community junior colleges and public technical institutes. The compromise bill generally car- ries out part of the Administration’s broad aid-to-education program. How- ever, although the Administration rec- ommended that construction aid be limited to loans, grants are. also in- cluded in HR 6143. Still, sponsors of HR 6143 say the measure is com- pletely acceptable to the Administra- tion. Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), (See COLLEGE BILL, page 4, column 1) these schools.” The new advisory, dated November 15, says that “no substantial changes have been made to improve the un- fortunate conditions” related in the first advisory. Both advisory letters are signed by NEA Executive Secretary William G. Carr. The first advisory pointed out that a comprehensive survey of the Over- seas Dependents Schools made in the fall of 1962 by the Department of Defense “in general criticized the schools severely . . . The survey found shortages of supplies and current text- books, lack of needed specialist per- sonnel, principals bogged down in paper work, an excessive teacher turn- over rate, little provision for handi- capped or superior children, inade- quate and unsafe school facilities in many locations, unsuitable housing for teachers at some posts, and unprofes- sional salaries for teachers.” The second advisory letter says that “the salaries of teachers overseas may be increased by approximately $100 for the current school year, but this leaves the basic difficulties un- changed.” The new advisory goes on: “We have some grounds to hope for a change in the next school year. If the per capita limitation on funds is re- moved, and an adequate appropriation is proposed and provided, new in- formation will be issued. Until then, the present information and warnings remain valid.” All NEA affiliates, superintendents of schools, more than 200 teacher placement agencies, and others are re- ceiving the advisory. About 40,000 copies of the second advisory are being distributed. Both advisories were issued after consultation between NEA and Over- seas Education Association officers and members. Official Actions Regarding Unsatisfactory Educational Conditions Beginning in this issue, each NEA REPORTER will include a current listing of the names of school districts or systems where a state education association or the NEA has notified members of the profession and the public that unsatis- factory educational conditions exist. Association @ California Teachers Association @ Connecticut Education Association @ National Education Association @ New Mexico Education Association District or System Little Lake, Calif., school district Waterbury, Conn., public schools Overseas Dependents Schools Springer, N. Mex., public*schools When an association officially reports that conditions have become satis- factory in any of the above districts or systems, the NEA RePorTER will an- nounce the action. Cleveland Board Again Asked To Authorize Election The Cleveland Education As- sociation has reiterated its re- quest to the Cleveland Board of Education for an election “to de- termine which organization shall be the exclusive representative of the Cleveland teachers in negotiations with the Board.” In a statement presented to Board members on October 24, CEA said it was “disappointed” that the associa- tion’s first request for an election had been construed or misinterpreted as a request for a collective bargaining pro- cedure. Legal counsel for the Board, the CEA said, was asked to decide the wrong question. “Our request,” CEA said, “was based on a Board policy procedure which many Ohio school districts have adopted and which is within Ohio law.” The request does not ask the Board to enter into collective bargain- ing contracts—an action that “is not legal in Ohio for public employee- employer groups.” The CEA request, the statement said, “would have resulted in a policy procedure commonly known in the teaching profession as ‘professional negotiation.” Such a procedure is a process of problem solving with mem- bers of the teaching staff joining with the Board to resolve problems such as salaries, working conditions, and other matters of mutual concern.” At press time, House and Sen- ate conferees were meeting on HR 4955, an NEA-backed bill which is a considerably expanded version of what passed the House as a straight vocational bill. As passed by the Senate, HR 4955 calls for an expansion of federal outlays for vocational education, a three-year extension of the National Defense Education Act, and a three-year extension of Public Laws 815 and 874 (im- pacted areas aid), As the con- ferees meet, it is understood that a strong effort will be made for early agreement. The conference outcome and subsequent Con- gressional action on the legisla- tion will be reported in future issues of the NEA REPORTER. Facey 5-3 Woah ease RT Nat li 5 ine aoe he a poe ET eee New Law To Help All Handicapped Children Act, Long Urged by Council for Exceptional Children, Labeled ‘Significant, Far-Reaching’ Frances P. Connor, president of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), acclaimed as “significant and far-reaching” the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963, signed into law October 31 by President Kennedy. The act (Public Law 88-164) is the first federal legislation in education to extend its Decision Imminent In Suit Against Wisconsin Board A decision is expected soon on a law suit in Wisconsin concerned with the right of a local school board to grant recognition to a professional edu- cation association. The association, the West Allis-West Milwaukee Teachers Association, was granted exclusive rights to represent teachers last November. Adjudication has been under way since the suit was filed in January. Among other things, the action against the board urges that all cer- tificated personnel who spend a sub- stantial part of their time doing any- thing other than classroom teaching be excluded from membership in any organization of teachers. This is being urged despite the fact that the action has been initiated by a teachers union, which itself admits to membership “public school principals, assistants to principals, heads of departments, or other supervising officers.” The action also urges that certifi- cated personnel not performing’in the classroom be denied the opportunity to attend meetings, vote, and otherwise serve in teachers organizations. benefits to all handicapped children. P.L. 88-164 provides $329 million over a three-year period for construc- tion of research centers and facilities related to the mentally retarded; a two-year program for the construc- tion of community mental health cen- ters; and a three-year program for the training of teachers for the mentally retarded and other handicapped chil- dren, plus research and demonstration in these areas. P.L. 88-164 amends and extends previous acts providing support for the mentally retarded and deaf so that these laws will now encompass aid to all the handicapped. Immediately after signing P.L. 88- 164 President Kennedy announced the establishment of a Division of Handi- capped Children and Youth within the U.S. Office of Education to administer the $53 million Title II program. Named to head the new division is a former CEC president, Samuel A, Kirk, professor of education and psy- chology and director of the Institute of Research on Exceptional Children at the University of Illinois. For the past three years CEC rep- resentatives have testified before Con- gressional committees and subcommit- tees, working for the passage of the new act. Some of the proposed legis- lation