DOCUMENT RESUME IR 054 382 TITLE AMERICA …DOCUMENT RESUME ED 354 006 IR 054 382 TITLE AMERICA 2000. INSTITUTION Department of Education, Washington, DC. PUB DATE 93 NOTE 121p.; Number

DOCUMENT RESUME

ED 354 006 IR 054 382

TITLE AMERICA 2000.INSTITUTION Department of Education, Washington, DC.PUB DATE 93

NOTE 121p.; Number 44 mis-dated "1992."PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022)

JOURNAL CIT AMERICA 2000; n1-44 Sep 1991-Jan 1993

EDRS PRICE MF01/PC05 Plus Postage.DESCRIPTORS *Community Action; Corporate Support; *Educational

Improvement; *Educational Objectives; ElementarySecondary Education; Federal Legislation; GovernmentRole; Library Role; National Programs; PublicSchools; *School Business Relationship; *SchoolEffectiveness; Teleconferencing; Volunteers;Volunteer Training

IDENTIFIERS *America 2000; *National Education Goals 1990

ABSTRACTThis document consists for all 44 issues of this

brief newsletter issued from its inception September 1, 1991 throughits final issue, January 11, 1993. This newsletter providesinformation and support to groups in the AMERICA 2000 program (i.e.,a program in which local groups encourage the adoption of the sixNational Education Goals, develop a community-wide strategy to meetthe goals, design a report card to measure progress, and plan for andsupport a New American School in the community). Typical topicsaddressed include: (1) upcoming and past satellite town meetingsfocused on specific goals or issues; (2) upcoming and past workshops;(3) corporate participation; (4) activities of local groups; (5)

award-winning schools; (6) relevant proposed legislation; (7) the NewAmerican Schools Development Corporation design teams; and (8) the

role of libraries. (KRN)

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AMERICA 2000 is States sign on to education strategy;on the move... President Bush addresses nationThere are a thousand good ways tobecome a part of AMERICA 2000. Ournation's greatness is based on the simplefact that not only is every individualdifferent, but every state and everycommunity in America is different too.The AMERICA 2000 frameworkrecognizes that what your communitywants to be, and how you get there, istotally up to you and your neighbors.

The President has challenged everyneighborhood, town and city in the nationto become an AMERICA 2000 commu-nity by adopting the six National Educa-tion Goals; developing a community-wide strategy to achieve them; designinga report card to measure results; andplanning and supporting a "break themold" New American School.

Together, we can meet the ambitiousgoals the President and the nation'sgovernors have 3e: for us. It will happenone community at a time, one AMERICA2000 Community at a time.

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AMERICA 2000 HotlineWe're ready to help. More than2,500 people called last week for

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This week Maine, Maryland, Nebraska andthe city of Omaha will join AMERICA2000. 1.1so, PresidentBush gave a "State ofAmerican Education"speech September 3 inMaine, where helaunched MAINE 2000with Gov. JohnMcKernan (R).

"Momentan isbuilding," said MichaelJackson, the head ofAMERICA 2000 at the U.S. Departmentof Education. "We are here to help allcommunities as they plan their own effortsand find their own ways of transformingtheir schools."

On August 22, Oregon joined Coloradoas one of the first states to accept theAMERICA 2000 challenge to transform itsschools, community by community.

"Oregon is ready to make dramatic

changes....to meet the state's ambitiousbenchmark for our schools and our

students," said OregonGovernor BarbaraRobertsThis week Maine,

Maryland, Nebraskaand the city ofOmaha will joinAMERICA 2000.

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Lamar Alexanderlauded Oregon's leaderfor taking "boldbipartisan action" tohelp each communityachieve the NationalEducation Goals.

"Oregon 2000 is the way for Oregon tohelp itself over the next several years movetoward the National Education Goals, butto do it Oregon's way," Alexander said.

Other recent AMERICA 2000 activitiesare:

TULSA 2000 was launched August 23.Sen. Don Nickels (R), Mayor RogerRandle (see States, on reverse.)

Public strongly supports AMERICA 2000By overwhelming margins, the Americanpublic supports the six National EducationGoals and virtually every aspect ofAMERICA 2000, a new national surveyshows.

According to the 1991 Gallup/Phi DeltaKappa poll, which is recognized as themost comprehensive survey of Americanattitudes on education issues, the public issolidly behind the Bush administrationstrategy.

Among the poll's major findings:AccountabilityBy a margin of better

than 3 to 1, the public favors "reportcards" showing how much 'progress 4

schools are making in reaching theNational Education Goals.(see Support, on reverse.)

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American Achievement Tests-77percent of the people favor national tests tomeasure academic achi.wement.

Choice of SchoolsBy nearly a 2 to 1margin, Americans favor allowingstudents and parents to choose whichpublic schools the students attend.

Rewarding teachers-69 percent of thepublic favor rewarding particularlyeffective teachers.

Extending the school year and theschool dayFor the first time, the pollfound that a majority of Americans-51percentfavor extending the school year.The public is split on whether to lengthenthe school day. Forty-eight percent of thepeople oppose the idea while 46 percentare in favor of it.

States continuedand Secretary Alexander attended thekickoff.

A The Oklahoma City EducationRound Table met Aug. 23 to considerplans for OKLAHOMA CITY 2000.

A COLORADO 2000 Communities arefollowing up the launch of COLORADO2000 and the statewide teleconference byholding community town meetings tobegin developing a strategy and a reportcard for measuring progress toward thegoals.

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The President will join Education Secretary Alexander and the nation's governorson September 4 for the first AMERICA 2000 Daily Conference CalL Each daySecretary Alexander will listen in as Governors and other AMERICA 2000 leadersreport progress toward the National Education Goals.MARYLAND 2000 will be launched on Septembei. 5 by Governor DonaldSchaefer (D) and legislative leaders, with the help of the First Lady, four cabinetsecretaries, and Deputy Secretary of Education David Kearns. On the same day,Secretary Alexander and five other cabinet secretaries will join Governor BenNelson(D), education and business leaders to kick off NEBRASKA 2000 andOMAHA 2000.

A A recent USA Today poll found that 28 out of 37 governors support theAMERICA 2000 strategy and think it will work.

and Quotes:A OREGON 2000 is "intended to get people thinking differently before we spend

money," says Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts(D).A The Memphis Commercial Appeal writes that being a part of AMERICA 2000

"will be much more than a 'feather in the cap.' It will be a chance to do somethingconcrete about reform instead of just talking about it."Ted Marchese in Change: "AMERICA 2000 could be education's chance for abreakthrough."

A LEHICH VALLEY 2000 wasformed August 16 by the Lehigh ValleyBusiness-Education Partnership.A TheBrenham Education StrategyTeam introduced AMERICA 2000 toBrenham, Texas. The team plans to adoptthe National Education Goals and create aNew American School.A The New American Schools Devel-opment Corporation met August 26 and27 in the first of three design conferencesto solicit input on the bidding process the

corporation will use to select design teams.The teams will help communities create"break the mold" schools for tomorrow'sstudents. More than 500 scholars, businesspeople, civic leaders and educatorsattended the first session. A second will beheld Sept. 13 in Los Angeles.

For more information about the designcompetition, write the corporation at 1000Wilson Boulevard, Suite 2710, Arlington,Virginia 22209.

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A Sampling of News Excerpts on AMERICA 2000 and Related SubjectsMIN

From The Omaha World Herald,Sept. 5, 1991

Cabinet MembersPraise, Pleas to Schools

Presidential Cabinet members received ashort course In Omaha educational programsThursday as local and federal authoritieslaunched efforts to achieve President Bush'seducation goals.

Education Secretary Lamar Alexander andfour Cabinet colleagues spent the morning vis-iting in novative education programs In Omaha,a city touted by Bush as a model for others.

"We're impressed with what you're doing,"Alexander told Gov. Nelson and Mayor Mor-gan.

The Cabinet secretaries watched and par-ticipated In various Innovative programs

around the city.Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner

attended classes in engineering and technologyat North High School.

Labor Secretary Lynn Martin Joined stu-dents at Metropolitan Community College'sFort Omaha campus for discussions on jobinterviewing and the working world.

Housing and Urban Development SecretaryJack Kemp examined the educational efforts ofSouth Side Terrace public housing.

Agriculture Secretary Edward Madigantaught a class at Sacred Heart Catholic School.

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South Pointe opens here today under jointsuagentent of the Dade County School Boardand Education Alternatives Inc., a forsrofit

tzLased in Minnesota. But the partnership,to be a first in public

education, is not the only re&cal experiment in the classroomas the 199142 school year be-gisme.

Many of the reforms at workin American schools are on asmaller scale than in the pastEducators have shifted fromtrying to change the system tochanging schools one eta time..

President Bush has incorporated the school -by-school approach into his education plan, whichseeks badmen support to design IS model schoolssuitable for the next century. A separate compo-mat of the plan, announced in April, proposesmore immediate federal funding of more than 535misting schools that would become models.

Inn one recent sign of the growing popularity ofetperbaental schools, more than SOO educators,consultants and Winos representatives . ht-tended a conference in Arlington, Va., bus -weekfor information on &lisping schools for the nextcentury. Because of the intermit, two more confer"ewes are planned,

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McKeman kicksoff Maine 2000'

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First ladydelightsa schoolaudience

ELLI coTr CITYThe Bush andSchaefer administrations sent two oftheir biggest guns the first ladyand the governor to a HowardCounty elementary school yesterdayto heap praiseam new education ini-tiatives.

Mrs. Bush, the governor and ahost of Cabinet-level officials visitedEllicott City to praise Maryland'seducation program, an outgrowth ofthe president's America 2000 plan.

Mr. Schaefer took his Schools forSuccess proposals and adapted themfor the America 2000 program, win-ning the praise of the Bush adminis-trainer. The h ryland program in-cludes increasing parentalinvolvement and making schoolsmore accountable by gislng themperiodic report cards.

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LEWISTON Maine joinedColorado Monday as a model fora new national effort to remakehow American children are edu-cated by the start of the nextcentury as Gov. John R.McKernan ushered in the Maine2000 program.

After President George Bushurged Lewiston High School stu-dents to sethighergoals and calledfor parents to become more in-volved in education, McKetrutnsaid the Maine 2000 program willunite "sometimes disjointed ef-forts" to provide the quality edu-cation needed for Maine and thenation to compete in world mar-kets.

McKeman, along with U.S.Education Secretary Lamar Al-exander and Maine educationleaders, met with reporters in thehigh school following thepresident's speech to call atten-tion to Maine 2000, an offshootof Bush's new national program,America 2000.

But McKeman and MaineEducation Commissioner EveBither said they hope suchchanges can be implemented at"minimal" cost.

Bither said state reformsadopted in 1984 were a first step,and the Maine 2000 program re-flects a "more sophisticated ef-fort" to continue improving edu-cation.

As of Aug. 30, the state haddesignated 18 school systems asMaine 2000 communities/schools. They include Lewiston,School Administrative District$36 in Livermore Falls and SAD15 in Gray.

These systems have createdteams to coordinate efforts toimprove their curriculum,adopted the six national goals setby Bush in his America 2000strategy and began designatingstrategies to mere those goals.

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From Parade Magazine, Sunday, Aug. 25, 1991

WHAT CAN YOU Do IN YOUR COMMUNITY?

Here are some suggestions from Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander:

1 START WITH YOUR OWN CHILDREN. Have you spent 15 minutes in a conversation1 with your child today (the national average)? Read to the child? Discussed rightand wrong and reggion? Frayed together? Gone somewhere together? Listened?Checked on homework? School attendees*? Monitored (and limited) 1V watching?

9 FIND OUT HOW CHILDREN -- ESPECIALLY YOURSARE GROWING UP TODAY.Li. Go sit in the back of a classroom, quietly, for three hours (ask permission first, ofcourse). Visit the juvenile judge, the hospital neonatal care ceder, the police station.Watch six hours of cable televieion in one day, in-eluding MW. Visit your child's teachers, and then Acompare notes.

' ASK YOUR SCHOOL PRINCIPAL THESE DUES-

ti TICKS: Is this school drug-free? Violence-free? What are your goals? Your academic stand-ards? Do you have a report card that measuresto world-class standards how well my child islearning English, math, science, history, geog-raphy? How are the social needs of the childrenmet so they do not become a barrier to improv-ing academic achievement?

A ASK YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD: Do haveI. a choice of schools? Is my school aqua from Parents ***Id be free t° choose

their child's school, says Alexander.6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and in the summer for thosewho want it? Have you adopted the National Education Goals (see page 71 for this com-munity's schools? What are you doing about implementing these goals? How can I help?

HELP YOUR COMMUNITY. Accept President Bush's challenge to make your schoolgi district an America 2000 Community, which means: 1) Adopt the National Educa-tion Goals. 2) Develop a community-based strategy to meet those goals. 3) Develop areport card to measure progress toward those goals. 4) Create at least one of the NewGeneration of American Schools. For more on how to do this, call 1400-872-5327 (inWashington, D.C., call 401-20001.

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From the Tulsa World, August 24, 1991

Tulsa NamedAmerica2000 City

Tulsa became the second America 2000 city in thenation Friday during a v isit by U.S. Education SecretaryLamar Alexander.

Jim Barnes, chief executive of Mapco, and DaveHentschel, chief executive of Occidental Petroleum andGas Corp., will head Tulsa 2000.

While in Tulsa, Alexander talked to parents andstudents at the S trident Training and Reentry Center,Star Center, at Tulsa Vo-Tech's Lernley Campus.

The program includes a nine-week program tordropouts that gives the former students training andcounseling to get them back in school or in the workplace, said Director Leslie Hale.

S tar Centerpro grams are among several area pt ejectscredited with lowering the Tulsa area dropout rate, saidU.S. Senator Don Nickles. He noted the number ofdropouts in Tulsa County fell more than 40 percentlast year.

Fran The Tennessean, August 30, 1991

Stars, students saydropouts off key

Country stars, government officials and students celebratedyesterday the debut of Let' sOpen Up Our Hearts, a recordingwhose proceeds will benefit many students in the UnitedStates, but not in Tennessee.

Money from the sale of the video or recording will go to theCities In Schools program, the Largest non-profit organizationin the nation devoted to preventing students from droppingout. The program, which includes 30,000 students, is not yetused by school systems in Tennessee.

"I was tired of people talking about what we had to do, butnobody was doing it," says Hoss Bums, the WSIX disc jockeywho founded project HOSS (Help Our Schools Survive).

He got music industry friends together and they donatedtime, talent and equipment to make the record, which includessolos by Crarth Brooks, K.T. Oslin, George Jones, Lee Green-wood and many others.

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US. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

AMERICA 2000NEWS IN BRIEF...President to Address Students

On October 1, President Bush willspeak to the natioisS school chil-dren about the six National Educa-tion Goals. The address will betelevLied live nationally by CNNand PBS and broadcast by MutualBroadcasting and NBC Radio at12:10 p.m. EDT from Alice DealJunior High School in Washington,D.C. The nation's school principalshave been notified of the addressand are urged to broadcast it viatelevision or through the school'spublic address system.

The nation's governors have beeninvited to follow the President'sbroadcast with one of their own.

First Lady and AMERICA 2000During the past two weeks, First

Lady Barbara Bush has participatedin three AMERICA 2000 activitiesthe kickoff of MAINE 2000 onSeptember 3, the launch of MARY-LAND 2000 on September 5 and anAMERICA 2000 daily conferencecall on September 11. During thecall, she asked Dr. James Corner ofYale University how he is able togain the support of families whobelong to the Comer Schoolsmore than 150 model schools thatfocus on the developmental needsof low-achieving children. Comersaid, "We created a governanceand management team that broughtparents, teachers, and administra-tion all together." Comer added thatthey planned a comprehensiveschool plan for that entire year, and,in working together, developed astake in it.

AMERICA 2000,Community by CommunityA Conversation with AMERICA 2000 Community Leaders

On Tuesday, September 10, severalAMERICA 2000 community leaders fromTennessee, Nebraska and Colorado, spenta day in Washington as participants in theshooting of a new Department videotapeon how to organize AMERICA 2000communities.

During a break in the shooting, BillGibbons, Nancy Bogatin and Allan Wade(MEMPHIS 2000); Connie Spellman andThomas Harvey (OMAHA 2000); andCathie Zarlingo (COLORADO 2000)joined U.S. Secretary of Education LamarAlexander and other Department officialsin a lunchtime discussion about organizingAMERICA 2000 Communities.

Following are excerpts from discus-sions during the day's activities:

On Getting Started...Cathie Zarlingo: Our directive inColorado came from Gov. Roy Romer,who was chairman of the governors' panelon education. We decided this was aworthwhile opportunity for communitiesfrom the grassroots on up to look at theeducational goals to adapt them the bestway that they could for each community.We pulled together religious leaders, thehispanic community, the black community

everyone we could into a steeringcommittee. Our focus was goal by goal.We came up with a list of people whocould impact each goal. We came up withabout three hundred people to go into thegovernor's teleconference that he held thissummer. And through that teleconferencewe asked people to step forward and helpon these goals. So our impetus came from

the top down through the governorbut it is now also corning up from thegrassroots movement. It's going up andmushrooming.Bill Gibbons: (In Memphis) we'replanning a conference to be held inOctober the first of three community-wide meetings. We hope to come up with afinal strategy within a year.Connie Spellman: Omaha is riding highfrom our recent kickoff. People havecalled from all over the community saying,"We want to be involved. How can we beinvolved?" Our steering committee a

cross section of the community hasalready decided that the challenge is tokeep the momentum going, to harness the

"We think the mostimportant thingabout becoming anAMERICA 2000community is that it'san evolving process."

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energy that's been created. We've foundthat we've been doing some things well inthe community, and there are other thingswe'll have to focus on in larger discussions

forums to think through. I justspoke to the Nebraska Chamber ofCommerce to tell how Omaha became firstin Nebraska to join AMERICA 2000 andhow it can spread across the state.

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NEWS IN BRIEF, continued ...

AMERICA 2000 Conference CallThe AMERICA 2000 five minute

daily conference call, launched onSeptember 4, is off and running.The calls take place at 11:55 am.,EDT each weekday. To listcn in,call (202) 736-2300.

Cabinet Members Help LaunchNEBRASKA and OMAHA 2000

On September 5, SecretaryAlexander and four other membersof the President's cabinet joinedGov. Benjamin Nelson, Mayor P.J.Morgan and a bipartisan coalition ofNebraska civic leaders in launchingNEBRASKA and OMAHA 2000. Thefive cabinet members participatingin the event were Secretary ofHousing and Urban DevelopmentJack Kemp; Secretary of Agricul-ture Edward Madigan; Secretary ofLabor Lynn Martin; and Secretary ofTransportation Samuel Skinner.

Second Design Conference HeldOn September 13, six hundred

people met in Los Angeles for thesecond of three conferences todiscuss the New American Schoolsdesign process. The first conferencewas held August 26-27 in Arlington,Virginia.

On August 26, PBS sponsored alive interactive videoconference inmore than 32 cities. Participantsdiscussed the involvement of theNew American Schools Develop-ment Corporation in AMERICA2000.

Governor Launches AMERICANSAMOA 2000 Kickoff

During an August 30 ceremonyannouncing AMERICAN SAMOA2000, Governor Peter Coleman saidthat to improve education "eachindividual, every organization andevery community must join inmaking education American

Samoa's number one priority." TheGovernor urged every community toaccept the President's four partchallenge and become AMERICA2000 Communities.

Grant Announced for World ClassScience Standards

During the AMERICA 2000 confer-ence call, September 16, LamarAlexander announced a $500,000grant to establish world class stan-dards in science education. Thegrant will go to the National Re-search Council of the NationalAcademy of Sciences and theNational Academy of Engineering.According to Secretary Alexander,the grant "will bring together thenation's leading science organiza-tions and distinguished educators todevelop new standards and assess-ment approaches in science forgrades kindergarten through 12."Similar standards are being set formath by the Natonal Council ofTeachers of Mathematics.

MINNESOTA 2000 BeginsSecretary Alexander joined Gover-

nor Ame Carlson for the kickoff ofMINNESOTA 2000 on September 12.In a speech during the event, Gover-nor Carlson said, "It's absolutelyessential that we give our childrenevery single opportunity we can foreducational success." During his visit,Alexander toured New Vistas School,developed in partnership withHoneywell, Inc., and municipal andcommunity agencies. The schoolprovides pregnant teens and teenagemothers with academic coursework,parenting training, day care andhealth services.

DELAWARE 2000 LaunchedNearly 700 people attended kickoff

ceremonies for DELAWARE 2000.During the kickoff, Delaware Gover-

nor Michael Castle said that DELA-WARE 2000 calls on every person inDelaware to help ensure that "chil-dren receive an education that worksfor them and that will in turn allowthem to successfully work in a verycompetitive and demanding world." ADELAWARE 2000 rally was held atWilliam Henry Middle School. Theschool, which employs a teamapproach to instruction, has attractedsubstantial support from local busi-nesses.

COLORADO 2000 Moving AheadDuring a recent meeting of the

COLORADO 2000 COMMUNITIESCONGRESS, approximately 1200people came to Denver to establishcriteria that would designate aqualifying community as a COLO-RADO 2000 COMMUNITY. TheCongress also gained more supportfor the adoption of the goals by asmany businesses, agencies andorganizations as possible. GovernorRoy Romer said that the next stagewould be to encourage the communi-ties to broaden their involvement andcommunication.

Maryland to Issue Report CardMaryland is planning to issue a

report card on November 12, whichwill show the performance of everyMaryland school. MARYLAND 2000was launched on September 5 whenFirst Lady Barbara Bush and foursenior Bush Administration officialsjoined Maryland Governor WilliamDonald Schaefer in day-longactivities. The four senior BushAdministration officials were Secre-tary of Health and Human ServicesLouis Sullivan; Secretary of EnergyJames Watkins; Administrator of theEnvironmental Protection AgencyWilliam Reilly; and Deputy Secretaryof Education David Kearns.

AMERICA 2000 HotlineWe're ready to help. As of September 17, the hotline has received 22,773 calls

requesting information about AMERICA 2000.1-800-USA-LEARNIn D.C. Metropolitan Area

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America 2000 Community byCommunity, continuedThomas Harvey: What we've done inNorth High School (Omaha) for now isto take inventory of things we've done inthe past that work and plug them in. Andat the same time, we're putting a newfocus on outcomes and a timeline forwhat we want to achieve by the year2000five months from now. We've puttogether a school improvement plan thatwill help us do well in a number ofplaces. As for a report card, North HighSchool's and the district's report cardswill be outcome based.

"As communitiesmake progress, weneed to share infor-mation with othercommunities." ...

On Getting Help...Nancy Bogatin: As communities makeprogress, we need to share informationwith other communities. We need to geton a network as soon as possible. Itwould give some cohesion to all of theefforts nationally. There are some thingsthat stand out there that really work. Andeveryone of us will, of course, adjustthose to local demand.Allan Wade: One suggestion is to havesomeone be a receptor for all the variousstrategies out there through theDepartment's staff support. For example,when we're tackling goal one, we need toknow about the approaches othercommunities usedBill Gibbons: It's important for thefederal government to continue to give usgood staff support. Also it's importantfor federal officials simply to serve as acatalyst by making an appearance at astrategic time.Allan Wade: I would have io say themost important help we can receive is tolearn about the types of strategies alreadyin existence that are being implementedin communities across the country.Having to invent things from the groundup will be time-consuming and difficult.Tom (Harvey), you should say somethingabout the strategy you have in Omaha to

increase math and science proficiency[Goal 41. That kind of thing I'mtalking about something that he'sactually doing that we in Memphiswouldn't have any idea about.Thomas Harvey: We've said to the

"I don't think any-one can be againstpeople shaping theirown destinies. Andthat's whatAMERICA 2000 isall about."

math teachers that math has to betaught from a practical standpoint,from an enthusiasm standpoint. Everychild should visit businesses and dothings to understand why math isimportant. We have business partners

successful people in the communityto help show this in various areas.Also we're showing how math is usedin other subjects social studies,geography, environment, biology. Sowe've tried to integrate math acrossthe board. Whereas students had beenleaving math after two years, we nowexpect them to continue math, becausewe have been doing things to influencethem and excite them about thesubject. About 30 perwat used to goon in math after the second year; nowthat figure is over 90 percent amongthose in the program. They're stayingin math because we have made itexciting we're showing purpose formath.On Challenges Ahead...Allan Wade: I think the biggestresistance communities will face islack of understanding about whatAMERICA 2000 really is. What Iemphasize is that it's a strategy andhas broad-based public support.People will support it once they realizethat they can actually shape the destinyof the outcome if they're involvedbut can't make a difference if they'renot involved. That message needs tobe out front. I don't think anyone canbe against people shaping their owndestinies. And that's what AMERICA

2000 is all about.Bill Gibbous: As for costs, right nowMemphis has a $150,000 budget. Most ofthat is for hiring an additional staff person,printing, mailing, renting facilities we needto use, and so on. And that's just for theyear ahead.Nancy Bogatin: That doesn't includeprograms anything that needs to bedone to help reach the goals. We're nottalking about that now. Right now weneed to get the process going a strategyin place. We need to pull people into theeffort, then we'll get the money.Connie Spellman: I don't think theresources for the strategy will necessarilybe new money.On Measuring Results...Bill Gibbons: As for measuring results,the way we're approaching it is from theground up. We're creating a task force toaddress that specific problem. We'regoing into it without any preconceivednotions about how to do it. We could usesome advice some expertise on howto get a handle on this.Connie Spellman: We think the mostimportant thing about becoming anAMERICA 2000 community is that it's anevolving process. It will take eachindividual community addressing its ownneeds.

"Right now we need toget the process goinga strategy in place."

Thomas Harvey: Communities need toassess what expertise they have withintheir community to address their needs. Idon't think we can go beyond that today.Connie Spelhnan: One of the things thatwe're discovering is that there are a greatnumber of groups and organizations inOmaha that are dealing with some of thechallenging issues in education. So one ofthe first things we're trying to do is toidentify and inventory who's doing what

and to overlay on that the nationalgoals. What are we already addressing andwhere are the gaps? What strategies canwe use to fill those gaps? We've foundthat there are a great many things going onthat are very exciting. So how do we

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America 2000 Community byCommunity, continuedcoordinate all this? How do we worktoward the measurement andaccountability assessment our ability toknow whether we've reached the goals?That's where we've discovered theDepartment of Education. Also, Nebraskahas developed high performance learningmodels. We want to get a school todevelop a strategic plan based on the goalsthat provides objectives that they can beheld accountable for.Bill Gibbons: There's an importantdistinction between developing astrategy and getting into programs.Communities need to avoid getting intoall this stuff about programs and fundingof programs. We need to be focusing on astrategy. I've been bombarded with phonecalls from people who want to come byand tell me what they're doing. I say,"We're not going to endorse any specificprogram. We'i.e not going to do that_Right now, we're focusing on a strategy."Lamar Alexander: As far as what theDepartment can offer as support, one ofthe problems we have is that we'redealing with the whole country, and wedon't have that big of a staff for support.On the other hand, there are a lot of othergroups who are willing to be involvedwith us like the elementary principals,the Chamber of Commerce. So, it occursto me that we might have a large team ofpeople who can be like midwives, maybe,who can help people through this process.Another way to do this is to have regionalmeetings that are convenient whereyou could come for a day and say, "We're

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A As of mid-September, hundreds of communities have expressed interest inAMERICA 2000 and are organizing steering committees to become AMERICA2000 Communities. Several communities, such as Memphis and Omaha, havealready launched AMERICA 2000 activities. Ten states or territories are alreadyworking to support AMERICA 2000 communities. They include Colorado,Wyoming, Oregon, American Samoa, Maine, Maryland, Nebraska, Minnesota,Delaware, and Vermont. If your community has a 2000 committee, join it If itdoesn't, start

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According to an editorial, September 5, in the Garden City Telegram, Kansas:"The best thing the [Kansas] Legislature could do would be to declare Kansas anAmerica 2000 state."

A "If we can't manage to substantially improve the condition of our schools inurban schoe'. districts, I think the public will understandably look to alternatives,"said Dr. Adam Urbanski, president of the Rochester Teachers Association. "Ithink that we are in desperate need. Radical problems indeed require radicalsolutions."(AMERICA 2000 Daily Conference Call, September 18)

at this stage" and, if nothing else, just sitdown with other people who are goingthrough the same thing and talk it through.I'm thinking there are three ways to help:One is through newsletters and videos.Two, we might get a group of our ownDepartment people and others to provide asupport system. And, three, a broadermenu of regional meetings. I don't knowwhether people have the money to come tothose or whether that would be a waste oftime. What would you think?Nancy Bogatin: Travel expense and the

time involved is too much for face-to-facemeetings. A cable link could be set up forteleconferences.Connie Spellman: There's all kinds ofways to do this. And a regional confer-ence that people could drive to would begood. I know what I've learned todaytalking to people has a greater effect.

For a copy of the transcript from theSeptember 10 luncheon. contact theAMERICA 2000 office, U.S. Departmentof Education, 400 Maryland Ave., S.W.,Washington, D.C. 20202-0498

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AMERICA 2000NEWS IN BRIEF...Governor Martin Launches NORTHCAROLINA 2000

"It's time for us to redesign oureducation system for the next cen-tury," said Gov. James G. Martin (R)in launching NORTH CAROLINA2000, September 27. Gov. Martinwas joined by Secretary Alexander atthe kickoff at the Governor's BusinessAwards in Education luncheon.

"We challenge local leaders todevelop community action teamsdedicated to implementing schoolreform based on the specific educa-tional needs unique to their commu-nity," said Martin. "The nation's goalsare the beginning of a processdesigned to involve every citizen inevery community of every state in anational effort to give our children aworld class education."

Vermont Mounts Green MountainChallenge

On September 20, GovernorHoward Dean (D) of Vermont an-nounced the Green Mountain Chal-lenge, Vermont's AMERICA 2000initiative.

Secretary Alexander joined Gover-nor Dean at Champlain Valley UnionHigh School for a rally to announcethe Green Mountain Challenge, whichis Vermont's commitment to reinventits schools by emphasizing coresubjects and measuring performancethrough assessment. "What theassessments do is pinpoint exactlywhere the breakdowns are...and thenwe can adjust curricula to takeadvantage of the student's specificinformation," said Gov. Dean in anAMERICA 2000 Daily ConferenceCall, September 18,

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Governors Release First Goals ReportThe nation must travel a long way to reach

the six national education goals, according toa new report issued by the National Educa-tion Goals Panel on September 30. Thebipartisan panel is made up of six governors,four Administration of-ficials and four mem-bers of Congress.

According to the re-port, fewer than one infive students can beconsidered competent inmathematics, andAmerican students rank"significantly behindtheir peers" in other ad-vanced countries in sci-ence. Data supporting the report found thatU.S. students lost ground during the 1970sand 1980s but regained that ground by 1990.

"We now have a baseline, and we have adecade-long commitment by the Presidentand 50 governors to move towards the

goals," said Colorado Governor RoyRomer (D), outgoing chairman of thepanel. "Our students are not world - class,and we recognize it," said South CarolinaGov. Carroll A. Campbell Jr. (R), the new

chairman. Most of the

"People don't want tospend more money forthe status quo, theywant reforms andimprovements."

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nation's governors alsoreleased reports ontheir states' sta.us inreaching the nationalgoals. "To be trulyworld-class, we have alot of work ahead ofus," said Missouri Gov.John Ashcroft (R)."People don't want tospend more money for

the status quo, they want reforms andimprovements."

The report is the first of its kind tomeasure state and national progress towardthe goals, established by the President andthe nation's governors in 1990.

What Works for StudentsDuring a September 27 news cor4irence announcing National Assessment of Educa-tional Progress (NAEP) data relating to the National Goals Report, Assistant SecretaryDiane Ravitch, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, observed thatresearch points to what works in the schools:

Among some of the other things we know from the research is that students dobetter in school when they do homework. Students do better in school whenthere is good class work, which involves hands-on instruction in all subjectareas. Students do better in school when there is parental involvement; they dobetter in school when there is more time engaged in learning, which often meansa longer school day and often means a longer school year. They certainly dobetter in schools that are drug free and violence free. They do better when theyhave teachers who are well trained and teachers who have the respect of thecommunity.We know all of these things, and I think that the main message that I would liketo impart is that we would make a very serious mistake if we came away fromthis news conference saying, "good news, we're back to where we were in1970." I would say, "good news, the trend is up but there is no call for compla-cency here. We have only come back to where we were in 1970, and in a worldthat has changed very dramatically since 1970, we should not be satisfied. Weshould be aiming to prepare our kids for the 21st century and not for a worldthat we have left behind."


Tips From a Blue Ribbon RecipientDr. Robert Hendricks, superinten-

dent of the Flowing Wells SchoolDistrict in Tucson, Arizona, was amongrepresentatives of 222 public andprivate secondary schoolstvho visitedWashington to receive a 1990-91 BlueRibbon Schools Award, 4eptpmber 25.

Six of the seven cchools'iri' k ,d '-Hendricks' district have been recog-nized as Blue Ribbon Schools in hisnine years as superintendent. Duringan AMERICA 2000 Daily ConferenceCall the day of the ceren'ny, DeoutySecretary David Keams4ked himhow Tucson did it. Hen ks-taid:

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about 85 percent of Americansfavor the development of AO°standards in education. The poll,released in late September by LbuisHarris and Associates, surveyed 2,44eemployers, college and vocational 4(

school educators, students, parentsand the general public.

Harris also found that, while employ-ers and educators are dissatisfied withstudent performance, parents thinktheir children are doing well. About 12percent of employers and 18 percentof educators consider recent highschool graduates able to write well.On the other hand, 66 percent of therecent graduates polled and 56percent of their parents said studentswrite well. Similar discrepancies werefound in mathematics achievement.

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takecontrol of theirown educationchallenge them-gCrycs, demanddiscipline, and seekhelp from parents,friends, and thecommunity.

During his address, the Presidentobserved that children from all over the

District of Columbiapetition to go to DealJunior High "becauseparents know this schoolworks." He praised theschool's award-winning"Math Counts" teamwhich took college-entrance exams on anexperimental basis lastyear. "Some of them

scored well enough to get into collegeright now," the President said. "You'vegot the b rains. Now put them to workcertainly not for me, but for you."

As of Monday, September 30, at least12 governors had expressed interest infollowing the President's speech with oneof their own to students in their state.

"What you do herewill have conse-quences for yourwhole lives."

"Everythingcomes down to you," said President Bush inaddressing a classroom of 8th grade studentsat Alice Deal Junior High School in Wash-ington, D.C. "The real world doesn't beginsomewhere else and some time in thedistant future. The real world starts righthere. What you do here will have conse-quences for your whole lives....Make it yourmission to get a good education."

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On September 6, the Minnesota Education Association (MEA)--the state's largest teacher organizationjoined with the MinnesotaBusiness Partnership, the Minnesota Department of Education and Cov. Arne Carlson (R) to cosponsor MINNESOTA 2000. On September12, MINNESOTA 2000 was launched. Following is the text of MBA President Robert E. Astrup's article in the August issue of the MEAADVOCATE, "flow Can We Meet the Challenge?"

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Bob Astrup, president

COMMENTARYNew, iiiwroved, redesigned,

exciting, more effective all wordsthat describe how public schools willlook in the future.

One thing is certain -- our schoolsare changing. Change comes in manyforms. Just as the destruction of theBerlin Wall changed the face ofinternational relations and the develop-ment of lasers provided new methodsof medical treatment, our schools areevolving and modifying to meet theexpectations of a global society inwhich citizens must for survivalset higher standards for themselves in

both their work and personal lives.The schools you and I attended as

children exist now only in our memories.They have been replaced by schoolswhose libraries are media centers whichrequire the most up-to-date technologicalresources. Our arithmetic classes arenow mathematics courses with special-ized curriculum problem-solving andcritical thinking techniques. Andtoday's science classes teach not onlyabout plants, animals, air and water but,also, how we can preserve theseresources for future generations. Ourpublic schools arc at the heart of themost far-reaching changes occurring inAmerican society today.

President Bush's education initiative,America 2000, goes even further inoutlining long-range plans at the nationallevel designed to improve our nation'spublic schools. America 2000 willencourage flexibility in school adminis-tration and decision making; usecontributions from the business commu-nity to fund research and developmentteams to help design "a new generationof American schools;" focus attention onthe needs to increase adult literacy andjob skills for all Americans; and improvecommunity support to create climatesthat encourage learning and success.

"New American Schools" is morethan a lofty concept. President Bush hasproposed to Congress that at least 535New American Schools includingone in each congressional district in thenation be in place by 1996. Theseschools will be located in communitiesthat pledge cooperation and support

have a system of assessment that uses avariety of community-identifiedindicators of success; and endorse thesix national goals for education. Thenational goals, developed by thenation's governors and supported by theMinnesota Education Association andthe National Education Association, setstandards for the year 2000 in curricu-lum, graduation levels, readiness forschool, adult literacy, and safe, drug-freeschools. Attainment of these goals isessential if the United States is tomaintain its standard of living.

But why wait for the rest of the nationto get in step? Why not create "Minne-sota 2000" innovative ways torethink and redesign schools to provideeducation based on identified needs ofour students and communities in whichthey live?

Our schools, teaehers and communitymembers need to reconsider whatschools can and should be doing. Weknow we must assume greater responsi-bility and take an active part by becom-ing more involved in restructuring ourschools.

If the Bush Administration proposal isapproved, Minnesota can look forwardto eight New American Schools. Butthere's no reason why we can't beginnow to encourage hundreds of NewMinnesota Schools where teams ofteachers, students, parents, businessleaders and community members woulddevelop improvement plans for educa-tion.

The students who take responsibilityfor their learning, the parents whosupport and encourage them, thecommunity and business leaders whoadvocate for excellence in education andthe teachers who modify traditionalmethods to net new needs are allessential to the creation of the newgeneration of American schools.

Just as society grows, changes andadapts, so must its institutions. As thisnew school year unfolds, you may beasked to participate as a parent,student, business or community leader,or educator in new and excitingventures in your community's schools.I urge you to take the time to getinvolved. After all, the year 2000 is justaround the corner.

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Oklahoma City Moves TowardAMERICA 2000

"We are taking decisive stepstowards becoming an AMERICA 2000school district and community!" saidDr. Arthur Steller, superintendent ofthe Oklahoma City Public Schools, in arecent letter to Secretary Alexander.

(Oklahoma City's) EducationalRound!able overwhelmiligly adoptedthe educational goals," said Steller."Each of our 83 individual SchoolImprovements Teams committeesmade up of community residents,principals, teachers, staff, businessleaders and parents at each schoolare expected to soon begin developingthe detailed strategies and plansnecessary for adopting and implement-ing the AMERICA 2000 goals at theschool level."

TULSA 2000 was kicked off onAugust 23.

59 Principals HonoredOn September 23, fifty-nine princi-

pals were named as 1991 NationalDistinguished Principals. The princi-pals were honored at an awardsbanquet in Washington, D.C., onOctober 4.

Sponsored jointly by the U.S.Department of Education and theNational Association of ElementarySchool Principals (NAESP), therecipients were selected from NAESPaffiliates in all 50 states and the Districtof Columbia and by committeesrepresenting private and overseasschools.

Notes and Quotes...A Help for Drug-Free Schools

For information on how communities can fight drug use, write: Office ofNational Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President, Washington,DC 20500. For a free copy of "Growing Up Drug Free" or "Schools Without

Drugs," call: 1-800-624-0100.

A Heads Up for American Education WeekNovember 17-23 is American Education Week. This year's theme is "Schoolsand Communities: Partners for a Strong America," which offers the opportu-

nity to tie in AMERICA 2000 communities to education activities during the

week.

Money's Not Enough"We've increased the state's (North Carolina's) funding for our public schools

about 76 percent over a six-year period, and that's three times the inflationrate," said North Carolina Governor James Martin (R). "It was satisfying to saythat we're doing better than had been done before, but...we proved that just to

put a lot of money into the flow doesn't solve the problem... We're going tohave to find ways of holding our local school systems and local school build-

ings accountable for getting results with that money" (AMERICA 2000 Daily

Conference Call, September 25).

Move Away from Comfortable TraditionMrs. Valerie Woodruff, principal of Middletown High School in Wilmington,Delaware, where DELAWARE 2000 was launched: "Wehave to rethink our

goals, we have to move away from very comfortable tradition, but I think that

we know that in order to meet the needs of the children who are coming to us

today, we must change" (AMERICA 2000 Daily Conference Call, September

19).

Drug-Free CommunitiesDr. herb Kleber, deputy director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy,

on how communities can safeguard their children against drugs: "We wantteachers to receive training in substance abuse education. We want to make

sure that there are appropriate drug education programs in schools and not justproviding knowledge but resistance training. And finally, schools need to work

not just in isolation, they need to work with parents, with the media and withcommunity leaders to do an overall comprehensive approach." (AMERICA

2000 Daily Conference Call, September 20).

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AMERICA 2000NEWS IN BRIEF...

Hoosiers Pueh.INDIANA 2000On October 3, Governor Evan Bayb.

(D) and state Superintendent ofPublic Instruction Dean Evans werejoined by KWLady Barbara Bushand Secretary Alexander to launchINDIANA ava

Superintendent Evans has begun aseries of 100 town meettrxis, joint61sponsored by the 10wanas ark andthe state oclucalcin department todiscuss the national goals anddevelop a kick-off strategy.. About500 students will help conduct themeetings.

During an AMERICA 2000 DailyConference Call, Dr. Evans said, Wethink well get a double-whammy outof this. Number one, we hope that thepublic will become a lot more inter-ested and knowledgeable aboutINDIANA 2000 and then, secondly,we think it's democracy in actionbecause students are rjoing topartkipate in town meetings.°

Grants AnnouncedOn October Z the Department

announced $7.8 million in grants tosupport new Academies for Teachersand Academies for School Leaders.The 18 state and regional Academieswill train public and private schoolteachers in the five core academicsubjects, and provide programs forschool leaders to enhance theireffectiveness.

"These Academies are essentialparts of the President's AMERICA2000 strategy,"' said SecretaryAlexander who made the announce-ment during the AMERICA 2000 DeilyConference Call.

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What AMERICA 2000 GovernorsAre Saying. . .

From Vermont's Green Mountain Challenge to Nebraska's reform from the ground up,most of the nation's governors haw definite ideas about what needs to be done on theeducation front. Following are excerpts frontAMERICA 2000 Daily Conference Calls lastmonth, featuring governors' comments on education reform in their states.

Maryland: It Starts in the FamilyGov. William Donald Schaefer (D, MD): "We must blame ourselves for bad schools

and not point the finger at everyone else. I think it actually starts in the family....I'vesupported the (National Education) goals and I've taken two of them as my own personalgoals that is making schools drug-free and preparing all children for schools before theystart in. And, on November 12th, we're going to issue a report card for every Marylandschool showing performance."

Minnesota: Reform is Everybody's JobGov. Arne Carlson (R, MN): `We're committed, one, to make sure that everybody

realizes that education is all of coil. responsibility. Secondly, we want to decentralize ourefforts, get more community involvement, more people involved in the entire process.And, thirdly, we create an atmosphere of reform. The model of our program in Minnesotais r: ally taken from an old African proverb that it takes a whole village to educate onechild."

Nebraska: Reform from the Ground UpGovernor Ben Nelson (D, NE): "We like very much the program that recognizes that

quality education will begin at the ground and work up rather than come from the topdown."

"We're expecting to take OMAHA 2000 across the state to encourage cater communi-ties in Nebraska to participate, based on various programs that they're undertaking rightnow to improve the quality of education within their system."

Delaware: A New AwakeningGov. Michael Castle (R, DE): "We're going to issue our own plan for a new framework

in reform for education. I have just about finished visiting all the schools in my state.We're going to have our national goals report later this year and our own Delaware reporton that. I see a great reawakening and enthusiasm in education in the United States. Weare capturing that interest in Delaware. Community involvement is vitally important. Youonly spend so much time in the schools, and we must pay attention to what's happening inthe homes and in the community."

Colorado: State-driven ReformGovernor Roy Romer (D, CO): We have about 150 out of 170 school districts partici-

pating from the bottom up in COLORADO 2000. We're having a state-wide conventionof all of these folks. So we've not only been to the field, we're coming back now to astatewide conference saying, "Here's what we think ought to be done in our own commu-nities."

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',Joking:off PAso2000on :October Doting away at SocorroHigh School, OcalciviO, educaffonand business loaders annOundedthe city's commitment to mist theNational Education Goals.

In discussing EL PASO 2000during the AMERICA 2000 DailyConference Cat the same day, Dr.Diana Nataffclo, president of theUniversity of Texas at EI Paso,commented on the role that universi-ties can play:

Vermont: Green Mountain ChallengeGov. Howard Dean (D, VI): "Our Commissioner of Education has done a lot of

assessment work with portfolios and individualized plans to assess, to try to measure howwe can comply with our goals and, of course, the goals of AMERICA 2000, as well. Theexciting thing [about measurement/assessment] is that we will be able to not only see thatwe have problems because we all know that the schools do have problems but we'regoing to be able to tell exactly what we need to do to fix those problems by looking at the

assessments."

North Carolina: Better Achievement, PerformanceGov. James Martin (R, NC): 'We've got to get away fmm focusing accountabilityjust

on rules and regulations, restrictions and requirements and instead focus on gettingbetter achievement, better performance, better learning from our children. That's theobjective that counts most of all. We've increased the state's funding for our publicschools about 76 percent over a six-year period...And one of the things that we've found isthat we proved that just to put a lot of money into the flow doesn't solve the problem."

Maine: Keeping the Momentum GoingGov. John McKernan (R, ME): "MAINE 2000 is going to be the shot in the arm that I

think we need if we're really going to continue the momentum to meet the NationalEducation Goals....We intend to have Maine Education Day to discuss exactly what themeaning is of the results [from the first Goals Panel Report]."

Iowa: Building on AMERICA 2000Gov. Terry Branstad (R, IA): "We're very honored to host the national forum [meeting

of the National Education Goals Panel in Iowa. October 27-28]. We invited every gover-nor to send a delegation...we expect to have education leaders, governors, chief state schoolofficers, business leaders from the National Business Roundtable, and I think some of thebest minds in American education, focusing on how we can indeed build this AMERICA2000 initiative, state by state. And we're very proud that Iowa has a good record ineducation, but we know we have a long way to go to be world class competitive."

Alaska: Change Means ChoiceGov. Walter Hickcl (I, AL): "Our situation in Alaska is quite different arctic and sub-

arctic Our distances are vast. Transportation is quite limited, and so we have one schoolthat's the state's only public boarding school. And, 86 percent of its schoolstudents wereminority or from rural areas....It's a boarding school that does a lot of bands-ontraining....In Alaska, there's going to be some [educational] change; there's going to be

some choice. There's going to be a different attitude, more parent involvement, more local

involvement..."

(The AMERICA 2000 Daily Conference Call, launched on September 4, is held at 11:55

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NEWS IN BRIEF...Record Numbers Plan AMERICA 2000Launches

At least six states and three communitieshave said they will bunch AMERICA 2000initiatives during the next hvo weeks, arecord number for any two-eek period,according to the Department's AMERICA2000 office:

StatesMASSACHUSETTS 2000, October 24TENNESSEE 2000, Ocbber 25IOWA 2000,0clober27-28KANSAS 2000, October29MISSOURI 2000,0cbber29ALABAMA 2000, October 31CommunitiesRICHMOND 2000, October 22NASHVILLE 2000, Ocbber25SAN ANTONIO 2000, Ocbber 30

Governor Miller Kicks-off GEORGL4 2000On October 18, Governor Zell Miller (D)

launched GEORGIA 2000, the 13th state toadopt the AMERICA 2000 strategy.

I'm committed to the National EducationGoals and committed to achieving them inGeorgia,' Governor Wet said. 'GEORGIA2000 will work to encourage Georgiacommunities in their efforts to make thenational goals a reality at the local levet"

Governor Miller was joined by SecretaryAlexander who said "GEORGIA 2000 is abold, bipartisan effort that will help thestate of Georgia lead the way to new andbetter schools...."

LOUISIANA 2000 Moves ForwardWhen Gov. Buck!), Roemer (R-LA)

unveiled LOUISIANA 2000 on September9, he called on Louisianans to unite behindeducation reform community by commu-nity. "LOUISIANA 2000 is not about me.Ifs about us," said Roemer. it's aboutteamwork and rolling up our sleeves to getthe job done together."

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(73Vermont': public embrace of AMERICA 2000 on September 20, builds

on the state's educational reform strategy, "Green Mountain Challenge,"which was adopted by the state in 1988. Central So the state's strategy

document is Appendix], written by Rick Mills, state commissioner ofeducation, and his staff. Following are excerptsfrom the piece, whichoutlines Vermont's underlying philosophy on educational reform:

Vermont's Vision ofEducation Reform

All great ventures begin with avision of what could be...

The focus in our school is on thestudent the learner and not theschool. The emphasis is on the learninginstead of teaching, although teaching ismore important than ever.

Children move along at their ownpace, and what they need to learn and togrow drives the school. Real failure,once thought all but unavoidable forsome, is extremely rare. The childrenknow that in every school at least oneadult is watching out for them.

Every school board member, parent,teacher and administrator accepts theresponsibility of seeing to it that everychild entering kindergarten graduatesfrom high school with an acceptablelevel of achievement...

A system is in place to aid studentswho are not progressing satisfactorily.Those who in the past would havesimply failed are intercepted, at age threeor earlier, to address learning difficulties.

In our schools, each student mastersessential skills rather than simplylearning about therm The curriculum isextraordinarily rich. Each childprogresses through a carefully struc-tured, sequential curriculum of math-ematics, communication, literature,history, social science, the arts, scienceand technology, and health. Kindergart-ners arc giving book reports before theycan read because their parents have beenreading to them. From the earliestgrades, everyone writes. Pages of

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student writing are taped to every refrig-erator door in town.

Students don't just write the answers tomath problems. They learn to reason andcommunicate mathematically. Measure-ment and assessment of student perfix-mance is continuous and built into theinstructional program.

There are no textbooks. But in mosthomes, and in every school room, there arebooks everywhere. Stop a young personon the street and jammed into ski parkasand hip pockets are cheap editions ofexcellent books. History, novels, classics,poetry, drama, humor, fantasy. Everyonereads.

Parents are partners. Teachers commu-nicate frequently and directly with themregarding the student's progress. They areinvolved in the school as aides, advisors,resource persons and decision-makers.Citizens own the schools and act as if theydo. Nearly everyone votes. Most peoplein town attend an annual report day todiscuss educational performance and towitness exhibitions of student work.

School board meetings are sometimesheated, but the discussions are aboutcurriculum and how to maintain theconditions that teaching and learningdemand.

The business community works closelywith the school, providing support andopportunities for work-study, employmentand retraining.

The school looks like a communityinstitution and it is, but its reach is vast.

