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" ' v • "*) : ; •** ,! - v,v"- r. Vr jtffg PG. 8, -PLAINDEALER - WED., AUG., 21, Newly z third of the nation --somewhat more than 80,- 000,000 pupils and teachers from kindergarten through graduate school -- will soon return to classroom and campus in a time of unparalleled ferment in American education. The students and their teachers, who together form what is perhaps the largest and most Important "Industry" in the nation, are facing challenges on every front They are on the frontier of an "explosion" which is doubling man's knowledge every five years. They are in the midst of unprecedented change within the classroom. And they are forging new relationships between student and teacher, teacher and school board, school board and parent. More Graduating They are going to school in larger numbers than ever before, and staying there for longer periods of time. The U.S. Office of Education reports that a larger proportion of the school population than ever before is graduating from high school. For every 1,000 children in the 5th grade in 1959-60, there were an estimated 721 high school graduates in 1987. In 1980, there were @21 graduates per 1,000 in 5th grade; in 1950, 505; in 1940, only 454. . USOE's 14th annual report Businese Career Still Top Choice The field of business and management still leads as a career choice of college students. This comes as good news to businessmen, concerned in recent years about recruitment programs and the problems of attracting talented students to the field. When Research Institute of America surveyed 5,000 students in 12 colleges, country- wUie, business was first choice among 10 fields listed. showed enrollments In public grade and high schools totaled 43.9 million last year, an increase of 848,000, or two per cent, over the previous year; And all estimates are that this enrollment will be topped in 1988, meaning a hew record. The survey also showed that total estimated expenditures for public schools were $31.5 billions this year, up from the $27.9 billions last year. Average annual expenditure per pupil Is $623, a sharp boost from the $569 average the previous year. Add to these the millions of students in private and parochial schools, plus their investments in teacher salaries and equipment, and American education Is carving out new records. College enrollments are at a record high, nearly 7,000,000, an eight per cent Jump over last fall. Federal figures show an eleven per cent Increase in public colleges and universities, and a three per cent rise at private institutions. A drastic change is occurring In what schools look like physically. New schools are veering dramatically away from the traditional "eggcrate" pattern of school construction. An elementary school in Oreeley, Colo., consists of four big circular classrooms that can be partitioned off into wedge-shaped sections. Greeley's new high school is made up of odd-shaped classrooms within big triangular sections. Teacher Unrest Alcoa, Tenn., has a hexagonal high school in which diamond-shaped, doublesized rooms can be divided by folding walls. In California alone, 50 of the 250 schools built In 1967 boast such features as movable walls and double-duty auditoriums, according to Charles D. Gibson, chief of the state's school planning bureau. It will also be a year ot money worries and teacher unrest, if past experience is any guide. The total cost of education is going up at a time when taxpayers in some communities are in a rebellious moou. There will likely be teacher shortages in several states as school systems run into recruiting problems made even more acute by the need for more faculty to keep up with advancing enrollments. Historic Change And teacher discontents are on the upsurge. Teachers want better salary scales and faster stepups to keep pace with living costs. And they want a stronger voice in policy-making. In 1988, pupils, teachers and the public will be on the front line as Education U.S.A. passes through a period of historic change. •CYCLIST HURT Albert A. Hosch of Richmond was treated at McHenry hospital for injuries received in a motorcycle-car accident on Rt. 120 in LakemoorB last Thursday. Chester W. Atkins of Lakemoor told authorities he was turning left onto Tiajuana drive from the highway and applied his brakes to avoid- striking children on bicycles. 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In the same classroom -- or in any of more than a thousand schools across the U.S. -- a girl student might be reading "First Lady" or "When Women First Wora Makeup." These stories are part of 120 gently-graduated reading selections in a new program called RAS, Reading Attainment System. In the past, discussions of why Johnny or Jane can't read have usually centered around methods of teaching reading -- phonics versus look-say, for example. New approaches such as RAS tackle reading difficulties by giving the student something he wants to read and can read, at interest levels commensurate with the maturity of modern young- With lively, stimulating reading subjects, children are encouraged to progress to "harder-to-read" materials. 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