European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday april 6,1987 conferees clash Over what values should be taught Washington up despite signs of a growing consensus on the need 10 teach values in the Public schools the extremes of the political spectrum arc still far apart on what that Means a Daylong conference Tail week sponsored by people for the american Way found educators ranging from Terra Bell president Reagan s first education Secretary to Washington superintendent of schools floret la Mckenzie agreeing that values should be taught in the school. Bui the difficulty of achieving a consensus was dramatically demonstrated by Gary Bauer a White House assistant for policy development and former Edu cation undersecretary. Bauer blamed a Host of social prob lems thai pervade our society ranging from drug abuse to promiscuity on what he called value Neutral leaching in the Public schools and he urged we must reverse this trend. Pluralism is not moral relativism Bauer called Tor a return to the study of such classics As Aesop s fables and Shakespeare s Hamlet arguing our children have been cheated by those who deny them the Wisdom of the  he also called for telling the truth about communism and suggested Resto ration of state sponsored prayer id the Public schools. In response rabbi Balfour Brickner of the Stephen Wise synagogue in new York said Bauer and others calling for a return of the teaching of right and wrong were More interested in indoctrination than  Brickner said Bauer s assumptions when lightly scratched revealed an ugly kind of anti communism and a sectarian Jude christianity laced with floppy sentimentality True to Nei ther tradition Brickner said that despite Bauer s plea for a return to the classics some groups who advocate this Are also seek ing to remove from Public school libraries books such As the wizard of or Macbeth and the diary of Anne Frank to Bauer s charge that students Are no longer taught to play by the rules Brickner ticked off the names of administration officials including attorney general Edwin Meese educated before Liberal permissiveness pervaded the schools who have been accused of ethically questionable be Havior. You can i dump Alt these problems on the school he said. Focus on teaching excellence Unshon biology teacher Donna Oliver helps a in fast i4joft Microscope in her Burlington  High school classroom in North Carolina. Ourer on Friday was ruined National Mcd or of the Yew and will go id washing ton april 12 for a Welling with presi Dent schools need up to $15 billion official says san Francisco a califor Nia s school chief said saturday thai president Reagan would be laughed out of court if he applied to the military his prescription for improving the nation s schools. Bill Honig in the midst of a budget Battle with Cov. George Duck Mcran look Issue with Reagan s comment last month in Columbia mo., that these i to educational Quality is not in the pock Lbook but in the  Honig in an address before inc Edu cation writers association said the nation s schools Are poised to Start paying incredible dividends from recent re forms but they still need $10 billion to $15 billion More to spark improvements. Konig said he agrees with another Reagan statement Basic skills Stan Dards discipline work family support ethical principles this is the new american consensus on inc secret of Quality  but that is Only half the Story Honig said. Can you imagine the president of the United states saying to the military you re about ready to go into War. All you need is Springfield rifles from the first world War and All you need is heart asked Honig. He d get laughed out of  Honig has been a prominent spokes Man for raising school standards and has been Allied with the Reagan administration in calling upon schools to teach values. But the California superintendent of Public instruction an Independent who was re elected by a landslide last year has recently been called a demagogue and a Snake ail Salesman by the re publican governor. Honig said California s Public schools need a $1 billion increase just to stay even with population growth and inflation while Deukmejian s budget would Force cuts of 1600 million. He has organized a grassroots lobby to press for More Money. If everybody else has to get organized we re going to get organized said Honig. And if we can pull i off in Cali fornia we re going to do it nationwide. You be got to spend Money on Chil Dren spend Money on our schools Fortis improvement to  at the same convention saturday sur Geon general c. Everett Koop urged the nation s schools to combat aids by convincing students of their own Worth and by suggesting to them that sexual abstinence at their age is by far the preferable  Koop reiterated the advice that an gered conservatives last fall if children culture lag he has a list for you san Francisco up an English professor calling for cultural literacy has compiled a list of 4,500 words and expressions he says every american should be familiar with. . Hirsch who teaches at the University of Virginia unveiled his list sat urday in san Francisco at a Memling of the education writers association. The list is an appendix to Hirsch s Book cultural literacy what every Ameri can needs to know j ust published. While admitting his list of Ameri Cana is not perfect Hirsch said it s More conducive to National literacy than the misting language arts curriculum our children Are now  the Basic Core of knowledge thai everyone should possess in Hirsch s View includes everything from Abra Ham Lincoln to Star wars and the beatles. Expressions on his list Range from dog Days and nymphomania to you can i fit a Square Peg in a round Hole and upward  Hirsch said wrong and pernicious ideas have dominated education in the United Stales for at least four decades and he added that the steady decline in High school and College lest scores is a direct result of the Lack of attention paid to National culture in the schools. His study plan he said is not really a curriculum at All but a method of acquiring  students need a critical mass of in formation in older to possess that skill of skills  without sufficient knowledge Hirsch said children faced with an unfamiliar term or word in a Book tend to be turned off to Reading further. An a Loz sampling of some of he names words and phrases autocracy Billy the , Cyclops Dan editorial Figaro Gracias Hoo sir i never Mei a Man did t like jingoism Kangaroo court lean and hungry look Medusa nolo Conlen Drc. Off with their Heads peeping Tom que Sera Sera Rome was t built in a Day Slang. Three Little pigs ukulele vis a vis Wampum xylem Yin Yang and iodine. A not abstain front sex they must be informed about How to Cut Down on their risk of getting acquired immune deficiency syndrome. At one Point he quipped if 1 can paraphrase Chrysler motors corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca i would say it this Way if you have a monogamous relationship keep it. If you Don t have one get  Koop suggested thai schools Leach about the hazards of aids within the context of what he called studies in human  such studies would stress Loving relationships in which sen is no longer seen just As a casual or gratuitous act with out consequences. We Are fighting a disease not people. We Are not at War with a lifestyle he said. Neither homosexuality or Sci Erosco Malily Perse is inc  scientists identify ancient ape line new York a a newly identified 17 million year old ape species is the oldest known member of the evolutionary family tree that includes great apes and humans a new analysis says. That conclusion would push Back by at least 2 million years the time when great apes and humans must have split from the lineage of lesser apes such As tree dwelling Gibbons in Southeast Asia said researcher Lawrence Martin. Martin is an assistant professor of anthropology at inc slate University of new York at Stony Brook. He was inter viewed before a presentation of inc anal Ysis sunday in new York at a meeting of the american association of physical anthropologists