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NEWS IN BRIEF; continuedtha launch of LOUISIANA 2000, G'v.Roemer met with the state's schooldistrict superintendents 12 ask them totake the lead in organizing LOUISIANA2000 community activities. Each wasasked to appoint a LOUISIANA 2000advisory team, and the teams met onOctober 14 at a workshop on organizingat the community level. The workshopcontained sessions on the nationaleducation goals, state resourcecontacts, handling the media and aspecial visit from one of the organizersof COLORADO 2000. Louisiana alsoplans to hold a statewide town meeting/teleconference on December 2.

CORRECTIONDue to a printing error in last week's

newsletter ("EL PASO 2000 Under-way'), the quote attributed to Dr. DianaNatalicio, president of the University ofTexas at El Paso, was omitted. Com-menting on the role that universities canplay in AMERICA 2000, she said: 'Weare working...to develop a strategy forthe year 2001 in our case, b workwith our partners in he schools todevelop strong academic programs atthe middle and high school Weis toensure that students come it us wellprepared. We see that as our responsi-bility as Kell.'

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A OMAHA 2000's Continued CommitmentIn a September 25 letter to Secretary Alexander, Bob Bell, president of theGreater. Omaha Chamber of Comm rte, wrote of the community's continuingcommitment to OMAHA 2000 after its September 5 kick off:

"Although the euphoria is going, the partnership (business, education andgovernment) is stronger than ever and the eon-mu:14 is poised to roil up itssleeves and move forward. We are just now realizing what a great challengewe have in front of us.... We are convinced that communities of our size canmake a difference. where there is good strong partnership in place...."

Vermont, continuedIt is connected to the much wider commu-nity of all educated people through theelectronic exchange of data, video andother material. All students tap librariesfrom around the nation and, increasinglythe world.

School is no longer part-time, but a year-round opportunity to learn and relearn.Summer operations include remedial,tutorial and enrichment courses andactivities, especially for younger students.The school day is flexible to accommodateworking students. In the evening, thebuilding is filled with adult courses andclasses to eliminate adult illiteracy.

The teachers are themselves students ofa very demanding profession. Nearly halfhave achieved voluntary certification bythe National Board for ProfessionalTeaching Standards. Much of the leader-ship for the educational programs comesfrom teachers. They work together inteams. The teachers and administrators areconstantly changing parts of the school,amplifying things that work, droppingthIngs that don't

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AMERICA 2000: Six Months Later

Six months after the AMERICA 2000strategy was unveiled, at least 30 states andtwo territories have announced their ownAMERICA 2000 efforts to advance theNational Education Goals, or are planningan announcement within the next fewweeks.

As of October 30, states and territoriesthat have announced AMERICA 2000initiatives include: Alaska, Colorado,Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachu-setts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania.

Tennessee, Vermont, Wyoming, andAmerican Samoa. States and territories thatplan AMERICA 2000 announcementssoon include: Alabama, Illinois, Michi-gan, Montana, New Hampshire, SouthCarolina, South Dakota, Utah, Washing-ton, Wisconsin and Puerto Rico.

Based on a rough survey, most of theSTATE 2000 efforts have several things incommon. They began by adopting the sixNational Education Goals and forming acoordinating team or steering committee.The teams are bipartisan and typicallyinclude teachers, administrators, civic

leaders, business executives, religiousleaders, law enforcement officials, healthcare professionals, legislators, schoolboard members, union leaders, parents,students, higher education officials, localpolitical leaders, foundation and mediarepresentatives, among others. The teamsare responsible for the development andlaunch of statewide crusades that focus onchallenging every community in the stateto work toward the National EducationGoals. As LOCAL 2000 efforts getunderway, most state organizations

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NEWS IN BRIEF...Pennsylvania 2000 Launched

During an October 18 meeting of theLehigh Valley Business-EducationPartnership, Governor Robert Casey (D-PA) announced PENNSYLVANIA 2000.Casey said he would co -chair a statecoalition with a business leader to beelected by business members of thecoalition board.

During the meeting of about 60business leaders and educators, held inElston, Pennsylvania, Casey said thecoalition should cal for improvement andreform of the states educational system,encourage citizens and communities tohap The state reach the National Educa-tion Goals, support partnerships tostrengthen teaching and seek morefederal funding for the state.

LEHIGH VALLEY 2000 ForgesAhead

According to Secretary LamarAlexander, Lehigh Valley's progresstoward becoming an AMERICA 2000Community is among the mostadvanced of all AMERICA 2000efforts.

"I don't know of any community

that's further along," said Alexanderduring a Lehigh Valley Business-Education Partnership meeting at theSouth Mountain Middle School inAllentown, October 21. More than200 local residents attended themeeting, including U.S. Rep. DonRitter, (R-Pa), a former LehighUniversity professor, who helped kick-off LEHIGH VALLEY 2000 in August.

Secretary Alexander commendedthe partnership for releasing a reportlast June with several hundredrecommendations for local schoolreform. For example, the recommen-dations call for raising the mandatoryschool age from 16 to 18 and usingmore technology in the classroom.

RICHMOND 2000 LaunchedOn October 22, a coalition of

Richmond business, education andcivic leaders launched METRORICHMOND 2000 during a rally atHermitage High School.

Kok-off activities featured Mrs.Jeannie Baliles, chairman of theVirginia Literacy Foundation and wifeof former Governor Gerald Bellies (D-VA), and Lewis Powell, III. Powellrepresented his father, Retired U.S.

Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell,Jr., honorary chairman of the METRORICHMOND 2000 Steering Commit-tee, who was unable to attend due toillness.

New American Schools Corpora-tion issues Final RFP

On October 16, the New AmericanSchools Development Corporation(NASDC) unveiled its final request forproposals (RFP) seeking designteams to create schools that "help allstudents meet world-class standardsin at least five core subjects." Bidsare due February 14.

NASDC, a private, nonprofitcorporation funded and run byAmerican business leaders andothers, is set up to help providedesigns for AMERICA 2000 Commu-nities to use in creating their own new"break-the-mold" new Americanschools. The group plans to award atotal of $200 million to design teamsthat offer the best five-year designand development plans.

For additional information, contactNew American Schools DevelopmentCorporation, 1000 Wilson Blvd., Suite2710, Arlington, Va. 22209.

Sir Months Later, continuedplan to provide technical assistance andsupport recogdze communities that makeprogress toward the goals; and help supportpints for New American Schools.

Hundreds of individual communities, fromMemphis to Omaha, San Antonio to LasCruces, are organising to becomeAMERICA 2000 Communities.

A complete listing of AMERICA 2000Communities will be included in a future

issue of the AMERICA 2000 newsletter.President Bush announced AMERICA 2000on April 18.

If your catununity is planning to organizea steering committee to join AMERICA 2000,please send information about your effort tothe AMERICA 2000 Field Office,Department of Education, Rm. 4141, 400Maryland Ave., SW; Washington, DC20202. If you have questions please call(202) 401-0411.

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Georgia Governor Calls for Bottom-Up Reform"Top-down simply doesn't work" said Gov. Zell Miller (D-

GA) during GEORGIA 2000 kick -off activities on October 18.

He then urged his fellow Georgians "to go home, take theinitiative and organize local 2000 organizations."

Following are excerpts of Miller's vision for the state'seducational reform effort, as addined during discussions withthe media and others on the day of the kick-off.

I am pleased to announce the formationof GEORGIA2000....I want to make it very clear that we are not going toconduct another study. That's not what this is for. Wealready have known and have common ground on many ofthe steps that we need to take to improve education stepslike extending our kindergarten program to 4 year olds toimprove the readiness of kids to school; like addressing theneeds of the whole child through projects like the FamilyConnection Project-in Decatur.

GEORGIA 2000 will develop and implement a state-widestrategy to reach the National Education Goals by the year2000. We'll spin off local 2000 groups all around this statewho will adopt the state-wide strategy for implementation in

their own communities. It might vary some, but largely wewill be all working in the same direction. I want to make,very clear...that this is not going to compete with the GeorgiaBusiness Council Partnership for Excellence in Education'swork....In many ways, GEORGIA 2000 will rely on it and will

use the. foundation upon which they have already built. Toassure that we have a close linkage...I have named several keyPartnership leaders to GEORGIA 2000....We will work very

From theAtlanta Journal and Constitution, October 21, 1991

Suggestions for Schools in GeorgiaHere are some recurring suggestions made at the 'Georgia 2000"summit for Georgia communities to consider when plotting waysto reach the national education goals:A Student teachers should be trained in highly successful

cutting-edge schools, not simply any school that will takethem.Parent must be part of the campaign to Improve schoolsand educators need to employ new techniques for bringingparents in, not turning them off.Upgrading education will take more money but moneyalone won't do it The best approach is first to reform thesystem, coordinate existing services and design innovativeplans, then seek government and private funding to carry outand expand those efforts.Higher expectations must be held out for all students.warning must be an active process, not one of passivelyreceiving information.Technology offers promising opportunities and must be part ofany education Improvement plan.There are schools in Georgia and around the nation thatalready have answers to every educational challenge. Dataabout those programs need to be compiled and shared.

closely together to meet our common goal, which is improvingeducation in this state. See Georgia next page

Massachusetts Governor Calls for Bold StepsOn October 24, Gov. William Weld (R MA) announced

MASSACHUSETTS 2000, and followed with a statewideplan designed to increase innovation and accountability.Included in the governor's plan are new standardized testsfor students; higher certification standards for teachers; a

statewide core curriculum; and school governance councils

of parents teachers and principals. Following are excerptsfrom the governor's remarks during the day's events.

We too want to refocus our education effort in theCommonwealth....Today, as we charge toward a new century.we can't forget the education of all of our citizens also has toadvance. Improving our schools through innovation andaccountability is crucial to the future health of this Common-

wealth. We want to join in looking ahead in implementing the goals in

AMERICA 2000 here in Massachusetts....We need to change. The changes cannot be small or incremental.

because too much is at risk, and time, as measured by a student's lifein school, is short We cannot continue the present systemwhereinthere is no accountability for failure, no reward for success and nodefinition of either. We have to take bold steps to change the destiny

of our school children, or we place their future at risk.

To meet these goals, we call on all 351 cities and towns tobecome AMERICA 2000 communities....We want our communi-ties to embrace the program. Through the AMERICA 2000program, we will provide the framework for local communities to

See Massachusetts next page

NEWS IN BRIEF...IOWA 2000 Announced

During a two-day meeting of 600 ofthe nation's leading educators in DesMoines. Gov. Terry Brans tad (R-IA)unveiled IOWA 2000, a statewide effortto achieve the National Education Goals.Branstad said IOWA 2000 is "results-based" and would shift the state-imposedquality control emphasis away frommaterials and techniques used byteachers, to emphasize student achieve-ment levels.

Branstad announced the initiative atDrake University at the beginning of theNational Education Forum, a two-daymeeting which focused on state initia-tives to achieve the National EducationGoals.NASHVII J 2000 andTENNESSEE 2000 Launched

On October 25, Sec. Lamar Alexanderjoined Gov. Ned McWherter (D-TN) andNashville Mayor Phil Bredesen (D) inannouncing NAST-WTI-1.F 2000. At least600 people attended the kick off, held atHume Fogg Magnet School.

Gina Lodge, co-chairman of NASH-VILLE 2000, told the participants at thekick-off: "We want to involve people allover town parents, educators, students,businessmen and women."

During a press conference earlier in theday, Gov. McWhorter and Sec. Alexanderkicked off TENNESSEE 2000.No More "Business as Usual"

According to Edward B. "Ted" Fiske,author and former education editor of theNew York Times, AMERICA 2000 hasfocused national attention on two impor-tant things: 1) our schools are a nationalproblem; and 2) we won't solve it with"business as usual." Fiske spoke before aluncheon meeting of Education Depart-ment officials on October 23.

Fiske said that there were no new ideasin "A Nation at Risk," a report issued inthe 1980s on the state of U.S. educationwith recommendations for change. It was"just an effort to squeeze more juice out ofthe orange," said Fiske. "But it was alemon we were dealing with." Fiske saidthe nation must come up with new ideas,and AMERICA 2000's New AmericanSchools initiative does just that

Our schools are doing a lot of thingsright and our children are learning a lotof things, but..the game out there haschanged. We're demanding more in thisglobal economy that we live in where wehave to compete not just with the kidsthat come from our own state but withkids that are growing up in Tokyo orTaiwan.

I hope I'm helping the kids and I hopeI'm helping this nation and this state.

The partisan thing is not important to me atall. In fact, education, like foreign policy,the more bipartisan you can make it, thebetter, I think.

I hope that what we are going to get is anetwork around this state of advocates andpeople who are going to go back into theircommunities and explain to people whatAMERICA 2000 and GEORGIA 2000 areand explain these six goals and helpexplain to them how we can obtain them.

You're Not Alone....Do you think you're entering

uncharted waters with the launch ofyour own STATE or LOCAL 2000initiative? You're not. Others havebeen there before and are willing tohelp. Periodically the newsletter willfeature contacts for others interested inorganizing their own AMERICA 2000initiatives. This week:A COLORADO 2000; Office of she

Gov.; 136 State Capitol, Rook.111; Denver, CO 80203; Mtn:Bob Grossman.LOUISIANA 2000; Mee of theGov.; Box 94004; Baton Rouge, LA70804-9004; Attn: Claudia Fowler.

A NEBRASKA 2000; Department ofEducation; Box 94987; Lincoln, NE68509; Attn: Lorraine Pallesen.

A MAINE 2000; Department ofEducation; State House; Station 23;Augusta, ME 04333; Attn: MaryMajorowicz.

A MINNESOTA 2000; Office of theGov.; 121 State Capitol; St. Paul,MN 55155; Attn: Utz Lawn.

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set goals for themselves. To that end, I'msigning an Executive Order, establishing aMASSACHUSETTS 2000 Commission, anonpartisan advocate for changes in publicprimary and secondary education. TheCommission will advise communities andfacilitate the implementation of reform andconsist of a 15-member steering commit-tee. It will be an independent resource forthe school committees, parents, educatorsand also acknowledge innovation, toughstandards and, above all, improvement...

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San Antonio Becomes First TopTen City to Join AMERICA 2000

San Antonio's Coalition for Educationwas joined by Secretary Alexander ndfour Bush Administration officials In thelaunch of SAN ANTONIO 2000, October30. In doing so, San Antonio becamethe first of the nation's 10 largest cities toaccept the Presidents challenge ofmeeting the National Education Goals.

The Coalition, a partnership betweenthe University of Texas at San Antonio,the city, Bexar County and the Chamberof Commerce, organized the SANANTONIO 2000 effort. According to SanAntonio Mayor Nelson Wotff, theAMERICA 2000 effort [and] the NationalEducation Goals will help San Antonioaid its significant minority population,which is plagued with high illiteracy andpoverty rates."

During the SAN ANTONIO 2000kickoff activities, local educators show-cased 10 San Antonio schools, endingwith the formai kickoff at Lanier HighSchool, which is 99 percent Hispanic.Joining Secretary Alexander wereCatalina Villalpando, U.S. TreasurerRita Esquivel, Director of the EducationDepartments Office of Bilingual Educa-tion and Minority Languages Affairs;John Florez, Executive Director, WhiteHouse Initiative on Educational Excel-lence for Hispanic Americans; andMargarita Colmenares, White HouseFellow.

On behalf of this community, I'mprivileged to accept the challenge ofAMERICA 2000," said Robert Munoz, asenior at Lanier during the ceremony. "Ithas the potential to offer new hope tostudents. Growing up In this communityhas made me realize education is thekey to empowerment"

Dave Sugg, a member of the coalitionsupporting SAN ANTONIO 2000, saidthe group will try to coordinate the manylocal reform efforts currently underway.'We'll have to have task forces to workon each goal,' Sugg said. "We'll be anumbrella for all these other activities."

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Kansas Legislators LaunchBipartisan Reform Effort

The Republican and Democratic leadership in the Kansas Legislature joined forces onOctober 28 to push for the creation of a state blue-ribbon education panel to review and

oversee state school reform proposals. One day later, the leaders participated in the launchof KANSAS 2000 [see "NEWS IN BRIEF'].

"Our goal is meaningful school reform, designed and supported in a bipartisan atmo-sphere," said Senate President Senator Bud Burke (R), president-elect of the NationalConference of State Legislatures, and House Speaker Marvin Barkis (D) in a statement

announcing the creation of the panel."We intend for our efforts to dovetail with the work of the governor, and with the

KANSAS 2000 movement, which will energize grassroots reformefforts," said Burke and

Barkis.The two said that the panel, with "citizen leadership appointed by the governor, the

legislature and the state board of education" would "take the partisan politics out of schoolreform...and assure - place at the table for all who have a stake in the educational future of

Kansas."Burke and Barkis said that the commission will help drive KANSAS 2000 and help

determine what the goals mean for Kansas.

St Joseph "Ponies Up" to Education ReformIn another era St Joseph, Mo., gained

fame as the place that launched the PonyExpress.

Today, St. Joseph has garneredanother distinction, but this time forbeing first in Missouri to start the processto become an AMERICA 2000 commu-nity.

It began when an education task forcemade up of St Joseph's educators,school board members, and business andcivic leaders surveyed the communityabout its schools during a communityplanning effort During that process, acommunity resident came forward with aaingle AMERICA 2000 Strategy Book.

"I took it borne and looked at it andthought, This is the kind of plan that canbring our effort all together,"' saidMarietta Singer, chairman of the StJoseph 2000 Education Task Force andprincipal of St. Joseph's Pershing

Elementary School. "We found thatAMERICA 2000 is the perfect fit forwhat we want to do."

"AMERICA 2000 provides us with astructure," Singer said "The goals arealready there. We couldn't develop anybetter goals than those, so we decided toadopt them."

St Joseph's city council and schoolboard recently met in a joint session andvoted to adopt the National EducationGoals and begin planning to become anAMERICA 2000 community. Also, theSt Joseph education task force hasoutlined key education issues in St.Joseph and determined a number ofobjectives to be achieved under eachNational Education Goal. The report isnow being reviewed by thecity.

'his is part of a larger effort to makeSt Joseph the best it can be by the year2000," Singer said

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NEWS IN BRIEF...Alabama Goes AMERICA 2000

In separate launches on October31, Mobile, Birmingham and thestate of Alabama announcedAMERICA 2000 initiatives. Secre-tary Lamar Alexander Joined Gover-nor Guy Hunt (R) In MOBILE 2000and ALABAMA 2000 kickoff ceremo-nies at Murphy High School. Laterin the day, the two announcedBIRMINGHAM 2000 at the annualmeeting of the Business Council ofAlabama in Birmingham.

According to Dr. Anita Buckley,educator advisor to the governor, thereform initiatives provide "a goodopportunity for the school systems inThe state to take reform to thecommunity level." She was afeatured speaker during anAMERICA 2000 Daily ConferenceCall two days before the Alabamakickoffs.

MOBILE 2000's "QuietRevolution"

According to organizers ofMOBILE 2000, the city's financialcrisis is a major reason why every-one should unite behind ItsAMERICA 2000 initiative.

In a statement on the day of thekickoff, Carolyn Akers, JuniorLeague president and an organizerof MOBILE 2000 said that Mobileneeds "to examine resourcesthroughout Mobile" and unite behindeducation reform. "(Mobile's)

unfortunate financial crisis...is justone more example of why all citizensof Mobile must unite In a `quietrovolution' to involve every individualin the community in setting thecourse for reform in our educationalsystem,' said Akers.

Mobile has been facing educationfunding shortfalls, which have beenexacerbated by proposed statebudget cuts.

KANSAS 2000 AnnouncedAbout 300 people attended

KANSAS 2000 kickoff ceremonieson the campus of Wichita StateUnivorsify, Clcetbar29. Among theparticipants in the kickoff were LeeDroegemueier, Kansas Commis-sioner of Education; GaryMichaelson, chief executive officer ofBoeing; Senate President Bud Burke(R), House Speaker Marvin Barkis(D), and Secretary Lamar Alexander.

At the rally, Connie Hubbell,president of the State Board ofEducation, announced that 10communities, including Lawrence,Dodge City and Rose Hill, hadalready signed on.

MISSOURI 2000 LaunchedOn October 28, Governor John

Ashcroft (R) launched MISSOURI2000. Ashcroft who was joined bySecretary Alexander, announced theAMERICA 2000 Initiative at a kickoffat Ralph M. Captain ElementarySchool in Clayton, Mo. The follow-ing day, Ashcroft and Alexandertraveled to Kansas City, Mo., for a

related event at Park Hill Senior HighSchool.

'The future of this state and nationdepends on the strong commitment wemake to provide quality education to ouryoung people,- Ashcroft said. "Nolonger is our competition confined tocommunity or state borders. Ourstudents and workers literally are incompetition with the world."

NEBRASKA 2000: A PartnershipAbout 500 education, business, and

political leaders in Nebraska attended aforum on NEBRASKA 2000, which waslaunched in September. Governor BenNelson (0) told the participants thathard work and ingenuity on the locallevel not more money from stategovernment will improve education inthe future.

"School reform in the 1990s isn'tabout more money, longer hours oradditional course work," Nelson said.We are talking about fundamentalchange change that requires persis-tence, commitment and unparalleledcooperation."

"Real change in education will onlyhappen when we make It happen andwhen we aren't looking elsewhere tomake it happen," said the governor. Heurged all communities to enact reformsat the grassroots level by formulatingtheir own 2000 efforts. Senator BobKerrey (D-NE) said that he hoped theconference would provoke people toaction since education reforms must bemandated on the community level.

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NEWS IN BRIEF...KROGER 2000 MOVES AHEAD

Kroger Food Stores' AtlantaMarketing Area has announced it Isrecruiting volunteers among itsemployees to serve as AMERICA2000 community coordinators.These people will work with localAMERICA 2000 communitiesThroughout its 121-store locations.The action follows the company'sannouncement of the launch ofKROGER 2000 on October 21.

We are seeking Interestedemployees who are 'peoplepersons,' active in their communityand can commit their time, whennecessary, to be Involved,- saki thecorporation's Fall newsletter.

At the KROGER 2000 announce-ment several weeks before, Paul

president of Kroger FoodStores' Atlanta Marketing Area,said: In taking the AMERICA2000 Initiatives, ...we align our-selves with the six national educa-tion goals to enhance the quality oflife for both our employees andtoday's children.... The key to oursuccess as a company is ourpeople...store by store, communityby community, Just as it will be forAMERICA 2000 as GEORGIA2000 and other 2000 communitiesemerge throughout the country."

KROGER 2000 efforts includeKroger's Earning for Learning, aprogram which provides freecomputers to schools, and Part-ners In Education, which partnersKroger stores with schools.LAS CRUCES 2000 MakesStrides

Six weeks following the LASCRUCES 2000 kick-off, thesteering committee continues

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C-SPAN Highlights AMERICA2000 in Month-Long Series

Starting Monday, November 18, C-SPAN will feature AMERICA 2000 in aspecial month-long series of live, prime time programs titled "A National Discus-

sion on Education."During the first hour of the November 18 broadcast, Secretary Alexander will

answer call-in questions on the National Education Goals and AMERICA 2000.The second hour will feature at least one governor and others in a roundtablediscussion on education reform issues.

The next three broadcasts will feature Secretary Alexander and roundtables oflocal officials and citizens who are involved in STATE and LOCAL 2000 efforts.They are scheduled for 8 p.m. on each Monday, through December 9.

The C-SPAN education series, "A National Discussion onEducation," will be aired on the following nights:

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614 Chambers of Commerce JoinAMERICA2000At least 614 local and state Chambers

of Commerce have announced theircommitment to AMERICA 2000.

In a letter to President Bush on October16, the Chambers of Commerce an-nounced their decision to work foreducation reform community by commu-nity through the AMERICA 2000strategy: "We, the undersigned Chambersof Commerce, are committed to theAMERICA 2000 strategy for educationreform. Since we believe that qualityeducation is the key to continued growthand prosperity for our students and ourcommunities, we pledge to adopt the sixNational Education Goals and developstrategies for their implementation.

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our communities.""Any successful effort should involve

all segments of the community," saidRobert L. Martin, Chamber vice presi-dent and executive director of the Centerfor Workforce Preparation and QualityEducation. "Our businesses should playan important role in education becausetoday's students are the employees oftomorrow."

The announcement of the Chamber'scommitment to AMERICA 2000appeared in a 16-page education specialreport of The Business Advocate, aChamber publication. The names of all614 local and state chambers are listed inthe report. Copies can be obtained bysending $2.00 to: Center for WorkforcePreparation and Quality Education; 1615H Street, NW; Washington, DC; 20062.

NEWS IN BRIEF Dr. Gale points to "widespread

arlytInued... community support" as an integralfactor to the success of LASCRUCES 2000.HEADS UP...

On Wednesday, November 13,Secretary Alexander traveled toDetroit, Michigan, to help with thelaunch of DETROIT 2000 andMICHIGAN 2000.

Secretary Alexander visitedJohnson City, Tennessee, to helpkick off a regional effort, UPPEREAST TENNESSEE 2000, onFriday, November 15. Look for moreon these events in next week'snewsletter.

SOUTH CAROLINA 2000 onNovember 20; WISCONSIN 2000 on

2tiovevber 21; and OHIO 2000 onNovo riber 22.BROADCASTERS INITIATEAMERICA 2000 ACTIVITIES

The National Association ofBroadcasters (NAB) recentlyteamedup with the Department ofEducation to produce a NationalAssociation of Broadcasters On-AirInitiative. The NAB card featuredAMERICA 2000 and AmericanEducation Week, and listed ways inwhich broadcasters can play a vital

to take strides in developing a.,strategy to attain the six Nation*E,ckaeatiOn Goals, according totTt4mas Gale, chairman of they rsteering committee and dean 4,..."emeritus of New Mexico State',ttiversity.

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committee has been meeting kly4since the LAS CRUCES 2000 kick- 4'off. The committee has been&Med into six different.teEuns,;eachteam working on one of the six,'goals. Each team will map out bothshort and long term strategies tOaccomplish the goals, and all of theteams will meet on November*25 to 4,s,

give their final reports. The LASCRUCES 2000 steering committeeplans to follow up with small groupsto work closely with the Las Crucesschool system to implement theteams' recommendations.

Once the recommendations havebeen reported, the steering commit-tee hopes to devise specific strate-gies, which could include asking theschools to volunteer time and alsoinvolve local groups interested inworking with children.

role in AMERICA 2000, by helping toorganize an AMERICA 2000 commu-nity; promoting education reform;soliciting community opinion; andlistening to the AMERICA 2000 DailyConference Call.

In the past few weeks, at least 20broadcasters from around the countryhave called to receive additionalinformation about starting anAMERICA 2000 initiative. Broadcast-ers with questions can call BarbaraGleason at the U.S. Department ofEducation; (202) 401-0765.BATON ROUGE 2000 LAUNCHED

BATON ROUGE 2000, launchedon November 8, becomes the latestLouisiana community to declare itsintention to join AMERICA 2000.Congressman Richard Raker (R)joined Louisiana business andeducation leaders in an organizationalmeeting at the state capitol to an-nounce BAT;.7N ROUGE 2000.

The event included AMERICA 2000presentations, a video explaining theprogress of LOUISIANA 2000, ano areport on LOUISIANA 2000.

Louisiana plans to hold a statewidetown meeting/teleconference onDecember 2 to discuss and promoteLOUISIANA 2000.

More Help...In the 8th issue of AMERICA 2000, five state contacts were listed as sources for help for people starting their own AMERICA 2000

Following are five more contacts:MEMPHIS 2000; Goals for Memphis; 66 Monroe; Suite 107; Memphis, IN 38103; Attn: Barbara Jacobs.

KANSAS 2000; Room 357 Eas4 State Capitol; Topeka, KS 66612; Attn: Kim Waters.ALABAMA 2000; 11 South Union Street; Montgomery, AL 36160; Attn: Anita Buckley.WYOMING 2000; Office of the Governor; Cheyenne, WY 82002; Attn: Scott Ferris.LAS CRUCES 2000: 3220 Dyer street: Las Cruces, NM 88001; Attu: Patsy Duran.

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GSPAN Talks AMERICA 2000Callers from across the country last week

contacted C-SPAN with questions andopinions about AMERICA 2000 andeducation reform. The discussions tookplace during a live broadcast featuringSecretary Lamar Alexander on November18 the first of four shows scheduledriery Monday at 8 p.m., EST, throughDecember 16.

Following is a composite of the broadcast,which is representative of AMERICA 2000discussions occurring in states and commu-nities throughout America.What AMERICA 2000 Is.

In its simplest form, it's a strategy, not aprogram or a piece of federal legislation, tohelp America move itself community-by-community toward the six National Educa-tion Goals that President Bush and thenation's governors adopted a couple ofyears ago during the Education Summit inCharlottesville, Virginia.Why Change Is Needed...

Part one of AMERICA 2000, communityby community, is just helping the wholecommunity understand what is going on. Alot of people haven't really tuned in to whyreform is needed. They don't really knowthat children today have got to learn a lotmore than 10 or 20 years ago and aregrowing up so differently. They haven'tthought about the fact that our schools werecreated for another century and are reallyout of date and that we need whole newschools. Most parents don't realize that theytoo need to go back to school because theworld has changed.Getting Involved...

The individual can make a lot of differ-ence. Someone say, from Newton,Kansas, who wants his hometown to be anAMERICA 2000 Community needs toknow, very simply, that NEWTON 2000means adopting the six National EducationGoals, or Newton's version of those goals;developing a strategy for reaching the goals;

designing a report card to measure results;and beginning to think about creating oneof a new generation of American schools.And in Kansas, for example, you can gethelp from the governor's office or thecommissioner of education, becauseKANSAS 2000 has kicked off. Or, youmay call 1-800-USA-LEARN.Schools Meeting Community Needs...

Sometimes we say that editors areresistant to change and that's notalways true. Sometimes it's those of usoutside in the community who resist...forexample, opening up schools and extend-ing the school year. Murfreesboro,Tennessee, for example, opened its sevenelementary schools before 8 a.m. and after3 p.m. About half of the 4,000 parents usethe service, because it helps the familyand the children learn, catch up, and havesome of their needs attended to. The ideaof AMERICA 200..) is to help parentsunderstand how much change is needed ineducation. In order to learn the amount ofmath needed and give children a plac togo, for example, schools may need to beopen longer....Teachers and AMERICA 2000...

AMERICA 2000, in every state andcommunity, is trying to include allteachers, as well as their organizations...But we ought to begin with the idea that inthe 904 we need a lot of change in ourschools. We need to challenge theAmerican Federation of Teachers and theNational Education Association to be inthe forefront of creating new schools, ofgiving choice to parents, of setting highstandards in many cases they are....Ihope that the unions are on the steeringcommittees in the communities around thecountry that are starting AMERICA 2000

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Just because you've got a budgetproblem doesn't mean you don't needgoals. In Mobile, the school system isabout to go bankrupt for a variety of

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NEWS IN BRIEF...DETROIT 2000 AND MICHIGAN2000 Announced

Secretary Alexander joinedGovernor John Engler, Larry Patrick,president of the Detroit SchoolBoard, and Dr. Deborah M. McGriff,Detroit Public Schools superinten-dent for the simultaneous !rick -off ofMICHIGAN 2000 and DETROIT2000 or? November 13 at CassTechnical High School. Detroitfollows San Antonio as the secondmajor urban area to launch anAMERICA 2000 initiative.

In Detroit, the promise of atwenty-first century education beginstoday," said Patrick. We are commit-ted to putting kids flist " said McGriff.We are committed to generating thesupport of the community that weneed to guarantee the success ofevery young person in Detroit."

Cass High School, 94 percentminority, is an urban alternativeschool for high achievers.

'MICHIGAN 2000 is aimed at

making Michigan's children the besteducated in our state's history," saidEngler. Gov. Engler also announcedhis appointments to the MICHIGAN2000 Committee, a 29-memberadvisory group consisting of thegovernor and education, legislative,businesa and community leaders fromthe state.Choctaw Tribe Joins AMERICA2000

The Tribal Council of the ChoctawCommunity announced its almmit-Mere to the AMERICA 2000 effort bylaunching CHOCTAW 2000. Choctawis a tribe of 5000 located in Philadel-phia, Mississippi. The steeringcommittee consists of representativesfrom each of the six schools within theChoctaw community. Willa Brantley,co-chair of the steering committee,sald,"CHOCTAW 2000 will provide thestrategy to create a quality educationenvironment for aN Choctaw children.Every segment of the tribal communitywill be involved in developing thestrategy to prepare our children far the

year 2000 and beyond.'Choctaw becomes the first Ameri-

can Indian Tribe to commit to theAMERICA 2000 effort Choctawplans it's kick-off in January.UPPER EAST TENNESSEE 2000Launched

Sixteen dty and county schoolsystems in Northeast Tennesseejoined forces to kick off UPPERE4ST TENNESSEE 2000 onNovember 16. Secretary Alexanderjoined Tennessee State Commis-sioner of Education Charles Smith,and Dallas Hardin, Upper EastTennessee Educational Cooperativeexecutive director, as well as localeducation, university, state andbusiness officials, to launch theregional effort

Each of the sixteen communitieshave formed their own five-membercommittee to develop strategies tomeet the National Education Goals.

The kick-off was held at EastTennessee State University inJohnson City.

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reasons that go back over a long period oftime. And they kicked off MOBILE 2000as a way to get out of a hole to sayhere's where we need to be by the year2000, to rally the community and help

pegaiynderstand what the problems are.CA 2000 and the Arts...

Goal Three of the National EducationGoals says that all children should learn,to a dtallenging lent, at least math,science, English., history and geography

....No one ever thought that any schoolwould ever include just those five subjectareas. It doesn't mention foreign lan-guages. It doesn't mention art. It doesn'tmention music. It doesn't mentioncomputers or human behavior or econom-ics or a whole variety of other veryimportant things. Arnold Schwarzenegger(Chairman of the President's PhysicalFitness Council) has pointed out it doesn'tmention physical fitness. If I were starting

a school in Bethesda or in Tennessee, Iwould want all of that involved. But whatwe're trying to do is to give a focus tothose five academic subjects to begin withand then leave it to communities toconstruct a complete curriculum aroundthere. If I were creating a school in mycommunity, I wouldn't want one thatdidn't have, as part of its curriculum, artand music.

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SOUTH CAROLINA 2000 waslaunched on November 20 with astate-wide teleconference hostedby Governor Carroll Campbell (R)and Education SuperintendentBarbara Neilsen.

Eighty-six of the state's 91school systems participated In theevent, which focused on the statusof the six National EducationGoals, and ways in which SouthCarolina communities couldachieve them. The programended with a call-in question andanswer session.WISCONSIN 2000 Launched

Secretary Alexander pinedWisconsin Governor TommyThompson (R) and Superintendentof Public Instruction HerbertGrover, former president of theCouncil of Chief State SchoolOfficers, for the kick-off of WIS-CONSIN 2000 on November 21.The kick-off began at BradfordHigh School, followed by a visit toGateway Technical College InKenosha.

Improving the quality of life inthis state and the nation means wemust ensure America's schoolsproduce the more's beet preparedstudents," Governor Thompsonsaid In order to preserve thehealth of our economy and ourstandard of living, we must not besatisfied until our schools are thefinest in the world. That Is whatWISCONSIN 2000 Is all about.°

President Bush partictoated inthe launch by phoning GovernorThompson during the activities.President Bush said, hope yourealize that through this action,Wisconsin is showing the countryhow education reform can begin atthe local level." The President'sphone call was relayed by loud-speakers to an audience atBradford High School in Kenosha.:resident Bush Attends OHIO2000 Launch

President Bush was In Colum-bus, Ohio, for the kick-off of OHIO2000 on November 25. ThePresident pined Ohio GovernorGeorge Volnovich (R) and Educa-tion Secretary Alexander for thelaunch, at Fort Hayes MetropolitanEducation Center,

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Last summer, Memphis became thefirst major U.S. city to join AMERICA2000, when MEMPHIS 2000 waslaunched. Following are excerpts from acommentary about what has happened inMemphis since the idck-off. The article,by Steering Committee Co-Chair BillGibbon; appeared in the MemphisCommercial Appeal on October 20.

t the heart of the AMERICA 2000initiative is the President's challenge

to every community to do four things:Adopt specific education goals,including six national goals agreedupon by the President and all 50governors.Adopt a clear, concise local strategy toachieve those goals by the year 2000.Adopt a local report card as a means ofmeasuring the results of thecommunity's efforts.Agree to create and support theestablishment of one or more NewAmerican Schools....

On July 23, Memphis became the firstmajor city in America to accept that chal-lenge.... MEMPHIS 2000 involves a 1 -1,2year process. By the end of 1992, we hopeto have accomplished all four steps....

The six national education goals repre-sent a broad framework around which allsegments of this community ought to beable to unite....In addition to the six na-tional goals, the Goals for Memphis boardof directors has added two local goals.One is to reduce the deficit in learningamong at-risk, disadvantaged children. Itis this deficit that primarily results in thewide discrepancy between Memphis'sachievement test levels and those for thestate and the nation and, ultimately, in ourhigh dropout rate. The second local goal isto make it possible for parents to assumemore responsibility for the education of

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their children. As part of the MEMPHIS2000 effort, task forces will be created foreach goal. Those task forces will be re-sponsible for developing a specific strat-egy to achieve each goal by the year2000. Membership on each task forcewill be open to the public....

The existence of a national strategy hasresulted in some confusion about theMEMPHIS 2000 effort and its purposes.Its purpose is not to make the nationalstrategy Memphis's strategy. At no timehas Secretary Alexander or anyone elsewith the Department of Education evereven suggested that any specific aspect ofthe national education strategy be part ofour local strategy. Consistently, theyhave stressed the need for us to come upwith a strategy that uniquely meets theneeds of Memphis and that reflects thethoughts and desires of Memphians.

I stress that we have no plan or strategyat this point While many of us have ourthoughts about what should be included,none of us knows what the ultimate planwill include or emphasize....

This effort will not stop with theadoption of a set of goals. We want tomake sure that action is then taken bythose who are in positions of responsibil-ity. That includes, of course, electedofficials and school officials. It includesmany others as well, though, rangingfrom businesses to parents. And we aredetermined to put into place a means bywhich this community can grade itself onits efforts....It will be important that thiscommunity report card be issued by anindependent, objective group that will tellit like it is....

I've tried to tell you what MEMPHIS2000 is. Let me tell you what it is notFirst, it is not necessarily an effort tospend more on education and change our

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'This is not a liberal versusconservative fight It's a revolutionagainst business as usual/'President Bush said. We need toempower teachers, not to punchtimeclocks, not to fend off thugsand drug dealers, but to teach.And we need to give parents realchoice."

Governor Volnovich said, "Ohiowill sink or swim on how we meetour education challenge. The realreform will come only at the locallevel. To get the job done It wiNhave to be on The local level,classroom by classroom."

While at Fort Hayes Metropoli-ten Education Center, PresidentBush observed some innovativeeducation strategies, such as achild care center run by the highschool students, and a classwhere high school students aretrained to be medical technicians.'cads Up...

Tice final two C-SPAN educationspecials, featuring SecretaryLamar Alexander, will be broad-cast at 8:00 p.m. EST on Monday,December 9 and Monday, Decem-ber 16.

Upcoming AMERICA 2000 kick-offs include: UTAH 2000 onDecember 10; MONTANA 2000on December 11; ARIZONA 2000on December 12; NEW HAMP-SHIRE 2000 on December 17;and SOUTH DAKOTA 2000 onDecember 19.

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tax structure in ways to provide morefunds for schools. Our mission is tocome up with clear goals and a clear planto achieve the goals. It will be up toothers to decide what programs toimplement in response and to put a pricetag on those programs....

Second, MEMPHIS 2000 is not aneffort to restructure our local schoolsystems. (County) Mayor (Bill) Morrishas had a task force working on that.MEMPHIS 2000 is focusing on what oureducation goals and plans ought to beregardless of the school administrativestructure.

Third, MEMPHIS 2000 is not just aneffort designed to address the needs ofthe city's public schools. That's a bigpart of it in fact, the biggest part. Yet.it's only a part. MEMPHIS 2000 isseeking clear, community-wide educationgoals and a plan to achieve them. Wehope private schools will be responsive aswell as public schools. Much of thefocus will be on children before they everbegin school. And we will focus as wellon adults who are no longer formally inschool but who should continue to bestudents throughout their lives.

What distinguishes this from so manyprevious efforts that have been made in

Memphis to improve education? I thinkthere are two important distinctions. First,we have four clear, identifiable steps and atimetable to accomplish them. Second,this is a true grassroots movement thatencompasses businesses, labor, electedofficials, school administrators, teachers,principals, parents, students and manyother citizens concerned enough to want toparticipate.

We believe this effort can result in a setof clear education goals for our entirecommunity, a clear plan of action toachieve these goals, and a clear means ofmeasuring our progress on a regular basis.

The National EducationGoals in Brief...

1. School Readiness

2. Graduation Rate to 90%

3. Proficiency in Five CoreSubject Areas

4. First in the World in Mathand Science

5. Every Adult Literate and Ableto Compete In the Work Force

6. Drugs and Violence Out ofSchools

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Secretary Alexander joined Louis-ville Mayor Jerry Abramson, Jeffer-son County Public Schools Superin-tendent Donald ingwerson and hun-dreds of other community leaders inkick-off activities for LOUISVILLE2000, December 3 The launch tookplace at Iroquois High and MiddleSchool.

The issues and challenges ofeducation belong to as of us," sakiingvverson at the LOUISVILLE 2000nu* "This kick-off will launch amonumental effort to address theNational Education Goals and dem-onstrate the mandates and spirit ofThe Kentucky Education ReformAct."

Louisville was also host to the sec-ond show in a series of C-SPANspecials, a "National Discussion onEducation." Secretary Alexanderand Incgwerson participated on apanel with David Jones, chief execu-tive officer of Humana Inc., andLloyd Spence, president of the stu-dent body at Western High School inLouisville. The show was aired fromGreenwood Elementary School.S'PARTANBURG 2000

On November 21, Spartanburgbecame the first city in South Cam-ilna to 101h AMERICA 2000. DeputySecretary David Kearns joined MikeKohler, chairman of SPARTAN -BURG 2000, and local educatorsand business leaders in announcingthe local AMERICA 2aa0 initiative.

SOUTH CAROLINA 2000 kickedof on November 20 with a statewideteleconference hosted by GovernorCarroll Campbell and State Superin-tendent of Education BarbaraNielsen.,FADS UP...

This week brings UTAH 2000 onDecember 10, MONTANA 2000 onDecember 11 and ARIZONA 2000on December 12. UpcomingAMERICA 2000 events IncludeNEW HAMPSHIRE 2000 on Decem-ber 17 and SOUTH DAKOTA 2000on December 19.

Also, the final C-SPAN special oneducation, featuring Secretary Alex-ander, will be aired on Monday,December 16 at 8:00 p.m. EST.

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Bush Names Education "Points of light"During American Education Week in

late November, President Bush designatedseven education "Daily Points of Light forthe Nation," individuals or groups who areworking to help schools and students intheir conununities.

The President singled out the sevenbecause of their efforts in literacy, schoolreadiness and other programs that arehelping to move their communities towardthe National Education Goals. Six of theseven were featured on the AMERICA2000 Daily Conference Call.

The President's "Points of Light"awards, announced daily by the WhiteHouse, honor people who successfullyaddress community problems -- such asdrug abuse environmental decay, teenpregnancy.

Following is a summary of the educa-tion "Points of Light":Cedar Rapids, IA: Volunteers forDisadvantaged Students

Volunteers at Johnson ElementarySchool help the school's large segment ofdisadvantaged students with reading,writing, citizenship and interpersonalskills. During the 1990-91 school yearalone, 200 volunteers worked more than7,300 hours reading to young children,acting as "listeners" to young readers andoffering guidance. Volunteers range fromhigh school and college students to seniorcitizens, and many come from low-income

neighborhoods. The Johnson Elementarystudents themselves also are involved inmonthly service projects.

Dena Chambliss, principal of JohnsonElementary, called the community'soutpouring of volunteer support "reallyphenomenal," attributing the support to"the unbelievable pride of the people ofIowa and Cedar Rapids in their schools."Champaign, IL: Mentor Services

Tamara Youngman, founder of MatthewHouse 18, is working to instill childrenwith a sense of dignity and help break thecycle of poverty in the community.

More than one hundred volunteersparticipate in the program doingeverything from preparing food andrepairing the facilities, to mentoring andtutoring students in computers, math, andreading. The volunteers also provideweekend field trips and piano lessons."Minority grandfathers and grandmothershelp children who are confronted dailywith social and economic injustices," saidYoungman. 'We give them educationaland spiritual opportunities in a realhomelike setting...friendship, guidance,tutoring, counseling, meals, clothing,school supplies, and all kinds of activitiesthat will enhance their total humangrowth."

"We go to the school and negotiate andmake sure that the children get in to the

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The National EducationGoals in Brief...

1. All Children Ready for School

2. 90% Graduation Rate

a All Children Proficient in AtLeast English, Math, Science,History, and Geography

4. First in the World in Mathand Science

S. Every Adult Literate and Ableto Compete in the Work Force

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right math classes, so they have a goodeducation," said Ms. Youngman.Fresno, CA: Support for MigrantWorkers

Raul Diaz directs University MigrantServices at California State University inFresno, which offers academic andpersonal support services to nearly 300students all from migrant or seasonalWm worker families. Most are ofMexican descent and are the first in theirfamilies to attend college.

The volunteers many of them migrantstudents themselves provide assistancewith admissions applications, academicadvising, personal counseling, careerplanning, leadership development, andcultural enrichment, as well as academicskills such as library research and com-puter literacy.

"Not only are [our volunteers] studentsat the university but they are giving manyhours of their time to help other students,"said Mr. Diaz.Cincinnati, 011: School Readiness

Dr. Obadiah Williams, founder of O.W.Motivational Inc., helps parents learn howto play an instrumental role in preparingtheir children for school. According toDr. Williams, educational success isdirectly related to parental involvementVolunteers teach the alphabet, numbers,and other basic skills to the children,while teaching their parents games andtechniques for reinforcing the learningprocess at home. The volunteers alsoserve as math and reading tutors for thestudents, and assist parents in preparingfor teacher conferences and in dealingwith problems their children may have inthe classroom.

"A result of what we are attempting todo is to say to parents: 'your youngsterscan be ready for school. This is how wego about doing it,'" said Dr. Williams."The parents must be there; we train theparents and the youngsters as well."Federal Way, WA: Adult and FamilyLiteracy

The volunteers of the South KingCounty Multi-Service Center work withadults and families to combat localilliteracy.

"We provide one-on-one or small grouptutoring for native and non-native Englishspeaking adults who are having troublewith literacy skills," said Eena Hibbs.director of the literacy program. "We alsoprovide an after-school tutoring programfor children who live in our agency-runshelter for homeless families."

"I think we are successful because.number one, we're part of a community

action organization and so we have thesupport of other programs....Also we havea lot of support from the library system,the VISTA program and we have manyvolunteers," said Ms. Hibbs.Westbury, NY: Community Volunteer

Powell Hollings, 90 years old, has beena community volunteer for the last 20years. During the last 15 years, he hastutored students in math four hours a dayat Powell's Lane School. "I work withthem, find out where their problem isand...finally get them to get around to whatthey want to know," Mr. Hollings said.

A former volunteer swim instructor, Mr.Hollings also spends his summers teachingswimming skills and coordination toparticipants in the Disabled Swim pro-gramLewiston, ME: Adopta-School

Peter Geiger and 27 of his employeessponsor the Geiger Bros. Adopt-a-Schoolprogram, which promotes businessinteraction with the local public schoolsystem.

In operation since 1985, they began by"adopting" Montello School and serving as

mentors to elementary students there. Theprogram has expanded to include a writingseminar and other activities to helpchildren with reading, as well as learninggood study and work habits. Mr. Geigerhas also introduced a Job Shadowingprogram, where students spend time withemployees at work to learn about the joband the work place.

The AMERICA 2000 Daily ConferenceGO is held at 11:55 am., EDT eachweekday. Call (202) 736-2300 every dayand learn more about how Americaneducation is changing, community bycommunity, school by school.

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NEWS IN BRIEF.......MER1CA 2000 Leadership'7,-..-nforence Announced

The U.S Chamber of Commercehas issued invitations to more than600 local Chamber organizationsto attend the AMERICA 2000Leadership Conference In Wash-ington, D.C., January 13-14, 1992.The 600 Invitees have all agreed tohelp organize and/or support focalAMERICA 2000 initiatives In theircommunities.

According to Chamber PresidentRichard Lesher, the conference,jointly sponsored by the Chamberand the Department of Education,is being held to offer "hands-onknowledge of how to activate yourcommunity to join the nationwidemovement"

UISIANA 2000 VkiaoLouisiana's electric cooperatives

have sponsored a new twentyminute video, The Biggest Storyof Our Lives," telling the story ofLOUISIANA 2000, the state'seducation initiative. The videoserves as a communications pieceto assist local communities inexplaining the importance ofLOUISIANA 2000 and encouragingpeople to join the program. Foradditional information, contactLeigh Harris at (504) 291-3060.

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LOUISIANA 2000 Talks StatewideMore than 6000 Louisianans joined an unprecedented statewide "town meeting" andteleconference on December 2 to discuss ways to improve education in their

communities.According to Gov. Buddy Roemer, the LOUISIANA 2000 event was "an historic night

for Louisiana," involving almost every facet of each community with the missiot. "toendorse the nation's six education goals and to design strategies for achieving those goalsby the year 2000."

Following the series of town meetings, Gov. Roemer hosted a live teleconferencelinking the local town meetings via satellite for a one-hour discission of the night'sactivities. The teleconference was broadcast statewide on the Louisiana Public Broadcast-ing Network.

"The beauty of LOUISIANA 2000 is its grass-roots approach. Each community decideshow it can best meet the six goals," said Gov. Roemer. "It's grassroots involvement, it'sworking together, it's putting aside the politics, it's asking the teachers to join, it's askingthe taxpayers to join, it's asking the students to join how about that for a powerfulthing? And let's work together to see how we can do it in Louisiana style to achieve thenational goals."

Following are highlights of the teleconference which focuses on the ways that many ofthe communities are developing strategies to meet the National Education Goals throughLOUISIANA 2000.School Readiness (Goal #1)

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CA 2000 Continues WestwardDuring the week of December 9, three

states in the Far West launchedAMERICA 2000 initiatives Utah.Montana and Arizona. They join Alaska,Colorado, Oregon, South Dakota,Wyoming in the western region of theUnited States which have launchedAMERICA 2000 initiatives. To date, atotal of 30 states, one territory and theDistrict of Columbia have joinedAMERICA 2000.UTAH 2000

President Bush helped Utah GovernorNorm Bangerter (R) kick -off UTAH 2000by placing a telephone call to thegovernor during the rally on December10.

"Congratulations," President Bush toldBangerter. "You're making a terrificcontribution to the momentum ofeducational reform...Utah is showing the

country how educational reform canhappen at the local level."

