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Cooperative Day of Planning VII: A Report on the
Joint Meeting of the State and National Advisory
Councils on Vocational Education.
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National Advisory Council on Vocational Education,
Washington, D.C.
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Nov 72
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National Advisory Councils on Vocational Education
7th, Washington, D. C., November 1972)
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ABSTRACT
State Advisory Councils from all 50 States and Puerto
Rico, Virgin Islands, Pacific Territories, Guam, 'and Samoa sent
representatives to the seventh Joint Meeting of State and National
Advisory Councils on Vocational Education. Some topics presented and
discussed were "The Impact of the Educational Amendments of 1972 on
State Advisory Councils," "The Infusion of Occupational Education
into the Elementary and Secondary School," "Guidance and Counseling,"
and "Vocational Education for the Handicapped and Disadvantaged."
Other pertinent considerations were financial assistance to
vocational education, National Institute of Education budget, excess
property issue, the vital role of lay advisory councils in career
education, and the essential role of vocational education in career
education. (EA)
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A Report on the Joint Meeting of the
State and National Advisory Councils
on Vocational Education
WASHINGTON ,D.C.
NOVEMBER 17-18,1972
INTRODUCTION
AGENDA
RESOLUTIONS
CONTENTS
11
17
Excess Property
18
PL 92-318
19
Planning Committee and Chairman
19
NACVE Report on Guidance
20
PRESENTATIONS
21
Lawrence Davenport, Chairman, National Advisory Council
23
William Pierce, Deputy Commissioner for Occupational
and Adult Education, Designate
27
Hon. Albert Qule, Member of Congress
35
John Ottina, Acting Commissioner of Education
43
Thomas Glennan, Director, National Institute of Education
.
.
47
Rex Waite, Arizona Advisory Council
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COOPERATIVE DAY OF PLANNING VII
A Report on the Seventh Joint Meeting
of the State and National Advisory Councils
on Vocational Education
November 17-18, 1972
Washington, D.C.
COOPERATIVE DAY OF PLANNING VII
A Summary of the Joint Meeting of the State and National Advisory Councils
on Vocational Education, November 17-18, 1972, in Washington, D.C.
INTRODUCTION
The State and National Advisory Council's on Vocational Education, created
by Congress in the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968, were designed
as independent boards to evaluate and recommend changes in the planning
and operation of vocational education.
At the time of their creation, the
State and National Advisory Councils agreed that it would be mutually ben-
eficial to meet semi-annually to discuss major issues and exchange infor-
mation and ideas.
The first joint meeting was held in November 1969. Sub-
sequent meetings have been held in May 1970, November 1970, April 1971,
November 1971, and May 1972.
The Seventh Joint Meeting of the State and National Advisory Councils on
Vocational Education was held November 17-18, 1972, in Washington, D.C.
Attending the meeting were representatives of every State and Territorial
Council and the National Council.
As State Councils have continued to progress, as they have become more
sophisticated in their evaluation reports and dynamic in affecting the
course of vocational education within their states, these meeting:- have
proved most valuable.
Council members not only have the opportunity to
view developments in vocational education from a national perspective but
also to discuss the work of advisory councils with their peers from other
states.
We hope that this written record of the meeting will prove useful to State
Council members and others interested in the concerns and activities of
State Councils.
Calvin Dellefield
Executive Director
National Advisory Council
5
ACENDA
'/7
JOINT MEETING O
THE
STATE AND NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCILS
ON VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
3tatler-Hilton, Washington, D.C.
,
FRIDAY, November 17
bt00-9100
REGISTRATION - Congressional Room
9;00
SESSION I
Congressional Room
OPENING REMARKS
Don Cargill, Georgia
WELCOME
Lawrence Davenport, Chairman
National Council
REPORT ON NATIONAL COUNCIL ACTIVITIES
David Van Alstyne
Norman Stanger
Martha Backman
Donald McDowell
Caroline Hughes
Duane Lund
Frank Cannizzero
10;15
Coffee
10;30
SESSION II - Congressional Room
INTRODUCTION
Joseph Tuma, Michigan
ADDRESS; Vocational
William Pierce, Deputy Commissioner
Education and the U.S. Office Designate for Occupational Education,
USOE
12;00
LUNCHEON - Presidential Ballroom
ANNOUNCEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
ADDRESS:
The Role of
Advisory Councils
Robert White, South Carolina
Duane Lund, National Council
Hon. Albert Quie, U. S. House of
Representatives, (R.,Minn.)
1:45
SESSION III - Congressional Room
2;15-3:15
3;30-4;30
CAREER GUIDANCE FILMS
Thomas Rittenhouse, President
Philadelphia JayCee's
CONCURRENT DISCUSSIONS
A.
The Impact of Title X of the Education Amendments
of 1972 on State Advisory Councils
B.
The Infusion of Occupational Education into the
Elementary and Secondary School
8
JOINT MEETING OF THE
STATE AND NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCILS
ON VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
StatlerHilton, Washington, D. C.
SATURDAY, November 18
8:30
SESSION IV - Congressional Room
INTRODUCTION
SPEAKERS:
Dwight BowmanIVICA
Anthony Peyton, OEA
Dwight Seegmiller, FFA
INTRODUCTION
ADDRESS;
Plans of the U.S.
Office of Education
10:15
Coffee
10:30
CONCURRENT DISCUSSIONS
10:30-11;15
A.
Guidance and Counseling
Jo Ann Cullen, National Council
Colleen Sweeney, FHA
Larry Lucas, PBLA
Gary Peters, DECA
Luis Morton, National Council
John Ottina, U.S. Commissioner of
Education (acting)
11:15-12:00
B.
Vocational Education for the Handicapped and Disadvantaged
12;00
LUNCHEON -. Federal Room
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Don Cargill, Georgia
INTRODUCTION
Thomas Pauken, National Council
ADDRESS:
The Role of
Thomas Glennan, Director
Vocational Education it NIE
National Institute of Education
2:00
CLOSING REMARKS
Rex Waite, Arizona
SYNOPSIS
Hon, Albert Quie addressing the Friday luncheon
SYNOPSIS
State. Advisory Councils from all 50 States plus Puerto Rico, Virgin islands,
Pacific Territories, Guam and Samoa sent representatives to the Joint
meet-
_
ing of National and State Councils on November 17: and 18.
The meeting was chaired by Don Cargill, Chairman of the
Ad Hoc Planning Committee and ExecOtive Director of the
-v
Georgia Council.
Friday's session :began with a welcom-
ing address by Lawrence Davenport, Chairman of the Nat-
tonal Council (texts of the 4peechQs begin on page 23).
-
NACVE member
Frank Cannizzaro
introduced fellow NACVE
members
Duane Lund,
Caroline HOghas,
Norman Stanger,
Martha Bachman and Don McDowell, each of whom
reported
on recent activities of his
ommittee.
Joseph Tuma,
Chairman of the. Michigan Council,
Intro-
duced William Pierce,
Deputy ComMissioner for Occupa-
tional Education, Designate.
Dr0,11erce
assured
the
Don Cargill
convention that the Office of Education is
"fully coMr
mitted" to the new deputyshlp, and the "intent of Cong-
ress" in creating the deputyship"
will not only be realized but exceeded."
Dr. Pierce discussed the Increased role for State Adisory Councils
under
the Education Amendments of 1972 and declared, "I, fo
one, am committed to
the autonomy concept for lay advisory councils.
To b
effective,
they can
be the creature of no one."
Joseph Tuma
presented
Dr. Pierce
with
an award
from
the Michigan
Council
for
his
service
to the
State.
NACVE member Duane Lund introduced
the luncheon speaker,
Congressman
Albert Quie (R. Minn.).
Mr. Quie
reviewed the history of vocational
education legislation. Much of the
recent progress in vocational edu-
cation he attributed to the "prod-
ding
and
help
of
the
advisory
councils."
Mr. Quie stressed the
need for "a great deal more finan-
cial assistance" to vocational ed-
ucation and suggested
that a "us-
er's tax" in the form of an income
surta,: be developed to finance ed-
ucation.
After the luncheon
a career guid-
ance film
produced by
the Phila-
delphia JayCees was shown and dis-
cussed.
A resolution on the excess property
issue was presented to the conven-
tion and approved (text on page 18).
The'resolution
requested the Sec-
retary of HEW
to rescind
the re-
cent order
denying the use of ex-
cess
government
property
to HEW
grantees.
The remainder of the afternoon was
devoted to small group discussions
Joseph Tuma (left) presents
award from Michigan Council
to William Piero.
