Officials
adopt plan
to- meet
education
emergency
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.
(AP)-Eight governors and 31 national
business and education leaders
unanimously adopted a report yester-
day outlining ways to meet an
education emergency they 'believe is
facing America.
The plan urges extending the time
students spend in school, reconsidering
tenure laws, raising entrance
requirements in colleges and univer-
sities and "drastically overhauling"
methods of recruiting, training and
compensating teachers.
THE NATIONAL Task Force on
Education for Economic Growth will
release its final report early this sum-
mer. Task force members made
suggestions for the wording of the
report yesterday.
The group, formed about six months
ago by North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt,
is under the auspices of the National
Education Commision of the States,
which Hunt leads. The commission con-
sists of state-level government and
education officials.
The task force recommendations
follow a 29-page report last week from
the Commission on Excellence in
Education, which called for tougher
school standards, longer school days
and higher teacher pay to halt the
deterioration of American education.
"IT SAYS A good many of the same
things that we're saying," said Frank
Cary, co-chairman of the task force and
chairman of International Business
Machines Corp.
"The state and local governments are
the primary places where respon-
sibility for kindergarten through grade
12 lie and the state and local gover-
nments ... are the ones that have to
really respond to this problem," he
said.
One of the task force recommen-
dations is that each governor organize
development of a plan setting specific
goals and timetables for improving
education in that state.
HUNT, a Democrat, said he believes
the federal government has failed its
responsibility to provide leadership
during a national crisis-a shortage of
well-trained students in math, science,
and engineering. But Tennessee Gov.
Lamar Alexander, a Republican,
disagreed and said the federal gover-
nment should have no part in public in-
struction. The draft report also
recommends each state find ways to
give "extraordinary rewards for ex-
traordinary teachers."
"No public school system in America
pays one teacher one penny more for
doing a good job," Alexander said.
"They can make a little more for going
back to school. They can make a little
more for going into administration."
"The best people will not be attracted
to a profession where competition does
not pay off," said David Kearns,
chairman and chief executive officer of
the Xerox Corp.
But Cary said that, "the system has
deteriorated so much that there are
some people in the system that may
not deserve to be there."
The Michigan Daily - Thursday, May 5, 1983--Page 13
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