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Thursday, August 20, 1964 High Schools acing Up To Challenge Now Producing Best Educated Youths In History The nation's high school students will encounter new freedoms and responsibilities this fall as educators across the country take advantage of new technology and new teaching methods to equip students for the space age. All this has been made possible by widespread use of educational television, programmed teaching, language laboratories, campus high schools end emphasis on independent Study. The techniques are credited With producing some of the best educated high school students in the nation's history and with having helped teach- ; ers to cope with spiraling high [ school enrollments that are expected to top 13 million this year and push close to the 16 [million mark by 1970. Only The Best The job of handling enormous enrollments Is complicated by a shortage of facilities for college-bound students land a Job market that many | Sear will be able to absorb only ithe best of those who graduate. Problems facing the students •Slave prompted several solutions nation-wide In scope, i They range from making edu- : Cation compulsory through age j 18 and extending high school {two years, to the billion dollar War-on-Poverty program that Is planned to help several hundred thousand youths through Job training and education in camps, centers, communities > and campuses. Within the school systems, the solutions have frequently been dramatic and are expected to have increasing impact on students this fall. I Campus High Schools More than 10 million pupils Of all ages are enrolled in Courses that use educational television as either the chief teaching method or as an important aid to the instructor. "Where financing permits, Campus high schools such as 4;he 40-acre Holland High fichool at Holland, Mich., are being built.1 Students are encouraged to undertake individual study, with the teachers Cperating more as catalysts ^ftnd guides' rather than as fountains of information. There are a growing numb@? of model schools such as the Malcolm Price Laboratory fichool, which is operated as {iart of.the State College of owa and is dedicated to research and experimentation to provide the best possible educational experiences. |' Teachers Loaned ' Some colleges and universities are lending faculty members to nearby high schools to teach selected college subjects. Some college officials have Complained that good high Schools are so advanced that they provide much of the in- I St ruction that used to make up | the first two years of college. "TOE THE MARK" The expression "toe the i Shark" stems from the early days of our country when few School children wore shoes and they literally did "toe" along the crack in the flooring as itfeey waited their turn to read, says the Encyclopedia Americana,, SCHOOL SPIRIT Ring pins, baubles and books •cherished as symbols of school Spirit by teen-agers will cost fhem about $200 million this Jear, reports the Wall Street buftlaiL 'BACK TO SCHOOL Page Eleven VALLEY GRADE SCHOOL Attractive PENCIL CASES New PARKER 45 PEN $coo TOP CUP BINDERS Blue, 'Green White, Brown $|49 Carferry NOTEBOOK and TYPING PAPF® Boys' and Girls' TIMEl WRIST WATCHES Waterproof UTILITY Jusi Right for Gym White School ;TE TFOLIO Girls' & Boys' LUNCH KIT By Thermos ml 64 Crayons 29 3-Rinea BINDER HAEF PEN SPECIAL $3.98 Value -- Only $|00 B0LCE STORE 1259 N* Green Street Phone 385-4500