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Ihrtha Bachman
Carotins Hughes
(1. to r.) Anthony Peyton, DEA;
Duane Lund, NACVE3 George Atten,
New York
State Advisory
Coun-
cil; Dwight Seegmitier, ETA
I
(l. to 10 Bert Bradford,
Chairman of West Virginia
Council; Fred Hoke, W.vd.
Executive
Director;
and
Reginald Petty, N A C V E
staff
discussion group
Exchanging ideas at the Saturday lunch-
eon are (l. tor.) John Kramer, Chairman
of the Wisconsin Council,
Don McDowell
and Jerry Dobrovolny of NAM? and
O.A.
Cromer,
Executive Director of the Neb-
raska Council
of the topics
"The Impact of the Education Amendments of 1972 on State Ad-
visory Councils"
and
"The infus;on of Occupational Education into the El-
ementary and Secondary School."
The Saturday meeting was called to order at 8:45 a.m. by Don Cargill. NACVE
member
Jo Ann Cullen
introduced
representatives
of the vocational youth
organizations,
each of whom then briefly described
the work of his group.
NACVE member Luis Morton
introduced
Acting Commissioner of Education John
Ottina.
Dr. Ottina told the convention he felt that lay advisory councils
have a "vital and important" role to play in career education.
He stressed
the role of councils
as a link between schools
and the world
of business
and industry.
He explained that vocational education is "a very, very es-
sential, perhaps the largest part" of career education.
The new Deputyship
for
Occupational and Adult Education
will house
a coordinating unit
for
career education "not relieving the other offices of their responsibilities"
for career education but providing a "focal point" for USOE's efforts.
A resolution was passed outlining some of the new responsibilities of SACVEs
under
the Education Amendments
of 1972
and establishing
a committee
to
oversee the development of guidelines on new legislation (text on page 19).
The convention
divided
into
discussion groups
to deal
with
the topics
"Guidance and Counseling" and "Vocational Education for the Handicapped and
Disadvantaged."
Don Cargill and the Ad Hoc Committee
were formally congratulated in a res-
olution (page 19) and Don Cargill
was elected chairman of the Ad Hoc Plan-
ning Committee for the Spring Conference.
Themes Pauken of NACVE introduced Thomas Mennen,
Director of the National
Institute of,Educiiion.
Dr. Olennan- outlined a tentative budget
for NIE
(oil kit piens; he stated, are subject to the approval of.the National Coun-
of:EdUcatIonal Research,
the members of which have not yet been named)
Wh(ch- allocates-50%-bl funds to career education and experimental schools.
01414 mission,-Olennen deelar4d, is to "be concerned with practice" as well
as basic research.
-110 stressed hisdesire for input from the public
Into
Nikls-plans In a manner which is more than just "window dressing."_
A resolution wAs passed urging the Implementation of the.recommendations of
the National Counoll's report on guidance and-counseling (pagelV).
Rex Waite,
member of the Arizona Council,
gave
the `closing
challenged -partiCipants
to undertake strong action Orogran4
march toward a restructured, challenging, dynamiceducational
Zooiii:Ou0606, N40,118.
STUDENT SPEAKERS
(1. to
r.)
Anthony
Peyton,
DEA;
Cary
Peters, DEVA; Colleen Sweeney,
FNA;
Wight Seegminer,
YEA;
and Larry Ludas, MLA
address.
He
"to lead the
system."
(1. tor.) NAOS mehbore
rid Radomo
Fronk Comf.exaro and $tini.
took*
15
Wittiam Ata1man,
NAGVE
RESOLUTIONS
4//7
RESOLUTION ON FEDERAL E)CESS PROPERTY
WHEREAS, the Federal excess property program has made available more than
$100 million for vocattonaltechnical education programs throughout the
United States representing approximately 20% of the total expenditures for
such purpose; and
WHEREAS, the proposed GSA rule change which would deny
excess property to
Federal grantees has been delayed pending a study of the lisue
(To effect
this study, the Federal Register of November,,11.1,Tage 24113, Title 41
Public Contracts and Property Management;-states:,
"The policy on acquisi.,
tion and use of excess property...will continue unchanged, and a study will
be conducted and a determination made as to the desirability for modifica-
tion of this policy.");
WHEREAS, pending out come of the study, excess property remains available
to Federal grantees, except in the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare, which on July 14, 1972 Issued its own unilateral regulation
change denying excess property to grantees under HEW programs; and
WHEREAS, Assistant Secretary of Education Sidney P. Harland, Jr.,
on.
August 24, 1972, sent a memorandum to the Secretary of HEW urging him "to
rescind the enactment of the recently installed procedures and revert back
to the old regulations allowing granted use of federal excess property
until GSA makes a government-wide, final determination.";
THEREFORC, sE
IT RESOLVED, that the members of both the Natioal and State
Advisory Councils on Vocational Education, assembled In Joint meetings in
Washington, D. C., November 17, 1972, go on record urging HEW Secretary
Richardson to comply with the request of Assistant Secretary Marlandl and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED tEat if Secretary Richardson determines that HEW
should make a separate study of the issue, apart from the GSA study for
the purpose of making modifications in the program, the educational
com-
munity be permitted an opportunity for input and participation irk that
study, and that if such an HEW study is made, the July 14 regulation be
rescinded pending outcome of the HEW study.
Adopted
November 17,
1972
18
RESOLUTION REGARDING PL 92-318
WHEREAS
the State Advisory Councils on Vocational Education have a res-
ponsibility to;
1.
Guide the deVelOpmeptS of occupational fOutetion K-16 to avoid
duplication of effort.
2.
Guide State plOp daVelopment:AOinClude total needs of all
citizens In the State and not to Justjheet fiscal'voUcher
requirements.
Ascertain that organizational relationShips In the State can
carry out responsibilities of PL 92-318,-
Take initiative to outline requirements of"-ACt-And_ inform
IndiVidUalt, agencies and grouptlhat4ire involved.
5. tAlert Governor's office to receipt of Rules and Regulations
and make input for response within 30 days.
Utilize assurances of the Act
State plan and Council con-
currences -- to implement the Act.
BE IT RESOLVED, that a committee of representatives of the State Advisory
Councils' on Vocational Education be formed to develop a composite report
of approaches to Implementation of PL 92,318 being made by the'States and
that the report be distributed by the NationaliAdvlsory CoUncil 'on Voc-
ational EdUcatloh.
AMENDMENT:
The Ad Hoc Committee shall also serve As a review committee
for PL 92-318 Rules and Regulations.
Adopted
November 18, 1972
RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING DON CARGILL
OE IT RESOLVED, that we the members of the Naticnal Council and all of the
StateAdvisory CoL.nolls on Vocational Education offer our sincere congratu-
lations and appreciation to
on Cargill, Chairman of the Ad hoC Planning
Committee, for his excellent leadership in forming th0 PrO9r00 for this
conference, to members of the Planning Committee and to the National Council
Staff for outstanding service rendered.
Adopted
November 18, 1972
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RESOLUTION REGARDING THE SIXTH REPORT OF
THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
WHEREAS, the Sixth. Report of the National Advisory Council on VoCational
Education and the numerous repOrts of the State AdVisorY Counclli on Voce-
tional,Education have expressed interest in and concern for the:Counseling
and Guidance movement; and
WHEREAS, the Guidance Division of American Vocational Atsoclation,ls being
asked to sponsor a:National Conference on Career Guidance during 1973
that will Involve key guidance personnel froweath State, And
WHEREAS, Implementation of the Sixth Report of the National. Advisory Council
Vocational Education will demancrclOse cooperation between State Advisory
ttkincli's:And guidance personnel In each Statet
THEREFORE, SE IT REsow4, that thIS national Conference go on record as
-encouraging the 1973 August guidance conference be,So structured as to
involve representation of key guidance and State Advisory Council on
Vocational EdUcatIon personnel from each State and be given a primary
charge of finding ways to implement tW$1xth Report of the National Advi-
soryCounCil on VoCational Education In each State.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this resolution be transmitted to the Guid-
ance Division of American Vocational Association with a request that it be
an action Item at the busines1 session of that Division at its 1972 meet-
ing in Chicago, Illinois.
Adopted
November 18,
1972
20
PRESENTATIONS
WELCOMING ADDRESS
Lawrence Davenport
Chairman, National AdVisory Council
'on Vocational Education
It is with great pleaSure that I personally welcome all of you to our
seventh Cooperative Day Of 'gentling, the Seventh Joint Meeting of the
NatiOnal and State Advisory Councils on Vocational Education.
I also take
this time to extend to you, the greetings of the entire National Council.
.
=
v;0 have two days to work together.
It 10.1l be a time to renew working
relationships and to make new ones which will further the goals and objec-
tives of vocational educ4tian.
As you attend and participate in these meetings, remember that it is
up to you to bring new ideas and better methods and action in vocational
education back to your states.
