European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Magazine . Of Jeff feb a education Sec Farr. At a Ivet conference with month tha crime tag Ling dog the thirteenth Man school reformer . Bell of photo by Christopher Connell associated press considered by Many to be the father of the school Reform movement. . Sell views himself As a failure when it came to educating the most important Pupil he Ever faced Ronald Reagan. Throe years Altet tic quit the Reagan Cabinet. Bell frets thai school Reform did t do a dam thing to Volvo Iho problem of dropouts and Whoso who can barely read the words on i heir High school diplomas. Most Are poo Many Are minorities. We in losing 30 porch no to 40 percent of the rising generation says the Litnor soc Elary of education. They re out of school and they re unemployed and ii might have bean different he says in president Reagan had taken to heart the message of the Bombshell report twi Bell commissioned a nation Al the National commission on excellence in education made headlines on Apul 26. Iub3, with its Blunt warning the educational foundations of our society Are presently being eroded by a rising tide of a mediocrity that threatens our vory future As a Nalion Reagan responded by extolling tuition lax credits and prayer in Public schools two things that a nation Al risk never touched on. But the president and his advisers soon realized thai it made Poi Iticia sense and Iusti red in 197b in favor of creating the education department if they needed any evidence id support those views. Bell provides it in abundance in Trio Riu Nonin Man those who accused me of Lxii in of the educational establishment were right said Bell who had served two previous Etiola in Washington one As u 5 commissioner of education in the Ford Between Schoul pasts in Ulah Bell Calls for s25 billion in new Fedrial stale and local spending on the chapter i Romerein program Lor disadvantaged students head suit i the pie school Pio Giam for poor children and the Jot corps. He Sot she country Shoi Ike attack lira problems of illiteracy and dropouts with a Nal Ranal move Mon Oltha magnitude of Iho Marshall plan Turat Tiol Ped rebuild me War ravaged nations of Eum pc Al the end of world War but he says Money by itself is not the answer. We cannot ignore the other Parl of education and Ihal s Iho Homo and left s own tile glory is testimony to the Power of both pc Deucalion and the lamely. Hell grow in in Pov orly in lava hot Springs. Idaho or a Fol hey died in an Accident m 1929 when Dell Wau 8 his Mother Alia Mailin Bell raised nine kids in Itic depression on. When to graduated from High Schuol As valid Icloria he wore a suit that. his knowledge. Mrs Bell had bought with Money Trona term by his leathers. He headed Oil to the Coll egg Wilh the lowest tuition in the stale. Albion stole Normal school ii charged $11,50 per semester my lilo Al Albion opened Rich Nesses beyond anything i cow imagined he recalls twas ignorant of our in history and of the great literature of the Neslein world i knew nothing of the federalist papers the works of Tolstoy. Of the Pudim cols of economics this All a inc to me Courtesy of the to pay Eib who founded and ship pm Jyh a Sale Nomal school to prepare teachers to Leach their children and grandchildren ii also came Courtesy of resident Franklin a Roosevelt s new Deal and the Congress which supported the part time National Viutti administrator Job Cha pay dorm 117 a month enough to cover his m run tend leave s13 for food which his Mother by mail tag four Loav Osof bread every wednesday. His experiences at Albion now defunct made it All the Raider Lor bet to support Reagan cd s in student Aid. Culs he now says were Asoh Jelly wrong " Bell Louring construction the is beaten a in 1981. The stars and stripes Page 13