Twenty-five of Utah's 40 school districtshave adopted the six National EducationGoals and will use the AMERICA 2000strategy to achieve them.

"We still have a great deal to do,"Governor Bangerter said at the kick-offevent. "The AMERICA 2000 strategieswill see the removal of traditional walls thathave held some teachers and studentscaptive for too long."

Governor Bangerter also was joined byEducation Secretary Lamar Alexander,State Superintendent of Public InstructionJay B. Taggart, and Sevier School Districtliliariri.tendent Brent Rock.

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Governor Stan Stephens for the launch ofMONTANA 2000 and BILLINGS 2000

on December 11. President Bush alsocalled Governor Stephens during the kick-off to congratulate Montana and thegovernor for adopting the six NationalEducation Goals and joining theAMERICA 2000 crusade.

"MONTANA 2000 and BILLINGS2000 really are right in keeping with thisnew spirit of revolutionizing our schools.And they're going to make terrificcontributions to what I think is clearly nowa national momentum on educationreform," President Bush said

Secretary Alexander and GovernorStephens were also joined by Superinten-dent of Public Instruction Nancy Kerman.U.S. Senator Conrad Burns (R), andPresident of the Montana Chamber ofCommerce Wayne Schile.

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parenting classes and parent volunteers...I think we have eight centers now, and we hopeto expand that." (Superintendent Ray Arvison, Bossier Parish)

"In Goal One, we talked about the funds, parental involvement, to work towarddeveloping positive self-esteem in parents and children workshops on Saturdays andtime that parents can be available, to provide parental education and parent skills. "(Dr.V. L Shaw, first vice president of the Kettlekurst School Board/first vice president ofthe Louisiana School Board Association, Shreveport)90% Graduation Rate (Goal #2) and the Core Subjects (Goal #3)

"There's several of the goals that we [higher education] can become involved with.Obviously teacher training, bringing them up to speed in the math/science areas for thatgoal, and in the five core areas, of course. The other one is it's been mentionedpartnerships. There are 150,000 college students in Louisiana. Think what wouldhappen if you sent those students back to the schools to be role models, to talk to thosestudents in their own language, to tell them that you can succeed." (Sammy Cosper,Board of Regents)#1 in Math and Science (Goal #4)

"First of all, we needed to do some team building, and the cornerstone of that teamwould be the parent We need to encourage students to pursue higher-level math/science courses and instill in them the importance of these. Their future livelihood inmany cases may depend on it. Another thing we want to involve our teachers with ismore activity-oriented curriculum. We feel like we've got to not only look at skills, butthe process....Another thing we could not overlook...is the student himself. If we want toknow what we're doing well, maybe we should ask the students." (Dr. Leslie Ellis.former Supervisor of Livingston Parish Schools)Lifelong Learning (Goal #5)

"We've [businesses] become involved because we know that without a productivework force there is no way that we can continue to grow. Industry spends, in excessof$40 billion per year in professional development and continuing education for its

employees. We need to do more of that and we need to do it more effectively....Thispast summer we ran academies for math teachers, for science teachers, and for computerscience teachers, and the one for computer science teachers was run by NortheastLouisiana University. We believe that those elements leverage what industry spends bypreparing those people to deliver education, to deliver it better and moreeffectively."

(Hugh Nichols, Entergy Corporation, Inc.)Drug Free and Violence Free Schools (Goal #6)

"Most of us growing up in this audience this evening and throughout Louisianaattended drug-free schools when we were younger, and I think it's a goal that is achiev-able. In Louisiana we have drug-free school coordinators and advisory committeesalready set up in every single school district in this state. Therefore, I think that peoplewho came together this evening could contact people at the local level and tie into the

programs that are already in existence." (Richard Thompson, state official)

BIPARTISANSHIP AT ITS BESTAccording to the Baton Rouge Morn-ing Advocate (November 26, 1991),Louisiana Governor-elect EdwinEdwards (D) is 'committed to continuingsome education programs begun byGov. Buddy Roemer (R).''Among Edwards' pledges to educa-tion," said the Advocate, `(to) continueLouisiana's version of President Bush'sAMERICA 2000.'

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and a global economy, and we mustcontinue to strengthen Montana schoolsfor them and their children," said GovernorStephens. The goal of MONTANA 2000is for community members to determinewhat their schools should be and how totranslate those ideals into reality."ARIZONA 2000

Secretary of Education Lamar Alex-ander joined Arizona Governor J. FifeSymington (R), State Superintendent ofPublic Instruction C. Diane Bishop, andothers for the kickoff of ARIZONA 2000on December 12.

President Bush phoned to congratulateall involved in ARIZONA 2000. In thetelephone call, the President told thestudents: "Do everything that yourGovernor and your State Superintendentand these people are telling you to do interms of this education. We need you.You're the future, and we need you bad."

More than 1200 attended the ARI-ZONA 2000 rally, which was held atTrevor G. Browne High School inPhoenix.

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On December 19, Mayor ShamaPratt Kelly (0) launched WASH-INGTON, D.C. , 2000,.iffh FirstLady Barbara Bush, SecretaryLamar Alexander, D.C. &win-tendon: of Education FranklinSmith and 500 other officials andorganizers at the WashingtonConvention Center.

"Today represents the powerand potential &this community,'said Mayor Kt*, We cannot bethe first generation to give less toour children Man that which hasbeen given to us."

'Shay, we, as citizens, musthave the convictkon of our beliefs.tell you as urgently as I can we

must get out of our annalairs,take back our streets, and make astand for our chirdren," said MayorKelly.

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local chamber of commerce executives willmeet in Washington to discuss how theycan help their communities developstrategies to reach the National EducationGoals. Those attending the conference arcamong more than 600 local and statechambers who, in a letter to President Bushlast November, pledged to supportAMERICA 2000 in their own communities.

The two-day seminar, hosted by the U.S.

Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. De-partment of Education, will feature com-munity organizers who have alreadylaunched their own AMERICA 2000 com-munity initiatives, as well as Georgia Gov-ernor Zell Miller (D) and Maine Commis-sioner of Education Eve Bither who wereinstrumental in the launch of their ownstate AMERICA 2000 initiatives. Educa-tion Secretary Lamar Alexander and CJ.

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commerce. California has the most chambers committed toAMERICA 2000, with 44 followed by Texas (41), Florida (35), Ohio (34) and

Pennsylvania (31). As of the first ofJanuary, 30 states, one territory, and theDistrict of Columbia have announced their own AMERICA 2000

efforts. More than a thousand individual communities are organizing to become AMERICA 2000 Communities.

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Secretary Alexander hailed Deny,New Hampshire, for its educalionreform program during kick-offceremonies for NEW HAMPSHIRE2000 on December 17. Sec.Alexander pined New HampshireGovernor Judd Gregg (R) at theGrinnell School In Deny

Denys reform program, unveiledby Deny superintendent DavidBrown last spring, includes: anextended school year; business-school partnerships; early vow-tktnal education; classes gimpedby growth and Individual learningstyle Instead of by age; and acommunIty-oriented approach tolearning.

In a telephone call from PresidentBush during the kick-off, Gov.Gregg said, We recognize as aregion, and especially New Hamp-shire recognizes, that education andwell-educated kids and adults, quitehonestly, are absolutely critical forour abillty to be competitive In theworkl."

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U.S. Secretary of Labor LynnMartin pined South DakotaGovernor George Mickelson (R) InI:Mold City December 19 to helpSouth Dakota become the 30thAMERICA 2000 stale in the nation.With the launch of SOUTH DA-KOTA 2000, RAPID CITY 2000also kicked off, becoming the firstcommunity in the state to adopt thesix National Education Goals.

'South Dakota is leading the wayin school Improvement and Is tyingit to work and work opportunities,"Sec. Martin said NPubllo educationis a public responsibility.*

President Bush also telephonedGov. Mickelson during the kick-oft1 want to assure you that we aregoing to keep this out of Me shrillarena of partisan politics," Presi-dent Bush said. "Far more impor-tant than political credit or gain isthe success of reinventing andrevolutionizing education in thiscountry, This program offers yourcommunity a chance to pulltogether to help these kids learn."

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"Pete" Silas, chairman and CEO ofPhillips Petroleum and the current Chair-man of the Board of the U.S. Chamber ofCommerce, will represent the two hostorganizations.

Conference sessions will foals on thefour steps to become an AMERICA 2000Community: adopt the National Educa-tion Goals, develop a strategy to achievethe goals, create a report card to measureprogress, and plan for a New AmericanSchool.

"An educated work force and economicgrowth go hand-in-hand," Silas said. "Be-cause the students of today will comprisethe work force of tomorrow, the businesscommunity must help take the lead in en-suring quality education. Our local andstate chambers of commerce are preparedto accept the President's challenge to es-tablish AMERICA 2000 communities."

If your community is planning to orga-nize a steering committee to joinAMERICA 2000, please send informationabout your effort to the AMERICA 2000Field Office, U.S. Department of Educa-tion, Rm. 4141, 400 Maryland Ave., SW;Washington, DC 20202.

The National Education Goals In Brief...

1. All Children Ready for School

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As part of the town AMERICA2000 initiative, Adamsville (Tennes-see) elementary students recentlylaunched a petition drive to sign upeveryone in the community whoagreed to become AMERICA 2000citizens and adopt the NationalEducation Goals. Several dayslater, the students returned with4700 signatures more than theentire population of the town.Further investigation revealed that

in addition to signing up virtuallyevery Adamsville resident (andsome twice) the enthusiasticstudents signed up residents innearby counties, as well. EveryAdamsville business aso draftedletters agreeing to supportAMERICA 2000 and the six Na-tional Education Goals.

Copies of the community-widecommitment were sent to Tennes-see Senators Albert Gore (D) andJim Sasser (0) and to local mem-bers of the U.S. House of Repre-sentatives.

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Bush Calls SenateEducation Bill"Business As Usual"

President George Bush, this week,observed that S. 2, an education reformmeasure pending in the Senate with noAMERICA 2000 initiatives, is a bill"riveted in the past" The Presidentdiscussed the legislation during a breakfastsession of the AMERICA 2000 Confer-ence, jointly sponsored by the U.S.Chamber of Commerce and the U.S.Department of Education, January 14.

"AMERICA 2000 ...is spreading likeprairie fire," said the President "Ameri-cans across this nation are working tospark an [education] revolution," yet are"being offered business as usual" in theCongress.

The President noted that AMERICA2000 calls for legislation to create "a half -billion dollars to create break-the-mold,new American schools." school choice "toprovide middle- and low-income familiesthe same control over their children'seducation that wealthier people have" and

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Georgia Goy. Calls for Bipartisan ReformAccording to Georgia Governor Zell Miller (D). Americans must "put aside differ-ences of political parties, regions or sectors" and join in an education revolution.

Governor Miller was the kick-off speaker for the AMERICA 2000 Leadership Conference.joindy sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Department of Education.January 13-14.

"Our very existence as the world's only superpower is on the line," said Gov. Miller."That is why, despite my party affiliation. I deeply want the President to fulfill his goal ofbeing the Education President" Gov. Miller called the Education Summit "a challengingstart" and the National Education Goals "an excellent blueprint" to assure that the nation hasan educated work force. "We'll either move ahead to be a high wage, high skill, highgrowth economy or we will be left behind...[to] compete with the Third World countaie4that call for little but strong backs and low wages," he said.

The Governor observed that no child was ever educated in a governor's office nor in thefederal bureaucracy. "Children are educated in schools and communities." said Gov.Miller. and business people, in particular, must set their sights higher than the bottom line.since education is "the legacy we leave our sons and daughters."

According to the Governor, Georgia is moving ahead to meet the educational challengesof the 21st century. The Governor noted that the first meeting of GEORGIA 2000 last year.held in conjunction with the Georgia Education Congress. attracted more than a thousandpeople. He cited several community- and state-driven initiatives that dovetail the NationalEducation Goals. "It all starts with Education Goal #1 getting our kids off to a good startwith preschool education," he said. "Today, we're working on pilot projects for pre-kindergartners to make sure that our four-year olds know their colors, numbers and letters

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launched on January 8, with thehelp of Tennessee GovernorNed McWhorter (0), SteeringCommittee Chairman BenardBlasingame, and members ofthe local education and busi-ness community.AMERICA 2000, GettingStarted

During the AMERICA 2000Leadership Conference, theDepartment releasedAMERICA 2000 Communities:Getting Started, a booklet tohelp communities and localorganizations that are interestedin starting their own localAMERICA 2000 Initiatives.

The booklet examines howpeople throughout the UnitedStates are working to accept thePresidents bur part challengeto become AMERICA 2000Communities. It is designed tohelp communities focus onpriorities in developing commu-nity-wide strategies for reachingthe goals, designing reportcards to measure progress, andplanning for their own NewAmerican Schools. It alsoincludes examples of individualsand organizations who are'breaking the mold" In reformingeducation, community bycommunity.

Communities or organizationsinterested in the new publicationand other AMERICA 2000information should contact1-800-USA-LEARN.

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regulatory flexibility, for "more discretionin sweeping away burdensome regulations." S. 2, in its current version,excludes the three aspects of theAMERICA 2000 reform, although threeamendments would include them.

A House bill (RR. 3320) takes theform of a block grant to the states foreducation reform. According to thePresident, the House bill "shows somepromise."

"[The House has taken some importantsteps towards the American AchievementTests," said President Bush.

"Not all of it depends, thank heavens.on federal funding," the President told theChamber conferees. "You're where theaction is, right at the community level."

The Senate is expected to consider S. 2the week of January 20. H.R. 3320 isexpected to be considered by the House inlate February.

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that they develop communication and social skills and go through the front door ofkindergarten ready to learn."

Regarding Goal #2 reducing the dropout rate the Governor cited a Taylor County(Georgia) community-driven initiative, which involves parents, ministers, business leadersand others, as having achieved dramatic results. "Three years ago, in that small ruralcounty, they had 48 dropouts; last year they had six; and their goal is to have none," saidGov. Miller. "I think they're going to make it, because everyone in the community caresenough about kids to spend time supporting them."

The Governor lauded the conferees, who represented more than one hundred localChambers of Commerce throughout the country, as examples of community commitment"in a genuine revolution of the mind," which will ensure educational excellence forgenerations to come.

In addition to the Governor, the two-day, Washington, D.C., conference, attended byabout 300 local Chamber representatives, featured remarks by President George Bush,Maine Education Superintendent Eve Bither, Education Department and U.S. Chamberofficials and AMERICA 2000 con ,.'aunty organizers from across the country.

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Three Cities, Three Approaches to Ed ReformDETROIT 2000, METRO RICHMOND 2000 and SAN ANTONIO 2000 used different approaches in their education reformefforts which

led to AMERICA 2000 initiatives to adopt the National Education Goals. Representatives from each community spokeof their experiencesrecently during a discussion centering on "Taking the First Step: Are the National Education Goals your Goals?" Follosing are excerptsfrom the discussion which included as moderator Ed Donley, chairman of the U.S. Chamber's Center for Workforce Preparation andQuality Education and chair of LEHIGH VALLEY 2000.

DETROIT 2000:Let Parents ChooseLawrence Patrick, president of theDetroit Board of Education...gy we can [adopt the National Goals] inDetroit, you can do it..in your town....Wehad a terrible situation, not unlike thesituations that exist in all major cities....

The first thing that we did was...[make]certain that everybody understood reallyhow bad it was....We wouldn't let folkssuggest .even for one moment that

"We wouldn't let folkssuggest even for onemoment that the prob-lem wasn't that bad, that itwas temporary ...or to justadd a little more moneywould fix it."

the problem wasn't that bad, that it wastemporary...or to just add a little moremoney would fix it. We were not educat-ing our children...our public school systemwas not working.

...[T]he second thing that we did was wewent to every segment of the communityonce again and asked whether they wouldmake a commitment that educating ourchildren would be the number one priorityin our town...[with the message]: "We'regoing to continue to have problems ofunemployment, drug abuse, all of theproblems, unless and until we educate ourchildren."

...We then said, "Okay. Now we have tohave some goals."...Decision-makingwould have to be moved to the localschool....We'd have to rely on the good

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METRO RICHMOND 2000:Get Your Story OutJeannie Batiks, chairperson forTroginia Literacy Foundation... As a result of [court-ordered busing]there is still among some people...a residueof suspicion [in the Richmond area]...largenumbers of people [had] left the publicschool system....METRO RICHMOND2000 represents a unique opportunitybecause it is a time really of continualhealing ....[A]mong the five superinten-dents who represent these jurisdictions,there is complete and total cooperation allthe time....They meet frequently, but thepublic doesn't necessarily know that, andsome of the old timers still are a littlesusp:cious. "You're going to send mychildren across lines to another school? Isthat what METRO RICHMOND 2000 isall about?" So you have to get your storyout The story of AMERICA 2000, ofcourse, is a great story, but it doesn't matter

"The story ofAMERICA2000, of course, is a greatstory, but it doesn't matterhow great it is ff no oneknows how great it is. Thatbasically is the reason forhaving a kickoff in the firstplace...?

how great it is if no one knows how great itis. That basically is the reason for having akickoff in the first place....

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SAN ANTCWIO 2000:Build on What You've GotJoseph 'Crier, president of the GreaterSan Antonio Chamber of Corrunerce...I'm reminded of the song that ArethaFranklin sang...called "Reach Out." ...[If]you're considering [AMERICA 2000] foryour community...remind yourself everyday that you've got to reach out..further...tobring the people in your communitytogether.

"...remind yourself every-day that you've got toreach out...further...tobring the people in yourcommunity together."

Our Chamber hosted a communityretreat on the topic of "What is the ProperRole of Business in Support of PublicEducation?"...Out of that session, wedecided...we needed a community-wideumbrella organization that would try to setgoals with regard to literacy and dropouts;[would] deal with the myriad of non-profitorganizations in our community...withregard to [who gets] funding for education;and [would] try to have an independententity that would provide for accountabil-ity.

Over the next two years, we went to anumber of entities to try to forge apartnership...there was a lot ofresistance...with people saying, "Why dowe need to do this? We're engaged inprograms....Let's not rock the boat...." Thebusiness community wasn't satisfied...aswe talked to parents, it was clear...theyweren't...So we decided to try to findsome partners who would help us.

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principles of mat forces to make certainthat we.would have quality education inDetroiti..Once you have autonomy at theindividtial schools, you're going to havediversity.- your get competition, it'sgoing to *lye the quility up at everysingle schapi.... [P]arpts in Detroit..cameto believe diet they have an absolute rightto choose...and that really moved thelocomotive down the tack.

From...1988 and to OA present..we setmore specific goals...the percentage ofstudents that ivould graduate from highschool...[no] drugs and wilpons in ourclasses, and our studenti would exceed thenational average on test scores....

Every segment of the community stayedat the table...Sp when therfavas anopportunity to participate AMERICA

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communities throughout this nationto focus on accomplishing the same goals,and it means that I'll be able to shareproblems that I might encounter as wellas innovative solutions, and ru be able to 1'..`;listen to your ideas....[I]t's not going tomatter if we win in Detroit, if you loseIowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Florida,Tennessee. If we don't all win together asa nation, then we're all going to lose.

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Then as you plan your kickoff youneed a spokesperson....No matter howgreat your idea is, the press does not existto write good things about your commu-nity. The press exists to try to find i'aecenflict....Be prepared before your kickoffwith answers to the tough questions.Choice....Budget woes....Don't just go inthere with a good feeling that because whatyou're doing is great and wonderful,everybody else is going to see it that way.They're not...Have media on your side....

[After the kickoff]...you think the pressis going to forget you? No. They're goingto come back in a few weeks or monthsand say, "Okay. You had this big excitingannouncement, now itlittat are you going todo?" Don't let thcm own....Have anotheroccasionthree ter,sit months after yourannouncementAll you need is a lot ofenthusiasm and skin.Editor's Note: On,' apiary 22, threemonths after the 4. 4ff; METRO RICH-MOM) 2000 held a Public ceremonyduring which key dommunity, business;goverrunent and education leaders signeda resolution to make sure "we can seepositive [education] change by the year2000"

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We went, in our case, to the City of SanAntonio, to the County of Bexar, and to theUniversity of Texas at San Antonio...andsaid, "If you will commit to put $25,000 ayear into a pot for three years, we will dolikewise, and with that $100,000 a year forthree years, we will fund and staff an

"We are now engaged inreaching out even furthec..toform a community-wideadvisory board..."

operation independent of this Chamber thatwill attempt to bring this umbrella groupinto realization."

...[A]bout the time that happened,President Bush came out and announcedhis National Goals for Education. We metwith our partners and said, "Boy, is this agreat opportunity." ...We called upWashington and said, "We're with you.

That's what brought us to where we aretoday...a program that is funded, that hashired an executive director, that operatesindependently of our Chamber and wethought that was very important becausewe find that there are some communitygroups, neighborhood organizations thatare suspicious of Chambers of Commerce...[W]e got the University of Texas toagree to contract out the staffing for ourprogram.

We are now engaged in reaching outeven furtherto form a community-wideadvisory board...that will help set policyfor this group. We think if we willcontinue to reach out lace that, we canguarantee that the support for this programwill continue to be community-wide.

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...In Charlotte, North Carolina...I'mbeing allowed to pursue a dream....I firmlybelieve that American public schools canmeet the needs of all of America'schildren.... Charlotte is a community thatbelieves in that dream, too.

We're engaging in a process in Charlotteto develop...one of the most excitingschool systems in the United States, asystem that hopefully can show that anAmerican school system a total systemcan be converted in a relatively shortperiod of time....Our task is to create abreak-the-mold system....

Charlotte-Mecklenburg, a county schoolsystem. is just like any other urban schoolsystem in America. We've got the sameproblems with under-performance on thepart of our students; a large gap betweenblack and white youngsters....We've got anunacceptable drop-out rate. We havediscipline problems. Everything thateverybody else has we have.

Our challenge is to correct that and tocorrect it quickly....The first thing that wedid was try to identify what our problemswere....We began by having a series of

town meetings. We broke into regionswithin the county, highly publicized themeetings. invited citizens to come out, andat each of those six town meetings, we had400 to 600 people in attendance, telling uswhat they thought about the school system,what they considered our problems tcWe took very careful notes so that wecould address those concerns as we movedforward. We surveyed our staff to find outwhat the barriers were to teaching withinour schools and in our individual class-rooms.

I conduct a monthly radio talkshow...and a quarterly television talk showso people can also call in and questionwhat's happening in the sch)ol system. butto also let us know what their cona ins areabout the school system.

We've gone to our business communityto find out what the problems are with thegraduates who are leaving our schools.coming into the workplace. We're lookingat the data coming back from our collegesand universities to see how well ourstudents are performing when they go on tohigher education. We carefully examinedall of the outcome data in our schoolsystem, and then made that data clearlyvisible for the entire community....

Once we went through the process ofidentifying the problem, we then began theprocess of trying to correct it...We startedby getting our Board of Education to go offon a three- to four-day retreat, when weestablished a vision for the school system.and that vision was to develop a worldclass school system that would incorporatethe six National Goals. We said that wedidn't want to be competitive withsuburban America; we wanted to becompetitive with Bonn, Osaka. Moscow.and every other corner of this world....

Amended S. 2 PassesBy a 92-6 vote, the Senate Tuesday

passed S.2, which in its final formincluded three AMERICA 2000-relatedamendments:1. Flexibility. Three hundred school

districts in six states may petition theEducation Secretary for waiver offederal rules governing elementaryand secondary education programswhen there is a strong educationalpurpose supporting the waiver.

2. New American Schools. In each ofthe next three years, a state may useup to 25 percent of its share of $850million in newly authorized federalfunds for New American Schools.

3. World Clow Standards/AcademicAcideveubent Testa. Reconstitutesthe National Education Goals Paneland creates the National EducationStandards and Assessments Councilto ensure the development of avoluntary national system ofassessments tied to world classstandards in the five core subjects.

The bill did not include the Hatchamendment, creating six demonstrationprojects for low-income private schoolchoice.

'These are real steps forward," saidSecretary Lamar Alexander. "Still thesesteps do not go far enough, fast enough,and the President will keep fighting formore radical change in the Americaneducation system."

H.R. 3320, which calls for a limitedversion of choice is expected to be takenup by the full House in late February.

Through our Chamber of Commerce. weformed a partnership, and we began todevelop planning needs to address thevarious goals that we set for our schoolsystem....[W]e went to the businesscommunity and we established an Effi-ciency Study Team, and we've been outtaking a look at every area of our operationto see if our dollars are being spent wisely.

We've completed the first phase of thatefficiency study, and I [recently] an-nounced our first administrative restructur-ing after six months in the position. I

eliminated 49 positions from my adminis-trative staff and sent $2 wig ion back to thefront lines of our schools. back into ourclassrooms. By eliminating the 49positions. I also freed up a building, whichthen set up an offset of SS million toconstruct a new elementary school. so theprocess brought $10 million in revenueback immediately....

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Those are the kinds of things we'redoing with the expertise from our businesscommunity to establish the foundation ofconfidence....Once we set tliz mission andtook a look, and identified all of thoseproblems, we then brought all 10,000 ofour employees together....We didn't talk tojust our teachers, we talked to our janitors,bus drivers, principals, to every singleperson that impacted the daily lives of thechildrenso that they would feel part ofthat team as we move forward....

Based on the vision, we set our specificgoals, and then we went to each of ourschools and set very specific goals forevery one of our schools. We collected allof the baseline data and published in thenewspaper exactly where every school wasrelative to that baseline data, and then wesad, this is where we expect them to benext year....

In addition to that, we then went to ourcounty commissioners, politicians, civicleaders...and we said, let's make this evenmore exciting. Let's put a pot of moneyout there, and for every school that meetsthose goals, let's give them a reward....

So what we have now is a pool ofdollars that our county commission hasgiven us. Every school that meets the

goals, every employee in the schoolteacher, secretary, janitor, principal, busdriver, cafeteria worker...will be entitled toa bonus at the end of the year. Theprofessional staff members will get$1,000, and the non-professional staffmembers will get $500....In fact, I'd like tosec us move in the direction that in thefuture all of our salary increases are tied toperformance. If you get the job done, youget a good healthy raise; if you don't, youstay right where you were in the past...

With the help of foundations, we havebrought together 10 of the most excitingeducators in America to sit down anddefine for us, "What is the world classschool system?" ...We are going throughthe process now of defining just exactlywhat is a world class graduate.... Once wecome up with that definition, then back allthe way down to pm-school years, todetermine what has to happen every stepto ensure that ' class status when ayoungster leaves our school system. Notonly do we want to know what we have todo in terms of instructional standards, butwhat do we have to do organizationally tochange what we now call "school" to beable to meet the kinds of standards thatwe're setting for every one of thosechildren....[Our group of national experts]is working with us to help us define what

Bush Talks AMERICA 2000During the ,State of the Union Address. January 28. President Bush said

that AMERICA 2000 will help the nation be the world s leader ineducation [and] revolutionize America's schools My plan will give parentsmore choice. give teachers more flexibility and help communities create newAmerican schools

"Thirty states across the nation have established AMERICA 2000 pro-grams Hundreds of cities and towns have joined in." he said. "NowCongress must join this great movement."

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We're talking about expanding schoolsbeyond the traditional school. We don'tsee the walls of our structures limiting usany longer. We don't see a K-12 structurelimiting us any longer....

We see the school day lengthening wesee the school year lengthening....We'realso saying that if we're going to berealistic, we've got to get our communityto totally buy-in, as they are, and under-stand that every problem in society can't besolved with the school systemsomehowwe [must] bring all of our agenciestogether to begin to join services as weaddress the issues that are facing thechildren of society today.

When we complete this process, ourChamber of Commerce, in April or May,will then be sponsoring an EducationSummit...We will then bring the expertsinm our convention center, and everybodyin Charlotte and Mecklenburg Countieswill be invited to come to the EducationSummit and respond to that definition of aworld class school system.

At the end of that process, we thenexpect to have a definition of where we'regoing to be in the year 2000...a step-by-step process to get us to that point withspecific benchmarks so that we can reportback to the community....

My response to the communityIf wemiss the benchmark, then fire me, becauseI'm not doing my job....But whatever youdo, don't compromise the standards....[W]emust set high standards, and we must sethigh expectations of all of our children.We can do it There's absolutely no reasonwhy every school in America can't be asuccessful school.

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...When I thkak about the charges thatare necessary, (1 think about) John, whowanted to take physics from me. TheMY time that fit into his schedule waswhen Haugh: an honors dass. Now,An was in a non-collegeprogram...and his guidance counselorshad fears about taw he would be ableto per in an honors physics class.

When John came to class, we foundcut that he had never had even basicprincicies in algebra, [never} beenasked to write a Pabj report He dkiftknow bigonomeay. I taught him a Idealgebra and trigonometry on Me sideand found out that he had enormouspotential, that numbers came very ca-ll....

He quickly became the best akperi-menter in that dass...Vemy soon he wasthe most desired lab partner in heclass....He had an enormous sense ofspace, spatial relationstiOs. And hewalked through the class describing tothe rest of the class the propagation ofthe electromagnetic specbum. Now thisis not the sort al thirg Mat normal highschool students get excited about...put]John did N so that he peers and hisclassmates became excited about thatHe finished the course with good speedwith a satefactory grade. Join had allthe rnaldngs to become an engineer, orat least a good technician

Now this is a story that should hate ahappy ending, butt docent Five yearsago I was in a sancfitio'i strop in Port-land, and there he was making subma-tine sandwiches We reminisced a bitabout his time h our physics class, andhe said: It was the only time / evertalked to the kids in that class nevereven knew them in this high school..."

'What happened John? I said.Weil, my dad died and my moth 3rdidnt know where to go for help," hesaid. Therefore I never went on to col-lege and so now I am making sand-wiches."

_John is the n3eson that things haveto change. Where was I, as his physicsteacher, when he became a senior?Why did I not make sire That John hada better schedule? W77018 was his gdol-at109 counselor in assuring that he tooka more champing curriculum? MeteASS the system...to support him and tomake sure that he today had one of theJobs that certainty this country has agreat demand for?

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Universities Set Sights on theNational Education Goals...

Colleges and universities across the country are start* to Ix* lsard at their role in educa-tion reforns at the liana:wry/secondary school Following are ways that sevend universi-ties are joining with dwir communities in Ite4oing to achieve the National Education Goals.

University of New Hampshire-Durham.The university is helping the town of Derry implement its "21st Century Learning Com-

munity" project a comprehensive plan to transform the local schools. The university isdesigning special courses to retrain Deny teachers in new teaching methods, including newstrategies for teaching disabled and at-risk kids. The university's faculty has announced itscommitment to the program, which will involve sessions in the schools and on the Durhamcampus.

The University of WisconsinStevens Point.The university has joined forces with its local school district to lead a community cru-

sade toward the National Education Goals. Last summer, Chancellor Keith Sanders andDwight Stevens, the local school district administrator, developed an action plan enlistingthe talents and efforts of university faculty and staff, school board members, teachers, andother community representatives. The collaboration has produced a local strategy toachieve the goals, called, "Every Child, My Child." It is currently under review by thegovernor's office and the state department of education.

Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.Under President William M. Chace, the university is giving students academic credit in

courses that train them in academic disciplines but also give themexperience as literacytutors. Participating Wesleyan students act as tutors in Middletown area elementary,middle, and high schools where there are high concentrations of disadvantaged kids.

University of Texas at El Paso.President Diana Natalicio has been a key player in EL PASO 2000, her community's

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On Januwy 20, U.S. AssistantSeastary of Fart Betsy Brandjoined U.S. Representslive dim Otn (c4,-VA) and elvation, business and ckichomers in Stanton, Vivrati& Whyitkoficf STAUNTON WOO. The lOck-off event took *coat Robot' E Leeffgh School

'Wets bring that AMERCA 2000provides an meant way of gellingSlauntorYs business andCOMMIS)*people intolved it 09 educationalprocess,* said Kay Watkins, wirrchairs STAUNTON 2000. in the pastseveral montha w e have marked hardto asses* Staunton* needs and btonnuiste goals far the tug's WeaJon devskpecla frameworks°&thew/those gods,'

Staunton is the sexed Vigintacommunity*, kern:hen AMERICA2000 effort. METRO RICHMOND wasbunched last October..AKE WORTH 2000 andGLADES 2000

Over SOO people attended thekick-off of LAKE WORTH 2000 andGLADES 2000 (Florida) at LakeWorth High School, February 5,School superkttendent MonicaUhlhont school board chairmanMem Orshaltt other communityand education leaders, teachers andstudents joined U.S. Deputy Seas-WV of Education David Kearns forthe event.

While at Lake Worth High School,Deputy Secretary Kearns visftsd twomagnet prograrneen AemspaceScience JROTC program, and aprogram emphasizing medicine andallied health professions.

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school reform initiative. "UM," which draws more than 80 percent of its student bodyfrom El Paso County, already has a dose and collegial relationship with the local schools.In one example of their renewed collaboration, university faculty members work with theschools to help strengthen academic programs and better prepare students for college-levelwork.

Howard University.Located in Washington, D.C. the university is helping local high school students to meet

Goal Four of the National Education Goals, which calls for American students to be first inthe world in science and math achievement by the year 2000. This summer, as part of theUpward Bound program, Howard University will offer an intensive six-week program ofmath and science for high school students from the region.

New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.Dr. Tom Gale, Dean Emeritus of the university's college of arts and sciences was con-

cerned that his city's schools were failing to give students the education they need. Dr.Gale joined forces with Mayor Tommy Tomlin and School Board President Patsy Duranand assembled a LAS CRUCES 2000 steering committee of more than 92 people. Theyadopted the six National Education Goals, and are putting together six teams one foreach goal to decide how to develop a community strategy.

California State University, Sacramento.President Donald R. Guth is working in partnership with two local school districts and

community service agencies to help at-risk students in West Sacramento. The ttdoring,counselling, and staff training provided by the project is intended to boost the academic per-formance of the students and to improve their chances for success after high schooL

Community College of Rhode Island.President Ed Liston's award-winning "tech prep" program is helping the state reach Na-

tional Education Goal Number Five, which calls for Americans to be literate and to possessskills necessary to compete in a world economy. The college has helped more than 20Rhode Island high schools put in place a series of special courses in applied science, mathand communications. When students arrive at his college, Liston says, they are far betterprepared and more focused on a career than kids who come from vocational or general edu-cation tracks.

Vanderbilt University.Under Chancellor Joe Wyatt, researchers have come up with an innovative way to help

students bridge the gap between school learning and learning in the "real world." Theresearch team has produced a series of interactive video productions, 'The Adventures ofJasper Woodbury," which uses stories to present students with complicated, real-lifemathematical problems in a form that is much more accessible than the traditional textbookword problem. It is currently being used by a number of states.

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Secretory of Educatkin LamarAlexander joined Alois GOMMat177Edgy pi for the kickoff of ILLINOtS2000, the stalet OW to achieve theNational &l cation Goole, on Foliarany 11.

it takes more than a fetcher todayto educate a dill Students need theerrounsgement of their psentA andthey need the support of their canny-

en'Ogee d txtoiness isadera" Gov.Edgar said.

Governor Edgar, who has waked* W a y w i t h t h e State &w an ofEducation in charting the ILLINOIS2000 Waft 91)Iyounced a statewide=mgt.& That indudos chisfaxecu-the oaken; al leading lindo ccrpda-tiono, unix teal" ecticators,staiewkie ofals and legIskotkeleaders.

*lots 14,332 other states, theDistrict of Columbia American Sir1108and more then XXXI corionunides thathave committed to vatic tomtitretrieving the Net akimbo')Goats by adoOng the AMERICA2000 serodegy.

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New England Communities MoveToward the National Education Goals

Fran Maine to Rhode Island, many New Englanders are starting to look hard ateducation reform in their communities and are organizing locally-driven efforts to achievethe National Education Goals.

The aunmiatities featured this week have all started the four-part process to becomeAMERICA 2000 Comnuatities. Similar activities are going on thnuighou t New England,as well as other cortutsunities throughout the country. From time to time, the AMERICA2000 Newsletter will feature other regions and highlight their progress toward theNational Education Goals.LEXINGTON 2r 30 (Massachusetts)

To assure school readiness, National Education Goal One, Lexington leaders believethere must be a formal link between preschool and kindergarten, and the town is gatheringdata about students in local preschools to assist in placements. To address concerns aboutmeeting world class standards, the town has launched a rese,ardh effort to learn more aboutother countries' teaching methodologies. A new elementary math program is now in placeand the town's elementary and middle school science curricula have been revamped. [For

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AMERICA 2000 AND SCHOOL FINANCINGDuring a recent AMERICA 2000

conference in Washington, D.C., aquestion was raised about the impact oftight budgets and AMERICA 2000.Following is how panelists responded:

Cathie Zarlingo, parent and smallbusiness owner (GRAND JUNCTION2000) You don't want to drain the fundsof your school districts, and as, in the Stateof Colorado, we are facing extreme budgetcuts with education.... [Yet] there arethings that have to be done....

We strongly believe that our educationbudget has to be for working with the kids,providing materials for them, [and]providing teacher's salaries. We[GRAND JUNCTION 2000 organizers]are in the process of filing papers to formwhat we call a 51 Foundation ourdistrict number is 51. People in ourcommunity will be able to be contribute amere $51 to that foundation and become afounding member, and that money will beused for the paperwork; for teachers' sub-pay if they are on a committee and need tomeet.

There are ways to do that, and you haveto really look at businesses and how they

fund some of their extra businessactivities...10 it's possible, even in the greatbudget cuts that we're all facing.

Bruno Minn, acting assistant secre-tary for policy and planning, U.S.Department of Education: [We need tolook at]...whether the resources [e.g.,money] that we're putting into the systemare going to the sorts of things that theyshould go to then, related to that,whether there can't be a reallocation ofresources within the system to support thosepriorities that we think are important That'sone way into that question. Another way isto say..sure, there are some things that areworth more money. And probably the wayinto that question is not so much to ask for[the money] up front but to begin to changethe system, and in the process of changingthe system, create a different kind of outputthat attracts people. There is a real truism tothe phrase, "Quality attracts money."

John T. Kauffman, chairman andCEO, Pennsylvania Power and lightCompany (LEHIGH VALLEY 2000)....In the Lehigh Valley, we really have notsolicited funds. [Our] effort has been doneon a totally voluntary basis of people's time

and effort, and we've had some 350 or400 people in the community involved

The few dollars that we've had to goout and solicit have been for a fewthings like breakfasts and things likethat, but we aren't really getting moneyto do it It's volunteer tine.

I feel good about doing it that way,because I think too often groups decide,"Well, let's go get the money," and thendecide how are we going to spend themoney, rather than getting at theobjectives of the effort

C.R. (Bob) Bell, president, GreaterOmaha Chamber of Commerce(OMAHA 2000): I do not believe that[tight] funding has had any impact on usin Omaha, in regards to [organizing]AMERICA 2000 I think that resources

not all money [can result] asbusiness gets involved, as the federalgovernment gets involved, as the localgovernment gets involved, and so forth.

But I do not see that a great impactwill result by just stimulating moneyinto the educational system...[to achieve]the AMERICA 2000 goals.

NEWS IN BRIEF, continuedFirst Lady Barbara BushVieltsMISSISSIPPI 2000 And WINONA2000

First Lady Barbara Bash andDeputy U.S. Secretary of Ed6cationDavid Kearns Joined Goy.: KklfrFordice (R) 10041 OdUC00".community Feeders and a &owl ofabout 700, In the kk;k-off of MIS-SISSIPPI MOO and WINONA 2000on February 10.

The Winona School District isreportedly ranked sunken thepoorest 10 percent ot schooldistricts in the state,:.We'Ve.got toset our sights high If wet going togat erwwhere,* saticlGov.Fordice.While In Winona, Mrs. Bush read tosame fourth garde class andhelped students *the computer-based glitz have coma to cheerAfIssissippl,' said Mrs.:Bush,adabg that WINONA 2000 is"sailing an example for the state ofMississippi and the entire country."Miss America Wads Alebeine

As pert Oa mks* bur promotingAMERICA 2000 and educationreform, Carolp SuzanneSapp,Miss America 1992, visited Bir-mingham, Alebarna, for the kickoffof SHELBY COUNIY 2000 onFebruary 7.

She visited Cahaba HeightsElementary School, whlOh f9 one of&tree Jefferson County schools thathave been named finalists In theU.S. Department of Education'sBlue Ribbon Schools program.

We can solve these problems Ifwe brim them home rather thanexpect the federalgQVIN771nant tosolve them, Miss SaPP said

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In 1991, three area organizations the Private Industry Council, Clamber of Com-merce and the Fall River Area Planning Task For formed a coalition and held a majoreducation conference last June. Attended by more than 200 townspeople, the group took abroad look at reforming the public school system. Nine resulting subcommittees are nowexploring reform issues including curriculum, parental and community involvement, socialand health services, school management and accountability, adult literacy and lifelonglearning, early childhood development, teacher preparation and school assets. [For moreinformation, contact John R. Correiro, Superintendent Fall River Public Schools; 417Rock Stiee4 Fall River, MA 02720]DERRY 2000 (New Hampshire)

After conducting a local survey on education, the suburban community realized that itsstudents were not performing well and decided to capitalize on local parent and oxumu-nity support to completely reform its schools. One aspect of the "Deny Plan" is optionalyear-round schooling which operates on a 45/15 day cycle and utilizes a universitysponsored math/science/technology lab school The plan revolves around len conceptswithin the framework of three areas facility, management, curriculum. [For moreinformation, contact David Brown, Superintendent Derry Cooperative School District;18 South Main Street Deny, NH 03038]MANCHESTER 2000 (New Hampshire)

After doing a local survey on education needs for the 21st century, the city developedeight education goals which parallel the six National Education Goals. Active in the U.S.Department of Labor's school-to-work transition programs, the town intends to emphasizeoccupational awareness, lifelong learning, communications skills and appreciation of thearts in its reform strategy. [For more information, contact Eugene Ross, SuperintendentManchester Public Schools; 196 Bridge Street; Manchester, NH 03104]WARWICK 2000 (Rhode Island)

The core of Warwick's program is Goal Three, proficiency in the core subjects, andGoal Five, adult literacy and workforce competitiveness. One of the major thrtnts of thetown's reform efforts centers around developing a high performance school/business/community partnership. [For more information, contact Henry Tarlian, Superintendent34 Warwick Lake Avenue; Warwick, RI 02889]FREEPORT 2000 (Maine)

According to Freeport community leaders, reform efforts will emphasize technology andits uses in developing both communication and problem solving skills. The town alsoplans to promote family literacy as a necessary component in helping with homeworkassignments and is also looking into the possibility of a middle school apprentice programwith the business community. [For more information, contact Robert L Lyman, Superin-tendent Freeport Public Schools; 30 Main Street Freeport, ME 04032]

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Washington became the 34thstate to launch anAMERICA 2000inNative when Governor BoothGardner announced WASH-INGTON 2000 onFebruaty 29.The govern° r said that he andFrank Shront. chief executiveofficer of The Booing Co., willserve as the honorary co -chairmen of the Westin glo» stateeffort Lt. GM sIoel Pritchard (R)will serve as the ecoculiwe chair-manFRESNO 2000 Launched'

On February 18,. Fresno be-came the first _mown's* inCalifornia tolaunch ar.1,MERICA2000 Infllstivewiththeldcfroff otFRESNO COUNTY2000.: Seers-tary Lamar AkixanderjOinediFresno County SchoOlDietrictofficials, Mayor OM Humphreyand other lx.41.*93.and coMmu-nitykaaderaatilakietasEleMeti-.tery$r*oct ....... ,:-;

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Houston Mayor Bob Lanier (D)and other Houston. chic, Wellnessand education leaders on Much 3for the kickoff of GREATERHOUSTON 2000.

The announcement took placeat a luncheon at the Forum Cllibof Houston. Eerier bt the day,Sec. Alexander joined leaders ofmore than a doZon COlifIWUNfTY2000 efforts in the Houston areafora NASAPattners in 'Space/AMERICA 2000 rally. Communi-ties represented were: the Wood-lands, Runyan, Tomball, Katy,Santa Fe, Alvin, Goose Creek,North Foras4 Hollibrook, Sunbelt-Ellington Chamber of COMMori3,La Potts, Texas Cay, Dickenson,and La Marque.

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Development Corporation's (NASDC) request for proposals (RFP) to create new, break-the-mold schools. Deadline for submissions was February 14.

As many as 30 of the competing teams are expected to receive one-year design contractsfor up to $3 million from NASDC, a private, non-profit organization, created hi July1991,to underwrite designs for schools that will reach the National Education Goals and worldclass standards in the five core subjects.

"Before we have given away one single penny," said NASDC Chairman Thomas Kean,

"we have sparked an unprecedented collaborative process, all across the tuition, on the part

of American education's brightest people."The teams which submitted proposals generally were collaborations of partners from

buairess and industry, K-12 education, state and local govanments, high technologyconcerns, foundations and think tanks. Included were:

240 school systems and school boards;A 226 business partners, representing both major corporations, regional and small

businesses;A 140 colleges and universities;A 136 think tanks, associations or foundations.

By state, California groups submitted the most proposals (93), followed by New York

(48), New Jersey (33) and Texas (30).Following the first year design work, about half of the selected teamswill then be chosen

for two-year contracts to teat their ideas in real school settings. In the final phase ofNASDC's program, design team members will provide assistance tocommunities whowant to adapt the design and put them in place hi their own schools, resulting in tens ofthousands of New American Schools across the country.

"We have had many promising reform efforts in this country over the last 15 years,"Kean said, "but no one has ever mounted a design tam and dissemination approach this

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ences last fall to seek input in forming therequest for proposal for the design teams.More than 2,000 people attended. Theresulting REP sought proposals oncurriculum, world class standards, teachertraining, student motivation, parental andcommunity involvement, the regulatoryenvironment of the school, the school's orsystem's relationships to other systems,and the restructuring of the school'sorganization, finances and administration.

In making the announcement, Kean saidthat NASDC will begin evaluating theproposals later this month. Final selection,said Kean, will be based on the likelihoodthat the design team ideas will helpstudents reach world class standardsand on the perceived potential for wide-spread application and replication.

According to Gov. Kean, the $200million that NASDC plans to haveavailable for design and dissemination willfund only a fraction of the proposalsreceived. "That will leave many strongdesign team bids unfimded," he said. "Butmany teams have L.:.,cated that they areresolute hi finding other funding for theirideas if they are not successful withNASDC." Kean said that NASDCofficials are also exploring ways to workwith ibe most promising of those teamsthat the corporation is not able to fundto help them identify and secure theresources to continue their work.

NASDC's selection process will becompleted and funding for design teamswill be announced by May 31, 1992.

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During a recent AMERICA 2000 con-ference in Washington, D.C., a questionwas raised about how communitieswere dealing with the school choiceissue.Jeannie Sallies, Chairperson for Vir-ginia Literacy Foundation (METRORICHMOND 2000):

We said, 'Choice is on the table, justlike everything else." We turd the super-intendents that it was going to be...andwe had conferences with them...theirresponse..., We believe in tremendousfiexibilily and choke. We'd like to offerchoice to our students, too. There aredifferent degrees of choice." ...To ignoreit or to say you're 100 percent for it, IMink are extremes that are probablygoing to get you in trouble, because itneeds to be discussed and dissected,ac:cordance to your community's needs.Joe Krier; president, Greater SanAntonio Chamber of Commerce(SAN ANTONIO 2000):

Every community is unique.... We'regoing to push choice forward in ourcommunity, but if it becomes an insur-mountable hurdle, we're not gang to letthat stop what we're doing. We'll justput it aside, move onto other things,come back to it...You carrot let thepublic education comrnwity run thisprogram. You've got to ask them in,and you've got k keep them informed,but..1'm saying reach out.. to theparents...empioyers or employees...neighborhood activists_ fEjven thoughwe've got good, well - intentioned, hard-working people in pklic education, youand I know we're not getting...results...itis going k be hard, sweaty, nasty, con-frontational work before its all over....It'snot really fair b judge the success ofthis program tntil we look back in aboutfive years and say, 'Have we reallymade dramatic difference?" So be pre-pared. You're going to have to picksane fights....Rita Mon iz, Professor of Political Sci-ence and Women's Studies, Univer-sity of Massachusetts-Dartmouth(FALL RIVER 2000):

I'd like to share some information interms of a resource for choice. FallRiver, Massachusetts, was the first cityin the United States to desegregatevoluntarily on the basis of English as afirst language.

In that desegregation plan, it includedmagnet schools and choice, and we areon our fifth year of an rnplementedchoice program.... The name of the per-son you should write to for informationis dm Wallace, at 417 Rook Skeet, FallRiver, Massachusetts 02720....lt mayhelp you devise some strategies tipfront as you move through the choiceissue in your community.

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In discussing AMERICA 2000, President Bush frequently refers to the need "to provide

middle and low income families the same control overchoice of schools that wealthier

people already have." The President's FY93 budget request includes a half billion dollars

in grants to help states and communities create "opportunity scholarships," a G.I. Bill for

Children federal dollars matching state or local dollars to provide scholarships of up to

$1,000 that would support the education of middle and law income students at any lawfully

operating school .More states are giving parents more options. School choice is being considered by

many states and communities across the country as a local tool for major educationreform. According to the Center for Choice in Education (U.S. Department of Education),

13 states have enacted choice laws (includingpublic school choice, vouchers, etc.), to date.

Following are excerpts from discussions about choice during several recent AMERICA

2000 Daily Conference Calls [Call (202) 736-2300, 11:55 am, EDT weekdays).

Choice Helps Build OwnershipDeborah McGriff, Superintendent,

Detroit Public Schools. When she took thejob as superintendent in July, Dr. McGriffsaid that her number one priority was toexpand educational choice for Detroit'sparents and students.

...When I arrived in July we had approxi-mately 30 city-wide choice programs...andI've given people an opportunity to submitproposals to us for additional choice schools.[Recently] we submitted to the Board ofEducation 45 new additional proposals forchoice schools. We're looking forward toproviding to parents as many of those optionsas possible, beginning in September. '92.

We don't see choice as a panacea, butwe think when you combine choice with aschool that has a specific theme andeducational philosophy, that helps to build

ownership. When you combine that withempowerment the ability of a commit-tee of educators, parents and communityleaders to come together to solve problems

then you're going to have excitingstudent achievement.

Choice must be given not only toparents and students, but also to teachersand other educators. You must matcheducational philosophy and skills with theprograms that you are going to deliver in

school buildings....Choice Means Empowerment

Ellen Sauerbrey, Maryland HorseMinority Leader. Del. Sauerbrey hasintroduced two school choice bills in theMaryland legislature one for low-income students, the other to relieveovercrowding.

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ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL:

In total, more than 36 states arc currently engaged in some type of

activity relating to public or private school choice e.g., pending legisla-

tion, task force recommendations promoting choice, etc.

At least 20 states are considering specific legislative measures onpublic/private school choice, and several other states will introduce choice

measures when their legislative sessions begin.At least 10 states have acted on, or are considering proposals, to

permit the use of taxpayer money for private school ti Jon.