Seated,in these rooms during the next two
days will be some of the most influential people working for the cause of
vocational education.
You have beengiven a task and a challenge for
today's youth whiCh you cannot ignore.
As Chairman of the National Advisory Council, I wish to remind all of
you that the burden of successful programs in vocational education and the
strength of vocational education is the career education movement depends
largely on you.
For proof that your Councils have and do make a difference, just look
at the record.
The State Advisory Councils have been and are influencing
,
the course of vocational education in the United States.
In many states a
majority of your Council recommendations have been adopted as Policy by the
State Board of Vocational Education.
Your activities have affected the
progress of vocational education in all 50 states.
Further, the National Council has represented your interest in two
areas of special concern.
We have testified before the House and Senate
Appropriations Committee to secure full-funding for the State Advisory
Councils.
In his testimony, David Van Alstyne of the National Council
argued for an appropriation of
$4 million dollars for State Councils.
Because of this testimony and the testimony of State Councils, full-funding
was actually included in the appropriation bill, but that bill was, as you
know, vetoed by President Nixon.
Secondly, in the question of excess property, many of the State Coun-
cils have been actively engaged in protecting the rights of school districts.
The National Council has not only publicized the question in NACVE NEWS, but
we have also met with the Assistant Secretary and representatives of the
Government Services Administration.
At this time we are awaiting a decision
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of Secretary Richardeon to determine' whether excess property or surplus
property will be made available to school districts.
One of the National Council's projects which is quite important for
States is LtoleetaeetAlirle, the study requested by Congress to collect
comprehensive information about vocational educatiOn.
We have received
the first year report. -- When complete,
the final report will provide you
with informatiOn for state plans, infOrmation for financing of Comprehen-
sive vocationaleducetion at the:state level, and inforMation which will
assist you in your teqUeste for fullfunding.
The National Council is currently assisting in the:deVelopment and
evaluation of an exciting project in the area of gOidance and'pleCet4W,
The Cleveland echoolAistrict has successfully pilot tested 0 school-to
industry job placement model which has improved the frequency of job
placement at the sacondary level.:TheNational Council was asked by the
Office of Economie Opportunity to oversee the expanaion and further testing
of the program.
If other school districts meet with similar successes, we
may ask your help in developing more field models
in order to present a
model for further testing of the program.
The Council has also been active in dealing with the special concerns
of minorities.
We have undertaken a Council Committee to study Indian
VecatiOnal Education.
And the Council is the originator and one of four
sponsoring agencies of a Conference on Career Education for Minorities,
to be held in Washington in February.
The steering committee is chaired
by Reg Petty of the National Council and promises to be the most important
effort yet undertaken to explore the meaning of Career Education for
Minority Groups.
The Council has also taken a special interest in Vocational Education
Student Organizations.
Our Seventh Report, which is about to be published,
deals with this topic.
The CoUncil, of course, has continued to work to expand the emphasis
and importance of vocational education in the Career
Education movement,
both inside and outside of the Office of Education.
And last,you have received copies of the Resource Book
for State
Councils.
This was developed through the cooperative efforts of the State
and National Councils with the invaluable assistance of consultant Sam
Burt.
The Resource BoOk was written in answer to your requeats for a
handy reference manual for your members.
Your National Council wants to hear your needs and interest.
We are
responding to the issues you have raised.
You have told us about the con-
cern in your states in regard to the handicapped and the disadvantaged.
These are discussion topics during this meeting.
Our other discussion
topics were also chosen by you.
You have also indicated a concern with
Vocational education for servicemen
and veterans,
Dr. M. Richard Rose,
Director of Education for the Department of Defense,is presently
cooper-
ating with us to facilitate the preparation of servicemen
for civilian
employment,
And you ate.already aware, of course, of the speaking engage-.
ments, letters, and other efforts to provide technical assistance to the
astatea,
I hope that we are all able to leave this meeting with a feel for the
direction the Advisory Coilneils Are headed,
We:have worked with the plan-
ning committee, chaired by Don ,Cargill to 0414000'i004es of"critical
importance,
Our keynote is partietPa40.
At yourrequests we have scheduled four
discussion periods.
We asked you tocome'preparedto participate actively
and are looking forward tohighly productive sessions.
I take great pleasure in welcoming you to this Seventh Cooperative
Day of Planning and invite you to call-on the National Council members
during the Conference and during the-year.
Thank you for your attendance.-
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RE
S
William Pierce,
Deputy Commissioner
for Occupational and Adult
Education, Designate
Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a distinct pleasure for me to have been
invited to speak to you for a few minutes this morning.
I must admit, however, that I accepted this assignment with some degree
of apprehension.
As the date drew closer, my level of apprehension can-
not be said to have abated appreciably.
If you think about it, I'm sure
you'll understand my concern.
First, I'm only the nominee for the position of Deputy Commissioner of
occupational and Adult Education in the U. S. Office of Education and,
therefore, none of what I say can be considered very official and obvious-
ly can't be based upon a great deal of first hand knowledge.
By necessity,
my remarks must be rather general.
Secondly, as of this morning, I've spent a total of five days in the
-
U. S. Office, on a consultant basis, receiving briefings about the require-
ments of the position on the one hand and the intricacies of the federal
bureaucracy on the other.
I can assure you that at this moment I do not
perceive myself as an instant expert in either area.
Third, this is the first speech I've been asked to give since being
nominated, and it had to be before this .impOrtan,' perCeptive and extreme-
ly knowledgeable group.
I don't want you to ow( ositfoel intimidated
or anything, but I will adMit
feel a bit more comfortable if this
were the annual conference of the Girl SCOUts of America.
Finally, I'm very aware of the fact that I share one affliction which
the Vice President ascribed to himself wen he first-took:Officemy name
is hardly a household word.
I know there's been a great deal of "Bill
Whoing" going on since the announcement of my nomination a few weeks ago.
None of those four factors is likely to do very much to enhance:one's
self concept.
As a result, I'd be 1040 than honeat with you if I didn't
admit that, initially at least, I was loOking forward to this talk with
about 4a much anticipation as I would to an appendectomy.
27
I decided a Levi doe ego, however, that since this was a sophisticated
and knowledgeable 040110 you would undoUbtedly be very aware of the
tricacies of this new position.
You would alio be aware that,ias,only a
nominee for the position,'T Would haVe 'quite a lot to learn,
In short, I
decided you ProbeblywcUldn't expect too much in the first place.
After
some reflection, I therefore decided this was probebly the beet possible
audience to begin with, since you'd undoubtedly besytpathetic.
Conse-
quently, as I said initially, it is a distinct pleasure for me to be here
this morning.
I'd like to take my allotted time discussing with Ycitio'verY briefly!
(1) Some activities of the new deputyship, insofar:es,the OffiCe has had
an opportunity to develop them up Wthie,point, (2) what I Perceive to be
some of the trends-in vocational education which each of us will probably
confront over the next few years, (3) my perception of the role of lay
advisory committees and 00011e and (4) the relationship between career
education and vocational e4cation.'.
I mentioned that I wanted to telt about how I perceived several things.
This business of perception is second only to communications when one
considers the imprecise arts.
My old psychology professor used to say,
"We live in a world of perception.
r Unfortunately, our worlds differ
drastically."
As you know, any:two of us can observe the same occurrence
and still
see" two different things,
For example, the story is told of the fellow who had alWaye wanted-a
purebred Labrador Retriever to take duck hunting.
He saved his money and
finally had saved enough to get the best dog, with the best and longest
pedigree that money could buy.
On the first day of duck season, he ex-
citedly put his Wader:7.1, his duck call and his favorite shotgun in the
trunk of his cer.
He then went to the back yard and lovinglY carried his
new Labrador RetrieVer to the car and pladad him gently on the front seat.
Upon arriving at the blind, and after putting on his gear, he placed the
dog at his side and began to blow the duck call.' Shortly, a beautiful
flight of Mallards came in low over the blind.
The hust0X: raised his
shotgun, fired, and a duck fell to the water.
The hunter turned to his
impatient Labrador Retriever and said, "Fetch."
Whereupon, with his head
and tail i.eld high,,the dog walked across the water, picked up the bird,
walked back across the water and proudly dropped the duck at his master's
feet.
Well, needless to say, the fellow was a bit nonplussed.
He grabbed
the dog, put him in the front seat of his car and drove quickly to the
home of his best friend.
Running into the house, he told his friend,
"Grab your coat, don't ask any questions and come with me.
I've something
fantastic to show you."
Being a good friend, the fellow did as he was,asked.
The guy drove
back to the blind, got dog and friend situated and began to blow the duck
call.
Again, as before a flight of Mallards came in low over the blind.