drafted in 1961 by CEC has been incorporated into the new act. South San Francisco School Turmoil Tied to 4 ‘Situations or Conditions’ By Rights and Responsibilities Team A three-man professional rights and responsibilities team, after WHITE HOUSE GREETING: Just after signing the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act of 1963 on October 31, President Kennedy greets Frances P. Connor, president of the Council for Exceptional Children, making a preliminary inquiry into the “education-centered turmoil” in South San Francisco, has pinned down four reasons for the discord. But the team has recommended against a full investigation of the school district at this time. The four “local situations or condi- tions” associated with the school-com- munity discord identified by the team are: “1. The former superintendent has accepted a subordinate position in the school system. “2. The school board is divided. “3. The policies of the South San Francisco School District appear to be neither timely nor comprehensive. “4. There is evidence to support the widely accepted opinion that polit- ical activity in recent elections has been an important factor in the selec- tion and appointment of persons to subordinate school administration po- sitions.” The team noted that “much time, thought, and money have been ex- pended for the benefit of the South San Francisco school system through investigations by (1) the Ethics Com- mittee of the Bay Section of the Cali- fornia Teachers Association, (2) the office of the Superintendent of Schools of San Mateo County, and (3) the California School Boards Association.” Only time will reveal if the pro- posals made by these groups “will con- tinue to be generally unknown and ignored or be carefully and con- sistently used to improve the school situation,” the team report says. Noting also that “significant changes” have occurred since the re- quest for an investigation was made by the CTA Personnel Standards Commission, the team recommended that an investigation not be con- ducted at this time, that the CTA Bay Section work with the local association to help the situation, and that the CTA Personnel Standards Commission “periodically consult with the responsi- ble leaders in the community to de- termine whether conditions have changed to the point that an_investiga- tion should be conducted, or the re- quest for such a study should be with- drawn.” The study team members were Richard B. Kennan, executive secre- tary, and Richard L. Morgan, associ- ate legal counsel, NEA Commission on Professional Rights and Responsibil- ities. and Louise Paine, representing the CTA commission. The team’s findings and recommendations are. in the form of a statement rather than an official report of the national PR&R Commission, who was invited to be present for the ceremonies at the White House. NEA Center for Study of Instruction Receives $75,000 Supporting Grant A $75,000 grant to the recently created NEA Center for the Study of Instruction has been made by the Fund for the Advance- ment of Education. The grant will support three activities of the new Center: (1) cre- ation of a sound filmstrip and a study guide for each of the four volumes containing recommendations for the schools made by the Center’s predecessor, the NEA Project on In- struction; (2) publication in the NEA Journal of a special feature on the rec- ommendations; and (3) partial sup- port for one year of a panel of regional consultants who will serve throughout the country. The panelists will be available to help selected public and private schools and colleges, state departments of edu- cation, and state and local education associations to study and use the recommendations. In a letter to NEA Executive Sec- retary William G. Carr announcing the grant, Fund for the Advancement of Education President Clarence Faust said: “We are pleased to provide this assistance in support of an undertaking which has significance for the National Education Association and for all of American education.” Latest Figures Show Membership Up 5,607 Over Same Date, 1962 On October 31, NEA membership reached 367,665, an increase of 5,607 over the total on that date in 1962. Memberships are currently arriving at the rate of about 60,000 a week, ac- cording to the NEA Membership Divi- sion. Fourteen states on October 31 showed increases of more than 1,000 as compared with last year. Wisconsin led all the rest with a gain of 3,274 NEA members. Iowa is the first state to exceed its last year’s total NEA membership. Iowa also has become the first state in the nation this year to meet its Campaign Goal. Secondary Principals To Hear Speeches By Conant, Drucker, Dulles, Keppel James Bryant Conant, Peter Drucker, Allen Dulles, and Fran- cis Keppel are among the speak- ers scheduled for the 48th annual convention of the National As- sociation of Secondary-School Prin- cipals in Chicago, February 8-12. Dr. Conant, Harvard University president emeritus and author of the recent book, The Education of Amer- ican Teachers, will address an NASSP general session on “Teacher Educa- tion and the Preparation of Secondary- School Teachers.” Management Consultant , Peter Drucker’s topic is “How To Be an Effective Administrator.” Mr. Drucker is professor of management at New York University. Allen Dulles, former head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, will speak on “Diplomacy, Strategy, and Intelligence.” Allen Dulles Among NASSP Speakers U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel will address the open- ing convention session on February 8. What’s Going On in TV, Radio, Press, and National Magazines Television Mr. Novak (NBC-TV, Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., E.S.T.). “Pay the $2.00” November 26: injured student’s father accuses Mr. Novak of brutality. “A Thousand Voices” December 3: head- Strong boy refuses to stay in school. “Love in the Wrong Season” Decem- ber 10: attractive teacher falls in love With one of her students. The Great Adventure (CBS-TV, Fridays, 7:30 p.M., E.S.T.). “Wild Bill Hickok: The Legend and the Man” November 22. Pre-empted No- vember 29. “The Outlaw and _ the Nun” December 6: Teacher Sister Blandina in Trinidad, Colorado, 1870's. Do You Know? (CBS-TV, Satur- days, 12:30 p.M., E.S.T.). “The Cali- fornia Gold Rush” by Ralph Andrist, November 23; pre-empted November 30; “Wonderful World of Energy” by Lancelot Hogben, December 7; “Ben- jamin Franklin” by Clara Judson, De- cember 14. Exploring (NBC-TV, Saturdays, 1! P.M., E.S.T.). “Mark Twain” Novem- ber 23; “Walter Reed” November 30; “Sam Houston” December 7; “Loren- 20 de Medici” December 14. Discovery '63 (ABC-TV, Sundays, 12:30 p.m., E.S.T.). “London” No- vember 24, December 1; pre-empted December 8; “How Our Words Be- gan” December 15. NBC Children’s Theatre (NBC-TV, Sundays, 3 p.M., E.S.T.). Introduc- tion to a symphony orchestra: “Of Sights and Sounds” December 15. New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concert (CBS-TV, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., E.S.T.). Conductor Leonard Bernstein salutes the nation’s teachers in the season premiere of this show, November 29. The Saga of Western Man (ABC- TV, Sundays, 6:30 P.M., E.S.T.). His- ‘ torical series focuses on “1776” De- cember 8. Magazines Parents’ Magazine (December). “Why Tough Kids Go Straight,” new approach to juvenile delinquency; and “We're Breaking the Language Bar- tier,” foreign language instruction in elementary grades. The Reader's Digest (December). “They Help Boys Want To Be Edu- Cated” by Albert Q. Maisel, about Chicago Boys Clubs. Good Housekeeping (December). “Guide to Educational Toys.” Woman's Day (December). A hand-puppet play for elementary School children, “Where is Christmas?” and “Are We Bringing Up Children of Good Will?” by Ardis Whitman. NEA REPORTER Published monthly except August (two is- sues in October) by the National Education Association of the United Stotes, 1201 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Telephone: Area Code 202, 234-4848 Robert H. Wyatt. .........0055 President William G. Carr...... Executive Secretary Frank W. Hubbard... .Assistant Executive Secretary for Information Services Mildred S. Fenner.............55 Editor NEA REPORTER is mailed to all NEA members. Annual subscription price, 60 Cents (included in membership dues and Svailable only as a part of membership). Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C., post office. POINT OF VIEW ON FEDERAL AID: A forthcoming CBS Reports television pro- gram, tentatively titled “The Catholics and the Schools,” will explore the arguments for and against federal aid to church-related schools. Among the authorities to appear on the show is NEA Executive Secretary William G. Carr, shown above as his inter- view was filmed by CBS-TV. ‘Crisis Histrionics’ in New York City Blasted by New Jersey Association The “crisis histrionics” that marked the New York City school debacle this fall have shown that “industrial bargaining practices cannot be copied in a doctrinaire manner in public enterprises,” the New Jersey Education Association said last month through the NJEA Review. “Are there no indignities which ruthless politicians will spare ‘Mr. Novak’ Show Gets ‘9’ on Its Neilsen Rating Television Report Card Mr. Novak scored “9” on his re- port card as the first Neilsen rating on new television offerings came out late last month. The new NBC-TV show featuring a high school English teacher rated . ninth in size of listening audience out’ of a field of 32 programs which made their broadcast debut this fall, accord- ing to New York Times Critic Jack Gould. Cleveland Amory, commenting in a recent week’s TV Guide, said: “In a relatively undramatic everyday area of life, with no violence, little crime and merciful absence of neurotic sex, Mr. Novak somehow manages not only to be continuously interesting but also to face up to the country’s No. 1 problem, the place where all other problems begin, the blackboard jungle. And if it doesn’t wipe the slate clean —it is much too honest a show for that—it at least chalks up some grounds for hope.” American Teachers Association Welcomes NEA Merger Study The American Teachers Associa- tion, which represents 40,000 Negro teachers, has approved, with reserva- tions, a plan for study of a merger of the ATA and the NEA. “We approve and welcome the plan,” the ATA said in a unanimous resolution at its 1963 Delegate As- sembly. The ATA resolution goes on to re- quest the NEA-ATA Joint Committee to study the feasibility and desirability of the merger and to report its findings to the ATA and NEA Boards of Directors. At the 1963 NEA Convention, the Representative Assembly adopted a resolution asking the Joint Committee to make such a study and to “report its recommendations in one year or less.” a teacher in his fight for respect and professional advancement—round-the- clock squabbling, rainy night stadium rallies, on-again-off-again strike tac- tics?” an NJEA Review editorial asks. “Is this the wave of the future for teacher-board relations? “We owe it to ourselves and to the children we teach,” the editorial says, “to find a more satisfactory approach to determining personnel policies than the crisis tactics which plague New York. We prefer true negotiations— teachers, board members, and super- intendents around the table. We prefer completely united and _ professional organizations, recognized by their boards, itemizing their requests for improvement, presenting supporting and factual evidence, forcefully argu- ing their cause, and working in good faith toward acceptable agreements.” Program Will Probe Federal School Aid NEA Executive Secretary William G. Carr will be interviewed along with several other distinguished Amer- ican leaders on a forthcoming CBS Reports television program probing the question of federal aid to church- related schools. Tentatively titled “The Catholics and the Schools,” the program will be produced by Arthur Morse, who says it will examine arguments for and against federal aid to church- related schools. (Broadcast date for this program has not yet been set by the CBS Television Network. Please check your local station listings.) Among authorities to be interviewed are Msgr. Frederick G. Hochwalt, director, Department of Education, National Catholic Welfare Conference; Glenn Archer, executive director, Protestants and Other Americans United for the Separation of Church and State; Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.); Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk, United Presbyterians; and Robert M. Hutchins, president, Center for Democratic Institutions. Political Clinic in Cleveland Draws Enthusiastic Response Responses to the invitation to a Political Clinic for Teachers in Cleveland, Ohio, February 28- March 1 will be honored up to a capacity of 250, in the order re- ceived, sponsors of the event have announced. Notice of lim- ited registration results from the enthusiastic first response to an October 10 mailing. Sponsors of the clinic are four NEA units — the Citizenship Committee, the Division of Fed- eral Relations, the Urban Proj- ect, the Commission on Pro- fessional Rights and Responsi- bilities—and the Cleveland Edu- cation Association. MASSACHUSETTS TRIBUTE TO HORACE MANN: Presenting a scroll of Horace Mann quotations to NEA President Robert H. Wyatt (left) is William H. Hebert, assistant executive secretary of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and a member of the NEA Legislative Commission. The scroll from the MTA will be framed and placed in the Horace Mann Room at NEA Center. NEA Receives 1963 Gold Smokey Award se Pear, EDUTATIN ASSOC SF p> Oj SANDING, PUBLIC SERVIEE © | The National Education Associa- tion has received a 1963 Golden Smokey Award in recognition of the “voluntary application of time and talent . . . made by professional edu- cators, especially the teachers in our elementary schools” to the cause of forest fire prevention. Announcement of the award to the teachers of Ameri- ca for their role in the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign was made to William G. Carr, NEA execu- tive secretary, by the Association of State Foresters, the Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Advertising Council. In pres- entation ceremonies at the annual banquet of the Fifth American Forest Congress on October 29 in Washing- ton, the Golden Smokey Statuette (above) was accepted on behalf of the NEA by Norman Key, executive sec- retary of the NEA National Commis- sion on Safety Education, from Theo- dore Repplier, president of the Ad- vertising Council. COLLEGE BILL... . (Continued from page 1, column 2) chairman of the Senate Education Subcommittee, said he is confident the Senate would go along with the bill. The Senate-House conference com- mittee, which has the task of ironing out a compromise between differing House and Senate bills, voted to strike out a Senate provision by Senator Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) to permit taxpayer suits to test the constitutionality of any grant or loan to a church-connected - institution. The compromise bill, according to the U.S. Solicitor General and other reliable constitutional experts, implic- itly provides