Legislators in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota,

Ohio and Utah have already enacted statewide open enrollment legislation.

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The other bill is really aimed at the low-income children....It would allow theparents a voucher to attend a privateschool. And again, it is a money saver forour state....The voucher proposed wouldbe 50 percent of the state's current cost,which would mean something under$1,600 per child....[T]he average for theparochial system in Baltimore City is$1,800....That money...could then be usedfor better conditions in public schools...[Choice] would provide soniccompetition...to force some change inintercity schools....The poorest familieshave the least choice...so this would givethem some economic empowerment...Choice Takes Time to Sell

Tom Feeney, Florida State Represen-tative. Rep. Feeney's bill defeated inthe Florida legislature in mid-Februaryhas been chosen by the American Legisla-tive Exchange Council (ALEC) as theprototype choice law.

...Choice is a concept that is going totake some time to sell....We think we [inFlorida] are going to have some form ofchoice very quickly....As in many states,we have some unique constitutionalproblems....[W]e have a provision in our

constitution that guarantees every studenta free public education; we also sayconstitutionally that no funds [go]...to anyreligious institution. So we may ulti-mately have to have a constitutionalreferendum, not just for political reasons,but because of legal reasons.Choice Is Evolutionary

Gerard Kosinski, Pennsylvania StateRepresentative. Rep. Kosinski was theauthor of a choice bill that garnerednational attention last December before itwas defeated on a constitutional issue.

...[Choice] was probably the mostcontroversial measure that Pennsylvaniatackled in years....[The House and Senatebills] allowed for school choice in threeways. In public school choice it wouldallow parents to put their children in anyother public school in [their home]district...space available. The second way,choice would allow parents to put thechild in the school outside their schooldistrict....The most controversial measurewas...going to allow up to $900 per childto be used at private schools....It is anevolutionary process. We feel we may notbe able to get [school choice] this year butdefinitely within the next few years...inorder to make the public school systemcompete and become better for it.

.Wis.constn.Supreme Court Rules on.ChoiceThe Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled March 3 that the state's school choice

law does not violate the state constitution.The program, enacted in 1989. permits up to 1,000 poor Milwaukee children

to attend private. non-sectarian schools at public expense, capped at 52.500.It was a shot in the arm...the boost they needed,' said Wisconsin state

legislator Polly Williams (D), who sponsored the choice legislation. Now wehave a case tested all through the courts, one that withstood all challenges.The court affirmed that parents have the right to have decision-making overwhat happens to their own children."

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AMERICA 2000: One Year Laterby Lamar Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Education

AMERICA 2000 will have its first birthday April 18.Just one year ago President Bush launched a strategy to helpAmerica, community by community, reach six ambitiousNational Education Goals by the turn of the century. ThePresident and the nation's Governors had agreed on the goalsafter the education summit in Charlottesville.

AMERICA 2000 has helped to establish a radical newagenda for rethinking our educational system from top to

"AMERICA 2000 has helped toestablish a radical new agendafor rethinking our educationalsystem from top to bottom."

bottom, and the U.S. Department of Education has becomethe sparkplug for that change.

AMERICA 2000 is not a seven-second soundbite andwon't have instant results. Most of it is about helpingAmericans do things for themselves, in their own families,schools and hometowns.

But there is new energy and a new agenda and an inevi-table sort of momentum developing. Here are some of themost important things that have happened during this firstyear1. More people saying "the Nation's at risk, so I may be,

too"While not often on the front pages or at the top ofthe evening news, education is more often seen as thesolution to what is at the top of the news. George Gallupsays Americans think nothing is more important for thenext 25 years than having the best education system in theworld. Education has become the national worry.

2. AMERICA 2000 CommunitiesLed by both Demo-crat and Republican Governors, 43 states and more than1,100 communities are mobilizing under the AMERICA2000 banner to reach the six National Education Goals,Over 86 of Maine's 184 communities are MAINE 2000communities. MEMPHIS 2000 has 800 persons workingon task forces to find ways to reach the goals, developprogress reports, and create a New American School.

AMERICA 2000 helps give shape to an emergingeducation movement that will be for America in the1990swhat the civil rights movement was in the1960s.

3. World-class standards and new curriculum frame-worksThe National Council on Education Standardsand Testing and the National Education Goals Panel havemoved rapidly to help create a consensus about whatchildren should know and be able to do in order to live,work and compete in today's world. The NationalAcademy of Sciences is coordinating the development ofstandards for the sciences; UCLA is coordinating history.The work in English, geography, the arts and civics isabout to begin. I see math teachers learning the newstandards in virtually every school I visit. Stateswithour helpare accelerating efforts to change curriculumframeworks to incorporate these new world-class stan-dards.

4. American Achievement TestsThere is a new consen-sus about the need for and the shape of a voluntarynational examination system so that parents and commu-nities can know how their schools and kids are doing. Injust one year the question has become not whether to doit, but how best to do it.

5. September Goals Report In 1991, Governors and theAdministration published the first annual September

"AMERICA 2000 is about help-ing Americans do things forthemselves, in their own families,schools and hometowns."

Goals Report measuring the nation's and each state'sprogress toward the six National Education Goals. Eachyear these reports will be increasingly powerful enginesfor change.

6. New American SchoolsThe New American SchoolsDevelopment Corporation formed, raised over $45million, and received nearly 700 proposals from design

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teams that want to help communities create their own"break-the-mold" schools. Minnesota has authorized thecreation of deregulated charter schools, a sort of indepen-dent public school. Other states, including California,Colorado, Connecticut, and Michigan, are consideringsimilar proposals_

7. More school options for parentsThis year 10 morestates gave parents more choices of the schools theirchildren attend as a way to unleash competitive forces toimprove all schools. The President proposed a half billiondollar program to help states create their own GI Bill forChildren, $1000 scholarships that would follow thechildren of middle- and low-income families to anylawfully operating school.

8. Flexibility for teachersOhio, Texas, and 12 other states

"All the Governors of both partiesset the National Education Goals,and almost all are involved in theAMERICA 2000 partnership."

have given state commissioners of education broadauthority to free from regulation schools that set highgoals and produce results. The President wants Congressto do the same with federal funds.

9. MoneyEducation is the President's No. 1 federalbudget priority, including record increases for Head Start,for grants and loans that help families pay for college, andfor university research and development. Much of thenew funding proposals support the agenda for radicalchange: New American Schools, standards and testing,choices for families, flexibility.

10. A bipartisan spiritAll the Governors of both partiesset the National Education Goals, and almost all areinvolved in the AMERICA 2000 partnership. In turn,STATE and COMMUNITY 2000 efforts include educa-tors at every level because nothing will change in educa-

tion unless it changes inside the classroom.Disappointments? I wish AMERICA 2000 had an hour on

television every day, and two hours on radio to carry themessage. After all, in the end what we are trying to do is tohelp people rethink their attitudes and ways of doing things.

"Disappointments? I wishAMERICA 2000 had an hour ontelevision every day, and two hourson radio to carry the message."

And I am disappointed in the failure, so far, to achieve the

same bi-partisan consensus with Congress that we have withGovernors. There have been a few important areas ofcooperation. The National Council for Education Standardsand Testing included members of Congress. Congressappropriated $100 million for AMERICA 2000, but Con-gress can't seem to agree on how to spend it. The Presidentwants to give teachers more flexibility, to help communitiescreate New American Schools, and to give families more

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During the past year I have spent about half my days in

schools and communities helping to begin AMERICA 2000efforts. What I see is usually inspiringfamilies, students,and teachers straining to fit out-dated school structures andcommunity attitudes with a world that has changed dramati-

cally:A Math teachers retraining to teach to vastly different

standards;Decatur, Georgia, raising $1 million a year to helpchildren outside the schools so they can learn while they

are inside;Murfreesboro, Tennessee, opening all its elementaryschools 12 hours a day and in the summer to fit needs of

working families;In Minnesota, a kindergarten in a bank, a school in ashopping mall, and a school for teenage mothers in a

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In Derry, New Hampshire, plans for a year-round schoolthat includes the Alan B. Shepard School of Math andScience;

"Our goals for this next year areto double the number ofAMERICA 2000 communities, tohelp those communities succeed,to move ahead with world classstandards and the national exami-nation system, to launch the firstwave of design teams creatingNew Americans Schools, to pushmore decision making into thehands of teachers and schoolleaders, and to place more schoolchoices into the hands of parents."

Milwaukee, giving poor families more of the samechoices of schools wealthier families already have, includ-ing private schools;

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Louisville, Kentucky, saving money by giving schoolprincipals the right to acquire electrical services and airconditioning somewhere other than the central mainte-nance system;Balderas School in Fresno, California, with eveningclasses for Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian and Spanish -speaking parents so those parents can understand whattheir children are learning;Hispanic first graders in the Bronx learning English oncomputers so they can improve their math scores.

Standards are higher. Children are growing up differently.School systems and ways of thinking are atrociously out ofdate. And most adults are finding we need to go back toschool ourselves.

It is harder today to be a teacher, to be a student, to be a

"The best way I can think of toshow the world the best in us isAMERICA 2000a nationalmovement, community by commu-nity, to create the best schools inthe world for our children."

parent. More of us are gradually realizing that radical changein our schools, rather than business as usual, will be neces-sary if we are to reach the ambitious education goals by theend of the century. And it is also dawning on more of us thatthere will also have to be radical change in our attitudesoutside our schools, within our families and in our owncommunities. Schools must become better, but that meanschanging communities, too. It's hard for a school to be abetter place than the community it serves.

Our goals for this next year are to double the number ofAMERICA 2000 communities, to help those communitiessucceed, to move ahead with world class standards and thenational examination system, to launch the first wave ofdesign teams creating New Americans Schools, to push moredecision making into the hands of teachers and school e

leaders, and to place more school choices into the hands ofparents.

More than anything, we want to give more energy andvisibility to the need for really radical change in our schoolsand in our attitudes toward educationall of which beginswith helping even more individuals come to their own tconclusion that "The Nation's at risk, so I might be, too."

A few weeks ago Russia's new education minister came bythe U.S. Department of Education to learn about our schools.I said, "But we should learn from you as well. Americaneighth graders were 14th in math and 13th in sciencescoresnearly lastin international comparisons last month.Russian children were ahead of ours."

He replied, "But you were not 13th in democracy."Most of the world is now ready to try the American way of

life, to follow our example. They know we have moreadvantages than any other country. The best way I can thinkof to show the world the best in us is AMERICA 2000anational movement, community by community, to create thebest schools in the world for our children.

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Conference Call has featurededucation leaders from 47 states andthe District of Columbia, including:A Elected Officials: 16 governors,

three mayors, four U.S. Represen-tatives, one U.S. Senator and eightstate legislators.Educators: Eight college anduniversity presidents, 14 chiefstate school officers, 40 schoolsuperintendents, 20 principals andseven teachers.Business and Civic Leaders:Examples include: chief executiveofficers of major corporations,local and national U.S. Chamberrepresentatives.

Conference Call Quotables....ED Reform Is Nonpartisan:"We're totally determined to keep[AMERICA 2000 and theNational Education Goals] on anon-partisan basis. We have to dothat in order to succeed...."President George Bush, 9/4/91High Expectations: "1 think thegreatest gift you can give to otherhuman beings is to have highexpectations out of them. And Ithink that's one of the problemsthat we have not expected muchout of them...."John Floret, White HouseInitiative on EducationalExcellence for Hispanic Ameri-cans, 9/23/91

A Communities Stake Safe'schools: "Everyone in thecommunity...not the parentsalone... roust coalesce aroundhaving a safe environment...Ifyoungsters arc afraid to walk toschools through unsafeneighborhoods...we're not goingto achieve the goals inschool.. because they'rethinking...they've got to returnthrough that same unsafe area...."Franklin L. Smith, superinten-dent/chief state school officer, DCPublic Schools, 10/16/91Teaching Means Commitment:"A teacher should be veryconcerned about the child and theindividual....I think Dr. King feltthat all human beings could hegreat if they decided they wantedto serve, because he said, 'To hegreat is to serve.'"Mrs. Coretta Scott King, 1/15/92See Quotables, next page

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Education innovators across the cowury have been featured on more than 140 segmentsof the AMERICA 2000 Daily Conference Call since its launch on September 4. The call,usually hosted by Secretary Lamar Alexander, is conducted weekdays at 11:55 a.m.Callers dial (202) 736-2300 to listen to a five-minute, live discussion about variousaspects of education reform. Following is a sampling of education innovations discussedduring the call.

Minnesota Mall Site of Break-the-Mold SchoolLeila Anderson, superintendent, Bloomington Public Schools, on a new system of

five break-the-mold schools scheduled to open in a local shopping mall, covering pre-school through adult education for mall employees and nearby communities: "The mallhas resources that I think public schools cannot duplicate.... We can take our students overto the mall, work hand in hand with the business partners...then we would move to adultswho would be the second program component where we have employees who would needsome training and employers who could partner with us."Kentucky Sets Sights on World Class Standards

Dr. Thomas Boysen, commissioner of education, Frankfort, on new assessmentprocedures in Kentucky which are results-oriented--the state sets "learning outcomes" andthe individual schools determine how to deliver instruction: "I think what we have here ispeople looking in the rear view min-or instead of through the win .'shield. They are lookingback at standards and assessments that I think in many cases trivialized learning and werein some cases the enemy of teaching. When you view assessment as an expression ofworld class standards, the kind of learning students need to be able to master in order tosucceed in life, it's a different experience."Illinois Community Focuses on Lifelong Learning

Dr. Len Sirotzki, director, Dupage -Kane Educational Service Center, Wheaton, onthe creation of local partnerships ranging from the public library, to the local junior college,to the park district to promote lifelong learning community-wide: "What we have beendoing for the last year is look at learning in the most comprehensive way....[W]e areworking with families of children between the ages of 0 and 5, and...we are working withour senior citizens in programs like GEDs for seniors only....We're trying to take in life-long and life-wide [learning]."Florida Businesse Help Create Satellite Schools

Octavio Visiedo, superintendent, Dade County Schools, on six new experimentalschools in the area which were created in partnership with local business: "We startedwhat we call our satellite schools...[for example] a satellite school with American BankersInsurance Group where they built part of the facility and we have our teachers there onlocation....Parents are allowed, in fact encouraged, to have lunch with their children. Wealso provide day care facilities before and after [school] and we're trying to add parentcomponents to the group where they can have time to study and be trained together...."California Calculus Teacher Helps Low-Income Kids Excel

Jaime Escalante, Sacramento school teacher, whose story was the basis of theStand and Deliver, on his success at teaching Advanced Placement calculus to students inan East Los Angeles high school: "[K]ids...have a negative image about mathematics,especially algebra, because we do not _emphasize the subject at the elementary level...[orthat] doing mathematics is fun....[In Sacramento, we] follow a formula which reads that

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Quotabks, continuedChange Is Sweeping Educa-tion: "...[O]ne of the things thatis so exciting...that's sweepingeducation today is that somepeople who have been maybecynical about some of theseefforts in the past are finallygetting swept up in it"Gov. John Engler, Lansing,Michigan, 11/12/91Reform Must Be Worth theMoney: "People are saying thatwe don't mind spending moneyon school...[reform] but we wantto know that the end product isworth the money."Bud Burke, president, KansasState Senate, 1/22/92Starting from Scratch:"[Break-the-mold] is what is soexciting about..starting fromscratch.... What if we didn't takefor granted 21 kids and a teachersitting in four walls 180 days ayear from 9 in the morning until3 in the afternoon...?Chester E. Finn, VanderbiltUniversity, 10/4/91Turning Kids on to Learning:"The common denominator[when] dealing with the kids whohave been turned off, is that weget them turned on to livingfirst... [then] to learning. Oftenwe reverse that process in ourschools as we try to jam informa-tion into kids who are comingwith all kinds of problems."Bill Milliken, founder andpresident, Cities In Schools,9/24/91

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determination plus discipline plus hard work equals the way to success So it's thecommitment from the teachers, the parents and the students, because the school alonecannot educate."Oklahoma Community Targets Dropout Prevention

Dr. Kara Gae Wilson, superintendent, Tulsa County Public Schools, on a commu-nity initiative which attacks the dropout rate on several fronts a public awarenesscampaign, alternative education programs, legislative reform and enforcement of theOklahoma laws requiring parents to ensure their children attend school: "It's made all thedifference... we've lowered in two years our dropout rate 43 pert ent....ft's because of themessage the parents are getting that this society values education and we expect parents tovalue it too or we'll see them in court [Lack of] parental involvement combined withstudents who do fall behind academically are two of the main problems that we see overand over in court."Texas Science Lab Targets Math-Science Coal

Brenda Landon, principal, Lanier Middle School, Houston, on a school-basedmodel science lab, a joint project of Rice University and the Houston Independent SchoolDistrict: "It is a model lab, [with] very movable, mobile furniture, which allows thechildren to group and regroup into different lab partnerships, so that we see childrenworking every day in hands-on activities...We've begun a partnership with middle schoolstudents in Hampton, England...The children have been studying problems and sendingproblems over to their counterparts in England and challenging each other on solvingthem."Florida School Board Expands Drug Program

Alison Adler, drug-free sdiools coordinator., Palm Beach School Board, on the localprogram "Children Are People," an after-school support program originally designed forchildren from alcohol-dependent families, now serving all at-risk children: "'Children ArePeople' targets third, fourth and fifth graders contidered at risk, mostly because of familychemical dependencies....They have after-school counseling; students participate weeklyin topics such as feelings, defenses; chemical dependencies are discussed; and right nowwe are serving 576 students and families."Mobile Labs Promote Literacy In Rural South

Hugh Nichols, director of regional development, Entergy Corporation, NewOrleans, on "New Opportunities." a program to help rural workers in three southern statesimprove reading, writing and work-related skills: "We began the program simply with aliteracy hotline...[then] looked for ways to increase...delivety of literacy instruction....Wetried four "fixed" laboratories...[which worked] in metropolitan and urban areas....And itwas at that point that we decided to try mobile labs [in partnership with Grambling StateUniversity]....You can take education to rural communities and to businesses that aredecentralized and improve the economy of the region."

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NEWS IN BRIEF...New Jersey Official CallsAMERICA 2000 "Triple Play"

According to Michael Timpane,president of Columbia TeachersCollege, AMERICA 2000 is a 'tripleplay" the President and thegovernors setting direction throughthe National Education Goals; thestates providing the framework forchange; and communities mobiliz-ing to create the best schools Inthe world Turipane, co-chairman ofNEW JERSEY 2000, spoke duringthe launch of NEW JERSEY 2000on April 13.

More than 500 people attendedthe kickoff event In Trenton, whichincluded Governor Jim Rork (D),Secretary Alexander, the state()duration commissioner andRepublican legislative leaders.

We must now take this discus-sion to every community In NewJersey," Timpane said, "to buildthat sense of common purpose thatalways has been and must alwaysbe at the heart of the common lifewe have built as a state and anation."'1E770 ST. LOUIS 2000 Adds:ourrn "R" to Education

According to organizers, METROST LOUIS 2000 will focus oncreating a metropolitan-wideLearning Community , adding afourth "R" responsibilitytoreading, writing and arithmetic.METFK, ST. LOUIS 2000 waslaunched on April 23.

More than 250 educators,business and civic leaders at-tended the kickoff ceremony atWest County Technical Spool.They were joined by SecretaryLamar Alexander and Director ofNational Drug Control Policy BobMartinez, who discussed Goal 6,drug-free and violence-freeschools.

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Better Schools from Scratchby Lamar Alexander

(Editor's Note: Secretary Aleranckr's wham; which appeared in theWashington Past onApril 15, was mitten in response to a March 24 Washington Post column by Albert Shanker,president of die American Federation of Teachers. In his piece, Sharpercriticized thePresident's prcpcsal xiiich calls for Congress to provide up to Si million in start-upPuling forthe first .533 break - the -mold New American Schools in AMERICA 2000Communities)

Albert Shanka's column opposing help for his own braak-the-mold idea shows why real

change in education is so hard.Stinker is president of the American Federation of Teachers and one of the country's best

education thinkers. In 1986, he was thinking about Saturn's Ran to build the best cars in the

world from scratch. Why not Saturn schools, he asked in a New York Timers column. "Isn't it

time we had an educational Saturn project, a time to pretend we haven'tbad schools or aneducational system before and act as if we're putting one together fix the first timer

This put to educators the bold question Peter Drucker puts to business leaders: "If you weren'talready doing it, would you start?" The idea caught on. School leaders in St.Paul, Minn., began

the Saturn School of Tomorrow. In Dade County, Fla., Shanker's union helped to =ate aSaturn School project fix 49 schools. Shanker was enthusiastic "If youhave a great ideayoudon't have to remake anything because you start with a dean slate."

"Can you imagine America in the year WOO with your tax moneyfollow-ing children to Saturn-type schools known for "breakthrough reliability,"schools open overtime for worldng families, schools. with waiting listscausing more schools to be created, schools designed to meet the needs ofchildren of every backgnounc4 schools gathering the best ideas fromanyone--New American Schools that the Japanese sunt to copy?"

Ted Sizes of Brown University, James Cower of Yale, Henry Levin of Stanford acceleratedtheir school-by-school mold-breaking. Minnesota passed a law to charter new independentpublic schools. RJR Nabisco Inc. offered $30 million to schools willing to rethink from by to

bottom, but warned: "No prizes for predicting rain, only fix buildingarks." Then, one year ago.

President Bush proposed "a new generation of thousands of break-the-mold New AmericanSchools" and asked Congress for a half-billion federal dollars to jump-sort the process. Albert

Shanker bad reason to feel proud as a Founding Father.At the president's request, bipartisan business leaders created the New American Schools

Development Corp. and began raising $200 million in private dollars to fund design teams

whose mission would be to help communities create break- the-mold schools. Hundreds of

schools, 226 corporate partnerships, 140 universities and 136 think tanks, associations and

foundations joined the design competition.The president stipulated that all the money should be spent onbreak-the-mold ideas. No

business as usual Anyone's great idea would be welcome.Anyone's idea? Shanker stomped on his brakes and took a hard U-turn. away from his own

idea. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) made sure that the half-billion federal dollars for New

American Schools would go only to the powers that be, thosewho have given us the troubled

schools we have.David Broda, in a March 1 column [op-ed], chastised "Kennedy and the Senate

Democrats [who] haves decreed that only the most timid experiments those the bureaucracy

Gods least threatening will be attempted."Broder was right. America's school system is a monopoly: One group takes your money.

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NEWS IN BRIEF, continuedCalifornia Starts AMERICA 2000initiattves

Two California cities, SantaBarbara and San Jose, launchedAMERICA 2000 Initiatives in mid-April. Secretary Alexander joinedSanta Barbara County SchoolSuperintendent Bill Cirone andmembers of We local industry-education Catirta to announceSANTA BARBARA COUNTY 2000on Aorli 9. Ths Secretary traveledto San Jose the following day toattend kickoff ceremonies for SANJOSE UNIFIED 2000 with Superin-tendent James Baughman. Duringthe launch of the San Jose initia-tive, Maureen Marco, statesecretary 01 child development andeducation, pledged CaliforniaGovernor Pete iillson's (R) supportfor state efforts to encourage othercommunities to adopt the NationalEducation Goals.NEW ORLEANS 2000

Secretary Alexander joinedMayor Sidney Barthelemy andOrleans Parish school communityleaders at the launch of NEWORLEANS 2000 on March 31.

The kickoff ceremonies were heldat Coghill Elementary School, oneof two public schools in NewOrleans using the 'acceleratedschools" model that attempts tobring at-risk students up to gradelevel by sixth grade.

During the kickoff MayorBarthelemy observed that NEWORLEANS 2000 will build on effortsalready begun to involve thecommunity in education reform.

Schools front Scratch, continued

runs all the schools and assigns each child to one of those schools. Only the rich can opt out (toa private school). David Osborne and Ted Gaebler have written about the irony. "It is one ofthe enduring paradoxes of American ideology that we attack private monopolies so fervently butembrace public monopolies so warmly."

What has this monopoly produced to deserve such protection? Too often the answer isschools designed for our grandfathers' day, schools so unacquainted with technology that it'shard for teachers to make a telephone call, schools still organized to give teachers summervacations for bringing in crops, schools that send children home at 3 p.m. when no one is home.schools that suffocate creativity, schools that spend more per student than any country butSwitzerland.

Teachers and principals I meet from Fresno to Boston to San Antonio are mostly hard-working. often downright inspiring. But most of the schools in which they struggle to help ourchildren learn do not fit today's family or today's world. Because of thisand because ofinattentive parents and communitiesAmerican 13-year-olds know just a little more math thanchildren in Jordan, about the same as children in Slovenia and less than children in Korea andTaiwan.

"I'm hoping Al Shanicer will make another L'-turn...back in support ofhis break-the-mold idea. America needs everyone involved in creatingtens of thousands of New American Schools on the fastest truck pos-.:ible if our children are to live, work aria compete in the next century."

Consumer Reports says this about Saturn cars: "Exceptional first year reliability, a break-through for a car designed and built in the U.S." Saturn workers are collecting overtime pay.while other General Motors plants are dosing. In 1991 Saturn sold more cars per dealershipthan any import carthe first time that had happened in America in 15 years. Many Saturndealers have customers waiting for cars. Saturn engineers are designing a right-side steeringwheel to attract Japanese drivers.

Can you imagine America in the year 2000 with your tax money following children toSaturn-type schools known for "breakthrough reliability," schools open overtime for workingfamilies, schools with waiting lists causing more schools to be created, schools designed to meetthe needs of children of every background, schools gathering the best ideas from anyoneNewAmerican Schools that the Japanese want to copy?

The first Saturn car planners broke a crusty General Motors tradition They drove Hondasso they could learn to make a better Saturn. America's school monopoly must climb out of itsruts and welcome ideas. even from the competitionand then create a better schooL

If Americans can put missiles down smokestacks, we can create the best schools in the world.But it will not happen rapidly enough if all those who seem threatening to the school mo-nopoly governors. mayors. corporations, parents. churches, museums, education secretaries.independent-minded educators are kept out Results matter. not the author.

I'm hoping Al Shanker will make another U-turn...back in support of his break-the-mold idea.America needs everyone involved in creating tens of thousands of New American Schools onthe fastest trade possible if our children are to live, work and compete in the next century.

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NEWS IN BRIEF...DALLAS 2000

U.S. Deputy Secretary ofEducation David Kearns joinedDallas Mayor Steve Bartlett,local education and city officials,and several business andeducation groups on April 29 tolaunch DALLAS 2000, thecommunity's strategy to reachthe six National EducationGoals.

*Dallas is proud and excited tobe part of this important pro-gram. Education is a crucial keyto our city's future and oyrnation's success," May& Bartlettsaid. "Dallas strongly supportsthe education goats of AMERICA2000 and is committed toensuring positive results."

The Dallas City Council,Greater Dallas Chamber ofCommerce, Dallas CitizensCouncil, and Dallas CountyCommunity College District allhave adopted resolutionssupporting the DALLAS 2000and AMERICA 2000 initiatives.

Gov. Ann Richards (0) kickedoff TEXAS 2000 in March.

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New Arts Partnership to SupportAMERICA 2000 Communities

When the AMERICA 2000 Art Partnership, a nationwide initiative to encourage artseducation in schools, was announced, Secretary Lamar Alexander commented: "If I werehelping to rethink the curriculum of a school in my hometown, I would want instruction in thearts to be available to every studentand integrated into most of what we teach."

As part of its mandate, the partnership will assist AMERICA 2000 stars and communitiesinterested in developing comprehensive arts education.

According to ED's Franck Alexander, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning,Office of Educational Research and Improvement, all children, including students with disabili-ties, gifted children, and those with limited English proficiency, benefit from appropriate artseducation. "In other nations, including Japan and Germany, students can receive sequential artsinstruction from kindergarten through grade 12," said Alexander, who helped create California'sarts curriculum. "A balanced, comprehensive approach provides students with an understandingof our evolving cultural heritage and that of other nations, enhances their creativity, and culti-vates their aesthetic judgment

The partnership's seven components am:World Clans Standards in the Arts. Voluntary national standards which will complementsimilar standards in the five core subjects referenced in the goals.Arts Emphasis in AMERICA 2000 Commtmities. Support for AMERICA 2000communities to include the arts as part of their stratets to meet the National EducationGoals.State Frameworks to Meet National Arts Standards. Assistance to states in developingtheir own K-12 curriculum frameworks based on the voluntary national standards in the arts.National Center for Arts Education. Support for the creation of a national center whichwill support AMERICA 21:03 initiatives and other local arts efforts, assist teachers inprofessional development and support the national standards-setting effort

A National Assessment of motional Progress (NAEP). Expansion of National Assess-ment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to include assessment of students' knowledge and

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.What's Working in: the.Arts....Community by CommunityA number of AMERICA 2000 communities are adapting the National Education Goals to meet local needs. For instance, New

Rochelle, NY, Western INieccrien, and Metro St. Louis, MO, are including the arts as pert of their o:rnmunity-based returnstrategies. For eiarriple, NEVADA 2000 will encourage all participating communities to Include the arts in implementing their plans.Among eAsting arts Irillatives that are being studied as examples of what works at the local level:California Offers Visual and Performing Arts Curriculum Framework. The framework provides a basis for schools and

communities in the state to design arts education programs and to acquire classroom instructional materials. The frameworkdescribes the key aspects of a comprehensive K-12 program in dance, theater, music, and visual arts.

Omaha Implements K-12 Arts Curriculum. Omaha, an AMERICA 2000 community, Is implementing a K-12 curriculum in thevisual arts which Includes professional development in the arts for teachers and principals, To measure progress for allstudents, Omaha has developed *Ant arts assessments for grades 3, 4, 7, 8 and for high school electives, including potteryarld Photo7aPhY.

South Bronx (NY) School Offers Arts to Disadvantaged Students. St Augustine School for the Ms educates disadvantagedstudents in the nation's poorest congressional district. Despite a tight school budget and a large population of "at-rise children,students are succeeding in a dernanckng arts curriculum, and almost ail continue on to graduate from high school.

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NEWS Iii BRIEF, continuedDepartment of Defame Announces.71vo AMERICA 2300 Communities

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Using a take of of its nationaltheme, :Pepsi Cola is giving theAMERIC42000 effort inRapid City,South Dakota,: a pktg.. Pepsi;CoiaBeelkIg CoMpany of Rapid City hasadopted the RAPID CITY PROJECT2000 prognsm: Pepsi will promote-Ma program on 350,000 Pepsi Ganswhich va be distributed throughoutthe Slack Hills iiriviof South Dakota.Thesidepanele of the Pepsi cans

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Give the AMERICA 2000Newsletter an update of yourcommunity* efforts to transformits schools. We want to hearabout your break-the-mold initia-tives and ideas for reaching oneor more of the National EducationGoals. Mail your updates to: U.S.Department of Education; Officeof Public Affairs; Room 2099; 400Maryland Ave., SW; Washington,DC 20202.0131; Attn: AMERICA2000 Newsletter.

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abilities in the arts (preliminary work to start in July 1992 with the goal of having NAEP artsassessment in place by 1996}Arts Education Research Conference. A May 1992 national conference, followed byregional ccefereaces, b Iawh the development of a 10-year research agenda in the area ofarts education.National Arts Education DIrsernination Network. A nationwide telecommunicationsnetwork and dearinghotne to improve dissemination of quality arts education programs insdiools, including referral services and a Miami& telecommunitiliDnS network foreducators. Pluming for the network has begun; a contract bits been issued by the NationalEndowment for the Mt to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Mts.

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Haverford's (PA) Arts CurriculumIncludes Evaluation. Haverford'sarts curriculum integrates frequentfield trips to area museums into aarts curriculum for all students. Inaddition to classroom and schoolevaluations, Haverford hasdeveloped a district -wide yearlyevaluation to hold itself account-able for results.

Missouri and Nebraska Use Re-nowned Choreographer.Schools in both states are benefit-ing from dancer and choreogra-pher Suzanne Grace's lAnguageof Movement' residsnoi program,which helps students explore thebasic dance elements.

California-Based Center HelpsWith Community-based ArtsProgram. The city of Montebello,In conjunction with the GettyCenter for Education in the Arts,provides teachers and schooladministrators with professionaldevelopment In the district's K-12arts curriculum through after-school workshops and summertraining. Instructional arts packetsare being developed for teachersIn English and Spanish.

Texas -based Instttute HelpsProvide Arts Partnerships. TheTens institute for Ms Educationprovides professional develop-ment in the arts for teachersthrough partnerships with Indi-vidual districts. The Institute isworking with more than a dozendistricts by offering a three-weekcourse for five teachers from eachdistrict school.

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NUMBER 27, WEEK OF MAY II, Ign 11.S. DEPARTMEMF OF EDI :CATION

Communities Invited toAMERICA 2000 Satellite Meeting

On Tuesday, May 26, communities across the country can participate in the first of a

series of AMERICA 2000 Satellite Town Meetings to share experiences and informa-

tion about reaching the National Education Goals goal by goal, community by

community.The first meeting, jointly sponsored by the Department of Education and the U.S.

Chamber of Commerce, will focus on National Education Goal 2: "By the year 2000.

the high school graduation rate will increase to at least 90 percent"

"More than 1,100 communities and nearly 900 local chambers of commerce have

already begun working on ways to achieve the six National Education Goals," said

Education Secretary Lamar Alexander in announcing the meetings. "One of the ways

we think we can help is by encouraging a national conversation helping communi-

ties talk with each other about their challenges, innovative practices and strategies."

The May 26 Satellite Town Meeting will originate from the U.S. Clamber of

Commerce studio in Washington, DC, at 8:30 p.m., EDT. It will be transmitted live

via satellite to "downlink" sites around the country and will run approximately 60

minutes. Communities can participate in the discussion by arranging a meeting at a

local satellite downlink site and by calling a special telephone number (to be publicized

during the meeting) to ask questions or join in the discussion. [See "box" below for

potential downlink sites and satellite coordinates.)Secretary Alexander will serve asmoderator of the meeting and will be joined in the

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Help Your Community Join Us at the May 26 Satellite Town Meeting!(Note: Many AMERICA 2C00 Community leaders have already received a letter with the informaton listed below. Please check with

your local AMERICA 2000 coordinating committee before proceeding on your own to find a "downlink' facility.]

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Any local satellite 'downlink' facility.Following are the types of organizationswhich frequently have downlink

local businesses and hotelspublic school system

A local cable television stationlibraries and community centersuniversities, community colleges,technical schoolstelephone companyhospitalsneighbors or :friends with a backyardsatellite dish

it may require some research andtelephone work on your part to locate one

and there may be a fee to use it

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EDMONDS 2000 was is ached onitch 17 will) a crawl of more than250 students, she, Paw* andcommunity mamba's. School Super-intendent Brian 13mm' and theSchool Board In Edmond* challengedthe community to stew tor dynamic,not business as usuanetonn.

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AMERICA 2000 LEADERSHIP CCOIFERENCES TO LAUNCH N JUNEIn addition to the AMERICA 2000 Satellite To Meetings, the Department and

the U. S. Chamber of Commerce are planning a series of six AMERICA 2000Leadership Workshops for conmumity and chamber of commerce leaders whohave committed to pursuing the AMERICA 2000 challenges in their communities.The Workshops will help these leaders talk in-depth, face-to-face about ways toreach the National Education Goals.

The first two-day AMERICA 2000 Leadership Workshop will be held inDenver, Colorado, on June 29-30. The second meeting is planned for Atlanta,Georgia, on July 20-21. Future meetings are being scheduled for other regions ofthe country. AMERICA 2000 community and chamber of commerce leaders canattend any session regardless of region cc a first-come, first-served basis.Future dates and sites will be announced in a later newsletter.

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Maria Ferrier, Volunteer Coordi-nator for San Antonio's SouthwestIndependent School District and a1990 Presidential Point of Light,will discuss the city's successfulmentoring and intervention programsdesigned to prevent dropouts.Kara Gee Wilson, Superintendent,Tulsa County Schools, will discussTulsa's efforts to retrain and re-educate dropouts, and the city'senforcement of state laws requiringparents to erasure that their childrenattend school. Tulsa's attendanceenforcement strategy has helped bringabout a 43 percent drop in thecommunity's dropout rate in twoyears.Bill Milliken, Founder and Presi-

dent Cities In Schools (CIS), willdiscuss the nation's largest non-profitdropout prevention program, locatedin more than 60 communities atnearly 400 educational sites through-out the country. CIS develops public/private partnerships which bringschool -based social services to at-riskyouth, helping them deal successfullywith such issues as school attendance,literacy, job preparedness, teenpregnancy and drug/alcohol abuse.

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San Antonio, Texas, has recruited an "army" of mentoring volunteers, while Tulsa,Oklahoma, has enforced mandatory school attendance laws to lower local dropout rates,said leaders from both communities during the first of six AMERICA 2000 Satellite TownMeetings on achieving the National Education Goals.

The May 26 meeting, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S.Chamber of Commerce, focused on National Education Goal 2, increasing the graduationrate to 90 percent by the year 2000. Nearly 250 communities and local chambers joinedthe discussion by arranging their own "downlinks" and holding local meetings [see story,page 2].

The meeting, moderated by Education Secretary Lamar Alexander, was held in the U.S.Chamber's broadcast studios in Washington, D.C. Maria Hernandez Ferrier, executivedirector for special programs for the Southwest Independent School District and a 1990Presidential Point of Light, represented San Antonio, and Tulsa Schools County Superin-tendent, Dr. Kara Gae Wilson, represented Tulsa. Bill Milliken, founder and president ofCities in Schools, discussed the nation's largest nonprofit dropout prevention program,located in more than 60 communities.San Antonio Recruits 3,000 Mentors Ferrier

"We have approximately 3,000 mentors in San Antonio in about 49 schools that comeone hour a week into the regular school day and work one-on-one with students," saidFerrier. She said that many of the mentors are from the military. "Kelly Air Force Basehas brought in mentors at the elementary and middle-school levels...We are starting atsecond grade. Next year, however, we are developing a program for high school becausethe mentors are going to be following these children all the way through."

Ferrier provided an overview of SAN ANTONIO 2000 by ailing a locally producedvideotape highlighting several education reform initiatives:

Parent-Child Incorporated and Avance. Both preschool programs prepare SanAntonio children for a lifetime of learning by reaching the children before they enterschool and teaching the parents basic skills to help them cope with the challenges ofraising a child.

A Smart Schools, a new breed of schools which will embody such concepts as year-round attendance, a commitment to technology, and student commitment to publicservice.Literacy Council, an organization that attracts 1,000 adult students a year, teachingbasic skills reading, writing and math.The Coalition (CO), which will be one of the country's largest private-public initia-tives to keep children drug and gang-free, targets 100,000 at-risk children and teenagersthrough recreation and education programs.

Tulsa Gets Tough on School Attendance WilsonAccording to Tulsa County Schools Superintendent Kara Gae Wilson, the Oklahoma

community had "all the other textbook [dropout programs] in place" Wore beginning toprosecute parents for not sending their children to school, resulting in a 43 percent reduc-tion in the dropout rate during a two-year period. She noted that the 70 percent graduationrate climbed to 84 percent. "For every family we took to court, we had another family thatsaid, 'I don't want that to be me,' and they made sure then that their children were inschool," said Wilson. "We go to court once a month; we have not let up."

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Communities Talk Goal 2:From the Statehouse in Carson City, Nevada, to a high school in Fall River, Massachusetts, community leaders from across the country

joined the May 26 Satellite Town Meeting with questions and opinions about reducing the nation's dropout rate, comnuusity by community.By the time the AMERICA 2000 Satellite Town Meeting began [see front page story), at least 250 communities had called the Depart-

ment of Education indicating they planned to "downlink" the satellite transmission. In addition, several cable systems including MindExtension University transmitted the meeting to many local areas around the country. And satellite dishes in backyards across Americaalso picked up the downlink

When the meeting began, Education Secretary Lamar Alexander told all receiving the signal: "You'll have a chance to question us bytelephone, or to make comments yourselves, or to follow-up later." And conrment they did....

West Virginia's Approach to DropoutsSam Meek, county schools superintendent and BERKELEY

(WV) 2000 leader, the first to call in during the meeting, said: "Idon't think there is a single solution to the dropout problern....We[West Virginians] have a program of mentoring called PASS(Providing Academic Self-Esteem and Support), that matchesyoungsters one-on-one with tutors and adults in the communitywho make it their business to assure that the youngster is success-ful in school...We've also gone the court route and had ourmagistrates actually sentence parents to attend school with theiryoungsters [to enforce school attendance]....Those kinds of things[work] in combination with a program that encourages ourteachers to make home visits and actually pays them a smallstipend to do so. We've had over 300 teachers who visited and satdown around a kitchen table with parents....

Nevada Wants More on Dropout EnforcementWhen Sandy Miller, chairman of NEVADA 2000 and wife of

Governor Bob Miller (D-NV), called to ask how Tulsa workedwith prosecutors in enforcing attendance laws, Tulsa Superinten-dent Kara Gae Wilson responded: 'The District Attorney indi-cated that if we would help make the forms intelligible...[hewould] use the very expensive resources to prosecute....We had tounify our reporting procedure Dist."

Tampa Asks About Funding Dropout ProgramsWhen Susan Stahl from Tampa, Florida, asked about funding

local dropout programs, Bill Milliken said: "I think first you haveto do an analysis of your community to find out what resources arealready there. So many of our resources aren't properly used.There are so many resources that the young people need that areoutside the schools, so we have to bring them inside....then we cando an analysis of how to fill in the gaps....

Secretary Alexander added: "We spend more per student onelementary and secondary education than any country in the world,but Switzerland, and so we've got to go out and make a case totaxpayers about why we need more. The idea of adopting theNational Education Goals in San Antonio or Tulsa or any commu-nity is a way of saying to people, 'Look, this is what we're tryingto do....'"

Tennessee Talks TechnologyDallas Hardin, UPPER EAST TENNESSEE 2000, noted that

his community has an optional high school using technology, thatalready has about 200 people enrolled, and is looking at the idea ofcommunity learning centers for dropouts. He asked about the roleof technology in dropout prevention or recovery. Tulsa Superin-tendent Wilson responded: 'Technology has been crucial to us inthe Star Center. It's a component for GED preparation. I don'tthink anyone can miss the reality that technology can take the widevariety of learning abilities and meet it at that individual learner'sneeds. Technology is just essential."

Wilson noted that technology is useful in Tulsa's "alternativesuspension school," which takes in students suspended from otherCounty schools for serious offenses. "We have found that thosestudents respond so well to the computers we have available duringthe day that we've created a lab center, and the teachers haveaccess to it," said Wilson, adding that it stays open at night for thecommunity as Tulsa's first free computerized literacy lab.

Omaha Helps Local Businesses Rate ThemselvesJessie Rasmussen, from OMAHA 2000, described a local

Omaha strategy that supports the idea of a community effort a"report card for businesses to evaluate how good of a job they aredoing in terms of supporting education." Rasmussen said busi-nesses rate themselves on: 1) recruiting requiring a high schooldiploma and transcripts for employment; 2) promoting develop-ment and literacy in their own workforce; 3) supporting parentalinvolvement in local education; 4) making a direct connectionbetween what's happening in education and what's happening inthe workforce.

According to Rasmussen, one company which fared poorly inthe rating decided to give its employees one day with pay to eitherspend on their own children's education or just support educationin general. 'That's what a real partnership means," she said.

Ohio Asks About Keeping Potential Dropouts In SchoolDebbie Emery, Hamilton, Ohio, asked how states differ in the

mandatory ages for school attendance, "Why do we allow studentsto drop out at age 16?" According to Tulsa SuperintendentWilson, "in some states it is16, and some states, 18."

"You've got to make it exciting for young people to want to bethere in the first place," said Milliken, "integrate the world of workin the school and create an apprenticeship system...build a bridgewhere you actually have kids leaming...and be able to earn maybethe first paycheck in two and three generations in the family."

'We're spending, according to the National Affiance of Busi-ness, $30 to $40 billion a year to retrain young people," saidMilliken. " If we took $20 billion of that and really integrated itwith the schools earlier...I think we'd see a let of these youngpeople responding.

Secretary Alexander added that the states of Wisconsin andOregon both are taking a real hard look at just that. "And thenthere's 'Jobs for America,' a national program that tries tointegrate the world of work with a world of school," said Alex-ander.

Florida Asks About Help for Private SchoolsJulie Maglio, Brooksville, Florida, asked what was being done

in the area of funding to help private schools deal with "at-risk"children. According to Secretary Alexander, in several citiesfor example, San Antonio and Indianapolis private businesspeople are giving scholarships to low income children for privateschools. "Also in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, there is an

A 90% Graduation Rateexperiment with the support of the governor and Polly Williams,who's a state legislator, to try to give public money that wouldfollow children to private schools," said Alexander. "PresidentBush has consistently advocated and recommended to Congress notgiving money directly to private schools but giving governmentmoney to middle and low income families that they could thenspend at the school they think best meets the needs of their chil-dren, whether it's public or private."

Hot Springs Concerned About "At-Risk" ChildrenGus Scully, Hot Springs, South Dakota, asked San Antonio

leader Maria Ferrier about the city's intervention on behalf of at-riskstudents, primarily the program that works with preschool childrenand parents at the same time.

"The program you're talking about is Avance," said Ferrier.'Parents are brought in right in the community where they live, andare taught parenting skills, job skills training, while at the sametime, the children are [working]... at their own developmental pace.A lot of the funding has been federal, and some has been state."

Fall River Lowers Dropout RateJohn Correiro, Fall River, Massachusetts, noted that his

community has cut its dropout rate by 20 percent from 50

percent to 30 percent in the past five years. "We did get thebusiness community involved to a great extent," said Correiro.According to Correiro, the community did an eight-month BlueRibbon Committee study of the problem, then pressured thecommunity to focus on certain issues summer school, eveningschool, work study program and a mentor program. "Our mentorprogram is aimed at elementary schools, and I'm interested in the[San Antonio] program I heard about tonight, because obviously3,000 mentors go right through the high school," said Correiro. "Iwonder, is there a screening process [with that many mentors]?"

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According to Ferrier, in San Antonio, the mentor works with thestudent at the school, and very seldom, at least in the school-basedmenuxing programs, goes off the school campus. "As fares thescreening goes, we work very closely with the businesses so thatthere's an advisory council made up of the business people as wellas the school people, and we get to know each other very well,"said Ferrier. "They also fill out a personal profile as do the childrenwhen we match them."

Phoenix Looks at Homeless StudentsSandra Dowling, Maricopa County schools superintendent,

Phoenix, Arizona, noted that Phoenix is working on differentviable alternative forms of education, including a homelessprogram for students with no school district status due to their lackof shelter, and a teen pregnancy program. "Our county attorneyhas informed us that [with our] compulsory attendance [laws] wecould not actually do prosecution, nor do I think that we would optto do that anyway."

Tulsa Superintendent Wilson commented: "I can't stressenough that our state laws are not necessarily very strong. It's a$25 misdemeanor fine. You can be fined mote for parking yourcar in the wrong place than you can for not parking your child in

school.""So you can't actually go to jail?" asked Secretary Alexander.

"You don't necessarily, unless you don't show up, and then ourjudge might issue a bench warrant," said Wilson. "We've hadColorado and Kansas [call us]... interested in actually reforminglaws at the state level...."

California Asks About Standards for At-Risk StudentsDr. Joseph Ovick, Contra Costa Community College,

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Wilson also discussed Tulsa's STAR Center, one of the U.S. dropout demonstrationfederally-funded projects. It's making a difference because it helps to serve again all ofour county schools in Tulsa County....We could not do it without the involvement andcooperation of Tulsa County Vo-Tech," said Wilson. "It's been instrumental in givingstudents real training and real skills to become productive in the market again."

According to Wilson, it is important to remember that the dropout problem crosses"every socio-economic group, every race, both genders...giris as well as boys."Communities, Not Just Educators Needed Milliken

"We have to first start by understanding that we are not going to solve this strictly aseducators, but it's going to take the entire community to do it," said Cities in Schoolsfounder Milliken, a dropout himself.

I just came back from Brooklyn, where New York Schools Superintendent JosephFernandez and I opened up another school....In that audience were the superintendent...district borough ptssident...the unions... the social service people...the students, theparents, the mentors from the business community it was the whole community saying`we're going to turn this around'."Education and the California Riots---Alexander

"Education is usually not front page news or at the top of the evening television news,but education is the solution to most of what is," said Secretary Alexander. "I bad a goodlesson in that last week," referring to his recent visit to the city of Compton, California, siteof recent riots. "The school superintendent, Dr. J.L. Handy, told me that one reason forthat is that 75 percent of the 9th graders never finish high school."

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"In San Antonio, we're looking at accelerating [standards] because one of the things we're finding is that when you're workingwith young, at-risk people...these kids need an accelerated program, so it's almost raising the standards but making schoolexciting," said Ferrier.

Secretary Alexander added: " I think some of the most interesting work I've seen going on is the work that Dr. Henry Levin atStanford is doing with his Accelerated Schools. You don't slow anybody down, you speed them up. Dr. James Comer from Yale inhis schools; Ted Rim's work; the Success for All program in Baltimore all of these are showing that the at-risk kids don't benefitfrom being slowed down, and they can learn just as well as the others."

Fresno Finds Attendance Programs Make a DifferencePeter Mehas, Fresno County superintendent and FRESNO 2000 leader, noted that potential dropouts show patterns of poor

school attendance early-on, and the Fresno County school districts with vigorous attendance programs have made great gains inreducing the dropout rate. "Also, in terms...of early intervention ...we have what we call a K-6 program, where we're working veryclosely with the Department of Social Services and law enforcement agencies...[and] get social service workers into the schools at avery, very early age," said Mehas. He also noted that Fresno has been pror oting "those skills that they feel the students need inorder to be employable as they leave the schools."

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Second Satellite TmcnMeeting to Focus onSafe, Drug-Free Schools

On Tuesday, June 23, communitiesacross the country can participate in thesecond in a series of AMERICA 2000Satellite Town Meetings on the sixNational Education Goals. The topic ofthe meeting will be Goal 6, "By the year2000, every school in America will befire of drugs and violence and will offer adisciplined environment conducive tolearning."

The meeting, co-sponsored by theDepartment of Education and the U.S.Chamber of Commerce, will originatefrom the Chamber's studio in Washing-ton, D.C., at 8:30 EDT and last approxi-mately 60 minutes. Communities canparticipate in the discussion by arranging ameeting at a local satellite downlink siteand by calling a special telephone number(to be publicized during the meeting) toask questions or join in the discussion.[See box below for additional informa-tion].

Secretary Alexander will serve asmoderator and will be joined by:

John Bailey, aide to Trenton (NJ)Mayor Douglas Palmer (U) andproject director for Weed and Seed.Bailey will discuss the pilot programfor the federally-funded, community-based strategy designed to "weed out"crime, drug abuse and gang activitiesfrom targeted neighborhoods and"seed" them with educational,recreational and other services.