Again he aimed and shot and again a duck fell to the water.
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The hunter turned to the dog and said "Fetch."
ce again the dog walked
across the %if:tarp-picked up the duck, walked hack and dropped it at his
master's feet.
Turning to his friend, the hunter asked excitedly, "Well,
-what do you think of that?"-Mie,friend said, "Wh t do you know about that?
That don can't swim!
At any rate, and as-imprecise and inaccurate
$ thermay be, the
following are my perceptions.
Let's begin with activities of the new deputy hip.
The second report
of the National Advisory Co4ncil for Vocational E ucation called tor the
placement of Vocational Education Administration
t a higher level within
the organitational'structure of the U, S.Office
f Education.
That need,
as expressed by_many people, has now been realized with the creation of
this new deputyship.
The Office of Education leaders are fully committed to the new deputy-
ship and I can assure you that the intent ef Congress will not only be
realized) but exceeded.
The Office of Education will, therefore, very
quickly address itself to, among other things, the following tasks:
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1.
Utilizing the career education concept, attempt to convey to the
American public how unrealistic are the expectations that far too
many of them place on a college degree.
2.
Again utilizing the career education concept, convince educational
administrators everywhere, and at every level, of the absolutely
essential importance that academic and vocational education hold- -
one for the other.
3.
Maximize career development opportunities for all children from
kindergarten on.
4.
Maximize not only the availability of vocational education
programs for all secondary students but optimize both vocational
and academic skill training altecnatives.
We must utilize all
segments of our environment for Educational purposes when such
Utilization is appropriate.
We Ost take
adVantage:of all
the alternative delivery systems; available to up..
5.
Increape the secondary vocational enrollment to a more realistic
pereentege.
6.
Increase the post-secondary technical enrollmente in. all community
colleges to a more realistic and`acceptOleper0P0toge.
7.
Provide ppecial emphasis for increased funding at the poet-
secondary level.
We are very awpre of the special Omphasip.
Congress hap placed-on the i0/0priPii 0104040 and especially
the Upgrading of post- secondary occupational courses.
We are
committed to adding to the staffiof the Bureau people who have
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broad experience in the field of post-secondary occupational
education in community and junior collegeS.
Congress felt
0100 people were not represented in the old Bureau.
They
shall be in the new.
And one of their responsibilities will
be to see to it that community colleges are appropriately re-
presented in all policy and funding decisions of the Bureau.
S.
Maximize the use of priVate
poSt,secondaryiinstitutions.
9.
IteemPhOsize our vocational and acadethic efforts for our poorly
served minority citizens.-
10.
Provide better coordination between all manpower prOgrams so
we can assure ourselves of the4reatest efficienCY possible
in both expenditure of fUnds andserVice to people.
11.
Make a special effort to maximize the:trainingopportOnitiee
ancValternetivea for adults.
In my opinion, we have -`done an
exceedingly pOor job of providing supplemental and upgrading
skill$ to adUltS'who are not yet:out of work bUt who are not
performing at their maximum capaCity and, therefore, have not
reached their maximum earning potential.
12.
Provide special emphaoiS to two groups of adults:
A.
The returning Viet Napk.era veterans
B.
The elderly disenfranchised
13.
Maximize the expansion and utilization of counselors and guid-
ance personnel at all leVela.
I am very aware that the writ-
ers of the HouSe ropOrt on the Education Amendments of 1972
used testimony provided by the American Personnel and Guidance
Association to prove thatthe nation's schools are falling far
short of attaining Congreas' goal that the preparation of
students for earning a liVing is an integral part of the
school's program.
I think it is significant that the APGA has
become a spokesman for occupational and adult education,
am also very aware that the National Advisory Council's Sixth
Report is deVOted exclusively to counseling and guidance.
And
And, as you knO, Congress stipulated that at least one of the
seven legislated Grade 16 positions in the new Bureau should
be filled by someone having experience in occupational guid-
ance and counseling.
Consequently, one of the observable act-
ivities of this deputyship will deal with the expansion and
promotion of the role of counseling and guidance personnel at
all levels.
14.
Utilizing the mandated senior advisor positions, the office
will maximize the coordination of all programs so that skilled
workers and subprofessional occupations are appropriately
represented in all policy and funding decisions of the new
Bureau.
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Nov I realize that's a pretty long, rather diverse list,
A cynic
might accuse me of simply throwing something into that list to please
everyone.
You may be cynical if you like.
You are, of course, free to
disbelieve me.
1ask only that you withhold your criticism and judge the
office on its performance.
This deputyship has also been assigned the major responsibility for
carrying out both the promotion and implementation of the career education
concept.
Consequently, that will constitute one of the new Bureau's major
activities.
Current planning, therefore, calls-for the establishment of a
career education office within the new Bureau.
Let me hasten to stress at this point that, while the focus for the
career education concept will be in the new deputyship, the emphasis for
career education will permeate all of the
Office of Education.
Con-
sequently, each deputy commissioner will not only share in the promotional
responsibilities, they will also assist in the implementation of the con-
cept by seeing to it that as many aapossibleof the discretionary funds
within their deputyship are allocated to career education.
In a coment, I want to talk more about the relationship of career
education to vocational education.
However, I want to emphasize here and
now that:career education and vocational education are not synonymous and
that the'fact that the responsibility for the promotion and implementa-,
tion of career education has been placed in this deputyship must not be
perceived as conveying the idea that career education and vocational ed-
ucation are felt to be'the same by tbe U. S. Office of Education.
So much for the activities of the new deputyship.
I trust it'll be
effective.
I know it will be busy
As the office turns its early attention to these activities, What
might we expect as new trends in vocational education?
I'm Sty:lure the
ideas I'll present below can be described as new trends.
Eerha00 they
can better be characterized as areas of added or ePecial:04hasie since
most of the things I'll mention are already happening
someplace - -to some
extent.
The age of accountability abounds throughout the land, -Citizens
and taxpayers are demanding that educators be held responsible or aotount-
able for their actilities.
And educators are responding to those demands.
Vocational educators are no exception,
We may well see the day,
there -
fore, in the not - too - distant future, when vocational educators are reieo
bursed on a student headcount basis only for those students who demon-':
strate the'ability to perform at some acceptable level.
All of us will
undoubtedly be trying to determine what constitutes accountability in
vocational education, and if it isn't program reimbursement on a head-.
count basis then it will be something else.
The determination of what
constitutes an acceptable level of performance will undoubtedly be a
future activity.
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That acceptable standard of performance may well be specific perfor-
mance objectives, developed and agreed upon by specialists in a particular
vocational program.
These performance objectives, which are quantifiable,
Measure output rather than input and consequently will tell us, in measur-
able,terms, whether a student can perform at the level we say he should.
I expeet many of us will be involved directly in the development of spec-
fie performance objectives.
The National-Advisory Council has called for funding of vocational
pregrame on an added cost basis.
Several states are currently developing
.,,precedures for determining added costs and have begun, or soon will begin,
toiwevide all reimbursement on that concept.
I predict that many more
states will soon follow suit.
The National Advisory Council, as well at' many other individual and
groupsiAlas-eailed upon schools to assume placement responsibilitiee for
all-their graduates.
That, of course, is the ultimate in accountability.
-/Joi:convinced that many more educational institutions will, either-I/4On.
_tatily or through legislation, assume this responsibility in the future.
We may_see the day when national policy stipulates that no federal
funds can be-utilized for any vocational program which doed not lead to
-employment at an hourly Wage at least equal to,the federal minimum:The
-_implications of such a suggestion to the national economy on,the one hand.
and to underemployed citizens on the other makes this idea one which re-
quires careful consideration.
More realistic and scientific long range planning at both the state
and local_levels will be a trend of added emphasis for the future.
One
tool which I expect to see adopted more and more frequently is the pro-
gram planning and budgeting system which provides a strategy for decision
makers to utilize scarce financial resources in the most efficient manner
possible.
I've gone through it in my state,
It's traumatic to some but
worthwhile:inAhe,final analysis.
These are only six areas of emphasis that my crystal ball cleared
long enough for me to see.
Perhaps yours is clearer.* If so, you can
probably see many more significant trends.-
I'd prefer you kept them to
yourself if you do.
I'm not sure my system can stand too many more chang
es at the moment.
what will be the role of lay advisory committees as the futOre of
vocational, occupational and adult education,unfold0
One only has to
look at P.L.
92-318 to see that their activities will be increased, and
their leadership role atrengthened.
This act not only establishes the
Section 1202 State Post-Secondary Education Commission, but also estab-
lishes the Section 1056 Planning Committee, as well as extending the re-
sponsibilities of State Advisory Councils for Vocational Education to in-
clude the provIaloas of the new act.
