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Education Council
Asks Kindergartens,
Year-Round Schools
ATLANTA — Recommenda
tions to help lower Georgia's sc
hool drop-out rate — Including
statewide kindergartens and
year-round use of schools —have
been compiled into a new report
published by the Georgia Edu
cational Improvement Council.
The result of a statewide con
ference of educators, legislators
and business leaders sponsored
by the Council a year ago in At
hens plus a year’s study by a
special committee, the recom
mendations are suggested for
implementation by specific ag
encies: The State Board of Edu
cation, State Board of Regents,
Business and Industry Associat
tion and the Council Itself. State
Rep. Mac Barber of Commerce
is chairman of the Council.
“These recommendations
aren’t the only solutions to the
drop-out problem by any means
or all of the solutions,’’ Dr. Ed
mund C. Martin, executive dir
ector of the Council explained
on releasing the report. "They
are simply the major steps that
our committee felt could feasi
bly be taken now to start lower
inp Georpia’s drop-out rate, the
highest in the nation.’’
Council members directing the
study were Chairman Clifford
M. Clarke, CAE, president, Ge
orgia Business and Industry As
sociation. Zack Daniel, Lavonia
Merchant; Charles O. Smith Jr.,
Moultrie businessman; and Jos
eph A. Whittle, Brunswick at
torney.
Recommendations suggested
for implementation by the State
Board of Education are:
1. Provide an effective coun
seling service for all elementary
and secondary schools.
2. Expand cultural arts pro
grams in all public schools. This
would include the fine and per
forming arts such as music, bal
let, visual arts and drama.
3. Explore the use of differen
tiated school staff, involving an
educational team concept of spe
cialists particularly in remedial
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4. Develop a plan for establish
ing early childhood education,
based on the fact "that 50 per
cent of a child’s intellectual de
velopment takes place between
conception and age four and 30
percent between ages four and
eight.” It was suggested that a
blue-print be developed by the
State Department of Education
in cooperation with other state
agencies, teacher-training insti
tutions and early childhood edu
cation associations.
5. Determine feasibility of al
lotting professionally trained
food services directors — due to
the "direct correlation between
the eating habits of children and
their ability to learn.” The stu
dy points out that many Georgia
children come to school without
breakfast and do not participate
in the school lunch program.
6. Keep school buildings open
all day year-round for use by
students and community.
7. Commend the State Depart
ment of Education for the Geor
gia Assessment Project, in whi
ch a 12-member Commission on
Education Goals to be appointed
by the State Board will deter
mine "the objectives for public
education in Georgia for the next
ten years.”
A suggestion for Board of Re
gents implementation is:
Improve teacher preparation
programs with emphasis on up
grading student teaching: throu
gh the use of Innovative train
ing techniques, exposure of stu
dent teachers to deprived areas,
earlier student teaching perhaps
in high school years and teach
er aide experience.
To the Board of Regents and
State Board of Education, there
is a recommendation to: "in
sure a positive self-concept for
each child.” This Is based on
Bloom’s concept of a curriculum
for mastery learning, the stu
ty explains. “Every person
(child) needs to experience more
success than failure but some of
each.”
This recommendation sug
gests consideration of a non-gra
ded program where pupils are
allowed to progress through sc
hool at their own individual rat
es, the study explains, eliminat
ing the barrier of failure, and
adapting the curriculum to the
individual pupil.
To the State Boord of Educa
tion and General Assembly it
was recommended that they:
1. Reduce pupil-teacher ratio
to 25 to one in elementary gra
des.
2. Select system superinten
dents of schools on a profession
al basis, Involving the develop
ment of "Improved state-wide
minßhal educational require
ments.”
3. Allocate teacher aides as a
part of the Minimum Foundation
Program for Education. “T h e
State Board of Education should
be biven the authority by the
General Assemwy to develop a
formula for the allotment of tea
cher aides to each school sys
tem,” the study states.
4. Appropriate state funds for
the support of experimental
programs in education, with a
specific fund designated for this
purpose by the General Assem
bly to the State Board of Edu
cation.
5. Implement a statewide pub
lic school kindergarten program
by 1972.
Two suggestions are made to
the Georgia Business and Indus
try Association to help with the
drop-out problem; that the as
sociation develop an advisory
group for drop-outs in all school
systems; and that, in conjunc
tion with the State Board of Ed
ucation, develop a fundamental
long-range study of vocational
programs and occupational
fields. The latter would alm to
broaden the vocational training
program in Georgia high sc
hools, to introduce students to
"the world of work” on the ele-
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DRAFT CARD BURNER CRITIC GETS A FLUNK—Mrs. Eleanor Sobel (left) got herself sus
pended from teaching in Somerville, Mass., for flunking Sheila McNabb, 12, shown hold
ing her composition and a photo of her brother, who was killed in Vietnam. Sheila wrote
•’. . . it just makes me sick when I read in the paper about kids burning their draft
cards.” Along with the failing grade, Mrs. Sobel wrote on the composition, “Was the war
worth your brother’s life? Maybe he should have burned his draft card." That got
Somerville school officials pretty rind, and the mayor even madder.
Is Harry Byrd
Considering A
Party Switch?
By STEVE GERSTEL
WASHINGTON (UPI) —ls
Harry Flood Byrd Jr., scion of
Virginia’s old and traditional
political dynasty, ready to shed
his party heritage and become
a Republican? It’s a possibility,
although the odds are long.
Once again, as they do from
time to time, reports have
surfaced that the 54-year old
senator might turn his back on
the Democrats and pledge his
allegiance to the GOP.
One report even indicated an
announcement was imminent.
Other rumors link a defection
with Byrd’s 1970 re-election
campaign.
