European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 13, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 education program to Sharpen educators skills b Dave wai.c7.ak dui action writer Wiesbaden Vacsi Germany the military s overseas school system has announced plans beginning this summer for an education program designed to in crease the leaching skills of faculty and administrators. By the Lime the three year skillful teacher program is Complete. Department of defense dependents schools officials believe the system s More than 10,000 in achors and 600 administrators will Hare a better understanding of scathing. The program stems from school system director John Stremple s Calls for More staff development and added emphasis on education which he listed As goals for the 19ks-s9 school year. ,. Although school officials have no immediate plans to change teacher performance standards to reflect inc training Sirc Mulc has said last week thai such a lie in was  and something that Well look at. The skillful teacher program is modelled after a similar program operating at Fairfax county va., schools. A spokesman for the Germany Region said recently that the program will provide school system Edu Calore a common teaching vocabulary and an update on the latest leaching techniques. It s been years since it number of administrators taught in the  he said. Much research about leaching has been developed since then and the skillful teacher program will give them Lite Opportunity to learn  a group of Germany Region teachers and administrators will be inc first to undergo skillful teacher training under the auspices of research for better teaching a Carlisle  firm specializing in staff development plans Calls for fio teachers and 83 administrators of begin the training this summer with teachers under going 49 hours of training and administrators 56, the training will be divided into summer and fall terms. Teachers will be drawn from 20 elementary and secondary schools five each from inc Munich Hei Dulberg  and Stuttgart districts. A Matching number of administrators from those districts also will attend. The additional 23 administrators will be drawn from District offices ind regional Headquarters in Wiesbaden. Region director Joseph Rick mad and Deputy director Robert  plan in attend the summer training. Four overseas education association observers also plan to attend inc summer training. An sea spokeswoman said last week thai the teachers Union supports the program. She said the observers have been sent because inc training could aft i working conditions on which the Urt Init holds negotiation  school system also is accepting applications for four skillful teacher positions. The four will attend. The course tarty in the summer then will help teach it. Later in the year. In inc fall plans Call for them to become full time skillful teachers certified by the research for better teaching group. Mary Cramer who Heads the skillful teacher pro Gram for the Germany Region said he four eventually will train other school system teachers and admin Mara tors. Top colleges feel Impact As High school graduates decline tuition costs Rise new York a drop in the number of High school graduates arid mounting concern Over tuition arc driving Down the volume of applications 10. Sonic of. The nation s most prestigious colleges for the fir suite in years. Harvard University spokesman Peter Costa Lesii match a s pc Cen to 10 Pyrc Cal drop in applications compared with a year ago the first such decline in at least two decades nearly All other Ivy league schools Are reporting decline in that Range. The application deadline for next fail s freshman class  1 at Many Selec Tive schools around the country Stanford University s fall applications have dropped about 6 percent from 15,828 to 14,869, according to Lynne Madison assistant Dean of undergrad uate admissions at the highly competitive University of California at Berkeley applications arc also Down trom2l,9jj to . It s really got to be the decline in the number of High school graduates said Linda Davis Laylor do Art of admissions at Amherst College in Amherst mass., where fall applications have cropped about 4 per Beni i be been falling , and Mosi of he colleges i be talked w Are  declines  As great As ours inc said i consider this a Ellow tight we Ait kind of anticipated this said hrad Leys Ain admissions director of Lafa Etie allege in Easton pa., where applications an1 Down about 5 percent i Don t mean to imply that we re nol concerned this is a competitive business find it s going to make it that much harder to increase the Quality of our  school officials say it s too soon to draw hard conclusions but they cite several fac tors in explain King he sudden reversal. In effect they said higher education has been defying Gravity for most of she 1980s. To the Surprise of Many College enrol ment have grown from. 12,1 million to 12.5 million since 1980, and Are up at 54 percent of the nation s colleges and universities according to an annual Survey by the american Council on education. An increase in the ranks of older Stu dents and higher percentages of High school students attending College helped offset a steady decline in the number of graduating High school seniors. Bui the. Current drop in applications May be inc first sign thai population changes finally May be taking their toll roughly 3 million i8-year-Olds Ament cd College in 1980 but the High scr tool class of 88 has shrunk to an estimated 176 million and is expected to Bottom out at .2.44.million by .1992 stud sets also May be culling inc num Ber of schools they apply to Afler a dec Ade in which. Multiple applications in creased sharply. An annual Survey of entering fresh Man by the american Council on Educa Tion and the University of California at los Angeles found that a record 37 per cent applied Cia least three colleges lilt fall compared we 26 percent in 9so, that increase generally has been attributed to students wanting 10 improve their chances of gulling into a top school and also to shopping around for the Bisl financial Aid deals As tuition have soared. A i mind Abr ams Yola Radji to tuck 12, rinds a poem to her soon la enide English classmates Al Dud Kre Tuiach a Fth school. Their Toucher eur nth child plans i collect class Punu Anil produce a Twink of verse turned nut Fay he muik1 Nti. Nasa sponsored expo to blast off in april Bidav Walczak education Riti r Wiesbaden  Eit Germany school system officials Are a up cycling a nor than 18,000 american and German students and thousands of adults to participate in the two  space expo 89 program scheduled to begin no a month. The Nasa supported program has 3 scheduled launch Date of april 14, when the first of two Static  in Wacker him near Mcculy bar Racks plans Call for the display to close May 1. The exhibit will feature Moon rocks lunar mod Ules satellites built to scale and other space equip ment according to space expo organizers. The second display ii scheduled 10 open May 20 Ai the sep Litigen officers club at cools Barracks and close june is both exhibits will be free and open to the Public. Preliminary plans Call for the displays to be restricted to one hour guided Tours for students be tween 8 30 . And 2 30 p m. Before being opened to the Public. In addition to the displays Nasa has agreed to Send four education specials from the Kennedy space Center in Cape canaveral fla., to visit schools in the Germany Region the visits Are de signed to increase children s awareness of space Sci ence and the . Spa program. Schedules for the specialists arc under review but a Germany Region spokesman said he expects Chil Dren from As Man As 120 schools Wilt hear their presentations. Germany Mcgion schools have been asked to invite German students from partnership school to attend. Students attending the presentations will be eligible to compete tar prizes including to Alj fat pc is paid visits to inc . Space Camp in Hon Sivilie ala., and sets of encyclopedias. The Uso american airlines and world Book encyclopedia arc sponsoring the prize portion of space expo Fly. The Germany Region spokesman ii lid the Span expo 89 program Marks the first time Nasa has supported such a project in Europe the exhibits arc coordinated through the . Information Agency office in Donn