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I for one am committed to the autonom concept for lay advisory
committees.
To be effective, they can be creature of no-one.- Conversely,
1 reject the practice that the autonomy of lay committees should ever lead
to an adversary.role between the committee and
the agency it evaluates.
Antagonism and animosity between the agency and the lay committee are both
counterproductive and wasteful.
On the other hand, defensiveness and
secretiveness by the state agency is. immature and harmful.
I would make only one recommendation to
the state advisory councils,
assuming of course that no council is guilty of playing the adversary role
I described earlier.-, It is my feeling that state councils do not and
never have done an adequate job of evaluating vocational education pro-
grams.
I have a feeling that evaluations have been, in many instances,
impreeise,-uuscientific, invalid and lacking in rigor,. As the hunter's
friend showed us, we live in a world of perceptioL, and
I plan, over the
next few months to test that perception out thoroughly.
I hope I'm wrong.
I'm afraJA I'm not.
I can summarize my feelings regarding lay advisory committees and
councils by saying simply that I think they're essential, but-I think they
can become more effective.
Let me say, kind of parenthetically, that the
National Advisory Council and the state councils should be justifiably
proud.
A high-percentage of the recommendations you've made over the past
five years have been implemented or initiated.
And vocational and adult
,
education is the better for it.
Finally, l's like to spend the next few minutes talking about the
relationship between vocational education and career education.
Since the
major responsibility for the promotion of career education will rest in
the new deputyship, it seems appropriate for me to give you my definition
of career education.
From that definition, the relationship to vocational
education should become apparent.
Let's kind of back into what it iaby talking a little bit about
what it is not.
First, carver education is not vocational education, although voca-
tional education is a necessary component of career education.
Second, career education 10 not occupational training, although,
again, that's a necessary ingredient.
Third, career education is not, simply the provision of occupational
Information beginning in the kindergarten level, the so-called world-of-
work concept, although that's also very important.
Fourth, cateer.education is not obtained by the establishment of an
area vocational center.
FJfth, career education is not relative only to those children and
youth who Will not go to college, and
Sixth, career education is not separate from, independent of,
or
unrelated to academic education,
Career education is, therefore, an attitude, an educational philosophy,
if you will, that must, to be totally effective, permeate the thinking of
every teacher, counselor, administrator, 'board member and parent in this
Country.
It is eimply a commitment to do everything possible, beginning
with preschool programs, and continuing through graduate school, to see to
it that the educational system prepares all children, youth and
who do not suffer from an insurmountable physical., mental or emotional im-
pairment, to function at the maximum of their ability whentheyenter the
labOr Market,
This presumes, therefore, that fourth grade teachers teach
a Child'math, not because there is any intrinsic value in learning frac-
tions but because somejorms of mathematics is abeolutelynecessary to
allow that child, as an adult, to be gainfully employed.
That teacher
understands that fourth grade math is career edUcation.
It also presume$
that the structure of and sequence of the math program,
as we know it, may
have to bey changed because the development of performance nbjeztives will
define for the teacher what is essential in the math rovam of youngetere.
The fourth grade teacher is obviously used only for illustrative pur-
poses.
The same type of example can be developed for the sophomore English
teacher, the senior language instructor, the community college history pro-
fessor and the graduate psychology course instructor.
Career education,
therefore, pervades all of education and everything we do is done not for
the sake of education, for its own sake, but for the sake of the student's
career preparation.
As you can see, vocational education is one necessary component of
career education._ One might say, therefore, that the existence of voca-
tional education is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the
existence of career education.
Ladies and Gentlemen, my time has run out, and so have my topics.
Each of the four topics Cal Dellefield asked me to touch on in this'speech
are full speech subjects in themselves.
Consequently, I've had to treat
each of them in a rather
cursory fashion,
I trust that brietness of the treatments has allowed you to gain some
feel for what I hope can be accomplished in the Bureau of Occupational And
Adult Education over the next months and years.
I also hope that, as a result of this brief talk, when someone asks
you over the next few weeks "Bill who?" you'll at least be able to say,,.
"Oh, you know, Bill what's-his-name."
Thank you for inviting me.
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REMARKS
Hon, Albert H. Quie
Member of Congress
First of all I want to thank each of you for the Work'you:are doing.
Your service on these advisory councils represents a service to America.
The work of these councile is the beat hope we have of bringing needed
change to vocational education, and of changing the whole structure of edu-
cation to take account of the needs of all young people, and hopefully of
adults as well.
The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 authorized the first Yederal -grant pro-
gram of aid to nor- collegiate education,
tt was designed to meet the
pressing needs
as they were seen over a half century 010
for education
fot the world of work.
The skills needed in industry had become increasing-
ly complex and the lack of them had been made dangerously, apparent by the
advent of World War I.
Moreover, we were just on the threshold of scienti-
fic agriculture which would create its own reyOlution in the years ahead.
American education, with its ancient academic orientation, was ill-prepared
to serve eithet need.
So the Congress acted in 1917
much as_ityould forty years later
with the National Defense EducatiOn Act
to meet needs Which were seen
as national in scope and affecting the bapic:strength of the nation.
While
the direction of vocational education,
as with all ii4blicOducation, was
largely left to States and localitips:thelederal influence and conoern
in vocational education was More pronOun004 and more direct than in the
rest of education.
After all, vocationalr.technical education in our schools
resulted from an Act of Congress.
As the years Weed vocational education came to be institutionalized
into narrow categories of instruction set forth in the original act.
The
qeorge-Barden Apt of 1946 and others increased authOtigatiOns'for funding
and added, a few new categories of training, bUt vocational education was
predoMinately:otiented to on-the4410 agriculture .and ho00 economics.
During
and. aftet World War II the nation's economy 04JtO 40040:for skilled man-
power'Changed draMetically, but vocational 0d4Oation did:not change.
NeA04; did our echOOXPYOte100 with thoir emphasis on academic education.
Rather, it seemed that AmeriO4 was pOsseesed by the 401UsiOn that only a
college education spelled success.
Analysts of manpower needs knew other-
wise, but they went largely ignored.
It was in this atmosphere that the Congress began in 1963 to take a
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hard look at vocational education.
Moat of us who were closely involved
in this had worked on the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962.
We were painfully aware that to a considerable degree unemployment And
under - employment represented educational failure.
We knew very well that
as necessary as manpoWer training programs were -- and continue to be --
they are only stop-gap measures.
So in 1963 we.commenced a determined effort to make fundAmental
changes' in federOly supported vocational education.
We wanted to elimi-
nate separate support for_specific categories of training«
We wanted to
broaden thel)rogram to include preparation for any gainful occupation, and
to limit federal Support to programs aimed at gainful employment.
We
wanted to remove restrictions on programa in agriculture to give them a
wider focus which include farm-related business. We wanted to make certain
that training fOr office occupations received federal support.
All of
these legialative objectives were,aChieve4 in the 1901 Act, hit not with?'
out Strenuous resistance from
of all people
vocational edocatoraj
Change after all, is threatening, and there had been little change in 0-
rational education for many years.
I am relating all this history to put the 1968 amendments
and the
role the Congress envisioned for advisory councils
in a little'sharper
perspective.
frankly, we didn't know hew effective the 1963 Act would-be
So one'of the things we did in 1963.was to establish a national advisory
council.
It was to be appointed by the Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare in 1966 and to report to the CongreAs with recommendation010r
further legislation by January 1, 1968.
The chairman of that Commission
was Dr. MArtin Essex, Superintendent of Public InstruCtion for Ohio.
The
Report was a detailed, documented account of the shortcomings of vocational
education in relation to national needs, and it made detailed recommenda
tions for corrections.
The Essex Report, as it came to be called, served as the basis for
the 1968 Amendments.
To run through its recommendations is to cite the
litany of needs to which the 1968 Amendments were Addressed; increaaed
emphasis on research and innovation; more attention to teacher education;
more attention to the needs of disadvAuLaged and handicapped persons;
closer relationship between vocational programs and the job market; an
increased emphasis on pre-vocational instruction and occupational counsel-
ing and guidande; expansion of cooperative education; and the need for
independent National and State advisory council) to monitor the adminis-
tration of the Act and to make recommendations for improvement.
The Essex Report W83 the genesis of independent National and State
advisory councils on vocational education.
It pointed out the need for
independent evaluation.
It also dramatized the need for a much wider
involvement of the rest of the educational community, and of the general
public, in this process.
We strongly felt that we must somehow begin to
change not just vocational education, but the attitudes and perceptions
of the general public about vocational education.
The advisory councils
were the engines of change we put into the 1968 amendments.
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Every indication I have points to the conclusion that you are doing
this difficult job remarkably well.