for judicial review, though not in specific language. Such a provision is in accordance with Resolution Number Four, adopted by the NEA Representative Assembly in Detroit in July of this year. Another key issue resolved in meet- ings between Senate and House con- ferees involved the Senate’s insistence that grants under the three-year pro- gram be limited to construction of science, engineering, and library build- ings. The House bill provided for Five Overseas Teachers Win NAMES JON IMS0R; Reassignment Protest Decision Five American teachers in Paris who protested this spring against involuntary reassignments are now back in their Dependents Schools classrooms. Because of their success, they believe that the job secu- rity of more than 6,000 other teachers in the same program is better protected. In October the newly appointed De- pendents Education Group General Superintendent Robert M. O’Kane, deciding in favor of the teachers, stated in a letter to each concerned that “the failure . . . to define reasons for reassignment and to state why you were selected for such action consti- tutes a technical deficiency which war- rants cancellation of the reassignment notice and subsequent removal action.” Plans at that time were being for- mulated to take the case to federal court in Washington, D.C., with the assistance of the NEA when Dr. O’Kane’s decision was made. The five teachers, in schools oper- ated by the Army’s Dependent’s Edu- cation Group for military dependents, had been issued transfers against their wishes last April. One accepted under protest her transfer to another school in France, but the others refused to accept on the grounds that the proper pro- cedures for such action were . not followed by representatives of- the school administration. Following protests from the indi- viduals to school officials, Department of Defense authorities, and various congressmen without result, and fol- lowing efforts by the Overseas Educa- tion Association and the NEA on their behalf, the transfers still were not re- versed, and the four who did not ac- cept the reassignments were issued separation notices. Grievance hearings had been set for October 14 with an Army griev- ance examiner when Dr. O’Kane con- sented to accept responsibility for de- termining the steps to be taken. _— AEW AWARD WINNER: The photographs above are selected from the 64-picture sequence which made up the 1963 American Education Week television film spot. This one-minute film, seen on most of the nation’s television stations last week, was cited by the judges of the International Film and Television Festival in New York City as one of the three best public service announcements of the year. It was produced and distributed by the NEA Division of Press, Radio, and Television Relations. With an estimated 32 million parents visiting their local schools during American Education Week, the 1963 observance was the most extensive in the event's 43- NEWS THE PHILADELPHIA Teachers Asso- ciation, with the support of the Penn- sylvania State Education Association and the NEA, has employed a full- time executive secretary. He is Walter J. O’Brien, formerly field representa- tive, New Jersey Education Associa- tion. . . . New presidents of state edu- cation associations are John G. Freu- denberger in Maryland; N. Manvel Lillehaugen, North Dakota, and Rob- ert M. Irvine, Vermont. . . . Rosalie W. Farley, Teachers College, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Charles C. Erwin, superintendent of Rowan County Schools, Salisbury, N.C., are new presidents, respectively, of the NEA Department of Rural Education and its Division of County and Inter- mediate Unit Superintendents. New president-elect of the Rural Depart- ment is Donald L. Kruzner, superin- tendent of schools, King County, Se- attle, Wash.; and Louis L. Pickett, superintendent of Scott County Schools, Davenport, Iowa, is president- elect of the Division of County and Intermediate Unit Superintendents. . Farewell ceremonies were held in San Juan in October for Jose Joa-— quin Rivera, retiring executive secre- tary, Puerto Rico Teachers Associa- tion. He will continue as NEA Board of Directors member and in his duties with WCOTP. . . . George A. Loomis, Parma, Ohio, teacher chosen last spring as a Hilda Maehling Fellow, made a two-week study of NEA pub- | lications in October as part of his — fellowship project in which he is pre- | paring a Handbook for Local Editors. 7 ... Henry Lester Smith, 1934-35 NEA ~ president, died October 26 in Bloom- ington, Indiana. Dr. Smith was also an active leader in the World Federation of Education Associations, a pre-World War II predecessor of WCOTP. .. . Three scholarships for graduate study in school administration, each valued at $1,500, will be presented during the 1964 AASA convention. Robert E. Ferris of North Hollywood, California, will receive the Shankland scholarship; Jack P. Taylor of Columbus, Ohio, the McClure scholarship; and Joseph S. Zapytowski of Ypsilanti, Michigan, year history. “across-the-board” use of the funds. In compromising the difference, the conferees broadened the limited Sen- ate grants to include aid for class- rooms used for instruction of mathe- matics and modern foreign languages. This keeps the bill in line with the purpose defined in the National De- fense Education Act of 1958. 14 State Associations Adopt Ethics Code Fourteen state education associa- tions have formally adopted the new Code of Ethics of the Education Pro- fession. In the order of their adoption, they are: Mississippi Teachers Associ- ation, Alaska Education Association, Montana Education Association, Ok- lahoma Education Association, Michi- gan Education Association, Massachu- setts Teachers Association, Utah Edu- cation Association, Hawaii Education Association, North Dakota Education Association, District of Columbia Edu- cation Association, Wyoming Educa- tion Association, New Mexico Educa- tion Association, Nevada Education Association, and Indiana State Teach- ers Association. the Engleman scholarship. : 1 It's less work when you have Good Lighting S ee BETTER LIGHT BETTER SIGHT: Discussing an illustration for a home eco-’ nomics booklet are Donald E, Bootes, chairman, School and College Service Com- mittee of the Better Light Better Sight Bureau, Columbus, Ohio, and Katharine B._ Hall, chairman, Department of Home Economics, Montclair State College, Upper’ Montclair, N.J., and secretary of the NEA Department of Home Economics (DHE), Representatives of the Bureau, a national nonprofit organization sponsored by the electric industry, met in October with DHE officials to discuss the Bureau’s plan for improving and updating their program of supplementary classroom teaching aids for home economics classes. Conference chairman was Katherine Conafay, DHE president, who is home economics supervisor of the Arlington, Va., schools. The Bureau also produces teaching aids for upper elementary grades, junior high general science, and industrial arts. Development and revising of each progrant is preceded by a conference at the NEA with authoritative people in each field. PUBLISH Step gS pte ee ny ernment ale VOL. 2, NO. 8 DECEMBER 6, 1963 i WASHINGTON, D. C. LET A PEOPLE SOUNDLY EDUCATED BE KENNEDY’S MOST ENDURING MEMORIAL John F. Kennedy Purcell Photo 35th President of the United States Kennedy, on November 19, Spoke of Responsibility in the Field of Education On November 19, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, spoke with NEA leaders and with members of the National Associ- ation of Secretaries of State Teachers Associations. The meeting took Place in the White