European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 15, 1993 the star9 and stripes Page is Lucky teacher to represent Dodds at forum on Reform by Jimi Jones education writer a military overseas school teacher will be among distinguished company this week when he takes part in a two Day conference that is slated to include breakfast with president Clinton in the nation s capital. Robert Quot Lucky Quot Moore who teaches several subjects at bad Aib Ting Elemen Tail High school in Germany will be participating in a forum addressing the role of teachers in educational Reform. The goals 2000 teacher forum which begins thursday is being sponsored by the department of education. Moore the department of defense dependents schools 1993 teacher of the year and More than 100 teachers from throughout the United states including Many state level teachers of the year will join other leading educators and policymakers in the discussions. Moore has been described by his up pits As one who cares challenges creativity and makes them think. Quot we Are very pleased that Lucky was chosen to represent classroom teachers from department of defense schools at this important forum Quot said Hal Haggard spokesman Tor the Ger Mariy Region of 1 military overseas schools. Quot people come through Here All the time who say that Dodds is a Well kept secret. I m Happy to say that secret is out. The department of education has recognized that we Are a Strong viable educational system deserving of participation and input into the important work they  according to Terry Dozier the special adviser on teaching to education Secretary Richard w. Riley this weeks meeting will have two key purposes a to allow department staff and other policy makers to listen to teacher perceptions perspectives and priorities so that policy decisions can better focus on teaching and learning. A to assist teachers in becoming partners in reforming education at All government Levels and to Lead changes in their schools and communities so that All pupils can meet higher Levels of academic achievement As identified by the National education goals. Quot we re excited about shifting the focus of the Reform movement from teachers As objects of Reform to teachers As partners in Reform a Dozier said. Quot Secretary Riley recognizes that teachers Are one of the most underutilized  change and improvement in american  Riley is expected to open the teacher forum. In Riley a letter of invitation to the forum he said Quot All of us a from the president on Down a believe that any substantive and successful school Reform must be engineered in close consultation with the individuals who work on the front lines of  Moore agreed. Quot its about time they Are putting it on people who Deal with it daily Quot he said noting that the forum is not expected to be merely a two Day session to a pump you  rather it will prepare teachers then charge them to take information Back to their school districts and put it to use he said. Quot that a the dynamic thing about it a said Moore noting that he already has begun forming cadres of teachers to address Reform issues. Dozier said teachers will be enc our. S4s o�wcm0y Robert a a Lucky Moore a teacher at bad Aib Ting elementary High school in Germany is to take part this week in the goals 2000 teacher Fonkim in Washington. Aged to set up local and state forums to give teachers More input into educational issues. Moore said that his trip will add to existing efforts at his school to make improvements. Notion of jews victims As Washington a when the nazis swarmed into the belorussian town where Tuvia Bielski lived in 1941, he would not go to the jewish ghettos As they ordered. Instead he fled to the Forest nearby and spent the rest of the War hiding and ending ways to save his fellow jews. By 1944, More than 1,200 jews were living in the armed Forest Community he had set up. Many had a with his help a escaped from ghettos Ana certain death. Before the germans invaded his Home Bielski was an Ordinary Young Man from a Small town peasant background. The War turned him into a hero. Many other jews were wartime heroes too said Nechama Tec author of a new Book Defiance the Bielski partisans its something she wants people to know. Tec believes too Many historical accounts of the holocaust portray All jews As victims who went without struggle to the concentration Camps Aind Gas Chambers. Defiance is full of descriptions of those who used everything they had to fight their oppressors. They Are people who Slid through gaps in the fences surrounding the ghettos hid for years with Little food or Comfort in the wilderness and still found it in themselves to try to help others who were even less fortunate. By the end of the War those who joined Bielski had not Only managed to survive but set up a Complex Community in the Forest Complete with a makeshift Hospital and school and workshops to repair their guns clothes and shoes. Tec said Many holocaust historians Are guilty of both omission and distortion. A the omission is the conspicuous silence about jews who while themselves threatened by death were saving others a she writes. Quot the distortion is the common description of european jews As victims who went passively to  jewish heroism during world War ii came As a revelation to Tec herself a holocaust survivor when she Black museum gets Nechama Tec s Book Defiance the Bielski partisans discusses jews who resisted the holocaust. Started studying the period As a sociologist about 20 # by she describes jewish bravery against overwhelming Odds As Quot a clinging to Hope and  years ago. Defiance is techs third Book about the holocaust. The first was her Memoir dry tears the Story of a lost childhood about her experiences As a jewish child in nazi occupied Poland. Tec who came from Lublin Poland posed As a Catholic child during the War years while her parents hid. Tie family survived. But when they returned to Lublin in 1945, they found Only about 150 jews remaining out of a prewar jewish population of 40,000. She started writing about the War years in the 1970s, after decades of avoiding the memories. Quot i had pushed it aside. I would not go to movies about the War a she said. Quot if someone asked me about it i kept  Dallas apr the museum of african american life and culture opened in 1974 in a room of a predominantly Black colleges Library in South Dallas. Its director had visions of a More Majestic Home however. After years of struggle to fulfil that vision Harry Robinson was ready to open the new $6 million 38,000-Square-foot museum sunday in fair Park. Quot there was a need expressed in our Community for doing something to preserve our heritage a Robinson said. Quot once we presented the idea to the people they caught on. They took a risk on us and the risk paid  museum was founded As a part of Bishop College. Its limited collection was housed in a Small room on the second floor of the schools Library. In 1979, it separated from the College and began operating As the nonprofit foundation for african american Art. While Robinson tried to raise Money for a permanent Home the museums pieces were exhibited in various studios throughout the City. Dallas voters in 1985 approved a $1.2 million Bond package for a building. Ana after raising $5 million More through private foundations individuals churches and organizations constrict in began in july 1991. The museum is the first of its kind in the southwestern United states Robinson said. Quot since its the Only one of its kind Blacks in Texas Are proud that there is an Institute that is devoted exclusively to studying preserving and presenting exhibits on the african american heritage Quot Robinson said. Or. Russell Adams chairman of the department of afro american studies at Howard University in Washington d.c., said the museum will help further education about Blacks. Quot it is part of the ongoing enlargement of americans understanding of the Black experience in America a Adams said. A we Are in great need of this. Filling out the truth of the record and reducing the paranoia about  aside from its collections the museum also houses a Library a research Center and an auditorium. Jury s racist jokes denied couple fair trial court finds. A a. A. I i  a in Cairl non Nolc in dirt Snail fort that it Daytona Beach. Fla. Apr a Black couple was deprived of a fair anal by an All White jury that compared Blacks to chimpanzees and told racist jokes an appeals court ruled. Derrick and Eugena Powell sued their insurance company to cover losses from a traffic collision with an under insured Motorist. After the trial ended juror Karen Dowding told the couples attorney that she was distressed by comments made during eight hours of deliberations in May 1992. The jurors frequently spoke of Quot niggers and joked that the plaintiffs children probably were drug dealers Dowd ing said. On Friday the states 5th District court of Appeal ordered the judge to ask jurors if they made the racist comments. If so he must Grant a new trial. Quot to allow such behaviour in the jury room would erode Public Confidence in the equity of our system of Justice a the appeals court said. Quot the fact that it happened deprived the litigant of a fair  the powells sued for $235,000, based on medical expenses and lost wages. The jury awarded them $10,600, not including $10,000 received from the other motorists insurance