This has been a decade of remarkable
improveMent and growth for vocational education, a trend which has accel-
erated in the three or four years most of your councils have been in
effective operation.
/0 1962 out total investment in vocational education was $284 million,
of which $51.4 million came from the Federal Government and the rest frOM
State and local sources.
Total enrollments, secondary, postsecondary,
and adult were just over 4 million
but 63 percent were in on-the-farm
agriculture and home economics.
In 1972, our total support had grown to $3 billion, including over
$520 million from the Federal Government.
Enrollments had nearly tripled
to 11,615,000
only 35 percent of which were in agriculture, business
related to agriculture, and home economics.
Over 240,000 of the home eco-
nomics enrollments were in courses designed for employment outside the
home.
In 1972 335,000 persons were enrolled in the much-needed health
occupations, as compared with 49,000 in 1962; 352,000 were enrolled in
technical education, as compared with 149,000 in 1962.
Trades and industry
enrollments had nearly doubled to close to 2,000,000.
Obviously, we have a long way to go.
But 11e changes are noteworthy.
Other extremely encouraging things have developed.
In 1970 we had 805,000
persons in special courses for the disadvantaged who need help to take ad-
vantage of vocational programs; there were 115,000 in similar courses for
handicapped persons.
By 1972 these numbers had more than doubled to
1,685,000 disadvantaged and 265,000 handicapped.
Again, a long way from
meeting needs but significant progress nevertheless.
Much of this progress I attribute to the prodding and the help of the
advisory councils.
Vocational educators are like all the rest of us in
needing a bit of both.
But mostly they need the help and understanding
which has not been forthcoming in any great measure until very recently.
If we are to meet the vocational needs of everyone in our society -- and
I take that to be a fundamental obligation of the educational system -- and
if we are to meet the additional costs which vocational education entails,
then a great deal more financial assistance must be forthcoming.
This will
require broad public support of vocational-technical education.
Enlisting this public support is one of the prime functions of the
State and National advisory councils.
That is why I am pleased that so
many of your councils draw most of your members from outside education.
We need new insights and new approaches to problems in education
which in the main still come from men and women without a built-in education-
al bias.
In Minnesota we have been privileged to have five able and dedi-
cated individuals to serve as chairmen of our State advisory council.
They and their fellow members have made a notable contribution in our
'State.
We need the expertise of educators on these councils, but educators
alone cannot turn education in new directions.
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Another function of your councils is that of independent critic of
vocational education itself.
This is not an easy role because inevitably
it involves disagreements and friCtion.
There is often a narrow line
between criticism which helps and criticism which hurts.
It is a diffi-
cult path to walk, but I think the advisory councils have managed it
very well.
In Minnesota a major thrust of advisory council recommendations has
been toward the use of ,esearch and exemplary program funds tobuild the
concepts of occupational orientation and counseling into elementary edUu,
cation and the first two years of high school.
Successful programs of
this type have been initiated and have been a beaconlight to other States,
You see this concept embodied in the new OccUpational Edutation ACt (part
B of the new title X of the Higher Education Act), which I sponsored.
In
Minnesota we are at least reaching for the goal of infusing all of educa-
tion with preparation for a career in the world of work.
In South Carolina, as a result of the work of their advisory council,
We have Been a complete over-hauling of the formula for distributing
State and Federal vocational funds to loCal school districts, so that
increased local effort is recognized.
In Texas the advisory council in 1970 recommended increased use of
seminars for vocational administrators, which was tested by a pilot s6Min-,
In 1972 10 more seminars were held for 700 participants and the
value of this sort of communication and exchange has been attested by
those who took part in it.
In Arizona'the State board has adopted sip of eight major recommenda-
tions of the advisory council, including one for dividing the State into
regions and developing a comprehensive State plan to account for their
varying needs.
Meanwhile, the National Advisory Council has energetically and effec."
tively carried out much the same role.
In addition, the Congress assigned
it the task of assisting and monitoring "Project Baseline".
Thie is a
national study being done by Northern Arizona University which for the
first time will give us unduplicated data on vocational-technical education
for every State in the Union.
This is fundamental information which we
have not had in all of these years we have been working with vocational
education.
All across the country there are many, many concrete examples of the
beneficial impact of citizen participation in these "engines of change".
In the Fall of 1971 our Committee printed a survey of "Reports on the
Implementation of the Vocational
ducation Amendments of 1968".
This
includes all of the National Advisory Council's reports, State-by-State
summaries of your recommendations, and the reports of the State directors
of vocational education.
Much progress has been made in the intervening
year, but even a cursory reading of these reports indicates that our hopes
of 1968 are being realized.
We'have a long way to go to fit American
education to the needs of people in the final third of this Century -- but
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we are on our way.
I know that you are concerned in this meeting with the implementation
of the new titles X and XII of the Higher Education Act which relate to
community colleges and occupational education.
I know, too, that many
disputes have commenced over the interpretation of those new titles.
As
the author.of part B of the new title X
the Occupational Education Act
and as one of the conferees who participated in melding this with pro-
visions of the Senate bill relating to community colleges, I have consulted
frequently with Assistant Secretary Harland and others on these matters,
There is one thing not in dispute.
The State advisory councils pn
vocational education are to have the same broad responsibilities for part
B of title X as they do for the 1963 Vocational Education Act, as amended
in 1968.
They are also to receive additional funds to help them carry out
these additional duties.
In the final version of the bill we separated the planning function
from the administrative function, but this does not alter the scope of
your responsibilities.
Each State council must review the plans for
occupational education developed by the State Postsecondary Education Com-
mission of its findings and recommendations.
Each State council must also
monitor the administration of the program authorized by part B of title X
and make reports and recommendations, just as they do under the Vocational
Education Act.
Beyond that, it was not the intent of the Congress to dictate to the
States that a particular commission or agency should do the planning for
the new occupational education programs,
However, the composition of the
membership of the commission is set forth very explicitly and it requires
broad representation of education, manpower, and economic development
agencies of the State, as well as private and proprietary education, handi-
capped and disadvantaged persons, labor, industry, agriculture, and the
general public.
Even if its composition could qualify it, we did not intend that this
commission would be your State advisory council because it was given
independent responsibilities under the Act which are incompatible with its
assuming this role.
In fact, I do not know of an existing State agency or
commission in any State which could meet these requirements without its
membership being reconstituted.
I would like to put to rest another controversy.
We did not intend
to designate a particular State agency to be the administrative agency to
carry out part B of title X.
If we had, we would have designated one as
we do in the Vocational Education Act.
I think it was assumed that in
most cases the State board of vocational education would be designated,
but that is not a requirement of the Act.
The intent of the new Act with respect to occupational education is
clear.
First, it is intended to expand postsecondary vocational-technical
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education to more adequately meet existing and developing heed for higher
levels of skills in numerous fields.
Second, it is intended to broaden
the base of vocational technical education in our entire educational
system and to put it on an equal basis with traditional academic prepara-
tion.
I need not stress to this audience the importance of this second
goal.
Your own studies and reports have made this point convincingly.
Our intention was to help develop a new emphasis on occupational edu-
cation from elementary school to postsecondary institutions, and to use all
existing resources in that effort.
This can only be done at the State and
local levels where your influence is paramount
but it can be assisted
by your Federal Government.
The new legislation spells out a more vigorous role for the Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare, and for the U. S. Office of Education.
Too often in the past we found that the only way to get consideration foi:
vocationall4technical education in such general programs as research and
professionil preparation was to write separate authorizations,
We did.and
these-will continue in effect at least for a while.
But there is now the
clear direction to consider occupational preparation aS'an integral part
of all education in the administration of Federal programs.
This is con,-
sistent with Assistant Secretary Harland's commendable emphasis on career
education and is intended to complement it.
We must develop a stronger base of research and demonstration.
This
has been the weakest element in all of education, but particularly lacking
in occupational education,
I support the continuation of research funds
for the States, and of grants for exemplary programs, but I also hope that
the new National Institute of Education will place occupational education
high on its list of priorities.
While it is true that we sometimes pay a great deal for poor quality
education, it is also true that high quality education never comes cheaply,
This is-particularly true of extra-cost edutation, such as voca*ional-ieche
nical courses which require expensive equipment and small classes,
As
much as we are spending for education today, if we are to achieve our goals
in the education of diiadvantaged children, in special educatien,for-the
handicapped, and in affording an equal opportunity for the vocationall$!-
oriented student, we are going to have to spend more.
I think this inevit-
ably means. that we must reexamine the structure of educational finance.
At the State and local level this reexamination is being forced by
taxpayers' revolts in some areas, and by court decree's in others,
Inequi-
ties in-the burden of taxes increasingly have-been attaae4.
