Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 52

hj-i) wrt rn roNi ima o-m owsireHHP11 14 B-T-S Sunday Ilerald-Leader Lexington Ky August 8 1965 i' 4 Projected Kentucky ETV Network Promises Comprehensive Coverage To State ing schools in Kentucky rings air just as programs go off the believe the projected Kentucky Educational Television network will be the first completely comprehensive unified state network in the Governor Bert Combs said during his administration is designed to avoid the danger that those sections of the Commonwealth which can best afford ETV get it first while rural areas which need it most get it Three years ago during ductlon facility and an integral part of the network mense potential ETV holds for the Kentucky community" Other education and civic groups will be asked to join the campaign she said -More than 20 organizations have gone on record endorsing the Kentucky network plan Time Is Right Press in his snnual report to the ETV Authority said the time is favorsble to activste the network and its need is urgent These problems and the urgent need for a Kentucky ETV network was the basis for the Kentucky Congress of Parents and decision to proclaim the third week in September Week" at its annual leadership conference in July Members -of 900 local PTA units will be campaigning for the tate network plan that Paralleling the network's open circuit system will be a closed microwave link between the community colleges the Uni big he said the fourth we pass the fourth July since the General Assembly authorized this network is versity of Kentucky and the izir work center in Lexington Mrs McClaren state PTA president ssid that the organization plans to every citizen aware of the im- See Frejected Page B-T-S 22 "We chose Lexington as the site for the main network Press ssid it is in the centrsl part of the state and because it is nesr major educational and administrative resources such as the University and the state 5 MlLLERSBURG MILITARY INSTITUTE Ij Programs produced in studios at the six colleges and the Uni Leonard Press executive secretary of the ETV Authority discusses the power of an ETV 8tation vised Instruction) Nashville and Knoxville Channel 15 in Louisville and a station in Bowling Green are resently the only ETV sources the state Most of stations charge fee to schools based on the number of students using their programs In some cases schools depend on commercial stations to offer one or two programs a day Problems But problems now face Kentucky schools using these ETV sources MPATI its programs reaching nearly a third of ETV enrollment early last month that it must double its fees to survive Officials of schools which subscribe to MPATI met July 26 at Purdue University in Indiana and okayed the fee increase request With the fee increase television sets in some Kentucky schools are certain to be switched off and remain idle because school officials are unable tc meet the cost And for MPATI and the richer schools in its viewing area only the first hurdle has been overcome The Federal Communications Commission ruled recently that the project must switch within five years to a new broadcast rsnge which engin-ers now predict will be unsuitable for TV transmission from aircraft Schools depending on local commercial stations have been shaken too WSAZ in Huntington Va and Chanhel 7 in Evailsville Ind now beam their morning ETV programs out an hour earlier because of local time zone changes and the bell which marks the beginning of the school day for the receiv A callags preparatory school located la tbo Him Grass ssctiaa of Kuntuchy Grades 6-12 Small damn hdmdual attention corractira tending athletics and spasch tor all National Dafania Cadat Corps Honor School Junior High School an separata campus Write to Col Hayuts Prssidtut Im Millsnbuig Krntucky these teachers $500000 if they had taken the 'classes at coueges around the state cost them nothing ty television In another instance a South Carolina State Department of Education report shows that high school graduates taking college entrance exams in mathematics raised their scores from 36 to 52 points during the past four years Significantly it was just four years ago that major- emphasis was placed on college prepara lory math by the South Carolina ETV network BEREA COLLEGE Fuundud 1155 term in office the statewide ETV network plan was relatively new The General Assembly in 1960 passed a resolution directing the Legislative Research Commission to a full study into the use of ETV in the Commonwealth" The study completed in 1961 formed the basis of legislative action in 1962 which authorized an ETV network to be established in Kentucky ETV had already gained a substantial foothold in the nation There were 60 stations among 33 states in 1962 Now all but eight states have ETV stations There were four ETV networks in 1962 and all of them were in the South Today there are 12 state networks eight of them are in the South Model Plan 11-station network plan once hailed as a "model for other states" by Dr Harold Wigren of the National Education Association is in fact being used as a guide by other states now building networks plan for instance is remarkably close to An 11-station ETV network underway in Georgia is expected to be operational by the end of 1966 Its telecasts will reach every classroom in the state Kentucky's proposed network which is under the guidance of Leonard Press executive director of the ETV Authority will reach every school in the state public or private Eleven strategically located transmitting sites have been selected to assure statewide coverage Stations will be located in Murray MadisonvQle Bowling Green Elizabethtown Lexington Somerset Covington Morchead Ashland Hazard and Pikeville One station in Louisville Channel 15 operated by the Jefferson County School System will become a cooperative pro County Schools Tennessee turned up these results: In the first instance classroom teachers used ETV Their classes achieved an average score of 76 on a national exam contrasted to the nationwide average of 67 Regular classroom teaching methods were used without TV in the control groups They achieved a 67 score on their final test Although ETV is not the key to the often wished dream that knowledge could be poured into a head it is an efficient teaching tool that is extremely versatile Nearly 1500 classroom teachers took specialized training by television last summer in South Carolina It was the largest number of teachers in the state ever to take training at one time Courses that would have cost plan over other systems is that schools would not havs to pay for prorgam service" Press said cost of the network will come from the broadest possible base the general Effective Teaching Tool ETV is no longer experimental It has grown up and educators realize its great potential for reaching people with ideas and information Wilbur Schramm director of the Institute for Communications Research at Stanford University assembled the results of 393 studies comparing the effectiveness of ETV with conventional classroom teaching Schramm discovered that television students equaled or excelled their non-television students in 86 per cent of the cast studies One study involving 4180 science students in Davidson In Kentucky despite the fact that a state network is unavail versity will feed the network or be sent closed-circuit to other colleges or be used as the individual college sees fit These studios will be controlled by the individual colleges However programs sent to the network must meet the stand ards set by the state ETV authority Closed-circuit television has already gone into operation in Eastern Kentucky State Model Laboratory School and by fall will be transmitting college education courses to the Combs Building Operating Costs The network will cost $6 979117 to build Press said Under existing federal funding programs the state could receive $2744378 toward this cost However the upcoming regular session of the General Assembly must appropriate an initial $500000 before revenue bonds can be sold and federal money obtained total annual cost including operation and bond retirement will amount to about Press said cost represents about 60 cents an nually for each Kentuckian It's about 1 per cent of the state's present education budget" Under the Education Act and the National Defense Education Act money is available to schools for television sets and other ETV equipment he said feature of Kentucky's Baroa College serves annually about 1700 students principally from 230 mountain countits in 8 Southern Appalachian states Col lego admissions for September 1965 are now closed Applications for 1966 will be received from September 1 1965 to March 31 1966 Far further informetieu write to ADMISSIONS OFFICE leree Collate able nearly 126000 students were enrolled in ETV classes last school year Most Kentucky ETV programs are beamed from out-of-state stations such as MPATI (Midwest Project for Airborne Tele 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