As Veronica Coleman. judge hi theMemphis (TN) juvenile courts andchair of the MEMPHIS 2000 taskforce on Goal Six. Coleman willdiscuss how Memphis, as a commu-nity, has organized 1 combat drugsand violence in local schools.

Mike Hall. principal of AndersonIfigh School. Cincinnati (OH). Hallwill discuss a program he developedfor drug and alcohol prevention thatfeatures athletes taking advantageof their status as role models anduses coaches to deliver a regular,structured drug and alcohol curricu-lum. The U.S. Drug EnforcementAgency now uses it as a model forother schools.

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Agenda for Denver's RegionalLeadership Workshop Set

John Gottschalk, publisher of the Omaha World Herald and chairman of OMAHA 2000 ,will serve as keynote speaker for the first of six AMERICA 2000 Regional LeadershipWorkshops, in Denver, Colorado, June 29-30.

Gottschalk will discuss community responsibilities in organizing AMERICA 2000initiatives, speaking trona his own experience with OMAHA 2000. Education SecretaryLamar Alexander also is scheduled to address the group via satellite and will follow with aquestion and answer session on a telephone hook-up.

In addition, several sessions will focus on various aspects of the AMERICA 2000 four-part challenge: 1) adopting the National Education Goals: 2) developing a community-wide strategy to meet them; 3) designing a report card to measure progress; and 4) planningfor and supporting a new American school.

Among other topics during the two-day session:A "Communicating the AMERICA 2000 Message The Importance of Getting

Community 'Buy-in";A "Programs that Work: Chambers of Commerce that are 'Breaking the Mold'";A "World Class Standards and Testing: A Voluntary System of Assessments."

The second workshop is scheduled for Atlanta, Georgia, on July 20-21. Additionalworkshops are planned for San Francisco and for the Northeast, Midwest and Southwestregions. AMERICA 2000 community and Chamber of Commerce leaders can attend anyworkshop regardless of region. For additional information, contact (202) 401-0039.

... How. to Join' the June .23 Satellite Town MeetingThe next Satellite Town Meeting will be Tuesday, June 23, 8:30 p.m, EDT. A lest signal

will begin at 8 p.m.

Locating a Downlink SiteProvide your "downlink' site with the following Satellite Coordinates:

Chan& Kn-bandGalaxy 6 SBS-6Transponder 9, Channel 9 Transponder 10Horizontal Polarization Vertical polarizationDownlink frequency 3880 Mhz Downlink frequency 11945.5 MhzAudio Subcarrier: 6.2 and 6.8 Audio Suixarrier: 6.2 and 6.8

Please note that the C-band coordinates are different from the ones used for the firstAMERICA 2000 Sopilite Town Meeting. The Ku-band coordinates remain the same.

J.C. Penney Co. has informed the Department that it intends to make downlink sitesavailable at selected stores in the Central, Mountain and Pacific Time Zones [not the Eastern orAtlantic Tune Zones because of site hours]. The AMERICA 2000 Office (1- 800-USA-LEARN) has a listing of the local J.C. Penney stores which plan to offer downlink sites.

Can't locate a downlink? Have technical problems at the last minute which can't be fixed in

time for the transmission? Call (719) 444-0803 for a live, audio-only *eel of the meeting.

Here's How Other Communities Did It...County educational centers, local schools and even a neighborhood pub were usedby

communities to arrange satellite "downlinks" and meeting places for the firstAMERICA 2000Satellite Town Meeting, May 26. Many cannaunities picked up the meeting on local cable

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NEWS IN BRIEF....NAMI 2000 Kicks Off

On May 29, Secretary Alex-ander joined community, educa-tion and.business leaders at theGraham Center for the launch ofMIAMI 2000. Leading the Miamieffort are Florida InternationalUniversity (RU), Miami-DadeCommunity College, Dade Countypublic schools and the GreaterMiami Chamber of Commerce.Our plans fit right into theAMERICA 2000 plan," said FIUPresident Modesto Maldique.-IBILENE (7X) 2000 Launched

On May 21, ABILENE 2000kicked off at the local civic center.Assistant Secretary for ChIll RightsMichael Williams represented theEducation Department

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Grant Announced to Develop World Class Arts StandardsThe U.S. Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Arts and the

National Endowment for the Humanities launched a key element of the AMERICA 2000Arts Partnership on June 4 by announcing a $250,000 grant to a consortium of artsethical= to develop voluntary World Class Standards for arts education. The grantannounced is for the first year of what Is expected to be a two-year effort

The grant will enable the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations whichincludes representatives from the American Alliance for Theater and Education, the MusicEd6cators National Conference, the National Art Education Association, and the NationalDance Association to coordinate and oversee the development of voluntary World ClassStandards In the major arts disciplines dance, theater, the visual arts and music and otherrelated subjects.

The AMERICA 2000 Arts Partnership was announced in March and is a sc mn-partstrategy that Includes developing voluntary World Class Standards for the knowlec,ge, skillsend understanding that al students should acquire in the arts.

In addition to developing voluntary World Class Standards, the AMERICA 2000 ArtsPartnership calls for: involving AMERICA 2000 communities in arts education; helping statesImplement the new voluntary standards; creating a National Center for Arts Education;expanding the National Assessment of Educational Progress to include arts assessmentdeveloping a research agenda in arts education; and designing a National Arts EducationDissemination Network.

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Lexington (MA) watched the fast Satellite Town Meeting in a local school, since nasty allthe schools have satellite dishes and an access channel provided by the MassachusettsCorporation for Educational Teleconferences. The local able company also made theSatellite Town Meeting available to the community.Highland County (OH) watched at the IDEA Center (Individual Development andEconomic Advancement) which houses the Chamber of Commerce and the Adu _ Educa-tion Department of Great Oaks Joint Vocational School. The cable company provided theservice free, and the local K-Mart loaned televisions at no cost for the meeting .Manatee (FL) viewed the Town Meeting at the school system's Instructional MaterialsCenter, which has a satellite dish bed located at the Media Resource Center for all teachersand school specialists. The Town Meeting was broadcast community -wide through theManatee Educational Television System, and the Chamber hosted anon -site meeting forparents, teachers, and businem leaders.%hint (IA) used the county extension service center (18 miles away), which has adownlink facility on-site for learning, when the local cable company said it could notarrange the downlink.Piscataway/Middlesex (NJ) found out that the local cable company could not downlinkeider satellite, so organizers turned to Max's Spats Cafe, which could pick up Galaxy 6.The restaurant provided a meeting area and phone to call in.

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Pierre Brought in the Police. About30 residents in Pierre, South Dakota,held a local meeting before and afterthe satetlite transmission to discusscommunity needs and invited thepolice to speak about crime, drugsand alcohol in the schools. Ifs away that we can pull our assetstogether,".said Tom Lackey, PIERRE2000 coordinator.San Antonio Met 0pren Style. Anhour before the satellite transmission.San Antonio-, Texas, held a forumORM Winfrey style with SANANTONK) 2000:leader KaryneConley, Waking around the audiencewith a microphone, takkig commentsand questions. About 70 SanAntonians listened toe panel whichincluded members of Victory Out-reach, a group of former gangmembers w'rio help keep youngstersfrom joining gangs... According toSkip Cox, chairman of SAN ANTO-NIO 2000, the rnee6ng is 'a verypositive thing. It is really getting thatdialogue moving._

Forces. About1St) people representing Nile schooldistricts in Bentonville. Arkansas,attended a meetingat Wal-Martheadquarters. After the SateliiteTown Meeting, school administrators,teachers, parents, and interestedcitizene were able to comment andask questions,m..,:ickinson.Focused on SingeDrinking, About 25 people attendeda local meeting after the SatelliteTown Meeting to discuss bingedrinking in Dickinson, North Dakota.Participants included teachers,representatives from the Chamber ofCommerce and the local Coca Colacompany, school administrators,representatives from the juveniledivis,on, and the dean of studentaffairs at Dickinson State University,

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Trenton, New Jersey, is using a community-based program to "weed" out crime anddrug use and "seed" neighborhoods with social and educational services. Memphis,Tennessee, has formed a local task force to address school-related drug and violenceproblems. Both communities were highlighted during the second AMERICA 2000Satellite Town Meeting, June 23, which focused on National Education Goal 6 safe,disciplined, drug-free schools.

Nearly 400 communities and local chambers of commerce arranged satellite "down-links" to join the meeting, which was sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce andthe U.S. Department of Education and moderated by Secretary Lamar Alexander. Guestsin the U.S. Chamber's studio in Washington, D.C., were:

John Bailey, aide to Trenton Mayor Douglas Palmer (D) and project director for thecity's federall:, -sponsored Weed and Seed program;Veronica Coleman, judge in the Memphis juvenile courts and chair of the MEMPHIS2000 task force on Goal Six; andMike Hall, principal of Anderson High School, Cincinnati, Ohio, and creator of aschool-based drug and alcohol prevention program focusing on athletes.

Weed and Seed Harnesses Community Resources Bailey"We've cleared out the open air drug traffickers and removed the violent offenders from

particular areas of Trenton," said John Bailey, who said that the Weed and Seed programalso provides four "safe haven schools," which are kept open after the normal school dayfor use by the community. "What we've tried to do is to make sure that young people,seniors, families, have a place to go for enrichment be it educational, recreational,cultural or social."

Secretary Alexander noted that Kansas City, Missouri, is the other test site for a Weedand Seed program, and 17 other cities including Boston, Denver and Los Angeleshave been awarded federal funds for their own programs. "If you want to ask aboutstarting up a Weed and Seed project. please call your local U.S. Attorney," he said.Parents Critical in Curbing School Drug and Violence Coleman

According to Veronica Coleman, the MEMPHIS 2000 Task Force sees the home andfamily as central to finding a solution for drugs and violence in the schools. "Schoolsystems balk when it is suggested that the solution to drugs and violence is going to befound within the school system," said Coleman. "If children see violence at home, if theysee disrespect, then that's what they're going to bring with them to the classroom."

Coleman observed that many of the MEMPHIS 2000 Task Force recommendationsindicted some type of parental training, "even parental training for students, because somany young students are having children of their own. We have to start very early."

Among existing programs helping Memphis reach Goal 6:Memphis City Schools' Center for Drug Free Schools, established two years ago,offers prevention and treatment services to students, teachers, parents, schools andcommunities.The Urban Initiative works in tandem with Drug Free Schools' Center, recruiting atid


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Communities Talk Goal 6: Safe,Leaders in 400 communities across the country joined the second AMERICA 2000 Satellite Town Meeting, June 23, with questions and

comments about Goal 6 safe, disciplined, drug-free schools by the year 2000. Following are highlights of the hour-long meeting:

Lehigh Valley Asks About Community CooperationJerry MeAddams, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, asked howother sectors of the community work with the schools in dealingwith the conditions that breed drug use and violence. TrentonOfficial John Bailey responded: "You bring those sectors of thecommunity together that are interested in the problem...1 startedwith community meetings....My second visit was to the schoolsuperintendent, to make sure that she was aware of what we weredoing and to get her blessings for opening up the schools....[It'simportant] to bring together parents...to make sure they areeducated ...."

San Antonio Wants More on What WorksKaryne Conley, San Antonio, Texas, noted that San Antonio's"CO" [Coalition] is successfully bringing together communitygroups. Conley asked about similar programs in other parts of thecountry. Memphis Juvenile Court Judge Veronica Colemanresponded: "[O]ur program...the Urban Initiative.., brings together[community groups]....I think every school in Memphis now hasbeen adopted by a business. They actually took all of theseinterested community participants to a two-day retreat...and theycame away with action plans."

Nliddletown Talks Parental InvolvementDeb Edgerton, Middletown, Ohio, asked about strategies toincrease and improve parental involvement. John Bailey re-sponded: "[In Trenton], we're organizing parents in the SafeHaven Schools program....[W]e have a Community AdvisoryBoard for each Safe Haven school where parents are directlyinvolved in...prog,rarnming....Safe Haven schools are open from3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., and [earlier] during the summer.... We'retrying to make sure we address the types of concerns that parentsfeel are important....Education enrictunent...technology...are builtinto our Safe Haven programs. At the same time, we try to bringparents in and make them more aware of the types of things thatthey need to be about...."

Dana.: Fights School Drugs/CrimeBlanca Martinez, Dallas, Texas, talked about a successfulDallas-based program, Nuestro .,ire, which receives federalsupport. "We're a community-based organization that has formeda partnership with the schooLs....We've been very successful inlowering gang violence....We provide mentors for the kids...counseling...field trips...parenting classes. Home visits aremandated for the counselors....The kids themselves wrote andproduced a play [about a type of drug commonly used in theLatino Community]....We take it to all of the elementary andmiddle schools, and the kids talk to the kids. For more informa-tion about the program, call the Office of Juvenile Justice [U.S.Department of Justice; 202-307-5914] or Nuestro Centro [inDallas; 214-948-TEEN]."

Contra Costa County Asks About Federal FundingJean Perry, San Pablo, California, asked: "The Contra CostaCouncil Education Task Force...wants to know [if] you foreseesustained federal funding like five to ten years available toimplement drug prevention and early intervention programs inschools. Secretary Alexander responded: "Yes. I've talked tomany of the members of Congress. From Washington, it's

difficult to do things that are really useful in local classrooms andcommunities, but the Congress has committed to that."

Coachella Valley Talks About Federal SupportJaneil Esmeralda, Coachella Valley, California, noted that hercommunity has been declared an enterprise zone and asked if thereis any advantage in receiving Weed and Seed funding. Trenton'sJohn Bailey responded: "I think it is to your advantage...MhePresident's fiscal year budget for '93, part of the $500 million...will be tied to the enterprise zones...." [Editor's Note: see leadstory for details on "Weed and Seed"]

Secretary Alexander added, "I'm glad you're thinking andtalking about things that way.... [Y]ou can'lialkarboutalLtheseprograms separately....Adding enterprise zone to that, taking all thefederal and state and local programs, pulling them together andfocusing them on children is really what an AMERICA 2000community is all about."

Hattiesburg Asks About Prenatal Drug Abuse VictimsSheila Jackson, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, asked for someexamples of successful programs for children entering school whohave been victims of prenatal drug abuse. John Bailey replied:"...[I]n school districts around the country, superintendents,principals, referees, everyone is concerned about this issue. Iwould suggest [that] the caller...try to find out what may be theparticular need in your community...." [Editor's Note: For thelatest research on this topic and examples of community-basedprograms, contact: National Association for Perinatal AddictionResearch and Education; 11 E Hubbard Street, Suite 200; Chicago,IL 60611; 312-329-2512.]

Anchorage Asks about Financing Education ReformPatricia Needy in Anchorage, Alaska, asked how Memphisfinanced its education reform committee. Veronica Colemanresponded: "We started with five or six sponsors from the businesscommunity. I believe our original budget was at S75,000....Wehave a great volunteer effort [and] three coordinatorsWe've gotgreat support from the business community to help usimplement..some of the recommendations...."

Richmond Asks About Inner City Role ModelsAlonza Lawrence, Richmond, Virginia, asked for suggestions onways to keep role models in communities hard hit by drugs andviolence. Trenton's John Bailey responded: "...[Y]ou can nevertell a person where he or she can live. I think we need to come togrips with that....[W]e just sent approximately 100 black male rolemodels into the middle schools in Trenton....The superintendentidentified middle school youngsters as having a pressing need, andthe mayor made a call to his friends and other African-Americanmales to come to his office....be oriented and trainedThen wetake those people and tie them into the school district's mentoringprograms...rather than trying to create another mentor program...."

Port Jervis l'se.s Early InterventionAnn Corcoran, Port Jervis, New York, noted that her commu-nity is using early intervention to build students' self-esteem ingrade school and early middle school. She observed that moretrained people arc needed at a time when education is facingbudget cuts. Secretary Alexander replied: "Often by the time we

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DiscOlinec4 Drug-Free Schoolsrecognize a need in Washington...the need is something different.The President's proposal [GI Bill for Children, announced onJune 25 to be discussed in the next AMERICA 2000 Newslet-ter] will give scholarships to middle and low income families thatthey can take to schools that meet the needs of their children, andthen the schools themselves can decide how to spend the money. Ifthey want to hire counselors, stay open until 8:00 or 9:00 at night,or create a safe haven, they can do that, because usually theteachers on the spot have a better idea of what needs to happen tothose children than somebody in Washington."

Marietta Talks Weapons PoliciesFrances Roberson, Marietta, Georgia, asked about schoolweapons policies. Cincinnati Principal Mike Hall replied: "We tryto make the school a very high risk area for drugs...weapons....Weset up a student handbook that spells out the consequences....When...we have to take somebody out in handcuffs, we take themout when there is a class change, and then everyone in schoolknows that it's going on."

Oakhurst Has Voluntary Drug TestingBob LaBelle, Oakhurst, California, told participants that hiscommunity has just started a voluntary drug testing program in thehigh school, and he would be willing to share that with anyonewho's interested in that program. "We have parents and studentsboth sign up for the program. The [drug test] results come backjust to the parent and the student if it's a positive test. We've had alot of success....It gives students an opportunity to say no....Wehave up to 45 percent of our students involved right now."[Editor's Note: For more information, contact 1-800-USA-LEARN (for a fact sheet) or Bob LaBelle 209-683-4667.

Santa Fe Asks About Student CourtsMike Berry, Santa Fe, Texas, asked for examples of communi-ties using student courts to oversee violations that occur on schoolproperty. [Editor's Note: Does your community have a successfulstudent court? Contact the AMERICA 2000 Newsletter, U.S.Department of Education; 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W.; Room2089, Washington, D.C. 20202.]

Salem Talks Student Courts...Parenting EducationDon Perkins, Salem, Oregon, called in to respond to Berry'squestion: "Student courts used to [exist] about 1970," said Perkins,"but they don't seem to be doing very much around the country atthis point." He then asked about parenting education programs.Secretary Alexander said: "Senator Bond of Missouri hasintroduced legislation that would expand Missouri's Parents AsTeachers prograrn....Missouri has had several years experiencewith the program, and feels it helps. It's voluntary. Nobody goesbursting into a home, but parents who want help can get someadvice." [Editor's Note: For information about Parents AsTeachers, contact Parents As Teachers National Center; Universityof Missouri-St. Louis; 8001 Natural Bridge Road; St. Louis,Missouri 63121; 314-553-5738.]

Veronica Coleman added: "There is a school inMemphis...teaching the high school teenagers who have had apregnancy how to be parents. I'm sure that's funded through theMemphis City School System budget....There may be some statefunds available for that type of parenting, but for the adultsthemselves, in parent education, that's largely done throughseparate groups like mental health centers. John Bailey con-cluded: "...[I]f you're shrewd and creative, you will find a way to

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September 15.16Additional workshop sites will be listed

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Goal 6, continue'be able to put together, through foundations and corporations, dollars to support programs

along those lines." For additional information on parent training, contact the National

Federation of Parents 314-968-1322 orthe Parent's Resource Institute for Drug Education

404-577-4500.Bentonville Asks About Integrating Drug EducationMarinelle Adair, Bentonville, Arkansas, asked how schools are placing programslike

drug education in their curricula. Hall responded: "In the health curriculum, a substance

abuse section would certainly fit...and one of the goals obviously is to have a K through 12

substance abuse curriculum. The thing that is really key...is to integrate this whole idea of

substance abuse in all of the other curricula....You can easily, in Language Arts classes or

English clas-es, have students writing about the subject. in Social Studies classes, and

economi'e classes."Coleatan added: "The Memphis Mendez Curriculum...is in K through 12....In the first

six grades, it is taught through the health courses curriculum, but in the upper grade levels,

it's taught through the core courses...and it's supposed to be not only an intervention but

prevention curriculum as well."

training community volunteers who help sponsor drug awareness fairs and parades, "Just Say No" clubs, "Urban Olympics" recre-

ational events, etc. Seventeen Urban Initiative school/community teams exist.

The Mendez Curriculum, in place for grades K-12 in Memphis schools, presents facts about drugs and teaches skills to resist peer

pressure. In the early grades, the curriculum is presented as a separate unit; in high school it is integrated into social studies, health, law

n d other courses.About Face is an eight-month, boot-camp style training program created at the request of the Memphis Juvenile Court to serve 14-17

year-old drug offenders.

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Cincinnati School Principal Mike Hall observed that drug and alcohol problems cross all

communities from inner cities to suburbia. "There are [drug/alcohol] programs that are

successful in all kinds of settings, but basically the strategies are the same," said Hall.

Hall's drug and alcohol awareness program requires all student athletes (about half the

student population) to sign a pledge promising to be alcohol- and drug-free during the sports

season. Parents are asked to co-sign. Central to the program is "The Room," a drop-in

counseling center open all day long during school and staffed by adult and student volunteers.

"It's in an out-of-the-way place, but they're basically free to discuss anything they want to

discuss," said Hall. "The number one rule is whatever is said there, stays there."

Before the program started, 68 percent of the student athletes admitted to alcohol use and 35

percent said they used drugs. A recent survey found that 97 percent of Anderson athletes are

now alcohol- and drug- free during their sport season, and 72 percent say they stayed that way

for the entire year.The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has published Hall's program and distributes it with the

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President Proposes "GI Bill for Children!'Calling it "a crucial component of our effects to help the country achieve theNational Education

Goals," President Bush transmitted to the Congress a new "GI Bill for Children" on June 25. Theproposed legislation would authorize $503 million in new federal (FY93) funds and additional

amounts in later years for states and immunities to give $1,000 scholarships to middle- and low-income children. Families could spend the scholarships at any lawfully operatingschool of their

choice public, private, or religious including up to $500 of the money for supplementaryacademic services for their children.

Ina message to Congress, the President notedthat the bill "will give middle- and low-incomefamilies more of the same choices available towealthier families." Ile described why themeasure is modeled after the existing CI Bill forveterans:

This consumer power gave veteransopportunity, helped to create the bestsystem of colleges and universities in theworld and gave America a new generationof leaders.... This bill fG1 Bill for Chil-dren] will...provide new funds at the schoolsite that teachers and principals can use tohelp all children achieve...create a market-place of educational opportunities to helpimprove all schools.; engage parents intheir children's schooling; and encouragecreation of other academic programs forchildren before and after school, onweekends, or during school vacations.

States or localities would be required to applyfor the funding, and the Secretary of Educationwould select grantees on the basis of:1) the number and variety of choices made

available to families;2) the extent to which the applicant has provided

educational choices to all children, includingchildren who are not eligible for scholarships;

3) the proportion of children who will participatefrom low-income families;

4) The applicant's financial support (includingprivate support) for the project.

The maximum family income allowed foreligibility would be determined by the state orlocality receiving the grant, bit it could notexceed the greater of the median income for thestate or the national median income, adjusted forfamily size. In 1989, the national median familyincome for a family of four was about 540,0(X).

'This is the muscle parents need to transformour education system and create the test schoolsin the world for all our children," said thePresident.

What the CI Bill for ChildrenCan Mean for Conununities...

The Education Department hasproduced a table showing the impact olthe new proposed federal grants onselected school districts across thecountry [Editor's Note: states, cities,counties and other governmental unitsare also eligible to receive grants.]

Birmingham, Alabama, for example,would be eligible for up to $34 millionunder the GI Bill for Children, based on

the fact that there are 46,000 public andprivate school children within the localschool district, and 34,000 middle- andlow - income children would be eligible for51,000 scholarships. This is more thandouble the amount the district alreadyreceives from the Department forelementary and secondary educationprograms. The $500 ninon for the GIBill in the first year could fund roughly 15districts similar to Birmingham.

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Indianapolis, Indiana, would beeligible to receive up to S37 million innew funds over and above (andalmost double) the 19.7 millionfederal dollars currently provided bythe Department of Education;Milwaukee, Wisconsin, would beeligible to receive up to $72 million innew funds more than double theamount provided by the Departmentof Education in 1990.91:San Jose, California, would beeligible for up to $20 million in newfunds over and above current fundinglevels and almost six times the $3.3million provided in the 1988-89 schoolyear.

For more information about the GI Billfor Children, including a listing of possibleawards in selected school districts, call 1-8CO-USA.LEARN.

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Grant Announced to Develop Civics StandardsThe Department of Education has

awarded $505,000 to the Center for CivicEducation to support a two-year projectto develop voluntary World ClassStandards for elementary and secondaryeducation in government and civics.

Secretary Lamar Alexander was joinedby former U.S. Supreme Court ChiefJustice Warren Burger and CenterDirector Charles N. Quigley at theannouncement on July 1. EducationDepartment funding will be supple-mented by $200,000 from the PewCharitable Trusts.

The grants will enable the Center, withassistance from the National Council forthe Social Studies and a national reviewcommittee, to coordinate the develop-

ment of education standards at variousgrade levels. The review committee willinclude educators; evaluation experts;scholars in history, the humanities andthe social sciences; and representativesof professional organizations.

In addition to supporting the develop-ment of standards in civics, the Depart-ment has announced similar initiatives inhistory, with the National Center forHistory in the Schools; in science, withthe National Academy of Science; andthe arts, with a consortium of artseducators. Standards in mathematicshave already been developed and arebeing implemented by the NationalCouncil of Teachers of Mathematics.

Need Help in Assessing Your Conznnwity Educational Needs?

The AMERICA 2000 Office has learned of two assessment tools whichmight be useful for communities looking for help in assessing their strengthsand weaknesses in terms of reaching the six National Education Goals:I. United Way's COMPASS Program --a community assessment and

action system developed at United Way of America through a grantfrom the Gannett Foundation with help from the Urban Institute.Many local United Way offices have purchased this assessment packagefrom national headquarters and may be willing to work with localAMERICA 2000 groups in determining local education needs. Forinformation about the package, contact your local United Way organiza-tion or United Way of America; 401 N. Fairfax St.: Alexandria, VA22314 -2034: 703-683-7887, (Jim Morrison).

2. A five- page Community Assessment Format developed by the Cities inSchools program to assist local AMERICA 2000 communities, assessschool needs, problems and resources. For a copy, contact 1- 800 -USA-LEARN.

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NASDC Selects 11 Design Teamsfor Break-the-Mold Schools

The New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) announced onJuly 9 the selection of 11 design teams whose ideas will serve as blueprints forcommunities to reinvent their schools to reach the National Education Goals. Theselection was made from nearly 700 proposals received in response to theCorporation's call last Fall for proposals to "help all students meet world-classstandards in at least five core subjects.

"These New American School design teams are in the forefront of a movement thatwill, by the end of the 1990s, create revolutionary new schools," said President Bush."I know that AMERICA 2000 Communities in every state will be anxious to studyand to use these new school designs to help create their own New American Schools."

The design teams will work initially in schools and school systems in more than 20states. They will reach elementary, middle and high school students, along with pre-schoolers and older citizens in urban, suburban and rural areas.

"I know that AAIERICA 2000 Communities inevery state will be anxious to study and to use thesenew school designs to help create their own New.4merican Schools." President George Bush

"Our challenge brought together the talent, energy and vision of many of thenation's most creative thinkers in education and business, along with communityleaders and parents," said NASDC President and CEO Ann McLaughlin. "It unitedthem in creating real plans to help students make a quantum leap in learning."

Criteria important to the selections included the likelihood that the designs willenable all students to reach the National Education Goals and attain world classstandards, and the quality of plans to assess the performance of the design. Amongthe proposals: new teacher/mentor relationships; the moving of "classrooms" intocommunity areas such as government offices, libraries and technology centers;performance, instead of age, groupings; integration of health and social services intoschool sites; and curricula designed to develop good students and good citizens [see page2 for details.]

"Our challenge brought together the talent,energy and vision of many of the nation's mostcreative thinkers in education and business,along with conzmunity leaders and parents."

.Ann McLaughlinNASDC President and CEO

NASDC currently is in the process of negotiating contracts with each of the 11 teams.The teams will develop, test and implement their designs in three phases:A Phase I, Search and Design (Summer 1992-Summer 1993). Initial contracts will be

for one year, during which each team is expected to develop the basic design itproposes and define the standiuds against whit.' the design will be assessed.

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NASDC Teams Offer Ideas,With its selection of 11 design teams, the New American Schools Development Corporation set in motion individuals and organizations

that bring together theory and education practice to apply to the design of break-the-mold New American Schools. These schools will helpcommunities across the country reach the six National Education Goals:

ATLAS Communities, Providence, RISeveral corporations and business organizations have joined forceswith reformers James Comer, Theodore Sizer and HowardGardner in a proposal which focuses on the overall development ofthe child looking at all the relationships that the child isengaged in while growing up and trying to make them meaningful,important and supportive. The design calls for specialized "teams"to help ensure continuity in management, forge bonds betweenschools and communities and encourage students' intellectual andsocial development, For example, a planning and managementteam comprised of teachers, parents, school counselors, highschool students and the principal will prioritize, coordinate andmonitor school activities. A community health team of teachers,parents and community health officials will focus on childdevelopment issues and school-wide problemse.g., how to dealwith a high transfer rate. [Contact: Theodore R. Sizer, Coalitionof Essential Schools; Brown University; Box 1969; Providence, RI02912]

The Odyssey Project, Gaston County, NCFamily involvement in schooling is a primary goal of the project,which /Inquires mastery of the basics combined with language,art, and drama in five levels of schooling or "learning centers"based on performance outcomes instead of grade levels. Adultfamily members are expected to provide 10-20 hours of service tothe learning centers each year. A Learning Support Center will beopen 12 hours a day, and students will attend school at least 200days each year. Social and health services will be available oncampus. By the time they graduate, students will have performedat least 220 hours of community service and will leave schooltechnologically literate. [Contact: Joseph F. Miller, GastonCounty Design Team; 943 Osceola Street; P. O. Box 1397;Gastonia, NC 28053]

Roots and Wings, Lexington Park, MI)Led by design team leader Robert E. Slavin of Johns HopkinsUniversity, Roots and Wings focuses primarily on rural childrenfrom birth through age 11, in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Itcombines several high-performance components already proven bySlavin's Center for Research on Effective Schooling for Disadvan-taged Students to ensure that all children enter school ready tolearn and exit 5th grade ready for higher level schooling. Rootsand Wings includes innovative uses of federal support already inplace (e.g., Chapter 1 and special education money for prevention,intervention and tutoring) and Maryland's new break-the-moldassessment to measure progress. The proposal involves anextended day and a "family support to in" at cash school. [Con-tact: Robert E. Slavin; Center for Research on Effective School-ing; Johns Hopkins University; 3505 N. Charles Street; Baltimore,MD 21218]

The National Alliance for Restructuring Educatimi,Rochester. NYLed by Marc Tucker, president and founder of the National Centeron Education and the Economy, the National Alliance has as itsgoal a Total Quality Management (TQM), output - driven, pet foo

mance-oriented system of education with students meeting highnational achievement standards. The plan calls for a complete re-invention of the present system e.g., an output-based curriculumwith an effective school-to-work transition program, health andhuman services integrated with the schools and altered teachingand management methods. The design envisions 243 break-the-mold schools in seven states by 1995. [Contact: Marc Tucker;National Center on Education and the Economy; 39 State Street;Suite 500; Rochester, NY 14614]

The Bensenville Community Design, Bensenville, ILUnder the design, schools would see the entire Bensenvillecommunity as the campus for learning. Students might, forinstance, study mathematics in the morning at the bank and studywriting in the afternoon at the local newspaper. At the heart of thecommunity campus will be a Lifelong Learning Center. Technol-ogy will become as familiar to students as pencils, and an elec-tronic teaching center replaces the teacher's desk, connecting theteacher and a file server to students' computers. The design is"community generated" by a team led by Len Sirotzki, director ofthe Dupage-Kane Educational Service Center, which includes thevillage manager, school superintendent, local pharmacist andpresident of the student council. [Contact: Sharon Probloske;Bensenville Intergovernmental Group; 700 West Irving Park Road;Bensenville, IL 60106]

The College for Human Services (The Audrey CohenCollege Design Team), New York, NYThe Audrey Cohen College proposal is based on the idea thatstudents learn best when they can see the connection between whatthey are learning and the real world. Core subjects would befocused to relate to a central "Purpose" each semester whichcombines knowledge and a socially important thrust (for example,"We Use Technology to Met Human Needs"). Students willspend several hours in community-based organizations outside theclassroom each week, directly applying what they have learned atschool. Other aspects of the proposal include curriculum planningby teacher teams, strong parent and surrogate parent involvement,principals serving as "educational brokers" between the commu-nity and the schools, and a strong citizenship component to studentassessment. Initial sites are in seven to 30 school a. in Arizona,California, Illinois, Mississippi, Washington, D.C., and New YorkCity. San Diego City Schools are among those already selectedand committed. [Contact: Audrey C. Cohen; The College forHuman Services; 345 Hudson Street; New York, NY 10014]

Community Learning Centers, Minneapolis, MNThe Minnesota-based plan works with existing budgets and thefive core subjects but uses charter schools or contract schools tobypass the current system of rules and regulations. Teacheraccountability and flexibility are central to the design withteachers assuming broader roles in managing imtructional systemsand involving parents and the community in the learning program.Student learning will be tied closely to community activity (e.g.,learning world geography through interest in short wave radio orftieodships with international exchange students). Each center will

Technology, Community Involvementbe managed by a council broadly representative of the communitywhich will play a major role in assessing learning outcomes andmonitoring funds. Several foundations and Minnesota-basedschool districts are in partnership with Wayne Jennings, presidentof Designs for Learning; John Cairns, attorney and business leader,Joe Nathan, University of Minnesota; and Elaine Salinas, UrbanCoalition. [Contact: John Cairns; Public Schools Incentives; 2400IDS Center; Minneapolis, MN 55402]

The Co-NECT School, Cambridge, MA.With a curriculum focused primarily on math and science, the Co-NECK Schools will use practical applications of existing technolo-gies in classrooms in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts.Curriculum will be based on student-initiated projects andseminars, and students will be "clustered" in groups of 100, withhalf a dozen teachers to support the cluster and to follow thestudents for several years. Each student will have a personalgrowth plan, and progress will be monitored by portfolio andresume. A computer-based network will connect all schoolcommunity members to each other and to local, national andglobal learning resources. [Contact: John Richards; Bolt Beranekand Newman; 10 Moulton Street; Cambridge, MA 02138]

Expeditionary Learning, Boston, MAThe design is based on the idea that children will learn to think ifthey are taken through programmatically-related voyages andadventures. The five core subjects are intertwined in all programs;and the International Baccalaureate, one of the most demandingacademic programs in the world, will be the standard by whichstudents will be assessed. A crew of 25 students, accompanied by

a guide (teacher), will set out on expeditions which may, forexample, trace the historical development of mapping and naviga-tion, help a community agency plan a park or binding, or teachsenior citizens how to use a computer to write their own history.Crew members also will shadow business people and otherprofessionals. Each crew and guide will remain together for threeyears. Progress is assessed orally and in writing. Initial sites arein Portland, Maine; Boston, Massachusetts; New York, New York;Decatur, Georgia; and Douglas County, Colorado. [Contact:Diana Lam; Outward Bound USA; 384 Held Point Road; Green-wich, CT 06830]

The Los Angeles Learning Centers, Los AngelesCounty, CAThe Learning Center design, planned frie two sites in Los Angeles,addresses the diversity of the student population there. It calls for a"moving diamond" of support for students that links each youngstudent with an older student, a teacher, and a parent or communityvolunteer. The Centers will integrate and link Los Angeles Countyhealth and social service agencies. and community resourcecoordinators will help teachers and students use the community astheir classroom. Each school will have a technology manager; useachievement portfolios to assess student learning; and have classesungraded in clusters of K-4, 5-8 and 9-12. Cooperating in theproject are five corporate partners. top leadership of the LosAngeles Unified School District and the United Teachers of LosAngeles, experts, teachers, parents and the city's public educationfund. [Contact: Peggy Funkhouser; Los Angeles EducationPartnership; 315 West 9th Street; Suite 1110; Los Angeles, CA90015]

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Design Teams and Their initial Start-up SitesThe New American Schools Development Corporation has selected 11 dcsignteams to work with dozens of schools and school systems in more than 20 states.

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including master teachers, associateteachers, advisors, aides and volunteers.Within each level of school, students will

be grouped in multi-age, multi-year"homerooms" where students haveteacher/advisors. The school will organizethe curriculum around a new unit ofmeasure to gauge mastery and will assessstudent progress at three transitional or"watershed" levels primary, middle andupper. Former Secretary of EducationWilliam Bennett leads the design team,which includes officials from the HudsonInstitute. Implementation sites are plannedin several locations in Indiana and inCharlotte, North Carolina. [Contact:Leslie Lenkowsky; Hudson Institute;Herman Kahn Center; P.O. Box 26919;Indianapolis, IN 46226]

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MEE77NGTHE AM a CA 2000 FOUR -PART C o GEMore than 180 people representing 19 states and American Samoa participated in the first AMERICA 2000 Regional Leadership

Workshop held in Denver, June 29-30, and sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Education.During the conference, representatives from three communities and a state board of education official discussed their community's

experiences in meeting the AMERICA 2000 four-part challenge: 1) to adopt the six National Education Goals; 2) develop a community-wide strategy to meet them: 3) design a report card to measure progress; and 4) plan for and support a New American School.

Following are excerpts from the discussion:

I ADOPTING THE GOALS - MURRAY, UTAHRon Stephens, superintendent, Murray Public Schools, MURRAY 2000: Our start [with AMERICA 2000] was to show

the AMERICA 2000 video [from the U.S. Department of Education] at an open local school board meeting. Our board ofeducation got excited about the concept We ended up with an excellent article in the local newspaper and that..got us started.

The board cirected us to appoint a steering committee....Our committee met...We decided that the next step would be to see ifwe could invite an expert from Denver to come over and present to us some of the ideas about AMERICA 2000....We alsodecided that in our invitations we'd try to invite as broad a base as we could from Murray....Don't leave any groups out...In Utah,

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2 DEVELOPING THE COMMUNITY-WIDE STRATEGY - GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADOCathie Lining°, parent and small business owner, GRAND VALLEY VISION 2000 (formerly GRAND JUNCTION

2000): In 1989, our businesses through the Chamber and our education community formed a partnership which reallyhelped our 2000 initiative, because the ground work had been laki....When we were called to action for COLORADO 2000 bythe Governor [Roy Romer (D)] that business-ed partnership...chose to [bring in] the other components of the oomrnunity...thereligious leaders, the minority representation, and certainly the parents, and all other factions in the community that needed tobuy into this movement if it was going to be successful.

So with that, our steering committee pulled together...12 people...and we ell sat down and came up with a Ust of names ofpeople specifically geared toward each of the six Goals. And we ended up with 350 people at the first teleconference at thekickoff a year ago. Since that time it has really been a whirlwind of events. Ifs riot been easy. Ifs been controversial at times. It'sbeen emotionally taxing on everyone, but I will say to you that one of the most important components of your strategies for

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3 CREATING A COMMUNITY REPORT CARD TO MEASURE PROGRESS - OMAHA, NEBRASKAConnie Spellman, vice president, education, Greater OrKaha Clwnber of Cormercl, OMAHA 2000, Nebrisga: 'We

do not have a community report card yet...INe have a process and we have some expectations of what that community reportcard will do....We have divided our task forte into subcommittees... [induding] a r port card committee.

We have some very specific expectations of what we want this community report card to de and to be like. First of all, it is acommunity report card. We are going to measure the progress of all major sectors of the Omaha community and how they areaddressing the National Education Goals. We will be measuring the progress of education, the progress of how business ismoving those goals forward, how parents are moving those goals forward, as well as the civic sectorsocial agencies, religious,higher education....Seconcity, the report card will be issued once a year. We feel it is important to establish a bervotirsark andthen each year to come back and say where we are in relation to that goal...lt wit: be cistributed through the Omaha World

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4 PLANNING FOR A NEW AMERICAN SCHOOL - C-OLOR ADOEdward Lyell, Colorado State Board of Education: ...On one hand, you want to say, the system has to be so dramatically

dfferent, that even as you say how dramatically different it is, you are either oirectty or indirectly saying that what we're doing nowis something like a failure....lf you don't first acknowledge that you have a problem, then you're like the alcoholic who doesn'tacknowledge the problem and then starts solving it...lf you've got that major of a problem, then you're going to need a majorsolution....

We had a major meeting last December....I thought that some of the questions [and topics.] we have been discussing wouldhelp to imagine a wider range of organizational and management alternatives ern designing New American Schools]:

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Denver Keynoter John Gottschalk

AMERICA 2000 is Education'sAccording to Omaha newspaper publisher and community leader John Gottschalk, AMERICA 2000 is critical to the nation because it

focuses on "that other "R" the comrrusnity's responsibility for fixing our nation's failing K-12 education system. Gottschalk, publisherof the Omaha World Herald and chairman of OMAHA 2000, served as keynote speaker for the first AMERICA 2000 Regional LeadershipWorkshop in Denver, June 30. Following are excerpts from Gottschalk's remarks:

...A recent TIME cover story entitled, "A Nation of Finger 1981 33 percent more in real, constant dollars andPointers" summarized growing evidence that the United States has nobody would say we've seen a 33 percent improvement inbecome a nation of busybodies and crybabies. The essay asserted performance. More money is not the answer.that these twin malformations are cropping up in the American High School Dropout Rate Too High. Fully 25 percent ofcharacter 1) a nasty intolerance...and 2) a desire to blame every- Americans now fail to complete high school. Each year sonicone else for everything.... 700,000 students drop out of high school and 700,000 more

The other "R" word, responsibility, has dropped from the policy graduate with insufficient skills..dialogue in America. A society can't operate if everyone has rights A Too Muck TV, Not Enough Study. A recent Parade surveyand no one has responsibilities. of 25,000 eighth graders indicated they spend each week: 21.7

This brings me to AMERICA 2000.... [E]very child in America hours watching TV; 5.6 hours of homework; and only 1.8has the right to an education....However, the responsibility for hours in outside study or reading.seeing this objective accomplished has gradually shifted from a Seniors lack the Basics. Only one in five high school seniorsconsortium of family and school, to a point where many have can write an adequate letter. Only one in ten high schoolabandoned the task of education to school alone. seniors can take a group of six fractions and put them in order

The crybabies howl about victimization. The busybodies flitter of size. And only five percent (1 in 20) of high schoolabout spewing sound-bites. Ignore them. It falls to the community graduates today enter college ready for college level math-leaders, to keep the focus on that other 'R"...the responsibility for ematics and science courses.fixing our nation's failing K-12 education system....It cannot bedone in your state capital. It is going to be done city by city...onour hands and knees...perspiring....

Problems Facing U.S. Education...American industry is losing confidence in our domestic supply

of knowledge resources that is, a well-educated labor force or anadequate supply of scientists, engineers, and other professionals.Them is increasing concern that the staggering problems facing K-12 education can simply not be overcome on a time scale necessaryto preserve our economic strength....

No National Progress Despite Record Spending. The U.S.today spends more on education than any nation on earth,$413.8 billion ($248.6 going to public primary and secondaryeducation)...more than for any public service, includingnational defense...a higher percentage of our Gross NationalProduct (7.5 percent) than any other industrial country. (Israel10.2 percent). Yet, functional illiteracy in this nation currentlyruns between 20 and 30 percent, compared to a high of 5percent in other more industrialized nations.Public School SAT Scores Down. Latest federal figuresindicate an average per-pupil cost of just under $6,000, upnearly $3,000 in the last ten years. For this increased spend-ing, the national verbal SAT score has fallen to an all-timelow....18 points below 1967 levels. At the same time, privatereligious schools recorded a combined math and verbal score13 points above the national average. Independent privateschools registered a combined score 100 points above thenational average. Is there any wonder some parents wantschool choice and vouchers?

A No Connection Between HighlLow Slate Spending. In stateafter state, increased spending has generally paralleleddecreased achievement. Utah spent $2,629 per student in itsschools last year, but it achieved the highest SAT scores in thenation: 1031. Washington. D.C....spent $7,550 per studentand achieved the second lowest SAT score in the nation: 880.We spend 33 percent more per pupil in 1991 than we did in

"It falls to the community leaders,to keep the focus on that other"R"...the responsibility for fixingour nation's failing K -12 educa-tion system....It cannot be done inyour state capital. It is going tobe done city by city...on our handsand knees...perspiring...."

Most College Freshmen Don't Finish. Well over half offreshmen who enter four-year colleges do not complete abachelor's degree.U.S. Bottoms Out in Math/Science. In a recent internationalscience achievement survey, our best biology students (APcourse) placed dead last when compared to students of 15other nations. Overall in math and science, Americanelementary and secondary students performed below theircounterparts in Japan, China, Mexico, Canada and Thailand.

A High School Science Curricula Lacking. Thirty percent ofour high schools offer no courses in physics; 17 percent offernone in chemistry; and a shocking 70 percent offer none inearth or space science.Teachers Aren't Prepared to Teach. The National Council ofTeachers of Mathematics :--rJaed only 18 percent of elemen-tary school teachers are adequately prepared to teach arith-metic. For middle school teachers the number is even worse

14 percent. In science fully two-thirds of our elementaryschool teachers do not meet minimum course work prepara-tions standards and yet every day, they are asked to prepareAmerica's children for life in the most technologicallycomplex society the world has ever known.

A Parents' Knowledge lacking. And let's not leave outparents...adults. How can we expect our population to

Fourth "R" Responsibilityunderstand the intricacies of the debate on global climatechange, or support needed research on such matters as fusionenergy, when half the adults in one recent survey didn't knowthat it took the earth a year to revolve around the sun?U.S. Lagging in Competitiveness. Is it surprising that theWorld Competitiveness Report [recently] issued...dropped theU.S. to fifth place behind Japan, Germany, Switzerland andDenmark? ...Did you not grieve to read that the U.S. educa-tion system was 21st overall, trailed only by Greece amongthe industrialized nations, in its ability to meet the needs of acompetitive economy?

The U.S. An Economic Backwater Next Century?We are approaching a century in which we will cease to have

any true majority population....In addition, we struggle with thedeterioration of our social fabric. Roughly one-half of the studentsenrolled in K-12 education come from what we used to call"broken homes"....To this we must add the full range of othersocial ills....Of the class of 2004 which started kindergarten lastfall, 25 percent were living below the poverty level, 15 percenthad physical or mental handicaps, 15 percent were born to teenagemothers, and 10 percent had illiterate parents.

How can we deal with all these problems when our educationsystem remains virtually the same as it was a century ago? Oneteacher. One classroom. 20 students. Nine months per year,minus holidays.

Will we emerge from this decade as a world economic leaderonce again, with a strong, prosperous, albeit new economyproducing jobs and improving our quality of life? Or, will we failto make the necessary investments and sacrifices today and thusbecome an economic backwater in the century ahead. It is clearthat we face a watershed.

The dominant issue of the 90's will be the development of ourpeople and the education of our youth. I believe this decade willcast America's die for world leadership for the next three genera-tions. That is what is in your hands today. There is no sensespending more time on the question of how far we have fallen.Rather, it is time to begin to determine how high we can bounce.

There is no recipe book for successin AMERICA 20,0. Every commu-nity must find its own way. Somethings may work in more than onecity, but do not hold your breath forsomeone to solve your community'sproblem. There is no magic pill....

One of the great curses of the American experience has been ourpreference for "quick fixes," simple solutions to complex prob-lems. Your patience...and your persistence will be challenged inthis great AMERICA 2000 process. There will be no quick fixes.

OMAHA 2000: A Catalyst for ConsensusOMAHA 2000, like your own community's effort, was estab-

lished to become the catalyst for finding a consensus and thenfacilitating the changes necessary to reach the objectives agreed to

by your local citizens. Our focus is not upon how we compare toothers. It is singularly upon how we are meeting our own stan-dards, right there in the greater Omaha area.

We will issue our first baseline report card this fall.... Our basicassumptions and guiding principles are:

a) OMAHA 2000 is a non-partisan program.b) OMAHA 2000 addresses innovative education reform with a

focus on producing results...let more repeat, with a focus onproducing RESULTS.

c) OMAHA 2000 involves community-wide perspectives,participation and support.

d) OMAHA 2000 serves a catalyst role, sparking change, notmerely meeting needs. In other words, we must find different,more effective ways, not just throw more money at ourproblems. And lastly,

e) OMAHA 2000 is committed for the long term. We are notinterested in writing a report. We are interested in changeand results.

Today, we each begin this quest with a very fundamentalpremise: That all children can learn more than our schools andmost parents currently expect of them. Then we must developand implement a challenging, coherent, and concrete set ofacademic standards, empower local schools to meet these stan-dards, and hold the schools accountable for the achievements oftheir students.

This is not a task for our educators alone. It is every citizen'sresponsibility and it is one to which I am fully committed.

There is no recipe book for success in AMERICA 2000. Everycommunity must find its own way. Some things may work in morethan one city, but do not hold your breath for someone to solveyour community's problem. There is no magic pill....

Our OMAHA 2000 process has included a rural retreat for oursteering committee to begin establishing our goals; the inclusion ofthree Class of 2000 youngsters on our committee to remind usevery meeting why we are there; a major kickoff when six Cabinetmembers came to Omaha to announce AMERICA 2000 designa-tion for Omaha; compilation of a huge database of all educationalefforts in our community including how each measures success;extensive task force meetings and volunteer recruitment; dozensand dozens of speeches by our chairman to enlist communitysupport; a big community kickoff event with over 800 attending tohear our goals and plans followed by over 20 goal-oriented publichearings; and a special business initiative with a custom report cardto let business gauge how it is doing.

With nearly nine months of experience we have some thingsbehind us but way more lies ahead. If we can assist you, we will.And I must add thriks to those who have helped us. Although weeach have our own special problems to deal with, we will benefitfrom collaboration....These are simple words from Helen Keller,but they fit this important day....

I am only one;but still I am one.I cannot do everything,but still I can do something.I will not refuseto do the something I can.

Thank you and God bless your great work.

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I ADOPTING THE GOALS continuedthere are a lot of Mormonsand we even had a granddad there40 said that they were going to adopt the goals at their next famityhome evening....We had scout groups and little league groups....Our power company signed on....They're now helping us with educa-tion for energy conservation in our schools Our first'meeting hac 70...and they came from a real cross section....

Our Chamber of Commerce helped us sponsor the next meetiri....We decided that the next step would be to...come up with a niceposter that we could get all around the community. You can find tfriese now in private schools and church lobbies and the various dubsand businesses, and we listed the sponsors down at the bottom....Our plan is to update it periocically so that as adcitional groups signon we can give them crecit...In our community, we have about 651groups that have signed on....It's a very positive experience.

2 DEVELOPING THE COMMUNITY-WIDE STRATEGY continuedAMERICA 2000 is to have a strong and committed steering committee....You need to communicate that long-term commitment....

The next component ...is the assessment, and that's what we've been doing for the last nine months. Assessment is very emotion-ally draining...it gives you a snapshot of your community that may pot be very pleasant for a lot of people. We looked atassessment.in various ways....First, we had a planning session [to] set forth a vision of our community in the year 2000 andbeyond....We all realized...that education was the'key factor....