House garden. The following comments were made: NEA PRESIDENT ROBERT WYATT: Mr. President, I should like to present my colleagues to you. These People are the Executive Secretaries of the State Teachers Associations and SOme members of their staffs and a Wife or two thrown in for good meas- re. They have been meeting here for Several days talking about various edu- Cational problems, primarily financing the elementary and secondary schools. We have in our membership about 4 million and a half teachers on all levels. About 95 percent of them are elementary and secondary teachers. Friends, the President of the United States. PRESIDENT KENNEDY: Mr. Wy- att, Dr. Carr, Ladies and Gentlemen, I want to express a very warm wel- come to all of you to the White House. We are very appreciative to the National Education Association, to your leader—Mr. Wyatt-—-to your of- ficials Mr. Carr and others—for the (See KENNEDY, page 2, column 1) As we move through this month of official and personal mourning for John F. Kennedy, it is timely for teachers especially to consider how they may evaluate his greatness. Teachers need to ask what, from our memory of the man, we may pass on to our students, including those now too young to know him but soon old enough to know of him. What did the youngest President to live in the office, and the youngest to die in it, have to say to American youth? © He exemplified the strength of youthful enthusiasm . . . .. . yet he honored older and more experienced leaders and sought their wisdom. “We need to draw upon America’s entire reservoir of talent and skill to help conduct our generation’s most important business—the public business.” ®@ He was ready to act to meet the crushing problems of his office... ... yet he took time to think, to review the pertinent facts, and to take counsel of informed advisors. “Our responsibility is not discharged by an announcement of virtuous ends.” ® He had faith in the American people .. . ... but he challenged all of us to apply reason and patriotism to public issues. “The true democracy [has faith] that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor, and ultimately recognize right.” ® He gave high respect to intellectual excellence .. . ... but he also recognized very fully how artistic values enrich human life. “I believe in an America where every child is educated, not ac- cording to his means or his race, but according to his capacity.” ® He stood firm against hatred and bigotry .. . ... but he showed great understanding of the laggards in the march toward human brotherhood. “I do not promise to consider race or religion in my appointments _.. I promise only that I will not consider them.” © He recognized the important roles of teachers and parents . . . . and his devotion to his own family and to education em- phasized this recognition. “Democracy demands more of us than any other system in edu- cation, character, self-restraint, self-discipline. How are we going to get the best education in the world? One of the best ways is to have the best-trained teachers. . . . Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.” © He demonstrated patriotism and courage in a hard and bitter peace as well as in war... ... yet he never ceased to strive for a just peace among the nations. “Courage is the universal virtue. . . . Without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men . . . have lived.” These are some of the lessons of the past which America’s teachers may offer to those who must create the future. When the national emblem rises again to the very top of the flagpoles before all the schools of the nation, let it be remembered that a people soundly educated are our late President’s most appropriate and enduring memorial. —William G. Carr Executive Secretary National Education Association Se | i i q if H JOHN F. KENNEDY SPOKE OUT ON EDUCATION: On November 19, Presi- dent Kennedy spoke to NEA leaders and representatives of the National Association of Secretaries of State Teachers Associations at the White House. His comments at that meeting appear in this issue of the REPORTER. President Kennedy was introduced to the group by NEA President Robert H. Wyatt (left photo). After his formal re- marks, Mr. Kennedy spoke informally with the educators (right photo). purcent Pnotos Kennedy Spoke of Responsibility in the Field of Education (Continued from page 1, column 2) support they have given to our efforts this year to see if we can persuade the Congress to meet what I regard as a very pressing national obligation and responsibility in the field of education. And that obligation and responsibility stretches across a very wide spectrum of needs. I have just come back from driving through part of the State of Florida. Every time I take a journey which takes me by car and I see the number of mothers with young children who are standing in the streets, I realize once again in a very personal way what a tremendous flood of children are coming into our schools—elemen- tary, high schools, colleges and, we hope, even going beyond. Now, we cannot get the job done, with all the competing claims for dol- lars, unless we have determined and dedicated work at the local level, at the state level, and at the national level. This Congress must be judged, in my opinion, by what it is able to do in the important field of education certainly as much as in any other field before it goes home next July or next August. It is my strong belief that when this Congress does go home on that occasion, it will have done more in the field of education than any Congress in the last 100 years—really, I suppose, since the Morrill Act which established the land-grant colleges. In the field of higher education, vocational education, in the field of assisting teachers who are on salaries —particularly those who are at the low end and those who are at the high end—so that we can encourage the best talent we have to go into teaching, in the scholarships for needy students, in a whole variety of ways: mental retardation and all the rest, I think that this Congress—some may claim I am optimistic—is going to write, as I said, the best program, certainly, in a century. I think the need is greater than it has been for a century. I think the number of children who do need an education and the com- plexities of our society place a much higher burden upon the average citizen than ever before. This is no new role for the federal government. You know this better than anyone. Since the Northwest Ordinance and the Land Grant Acts anda dozen other legis- lative acts by the Congress, we have indicated that we believe a free society must be well educated. We have a very new responsibility in 63 because of the size of the popu- lation and because of the needs of this populace. So I hope you will continue to do your work; that you will con- NEA President Wyatt Expresse s the Profound, Universal Grief of American Teachers on the Death of Kennedy John F. Kennedy’s impact upon history—and especially upon the history of education in our country—was only beginning to unfold at the time of the tragic event of November 22, 1963. This incom- prehensible event has so shaken the normal processes of thinking and planning that a new appraisal of the events and issues involved in educational history seems imper- ative. The powerful call to action by President Kennedy in his addresses and messages now becomes an in- spiration: President Kennedy demonstrated his interest in education by seeking a place on the Education and Labor Committee of the House of Repre- sentatives on the first day of his service in that body in 1949. His strong clear