European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 11, 1987 the stars and stripes Paga 9 ism chief offers cure for Trade woes Detroit lil l More school Days Anil far Liss television Mil Hirn i Skary 1� pm nov amm cans l i Pshyk of Isicc Wiful Trade compact Ilion worldwide the chairman of International business machine corp. Said Mon Dikiy. John f. Alters in an address to the economic club or Detroit said much of Itic nation has been looking Tot Refuge from foreign compact Ilion in such havens As protectionism and a National Industrial policy. Bui he quoted Detroit s Joe Louis the Laic world boxing Champion for saying an opponent can run but be can t hide an examination of he Roolof the Constitution 200 years ago he said would teach three lessons real ism education and cooperation. We Veall Wen press reports thai in an International algebra lest students from Hong Kong came in first Japan second the United states i4lh," alters said. That s 14th. Right behind Hungary Between 1972 and 982, be said enrolment in teacher education programs Tell by one half and today there is a particular Scarcity of science and mathematics educators. Some of the tilings that have to be done arc obvious he said lengthen the school year by recognizing that . Public schools stay open Iso Days Japa Nese schools two months longer 243 Days. Turn off the television set. Between the Ages of 6 and 18, american children watch something like 15,000 hours 2,000 More than they spend in school. Bring parents Back into the learning process Ami re store in our schools discipline and  realism today he said Doc not mean confrontational Winner Lake All  realism today Means seeing a world in which self sufficient nationalism is dead in which any nation or Region that tries to dam the intercontinental floss of ideas information products and capital inevitably threatens 10 make its Home industries non competitive Cut ils population off from the world s Best goods and services and turn its country into a  Akers acknowledged that some countries shut their markets to american products subsidize their manufacturer and formers and allow them to dump their products in the United Stales. But protectionism in t he answer he said. It helped bring on the great depression. It never his worked. And it won t work now the lesson of cooperation he said Means we re going to compete or Tail 10 compete As a  we All have to work together including manage ment and labor he said. And it s not helpful to throw Spears at one another program for teaching alphabet called sexist Helena Mont. A a method of teaching Kinder garners the alphabet by assigning male names to consonants and female names to vowels has been criticized As encouraging sexism. The program called Alpha time could unintentionally reinforce stereo types that boys arc Active and agile while girls arc Clumsy inactive and highly emotional says pal Christie an Educa Tion equity specialist with the slate of fice of Public instruction. Kids learn from everything she says. The Good the bad and the  in All the years i be been teaching close to 16 years i be never had a complain from a Parent about this pro Gram said Karl Wolf a kindergarten teacher at Central school in Helena who uses Alpha time. There has been a real Effort to revise texts and publications to remove sexual stereotyping he said. Christie said she spoke to kindergarten teachers after she got a cull from a Parent who objected to the predominance of male characters and the Segre gation of Miles and females in the Alpha bet teaching method. Sexual stereotypes however Subtle May give children expectations about their future that can limit them in later life she says. In addition to being assigned to a name such As or. W or miss a each letter is assigned a characteristic or activity designed to help the child learn the sound of that letter. In some cases the activity May be creating a stereotype in the child s mind Christie said. Or. A for example is a kicking fool Ball player reinforcing the perception that boys i inv to play football and by implication that girls Don t like football Christie said. She said teachers should level with the students about the issues involved help them Analyse stereotypes and try to bal Ance a curriculum or tax Lbook with Oij Side materials that dispel the stereotypes. Teachers say Alpha time is effective and using the sexes to differentiate let ters is probably part of the effective Ness Christie said. But it s also part of the negative  Wolf snid he didst see much differ ence Between the sexes in the program. A is miss achoo. E is miss exercise i is miss itch o is miss obstinate u is miss umbrella. Contrast that with or. Funny feet or or. Cotton Candy. It s hard to Lake that real seriously he said. Toying around with robots Jerry Hayes of Axon demonstrates in new York i new generation of Eltor Ronic toys called tech Force designed for children who watch specific cartoon shows on television. Tech Force is a $250 set of toy robot which move around on the floor in front of a to set in imitation of certain characters on the screen. The motion of the robots is con bulled by computer chips thai respond to tones from the program. The tones Are inaudible to the human ear. Or hard to Lake that 5350 bet of toy Robo s we ten. Are inaudible to the human ear limit them in later real seriously e said. I new Jersey students to get booklets on aids Trenton . A the stale of new Jersey is aids information for Young  Creole for the haitian population in Northern hoping to curb the spread of aids by distributing it to is now a Durson can contract a1ds and him. Inc Jersey also will be distributed he said. The ctr distribution booklets on the deadly disease to schoolchildren. Steven Saunders a state health department Educa Tor monday said new Jersey is the first slave in the nation to take such action. More than 200,000 boots printed in three languages have been published or arc on order officials said. It s a fan disease that s an epidemic and we want the kids la protect themselves said Jane Dimaio a school health specialist in the slate department of education. Demaio and others in the health and education departments wrote the 16-Page illustrated Booklet Aid 11 tells How a person can contract aids and How the immune system works and in describes the Sivins of aids infection. A list of phone numbers for More information is included. The Booklet is published in Large print and is written at a fourth Grade level said Dimaio. We made it easy to read. We did t want them to think they would Nave to plow through everything she said and we wanted the message to get through to kids As Well As parents about 115,000 copies of the booklets in English and Spanish have been ordered and distributed said Saunders. Ninety thousand in English and 32,000 in Creole new Jersey also will be distributed he said. The stale does not require that information on aids be taught in the school. Districts that wanted copies of the Booklet ordered i ctn from the health department. Dimaio said mos schools that use the Booklet in corporate the aids lessons in their family life or health classes usually taught from seventh to 12th grades. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome attacks the body s immune system leaving it defenceless against disease. It usually is contracted through sexual Contact or contaminated intravenous Needles. Haitians and homosexuals Are among the High risk groups. So a background cuts racial Gap in test scores Cedar rapids Iowa a the Gap Between scores of while students and Black students taking american College testing exams Narrows when they have similar backgrounds according to an educator s study. On the average Black students scores on the College Entrance tests fall 7 paints below those of Whites. But when Alan Vair Warth a curriculum director Wilh Cedar rapids Community schools com pared White and Black students Wilh Sim Ilar sets of backgrounds the difference dropped to 2,9 Points. The evidence indicates that in terms of potential kids Are More alike than they aft1 different Whitworth said. Who won did his study fora doctoral dissertation under the supervision of University of Iowa education professor George Chambers. The results were re ported sunday to the nation association of secondary school principals in san Antonio Texas Whitworth s data included 2,276 Stu dents from 2,000 High schools in nine midwestern states and West Virginia. Chambers said teachers and principal scan and should narrow the 2.9-Poinl Dif Ference and schools should increase teacher expectations for students and have students Lake More academic courses. Whitworth said the National average composite act score in 19b4-s5 was 18.6, with Blacks scoring an average 12.5 on the tests and Whites an average 19.4. When he paired the students Accord ing to various background characteristics the average scores were 16.3 for Blacks and 19.2 for Whites. Family income seems to affect lest Scures. As Tio gender number of years the student has taken mathematics High school Grade Point overage and whether the students have taken inc test in their Junior or senior year the Siudy said