The second thing that we've gone through recently is strategic planning...and that, again, is very controversial, very hard oneveryone....Strategic planning... ties down people's perceptions of what you want to have happen with education to thecommunity....We're in the final phase, and where we will go with that will be the school board adopting some of the action plans....

The last component that you need to consider is the momentum. And the momentum is that you keep infusing people into themovement...That requires asking each and every person in the community what he or she can do and be comfortable with....Myhope is that they [the members of the steering committee] are involving students in the Goal Team action plans. Don't leave yourstudents out because they are the ones who are going to be affected....

3 CREATING A COMMUIV ffY REPORT CARD TO MEASURE PI?OGI?ESS continuedHerd and not just to its subscribers; it has a Wednesday section that goes to the entire Omaha community area...The report cardwill be results-orieeted...lt will help show the community: "Did we do what we say we would do? And secondly, how are we actuallydoing7...The report card will be simple in design. There may be maybe 4, 5, 6, or 7 indicators for each major community sector....Wewant; his simple. We want this unclerstandable....We want to show the community where we're going to be in the year 2000....

How are we going to begin to create this? First of all...we had a planning retreat...We cid a lot of research, both nationally andlocally, on what data is already there. There is a great deal of data already availableeft Census, the Department of Education, theCommissioners Office,...the Department of Labor....We created a survey....We sent surveys to the business, education, and civicsectors....ln the Fall, we're wine to go back and survey students- 4th, 8th, and 12th grade....

4 PLANNING FOR A NEV AMERICAN SCHCOL continuedlearning environment:, funding, class/grade structure, reorganization of carts,/ childhood development and early intervention,health, language development, student information system development]Teacher Preparation and TrainingPsychological and Content AssessmentExpanding the Role of Non-School-Based Organizations in the Formai Learning System [ e.g., new roles for existingcommunity-based organizations youth organizations, churches, etc.; business and government organization changes tobecome more of a learning community; employers' responsibilities and activities in a lifelong learning community]System Assessment, Organization, Funding, Governing (e.g., local/state roles]

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Governor Zell Miller (D) reports thatGeorgia has more than 50 communitiesin various stages of forming local 2000partnerships to move toward the sixNational Education Goals. Miller spokeat the opening session of the AMERICA2000 Regional Workshop in Atlanta,July 20-21.

"Children are educated in schoolsand communities, not in bureaucracies,"said Gov. Miller. "Their parents, theirteachers, their neighbors they allhave a more profound i npact nn achild's development than their gover-nor."

The governor highlighted the state'sFamily Connection program. "It is apartnership that we started with a $5million grant from the Woodruff Founda-tion," said Gov. Miller. "We have 15pilot sites around the state, and another13 pilots are gearing up. In each one,teams with members as diverse asschool teachers and juvenile judges areaddressing all the needs of kids whohave difficulty learning."

According to Miller, Georgia businessleaders have "answered the call." Ourbusiness community formed thePartnership for Excellence in Education,which has made an impressive commit-ment of money and manpower to helpGeorgia kids."

Among others who spoke at the two-day meeting: John Clendenin, chairmanand CEO, BellSouth Corporation andformer chairman, U.S. Chamber ofCommerce; Jeannie Baliles, former firstlady of Virginia and chairperson,Virginia Literacy Foundation; JohnMurphy, superintendent, Charlotte/Mecklenburg Schools (NC); and GeraldBartels, president, Metropolitan AtlantaChamber of Commerce.

Nearly 300 leaders from 19 statesattended the two-day workshop, whichincluded sessions on communicatingthe AMERICA 2000 message, parentalchoice, standards and testing, andmeeting the AMERICA 2000 four-partchallenge.

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Collaboration Key to SuccessfulSchool Readiness Programs

Collaboration early-on between government, business, civic groups, educators, andparents is critical for communities in setting up local school readiness programs, accordingto featured guests during the third AMERICA 2000 Satellite Town Meeting, July 28.

Lauri Winterfeldt-Shanks,dire.ctor of a successful early childhood program in Moorhead,Minnesota, joined Superintendent Don Griffith of Decatur, Georgia, Jule Sugarman, firstdirector of the Head Start program, and Education Secretary Lamar Alexander in discuss-ing community-based efforts to reach Goal I: "By the year 2000, all children in Americawill start F-',00l ready to learn." Nearly 500 communities and local chambers of commercearranged "downlinks" to join the meeting, sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerceand the U.S. Department of Education.Moorhead Targets All Families Winterieldt-Shanks

"We work closely with the Health Department," said Lauri Winterfeldt-Shanks, directorof Moorhead's Early Childhood Family Education program. She noted that the programrecognizes that parents are the first and most influential teachers "so we work very hardwith them" in the home if the parents choose. "[The Early Childhood Family Educationprogram] is a non-targeted program, so we have parents from all socioeconomic statusescoming together." Winterfeldt-Shanks said that the program started "with existingcommunity education funds" before the Minnesota State Legislature funded it. For thetown's most disadvantaged families, the program has a special component which includesfrequent home visits, developmental programs and referrals to services such as jobcounseling or drug treatment for adults.


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school really begins with parents and families: "Parents are the child's first teachers, and the home is the child's first school." SecretaryAlexander made these observations during discussions about school readiness during the third Satellite Town Meeting, July 28. Followingare excerpts from the phone-in segment of the meeting:

)iekinson Asks About Pre-School CurriculumVerona Ledfter, Dickinson, North Dakota, asked about a pre-

school parenting education curriculum. According to federal programexrert Jule Sugarman: 'The University of Wisconsin has that kind ofparent education program." Moorhead (MN) early edueation directorLauri Winterfeldt-Shanks added: "I would also encourage...youeto notuse a pre-packaged program because oftentimes parents have reallyindividual needs...you need to be drawing from a wide variety ofresources...." [Editor's Note: Fat information on parenting programs,call 1- 800 - USA - LEARN.]

Rapid City Focuses on ReadinessNancy Gowan, Rapid City, South

Dakota, talked about its use of the State ChildCare and Development Block Grant. "Educa-tors from each participating agency areworking together to develop readiness gaolsand developmentally appropriate curriculumin five component areas: social, emotional,cognitive, language, physical... This prognunwill be delivered to the children where theyare cared for in the family day care homesand in the child care centers and the parenteducation component in their ownhome...."[Editor's Note: For more informa-tion. contact Nancy Gowan, Technology inEducation, One Concourse Dr., Rapid City,SD 57701; 605-394-1876.]

Jule Sugarman mentioned Bobby Brown,South Dakota's early childhood coordinator,

..who is doing a lot to bring child care and(xi ucational programs together....There is anEarly Childhood Coordinator in every state....Call your governor's office and ask who isrunning the early childhood block grant....Typically, you'll find that person in the humanservices or social services department."

Risk Child Care...for families who have net been on welfare but, in theabsence of help, might need to go on welfare. You can find informa-don about that from your State Human Services or Social ServicesDepartments.

Riverside Asks About Tying Private Funds to GrantsDiane Bryant, Riverside, California, asked for more information

about how Decatur incorporated private sector support into govern-ment-funded programs. Don Griffith said: "Atlanta United Waybecame very interested in the concept of a school as a nucleus and of

the agencies around the schoolparticipating....[United Way] provided us with

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ing a successful school breakfast program to a second elementaryschool when additional federal seed money is not available. DecaturSuperintendent Don Griffith responded: "We have a breakfastprogram in each of our elementary schools....We pay for it partlythrough federal funds, through state funds, and we pay for it alsothrough the amount of money the children pay for their lunch."[For more information, contact: 1-800-USA-LEARN.)

liticllctrnvn . sks About Help (Or \\'elfare FamiliesMargaret Edwards, Middletown, Ohio, asked about federal

resources to help riffles in poverty obtain child care so they can enterthe workplace. Jule Sugarman replied: "In 1990, there were severalsignificant pieces of new legislaticn....the Child Care and DevelopmentBlock Grant...available basically to help rarents choose the type of carethat they would like, but there is about 25 percent available forinnovative programs as wdL...A new program, Transition ChildCarceis for families who have...lell welfare, l* still need help withtheir day care costs....linally, there is a new federal program called At

some support for providing RFPs for thevarious agencies they would fund and thanpromised us some $100,000 per year over athree-year period of time ...."

Berkeley Talks Project MOVEMary Jo Brown, Berkeley County, West

Virginia, discussed Project MOVE (MoreOpportunities Via Education), a localprogram that involves 3- 5-year old childrenand their parents. "While the children areinvolved in pre-school training and moterskills development, the parents are involved inparenting skills and preparing for their GEDand also entering the job force," said Brown.'Last year we had several of our parentsgraduate...and move into the work force aswell as children...better able to enter thekindergarten...." Brown asked about ways toincrease grant monies to see the programgrow. Don Edwards responded: "Collabora-tion. ...[G]et the Health Department, Depart-me,nt of Human Services, Department ofFamily and Children Services, the courtsystem. your churches and others involved,...

Secretary Alexander added: "I can mention one...the federal Even Startprogram....which works with both parents and children..." [Editor'sNote: For more information on Even Start, call 1-800-USA-LEARN.]

Jersey City Asks About Motivational Learning "ToolsBret Seim miler, Jersey City, New Jersey, discussed a local

program which pays young children S2 for every book they road overthe summer. Schundler asked for examples of other motivational toolsto help children master the fundamentals. Secretary Alexanderresponded: "One example... is [the Earning by Learning Program] inGeorgia. outside of Atlanta. Congressman Gingrich told me about it.It has been going on for several years. and it is now hting piloted atdifferent places across the coup ry. The teachers and the students whoare involved in it think very highly of it. My own imptession is thatanything reasonable that encourages a child to learn to read is probablya good idea" [Contact: Dr. Mel Steely; Carroll County Courthouse,

Rm. 301; Carrollton, GA 30117; 404-834-6398.]

hullo Asks About Corporate Support (Or Child CareInnis Mechanik, Indio California, asked Oxen the role of

School Readinesscorporations in child care to assist families of working parents.Sugarman responded: "...[J]ust in the last few months IBM. AT&Tand about nine or ten major corporations have announced a jointventure in child care. They haven't really settled how they're goingto do it or what they're going to do yet..." Winterfeldt-Shanks added:"Stride-Rite is another company that has a fairly good record in childcare....[W]e have a local bookstore that gives us discounts on booksand provides teachers to talk to parents about reading to their children.Those are the kinds of things that businesses can tap into easily." DonGriffith said, "Schools can do this also. We have a child developmentcenter at our high school to provide child care...for the students. It hashelped...with the female dropout rate, and we also provide the samekind of child care for the faculty and staff."

'The most under-utilized buildings in America are our schoolbuildings," said Secretary Alexander. "They can be opened for avariety of educational and caring purposes virtually all the time....It'sparticularly important when we consider that often the first obstacle toa child care center is the cost of the facility...." Jule Sugarman noted:"In Portland. Oregon...26 schools were remodeled. and everyone ofthem had a classroom devoted to childcare.. Theschools don't intend to operate them butthey...[willl bring some private, not-for-profitgroup in to do it."

Richmond Targets tl _ \\'hole FaintlyErnestine Scott, Ridamond, Virginia, talked

about the local Family Resource Program at theSacred Heart Center, which provides pm-schooleducation to inner-city Richmond children and, atthe same time, helps their parents with literacyand parenting skills. "This Rogram is basicallyled] by the Junior League of Richmond.... Wedecided that to fund...a Lanily literacy educationprogram for parents and children in very needyneighborhoods, [we] could not do this alone.Although we had committed the dollars to theprogram, we wanted to see the program becomean integral pan of the community....We had anumber of collaborators the Kiwanis Club, theRotary. We had several community agenciesinvolved as well. [Contact: Ernestine Scott; Office of Adult Educ-tion: P.O. Box 6Q; Richmond, VA 23216: 804-225-2075.]

About Targeting ResourcesLonnie Johns from Jacksonville, Illinois, asked about how to

Aired services to young children most in need and how to get parentswho have failed in school to view school as a friend not as an enemy.Winterfeldt-Shanks replied: "[W]e've had a great deal ofsuccess...going into the homes of parents. That's their turf...[W]henwe go in there, we're their guest...They feel very comfortable in thateroirorunent....It's voluntary." Don Griffith added: "In our FamilyConnedion... we get parents actually involved in [a survey] goingtk,,)r-to-cloor, and we used some... money as a stipend... They came upwith a group of priorities..At a lame town meeting, all of the parentsgot together and re-prioritized thee and came to their conclusionabout what was mast important. ['hose parents had ownership inwhat we did. They participate on an advisory committee; they are aput of what we do....[A]n interesting side ...one of the things we hadtaken out [of the budget] was child care because [of] the expense .eargetting a center was unreasonable compared to the community'sincome. '11w parents put it back in, then we all began workinge[to]

actually implement what they felt we needed..." [Contact: Office ofSuperintendent Don Griffith; 320 N. McDonough St; Decatur, GA30030; 404-370-4410.]

Fayetteville Talks About Federal Training FundsBertha Miller, Fayetteville, North Carolina, asked whether mom

federal monies will be provided for training parents as their child'steacher. Jule Sugarman responded: "[In] most of the federal programsyou can incorporate parent education.... Head Start, for example, has aparent education component ...Some of the child care legislation,particularly the block grant. has money... for parent education,...Publichealth nurses are wonderful people to go out into the community.They have an entry that often social workers simply don't have...."

Secretary Alexander added: "As I visit schools, I see schools open inthe evening for parents. I think of the Balcleras School in Fresno....Theteachers voted to use the money [set aside]...for teacher aides to extendthe school day. Then they also opened the school at night for p3.rents,helping them learn what the children are learning. In that way, theyare...using creativity and imagination and scraping up dollars all overtown to make it work...The idea of the AMERICA 2000 Community is

if the whole community isinvolval...[when] the question comes upabout voting more dollars for schools, orraising more money fora school, orcharging those parents who can afford it...then it make a strong case."

Rogers Asks About Par. Ming.Joline Highfill, Rogers, Arkansas,

asked if there is any way to stress parentingand child development skills with the sameemphasis as math. science and reading.Jule Sugarman replied: "In our childdevelopment center, we require themothers of the children to be enrolled in acourse that is all a part of the childdevelopment program. The earlier that wecan get those parents involved male andfemale the better chance they have ofhaving their children in the program...."

Winteafeldt-S hanks added: "One of theconcerns I have, if we mandate parent education as part of a secondaryschool curriculum...I don't think a lot of high school children reallythink they'll ever become parents. It's like Algebra. It you thinkyou're never going to use it, you probably aren't real motivated tolearn. It's almost easier to teach it when they do have children...theyreally see the need. Sugarman said: 'The things that I have seen...mostsuccessful have involved high school students working with youngerchildren in day care centers, in Head Start and elsewhere, where it is areal life situation. not some artificial course."

Care . sootatiotrGinny Harmelink, Casper, Wyoming, rued that the Associa-

tion of Family Day Care offers a nationally recognized accreditedprogram. Griffith said: "The National Family Child Care Associa-tion is an important organization, and they have developed anumber of very useful documents, which I think can be used intraining .... I certainly would recommend to all of you that you be intouch with them and find out what they are doing. [Contact:National Association for Family Day Care; 725 15th St., NW,

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The American Legislative ExchangeCouncils (ALEC) Education TaskForce last week endorsed the BushAdministration's 'State and Local GIBill for Children," which authorizes$500 million in new federal (FY93)funds to provide $1,000 scholarshipsto midole- and low-income families tochoose among all schools for theirchkiren. ALEC is the largest biparti-san vokIntary membership organiza-tion of stale legislators in the US.

Goals Panel Takes ActionOn My 31, the Nadonal Education

Goals Panel released a hanctook tohelp communities assess where theystand with regard to achieving the Na-ifonal Education Goals and whatneeds to be accomplished by the year2000. (For more information aboutthe hanobook, contact. National Edu-cation Goals Panel; 1850 M Street;Suite 270; Washington, DC 20036;(202)632-0952)

Nebraska Gov. Ben Nelson (0) wasnamed chairman of the panel, SOO-ceecing South Carolina Gov. CarrollCampbell (R) whose term ended.

Grant Announced to DevelopGoography Standards

The Department and the NationalEndowment for the 1-iurnanides haveannounced a $350,000 grant to theNational Council for GeographicEducation to create voluntary WorldClass Standar& for geographyethcadon in grades K-12 The grantMil support the first year of what isexpected to be a two-year effort.

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Decatur's Collaboration Raised Si Million tor EducationGriffithSuperintendent Don Griffith said Decatur started about five years ago with one school in

collaborating community services, "We used that school and the children...as a place forthe various agencies already in existence in the community to rally around and providesupport," said Griffith. "It mushroomed." He said there is now a networking committee ofmore than 30 agencies and organizations, including United Way and several corporations,which have committed funds to Decatur schools. "As a result...the additional resourceshave come out to about $1 million per year over the last three years," said Griffith.Harty Collaboration Is Essential Stig.annan

Head Start founder Jule Sugarman observed that early collaboration is important forcommunities in starting school readiness programs. "The notion of having the Head Startpeople and the elementary school people and the people who provide child care and thehealth services and parent support groups talking to one another [is essential]," saidSugarman, who currently directs the Center on Effective Services for Children.

Sugarman discussed the Washington D.C.-based Center, which consults with federal,state, local and community organizations on coordinating services for families andchildren. "We have 16 communities, for example, now that have local design teams...tosort out what program is right for their community," said Sugarman.

Secretary Alexander observed that there are about 27 federal programs aimed at veryyoung children. "One of the first and most promising things a community could do is justround all those programs up," said the Sxretary. According to Sugarman, one suchprogram. which is actually under-utilized at the local level, is the Early and PeriodicScreening Detection program a health care program for lower income children. "Lowerincome isn't [necessarily] welfare...poverty....Basically, you can make sure that every childwho needs health care will get care under that program."

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asked how to better coordinate health andfamily services with pre - school education.Secretary Alexander noted that, "From theWashington point of view, the Secretary ofHealth and Human Services has someflexibility in terms of allowing you tocombine programs and use programs in adifferent way. A good deal of the money,including the Head Stan program, comesthrough therr....In the Department ofEducation ...we don't have as much

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Sugarman said: "[Four or five people toget together might be] your local healthdepartment with the person from thematernal and child health section of that;the person who handles immunizations inthe local public health department; theschool principal at a particular school; thedepartment of social services or humanservices; somebody in child protective orchild welfare services....Then I wouldbring in the Academy of Pediatrics ....theAmerican Medical Association, if they...[ate] in your community "

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Agenda Set for SanFrancisco's RegionalLeadership Workshop

Norma Paulus, Oregon state superinten-dent of education, and Jerry Hume,president and CEO of Basic AmericanFoods Corporation, are among keyregional leaders scheduled to speak duringthe AMERICA 2000 Leadership Work-shop, Western Region, in San Francisco.California, September 15-16. EducationSecretary Lamar Alexander will serve asthe keynote speaker.

The meeting, third in a series of fiveLeadership Workshops, is designed forlocal leaders who are interested in startingor further developing an AMERICA 2000initiative in their communities. Panel andsmall group discussions are planned forsuch topics as New American Schools,meeting the AMERICA 2000 four-partcommunity challenge, and local chambersof commerce that are "breaking the mold."

The first two workshops in Denver andAtlanta attracted hundreds of communityleaders from across the country. "[TheDenver Conference] was one of the bestconferences I've ever attended," said RonStephens, superintendent, Murray, Utah."The [Atlanta] workshop gave us a goal towork tow-ards...an opportunity to talk withpeople in other commimities...and somevery specific ideas to take back home,"said Bemiece Collis, Martinsburg-BerkleyCounty (WV) Chamber of Commerce.

In addition to San Francisco, workshopswill be held in Boston, MA, September29-30, and in Dallas, IX, November 19-20. To register for any of the upcomingworkshops, call 202-401-0039.

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Back to School, September 1

Satellite Town Meeting toFocus on Goal 3

National Education Goal 3 all children proficient in at least English, math, science,history and geography is the topic of the next AMERICA 2000 Satellite TownMeeting, Tuesday, September 1, at 8:30 p.m., EDT. This special 90-minute show willfeature a discussion with New American Schools Development Corporation design teammembers on breaking the mold to reach Goal 3.

Moderated by Secretary Lamar Alexander, the Goal 3 discussion will feature threeguests:

Constance Jones, principal of Three Oaks Elementary School in Fort Myers, FL,will discuss the school's success in implementing a curriculum based on E.D.Hirsch's Core Knowledge Sequence a rigorous plan of study for all students basedon a specific, sequenced body of knowledge. One year later, the school saw signifi-cant improvement in grades and standardized test scores, discipline and attendance.John Murphy, superintendent of Charlotte - Mecklenburg (N.C) Schools, willdiscuss efforts to boost student achievement, set student and faculty performancestandards, initiate school-based management and establish magnet school networks.Diane Ravitch, former professor and current assistant secretary for educationalresearch and improvement at the U.S. Department of Education, will discuss herwork as principal writer of the California K-12 history-social science curriculum, aswell as the development of state curriculum frameworks and national standards invarious academic disciplines nationwide.

Guests during the second part of the meeting represent three of the 11 design teams tobe funded by the New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC). TheCorporation recently selected the 11 teams from nearly 700 proposals designed to serve as

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Wal-Mart Joins AMERICA 2000Wal-Mart store managers and

Sam's Club general managers arebringing together community leaders"to start the discussion of what mustbe done to achieve the NationalEducation Goals, school by school,and community by community" Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores arelocated in more than 2,000 communi-des across America.

To start, the managers are Invitingteal education, business and civicleaders to Wal-Mart and Sam's Clubstores to participate In the SatelliteTown Meeting September 1. All of thestores have satellite downlink c gpabll-ity. The managers will also record themeeting and make videotapes avail-able for those who we unable to

attend and to other Indivkluals In theircommunity interested In AMERICA2000.

"September 1 is not the end of thepnacess," said Rob Walton, chairmanof Wal-Mart Stores Inc. "Being a partof this Satellite Town Meeting Is notthe sole objective. It is the commit-ment the community makes from nowuntil the year 2000 to achieve theNational Education Goals that isimportant.°

Several months ago, Wal-Martannounced that the royalties from thelate Sam Walton's new book, Made InArnedr-P w111 go to the New AmericanSchools Development Corporation tohelp design and create break-the-mold schools.

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blueprints for communities to reinventtheir schools to reach the NationalEducation Goals. Participating in theSatellite Town Meeting discussion :A Elaine Salinas, education program

officer for the Urban Coalition in St.Paul (MN) will discuss the Commu-nity Learning Centers of Minnesotadesign, which calls for the creation ofindependent public schools in 10 sites

urban, rural and suburban. Theschools will operate by charter orcontract from local school boards.thus bypassing many state/localregulations.

A Len Siroixid, project director theBensenville (IL) Community DesignTeam, will discuss how the team will

turn the entire community (a village of17,000 located near Chicago) into acampus that will support lifelonglearning for all citizens.Marc Tucker, president of theNational Center on Education and theEconomy, will discuss his role asdirector of the new design team, theNational Alliance for RestructuringEducation, which is based in Roches-ter. NY. The Alliance plans to useinnovative teaching technology andassessment techniques to create morethan 240 break- the -mold schools inseven states: Arkansas, California,Kentucky, New York, Pennsylvania.Vermont and Washington.

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AMERICA 2000UBRARY PARTNERSHIPANNOUNCED

On September 8, EducationSecretary Lamar Alexanderannounced formation of theAMERICA 2000 Library Partner-ship, an initiative to promote therole of libraries in helpingcommunities achieve the sixNational Education Goals.

More than 1700 communitiesacross the country have becomeAMERICA 2000 communities,"said the Secretary, 'As theypursue the National Education

. Goals, we encourage them toinclude in their plans an impor-tant learning resource availablein virtually every neighborhood,and that's the library. Libraries,schools, communities andfamilies need to be workingtogether, to serve children, toachieve the goals, to becomethe 'nation of students' thatPresident Bush described in hisAMERICA 2000 educationstrategy."

Joining Sec. Alexander atFairfax Counts George MasonRegional Library in Annandale,Virginia, was American LibraryAssociation President MarilynMiller, as well as representativesof the federal partners who havepledged to support the libraryinitiative. The partners includethe National Endowment for theHumanities, the Library ofCongress, the National Commis-sion on Libraries and InformationSciences and the NationalInstitute for Literacy.

Major components of theinitiative include:

Working with libraries toprovide partners with theEducation Departmentpublications includingHelping Your Child GetReady for School, HelpingYour Child Become AReader, and Helping YourChild Use the Library (thelatter is also available inSpanish);Urging libraries to work withcommunities to serve theeducation needs of childrenand young adults, as well aslifelong learners;

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Schools Visited During Back-to-School Tour

Alexander Announces New ''A+for Breaking the Mold" Award

On September 1, two North Carolinaelementary schools became the nation'sfirst recipients of a new "A+ for Break-ing the Mold" award to be given daily bySecretary Lamar Alexander to schools,programs and practices that are usinginnovative ideas in working toward thesix National Education Goals.

"I'm going hack to school and takingthe nation with me to see that ourschools are changing," said EducationSecretary Lamar Alexander in announc-ing the new award's creation. "All overthe country, in communities wherebusiness as usual just isn't enough, therearc break-the-mold schools that areteaching to high standards, cuttingthrough bureaucratic red tape, andproviding greater choice of all schools."

Woodhill Elementary School inGastonia and Lake Wylie School inCharlotte, North Carolina. are among thefirst innovators to receive the awardduring early September. [sec "The First

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The First "A+ for Breaking

During the next few weeks, the Secretary plans to visit many of the first "A+ for Breaking the Mold" award winners to stressthe importance of such schools in helping the nation reach the six National Education Goals. "Everywhere travel I seeinteresting, innovative things happening in schools," said Alexander in announcing his itinerary. "But more people are stillskeptical when I tell them that when ourfiflh graders are seniors, our schools will be so different they will be hard to recog-nize. There is no better way to prove this to the American people than to show them that it is already happening." Followingare brief descriptions of the winners which the Secretary plans to recognize in the next few weeks:

Adults Study While Kids LearnOn September 1, Secretary Alexander gave an "A+" Award

to the Odyssey Project, Woodhill Elementary School,Gastonia, N.C. One of 11 designs selected by the NewAmerican Schools Development Corporation, the OdysseyProject will give adults the opportunity to study for the GEDswhile their children are learning.The design also includes parentinvolvement, an assessment-and-instruction portfolio for everystudent, a community servicerequirement (220 hours), coopera-tive learning, Paideia seminars,and more. Woodhil] is one ofseveral Odyssey learning centersto be open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. year-round. [Contact: Dr. Edwin West.Superintendent, Gaston CountySchools; PO Box 1397; Gaston,NC 28053]

A Classical, Flexible Educa-tion

Also, on September I, theSecretary honored Lake WylieSchool, Modern Red School-house, Charlotte, N.C., where flexible staffing, multi-agegrouping and individual education contracts will enable allstudents to study a classical core curriculum. Parents willreceive a booklet explaining what students are expected toknow and do at each grade level, and every course will have amajor writing assignment as part of student assessment. LakeWylie and other schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg publicschools are test sites for the Modern Red Schoolhouse, one ofthe 11 design teams selected by the New American SchoolsDevelopment Corporation. [Contact: Jeff Schiller, AssistantSuperintendent of Planning and Research; PO Box 30035;Charlotte, NC 28230]

Private Management for Public SchoolsOn September 2, the Secretary awarded an "A+" to the

Alliance for Schools That Work, Harlem Park MiddleSchool, Baltimore, Maryland. Under new management bythe Alliance for Schools That Work (a consortium of threecompanies that will operate a total of nine Baltimore schools),students at Harlem Park will have a personalized educationplan, two teachers in every classroom, new computers, and

access to other technology. Membeis of the Minneapolis-based Alliance are: Education Alternatives, Inc. (EARwhich designed the Tesseract model for the schools, thefacility management team of Johnson Controls, and theaccounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick. EAT also managesa public school in Miami, Florida, and owns two private

Tesseract schools in Minnesota andArizona. The Baltimore PublicSchool's venture is the first wide-scale effort by a large U.S. citycortracting with a private corpora-tion for management of its publicschools. [Contact: David Bennett,President, EM; 1600 W 82nd St.,Suite 250; Bloomington, MN55431]

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Roots & Wings, BernardHarris Elementary School,Baltimore, Maryland, was alsorecognized by the Secretary onSeptember 2. One of the designsselected by the New AmericanSchools Development Corporation,

the design will transform schools throughout St. Mary'sCounty, Maryland, with ideas that include "neverstreaming,"cooperative learning, staff support teams, eight-weekassessments, and more. Children acting out a story, a teacherworking one-on-one with a struggling young reader, a familysupport team mapping out a strategy for children withacademic and discipline problems are samples of activitiesplanned for the Roots & Wings schools. [Contact: RobertSlavin, CSOC; 3505 N Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218]

Flexibility in Breaking the MoldOn September 3, Secretary Alexander recognized

Reynoldsburg High School, Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Theschool is using the principle of Ted Sizer's Coalition ofEssential Schools to create an interdisciplinary program inwhich four teachers from four different academic areas worktogether with up to 100 students in four-hour-per-dayintegrated classes. Reynoldshurg Audents can also acceleratetheir studies by "double-blocking" taking courses tradi-tionally spread over two years (algebra and calculus, for

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example) .n the same year. The high school has also con-tracted services from a local vocational school to create aworld-class industrial arts program. [Contact: Richard Ross,Superintendent, Reynoldsburg City Schools: 6549 EastLivingston; Reynoldsburg, OH 43068]

Students Cain Hands-on ExperienceOn September 4, the Secretary honored Skyway Elemen-

tary School, Miami, Florida, which began breaking themold in the mid-1980s, by emphasizing hands-on experi-ences for students and community involvement in theschools. Programs serve students attending the third throughfifth grades ("referred to as Skyway University") and includescience and math labs, an alterna-tive program for students withmotivational problems, theschool-wide use of closed-circuittelevision to produce a daily newsshow, community members asrole models and business partnerships to provide recreation as wellas incentives for good citizensand school success.

Skyway recently has used itsflexible, innovative managementin assisting families madehomeless by Hurricane Andrew.Designated as a temporary

curriculum approach built around the world-class "mathstandards" developed by the National Council of Teachersof Mathematics. Local teachers have spent more thanthree years learning the Portland approach to math, and ithas paid off. Last year, even though its district spends lessper student than any other in Michigan, Portland MiddleSchool saw its students earn sixth place on the statemathematics achievement test. [Contact: Bill Adams,Principal, or Mary Bouch, Math Project Director, PortlandMiddle School; 745 Storz Ave.: Portland, MI 48875]

Heartland Design Stresses "5-Cs"On September 10, Heartland Education Community,

OrrvIlle, Ohio, received an "A+"award from the Secretary. TimSmucker took time out frombeing CEO of the J.M. SmuckerCompany to develop the Heart-land Education Community, anew school design for ruralAmerica's 12,000 one-high-school districts. The Heartlanddesign orbits around the "5 Cs"

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shelter, the school decided to gobeyond providin 4 a place to sleep and arranged for thechildren to have a place for learning. Even though theofficial school year had not started, Skyway brought teachershack early to offer some education assistance to the childrenin the shelter. [Contact: Frederica S. Wilson, Principal,Skyway Elementary School; 4555 NW, 206 Terrace; Miami,FL 330551

Tapping the Vast Resources of LibrariesOn September g, the Secretary recognized the Fairfax

County School and Public Libraries, Fairfax, Virginia,where the library systems are breaking the mold by estab-lishing networks for learning using the latest technologyon -line databases, multimedia programs, and satellite andcable systems. Computerized networks are being used togive students access to information from school or publiclibraries and eventually from home. [Contact: DoloresBohen, Awistant Superintendent, Fairfax County PublicSchools; 10700 Page Avenue; Fairfax, VA 220301

World-Class Math Standards in the ClassroomOn September, 9, the Secretary gave an "A+" to Portland

Middle School, Portland, Michigan, where everyoneteams algebra. By the end of 10th grade, all students inPortland will have completed a course in geometry through a

character development, andcontinuous improvement. Keyelements include shifting theresponsibility for education to the

entire community, and creating a community-wide"school" where education might just as easily take placein the local hank or on a farm as it might in a traditionalclassrooms. (Contact: Tim Smucker; Heartland Educa-tion Community, Inc.; PO Box 280; On-v:ille, OH 44667]

Keeping At-Risk Students in SchoolOn September 11, Orr School Network, Chicago,

Illinois, received an "A+" award. Located in an impover-ished, gang-plagued, drug-ridden neighborhood ofChicago, the program takes an all-out, comprehensiveapproach to helping poor, minority youngsters_ Amongstudent activities: an alternative afternoon and eveningschool, mentors for every junior and senior, activities oncollege campuses, summer employment, individual casemanagement, simulations where students choose jobs anddevelop budgets, summer workshops where teachersdevelop hands-on science lessons, students writing theircommunity's history, police and volunteer protectionfrom gangs so that youngsters may travel safely betweenhome and school, and home visits for families of rungchildren. [Contact: Kenneth Van Spankeren, Principal,Rezin Orr Community Academy Iligh School: , 30 NPolaski Rd.; Chicago, IL 606241

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National and local communityleaders from the Northeast willdiscuss their experiences in workingtoward the National Education Goalsduring the AMERICA 2000 Leader-ship Workshop in Boston, Massa-chusetts, September 29-30.

Education Secretary LamarAlexander will help kick off the two-day meeting by offering remarks at areception to be held at the Massa-chusetts State House.

The meeting, fourth in a series ofLeadership Workshops, is designedfor local leaders who are interestedin starting or further developing anAMERICA 2000 initiative in theircommunities. During six concurrentsessions, panelists and participantswill discuss the NASDC designteams, communicating theAMERICA 2000 message, localchambers of commerce that are"breaking the mold," school choice,and a case study for a AMERICA2000 Community start-up. Worksessions also are planned on howcommunities can successfully meetthe AMERICA 2000 four-partchallenge to: 1) adopt the sixNational Education Goals;2) develop a community-widestrategy to meeting them; 3) designa report card to measure progress;and 4) plan for and support a NewAmerican School.

AMERICA 2000 LeadershipWorkshops have been held inDenver, Colorado, and Atlanta,Georgia. In addition to the SanFrancisco and Boston meetings inSeptember, a final conference will befield in Dallas, Texas, on November19-20. To register for the work -stops, call 202-401-0039.

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America's Disability Channel (ADC),a San Antonio-based national cabletelevision network, is cablecasting theAMERICA 2000 Town Meetings to itsnearly 15.000 cable television subscrib-ers in 36 states and to more than 6million satellite receivers in communi-..ies throughout the country. ADC is thenation's only television network thatfeatures programming by and for peoplewith disabilities.

ADC's broadcast schedule is asfollows:

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A Commissioning papers on howlibraries can support each of thegoals and on how school andpublic libraries can worktogether to meet the goals;

A Planning a Spring 1993partnership-sponsored confer-ence for school and publiclibrarians on how to helpcommunities reach the nationalgoals;

A Involving librarians in develop-ing SMARTLINE (Source forMaterials and Research aboutTeaching and Learning inNationwide Education), anEducation Department initiafiveto establish a user-friendlyelectronic information service tobe available in school andpublic libraries.

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Satellite Town Meeting Looks at Goal 3America's schools need high standards, effective assessments, and ''reak-the-mold thinking to reach National Education Goal 3,

concluded several of the nation's leading educators and AMERICA 2000 leaders during the latest Satellite Town Meeting on September I.Goal 3 states: "By the year 2000, American students will leave grades four, eight, and twelve having demonstrated cornpltency inchallenging subject matter including English, mathematics, science, history and geography; and every school in America will ensure thatall students learn to use their minds well, so they may be prepared for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employ-ment in our modem economy."

During the first part of the meeting, three educators with direct experience in setting standards, developing curricula and assessingperformance discussed how these education reform tools can be used to improve today's schools. Later in the meeting, three NewAmerican Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) design team leaders focused en how those same aspects of education reform arebeing used in their break-the-mold school designs. [Note: Next week's newsletter will feature, excerpts from the phone-in segment of theSatellite Town Meeting.]

Standards, Assessment, Accountability ...According to Diane Ravitch, former professor and current

assistant secretary for educational research and improvement atthe Education Department, "we never had standards atall...never sat down as a nation and figured out what we wantchildren to know." Ravitch joined North Carolina schoolsuperintendent John Murphy and Florida principal ConstanceJones in discussing the role of standards and other aspects ofeducation reform in reaching National Education Goal 3.

Find Out What Students Should Know Ravitch. "Thestarting point for education is determining what children shouldlearn and letting tcachers...parents...kids. above all, know whatis expected of them to succeed," said Ravitch. According toRavitch, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics oldjust that: "They got together over the past several years, andthe math teachers of America said, 'This is what we think ourchildren should know and be able to do at different gradelevels."' To date, some 41 states have revised or are revisingtheir math curriculum frameworks based on the standards.

"We have a lot of research that shows that the kids achieve

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Breaking the Mold ...According to representatives from several design teams

seixted for funding by the New American Schools Develop-ment Corporation ( NASDC), American schools need to changedrastically to meet the. challenges of a global marketplace and achanging workforce.

Participating in the discussion were Flame Salinas, represent-ing the Community Learning Centers of Minnesota; LenSirozki, the Bensenville (IL) Community Design Team; andMarc Tucker, the Rocheste -based National Alliance forRestructuring Education.

.'illiance Design Changes the System Tucker. "For thefirst time in the history of world...[Arnerica's] front-lineworkers are in competition with frontline workers in oneunified labor market worldwide," said Marc Tucker, presidentof the National Center on Education and the Economy. Henoted that in countries Ile Indonesia, those workers make $1.50pei. day and their skill levels are the same or better than Ameri-can workers. "If we don't find a way to be vastly better skilledthan those kids coming out of Indonesia, we'll be making $1.50

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President Bush Phones Satellite Town Meeting"How did you get started and how is it working out?" asked President George Bush of Bensenville design team leader Len

Sirotzkl, during the phone-in portion of the Satellite Town Meeting on September 1. The President Joined other callers, who hadquestions and observations about reaching National Education Goal 3 during the 90- minute meeting. Following are excerpts fromthe President's phone rail, as well as Sirotzki's response.

President Bush: "...When the governors and I established the goals at Charlottesville at the Education Summit, we hoped toset a new direction for education in our country. But we also knew that the goals would not make much differenceunless theywere adopted community by community...And there are no quick fixes. The change we're talking about is reallyfundamentat..literally reinventing education...break-the-mold schools, higher standards and certainly better tests, getting govern-ment off the teachers' backs, and then giving families more choice In schools and academic programs

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the best when there's a challenging curriculum...high expecta-tions ...and when there's parental involvement," said Ravitch,who was the principal writer of the California K-12 history/social studies curriculum framework. [Contact: Diane Ravitch,U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W.,Washington, D.C. 20202]

Standards Empower Teachers Murphy. John Murphy,superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Schools,reported that his district is changing its schools to reach high,rigorous standards set by the community. "At the Lake WileySchool...you'll begin to see this year those standards beingimplemented in the K through 6 school," said Murphy."Teachers are now empowered to make decisions in terms ofhow they will take youngsters from where they are to thosestandards we've established." Murphy said that the district hasprepared brochures for every parent at every15..-ide level anddiscipline, "so that parents will understand exactly what it istheir child should be iearning...[T]he parent and the teachertruly become partners now in that education process." [Con-tact: Dr. John Murphy, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, 701East Second Street, PO Box 30035, Charlotte, NC 28230]

Rigorous Curriculum Produces Results Jone.Constance Jones, principal of Three Oaks Elementary Schoolin Fort Myers, Florida, discussed Three Oaks Elementary'ssuccess in implementing a new curriculum developed by Dr.E.D. Hirsch Jr., which relies heavily on rigorous content.According to Jones, Hirsch examined different curricula fromseveral countries and from several states to determine thesequence of knowledge that boys and girls ought to learn andknow by the time they leave sixth grade. "We spent all of thepast two years teaching that curriculum in our schools," saidJones. "We've seen incredible results that relate to attendance,enthusiasm. the retention of our children. The number ofchildren retained at the end of the year was decreased by 50percent. Discipline problems were reduced by almost 85percent...." [Contact: Constance Jones, principal, Three OaksElementary School. 19600 Cypress View Drive, Fort Myers,FL 33912, or Core Knowledge Foundation, 2012-B MortonDrive, Charlottesville, VA 22901]

Bush, continuedstarted and howls it working out?"

Len Slrotzki: think that the number one messageto ccxnmunities everywhere is to start, and don't wait forsome perfect time that may never come....[Wie looked forindividual persons who were willing to go beyond personalagenda for the benefit of the community, all of the familiesin the community and I mean all of them, not onlyschool-aged children....it's going to take a very, very long-term commitment, and there will be a great deal of pain,bringing about the kinds of changes that are needed...."

President Bush: am proud... that this AMERICA2G0() effort continues to be bipartisan. And, look, we allknow we're in an unusual political season....All thegovernors, Democrats as well as Republicans, are a partof all of this, and it's been that way from the very begin-

And I Just wanted to assure every participant thatI'm determined to keep it that way."

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a day, said Tucker. He noted that the Alliance design team,which he directs, will use innovative new teaching technologyand assessment techniques to create more than 240 break-the-mold schools in seven states: Arkansas, California, Kentucky,New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington.

"Our view is that you can't really break the mold withoutchanging the whole system all at once and every piece of it,"said Tucker. "You need a whole new set of standards...ways toassess student improvement...curriculum...technology...staffdevelopment ....What we did was go around the country to getthe best in each one of those categories... the New StandardsProjects a collaboration of some 17 states...six schooldistricts and some of the most competent people in thecountry....We have a relationship with Apple Computer's topresearch team...to bring the very best that is known in how touse computers and support tools for teachers....We've got thePublic Agenda Foundation, which is going to work with theboard and superintendent on how to engage the public in whatwe're trying to do here." [Contact: Marc Tucker, Center onEducation and the Economy, 39 State Street, Suite 500, Roches-ter, NY 14614]

Community Learning Center Design Uses FlexibilitySalinas. Elaine Salinas, education program officer for the UrbanCoalition in St. Paul, noted that America's future workforce willbe largely minority, young and female groups that histori-cally have been less well served by America's educationsystem. "In order to compete in that global economy, we'llhave to break the mold in order to begin serving those studen...,"said Salinas.

Salinas noted that the Community Learning Center designcalls for the creation of independent public schools in 10Minnesota sites urban, rural and suburban that willoperate by charter or contract from local schools boards andthus bypass many state and local regulations. "...[T]he intent ofour design is to use both the contract schools and the charterschools legislation to create an institutional bypass so thateducators who are creative, interested in changing education,can use these vehicles to create new kinds of publicschools....where we can honor [public] trust and be accountablefor the outcomes....We're in effect recreating what publiceducation is." [Contact: Elaine Salinas, Urban Coalition, 2610University Avenue West, Suite 201, St. Paul, MN 55114, orCommunity Learning Centers, do Wayne Jennings, Designs forLearning, 449 Desnoyer, St. Paul, MN 55104-4915]

Bensenville Design Involves the Whole CommunityS irotzki. Len Sirotzki, project director for the Bensenvilledesign team, observed that it takes the resources of a wholecommunity to bring about break-the-mold reform. "To have asingle school operate in a break-the-mold fashion within acommunity that is indifferent to the school will not work."Sirotzki said that Bensenville believes that learning is lifelongand involves everyone "the moms, dads, seniorcitizens...[N]one of us probably learned everything we know ina place called a school...we ought to make those kinds oflearning opportunities available throughout the community."Sirotzki said that the Bensenville design will turn the entirecommunity of 17,000 into a campus that will support lifelonglearning for all its citizens. [Contact: Dr. Len Sirotzki, Dupage-Kane Educational Service Center, 421 North County FarmRoad, Wheaton, IL 60187-3999]

New National Coalition to SupportAMAaurrICA2" AMERICA 2000 CommunitiesCOALITION

Fifty-one national organizations have announced forma-tion of the AMERICA 2000 Coalition, Inc., a non-profitprivate sector alliance to promote the achievement of the sixNational Education Goals, across the country, community bycommunity.

The AMERICA 2000 Coalition will serve as a resourcenationwide to help local communities implement theirAMERICA 2000 strategies, said Ed Donley, who will serveas chairman of the Coalition's Board of Directors. Donley isa former chairman of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., aformer chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and aco-chair with Governor Robert Casey (D-PA) for PENN-SYLVANIA 2000.

"We are bringing together businesses, national tradeassociations and non-profit groups, many of whom arealready engaged in some support of education, and connect-ing them to AMERICA 2000 communities. These commu-nities are hard at work and need to know where their re-sources are and who will help them," Donley said during apress conference announcing the Coalition's formation.

Les lye Arsht, a former U.S. Department of Educationofficial, will serve as president. According to Arsht, mem-bers will support Coalition efforts by:

Adopting the six National Education Goals as part oftheir institutional mission;

Developing a strategy for their constituents, chapters,members or employees to help communities achieve oneor more of these goals;

A Encouraging employees or members of their organizationto volunteer in local AMERICA 2000 efforts in supportof that national focus;

A Communicating their organization's role in AMERICA2000 and the need to achieve the six National EducationGoals through in-house communications, public an-nouncements as well as through marketing, advertisingand community relations.

"The Coalition's primary goal is to create an alliance ofgroups who are actively seeking opportunities to involve theiremployees, customers, capters or members in the transfor-mation of education at the local level, community by commu-nity, throughout the country," said Arsht.

"Communities can look to each Coalition member as aresource. Through Coalition efforts nationally, they will knowthat their local bank, electric company, chapters of organiza-tions like The Salvation Army and Girl Scouts, along withothers, are being encouraged by their national affiliations towork in the community to meet the local goals."

For more information, contact the AMERICA 2000 Coali-tion; 1825 K Street NW, Suite 1010-, Washington, D.C.20006; 202-835-2000.

AMERICA 2000 COALITION FOUNDING MEMBERSAir Products and Chemicals, Inc.Allstate Insurance CompanyAmerican Association for Adult and

Continuing EducationAmerican College TestingAmerican Gas /. csociationAmerican Red CrossAmerican Standard Inc.American Trucking AssociationsAssociation for Women's Health,

Obstetrical, and Neonatal NursesBinney & Smith, Inc., makers of

Crayola brand productsThe Business RoundtableCan Manufacturers InstituteCarnegie Mellon UniversityChild Welfare League of AmericaCitizens' Scholarship Foundation of

America, Inc.Cities in Schools, Inc.Edison Electric Institute

The Educational Publishing Group,Inc.

Entergy CorporationFamily Service America, Inc.Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.Hewlett-Packard CompanyIndependent Bankers Association of

AmericaJobs for America's Graduates, Inc.Laubach Literacy ActionLiteracy Volunteers of America, Inc.3MMotorolaNational Alliance of BusinessNational Association of Partners in

Education, Inc.National Association of Temporary

ServicesNational Community Education

AssociationNational Council of La Raza

National Executive Service CorpsNational Institute of Former

GovernorsNational Center for Family LiteracyNational Science Resources CenterNational Urban LeaguePennsylvania Power & Light

CompanyPoints of Light FoundationRohm and Haas CompanySER - Jobs for Progress, Inc.The Salvation ArmySiemens CorporationThe J.M. Smucker CompanyUnited States Space FoundationUniversity Support ServicesVanderbilt UniversityVery Special ArtsWal-Mart Stores, IncYWCA of the U.S.A.

Funding for the AMERICA 2000 Coalition has been provided by the Richard King Mellon Foundation, Merrill Lynch and

Company, Inc., and Siemens Corporation.

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Americans Favor GI Bill for ChildrenTwo separate polls released during the

past several weeks show that mostAmericans favor some type of schoolchoice for children and families.

AP Poll Finds Support for GI Bill forChildren. A new poll commissioned bythe Associated Press and released onSeptember 6, shows that 63 percent ofAmericans favor a plan "for the govern-ment to give poor and middle-incomeparents $1,000 scholarships for each oftheir children" to use "at any public,private or religious school." This is adescription of the President's "GI Bill forChildren," although the question did notidentify it as such. Support for thescholarship plan is particularly strongamong families with incomes under$25,000 (73 percent support) young adults(75 percent of those aged 18-34), parents

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Gallup Poll rinds Strong Support Anew Gallup poll, commissioned by theNational Catholic Education Associationand released September 17, found that 70percent of adults surveyed support agovernment-funded voucher system forparental choice (27 percent were againstthe idea and 3 percent had no opinion).When broken down, blacks and Hispanicsoverwhelmingly support the idea, 86 and84 respectively; and 78 percent of parentswith children in school support the idea.The 70 percent finding shows a sharpincrease in public support when comparedto two similar polls taken during the pastfew years. In 1991, Gallup found that 50percent favored vouchers, as compared to44 percent in 1987.

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National League of CitiesJoins AMERICA 2000

The National League of Cities (NLC)has joined Secretary Lamar Alexander inchallenging mayors and local officialsnationwide to help start or supportAMERICA 2000 efforts in their cities andtowns.

"We are all starting to understand that inorder to strengthen America, we've got tostrengthen our schools...transformingeducation," said the NLC leadership in aSeptember 7 letter circulated to nearly27,000 local elected and appointed officialsnationwide. "Schools can't do it alone, soit's up to local elected leaders to get thewhole community together to set goals andstart working to achieve them." Signingthe letter were I ague President GlendaHood (Mayor Pro Tem, Orlando, FL); FirstVice President Donald Fraser (Mayor,Minneapolis, MN); Second Vice PresidentSharpe James (Mayor, Newark, NJ); andEducation Secretary Lamar Alexander.

NLC has asked all local officials "read;to accept the challenge" to call theChildren and Families in Cities Projects atNLC (202-626-3030) with the name of acity hall contact. In turn, the League willlink callers with the AMERICA 2000office in the Department of Education.The League also asked their members tosend information on ideas and strategiesalready under way to John Kyle, NLC,1301 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, WashingtonD.C., 20004. NLC will highlight some ofthe best ideas during a special session atthe 1992 Congress of Cities in NewOrleans, which will focus on innovativeand successful education approaches.

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National Education Goal 4 U.S. students first in the world in math and scienceis the topic of the next AMERICA 2000 Satellite Town Meeting, Tuesday, October

13, at 8:30 p.m., EDT. Moderated by Secretary Lamar Alexander, the 60-minutemeeting will feature:A Iris Carl, past president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

(NCTM), who helped to develop and to secure the adoption of the ground -breaking "math standards," known as the "Curriculum and Evaluation Standardsfor School Mathematics." Published in 1989, the standards are already changingthe way math is taught in about one third of the nation's classrooms, NCTMestimates.