The one person who could kill
or kindle all the rumors refuses
to do either. Byrd takes astute
refuge behind what sounds like
a reasonable comment: “I do
not comment on rumors.”
But would this be the
comment of a politician who
never has considered switching
parties or a senator who has
been wooed by the opposition
and rejected outright its bland
ishments?
Would it, for instance, be the
reply of Senate Democratic
Leader Mike Mansfield? Or
Sen. William B. Spong, also of
Virginia? Not likely.
Aside from Byrd’s refusal to
make a Sherman-like statement
renouncing any ambitions to
cross the aisle and take up
residence with the Republicans,
what other considerations go
into the speculation about the
senator’s plans?
Until a very recent poll,
taken in connection with
Virginia’s current gubernatorial
primary campaign, Byrd was
considered vulnerable in his bid
for re-election. The latest poll
shows him running very strong
among the state’s Democrats.
Virginia Republicans una
bashedly admit they have
wooed Byrd and the feeling is
that a coalition of the Byrd
machine and the GOP could
rule Virginia for two decades.
Byrd likes to think of himself
as an independent but his
record refutes it. Like his late
father, he Is philosophically
more attuned to the Republi
cans and not the liberal
Republicans either. He is a
Virginia Democrat but certainly
on the right bank of the
mentary and early high school
levels and to expand work-study
programs involving girl as well
as boy students.
Suggestions for the Council
itself to help alleviate the pro
blem are:
1. To compile and publish
fact sheets on: the shared servi
ces projects in Georgia (cooper
ative projects between school
systems crossing county lines);
and on Section 12, Senate Bill
180„ involving an allotment for
certified professional personnel
for schools other than classroom
teachers.
2. That the Council establish
a continuing committee “devo
ted to consideration of long-ran
ge educational needs and goals”
of the state.
Finally, all agencies are ask
ed to "develop a public aware
ness concerning the acceptance
of change” — the need for new
and challenging programs for
all Georgia students.
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mainstream of the national
Democratic Party.
There are recent precedents
for party switches by leading
politicians.
Former Sen. Wayne Morse of
Oregon quit the Republican
Party in 1952 and subsequently
joined the Democrats.
Tn 1964, Sen. Strom Thur
mond, the “Dixiecrat” party
presidential candidate in 1948,
dropped his formal ties with the
Democrats and became a
Republican.
Byrd would be readily
accepted by the Republicans
and would risk losing little
within the Senate hierarchy. He
ranks last among Democrats on
the Senate Armed Services
Committee and last on the
Senate Finance Committee,
which his father headed before
retiring.
Byrd has stressed to repor
ters he will make his decision
on the 1970 race when the
calendar reaches 1970. It could
be an interesting New Year’s
Day in the Old Dominion.
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Georgia Banks
Raise Prime
Interest Rates
ATLANTA (UPI) — Five of
Georgia’s largest banks Mon
day followed the lead of New
York’s Bankers Trust Co. and
raised their prime interest rate
to an all-time high of sy 2 per
cent.
The prime rate is what banks
charge their best customers,
with other rates—car loans for
example—scaled upward from
the prime rate.
The banks affected, all head
quartered in Atlanta, are the
Citizens & Southern National
Bank of Georgia, the First Na
tional Bank of Atlanta, the
Trust Company of Georgia, Ful
ton National Bank and the Na
tional Bank of Georgia.
The president of Citizens &
Southern, Mills B. Lane Jr.,
said the Atlanta banks had to
follow the big New York bank’s
lead or be swamped with re
quest for loans from firms not
wanting to pay B’£ per cent in
New York. The bigger banks In
New York, Philadelphia, Chica
go, and Boston also followed
the same policy.
The old prime rate was iy 2
per cent which was also a rec
ord-shattering rate when it was
established in March of this
year.
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Parkinson’s Disease
Drug Tested At Emory
ATLANTA (UPI)— L-dopa, a
powerful new drug for Parkin
son’s disease, is being adminis
tered to selected patients as
part of a three year study at
the Emory University School of
Medicine.
In 80 per cent of the cases
so far, the strange sounding
drug has reduced the symptoms
of the dread disease, that hits
the nervous system of the mid
dle aged and elderly, said Emo
ry doctors.
The U.S. Food and Drug Ad
ministration has refused to ap
prove L-dopa for general use,
and the Emory doctors are ex
tremely careful who they select
for test patients.
Federal health authorities say
the drug has detrimental side
effects such as vomiting, nau
sea, and it might cause fainting
spells. They said L-dopa some
times aggravates glaucoma,
causes Irregular heart beats
and damages the body’s white
blood cells.
No persons with a history of
heart disease or an endocrine
abnormality, or women who are
pregnant or likely to become
pregnant are used by the Emo
ry doctors for their experi
ments.
Under the experiment, each
patient spends three weeks in
the hospital — taking the drug
and going through a routine of
exercises—then are treated as
out-patients in regards to L
dopa after release.
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The Emory doctors said they
believed they have seen im
provement in the patients, but
said they weren’t sure whether t
it was L-dopa or the regular
exercises.
Court Refuses
To Review
Sellers’ Case
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Ne- ,
gro civil rights worker Cleve
land Sellers will not get a Su
preme Court review of his five
year jail term for draft
evasion. *
Sellers, who says blacks have
been deliberately kept off draft
boards, refused to take the »
symbolic one step forward after
reporting to his Atlanta, Ga. in
duction center on May 1, 1967.
About one year later a federal ,
court sentenced the Bamberg,
S.C. native to five years in
prison.
Sellers was a member of the *
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee, a Negro civil rights
organization once headed by
Stokley Carmichael.
The U.S. Supreme Court Mon
day turned down Seller’s re
quest for a review of his case. *
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