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Time will change but clocks won't INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Sunday brings the annual shift to Daylight Saving Time, but most Hoosiers will leave their clocks alone. Through the end of this week, 81 of Indiana’s 92 counties are on Eastern Standard Time. The other 11 are on Central Standard Time. At 2 a.m. Sunday, 76 will remain on Eastern Standard Time, five will move to Eastern Daylight Time and the other 11 will switch to Central Daylight Time, which is the same as Eastern Standard Time. With the last weekend in April, most of the nation goes on Daylight Saving Time. Most of Indiana, however, does nothing except notice that network television programming has moved up one hour. Those 76 counties will be on New York time until Saturday; on Sunday, they’ll be on the same time as Chicago. The state is split geographically into two time zones, with 81 counties in the Eastern time zone and 11 in the Central zone. The 11 Central counties are Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton, Jasper and Starke in the northwest corner and Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick and Spencer in the southwest corner. They stay on Chicago time throughout the year and move their clocks up one hour Sunday. With the other 81 counties, it’s not so simple. Five Dearborn and Ohio near Cincinnati and Clark, Floyd and Harrison across from Louisville move their clocks ahead one hour to Eastern Daylight Time so they’re on the same time as those metropolitan areas. The other 76 don’t do a thing.

Meaningful education reform hinges on money, NEA says

c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Financial pressures are impeding efforts to improve the nation’s public schools just as elementary enrollment is starting to increase for the first time in a decade, the president of the National Education Association said Wednesday. “We’ve had dozens of reports telling us you need to upgrade the quality of education from kindergarten all the way through graduate school,” Mary H. Futrell, the president of the teachers’ organization, told reporters here. “What we’ve said all along is that that is going to cost money, big money, big bucks, and we can’t bring about the level of change that you want without the money we need to do so,” she said. She made her remarks in connection with the release of an NEA report on school statistics showing that over-all spending on education increased by 7.1 percent in the 1985-66 school year. But Futrell maintained that education spending had to increase by 20 to 25 percent within the next few years to bring about meaningful reform. “The revenue increases we have experienced over recent years have, in

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Education in the 21 st Century 'People who can do what computers can't'

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Twenty-first century students, freed of memorizing facts, should develop their ability to think creatively, a conference on the future of Indiana schools was told. “You need to teach people to think on their own and to implement their ideas,” said Gale Picker, a senior associate of the Naisbitt Group, a Washington-based think tank and consulting company. Computers will store and retrieve factual information in the next century; people should create new ways to use that information, she said. “What we need are people who can do what computers cannot do.” Ms. Picker spoke Wednesday to about 800 Hoosier educators attending a meeting called “Our Schools, Our Future: Invitational Conference on Indiana Schooling for the 21st Century.” The conference at the Indiana Convention Center was sponsored by the state Department of Education and the Indiana Curriculum Advisory Council. The United States is quickly changing from a manufacturing society to an information society, Ms. Picker said. In an information society, the skills in great demand will be thinking, learning and creativity, she said. “In the information society, the strategic resource isn’t capital, it’s information. Ideas are in the ascendancy,” she said. If schools don’t give students the ability to think and a continuing ability to learn, businesses could take over a larger role in education, Ms. Picker said. She said corporations already are spending about S3O billion annually to teach employees the critical skills they will need on the job. Schools in the future must also be less parochial in their view of the world, Ms. Picker said. “Our whole education is focused on us, on our country,” she said. A global economy will require Americans to have a greater knowledge

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reality, done little more than keep schools even with inflation,” she said, noting that increases had all come from the state level, now accounting for 50.1 percent of the school dollar, while local and federal contributions had declined. The Senate moved closer Wednesday to providing more federal support passing an amendment to a 1987 budget proposal that would increase funds for basic education programs by $1.2 billion. The increase, passed by 60-to-38 vote, would be added to the $30.8 billion the Senate Budget Committee requested for education. Futrell said she agreed with Secretary of Education William J. Bennett that

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of other languages and cultures, she said. Also on Wednesday, Harold Hodgkinson, senior fellow of the American Council on Education, told educators that trends that will dominate the future have started today. In education, those trends include a rising minority population in schools, fewer students from traditional twoparent households and an aging population with fewer ties to schools, Hodgkinson said. In the future, “education must be a

some improvements could be made without spending extra money. But she added that money was required to revamp curriculums, buy new textbooks and equipment, train teachers, reduce the size of classes and offer salaries that will enable the teaching profession to compete with industry in attacting talented people. The NEA report, “Estimates of School Statistics, 1985-86,” is based on information provided by state departments of education. It showed that average annual teacher salaries rose to $25,257 this year, a 7.3 percent increase over 1984-85. But while dollar increases over the past 10 years show that salaries have doubled, Futtrell said, “The average teacher salary has increased by only $221, or 1.8 percent over the decade, when adjusted for inflation.” Bennett, commenting on Futrell’s remarks, said: “Only the NEA can be gloomy in reporting that teachers’ salaries have increased by 7.3 percent while the rate of inflation is only 3.2 percent. Most Americans would think this is good news. I certainly do. Teachers’ salaries are increasing, education reform is continuing, and the NEA should stop moaning.”

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civic responsibility, not a parental responsibility, because we’re running out of parents," said Hodgkinson said. An important challenge in the future will be for schools to help in development of middle classes among minority groups, he said. “It’s important the minorities get a good education and a good job,” Hodgkinson said. “When minorities are a third of the country, benign neglect doesn’t work.” Educators attending Wednesday’s con-

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ference also discussed a draft report prepared by the curriculum advisory' group. The report, prepared by the 46-member group over the last year, analyzes the future curriculum needs of Hoosier schools. Donald Brown, Purdue University vice president for academic affairs and chairman of the curriculum advisory group, said the paper will be revised, taking into account comments by educators at the conference.

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