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he Battalion ESTATE & LOCAL 345-33! Thursday, June 28, 1990 onference focuses on restructure of public schools y MIKE LUMAN The Battalion Staff More than 300 national and state leaders of education and industry are attending a exas A&M-sponsored conference today to iscuss topics including the possible re structuring of public schools. " The two-day conference, “New Direc- ^ons In Education,” was initiated by A&M resident Dr. William H. Mobley and the Jniversity’s Commitment to Education ask Force. Dr. Dean Corrigan, the president’s dep- for educational leadership and CTE di- ector, said meetings would focus on action ather than policy. “We’re into people who are willing to do omething, to search for better ways to do hings,” Corrigan said. CTE intends to marshal the resources necessary to move untried ideas into action, study the results, and share the best that are found in research and practice,” he said. Corrigan said top national education ex perts will speak at each of three general ses sions, all in Rudder Theater. Denis Doyle, co-author of the best-selling book “Winning the Brain Race,” is the prin cipal speaker of the first session at 1:30 this afternoon. Doyle is presently a senior research fel low at the Hudson Institute and is a mem ber of the Education Excellence Network Board and the American Textbook Council Board. The focus of the second session, at 8:30 a.m. Friday, is finding ways to make educa tion systems work at the local level with the assistance of state and national agencies. Speakers are Sonia Hernandez, Victoria Bergin, and David Holmes. wTE intends to marshal the resources necessary to move untried ideas into action, study the results, and share the best that are found in research and practice.” — Dean Corrigan, Commitment to Education director Hernandez is a senior associate at the Na tional Center on Education and the Econ omy and adjunct professor at the Univer sity of Rochester in New York. Bergin is deputy commissioner for cur riculum and program development with the Texas Education Agency. Holmes is coordinator of the Compre hensive Program and program officer for the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Ed ucation. Henry Giroux will speak at 11 a.m. Fri day, during the third session, about devel oping curriculum and schools to meet the needs of all students. Giroux is director of the Center for Edu cation and Cultural Studies at Miami Uni versity of Ohio. His book, “Teachers as Intellectuals,” was named one of the most significant books of the year by the American Educa tional Studies Association. Corrigan said the conference also in cludes 20 one-hour presentations, called “lighthouses of innovation,” that will high light solutions to some problems facing ed ucators. “The lighthouses share ideas, but they don’t always have to be right,” Corrigan said. “You can learn a great deal from failu res.” CTE supports risk takers, but schools must remain accountable for the results of new programs tried, he said. Corrigan said the conference will stress a ‘bottom-up” strategy, meaning state regu lations should set lower requirements for a school’s curriculum. Teachers would then have more free dom to implement new programs, he said. In Texas, for example, TEA guidelines leave little room for teacher initiative. “We want to treat teachers as profes sional decision makers,” he said. Students are welcome to attend any of the three general sessions, he said. persoi er eisno of'the n,a -en unai, n n g that 13. It is her off the reed to ■arable while >se state, 30 more ither ise is nkeacli u ally am :1 the people tuation t want to ns me to would bt hey eand ers close [ferine. eporter begins six-month jail term for refusing to reveal source’s name JoyjJuof /DgLMETVTf/y ^ Tan! SAN ANT ONIO (AP) — A television news re- iorter began serving a six-month jail term Wednesday for refusing to turn over the name of a confidential source to lawyers in a police killing. “I sure don’t want to do six months in jail,” KMOL-TV reporter Brian Karem said on the Bexar County Jail steps. “But I’m going to keep my promise.” Karem has defied three court orders to turn aver confidential notes of a telephone interview with one of two jailed murder suspects last year. Attorneys in the case say they have to know who arranged the interviews to ensure a fair trial for he defendants. Karem has said the source fears for his life if bis identity is revealed. “We can’t live up to our principles every day in ife,” Karem told reporters as he was going into the jail. “But I think this is an important enough issue, and I feel strongly enough about it that I want to live up to how I believe.” Karem’s hopes for staying out of jail while he appeals the contempt citations were dashed Tuesday when the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap peals refused to issue a stay. Karem arranged to surrender to Sheriff Har- lon Copeland, who met Karem on the jail steps Wednesday afternoon. “I’m not looking forward to it,” Karem said. “I’d rather be at home with my wife and my son.” Karem has an 18-month-old son. Karem said his only hope for release would be for the confidential source to come forward or for the U.S. Supreme Court to grant a stay of his sentence pending appeal. His attorney, Laurence Macon, said Wednes day he has filed for a stay with the high court but did not expect a ruling before the end of the week. “It does not look very good for the First Amendment today,” Macon said. KMOL News Director Ron Harig said the sta tion would hold Karem’s job open and he would continue to be paid while he is jailed. “The information contained in those notes could have been easily obtained by those attor neys and the agencies they represent,” Harig said Wednesday. “We shouldn’t be an investigating arm of law enforcement.” “We can only guess at their motives. Perhaps they are trying to discourage people from talking to reporters,” Harig said. Harig, station Manager Bob Donohue and Ka rem’s father, James, were at Karem’s side when he arrived at the jail. /nrunm.rnmm.T 'o fAT it’ x (mysElP if X t AlreAaJ FAfCAJ. ^ T^h ' J3u\We-V Chow time preg- iboul t the :ared ads: ! and osed This i, he ould sthe By Sharia Skillern Squirt, a silver ferret, decides to snack between her owner Steve Coffey, a senior industrial distri- meals. Squirt has lived in College Station with bution major from Plano, for a year now. USD A service faces shortfall 27,000 women, children risk being cut from aid Associated Press Thousands of pregnant women and young children are in danger of losing food they receive from the gov ernment in a program designed to improve birth and to decrease mortality rates. But the Bush administration has not asked Congress for any new money to meet the shortfall, a Department of Agriculture official told a congressional panel today. Betty Jo Nelsen, administrator of the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, said the WIG program has grown by 300,000 participants. She said $1 1 million has been re-allocated to make up for spending or budget shortfalls some states are suffering. But Texas alone needs $17.5 million to maintain its current level of service to about 340,000 women and children. Otherwise, 27,000 will be dropped as early as next week, said Debra Stabeno, director of the Texas Department of Health’s program for women infants and children. To improve birth and decrease mortality rates, WIG provides milk, cheese, juice, cereal, peanut butter and other food to pregnant women and young children. Stabeno said higher foods costs and more program participants are driving up costs even more than ex pected. Food costs have increased 9.7 percent in Texas this fiscal year, twice as much as the rate projected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The department sends federal funds to state agencies for WIG pro grams. 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