A Edward Donley, who chairs the board of directors of the AMERICA 2000Coalition, a newly formed alliance of more than 50 national organizationsdedicated to achieving the National Education Goals, community by community.He is former president and chairman of Products and Chemicals, Inc., formerchairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and current chair of the Chamber'sCenter for Workforce Preparation and Quality Education. Donley is also co-chair, with Governor Robert Casey (D), of PENNSYLVANIA 2000 and founderof LEHIGH VALLEY 2000.Theresa Hernandez-Heinz, high school mathematics coordinator for the SanFrancisco Unified Schools, who was chair of the mathematics department atMission High School in San Francisco, where she helped to put in place innova-tive programs to help students learn mathematics. These included STAMP(Students and Teachers Acquiring Mathematics Power), an intervention programstressing problem- solving skills, and the Interactive Math Project, a three-yearsequence based on the National Council ofTeachers of Mathematics standards.

A John Richards, project director for the Co-NECT School Design Team, one ofthe 11 teams funded by the New American Schools Development Corporation(NASDC) to create a new generation of schools. Richards manages the EducationTechnologies Department at Bolt. Beranek and Newman (BBN) Labs and iscurrently conducting research on how technology can improve teaching andlearning and help to restructure schools.

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More than 2,500 communities participated in the September AMERICA 2000 Satellite Town Meeting, which addressed NationalEducation Goal 3, all children competent in at least math, science, English, history and geography. That mule the meeting possibly thelargest of its kind in the nation's history. Among the participants were store managers at Wal-Marts and Sam's Clubs across the countrywho invited local educators and civic and political leaders in their communities to take part in the town meeting.

Following are excerpts from the phone-in segment of the meeting, which follow:d a discussion with Secretary Alexander and in-studioguests on standards-setting, effective assessments and break-the-mold thinking [see AMERICA 2000 Newsletter, No. 37, for highlights ofthe in-studio segment of the meeting]:

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* Union Wants More on World Class StandardsRichard Rice, Union, New Jersey, asked about world class

standards what they are and who determines what they are.

Secretary Alexander responded, "What we mean by world classstandards is this: What does a child need to know and be able to do inmath, science, English, history, geography, and other essentialsubjects in order to live, work and compete in the world the way it istoday? ....We are working so that, by 1995, there will be a nationalconsensus to define those standards, but no federal law is going to tellNew Jersey or Union, New Jersey, what to do. That will be yourdecision."

As for testing to see how the children are teaming to the standards,John Murphy, superintendent of Charlotte - Mecklenburg (N.C.)schools, observed that many of today's standardized tests won't begood enough. "I think we've got to be developing our own tests thattruly test whether or not the curriculum is being taught in our schools,"said Murphy. Constance Jones, principal of Three Oaks ElementarySchool in Fat Myers, Florida, which has implemented a new rigorouscurriculum based on E.D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge Sequence, notedthat Three Oaks School retained the standardized achievement testsgiven in the district a content-neutral, comprehensive test of basicskills. 'What we found in our assessment': is we did a lot more hands-on pm*. ,...cerformanco-based assessments, so teachers were able todetermine whe the child comprehended or understood...."Secretary Alexander added: "This is why you hear so many people

including the President talking about a national examinationsystem. What we're really saying is that if we're going to have all ofthese high goals and then develop these standards which define thegoals, we're going to have to come up with a new set of examinationsfor use by local school districts to see whether the children arereaching those goals." [Contact: Constance Jones, principal, ThreeOaks Elementary School, 19600 Cypress View Drive, Fort Myers, FL33912, or Cote Knowledge Foundation, 2012-B Morton Drive,Charlottesville,VA 22901]

* Salem Asks About a Challenging CurriculumJohn Jordan in Salem County, New Jersey, asked about

developing a challenging curriculum.

Diane Ravitch, assistant secretary of educational research andimprovement, responded: 'What we [in the Education Department]have done is to give money to leading professional scholarly groupsand say, 'Go and develop nriional standards, but as you develop them,work with as broad a public as possible.' According to ConstanceJones, theft Myers School Board approved of Three Oaks School'scurriculum/standarrls setting activities. 'We did digress from thestandards that had been set ...for our district....Actually, we incorpo-rated them into the context that we were using with the cote curricu-lum," said Jones. "I think it's important to know, too, that thisparticular curriculum is only intended to be 50 percent of what we'reteaching ...."

John Murphy added: "We engaged over 9,000 people through theprocess in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. We went to the experts first. Webrought those programs into the conununity....Our administrative[people] examined all of the standards, and then together came up witha report in terms of the direction we should be moving in. Then wefinished that process with an Education Summit that brought roughly1,800 citizens together, to examine the standards and then makerecommendations for modifications." [Contact: Dr. John Murphy,Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, 701 East Second Street, PO Box30035, Charlotte, NC 28230]

* Rotterdam Wants Goal 3 ClarifiedKaren Peters, Rotterdam, New York, asked for more information

on the second part of Goal 3: "All students learn to use their mindswell...responsible citizenship."

Diane Ravitch responded: "In all of the academic areas and areaslike the arts, using your mind well means not just parroting backanswers...[it means] to think things through, to have understanding andto be able to apply what you've learned" John Murphy added: "Oneof the things that we're looking towards in the Charlotte- MecklenburgSchools as we begin to assess [student] petforrnance.eis to engage thanin writing essays when they leave middle school... high school, and notonly to write an essay about their learning experiences and relating allof the disciplines, but to be able to orally defend that." EducationSecretary Lamar Alexander added: "I think the answer to the questionis the National Education Goals Panel work and the work of the taskforce on setting standards in citizenship."

* St. Louis Asks About Law and Citizenship StandardsI'm& Rakes, St. Louis, Missouri, asked about the role of law-

related education and social studies in Goal 3.

Diane Ravitch responded that the U.S. Department of Education ishelping to develop voluntary national standards. "One of the projectsthat we have gotten up and running is the civics project, which is beingdeveloped in collaboration with the National Council for the SocialStudies," said Ravitch. "1 think that as the next couple of years go by,you'll see new standards in history and geography and in civics andgovernment, and I would think that law-related education wouldcertainly be a part of the new civic standards." [Contact: Diane Ravitch,U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washing-ton, D.C. 20202]

* Ardmore Wants More on Outcome-Based EducationJo Anne Graham, Ardmore, Oklahoma, said: "We'd like to hear

the panel's feeling on whether or not [outcome-based] philosophymight improve student achievement."

Constance Jones said her school has clear, specific goals for eachgrade level in the subject areas. "It really helped all of us focus on whatwe needed to create a total education for a child, said Jones. "In otherwords, teachers now know what they'legceng to be teaching...[in eachgrade] so that they can build knowledge upon knowledge...II-flow youachieve that outcome can vary from classroom to classroom." Secre-

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"I would say that outcome -based education is absolutely essential,"said Diane Ravitch. "[I]f you agree on what you want children tolearn, then you can have a kind of assessment system that supportsthat." Secretary Alexander observed that Portland, Michigan, is one ofthe three school districts in that state that have completely integratedthe new math standards into their schools. "They've become sixth inthe state in math achievement...even though they're one of the lowerspending-per-pupil school districts. That's what we think of asoutcome-based education."

* Columbia Asks About Determining Workplace SkillsDr. Milton Kimpson, Columbia, South Carolina, asked how one

would find what skills would be necessary in the new Americanworkplace. "I would think it would require many, many personsexternal of that school situation," said Kimpson.

According to John Murphy, it is important to involve the wholecommunity in the process of setting standards and goals for schools.'This is a question that can be addressed by the employers in ourcommunities: What kind of skills do they expect? ...In fact, one of thethings I did in the school system recently was to build a guaranteeddiploma program, to ask the business community, "What do youexpect our youngsters to learn?" and then guarantee that it's taught, andguarantee that it's learned...."

* Phoenix Talks About Alternative ProgramsSandra Dowling, Phoenix, Arizona, noted that Maricopa County

has created many alternative programs, "...a program for homelesschildren...one of the largest special ed consortiums in the state...theSecond Chance Program for our dropout students." She asked how theDepartment of Education can assist in supporting the creation of morebreak-the-mold programs.

Secretary Alexander responded: `The l'resident has asked Congressto give the Secretary of Education flexibility to waive our rules andregulations for more than 70 programs that spend about $11 billion sothat you and your teachers can decide how best to spend the money."lie noted that, for example, Gastonia, North Carolina, is using Chapter1 money, the largest federal elementary program, for a parentingprogram. "Now they're very tough about patentingarequire a parentto be involved with the school, but they find that the federal regulationssomehow prohibit that..I don't [currently] have the flexibility tochange that....One thing we're willing to do...[is] form a SWAT teamfrom the Department of Education and work with a metropolitan area,for example, to see whether we have flexibility."

* Port Hueneme Asks About Teacher TrainingNiki Davis, Port Hueneme, California, noted that her district is

finding that assessment is taking a great deal of time. "[We] have thebase...teolsatechnology, and now we're confronted with...timeand...in-depth teacher training needs."

John Murphy said: "We're trying to restructure [teacher training]into our day to get better utilization of existing staff .... ConstanceJones added: "We have tried to create time [for] teachers to havecommon claming time to pool their irsources...ideas together, and wehave found that a support network has been extremely helpful forthem."

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* Orrville Asks About Character Improvementm Smucker, Orrville, Ohio, represents one of the design teams

that was not funded by NASDC but which plans to go ahead with itsdesign. Smucker noted that Orrvle is a community of about 8,000people. He asked for suggestions as to how character improvementcan be implemented.

Secretary Alexander responded: "I was in Los Angeles about twoweeks ago meeting with a group of superintendents...listening to howthey're dealing with the aftermath of the riots. The first thing that theywant to do, as school opens this year, is to introduce in their curriculuma course on ethics." Elaine Salinas, education program officer for theUrban Coalition in St. Paul (MN), added: "One of things that we'regoing to be doing with the projects that we're working with inMinnesota, is looking very carefully at the whole idea of youth asresources...in the classroom, cooperative learning, peer tutoring, cross-age tutoring, different kinds of instructional stnategies...We haveexamples in Minnesota,- where the high school students tun the localgrccery store and hardware stote...being crovided...education inmarketing, retail...." Secretary Alexander noted that in Cincinnati, theKroger Company has put a Kroger store within a school as a way ofintroducing the children to how to make decisions operating thestore, stacking the counters, while earning chits if they keep theirgrades up which can be used to buy something. [Contact: ElaineSalinas, Urban Coalition, 2610 University Avenue West, Suite 201,St. Paul, MN 55114]

* Compton Asks Whether AMERICA 2000 RequiresEndorsement of Choice

Shirley Allen, Compton, California, asked if it is possible to joinAMERICA 2000 without embracing school choice.

Secretary Alexander responded that communities need to do onlyfour things to join AMERICA 2000 adopt the National EducationGoals, or a version of them; develop a strategy for reaching them;develop a report card to measure progress, and begin to think aboutcreating at least one break-the-mold school. "It's just like a 100-yarddash; if you want to run backwards, that's your business, as long asyou reach your goals," said the Secretay. 'Me President feels and wefeel there are a number of things we need to do in addition to that, tochange our education system, that have to do with standards andtaming [and giving] all families more choices of all schools....Becomean AMERICA 2000 community, and we can all get on the traintogether and argue about choice along the way. I'd rather do that thanall of us stand around [arguing about choice] in the train station."

Elaine Salinas added: "Minnesota actually has about four pieces oflegislation on the books which really deal with giving parents morechoice within the public education system...a post-secondary enroll-ment options law, which allows 11th and 12th grade students to attenda post-secondary institution, receive high school arditause thosecredits for college....open enrollment between districts somethingcalled the High School Graduation Incentives Program, which is asecond chance program for young people who have dropped out orwho are at risk of dropping out, so that they can choose an educationalalternative or another public school of their choice. [F]inally, we havethe most recent charter schools legislation." Secretary Alexanderadded: 'Debbie Myers, one of the pioneering school superintendentsin New York City, is creating 30 new high schools small highschools in New York City right now. She says, look, they're all goingto be different, and we're not going to make people go to them, but

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* Lakewood Talks About Work-place Training

Charles Witnber, Lakewood, Colorado,noted that a number of Wal -Mart associatesare participating and suggested that Wal-Mart pioneer the idea of continuing educa-tion and workplace training, along the linesof the Gemurn dual educational systempart academic and part skills and training.

Marc Tucker, director of the NationalAlliance foe Restructuring Education designteam, agreed that it was a good suggestion:'Two years ago our Commission on theSkills of the American Workforce said,among other things, that this country wouldgo down the tubes if we don't impletnat aversion of what goes on routinely in NorthernEurope. [A]bout 20 percent of the highschool graduates go off to a four-yearcollege. Some 80 percent of the rest go into aprogram that consists partly of school andpartly of on-the-job training that's based atthe woricsite..-We' re the only majoradvanced industrial country that doesn't dothat, and...we probably have one of the leastqualified bottom halves of 1m:tiffs:toes in theindustrialized worid...."Secretary Alexanderadded: "We have some states that aremaking some steps Maine, Wisconsin,Oregon." He noted that Marc Tucker'sdesign team is woddng with some of them.Tucker added: "One of the biggest problemshere is getting the firms to offer the slots...."[Contact Marc Tucker, Center on Educationand the Economy, 39 State Street, Suite 500,Rochester, NY 14614]

* Gulfport Asks About LanguagesBridget Williams, Gulpott, Mississippi,

asked why, in a world that has become

communiticns-oriented, aren't foreignlanguages included in the curriculum.

Secretary Alexander responded: 'There'sbeen some confusion because Gail 3 says'challenging subjects including math,science, English, history and geography.'None of the governors nor the Presidentmeant to suggest that, for example, the arts orforeign languages or civics were not an

important part of a cuniculum. In fact,we've formed an arts partnaship to helpencourage that."

"My own view is that, in America, everychild should know at least two languageswell, one of which is English." said theSecretary. "You're exactly tight aboutforeign languages, and it's a good point tomake."

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Norristown is a leader in accepting the AMERICA 2000 challenge to reinventAmerican schools, said President George Bush, during a visit to the Pennsylva-nia community on September 9. The President joined Secretary Alexander,Superintendent Holton and other community leaders at Norristown HighSchool. Following are excerpts of his remarks.

"...I have come to Norristown because you accepted my challenge to reinventAmerican schools,...Norristown is in the lead but you're not alone. Today,1,700 communities in every single state have adopted the vision of whatwe call AMERICA 2000....

'Really, four revolutions are under way. First, we are in the process ofcreating hundreds of what we call "break-the-mold' schools schools thatreject the status quo....and Norristown was one of 700 communities thatresponded (to the New American Schools Development Corporation's call fordesign team proposals). Revolution number two has to do with what we teachin our schools.... Your math teachers are already relying on new world-classstandards.... The third revolution involves... teachers ...getting state governmentoff their back...We've got to relieve these teachers of federally-mandatedpaperwork requirements. I trust the teachers, not the government, to do what'sright for our students. There's one final revolution under way I think everyparent should have the right to choose the school they want for theirchildren....My G.I. Bill For Kids would give $1,000 scholarships to children ofmiddle-and-low income families that they can use to spend on any school oftheir choice....Right here in Norristown, almost 6,000 kids about two-thirds ofthe school population would be eligible ....Norristown would receive another$6 million in new federal funds -- not controlled by bureaucrats, but parentsand teachers.... So these are the four revolutions in American education: break-the-mold schools, new standards, getting government off the teachers' backs,and giving parents real choice....' (Editor's Note: Ten days after the Presi-dent delivered these remarks, the number of AMERICA 2000 Communitiestopped the 2,000 mark.)

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:-.1t..bool readiness, a more challenging curriculum, and better technical/vocational education

were the three educational challenges which prompted Oregon last year to pass "the most

sweeping restructuring plan in the history of this country," said Oregon School Superintendent

Norma Paulus during a luncheon speech at the AMERICA 2000 LeadershipWorkshop in San

Francisco, on September 16. (Governor Barbara Roberts (D) and Superintendent Paulus joined

forces to launch OREGON 2000 on August 22,1991.1

Lack of school readiness among many children "is a dirty, ugly secret in every elementary

school in this country," said Paulus. Too many children are unloved, unwashed and unfed, and

it's been dragging down the system...drugs, violence, and the breakdownof the family. We've

been trying to deal with that problem too late-.[ putting] all of our money in with the wigged-out

17-year old when we should havebeen putting it into parenting and early childhood develop-

ment." Paulus described the Oregon plan which focuses on early childhood development from

age zero to eight, noting that the Oregon legislature has made a massive commitment to a state

version of Head Start. "It's exactly like federal Head Start except it's Oregon money, and we are

blending those two programs successfully and getting a bigger bang for every buck by

melding...a whole host of programs in early childhood which...includes parenting." Paulus said

the state has asked community leaders "to consciously identify young families in their

midst...and make sure [they] know what =mixes are available."

Oregon's second problema "watered down" state curriculum brought down by low

expectationsalso prompted the radical restructuring plan, said Paulus. She noted that the State

will expect proficiency in the basic disciplines, including art and music. "We want [children] to

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EDUCATION GOALS PANEL RELEASES SECOND

ANNUAL PROGRESSAmerica is making progress in

reaching certain aspects of the sixNational Education Goals but is still

too complacent about its educationalshortcomings, according to the secondNational Education Goals Report,released by the bipartisan NationalEducation Goals Panel on September30.

The report noted particular progressin decreasing student drug use (Goal 6)

and in closing the gap between minor-

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"All of us need to raise our expecta-tions parents for their children,teachers for the students, communitiesfor their schools, employers for theirworkers and workers for their ownlifelong learning," said NebraskaGovernor Ben Nelson (D), who chairs

the panel. "Now, we're setting oursights higher and doing what needs tobe done to help our children learn what

they need to know to live, work and

compete in today's global economy,"

said Secretary Lamar Alexander.For a copy of the National Education

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S retary Announces MoreSchools in Alaska, Oregon, and California are among the most recent recipients of the Secretary's "A+ for Breaking the Mold"

awards given daily to innovative schools, programs or practices that are making progress toward reaching the six National EducationGoals.

"Schools are changing," said the Secretary in describing the "A+" award program, which began on September 1 and will continuethrough the end of the year. "All over the coutty, inn communities w-.ere business as usual just isn't enough, there are break-the-moldschools that are teaching to high standards, cutting through bureau, atic red tape, and providing greater choices of all schools."

Following are descriptions of the "A+" award winners announced during the last two weeks in September. (See AMERICA 2000Newsletter No. 36, September 7, 1992, for a description of earlier winners)

Discovery School Focuses on ScienceOn September 14, Secretary Alexander awarded an "A+" award to

Denali Elementary School, Fairbanks, Alaska. The schoolrecently received a grant from the RJR/Nabisco Foundation to expandits "Discovery School" concept, redesigning the entire curriculumaround the study of science. The school also has a "Lifelab" garden,where students and parents learn about science and the environment.[Contact: Tim Doran, principal, Denali Elementary School, 1042Lathrop St., Fairbanks, AK 99710]

Enlisting the Conirrxrlity to Help StudentsOn September 15, the Secretary gave an

"A+" to Bush Elementary School, Salem,Oregon, for helping students and theirparents reach the National Education Goalsby forming partnerships with the localcommunity college, church groups, thehousing authority, and others. BushElementary is also part of the OregonNetwork, a support organization that linksinnovative schools across the state,allowing them to share information aboutteaching and learning. [Contact: JeniferBillman, principal, Bush ElementarySchool, 755 University Street, SE, Salem.OR, 97301]

Helping Hispanic Students Stay inSchool

On September 16, the Secretary recognized four Californiaprograms for developing innovative approaches to reduce the dropoutrate, especially among Hispanic students Balderas ElementarySchool, Fresno; Daniel Webster Elementary School, San Fran-cisco; AVID, San Diego; and Cities in Schools, Los Angeles:

Nearly 90 percent of Balderas' parents are actively involvedin the school, which has an extended day program to helpboth students and parents. [Contact: Erlinda Griffin,principal, Balderas Elementary School, 4625 East Florence.Fresno, CA 93725]Webster, the pilot school for Henry Levin's AcceleratedSchools, challenges disadvantaged children with innovative,hands-on material to help students think, reason and solveproblems. [Contact: Daniel Webster Elementary School,465 Missouri Street, San Francisco, CA 94107]The AVID program offers a rigorous college-prep curricu-lum targeted to students from groups historically under-represented in higher education Hispanics, Blacks, NativeAmericans. As a result, fully 92 percent of AVID studentsgo on to higher education. [Contact: Mary CatherineSwanson, San Diego County Office of Education, 6401

Linda Vista Road, San Diego, California 92111-7399]Integrating community social services in the schools is amain element of the Cities in Schools progmrn. Four schooldistricts in the Watts area of Los Angeles pre groupedtogether in an "education park," where schools can shareprogram ideas and other information. [Contact: RobertArias, Cities in Schools, 11340 West Olympic Blvd., Suite381, Los Angeles, CA 90064]

Giving Families More Choice of All SchoolsOn September 17, Secretary Alexandergave an "A+" award to the Children'sEducational Opportunities (CEO)Foundation, Sun Antonio, Texas, foroffering privately funded scholarships tolow-income families. So far this year.CEO has received 2,000 applications andawarded more than 900 scholarships,which cover one -half the annual tuition ateither a public or private school up to5750. [Contact: Robert Aguine,managing director, CEO Foundation,P.O. box 17447, San Antonio, TX78217]

Redesigning the Learning Envi-ronment

On September 18, the Secretary's "A+" went to the BensenvilleCommunity Design Team, Bensenville, Uhinois, for its plan to turnthe entire village into a school. The design, one of 11 selected forfunding by the New American Schools Development Corporation,will establish a "Lifelong Learning Center," which will profile eachlearner's interests, abilities and goals, as well as group students ofdifferent ages together according to their needs. In addition to thelearning center, students will learn at the various businesses andgovernment offices in Bensenville. [Contact: Len Shotzld, projectdirector, Bensenville Community Design Team, 115 East Green St.,Bensenville, IL 60106]

Giving Families More Choices of All SchoolsOn September 21, Secretary Alexander gave his "A+ for Breaking

the Mold" award to two Milwaukee, Wisconsin programs: Part-ners Advancing Values in Education (PAVE), and the Milwau-kee Education Center (MEC) Middle School. PAVE, anorganization founded by the Bradley Foundation, is offeringscholarships to low-income families so they can choose from public,private and religious schools for their children. PAVE expands on acurrent choice program already used in Milwaukee, where publicfunds are used to help send children to private, non-religious schools.PAVE is funded completely through the private sector. [Contact:

Details on the "A+" programand the daily awards can beheard on the AMERICA 2000Daily Conference Cali a 5-7minute discussion on educationreform which can be accessed bydialing toll-free, 1-800-USA-LEARN.

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become more proficient at the end of thetenth grade than they are now in the twelfthgrade. And at the end of the tenth grade,after they have been assessed at regularintervals to see if they ate meeting theoutcome-based educational goals then we aregoing to ask them to...choose a 'strand "Thesuperintendent said all the industries,professions and livelihoods will be dividedinto different strands for example, healthscience from which students will choose."If you want to be a brain surgeon... dentaltechnician...veterinarianyou would go intothat strand, and anatomy, and experiences inhospitals, and medical centers would beavailable to you," said Paulus. She noted thatthis does not mean a tracking system.

Paulus reported that the "capstone" of theOregon reform bill focuses on the Stag'sthird challenge to introduce and integrateprofessional and technical education inparticular, math and science as quickly aspossible into education. She said that the billencourages high school students to make achoice by the end of the sophomore yearbut "not an iron-clad choice."

With regard to funding, Paulus said thatthe first two priorities are to redirect existing

revenues and coordinate all funding andprograms tied to children and families at theschool site itself. "We spend millions andmillions of dollars every year and most hasgone right down the rat hole," said Paulus."We would be much better off if we couldbring the money... resources and bodies, rightinto the elementary schools ...make apartnership with a parent." The superinten-dent included private groups and businesses,as well as state governmental agencies, in thecollaborative effort for example, theOregon Historical Society, libraries inpartnership with local hospitals, museums,etc. "And we are inviting any of oursurrounding states to be involved in this,"said Paulus. "We are very excited about it."

About 350 AMERICA 2000 leaders,primarily from the West Coast, attended thetwo-day workshop, which included sessionson communicating the AMERICA 2000message, parental choice, and meeting theAMERICA 2000 four -part challenge. [Formore information on Oregon reform efforts,contact Office of the Superintendent of PublicInstruction, State Department of Education,700 Pringle Parkway, S.E., Salem, OR97310]

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With higher standards in place, American students can be first in the world in mathemat-ics and science by the year 2000, observed Iris Carl, past president of the National Councilof Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), during the latest Satellite Town Meeting on October13. Carl joined Secretary Lamar Alexander, San Francisco educator Theresa Hernandez-Heinz, and education technology expert John Richards in discussing National EducationGoal 4: "By the year 2000, U.S. students will be first in the world in science and math-ematics achievement."

"Our children are capable of learning much more mathematics than they're beingtaught," said Carl, who helped developed ground-breaking NCTM math standards whichare now changing the way math is taught in about one-third of the nation's classrooms.

Theresa Hernandez-Heinz, high school mathematics coordinator for the San FranciscoUnified Schools discussed the community's Interactive Math Project. She said her schoolhas had some r v math units but current units revolve around concepts and hands-onactivities: "We nave students [with] diverse backgrounds and learning abilities...studyingmathematics to determine, for example, now quickly an oil spill is spreading; whether ornot the good guys have a chance of winning the pennant; whether or not the bees choosethe best shape when they make the honeycomb....We started a unit with the story of ThePit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe....We read the story...discussed...the prisonerlying there, the pendulum was swinging 12 times...." Heinz sa:ti that the idea at the end ofthe unit was to predict what would happen with a 30-foot pendulum: Did the prisoner havetime to escape?

John Richards project director for the Co-NECT School Design Team, one of 11funded by the New American Schools Development Corporation discussed the impor-tance of a project-centered curriculum, "so that students and teachers...get involved in aproject that has something to pay off...a product." Richards, who manages the Education

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AMERICA 2000 Coal tion Chair Joins Town MeetingDuring the October AMERICA 2000 Satellite Town Meeting, Secretary Alexander was

joined by Ed Donley, chaimian of the recently announced AMERICA 2000 Coalition apartnership of more than 50 businesses, trade associations and nonprofit gaups pledged tosupport AMERICA 2000 Communities at the local and national level.

Donley used the Independent Bankers' Association, 12,000 banks in the United States, as anexample of how Coalition groups can help communities: "[Their monthly magazine] had anextensive article about how the AMERICA 2000 Coalition works [and] how people inindividual communities throughout the country can work to improve the quality of theirschools," said Donley. He also mentioned several Coalition member groups with expertise inGoal 1, school readiness Association for Women's Health, Obstetrical and NeonatalNurses, the Girl Scouts, the Salvation Army.

Donley added that the Coalition now publishes a newsletter every two weeks and is settingup an electronic bulletin board to help communities and members communicate. Also, with acomputer, a modem and along distance call, AMERICA 2000 Communities can access TheDaily Report Card, which "covers-the-coverage" of education issues as reported in the newsmedia. [Fa information on how to download die Daily Report Card, refer to AMERICA 2000Newsletter No. 39, October 12, or contact the AMERICA 2000 Coalition, 1825 K Street NW,Suite 1010, Washington, D.C. 20006; 202-835-20001

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2,700 Communities Discuss Goal 4:More than 2,700 communities participated in the fifth AMERICA 2000 Satellite Town Meeting at October 13 a ten-fdd increase over the first

meeting of 250 contrrtunities last May. Some 1,600 Wal-Mart stores offered their sites as comtrutnity meeting places, and the meeting was broadcastover the Mind-Extension University's Network to more than 600 cable-TV systems across the country. Discussion focused on National EducationGoal 4 American students first in the world in math and science. Following are excerpts from the phone-in segment of the meeting:

Norristown Asks About Teacher TrainingPayton Burt, Norristown, Pennsylvania, said that his town is

already training teachers to teach to the new standards using its ownfunds as well as Eisenhower grant monies. He asked about otherteacher training opportunities and incentive grants.

Theresa Hernandez-Heinz, high school mathematics coordinator forthe San Francir'o Unified Schools, discussed her school district'sapproach: 'We have teachers from middle schools who are teamleaders...meet with the director of our...special program funded byEisenhower monies.... We also have team leaders ...working directlywith the teachers, visiting them in the classrooms, coaching them, andteaching them how to work with students in small groups." Sheadded: 'This is a new skill how to facilitate learning rather thanteach it directly, and how to ask students questions that encouragestudents to think instead of just repeat a right answer."

Iris Cad, past president of the National Council of Teachers ofMathematics, said: "One bit of advioe.look to the many grantprograms...provided by the Department of Education...NationalScience Foundation. School districts as well as universities inpartnership with school districts can apply for funds that will helpimprove teaching....[P]rivate industry has now become partners...providing grants for that kind of improvement that we seek....And Imust not forget to mention the National Council of leachers ofMathematics. We provide conferences as well and just contacting uswe can certainly let you know what's available in your area."

Secretary Alexander noted that there is a recently enacted law by theCongress that will create national academics for teachers of math andscience with corporations and universities: "I happen to know aboutthe Univcosoy of Tennessee where I used to be. The Martin MariettaCorporation and the State of Tennessee have created a regionalsummer program for teachers of math and science; that's going on in avariety of places." He added that the President asked AdmiralWatkins, Secretary of Energy, to head a task force which includedDeputy Secretary David Kearns and others, to focus nearly $2 billionof federal spending on math and science elementary and secondaryeducation on teacher training. [For a fact sheet on federal math andscience programs, call 1-800-USA-LEARN.]

Flowood Asks About Teacher College SupportMitch Morgan, Flowood, Mississippi, asked whether teacher

colleges will sign onto the new approaches.

John Richardsproject director for the Co-NEM' School DesignTeam, one of 11 funded by NASDCnoted that his design involvesBoston College with regard to assessment and testing: "We'reworking with...faculty and we have a pretty radically differentapproach to the way math and science are taught."

Secretary Alexander added: "One of the things that's going on...isthat more universities are requiring teachers to get degrees in math andscience before they take teacher training, and that's going to meanchanging the math and science curriculum in the universities...."

Grants Asks About Catch-upCandace Dylla, Grants, New Mexico, asked how children, who

are already behind in math and science, can be brought up to speed.

Theresa Hernandez-Heinz said that San Francisco tackles that

problem by giving students enriching, engaging mathematics. "Wegive them something that really motivates them and interests them[for example] the question about do the bees build a honeycomb: Is thatthe most effective way?...[A]bout 40 percent of our math studentstraditionally would not take college prep classes, and they not onlywere part of our class, they succeeded. We have students whocarne...not speaking the language and they not only learned math, theylearned English as well....But you need engaging mathematics...notboring but [challenging]... and they'll rise to the occasion."

Se creiary Alexander added: "[Another example] Ls.theDaniel .

Webster School in San Francisco...a Henry Levin School [which]...operates on the theory that you don't slow anybody down, you speedall the children up. [Contact: Willie B. Santarnaria, supervisor, SanFrancisco Public Schools, Rm. 214,135 Van Ness Ave., San Fran-cisco, 94102.]

Wichita Asks About a TQM Tie-inBob Morrison, Wichita, Kansas, asked whether Goal 4 is being

coordinated with the federal initiative for Total Quality Management.

Secretary Alexander suggested that a specific total quality manage.merit initiative would be a good project for the AMERICA 2000Coalition: 'The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been doing importantwork [in this area]...."We've been trying to encourage them...to make itavailable to communities for teacher training and many [localchambers] have." [For more information on the U.S. Chamber'seducation initiative, call Bob Martin at (202) 463-5525.]

Arkansas Asks About Gender EquityLaura Dodson, Arkansas, Kansas, asked if there are any

specific gender equity initiatives being developed or implemented.Theresa IIernandez-Heinz said that San Francisco's Interactive

Mathematics Project emphasizes writing and communicating:"Girls usually who have been afraid of mathematics because of thevery abstract way in which it has been approached are now muchmore comfortable because they are able to work with oneanother...in groups: Their resource is their peers, [and] they're ableto write and explain their answers and present....More of our girls...are staying with us through the three years of our programs...."

Iris Carl added: "One of the things that we're doing...is makingsure that every youngster has an opportunity...for hands-onexperiences in math as opposed to simply working individuallywith pencil and paper... use applications for mathematics...."Calumet City Notes the Importance of Fiber-Optics

Hurry Condon, Calumet City, Illinois, said that fiber-opticsprovides an opportunity to jump-start our total educational system. Heasked if anybody is working on that system for public schools.

John Richards responded: "We at BBN are developing for the "Co-NECT' School [a] local area network ...so that each student with PowerBook [lap-top computer] can communicate; but in addition...hook theschools to the wider world. And there is a TV studio....We' re hosing touse fiber-optics to do that Secretary Alexander described a recentAMERICA 2000 Conference Call which featured an Indiana commu-nity that hooked up with GTE Corporation. "For about a $1.5 millionone-time cost they have done a number of things intelecommunitntions...with local business contributions. [Contact:West fieklaashington School Corporation, 322 W. Main St.,

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Rogers Concerned About Measuring SuccessEllen Neaville, Rogers, Arkansas, asked about an assmsment tool

that can compare American students with students worldwide.

Iris Carl said that the National Council of Teachers of Mathematicsparticipated in the Pacific Nations Ministers of Education meeting andfound that the Pacific nations and European countries are as anxious asthe United States to find assessment tools for the new goals. "Eachcountry is focusing on problem solving and applications in mathemat-ics," said Carl. "We're all hying new ways oralternative assessments.- partfolics as well asprojects for youngsters." Secretary Alexandersaid that Vermont is taking a lead in this countryin portfolio assessments. [Contact: ElizabethRand, Varmint Deparnnent of Education, 120State St., Montpelier, VT 05620]

Theresa Hernandez -Heinz added: "We have anumber of ways of accessing our stude-nts-open-ended questions-teacher observation...a-alpresentations, listening to the students explainhow and why they ga their answers-individualassessments." She said the school also gave theSAT, as a tough measure, and the students did aswell, if not better, as the control groups.

Salem Asks About Dollar SupportGloria Jennings, &dem County, New

Jersey, asked how Salem County, one of thepoorer counties in New Jersey, can compete inmath and science without computers and etherhigh-tech equipment

Secretary Alexander referred the caller to EveBither at the Department's Office of EducationalResearch and Improvement [through 1-800-US A-LEARN] for help in clatemrining whetherher community might qualify for some federalprograms. "Second, I'd look for local businesscontributions," said the Secretary. "Third, I'd callWalter Am prey, superintendent in Baltimorewho made a partnership with a private companyto operate nine public schools and for the sameamount of money put two teachers in everyclassroom and $3-400,000 of computer technol-ogy into every school." [Contact: Office of theSuperintendent, Baltimore City Public Schools,200 E North Ave., Rm. 405, Baltimore, MD21202]

John Richards said that one thing his NASDC design team haslooked at "is that if you rethink your curriculum so you're not basing ittotally around textbooks and...to look at projects like 'The Pit and thePendulum,' then the use of computers and technology is somethingthat can be amortized over time.- [and] is a lot less expensive."

Newark Wants More on Teacher RetrainingLanny Paschall, Newark, New Jersey, asked if teachers currently

teaching should be required to go back to school and take additionalcourses and what types of assistance is available.

his Carl said it would be impossible to send every teacher back tothe university to get ready for new assignments in the shod-term:'We're recommending that each school district be a part and a party to

a new staff development modd....The National Council of Teachers ofMathematics has many publications that would help ...universities arenow focused on welting with schools to make that happen-local mathorganizations are providing workshops held on Saturdays and afterschool...[to] improve teaching and address standards."

Theresa Hernandez-Heinz pointed out that San Francisco's Interac-tive Math Project provides a week in the summer for in- servicetraining; five release days during the school year for in-service:

"The New Stanley School in Kansas City is open 11 months a year,"said Secretary Alexander. 'What they do that iskeep the children eight or ten weeks...then sendthe children home for a week-then the teachershave a week to plan their curriculum, to trainthemselves to learn what to do..." [Contact: NewStanley School, 36th and Metropolitan Sts.,Kansas City, KS 66106.]

Durango Asks About CommunityAttitudes

Ann Butler, Durango, Colorado, asked aboutchanging community attitudes toward math andscience.

Secretary Alexander said: "[That] is exactlywhat we're doing tonight-the largest townmeeting that anybody knows in this country'shistory 2,700 communities-with the supportof the all of the governors... Democrats as well asRepublicans, and the President.

John Richards added: "What you have to do[in part] is involve...not just the parents, but thecommunity. For us in particular, students get apersonal growth plan that they design with theparents with the teacher that'scontinually-reviewed.... In addition, students aregoing to be taking computers home [to]..dial intothe school [and] parents can dial into the schooland...access the network and-ptojects."

"Many AMERICA 2000 Communities have aGoal 4 Task Force which helps the wholecommunity understand that what children arelearning today in math and science is verydifferent than...10,15,20 years ago," saidSecretary Alexander.

Plaquemine Asks About Post ElectionAMERICA 2000

Lisa Batts, Plaquemine, Louisiana, asked atwo part question: 1) Is the AMERICA 2000 momentum enough tocontinue if George Bush is not reelected; and 2) What role hasCalifornia played in helping to implement the math and sciencechanges in San Francisco's schools?

Secretary Alexander responded: "Obviously, I feel that the trains aremoving down the track and with the President as the engineer they'llmove a lot faster....When we created AMERICA 2000, it was apartnership with all of the governors, including the Democraticgovernors.... President Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon'; RichardNixon was President when we finally got there. So by the time wereach these goals we may have two or three more Presidents, but wehope they all, and all the governors, will work on them."

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Theresa Hernandez-Heinz responded tothe caller's second question about statesupport of San Francisco's math programs:"California has just published its CaliforniaMathematics Framework. It came out in1992, and California is...calling for proposalsso we can implement...the national standardsand...the framework....Califomia...is leadingthe nation in trying new ways of assessingour students and supporting...efforts teachersare making right now...."

Secretary Alexander added: "Californiahas taken the lead in creating what educatorscall 'Curriculum Frameworks'... not federalstandards nobody in Washington has toldanybody to do them just an agreementabout what children ought to know and beable to do....The states create the frameworks,and the teachers decide how to help thechildren move to the standards."

Union Wants to Know AboutScience Standards

Dr. Richard Rice, Union, New Jersey,asked what initiatives are under way toimplement science standards along the linesof the NCTM math standards.

Secretary Alexander responded: Thefederal government under the EnergySecretary has refocused two billion federaldollars on teacher training for math andscience; there is the Eisenhower Grantprograms which are being increased to helpwith that...and we're borrowing the leader-ship of the mathematics teachers to help setsimilar standards in the sciences, in geogra-phy, in English and a variety of othersubjects. [Fora list of standards projects,contact: 1-800-USA-LEARN.]

Kingsville Wants to RecognizeStudent Excellence

Ride Pace, in Kingsville, Texas, asked

about national incentives to recognizestudents who excel in math and science.

Iris Carl responded. "We're finding inmany schools, the schools themselves arecreating special assemblies and specialawards in mathematics and the otherdisciplines that begin to parallel...athletics."

Theresa Hernandez-Heinz added: "In our[three core] high schools we [have] thestudents meet together at an end-of-the yearpicnic. Just the fact that they're meeting foramathematics program and not an athleticactivity was something new."

John Richards said: "When you're donewith a project; when you're done withsomething, so often in mathematics it getsthrown away or filed away....we've beenlooking at...how students can publish work..[and] in the TV studio have it closed-circuitbroadcast within the schooL That...isn't justfrills, it's a serious presentation."

Dayton Asks About Hands-on vs.Traditional Learning

Thomas Matczynski, Dayton, Ohio, saidthat Dayton is in the third year of a K-12science redesign partnership ....focusing onhands-on learning and science process skills.He asked how to reconcile the need to teachhands-on skills with traditional learningaccountability demands.

Iris Carl responded: "I think that theAmerican Association Advancement ofScience has a [national] program...which...looks at the ways in which hands-on scienceshould be taught...." [Contact AAAS, 1333 HSt.. NW, Washington, DC 20005.]

Secretary Alexander added: "Ohio isahead of most states [in that it has] given theeducation commissioner complete freedom towaive rules and regulations that get in theway...For example Reynoldsburg, Ohio [has]

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[For information on the InteractiveMath Project, contact: TheresaHernandez-Heinz, Parkside Center,2550 25th Ave., San Francisco, CA, 415-731 -8048 or Mary Jo Cittadino, Univer-sity of California, Berkeley, California94720 or call 510-642-0738. Forinformation on the Co-NECT SchoolDesign Team, contact Dr. JohnRichards, Bolt Beranek and Newman,10 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA02138. For information on the NCTMmath standards or the NAS sciencestandards, refer to the box on page 3 ofthe newsletter.]

NEWSIN7BRIER..WOrld:Clase StandeNS.forEnglish: in.the Wanks;,.

The Department of Educationhas announced a grant to 'aconsorti0M-Of prpfessional organi-zations to develop'volUntarY WandClass StanckIrds for Englisheducation in U.S..elementaryandsecondary. schools:

The $360,542 grant, to theconsortium composed of theUniversity of Wlnals Center for theStudy of Reading, the NationalCouncil of Teachers Of English andthe Intemational-FleadIng Assacia-t1011,.Will support the first year of anexpected three-yeareffort todevelop voluntary standards forEngliSh, including literature andreading:.. .

The announcement brings to sixthe StandardS:;setting projects thedepartment; and ether agencies,are supporting in science, history,the arts, civics, geography and nowEnglish. in addition, the NationalCouncil of Teachers of Mathemat-ics is helping teachers In at least40 states to use the new mathstandards in their classrooms, [Fora listing of the standards projectsand contacts, call 1-800-USA-LEARN.]

South Carolina Ties EdServicesto the Goals

South Carolinghas reconfiguredits listing of state instructionaltelevision resources to correlate tothe six Nalioxial Education Goals.The booklet, `South Carolina2000...Getting There with Instruc-tional Teleyision," was jointlyproduced by the State's Depart-ment of Education and SouthCarolina"ETV. In January, thestate expects to release a similarbooklet lying professional staffdevelopment resources to theNational Education Goals Formore information, contact: PamelaPritcheit.S.C. Office of instruc-tional Technology Development,1106 Rutledge Bldg..; Columbia,South Carolina 29201; 803 -734-8095.

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Minnesota has scheduled five.workshops to help communitiesand school districts' design actionplans to.achieve the six National

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Literacy and Lifelong Learning to beFocus of Satellite Town Meeting

National Education Goal 5 every adult literate and able to compete in the workforce is the focus of the next AMERICA 2000 Satellite Town Meeting, Tuesday,November 17, at 8:30 p.m., EST. Moderated by Secretary Lamar Alexander, the 60-minute meeting will feature:

Donna Lane, assistant commissioner, Oregon Office of Community CollegeServices, whose office has undertaken the Oregon Literacy Survey to measureadults' functional skills and has begun a statewide effort to develop curriculum andassessments for adult education programs.

A Benita Sornerfield, president, Simon and Schuster Workplace Resources, and alsoexecutive director of the Barbara BushFoundation for Family Literacy, whichsupports intergenerational literacyprograms and promotes family reading.Edward W. Bales, director of education,"or Motorola Inc.'s, Motorola Universitywhich helps train all 105,000 Motorolaemployees in classes that range from 7thgrade math to graduate-level businessinstruction.

The meeting, will also feature the new AdCouncil campaign, "Keep the Promise,"which focuses on the need for educationreform and the National Education Goals.The campaign is jointly sponsored by theU.S. Department of Education and theEducational Excellence Partnership, made upof the Business Roundtable, the NationalAlliance of Business, the American Federa-tion of Teachers and National GovernorsAssociation.

Join the NextSatellite TownMeeting...The next AMERICA2000 Satellite Town

Meeting will take place on Tuesday,November 17, 8:30 p.m-9:30 p.m.,EST. A test signal will begin at 8p.m.

C-Band: Galaxy 6; Transponder/Channel 24; verticallypolar-ized; Downlink frequency,4180; MHz. Audo subcarrier:6.2 and 6.8

Ku-band: SBS-6; Transponder/Channel 10; vertically polar-ized; Downlink frequency11945.5 MHz; Audosubcarriers: 62 and 6.8

Final Workshop for the YearAgenda Set for Dallas Regional-Leaderslqip Workshop

National and local community leaders from the Southwest will discuss theirexperiences in working toward the National. Education Goals during theAMERICA 2000 Leadership Workshop in Dallas, Texas, November 19-20.. The meeting, the final of five workshops planned for 1992, is designed forlocal leaders who are interested in starting or further developing an AMERICA2000 initiative in their communities. Panel and small group dis CUS :3'011S areplanned for such topics as New Arnericcin Schools, meeting the Ai,,lERICA2000 four-part community challenge, and local chambors of (on7i77.,fro thatare "breaking the mold.

To register for the Dallas workshop, call 202-401-0039. or 1 -&'3- (ISA-LEARN. .

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NEWS IN BRIEF, continuedEducation Goals. Workshops arescheduled for Grand Rapids,Novernber,18; Marshall, Novem-ber 23; St. Cloud, November 30;Fergus Falls, December 1; andRochester, December 9.

[Contact: Minnesota 2000; 550Cedar Street; 853 Capitol SquareBuilding; St Paul, MN 55101-2273; 612-296-2822.

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GRIFFIN-SPALDING 2000(Griffin-Spalding, Georgia) isusing the school system's 1992-93 school calendar as a commu-nications vehicle for its AMERICA2000 strategy goal by goal,including information on account-ability/rankings, school finances,and parental/community supportopportunities. [For more informa-tion, contact Griffin-SpaldingCounty Schools, PO Drawer NGriffin; Georgia' 30224] .

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- AMERICA 2000 RESOURCESThe U.S. Department of Education has developed an AMERICA 2000 Community

Notebook, which contains information and ideas on what other communities are doing tomeet the four-part challenge: Copies will be available within the next several weeks. Toorder a copy, contact 1-800-USA LEARN Among other AMERICA 2000 resourcesavailable to communities:A AMERICA 2000 Coalition is a non-profit, private sector alliance of more than 50

national organizations to promote the achievement of the six National EducationGoals, community by community. Contact the AMERICA 2000 Coalition, 202 -835-2000."A+ for Breaking the Mold" Award is given daily by Secretary Alexander toinnovative schools and projects across the country. Call 1-800-USA-LEARN to listento a taped conference call featuring the day's award or 202-401-2571 for a listing andsummary of all "A+" awards to date.AMERICA 2000 Newsletter, Videotapes, Publications describe the AMERICA2000 strategy, a community checklist, 'fleeting the four-part challenge, etc. Call I-800-USA-LEARN for more information.New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) is a private, nonprofitcorporation run by American business leaders and others that selected 11 design teamsto provide blueprints for communities to reinvent their schools. Contact NASDC, 703-908- 9500.

A US. Chamber of Commerce and more than 1,000 of its local chambers have pledgedto help communities reach the National Education Goals. For more information andinformation about a publication highlighting local chamber education initiatives, callthe Center for Workforce Preparation and Quality Education, 202-463-5525.

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New Education Campaign to TapAMERICA 2000 Resources

AMERICA 2000 communities acrossthe country will be important resourcesin a new national public serviceadvertising campaign, launched onNovember 17 by a business/educationcoalition with support from the U.S.Department of Education.

The "Keep the Promise" campaign issponsored by the Department ofEducation and the EducationalExcellence Partnership, which includesThe Business Roundtable, the NationalGovernors' Association, the AmericanFederation of Teachers and theNational Alliance of Business. Thecenterpiece of the campaign is a seriesof television, radio and print adsproduced by Young and Rubicam andthe Advertising Council that issue anationwide call to action to set andmeet higher standards in education andto "Keep the Promise" of a goodeducation to America's children.

A state-by-state listing of AMERICA2000 Communities and local schoolreform efforts will be included ininformation materials for people whorespond by calling a special toll-freenumber (1. 800-96-PROMISE) forinformation on how to become involvedin transforming their local schools. Toencourage your local media to include"Keep the Promise" advertising in theirpublic service plans, contact yournewspaper, radio and televisioncommunity or public affairs offices.

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On October 28, OMAHA 2000released a preliminary report onwhat the community has learnedsince its kickoff last year. Thereport Is organized around the sixNational Education Goals andoutlines the status of communityeffortS and strategies to achieve theNational Goals. Nearly 200,000copies of the report were distrib-uted free to the community cou,--tesy of OMAHA 2000 chair andnewspaper publisher JohnGottschalkand the. ()inane WorldHerald. (Contact ConnieSAO-flan; Greater Omaha Cham-ber of Commerce; 1301 HarneySt ;' 'Omaha;. NE 68102)

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ArroVerWhelming.majority of Wel-Mart managers (81 percent)consider AMERICA 2000

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Alexander Cites the Record

President Bush Set Historic Partner-ship and New Education Agenda

In a speech before die Ohio School Boards Association on November 5, Secretary ofEducation Lamar Alexander summed up President Bush's leadership in education reform.Following are excerpts of his remarks:

When the (lust settles, and the history books are written, President Bush's leadership ineducation will be among his most significant contributions.

He did what a President can do best set a national agouti' for change and to make thingshappen.

And because he did it im partnership with the nation's Goventom his contributions will belasting.

The bi-partisan partnership between the President and the Governors set the agenda forAmerican education for the rest of this comity. One of the Governors who helped set thatagenda is now the President-elect.

I was chairman and Bill Clinton was vice-chairman (Idle National Governors Associationin 1985-86 when. for the first time, the G01,071011 devoted an entire year to a single subject:education. We produced a report. "Time For Results," in which the Governors offered to"horsetrade" with educators fewer regulations for more results.

The Governors and the President funned a partnership in 1989 at the education summit inCharlottesville. Governor Clinton was one of those who worked with the President to set sixambitious Natimud Education Goals JOr the year 20(10. Our nation had never before had suchgoals.

.S'ince l989 a lot has happened to move this country toward those goals. My direction frontthe President ss to do everything we can to make a clean hand off to Governor Clinton so hecan continue the work. He will have Iris priorities, his style, his stamp, his new ideas. But Iwould be the most .suryinsed person in !my,' tf Bill Clinton did not continue to advance theagenda created by the partnership between the President and the Governors.

Let me be specific.Forty four states have joined AMERICA 2000. the community-by-community challenge to

reach the goals. ARKANSAS 2000 is one °Phase.Next Tuesday night [November 171, 2700 communities will participate in the monthly

AMERICA 20(Y) Satellite TV town meeting 2700 conumurities working together to reach thegoals, including more than thirty ARKANSAS 2000 communities.

The New American Schools Development Corporation has raised its first $50 million to giveto 11 design teams that will help communities create "break-the mold" schools.

Clinton advisers Marc nicker and Mike Cohen are among the design teams. The corpora-tion itself is private. In- partisan and will continue.

We have created and funded task forces to establish national standards about what childrenshould know and be able to do in the sciences. English. history, geography, the arts and civics.These standards will be available by 1994-95. Math is already done.

