Panic over college admissions shifts focus to guidance
The piece surveys rising college anxiety among high school seniors as applications surge by 300000, with only about 1 percent of top campuses accepting the bulk. It notes state universities expanding, competitive private colleges limited, and highlights guidance roles from schools and parents to shape smarter choices from junior high onward.
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Akron
Ohio
Teens in Effective Employment Pushes Youth Work
Teens in Effective Adults criticize scarce job chances for high schoolers and urge parental support for work experience. Professor Goslin cites urban living as limiting plow learning, while Youth Employment Service YES expands from a Phoenix idea to 35 cities with Sertoma sponsorship and Kansas City headquarters.
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Willard Goslin
Peabody College
Youth Employment Service
YES
Phoenix
International Service Club
Sertoma
Broadway
Kansas City
Missouri
Kids Rely On Buses
The piece notes that about 8 percent of students in public elementary and secondary schools ride buses. It cites safety guidelines from the National Safety Council urging parents to prepare children for bus travel and lists actions such as leaving early, walking on the left facing traffic when necessary, boarding without delay, staying seated, not sticking limbs out windows, not tampering with emergency doors, and promptly following the driver's instructions.
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Boadths of Education
U.S. Department of Education
National Safety Council
Music in Schools Elevates Students Says Conference
The American Music Conference notes teachers and administrators view instrumental music as essential beyond recreation. Quotes from Dr. Ralph W. Lanz and Rev Joseph E Mytych emphasize cross curricular benefits and higher achievement and IQ ratings in schools with applied music programs. The report cites a 300 percent rise in school musicians over 15 years, with Blackwell Oklahoma seeing half of its 500 high school students in music programs and 15,000 school orchestras nationwide.
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American Music Conference
Ralph W. Lanz
Los Angeles
Joseph E. Mytych
Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago
Leonard L. White
Blackwell Okla
Homework helps teachers chase new methods nationwide
Educational changes push about a million of America 1 500 000 teachers into workshops institutes or university courses funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and other sources. Summer sessions and seminars teach teachers the latest in science language and other subjects. In Arlington County Virginia parents attend classes to learn about their children's new mathematics course and become co instructors with teachers.
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America
National Science Foundation
Arlington County
Virginia
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