statement on the delicate issue of church and state be- fore the Houston Ministerial Associa- tion was an inspiration to all those who cate deeply about this issue. His Presidential messages on education and his recommendation in 1963 of a comprehensive proposal for substantial federal participation in financing edu- cation would have provided a financial underpinning of the schools of America from kindergarten to university. On November 19, 1963, three days before his death. he met with the offi- cials of the NEA in the Cabinet Room and then spoke to the assembled executive secretaries of state associa- tions. His remarks on that occasion are printed elsewhere in this issue. The Association can be especially proud of these words: “Things don’t happen; they are made to happen; and in the field of education they were made to happen by you and your members.” From every significant event in the life of a person or a nation, whether it be a great forward step or a bitter tragedy, the elements of strength that This issue of the NEA REPORTER has been developed as a tribute to the late President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. A report on President Lyndon Baines Johnson will appear in the January issue of the NEA Journal. reside in it must be woven into a pattern of constructive action for the future. In this case, the programs of action so recently considered by Presi- dent Kennedy and the officials of the National Education Association and state associations must become under the new leadership, which we trust and admire, the basis for legislative action in 1964. Let us do what President Kennedy would most wish us to do—advance the status of education for the nation’s good. —Robert H. Wyatt, NEA President, Telegram to Mrs. Kennedy The following telegraphed message was sent to Mrs. John F. Kennedy on November 22: On behalf of the National Educa- tion Association we extend our deep- est sympathy for the tragic loss to you, to our country, and to the world. The telegram was signed by Robert H. Wyatt, NEA President. tinue to prod us and, occasionally, here in the Administration, the White House, occasionally the members of the House and Senate, to see if we can get this job done. I quoted before and I quote again Mr. Jefferson: “If, we expect a nation to be ignorant and free, we expect what never was and never will be.” That should be our thesis for the next nine months, to see that the Congress, before it goes home, leaves something here that is worthy of being remem- bered in the important field of edu- cation. I want to thank you. Things don’t happen; they are made to happen; and in the field of education they were made to happen by you and your members. So we are very grateful. MR. WYATT: Thank you, Mr. President. In 1960, when John F. Ken- nedy was a candidate for the Presidency, he wrote, for the NEA Journal, a special state- ment on educational needs. Fol- lowing are excerpts from that statement: We face a crisis in education. The exploding school population is bursting open inadequate class- rooms, Our competition with the Soviets depends in part on the science training in our high schools. Our stature abroad— the legend of the “Ugly Ameri- can”—is affected by how many language teachers are available in the lower grades. The wisdom of our legislators—holding in their hands the power of war or peace—is dependent upon the wisdom and the education of Americans in every remote cor- ner of the nation... . The issue is one of national survival. The Soviets have spent at least two and one half times more of their national income on education than we have... . Civilization, according .to the old saying, is “a race between education and catastrophe.” It is up to us as a nation to determine the winner of that race. Kennedy Administration Produced Significant Education, Health, Welfare Legislative Action Educational Television, Manpower Training, Medical Education, Mental Retardation and Health, Peace Corps Acts Passed in 3 Years The nearly three years of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Administra- tion have produced highly significant legislative improvements 1n education, health, and welfare. been desirable and necessary, had been de Most of these proposals had long bated and discussed in previous years, but never were enacted into law. bie a9 se In addition to establishing many important new programs of federal assistance to the states and local com- munities to help solve pressing social and health problems, the Kennedy Administration’s Peace Corps repre- Sents a long-awaited change in the basic philosophy of United States aid Programs to peoples abroad. Peace Corps Established During the Presidential campaign, Democratic Nominee John F. Kennedy Suggested creation of a corps of U.S. Citizens to assist underdeveloped na- tions in teaching and development Projects. As President, Mr. Kennedy established a Peace Corps on a pilot basis by executive order, appointed R. Sargent Shriver to direct it, and re- quested Congress to make it perma- nent and appropriate funds for its Operation. President Kennedy, in submitting the Peace Corps bill to Congress, Called it a “special and timely op- Portunity to put dedicated Americans to work for the cause of world peace and human understanding.” Congress €stablished a permanent Corps along the lines suggested by the President, who signed the measure into law on September 22, 1961. Manpower Development And Training Act _ This $435 million measure was Signed into law March 15, 1962. Al- though President Kennedy urged pas- Sage of the measure, Republican Congressmen played a not inconsider- able part in working out the final Compromise. Under the program, federal funds re used to pay training allowances to Persons attending vocational schools, tO pay some travel and subsistence allowances to those who must take the training away from home, to help pay for vocational school training, and to Pay for some on-the-job training for Workers seeking to improve their skills. Educational Television _ President Kennedy on May 1, 1962, Signed P.L. 87-447, authorizing a Vve-year program of federal aid to ®ducational television facilities. In his education message of Febru- ary 6, 1962, he had urged a program of matching grants for state or other NOnprofit educational TV stations. Medical Education President Kennedy on September 4, 1963, signed P.L. 88-129, a $236.4 million measure to help build Medical and dental schools and to help pudents attend such institutions. The ree-year measure was the first major NeW program to clear the 88th Con- Bress. The achievement is particularly ac worthy because legislation with a } ‘ilar intent has been before every } ~ONgress since 1950. The bill, technically the Health Profession’s Educational Assistance Act, would help an estimated 10,000 students with loans of up to $2,000 over the next three years and would also make it possible to build many new medical and dental schools and to expand and modernize existing fa- cilities. Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963 New legislation that provides a sig- nificant step toward inaugurating a new era in the approach to this coun- try’s mental health was signed into law by President Kennedy on October 31, 1963, as P.L. 88-164. The legislation authorizes a_total of $329 million. This includes $150 million in matching grants over the next three years for the construction of community mental health centers which can radically reduce the over- crowding of large centralized public mental institutions. It also includes funds of $126 mil- lion over a five-year period for the construction of research and treatment facilities for the mentally retarded, and $53 million for three years for the training of teachers of the mentally retarded and other handicapped chil- dren. Signing of this bill establishes the foundation for a new method of treatment with its focus in the com- munity. General School Aid Blocked During the Presidential campaign of 1960, John F. Kennedy said, “Civilization, according to the old say- ing, is a race between education and catastrophe. It is up to us as a nation to determine the winner of that race.” Congress in 1961 failed to pass a general federal aid to education bill, handing President Kennedy a defeat on what he described as “probably the most important piece of domestic leg- islation” of the session. The Senate did pass a $2.5 billion program of grants for public school operation, construc- tion, and teachers’ salaries. But a $2.5 billion program of grants for public school construction and teachers’ sal- aries reported by the House Education and Labor Committee was stymied in the House Rules Committee. A late- session attempt to gain House approval of a drastically watered-down one- vear “emergency” school construction bill was roundly beaten on the floor. President Kennedy again asked the second session of the 87th Congress for a broad program of federal aid to education, but none of the major parts of the program was enacted. There were, in addition, a number of new proposals in the President's education program: grants to help im- prove the quality of education; a pro- gram to combat adult illiteracy; a program for handicapped children. Programs left over from 1961 and re- Telegrams of Sympathy From World’s Teachers Following are excerpts from a few of the telegrams and tele- phone messages sent to William G. Carr, NEA Executive Secre- tary and Secretary General of the World Confederation of Organi- zations of the Teaching Profes- sion: “All teachers in WCOTP are with you in your tragic loss.” —Sir Ronald Gould, President, WCOTP “The secretariat of the Inter- national Federation of Teachers’ Associations express their deep sympathy to their colleagues of NEA.” —International Federation of Teachers’ Associations. “Shocked by the message of President Kennedy’s sudden death. Swedish Teachers send deepest sympathy. .. .” —Sweden’s Teachers Association “Berlin’s teachers are dismayed and deeply moved by the tragic death of your President. We as- sure you our sincere compassion. Even in the field of education John F. Kennedy was an out- standing speaker for truth, jus- tice, and freedom, .. .” —West Berlin Teachers. “We express our deepest sym- pathy and regret for the loss of the late President. . . . Let us strive together for world peace and established democracy.” —Japan Teachers Union, Recently Issued TEPS Position Paper Culminates Two Years of Deliberation In view of current public and professional attention to teacher education, “the National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards could hardly pick a more appropriate time than now to take a stand on these issues and problems,” commented NCTEPS chairman, Robert N. Bush, when the Commission’s new Position Paper on Teacher Education and Professional Standards was re- leased late last month. The 33-page statement culminates two years of study and deliberation by the National TEPS Commission. Chairman Bush, professor of educa- tion at Stanford University, cited two sentences in the Position Paper's intro- duction which characterize the intent and tone of the policy statement: “Aroused by the need for improved educational opportunity for all, the teaching profession is striving to meet these expectations by getting the na- tion’s schools and colleges staffed by none but excellent teachers and ad- ministrators . . . the National Com- mission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards offers this statement, which makes recommenda- tions, suggests contributions of the highest priority that individuals and groups might make, and appeals for thoughtful and deliberate action.” quested in the 1962 education message were for educational television, aid to medical and dental education, aid for education of migrant workers and their children, and establishment of a Fed- eral Advisory Council on the Arts. (Of all these, only educational TV was signed into law.) Education Improvement Act President Kennedy on January 29, 1963, called for a comprehensive pro- gram to help overcome shortcomings in American education. The 24-point program was wrapped up in a single bill providing federal aid to education from the elementary through the post- graduate level. Mr, Kennedy told Con- gress that he was not the first “but I hope to be the last” President to call the nation’s attention to its needless shortcomings on education. Several portions of the President's program have moved forward in the legislative process in recent weeks. College aid, aid for vocational educa- NCATE Problems, Issues Discussed at Chicago Conference The issues and problems faced by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) were discussed in Chicago November 14 and 15 at the Conference of One Hun- dred, the first of two invitational meet- ings. Representatives of 53 education associations, councils, and learned so- cieties attended. The conference was an opportunity for NCATE officials to capture the general trend of thinking on accredita- tion problems. No votes were taken and no resolutions were adopted. During the coming months, NCATE officials will study the record of the November conference and propose a program and probably some changes in NCATE’s structure, finances, poli- cies, and procedures. A second con- ference will be called in 1964 to seek reactions to these proposals and to call for official action on recommended changes. tion, extension and expansion of the NDEA, and extension of the impacted areas program seem to stand the best chance of eventual enactment. NEA REPORTER Published monthly except August (two is- sues in October) by the National Education Association of the United States, 1201 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Telephone: Area Code 202, 234-4848 Robert H. Wyatt President William G. Carr Executive Secretary Frank W. Hubbard. .. . Assistant Executive Secretary for Information Services Mildred S. Fenner NEA REPORTER is mailed to all NEA members. Annual subseription price, 60 cents (included in membership dues and available only as a part of membership). Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C., post office. ~ ha tte URBAN SEMINAR: Thirteen new executive secretaries participated in a week- long urban seminar at the NEA Center November 18-23. In one of the work sessions (left to right around the table) are: Richard Withstandley, Worcester, Mass.; Joseph M. Parlett, Jr., Prince Georges County, Md.; John C. Drake, Kansas City, Mo.; Carl F. Elvin, Wichita, Kans.; Joseph W. Goss, Education Council, Nashville, Tenn.; Pat L. Tornillo, Jr., Dade County, Fla.; John L. Carlson and Allan M. West, NEA Urban Areas Project; Adult Educators Urged To Wage War Against Illiteracy, Face Challenges of School Dropouts, Changing Technology Robert F. Schenz has called upon members of the National Association for Public School Adult Education, a department of the NEA, to wage war against the basic problems of illiteracy. He presented the challenge in a presidential address at NAPSAFP’s annual meeting last month in Miami Beach. Speaking to the 610 attending dele- gates, Mr. Schenz, principal, West- chester Adult School, Los Angeles, and outgoing president of NAPSAE, said the Association faces three other major challenges: reducing the