A consensus has been created and the first steps taken toward a voluntary tuitional examina-tion systent.

A new AMERICA 2000 Coalition of more than 70 non-profit organizations and businessgroups is helping communities succeed.

Working with stales, the federal government is freeing teachers of excessive regulationsdespite resistance by Congress.

771e. President's own agenda has sometimes been bolder than that of the partnership.Gallup says 70 percent of Americans now favor a proposal like the President's "GI Bill for

Children" which would give $1000 federal scholarships to children of middle- and low-incomeJamilies to spend at any school or other academic program, public, private or religious.

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More "A+ for Breaking the

Schools in Boston, Kansas City and Queens, N.Y., are among the 1110Sl recent recipients of Secretary Lamar Alexander's "A+ forBreaking the Mold" award given daily to innovative schools, programs or practices that are making progress toward reaching the sixNational Education Goals. The "A +" award program began On September t and will continue through the end of the year. Following aredescriptions of the "A+" award winners announced during the end of S'eptember and throughout the month of October:

Using Computers to Break the MoldSeptember 28: Co-NECT School Design Team, Boston, Mass., for

its plan to use computers and other tedmologies to helpstudents learn.CoECT, which stands for "Cooperative Networked EducationalCommunity for Tomorrow," was one of 11 design teams selected forfunding by the New American Schools Development C'orporauon(NASDC). Under the design, the teacher works as a miuniger-facilitator

working with groups of students engaged in projects. [Contact: Dr.John Richards, Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., 10 Moulton Street.Cambridge, MA 02138]

Kansas Elementary School Gracie with Progress ReportsSeptember 29: New Stanley Elementary School, Kansas City, Kan.

The school uses progress reports instead of traditional grades, leantteaching and an extended school year. The extended year allows fee- stalldevelopment and training. The success atNew Stanley has led to a district-widesharing of these ideas and strategies.[Contact: Dr. David Lusk, superinten-dent, Kansas City, Kansas, PublicSchools, 625 Minnesota Avenue, KansasCity, KS 66101]

Using Report Cards to MeasureSchool Success

September 30: Cave Creek, Ariz.,for its method of measu ig schoolsuccess. Cave Creek established theManagement Accountability andProgress project, which examined suchthings as test scores, parental involve-ment and teacher morale. As a result ofthe findings, a new dialogue bet thecommunity and the schools has devel-oped, and improvements have begun. [Contact: Dr. David Alexander.superintendent, Cave Creek Unified School District, P.O. Box 426, CaveCreek, AZ 85331]

effort wncli will help students make the 'oansition from school to the jobmzuet. [Contact: Carol Tice, Teaching-Learning Conununities, AnnArbor Public Schools, P.O. Box 1188, Ann Arbor, MI 48106]

Liking Schools Through TechnologyOctober 5: Carrollton City Schools, Carrollton, Ga., for its

lea dersliip in bringing ffillovative technology to the classroom. Allschools, with the help of Georgia Tech, are electronically linked, givingstudents more opportunity for individualized learning through classroomcomputer technology. School officials say It is more cast effective tomaintain coil iputer learning systems than to constantly update andpurchase new textbooks. [Contact: Tom Upchurch, superintendent,Carrollton City Set loots, 123 Brown Street, Carrollton, GA 30117]

5.:.-...c2ncc in a Non Traditional Manneroctotx.i. 6: The Scope, Sequence and Coordination project,

Houston, Texas, for its innovative middleand high school science program. Theproject combines the four main sciencedisciplines biology, chemistry, physics,and earth-space science and exploresUrenh together. Students do a variety ofha ns-on experiiiients with teachersreceiving ongoing training to keep up withthe program. In addition, teachers havedeveloped a network where they are inconstant contact with each other. [Contact:Linda Crow, project director, Scope.Sequence and Coordination project, BaylorCollege of Medicine, One Baylor Place,Houston, TX 77030]

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New York College Helps At Risk StudentsOctober 1: LaGuardia Middle College High School, Queens, N.Y.,

for a collaborative effort with LaGuardia Community College that ishelping at-risk students stay in school. Students with allistory of long-term absences and other problems attend the school and have full accessto the college's facilities. They can also start college classes as early asthe 11th grade. The success of the program is evident in the dropout rate,which is below the average for all of New York City's schools. Studentsalso take internships to determine interest in such fields as hea lti care andlaw enforcement. [Contact: Janet Lieberman, The Center for At-RiskStudents, LaGuardia Community College, [..011:!, Island City, NY 11101]

Pairing Senior Citizens with StudentsOctober 2: Teaching-Learning Communities, Aim Arbor, Mich.,

for its program that pairs adult volunteers with au -risk students. Sdniolofficials in Ann Arbor said the mentors not only send a pusitivetilessageto these students, they also stay with students tl wougi out their academiccareers. The program is also expanding into an "Operation Graduation"

Magnet School Specializes inScience

October 7: Kiser Middle School,Dayton, Ohio, for its curriculum. which specializes in the study ofenvironmentzd science and space studies. Housed within the school is theChallenger Space Center, where all Dayton sixth and eighth gradestudents learn space science. All subjects, including reading and socialstudies, are presented in relation to science and scientific activities.[Contact: Bud Martin. principal, Kiss Middle School, 1401 Leo Street.Dayton, Oil 45401]

North Carolina Students Excel in Math and ScienceOctober 8: North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics,

Dothan), N.C., for its work in helping students achieve high marks inmail' and science. 'lire school has an enrollment of 550 high schooljuium and seniors, selected from all parts of the state. Students take acliallenam g sdiedule of courses, ranging from pre-calculus to biology toforeign language. [Contact: Dr. Steve Warshaw, NCSSM, Box 2418,Din-II:um NC 27715]

Preparing Students for College or High Tech Jobs

October 9: Cass Technical High School, Detroit, Mich. The schcxilof d mice, first established in 1906, is actually 20 different schools in onebuilding, with students focusing their studies in a variety of fields

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Mold' Awards Announcedengineering, science, and fine arts to name a few. Cass Tech studentsconsistently score at or above the 95th percentile on standardized tests,partly due to the 52 Advanced Placement courses offered at the school.[Contact: Dr. David Snead, principal, Cass Tec Luna High School. 2421Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201]

Expeditionary Learning Design Team CitedOctober 13: Expeditionary Learning Design Team, Boston, Nlas:s.,

for taking hands-on learning an extra step, offering challenges andproblems for students to solve in real life. The program, selected forfunding by NASDC is similar to an "Outward Bound" program. Whenthe program begins,estudents will attend school in multi-year cycles, andwill present a variety of research reports on problem solving. Students.for example, will visit museums, businesses and co titagencies as part of the subject students will be studying. [Contact MegCampell, Expeditionary Learning Design 'fermi, 122 Mount AuburnStreet, Cambridge, MA 02138]

Indiana School District Sets Up Computer NetwortcOctober 14: Westfield-Washington School Corporation,

Westfidd, Ind., for its innovative method of bringing I ugh technology tothe classroom. Each school in the district is linked through a liber-opucnetwork. In addition, the school has set up a voice lieu' system. whereparents can check on homework assignments and school activities. Theschool's goal is to address higher level thinking skills instead of just rote.][Contact: Dr. Jeffrey Heier, superintendent, Westfield - WashingtonSchool Corporation, 322 W. Main Street. Westfield.1N 460741

Providing Training for At Risk StudentsOctober 15: Partnership Academies, Redwood City, Calif., for

providing both academic and vocational training, fir students :a risk titdropping out of school. Teams of teachers covering these courses staywith students through the three-year program. Coininunity businessesprovide mentors to students, and summer work is available for juniorsand seniors. Partnership Academies' success in the "Silicon Valley" ofCalifornia has led to an expansion of the program throughout the state.[Contact: Marilyn Raby, Partnership Academies, Sequoia Union HighSchool District, Redwood City, CA 94062]

Astronomy 'Theme in Alabama SchoolOctober 16: West Forest Intermediate School, Opelika, Ala., for its

"Project Space." Student progress is tracked with personal portfolioscontaining their best stories, poems and projects. 'Ille school alsoencourages peer group study and parental involveilient. ixovidingcontinuous parental workshops, including a Saturday parent college.According to the school principal. 80 parents volunteered to assist theschool last year, compared to five the previous year. [Contact. CherylDeaton, Opelika City SchooLs, P.O. Box 2469, ONlika, AL 36803-24691

Helping Students in Inner City ClevelandOctober 19: Project SMART, Cleveland, Ohio, fir its work in

helping to give disadvantaged students a smooth transition trout highschool to employment or college. Unlike similar progranis, ProjectSMART begins in the 9th grade, and allows students to partake inapprenticeships with area high-tech employers. SMART stands forSchool of Manufacturing and Automotive-Related Technology. [Contact:Carol Gibson, Cleveland Initiative for Education. Suite 825,'1'ru>sahiu

Tower, 2000 East 9th Street, Cleveland, OH 44115]

Core Knot~. ledge Curriculum RecognizedOctober 20: Mobegan Elementary, Bronx, N.Y.. and 'Ilirce Oaks

Elementary, Fort Myers, Fla., for adopting the Core Knowledge

curriculum created by University of Virginia professor E.D. Hirsch. Theprogrrun amts to impart basic knowledge that all American schoolchildren should share to help them succeed academically and socially. Atlxxh sdtcxals, student test scores have risen and discipline problems aredown dramatically since the curriculum was established. [Contact: CoreKnowledge Foundation, 2012 -B Morton Drive, Charlottesville, VA229011

Educating Nan English Speaking StudentsOctober 21: HoWbrook Elementary School, Houston, Texas, a

Hank Levin Accelerated School. The school has two teachers in everyclassroom, presenting material in both English and Spanish. The school'sgoal is to have all students bilingual by the fifth grade. Teachers andmodems remain together for several grades. [Contact: Roy Ford,principal. Hollibr()ok Elementary, 3602 Hollister, Houston, TX '77080]

Iowa Organization Works for Education ReformOctober 22: New Iowa Schools Development Corporation

(NISDC), Des Moines, Iowa, for its efforts in helping educators in thestate reach tile National Education Goals. The private, nonprofitcorporation will provide financial and technical support to schools thathave submitted proposals for school reform. Members of the IowaBusiness and Education Roundtable are working with NISDC to developstruidards listing die skills entry -level workers need. [Contact: Gerry Ott.executive director, NISDC, 4025 Tonawanda Drive, Des Moines, IA503121

Extended School Program Helps Parents and StudentsOctober 23: Extended School Program, Murfreesboro, Tenn., for

its unique before-and-after school progr:uu. The program starts at 6 a.m.until scliool begins, and resumes alter school until about 6 p.m. whenstudents learn foreign languages or music, and can play sports. Notaxpayer money is used to foot the bill for the new program which hasoperated for six years without federal or state financial support. [Contact:Bean Bookner, ESP, 400 North Maple Street, Murfreesboro, TN 37133]

Helping Students Excel in the Arts and HumanitiesOctober 26: PROPEL program, Pittsburgh, Pa., for helping

students master the arts and humanities. The project uses a"process folio" containing notes, draft work and peer feedback todetermine student progress. Students look at their own processfront stall to finish, with the curriculum centering around artisticproduction. perception and reflection. The form of learning is alsobeing introduced in other subjects, including math and science.[Contact: Joanne Eresh, Pittsburgh Public Schools, 314 SouthBelltield Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213]

South Carolina's 12 Schools Project HonoredOn October 27: 12 Schools Project, South Carolina. The

project chose 12 schools in the state to develop their own assess-ment system. The object was to improve student performance bydeveloping new ways to measure students' knowledge and skills.Teachers in the 12 schools are using more group projects andcooperative learning in their classrooms. In addition, outsidefunding has provided for high tech methods of learning. [Contact:Joe Bedenbaugh, principal, Lexington High School, 4263 AugustaHighway, Lexington, SC 29072]

New York School Promotes Cooperative LearningOn October 28: West Ridge Elementary School, Greece,

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lies" of 75 children. These families stay with the same teachers through three grades.School officials say this offers students more cooperative learning, uppon unities and givesteachers a better understanding of their students strengths and weaknesses. fhe school hasalso established a partnership with IBM, allowing fur more technology in the classroom.[Contact: Debbie Johnson, West Ridge Elementary Schools. 200 Alcott Road, Rochester.NY 14626)

Trenton's Project Safe Haven RecognizedOn October 29: Project Safe Haven, Trenton, N.J., for its work in providing inner-city

residents with safe educational and recreational activities on evenings and weekends.Project Safe Haven is part of Trenton's Weed and Seed program. designed to combat drugabuse and gang activity. The Safe Havens are based in public school buildings, and offer avariety of after-hours programs. The program is looking to acid health and counselingservices to the centers. [Contact: John Bailey. Project Safe I laven. 319 East State Street.Trenton, NJ 08609)

Lifelong Learning Program Targets WorkersOn October 30: Motorola University, Schaumburg, Ill., for its efforts in helping employees

develop the skills they need to be compeutive in the world market. Empliqees at Motorola arerequired to attend classes for at least 40 hours per year. Productivity has increased driunatically asMotorola since the program began in 1980. [Contact: Ed Bales, Motorola University, Calvin Centerfor Continuing Education, Schaumburg, IL 60196]

Historic, continued.

Barbara Bush has given enormous visibility to improving literacy. A new National institutefor Literacy has been established.

Federal spending for education during the Bush years inreased more rapidly than suitespending. Head Start funding doubled, making the program avaihtble to all eligible four-year-olds. A new $1W billion five-year Higher Education Act increased the number of grants andloans for college students and the funding far them. Tim billion dollars of federal fluids havebeen refocused on teacher training for mutt and Rim. and luw natunial teacher trainingacademies have been approved. In 1992 more new federal donna went into Ih EducationDepartment (aside from entitlements) than into any other department.

My only regret is that we mil out of lime. There au, no soundIntes. quick ft kes or silverbullets that change schools. It takes time to persuade people than creating the best schools inthe world is not a spectator spur' entire communities ;mist gel inrolveit Our goals are forthe year 2000. With more time and the help of thousands of AMERICA 2000 communities.. Ibelieve we could even have persuaded Congress to join in our coalition for change!

Still, I am optimistic. The goals are set. AMERICA 2000 communities are taking mot.break-the-mold schools are popping up everywhere, national standards and testing willhappen, the ideas of autonomy for schools, less red tape for teachers and inure choices furparents have been greatly advanced. The President's partnership with the Governors issecure, and one of the Governors is the Pesident-elect. President Kennedy said, "Let's go tothe Moon." But Richard Niro!! was President by the tone we got there. hi the same %my, whilethey both helped get things started. neither George Bush nor Bill Clinton is likely to bePresident when America reaches its National Education Goals.

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NEWS IN BRIEF, continuedworthwhile endeavor" for theircompany and the community tosupport, according to an internalsurvey taken of 1656 stores afterthe October 13 Satellite TownMeeting. More than 1130 Wal-Martstores across the countrydownlinked the broadcast andinvited local community leadersand educators to participate, aswell.

Among other findings: 80percent of the stores indicated thatthe broadcast provided usefulinformation; 77 percent said theyunderstand how to accomplish thegoals; and 79 percent consideredWal-Mart an effective .communica-tions vehicle for AMERICA 2000.

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January TownMeeting to Focuson Miami's ProjectPhoenix

Miami 2000 and ProjectPhoenix will be the feature ofthe next AMERICA 2000Satellite Town Meeting,Tuesday, January 12, 1993, at8:30-9:30 p.m., EST. ProjectPhoenix will create more than60 new break-the-moldschools as part of rebuildingefforts following the devasta-tion caused by HurricaneAndrew last August.

Secretary Lamar Alexanderwill discuss Project Phoenixwith three Dade Countyeducation leaders: Octavio J.Visiedo, superintendent of theDade County (FL) PublicSchools; Pat L. Tornillo, Jr.,executive vice president of theUnited Teachers of Dade andpresident of the Florida Edu-cation Association/United; andJanet McAliley, chairperson ofthe School Board of DadeCounty.

The January Satellite TownMeeting is the first in a seriesof meetings which will focuson case studies and outstand-ing examples of howAMERICA 2000 communitiesare working to reach thegoals. February's meeting willhighlight OMAHA 2000.

Use the following coordi-nates to join the next SatelliteTown Meeting on January 12.

Note: KU-Band will not beused this meeting.

C-Band: Galaxy 6, Tran-sponder 7, Horizontal polariza-tion, Downlink frequency 3840Mhz, Audio subcarrier: 6.2and 6.8.

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Lifelong Learning and LiteracyFocus of Satellite Town Meeting

America's main adult education problem is low literacy, not illiteracy, observed literacyexpert Benita Somerfield during the November 17 Satellite Town Meeting. Somerfieldjoined Education Secretary Lamar Alexander, Oregon community college official DonnaLane and Motorola training executive Edward W. Bales in discussing National EducationGoal 5: "By the year 2000, every adult American will be literate and will possess theknowledge and skills necessary to compete in a global economy and exercise the rights andresponsibilities of citizenship."

"We're talking about the reading...viriting...problem-solving skills that adults needto...be productive citizens...good parents," said Somerfield, president, Simon and SchusterWorkplace Resources and executive director of the Barbara Bush Foundation for FamilyLiteracy. 'Those are getting to be some pretty complicated skills."

Somerfield estimated that some 30 million adult Americans have low literacy problems,noting that hard numbers do not currently exist. "One of the wonderful things that'shappened...rs that we are going to finally have a National Adult Literacy Survey. We aregoing to look at how literate this nation is...look at it at regular intervals...so we'll be ableto see what kind of progress we are making toward Goal Five." [Contact: BenitaSomerfield, Simon & Schuster, 15 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10023]

Donna Lane, assistant commissioner, Office of Community College Services, observedthat community colleges across the country are becoming important resources for commu-nities in reaching Goal 5. "Community colleges are probably the most diverse educationliteracy system there is," said Lane. "In some communities, we have as much as 40percent of our population in developmental studies and basic skills...." Lane said that theaverage age of Oregon community college students is 30 years old. [Contact: Dr. DonnaLane, Oregon Office of Community College Services, 700 Pringle Parkway SE, Salem,OR 97310]

Ed Bales, director of education for Motorola University, said that changes are happeningso quickly in the workplace, the current educational system can't keep up. Bales directsone of the nation's most advanced workplace programs, which helps trainall 105,000Motorola employees in classes ranging from remedial to post college-graduate level. Heused cellular telephones as an example of the quickly changing technology. "The modelthat we introduced three years ago on a robotics line was touched 15 times by humanbeings...the newest model we have is touched four times," said Bales. "[Humans] arereally there to problem solve...[with] a whole new level of skills and expectations...."[Contact: Ed Bales, Motorola University, 1303 East Algonquin oad, Schaumburg, IL60196]

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Communities Talk Goal 5:More than 2,700 communities participated in the sixth AMERICA 2000 Satellite Town Meeting on November 17, which focused on National Education

Coal 5, literacy and lifelong learning. Following are excerpts from the phone-in segmentof the meeting:

Columbia Asks About Adults and Literacy ReformElaine Wood, Columbia, South Carolina, asked about steps states

have taken to bring parents and other adults into literacy reform efforts.

Benita Somerfield, president, Simon and Schuster Workplace Re-sources and executive director of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Familyliteracy, responded: "....One of the things we do [with the Barbara BushFoundation] is build programs that work with both the parent and thechild, developing the literacy skills of the parent, thepre-reading skills of the child....Over the past threeor four years, we have seen tremendous growth inthe number of programs that are inter-generationalin this way...the new [federal] Even Start Act thathas been funded, I believe, at about $70 millionnow, and those programs are springing up allaround the ocuntry."

Secretary Alexander asked the panelists abouttheir experience with communities applying for anEven Start grant. "I happen to be the state contactfor our state, " said Donna Lane, assistant commis-sioner, Oregon Office cf Community CollegeServices. "We have a limited amount of money ineach state...a state contact persce....We really trulybelieve we are not going to change the family andthe literacy of that child unless you also work withthe chief caregiver. In Oregon, the mother, or thecaretaker, or whoever, comes to school with the pre-schoolers, the Head Start child, and they bothlearn...." Secretary Alexander added that acommunity can call the governor's office for thename of the state Even Start coordinator. [Contact:Pat McKee, Office of Compensatory EducationPrograms, U.S. Department of Education, 202-401-16921

Ed Bales, director of education for MotorolaInc.'s workplace university for employees, added:"One of the partnership programs that Motorola isinvolved with is providing parenting training on company time to help ouremployees...."Cobb County Asks About Literacy and the GED

Pain Lord, Cobb County, Georgia, asked about whether a systemexists to help learning disabled adults who need special testing to pass the

GED.Benita Somerfield responded: "If you are talking about GED training

and the best programs, the best source is to call the GED Testing Servicein Washington, D.C...part of the American Council on Education (ACE).

[Contact: ACE, 1 DuPont Circle, Washington, D.C. 20036 ]." Somerfieldalso recommended contacting the state directors of adult education to seewhat kind of programs are available in each state.

Cochilla Valley Praises Dyslexia FoundationJanie! Esmeralda, Cochilla Valley, California, drew attention to the

fact that the Cochilla Valley 2000 Committee has the resources of Stoney

or Gloria DeMent, program directors fcr the National Dyslexia ResearchFoundation. "We feel it is an excellent national literary resource."[Contact: National Dyslexia Research Foundation, 129 Cabrillo, Suite100, Costa Mesa, California 92629;1 - 800.820 -READ or 714 -642 -7086]

Miami Asks About Computers and SoftwareMarjorie Acker, Miami, Florida, noted that, while her school has

been very generous with books and other materials, more software andcomputers are needed for literacy education.

Donna Lane responded: "There is more and better software all the timefor adults and children, and a lot of times we have groups in the state that

screen it to make sure it's appropriate at the adult level." She noted thateach state's director of adult education can helpcceununities find good software. "[In Oregon],

Goal 5 Checklistfor Communities

Survey the community. Whoneeds what kinds of training?

. Take an inventory. What isalready being done by govern-ment, businesses, civic groups?

. Create skill clinics. Matchpeople with programs todetermine what skills they needand where they need to learnthem.

. Get the message out. Manypeople don't know about thesetraining opportunities.

. Make the programs flexible.Everybody is busy today, so aprogram needs be flexible time-wise.

. Measure your results.

we do have a catalog of what's been screenedand what the teachers and adults vaxildrecommend....We are also finding that busi-nesses often will contribute software andequipment Sometimes there will be an Applesomeone isn't using somewhere becausethey've changed their technology, but it's verygood for educational software." SecretaryAlexander added: "You mentioned Apple and Iknow in Miami, I saw some cf the IBM Writingto Read Programs in place there, so many of thecompute:: companies are very anxious to help."

Houston Asks About FederalPrograms

Gary Fuller, Houston, Texas, asked if thereis a national group that ties in technicaleducation and workplace literacy.

Benita Somerfield responded: "I know at theDepartment of Labor, there is an office thatlooks specifically at different technologysystems that are available in the area cfworkplace literacy. Ed Bales added: "TheTech-Prep Program or the 2+2 Program that theDepartment of Education has been involvedwith is really trying to link technical educationand the needs of the worlcplace...in high schoolall the way through the community college. We

have seen that process be very effective to develop curriculum around

many, many technical areas."Donna Lane noted that Oregon uses Carl Perkins federal money to

develop the 2+2 Program and the Tech-Prep Program. "The Tech-Prep

Program is probably the most rapidly increasing federal program in that

area," said Secretary Alexander. [For more information on federal

programs, contact: Betsy Brand, Assistant Secretary for Vocational and

Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C.

20202, 1-800-USA-LEARN]Hattiesburg Asks About Allocating Resources

Dwight Dyess, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, asked about resources for

tech -prep and vocational education."That is pretty much a state's right, and every state tackles it differ-

ently," said Donna Lane. "...[it's] important that your state is organized...

and that you work together in a partnership....We have a Workforce

Quality Council [which is ] the over-arching committee that is responsible

for making sure we have the professional technical education and training.

They set specific goals...."

Literacy and Lifelong LearninSan Antonio Asks About Coordination

Joe Rust, San Antonio, Texas, asked for a recorranendation for oneprogram or a set of programs which, through lifelong leaning, can helpSan Antonio accomplish Goal 5.

Benita Soma:field responded: "There's a tremendous amount going onalready in San Antonio. The first thing I would do is check and seewhat's already in place. One of the major problems we have in this wholeadult literacy area is that we are very fragmented....The best place to findout would either be through the mayor's office or through your statedepartment of education." [For a copy of "What Other Communities AreDoing...Goal 5," contact 1-800-USA-LEARN.]

Hattiesburg Asks About Incentivesskip Grubb, Hattiesburg, Missinippi, asked about private industry

helping fund programs to ensure the literacy skill of perspective employ-ees.

We [Motorola] have taken on the responsibility of providing ouremployees the basic skills," said Ed Bales. "We have spent an enormousamount of time and effect during the working hours cf providing Englishas a Second Language classes, basic math and reading skills, and we areding it through a lot of innovative techniques. But that's from ourexisting workplace. We do assessment and testing of all of err potentialcandidates for employment now so that the new employees corning inhave the level of necessary skills that we know we need to build off of."

Denver Asks About Teaching PrioritiesPat Thomas, Denver, Colorado, asked what each panelist sees as the

number one priority for educators in literacy areas.

Benita Somerfield said: "In my experience, in the adult literacy field,the priority has to be based on the goals of the students....When theteachers set the rricrityvery often you will lose the student Fcrexample, if somebody returns to school to learn English ... [or] get a highschool equivalency diploma...then that's what needs to be taught It's apartnership between the educator and the learner...."

Donna Lane added: "The one thing we are finding more and nacre,especially in adult education, is that you don't have to make thechoice.We have to learn more and more how to integrate all of this forteaching basic skills and teaching the others."

El Paso Asks About Private Sector Literacy ProjectsKent Byus, El Paso, Texas, asked if there is an association or group

that acts as a clearinghouse for private sector projects.

Ed Bales responded: "....There really is no national clearinghouse. TheNational Alliance of Business, the Chamber of Commerce and theBusiness Roundtable are the three major private sector organizations thathave an enormous amount of focus on education, and each of them have alittle different segment of it. Any one of those three organizations canprovide you a lot of information, a lot of expertise about what is gcing on

in the rest of the country." [Contact: National Alliance of Business, 202-289 -2888 ; US. Chamber of Commerce, Office of Wallace Preparationand Quality Education, 202-463-5525; Business Roundtable, 202 -872-1260.]

"I would just add one other group," said Benita Somerfielci. "That's theBusiness Council on Effective Literacy in New Yak, which has anenormous data base of successful workplace literacy program...."[Contact: Business Council for Effective Literacy, 1221 Avenue of theAmericas, 35th Floor, New York, NY 10020]

Secretary Alexander added: "One more group, the America 2000Coalition, a coalition now of 70 non-profit organizations who havebrcught themselves together to be helpful to communities just like yours."[Contact: AMERICA 2000 Coalition, 1825 K Street N.W., Suite 1010;Washington, D.C. 20006; 202-835-2000]

Spearfish Asks About Graduating With SkillsSherry Ewing, Spearfish, South Dakota, asked about establishing

checks in schools to ensure that students graduate with adequate skills.

Secretary Alexander responded: "It just so happens I was with yourgovernor, George Mickelson [recently], and one of the effects that he andthe State Board cf Education have made [there] is to create a set of reportcards and to focus on accountability so that communities will know whatthe results are. In fact, that's the focus of the President and almost all ofthe governors. Goal Number 3 of the National Education Goals talksabout national standards in math, science, English, history and geographythat could be adopted in Spearfish, South Dakota, and then a nationalexamination system, which you also could use...."

Broward County Asks About Small Businesses andTraining

Judy Taut, Broward County, Florida, asked how with 60 percentof the workforce in the United States employed in snail busine-esesemployees of these small businesses can experience the same achieve-ment that Motorola is able to offer its employees or IBM can offer itsemployees.

Secretary Alexander noted that one answer might be the localcommunity college, and several of the panelists stated that the course feesare usually very reasonable. " f 'oaut one-half of our students in Americaright now have a federal grant or a loan to help pay for college," saidSecretary Alexander. Donna Lane added that Oregon has a strongcommunity college network, noting that it's fairly common in the statesfor a small business development group to work with small businessesand community colleges. "Often we'll form consortiums cf smallbusine.eses in a particular field," said Lane. Ed Bales responded: 'Thepartnership between Motorola and community colleges says, 'here arewhat the needs are from our place.' We have found them very flexibleand willing to adapt....We [also] are in consatiums with other large

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Democratic Governor Ben Nelson: AMERICA 2000 Not a Partisan IssueOne of the callers during the November Satellite Town Meeting was Nebraska Govemor Ben Nelson (D), chairman of the National

Education Goals Panel and one of the first governors to move forward with AMERICA 2000 in his state. During the phoneconversation, Secretary Alexander asked the Governor about the future of NEBRASKA 2000 under the Clinton Administration.Governor Nelson replied:

"It's going to continue on, because it's been a bipartisan effort on behalf of all people. I think President Bush is to becomplimented, as well as Governor Clinton, for not making this a partisan issue in this very hotly contested Presidentialcampaign. I certainly have the greatest respect for President Bush continuing this program, and I know that GovernorClinton as President Clinton is interested in continuing it. Education is too important to politicize and make apartisan issue, and they're both to be complimented for that."

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capxations. "Secretary Alexander added: "I think a short answer, taking all of that together for a small business,

is that...a great opportunity in America is the community college and the state technical institute[with] a relatively low tuition and with federal help to pay for scholarships for low income families.That, plus a very small supplement from the small business, might make that sort of training moreavailable than most people think."

Wausaukee Asks How Communities Can Identify Illiterate AdultsJack Zore, Wansaukee, Wisconsin, asked how communities can identify people who cannot

read or write so that they can be helped -- especially because many are good at concealing the factthat they ate illiterate.

Donal Lane responded: "There are several answers to that becaise we have done a state-widesurvey. A lot of it is training your community your personnel directors are a good group to startwith....The libraies have been very helpful in helping us identify people who may not be able to readand write...." Benita Somerfield added: "We have found when good programs exist and they're inthe community, where people need help, very often those people will come forward....Publicitycampaigns have been wonderful, getting things like Project Literacy U.S. moved us miles ahead."

Ed Bales said: "[At Motorola] we have what we call the basic ability to test them, and we nowassess all of our existing employees before they can move into the next level jobs....[at our headquar-

ters, outside Chicago] we will have 15 classes a week during working hours...whatevertheir needs

are, and we do set up an individualized development plan. In fact, everybody in Motorola has anindividualized development plan to look at their annual training that's required."

Laredo Asks About Fine-Tuning ,ITPABarn Castaneda, Laredo, Texas, noted that the federal Job Training Partnership Act [JTPA] has

been a very critical factor in providing essential services. Castaneda asked whether there will be afine-tuning of JTPA to help provide more pre-training in the workplace.

Donna Lane responded: 'We work very closely in partnership with JTPA...to prepare people forthe workforce. It is limited to people who qualify in certain ways. Usually there is another programthat they will qualify for if they don't qualify for that. Many of those, of course, are at the statelevel." Secretary Alexander added: "Because of that, one of the things that AMERICA 2000 hasrecommended is a Skill Clinic, which is a place at a business where a person could go and say, 'tellme all of the options.' This goes back to the inventory, the list of places in a community in Laredo

that a person might go to."Benita Somezfield said: "Just thinking at the federal level, in addition to JTPA, there are also

workplace literacy grants that come from the Department of Education from that same office."Secretary Alexander said that new grants are coming now from the newly-established NationalInstitute for Literacy, pat of the National Literacy Act. "I think we are going to be seeing some newlegislation, from what I am hearing, to strongly encourage businesses to invest in the skill develop-ment of the workforce...," said Secretary Alexander. Donna Lane added: "The Welfare Reform Acthas made a tremendous impact on preparing people for work, a much more humane act than we've

ever had as far as transitioning people into work and actually giving them the training anddevelopment....Each state is eligible for federal welfare money if they match it at the state level,where the purpose is to provide training for people to get them back in to the workforce asquickly as

possible." [Contact:Office of lob Training Programs, U.S. Department of Labor, 202-219-6236;

National Institute for Literacy, 202-632-1500]

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Februarys Satellite Town Meetingwill highliOht OMAHA 2000, launchedin September 1991 and one of thenation's first AMERICA 2000 COMMU-

::: rWties Nebraska Governor BenNelson (D), chairman of the NationalEducation Goals Panel, will host themeeting which i.$111 take place onFebruary 9, at 8:30 p.m. EasternTime. The meeting will include adiscussion by several Crnaha leadersabout their community -wide effort toachieve he National Education GoalsThe Goals Panel's national role alsowill be featured.

During he AMERICA 2000 SatelliteTown Meeting on January 12, Gov.Nelson telephoned Secretary LamarAlexander to discuss Omaha's plansfor the meeting. "Our hope is that[AMERICA 2000 Communities)... willgarner some practical insights fromthe experiences of Nebraska'steachers, our business and commu-

1::: nit), leaders," said he Governor. Henoted that OMAHA 2000 recentlyissued a commurity-wide record tomeasure progress toward the goals,which will be dscussed during the

.meeting 'Organizers are preparing apacket of information to send tocommunity leaders," said the Gover-no r.

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Have New ResourcesThe AMERICA 2000 Coalition, in an effort to provide additional resources to

AMERICA 2000 Communities, has added AMERICA 2000 Community contacts to itsmailing list for "Going for the Goals," the Coalition's newsletter. The Coalition, estab-lished last September, is a non-profit, private sector alliance of national organizationswhich is promoting the achievement of the six National Education Goals, community bycommunity.

The next issue of "Going for the Goals" will include a sampling of Coalition membersorganized by National Education Goal, with a brief description about how the individualorganization can help communities achieve that particular goi. Each Coalition memberprovides a name and telephone number. The next newsletter will be mailed in mid-January.

As part of its initiative to become a resource to communities, the Coalition also willinclude AMERICA 2000 Communities in a new "user-friendly" electronic network. Stillin the planning stages, the network will specialize in education reform initiatives to assistcommunities and Coalition members in exchanging information via computer aboutachieving the six National Education Goals.

Leslye Arsht, president of the Coalition, said that the network will contain 'how to' helpfor communities starting reform efforts tied to the Goals, as well as provide a means forCoalition members and communities to share various approaches to meeting each goal."We think AMERICA 2000 Community organizers ere a uniquely diverse audience," saidArsht. "We hope to make the 'network' accessible to other computer network users aswell."

Funding for the coalition is provided by the Richard King Mellon Foundation, MerrillLynch and Company, Inc., and Siemens Corporation. Ed Donley, former chairman of AirProducts and Chemicals, Inc., and a former chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,is chairman of the Coalition's Board of Directors.

To date, 84 organizations are members of the Coalition. They are:Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Akron Oxygen & Supply Co., Inc.Allstate Insurance Company The Aluminum Association, Inc.American Association for Adult and American College Testing

Continuing Education American Gas AssociationAmerican Foundation for the Blind American Red CrossAmerican Standard Inc. American Trucking AssociationsAssociation for Women's Health, Obstetrical,

and Neonatal NursesAutomation ForumBinney & Smith, Inc.,

makers of Crayola-brand productsThe Business RoundtableCareers for Youth FoundationCenter for Civic EducationChemical Heritage FoundationChild Welfare League of AmericaCitizens' Scholarship Foundation of

America, Inc.Council for Academic Excellence, IncEducational Development CorporationEducational Systems, University of KansasThe Emeritus FoundationFamily Service America, Inc.

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84 Schools Honored WithEighty-four schools across the country received the Department's "A+ for Breaking the Mold" award during 1992. The award announced by Secretary

Lamar Alexander on September 1 has been awarded daily to innovative schools, programs or practices that are making progress toward reaching the sixNational Education Goals. Following are ci.sscriptions of the most recent "A+" award winners announced during November and December.

C-rcaping Students of Different AgesOn Nov. 2, the "A+" award went to Beacon Day School, Oakland, Calif.,

for its nontraditional method of grouping students and for offering year-roundclasses. Beacon Day School is open every day of the year except holidays

and students take time off when it fits the parents' schedules. Nearly all ofthe students' parents volunteer at the school, and the school also offers parereducation and child development comes. [Contact Leslie Medina BeaconDay School, 2101 Livingston Street, Oakland, CA 94605]

Helping School Children Learn About DemocracyBefore every election, students in Arizena learn about the American

electoral process through Kids Voting Arizona, the "A+" winner on Nov. 3.Students "voted" at a kids voting poll on election day, after leaning about thevoting process during the school year. The inspiration for Kids Voting canduring a trip to Costa Rica by three Arizona business people. [Contact:Chloe Kavanaugh, Executive Director, Kids Voting- Arizona, do ArizonaPublic Service Company, P.O. Box 53999, Phoenix, AZ 85072-3999]

Teaching Students How to 'Readthrough Low and Government

On Nov. 4, Michel Middle School,Biloxi, Miss., received the "A+" award.Eighth grade students at the school usematerials from the Mississippi BarAsscciati. -rid other writings to increasetheir readi,..6 achievement. As a result,eighth grade students' reading :kidvocabulary scores increased substantially.[Contact Pam Manners, Michel MiddleSchool, 1400 Father Ryan Avenue, Biloxi,MS 39530]

Students Learn how to "Map theWorld'

Any student's fears about learninggeography are laid to rest with Mappingthe World by Heart, the "A+" winner forNov. 5. The hands-on program relates geography to other school subjects,using a variety of methods to make studying geography fun and relevant.[Contact: David Smith, Mapping the World by Heart, 4 Blanchard Road,Cambridge, MA 02138]

Zuni Reservation Heightens Cultural AwarenessOn Nov. 6, The Zuni Public Schools, Zuni, N.M., received the "A+"

award for building public support to create their own school system thatincluded bringing in many tribal customs from the Zuni Indians. The schoolsystem also introduces its students to other cultures through student ex-changes. Since 1980, these improvements have increased attendance ratesfrom 76 to 92 percent. [Contact Hayes Lewis, superintendent, Zuni PublicSchools, P.O. Drawer A, Zuni, NM 87327]

Philadelphia School Uses "Charter School' 6oproachOn Nov. 9, the "A+" award went to Simon Gratz High School, Philadel-

phia, Pa. The school features "charters," or schools-within-thechool, wherenearly half of the school's 2000 students are enrolled. Each charter focuses ona different theme one example is the Center for Creative Communication,where students learn about the creative arts. The school also has a successfuldropout program that includes a "parent corps" to increase parent involvementin education. [Contact Margaret Holloman, principal, Simon Gratz HighSchool, 18th and Hunting Park Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19140]

Minnesota Charter School Programs Receive AwardTwo Minnesota ehater school programs received the "A+" award on Nov.

10. The Community Learning Centers Design Team and the CityAcademy Charter School, St. Paul, Minn, were cited for giving merechoices to families and more learning opportunities for students. TheCommunity Leaning Center will announce the sites of teal Minneekeo..a de=schrsois in early &mil, 1993. The City Academy Charter School is alreadyoperational, serving students ages 16-21 who have not succeeded elsewhere.[Contact David Alley, Designs for Learning. 449 Destroyer, St. Paul, MN55144; and Milo Cuter, City Academy Charter School., St. Pad. MN)

Insurance Ccerrany Provides Scholarships for DisadvantagedChildren

The "A+" award winner for Nov. 12 went to The Golden Rule InsuranceCompany, Indianapolis, hid., which, for the past two years, has helped low-and middle-income families with scholarships to fund up to half of the cost ofprivate school tuition. This year, more than 900 students are funded, with 325

on the waiting list. [Contact Tim Ergott,Golden Rule Insurance Company, GoldenRule Building, 7440 Woodland Drive,Indianapolis, IN 46278]

Training the Workforce for Today'sGlobal Economy

On Nov. 13, Milliken & Co.,Spartanburg. S.C., a textile company,received the "A+" award for developingeducation centers to train employees byoffering job-related ceurses, adult basiceducation courses and foreign languages.[Contact: Patsy Hartnett, Milliken & Co.,P.O. Box 1926, M285, Spartanburg, SC29304]

Helping People on Public AssistanceOn Nov. 16, the "A+" award went to

Cleveland Works, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, forits program to help people on public assistance train for and keep full-timejobs. The training program runs several weeks, and students can use otherservices, such as legal and health clinics, until they are matched with a job.Cleveland Works also has a "Beat the Streets" program that focuses on inner-city young fathers. [Contact David Roth, Cleveland Works, Inc., AtriumOffice Plaza, 668 Euclid Avenue, Suite 800, Cleveland, 01144114]

California Program Helps Dislocated WorkersOn Nov. 17, the "A+" award went to the NOVA-STAR Program,

Sunnyvale, Calif., for its efforts in helping retrain displaced employees of thedefense, high-tech and heavy manufacening industries in California's SiliconValley. The centa helps about 2,500 people each year from assembly lineworkers to managers. Program officials say that 70 percent of participants findnew jobs within three meals of completing training. [Contact MichaelCurren, NOVA-STAR. 505 West Olive Street, Suite 550, Sunnyvale, CA94086]

13ringing Science Education to Rcral School DistrictsTwo mobile science projects received the "A+" award on Nov. 18. The

Chemistry Van Project, Huntingdon, Pa., works out of Juniata Collegewith a grant from the National Science Foundation. A certified teacher travelswith the mobile science education unit, to 25 high schools six times a year,offering classes and scientific experiments to students. The Mobile Science

Each recipient of the "A+ for Breaking the Mold"Award receives a certificate and bookmarks for thestudents.

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"MegaSkills"'F'rograrn Teaches Parents to Help Their ChildrenLearn

On Nov. 19, The rviegaSkais Program, Washington, 1).C., was given the"A+" award for its program which teaches confidence, motivation, commonsense and problem solving. MegaSkills are taught through workshops forparents, teachers or Chambers of Commerce representatives. [Contact:Dorothy Rich, The Home and School Institute, 1201 16th Street. NW,Washington, DC 20036]

Business and Education Partnerships form Their Own SchoolOn Nov. 20, the "A+" award went to The Corporate/Corrununity School,

Chicago, IL, funded by the local business cnnirrunity, which featuresan 11-month school year, an extended day, and a non-graded learning environmentSchool officials say that the costs per pupil are lower than at the publicschools. [Contact Elaine Mosley, Corporate/Community School, 751 SouthSacramento, Chicago, IL 60612]

Teaching Reading to Inner-City StudentsOn Nov. 23, the "A+" award went to Wesley Elementary School,

Houston, Texas, for its reading skills program, which uses a combination ofone-on-one instruction and computer technology. Success is evident at theschenl as well, with an attendance rate of 96 percent and test scores that areconsistently higher than city averages. [Contact: Thaddeus Lou, principal,Wesley Elementary, Houston, TX]

Attendance Rate SoarsNon-traditional methods of student grouping, a new process of evaluation

and a comprehensive graphic arts program are just a few of the reasons whyPasadena High School, Pasadena, Calif., has seen attendance rates increasefrom 68 to 92 percent in just a short period of tirne. At the "A+" awardwinner for Nov. 24, classes are organized in "houses," with 400-450 studentsper house. Student progress is evaluated through exhibiticns that demonstratestudents' mastery of school courses, which includes a three-year graphic artsprogram, tun in partnership with local associations and colleges. [ContactJudy Codding, principal, Pasadena High Sdiool, 2925 East Sierra MadreBoulevard, Pasadena, CA 91107]

Keeping Up with the Modern MarketplaceOn Nov. 25, Greenville Technical College, Give. S.C, received the

"A+" award for its programs that give students and workers the skills neededto compete in a global economy. Students "own" their education process byadapting the curriculum to best fit their needs. The college also houses theMichelin Training Center, used to help teach high-tech courses to bothMichelin employees and college students. [Contact 'Thomas Barton,president, Greenville Technical College, Greenville, S.C.]

Alternatives to High-Cost Private SchoolsOn Nov. 30, the "A+" award went to The Sussex School, Missoula,

Mont., for offering parents an alternative to higher- priced private schools andthe public school system . based on a family's ability to pay. The school,established in 1971 by a group of parents and a teacher, has grown from sixstudents to 73, with 400 on the waiting list [Contac Bente Winston,director, Sussex School, 1800 South 2nd Street, Missoula, MTJ

Hudson Institute's "Modern Red Schoolhouse"State-of-the-art educational technology, combined with a classical core

curriculum, equals The Modern Red Schoolhouse, Indianapolis, Ind., the"A+" award winner for Dec. 1. The design is one of 11 designs selected forfunding by the New American Schools Development Corporation. Initial

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sites for the design include schools in Indiana, North Carolina, Arizona andNew York. The curriculum will include programs from the Departments ofEducation and Labor', as well as professor E.D. Hirsch's "Cultural Literacy."[Contact Sally Kilgore, The Hudson Institute, Herman Kahn Center, P.O. Box26-919, Indianapolis, IN 46226]

Los Angeles Program Reaches Inner-City StudentsOn Dec. 2, the "A+" award went to The Humanitas Program, Los

Angeles, Calif., for its success in increasing reading, writing and verbal skillsand decreasing dropout rates of inner-city students. The program creates"communities of scholars" through special classes that combine traditionalhumanities subjects such as history, literature and composition taught byteacher teams. [Contact Karin Kuhlmann, project coordinator, Hurnanitas,315 West Ninth Street, Suite 1110, Los Angeles, CA 90015]

Assessment Program Uses Ncritraditional BroachAt the Maryland Performance Assessment Program, Baltimore, Md.,

the "A+" winner for Dec. 3, students are asked to do a series of tasks that arethematically integrated and that cross content lines. All students in the third,fifth and eighth grades are tested and rated on a proficiency level scale.[Contact Robert Gabrys, Maryland State Department of Education, 200 WestBaltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201]

Improving Teacher Skills and KnowledgeSchools in the lower Mississippi River Delta get a big boost every year from

the Delta Teachers Academy, Atlanta, Ga, the "A+" winner for Dec. 4.The Academy sends college professors to work with elementary and secondaryschool teachers in seven states, also offering a two-week summer institute at theUniversity of Mississippi. Seminars focus on content, rather than on how toteach. [Contact Andrea Fowler, The National Faculty, 1676 Clifton Road,Atlanta, GA 30322]

Oregon Elementary School Overcomes Unique ChallengesOn Dec. 7, the "A+" award went to Richmond Elementary School, Salem,

Ore, for helping liter -city students succeed academically xl socially. Manyof the school's students come from low-income families with sore having aparent who is incarcerated at a nearby prison facility. The school uses aprogram called 'Discipline with Love and Logic," which helps teachersdiscover ways to resolve conflicts and to teach students life-survival skills.Students have responded favorably, scoring at or above average on statereading, literature and math assessments. [Contact Kathleen Bebe, principal,Richmond Elementary School, 466 Richmond Avenue, SE, Salem, OR 97301-6799]

Connecting Academic Instruction to Real-Life ExperiencesThe Alice Carlson Applied Learning Center, Fort Worth, Texas,

received the "Ai-" award on Dec. S for helping kindergarten through fifth gradestudents make the connection between skills learned in school and skills neededin life. The center uses school-wide themes, such as the relationship betweenmedia and politics, to guide curriculum development and classroom instruction.[Contact Sally Hampton, Carlson Applied Learning Center, 3320 W. Carley,Fort Worth, TX 76109]

"Sr-nor'-Classroom Smart--Schoor Concept RecognizedOn Dec. 9, The Hueneme School District, Port Hueneme, Calif., was

cited as an "A+" winner for its "Smart-Classroom, Smart-School" programwhich uses an interactive computer network to provide students with individu-alized attention and easier access to information. The program also features"Lab 2000," where students apply skills learned in class to their daily livesthrough computer simulations of real-life activities. [Contact Ron Rescigno,superintendent, Hueneme School District, 205 North Ventura Road, PortHueneme, CA 93041]

Offering a Safe Alternative for Inner-City StudentsOn Dec. 10, the "A+" award went to Thuilty Middle School, Roxbury,

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Mass., a city-wide magnet school located in inner-city Boston. Students attend class seven and one halfhours a day, Monday through Thursday, and six hours on Friday. The school prides itself on its"violence-free" zone, where students themselves have helped start programs in conflict mediation andnon-violence instruction. [Contact Roger Harris, principal, Timilty Middle School, 205 Roxbury Street,Roxbury, MA 02119]

Adapting Classics Models of TeachingThe Wilhelm &hole, Houston, Texas, which presents material from a historical perspective with

studies in early African, Asian, Greek, Arabic and Roman civilizations, received the "A-1-.' award forDec. 11. The school uses these classic models of teaching in a curriculum integrating the arts, sciencesand humanities. Five-year-old students are reciting and writing poetry in English, Spanish and French.[Contact: Marilyn Wilhelm, The Wilhelm &hole, 4242 Richmond, Houston, TX 77027]

Problem-Solving Using Material ScienceOn Dec. 14, Richland High Schooi, Richland, Wash, received the "A4-" award for "Material

Science and Technology," a vocational program combining the study of chemistry, physics, engineering,mathematics and crafts. The school has developed a partnership with Battelle Pacific Northwestlaboratories that provides rrentoring for students and practical, hands-on experience for teachers.[Contact Darrel Reisch, principal, Richland High School, 930 Long Avenue, Richland, WA 99352]

New Jersey District Recognized for High Graduation RateThe Union Public Schools, Union, NJ., received the "A+" award Dec. 15, for helping students

succeed academically tlrough a variety of programs, which have achieved 96 percent graduation rate andan 80 percent postsecondary attendance. Among the programs are a preschool program for four yearolds and partnerships with local businesses. [Contact James Caulfield, superintendent, Township ofUnion Public Schools, 2369 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 07083-5712]

"Accelerated Schools" ModelOn Dec. 16, the "A+" award went to Burnett Academy, San Jose, Calif., an inner-city school that

has incorporated Henry Levin's "Accelerated Schools" model. `Tracking" has been eliminated, and alleighth graders take algebra The curriculum stresses research, problem-solving and hands-on activities.[Contact Michael O'Kane, principal, Burnett Academy, San Jose, CA]

Stcrte Assessment Program RecognizedKentucky was recognized by the "A+" award program for its assessment program, which requires

"nontraditional" testing for all 4th, 8th and 12th grade students. The assessment program uses portfolios,

an assessment "event" stressing learning in a real-life setting, and an essay/multiple choice test. Eachschool has its own two-year goat [Contact C. Scott Trimble, director, Kentucky Department ofEducation, Division of Accountability, 500 Mero Street. Frankfort, KY 40601]

Business Helps School LibraryOn Dec. 18, the final "A+" award for 1992 went to Pacific Theatres, Los Angeles, Calif., for

working to improve public school Ithraries and encourage student reading. Employees of PacificTheatres are working with teachers and administrators at a Huntington Park Elementary school to expandand renovate the school's library. [Contact Dan Chanow, Pacific Theatres, 120 North RobertsonBoulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048]

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