Albany Democrat-Herald from Albany, Oregon • 16

Page 18, Monday. July 31, 1978 HbfllU) DCIHOCrflt-fitWlD How much will your son or daughter know about business when he or she applies for their first full-time job? 1 1 U.S. ed chief sees end to boom days for growth in aid WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. Commissioner of Education Ernest L. Boyer is forecasting that the boom days are over for frowth in federal aid to America's schools and colleges.

Boyer said after two years in which the federal education budget shot up 45 percent to nearly $13 billion austerity Is the keyword for the fiscal 1980 budget now in preparation. "There won't be any significant increases overall for education, Some programs will show some modest increases, while pthers will probably show some reductions." he predicted In an Interview. Two major efforts, the $3.3 billion Title I program aiding poor youngsters and the $972 million for handicapped students, remain at the top of Boyer's list of priorities. He hints that more funds may be found for them. Efforts in the Nixon and Ford administrations to hold the line on education spending always hit snags in Congress, and the Carter administration may have to relearn that lesson.

Boyer said California's property-tax-cutting Proposition 13 has helped create "a mood of resistance to spending," but the overriding constraints are the president's concern about balancing the budget and controlling Inflation. Boyer, 49, maintains that federal dollars have made a big difference in educating poor children and have "sparked a social revolution" by enabling them to afford college. The same national studies that paint a gloomy picture of how much 17-year-olds are learning also show that youngsters In earlier grades are making progress, said the former chancellor of the State University of New York, who has been with the federal government 17 months now. "I am convinced that our problem in the schools increasingly Is not in the early grades, and is not related to teaching language and mathematics. I think we have turned that around considerably." he said.

"The major American education problems are in the upper grade levels, and most especially in the high schools. Title I money is not sufficient to follow young people along through all of the grades, and some of the early gains are not sustained," he said. Boyer has his own ideas about reshaping elementary, junior and high schools. He espouses a new three-level system built around: A basic school where youngsters would learn to read and write effectively by the fourth grade. A middle school where all students would be exposed to "the common core of general knowledge," focusing on "our heritage, contemporary social issues and institutions, and the future." A three-year transitional school that would break down the "rigid academic patterns" and set up specialty schools within schools, with expanded ties to both the workplace and colleges.

Boyer, whose style embodies his Quaker background, is regarded by friends and colleagues as an administrator with vision rather than an intellectual. He also has been in the forefront of the drive to restore a common-core curriculum at the college level Instead of a smorgasbord of electives. 1 I I yf HtJ I I M-v ni If til- I 1 1 mmsmuz Ji it I APLMHtfMto Boyer fafcs to reporter in office FOB Building name embarrasses commissioner Plenty if they have ever been a newspaper carrier. Through route experience they're already a lap ahead of their classmates. While they both mastered ideas, the boy or girl with a newspaper route was able to put them to practical use.

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source of some embarrassment to U.S. Commissioner of Education Ernest L. Boyer. "Somehow, FOB 6 strikes you about as sterile and bureaucratic and lacking in humanity as any name possibly could be," lamented Boyer, who has presided over the office and its 3,000 employes for the past 17 WASHINGTON (AP) The headquarters of the U.S. Office of Education is named after A-Horace Mann B-James Bryant Conant C-BookerT.

Washington D-Noneof the above The correct answer is D. The building actually is named FOB 6. That's short for Federal Office Building 6, and it's a He gave a speech last fall to a group of college art deans criticizing the sterility of the name. Under questioning, he said he had not yet tried to get the bureaucratic wheels running to change the name, but that he intends to do so. Boyer's preference would be to name it the Horace Mann Building, after the 19th-century educator Boyer calls America's "greatest advocate of free public education." Boyer already has named a study center for his employes after Mann.

But he's also open to suggestions from the public on what FOB 6 should be called. They can be sent to Boyer at FOB 6, 330 Independence Avenue S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201. The Don Haley Family of Albany found the APPLICATION FOR DEMOCRAT-HERALD DELIVERY ROUTE DATE I NAME I address'. CITY PHONE.

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