num- ber of school dropouts, retraining men and women to keep pace with rapidly changing technology that causes unemployment, and building strong relationships with colleagues in other segments of education and with other NEA departments. In another conference address, Col. Gabriel D. Ofiesh of Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, said that the Air Force, faced with the staggering prob- lem of training 300,000 students a year in more than 2,500 courses, has turned increasingly to programed in- struction. Harold E. Wigren, educational tele- vision consultant, NEA Audiovisual Instructional Service, speaking to the delegates, urged that in ETV pro- graming more ‘attention be given to educational shows which go beyond narrow limits of classroom presenta- tion. “Unquestionably,” he _ stated, “educational television offers us our brightest hope for serving the needs of education, including those of adults,” Succeeding Mr. Schenz in the presi- dency at the conclusion of the confer- ence was Harrison G. Otis, director, adult education, Hewlett (N.Y.) High School. A revision in the NAPSAE con- stitution, approved by the Board of Directors at the Miami Beach confer- ence, included a change of the As- sociation name from National Associ- ation of Public School Adult Educa- tors to National Association for Public School Adult Education. Victory in Connecticut Teachers in East Hartford, Con- necticut, voted four to one on Novem- ber 26 in favor of the East Hartford Education Association as the formal representative of all the professional staff. The vote was 381 for the EHEA and 103 for the teachers union. West Milwaukee Teachers Win Decision, Press for Election The West Allis-West Milwau- kee Teachers Association has won a “significant victory” as the result of a Wisconsin Em- ployment Relations Board deci- sion and is pressing for an im- mediate election to affirm its position as the representative of the more than 500 teachers in the district. The Employment Relations Board decided on November 18 that the teachers association is qualified under Wisconsin, law to represent the teach- ers of West Allis-West Milwaukee. The same decision makes it clear that supervisors may be active members of the local association and of the Wis- consin Education Association and that neither the local nor the state as- sociation is “company dominated.” Allan M. West, NEA special assist- ant for urban areas, described the Em- ployment Relations Board decision as “a significant victory for the profes- sional organizations.” Kenneth Grove, president of the West Allis-West Milwaukee Teachers Association, said his organization wants an immediate election “to put an end once and for all to the delaying Edinger Serves on Panel NEA President-Elect Lois Edinger is representative for the NEA on a 12-member panel to select the top 11 cities of the nation which have, through citizen action, solved major community problems. The awards are sponsored by the National Municipal League and Look magazine. tactics of the federation which repre- sents only a small minority of the teachers in the system.” He pointed out that more than four-fifths of the local teachers are members of the local teachers association. About a year ago, the teachers as- sociation negotiated a three percent increase in teachers’ salaries. Last month it negotiated an additional in- crease of four percent, but the Novem- ber 18 ruling may force the local school board to rescind this increase until an election is held. The local teachers union initiated the proceedings which now threaten to take the latest salary increase away from the teachers. The local union is expected to attempt to stall efforts for a free teachers election. lowa Association Sparks Membership Drive The Council Bluffs (lowa) Educa- tion Association’s membership drive, scheduled for December 2-6, has a threefold purpose. Designed to double the local association membership and to increase NEA membership, _ this “Campaign 6 to 4” is also expected to increase local membership so that the association will be eligible to apply for independent status in the lowa State Education Association. The one-week project includes a kick-off dinner for teams of canvassers who will call on nonmembers in their homes during the week, a mid-week progress report to building representa- tives, and a victory celebration on the final day. Official Actions Regarding Unsatisfactory Educational Conditions Below is a current listing of the names of school districts or systems where a state education association or the NEA has notified members of the profession and the public that unsatisfactory educational conditions exist. Association « ® California Teachers Association @ Connecticut Education Association @ National Education Association ® New Mexico Education Association District or System Little Lake, Calif., school district Waterbury, Conn., public schools Overseas Dependents Schools Springer, N. Mex., public schools When an association officially reports that conditions have become satis- factory in any of the above districts or systems, the NEA REPORTER will an- nounce the action. Robert R. Richards, Baltimore County, Md.; William S. Lambert, Los Angeles, Calif. Also present but not visible in the photo were James T. Butler, Nevada State Education Association, Las Vegas; Richard C. Layton, Salt Lake, Utah; John M. Secor, Riverside, Calif.; George W. Staples, Granite, Utah; and Lynn Gilmore, Livonia, Mich. This was the Project’s second conference in 1963 for new executive secretaries; the first took place last February. Di Dio Photo What’s Going On in TV, Radio, Press, and National Magazines Television Mr. Novak (NBC-TV_ Tuesdays, 7:30 p.M., E.S.T.) “The Boy Without a Country” December 10: young de- fector from Soviet Union enrolls at Jefferson High School. “A Thousand 7 Voices” December 17: headstrong boy 7 refuses to stay in school. “My Name | Is Not Legion” December 24: erratic | student discovered to have brilliant 7 mind. “He Who Can, Does” Decem- ber 31. The Great Adventure’ (CBS-TV, Fridays, 7:30 p.m. E.S.T.) “The Man Who Stole New York City” December 13: New York Times battle to destroy corfupt Boss Tweed Ring. “A Boy at War” December 20: teen-ager cap- tured by British during American Revolution. “The Hunley” December ~ 27: rerun. Exploring (NBC-TV, Saturdays, 1 p.M., E.S.T.). “Lorenzo de Medici” December 14. Pre-empted December — 21. “P.-T. Barnum” December 28. “Confucius” January 4. Do You Know? (CBS-TV, Satur- days, 12:30 p.M., E.S.T.). “Benjamin Franklin” by Clara Judson, Decem- ber 14, “The California Gold Rush” by Ralph Andrist December 21. “Alaska, the 49th State” by Willis Lindquist and “Here Is Alaska” by © Evelyn Stefansson December 28. “The Story of Painting for Young People” by Horst and Dora Janson January 4. Discovery '63 (ABC-TV, Sundays 12:30 p.M., E.S.T.). “London, Part 2” December 15, “Colonial Christmas” December 22. “How Our Words Be- gan” December 29, “The Good Old — Days” January 5. CBS Reports (CBS-TV, 7:30 P.M. E.S.T.). “The Catholics and the Schools” December 18: examines question of federal aid to church-re- lated schools. NEA Executive Secre- tary William G. Carr is interviewed, — along with several other authorities. NEA membership on Novem- ber 21 soared above the half- million mark to 554,456—nearly 25,000 more than the enrollment on that date a year earlier. Four states have exceeded their New Campaign Goals (Iowa, Mexico, Washington, and Alaska). Three others have ex- ceeded their last year’s total and are pushing hard toward their Campaign Goals (Minnesota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma).