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Few schools nave all these things, but it would be hard to find one free of minimal trappings of the compu- terized-electrotncized era, the report on a nationwide survey shows. Use of computers for instruction in public schools is spreading fast, but policies and procedures to guide the schools in their use lag behind, said the report. It was conducted in cooperation with the National Insti tute of Education. Of 236 local school board presi dents responding, 96 percent said their school districts use microcom puters for instruction. But 86 per cent had no board policy or guideline in the selection of course ware or software. Nearly 80 percent said computers are being used for math; 48 percent, for spelling; 39 percent, for science; 25 percent, for writing. Other survey Findings: • 89 percent use local funding to buy computer hardware; 74 percent also use federal funding and 58 per cent also use state funds. In 29 per cent of the districts funding is sup plemented by parent groups and in 14 percent, by other private sources. • Among those cited as “strongly encouraging” the use of computers were superintendents, principals and teachers, 92 percent; local school boards, 66 percent; parents, 60 percent; computer manufactur ers, 20 percent. • 79 percent of the presidents said computers have not changed the methods or content of instruc tion in their schools. But 17 percent said computers have altered meth ods or content in mathematics, busi ness education, English or the sci ences. • 35 percent said computers have enabled students to take advanced or different courses not otherwise available to them, such as computer science and literacy, programming and mathematics. • 84 percent of the school dis tricts use videotape recorders; 52 percent have cable television, and 20 percent use video discs and other technology. • half the board presidents re ported school computers are avail able for use after school hours to families that do not own home com puters. In 44 percent of the districts, instruction is given to parents on the home-education use of computers. The report said 10 to 15 percent of families have home computers, used as follows; entertainment, 89 percent; education, 85 percent; busi ness, 60 percent; family finances, 41 percent. The total is larger than 100 percent since most families reported multiple uses. Stars scared on 1st day of school United Press International LOS ANGELES — Despite the confidence they display before millions in their adult years, ce lebrities asked to recall their first day at school described the expe rience as anxiety-filled and terri- fying. Olympic gold medal winner Bruce Jenner said he was the most terrified kid in town. Catherine Bach, who stars in the “Dukes of Hazzard,” said she gussied up for her first big day of school in Rapid City, S.D. “My mother was a teacher in the school and spent a lot of time preparing me for school,” Bach said. “I wore high heels and a new dress made by my mother — red and white polka dot. “I got to the stairs and I knew I was in for something and hid be hind my mother and 1 almost toppled over in those high heels they wore in the ’50s. The teacher came out to the front steps and coaxed me in, ‘Oh, come in, honey.’ And I said, ‘No. I’m not going in.’ “I was kicking and screaming and then, when I realized it was inevitable, I straightened up be cause I knew I was never going to cry in front of the other kids. I went into the classroom with the teacher holding my hand. She sat me down and by recess I was making a few friends. We were all pretty much in the same boat. “I was scared to death of all these big people and that big building. I hadn’t been far from my own home and our own block. “By the second week, I couldn’t wait to get to school.” “I remember most that I was al ways always afraid of falling down the steps,” the comedian re called. “But just in case, I always wore clean underwear in case 1 had to go to the nurse after fall ing down the steps.” Sid Caesar also recalled his first impression of the teacher. “I remember the teacher had long, curly hair, glasses and she looked like somebody from the ‘Three Musketeers,”’ he said. His first problem? “I could never make a figure eight,” he said. “1 couldn’t re member whether it started right to left or left to right so I put two zeros on top of each other.” Cieorge Cnakiris, who won an Academy Award for his role as Bernardo in “West Side Story,” also remember vividly that first day of school in the Arizona de sert of Tucson more than 40 years ago. 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