While I do
not agree with all the suggested-remedies
such as total centralization_
of schoolfinance at the State level ---the review is long overdue.
At the Federal level the diffkulty is not an inequitable tax
triOtUreo,
but
the-uncertainties of the appropriations process in A periOA'nt increa6-
ing hiidgbt-defiCIts, -Beth the President's budgets for-eitucation 4n4itheetin-
grdssinnal appropriations have reached an all-time high in'the'l)aat-thtee-
years, but they lag far, far behind authorized spending levels.
I frankly
see little hope that appropriations in the next few years will produce an,-
thing near the added dollars we will need for such programs as vocational
technical education.
There is another approach.
The highway trust fund -- derived from a
users' tax on gas, oil, highway transport, and automotive supplies
pro-
duces nearly $6 billion annually for the interstate highway system.
Would
it make sense to consider a "users/ tax" for education in the form of an
income surtax?
After all, the level of income is closely related to the
level of education.
In 1969 the mediah income of a man with a college de-
gree was $11,893, compared to $8,434 for a high school graduate and $5,345
for a man who had completed the 8th grade.
I think we should give serious
consideration to establishing an education trust fund for purposes spelled
out by the Congress.
I hope each of you will give some thought to this
possibility.
Finally, I think that all of us must ponder whether there are more
effective ways to organize education to get better results from our expen,
diturds. Our total expenditures for education at all levels, public and
private, itave reached 8 percent of our Gross National Product -- more than
double the percentage of 20 years ago.
There is a point at which such ex-
penditures become counter-productive in economic terms, even if we don't
like to think about it.
So we must find ways to spend these enormous sums
more advantageously.
The work of the National and State advisory councils on vocational
education is an important contribution to solving these problems of Lroad
national concern.
I congratulate each and every one of you for your share
in this vital short.
REMARKS
John Ottina
Acting Commissioner of Education
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_
Since I have been Acting Commissioner of Education for only two
weeks and all of you have been engaged in career education for many months,
I really feel that you have the cart up here trying to pull the horse,
You
should be up here and I should be out there, listening to you and'taking
advantage of your insights and what you have learned rather than ViCe-
versa,
But, on the other; hand, because my exposure and involvement have
been limited in the conceptual and programatio development of career ed-
ucation, I may be able to lend 4 somewhat different perspective.
Since Bill Pierce covered many of the points I planned-to cover, my
comments may seem somewhat repetitious,
But I hope if we sing in harmony
you will understand that we both do have a very deep commitment to career
education.
Cal Dellefield asked if I would comment about the relationship between
career education and vocational education,
I am sure by now. you have heard
this topic discussed many, many times but, for me, the terms are not,Syn,.
onymous.
I think by vocational education we mean teaching students A
skill so that they will he able to get a job upon graduation,
I think
this practical-approach for the non-college bound student is veryi=1/0Y,
essential and, perhaps, the largest-part of career educavion,-, Howe:Vero.'
it-is still true that while 40% of 411 high-school students enter college,"
about half drop out before graduatjon.
We must find means of providing
all youngsters with an entry point, for today's world of,work. whereverAt
is.
I think you also share with me the belief that career education must
make children aware of many occupations, not only those that-Are repre-
sented by what we traditionally think of as vocational or ocCupationallwe-
must make them aware as-well of professional-careers that reqtlire a college
degree and technical careers that require two years ofi)reparation in
post-secondary inetitotions,
I think it is essential that thie idea of
career education run from early ohi146o4 throughout.our:adelt life,
it
icreelly a,philotiephy'fot all people-of ail-ages who want -to-enhance
their ownoccupatienal or earninkpOtential.
As,you knewpithe-Offies'ef
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ucitien'models,'-twe of which etreas=the ahlt_Oapeets,:"Later'On today
Tom 014Atiati
detcribe'Whet-ie National- Institute of-gduolition:Will be
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doing -With these -four 'moels",
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I very Ouch believe that career educe
one
that'we must recognize it takes cence
ignited in early'life and to have a fulfil
careen education really must be flexible;
by each State and each community to meet t
fore, I would expect it to differ from cit
rural to metropolitan area, because it nee
community and the individual but for the
e
Cal also asked me to spend a moment o
the role of lay councils should be in care
councils are vital in helping the schools
on what is going on in the community and r
and occupational building needs, in terms
be required in coming years and which will
Lay councils will be needed to help a
curriculums to reflect this change in
the
I think,-to serve more and more as an acti
help students get realistic career informa
appropriate career fields.
From firsthand
show students what it means to be a state
automobile-dealer.
To be effecti ;e, counc
ulate industry and labor to provide work e
help these young people get into career fi
Linkage bewteen schools and job placement
concern, and through the work of councils
gin to happen.
ion should be available to every-
tration
and motivation to get
ing role in society.
Therefore,
t has to be adopted and adapted
sir own particular needs.
There-
to city, county to county,
s to be molded not only for the
vironment that exists there.
two describing what I thought
r education., I believe lay
nd colleges really.get a handle
gion, in terms of training needs
f identifying what skills will
be obsolete.
hoofs and colleges reshape their
abor picture.
They are going,
e adjunct to the classroom to
ion and help guide them into
experience, council members can
egislator, an architect, or,
is are going to have to stim-
periences for students and_to
ids for which they trained.
ervices'is another area of
'elieve that linkage can be-
Finally, let me comment on several new initiatives in the Office of
Education that I believe will do much to advance career education.
Over the last,18 months or so we have pulled together the 20,000
'possible careers in America, as identified by the Department ofLebor, into
15 broad career Clusters for easier-presentation:to children'-in the elemen--:
tary and secondary grades.
Thii year wellOte, contracts-out for development
of high sehool curriculums for five of-these 15 Clusters
construction,
manuficturingi transportation, public service and'communieatione and !!ledie:
Most of these units-Should be ready for pilot testing -early next year.
We,
Of course, will continue-career-education,train#8:0:001400 fei teachers
and other aChool,staff under 'the Education Profesii000:DOV.O.Opment Act.
What we are trying to build this year is the new Deputyship tot Cleo-.
upational and,Adult-Educe401).- Again, let me rape t th t' ill
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our Aep*-40atgriatei will have
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As,Bill indicated, we are considAing plating in this deputyship a
unit that had been formed earlier for the coordination of career education.
We very much want to see this deputyship be4ome-the focal point for career
1
education, without relieving other offices of tEeir responsibilities.
Finally, we expect a companion piece, the new community college Unit, to
provide support to career education,
I deliberately held my remarks short because I would liktlt: very much
to hear from you,
So let me conclude by asking you all to help in jointly
moving ahead with the career education thrust and continuing your very fine
efforts in your respective states and the National Council,
We continua
to need youvadvica and counsel so that we may continue to implement many
of the programs that have stemmed from your recommedations.
REMARKS
Thomas K. Olennan, Jr.
Director
National Institute of Education
Thank you very much.
I, along with everybody else in this Administra-
tion, have turned in my resignation and I hope that these are not my fare-
well remarks to you.
It would seem rather strange to be sworn in one week
and then gone the next.
I am very new at this job and my credentials, such
as they are, indicate
(as I hope I am free to admit) that there are many, many parts of the edu-
cational world that I do not yet know and problems I do not yet comprehend,
but I am trying to come to a greater understanding of them.
One of those
areas is, in fact, vocational education.
I have heard a lot over the years
both pro and con about voc ed.
I have been concerned at 0E0 with the prob-
lems of trying to relate and articulate the educational system to the labor
market and to society generally, and it has always seemed to me that one of
the core elements of that articulation has got to be vocational education.
But as I say, my understanding about it is not deep, and I have not yet com-
pleted my review of the career education projects NIE inherited from OE,
so
I am going to shift a little bit from the topic you have given me and talk
just about NIE in general and the process i hope to setup there to carry'
out research;
I understand that you will have the opportunity to address-
questions to the speakers, a helpful device, and I would be happy to try to
answer any questions you want to put to me at the end of these brief retarke.
As-you probably are all very aware, the National Institute of Education
was established as part-of-the-Higher Education Act.
It came into being,
actually, the first of August, and I have been there about three weeks. "-A
skeleton staff, moot of whom came from the Office of Education, haabien'
planning the'institute and monitoring inherited programs tinca Auguit.-
We
are trying to discover just what-it is we are responsible for--ihd how we
-ought to be organized to meet'phr'toale.--Te Inatitnta is organizationally
equal 'in statuawitlithe Okfide of Education. 4 repoit-thredt4'4;14iland
sO 'the Asal.ataat-tacto$A4r9ot tdootioa'tcola:Seavataty
HEW.
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,Council Whi.Witc *het' 'cif tafilit
normally found because
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CoUncil will have a.very, very significant role in suggesting how the In-
stitute will work, the priorities it will adopt, the distribution of
its
Work among applied or basic research, developmental activities, and aurae-
tion.of activities.
That adds even more to the tentativeness of my remarks,
since SOOS issues I will discuss are properly the concern of the Council. I
am giving you my own thoughts now; please take them that
way.
It is perhaps useful for you to get some sense of how I
at least would
tentatively allocate the budget among a number of different types of research
activities because it will give you a notion of the style of research the
Institute might come to carry out
Much has been made of the Institute's
being formed in the image of the National Institutes of Health and
that
really'is not, I think, a wholly adequate analogy.
It is true that we seek
Some independence,
We seek a capacity to provide some continuity to re-
search that might come from the existence of a Council with a long point of
view. -But N/8 is also an institution that is supposed
to be,concerned with
practice;.it
-supposed to make a difference in the practice of education.
The
'that are done in schools, that are done in our society years from
-now,"one would hope, will be a little bit different, maybe even a great deal'
'different, as a result of what the Institute does.
And_that will anly,be
the case if it worries a great deal'about how schooling-is.Carried out, if
it worries about.things that are not just basic research.
Thellationat
stitutes of Health are very much more concerned with basic research and
as
a result, the NIH is much more dominated by research people.
One of the
thinge that I also would hope will be the case in NIE is
a far greater in-
volvement of lay people, of practitioners, and, hopefully,,of clients, as
well as research people.
One of the things we will be working on over the
next couple of years is how to encourage that involvement,
I will get back.
to that in just a minute.
First let me tell you a little about the kinds of activities NIE will
un-
dertake.
There will be what I call policy or applied studies.
These are
activities= directed by the Institute in which the Institute will take much
initiative.
These activities will be determined to some extent by the_Pol-
icy concerns of Federal and State governments as well as local school boards.
We will seek some continuity and coherence in those activities,
I think
that this-kind of research will account for between 10 and 15 percent Of the
Institute's budget.
There is another class of research, more basic in na-
ture, I think, and more subject to initiatives from researchers or inatitu-
tions in the field.
We are calling it field initiated studies for the mo-
ment, although that's a name that isn't very descriptive.
This category
may account for between 12 and 15 percent of our resources.
The4hird_area,'
the'Iargest-single area, will be in something I cal special emphaais-pro.:r
grams, programs that are separated out because of some notion of their ire
portance to-the educational scene, their greater visibility,_ and the size of
-operations requiring special capabilities on the part of the Institute.
'tight now there are'two programs in that area. 'OneOf them is career educe--
tion,'Whicktat sure yoU haVe been discussing here at-aome length; the
-1
other experimental schools.
Career-education,' I think fefthemomentj-ii
thi=Cleareet area in WhiCli'thaInsiitUte will be dealing witWisqueethat'
relate-4o vocationai'iducation.
kia-froM,everything that-I have been able
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Ito see so far, it will continue to be a major emphasis in the Institute.over.
the coming years* and,m4y be increasing in size and scope, ;About 50 percent
04 the Institute's resources I would think will be allocated to Special emo.
phaei6 programs in the long run.
That leaves about 20 percent of there,
source8 for other activities.
These include disseminationland installation,
our efforts to see that our research is relevant to and implemented in the
classroom by practitioners,
Another set of activities wills attempt to build
Whet the legislation calls an effective R&D system.
It probably will in.*
,volve some
- training activities, some institutional development activities,.
and so forth.
The process of determining R&D priorities is going to be a difficult one.
Though I've been involved in it for three or four years at the Federal leve).
and I've studied it as a researcher for several
years while, T was at Rand.,
I've never really come across a wholly satisfactory process.
We're going
_
to try and do better,
The process, I think, has to combine some notion of
the importance of the problem, some notion of the feasibility and the cost,
of going aboutpolving that problem, and some notion of ei4, ability to-lo-
cate people who call do it.
Surely, researchers can make important contri-'
butione to this process, especially in terms of determining the-feasibility
of specific-projects.
But certainly others need to be involved-to give us,
a notion of the importance of different problems.
The Council, of course,
will represent both research interests and others, and will have a crucial
role in determining priorities for NIB.
But I hope to try to establish a
process that is comprehensive enough to permit us to disseminate our plans
for comment and suggestions before final decisions are made.
Organizations
such at; yours seem to me to be a very obvious source of such comments,
I
am terribly concerned about this process because to some extent it has been
tried before, and I know it has frequently tended to be window dressing,
Nothing seeme to happen.
The plan goes ever onward. I want this to be more
than that.
I want somehow, if we can, to be able to indicate to the public
why it is we have made the decisions we have, and where and why the Infra--
tute and the Council did not agree with the poSitions taken by various in-
terest groups.
This is, of course, a very difficult process since many
people tire interested in education and will want to know why our plans do
not reflect their priorities.
Our budget for this fiscal year _is $103,mil-
lion, and we hope it will be a bit higher next year,
It is very caw-that
there are not going to be the kinds of resources in the near future that
will cover everything that everybody wants to do, so I understand that in
trying to open up this procesi somewhat that I am going to be creating sub-
stantial difficulties for myself.
But I hope that an exciting process for
setting-our priorities will result from these efforts.
Another question I was asked to deal with is dissemination.
I hope'the
discussion Will illustrate a little about how we will deal'with issues 100
this at NIB.
Our basic problem is how-to make our various research prOdUnti
usef04relevant
and available to local practitioners. 1-clon't-tink'thefe,
00 An)! 0.00Y_011040r01
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pracesa-thet n eetsj0ba'denei -We-ha/a-$*00* exAteneWtheti)yetem e
haVe strengths;
have-vaeaeasee.
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-0y0eivtfl04'4n find kitt4ewa$4. -14'000440:0004y-cono004aiite,
o
the
W6-0400-conVehere-panel-to'deal With the -rilationshipe'atog
NIE, the Assistant Secretary'e Office, OE, the various adpecte:of dissemi-
nation, the Mane that-ought to be used in dissemination,
the research in-
put there ought to be associated with dissemination.
That panel will prob-
ably not be Completely representative of all the stakeholders in this pro-
cess.
It just Cant be and still be able to (1,1 its job.
So Y. plan to make
the panel report to the public before decisions are made by the Institute
on its recommendations.
The final decisions will be.made on the basis of
the panels!*teCOmMendations and reactions
to the recommendation.
I may be
very naiveteXt,Year. if I have the opportunity to talk with you again like
this, I may be a sadder and more humble man than I am right now.
But I
want to try because what we do in the first year, in the first couple of
years, will Set a tone for what the Institute can possibly become sometime
in the future of this country.
I want it to be an institution that
serves
all of you and many others, the Congress,
the Administration, parents--and,
of course, studenta.
It will not be a closed operation.
Some of you. may have heard my remarks when I was sworn in.,
I noted that
when the Secretar y.first asked me to do this jobvhe indicated that he had
three goals that:he thought I could implement with respect to this institu-
tion.
I think they are terrific goals, and ones which I hope I am capable
of carrying out.
1Wwanted to see that the quality of educational research
and development in this country is significantly improved; he wanted to see
that the integrityWith Which-that research is carried outAs increased;
and he hope&tc(see real candor in the way in which the results of that re-
search are repqrted'to the public so that research can be used for something
other than a-pUrelY advocacy position.
Well, thttes a great charge-.
I am
looking forWard to carrying it out, and I look forward to hearing from you
on your thoughts on how I ought to carry it out.
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CLOSING REMARKS
Rex R. Waite
Arizona Advisory Council
Gentlemen:
We have experienced for the last two days an exercise of some of the
finest authoritative and knowledgeable vocal chords within Americaln edu-
cation system.
In comparison, the following remarks may seem elementary,
and I will try to make them brief,
Like most of you, when I first'sterted
working lor Government, 3 thought the term briefing was derived from the
word brief.
Now we all know better.
However, I promise to take only a
few more minutes of your time.
From the opening remarks of Don Cargill through the closing exclama-
tions of Thomas Glennan, there has been unfolded to you a view through the
window of the future, for this mationla education system:
This view pro..
raises a future bright with opportunity, an opportunity for each of this
nations children to become great, an opportunity for each of its adults
to become greater, and the opportunity for this nation to survive as a
democracy and remain truly the greatest.
What we have heard provides you and I, all State Advisory Councils,
with many challenging alternatives.
But each of these alternatives will
remain but a fickle dream unless we who are here, accept the challenge,
select an alternate and tackle the problems before us.
As so ably put-by Thomas Glennan, no two problems, no two tasks or
obligations are ever of equal importance.
Priorities may be determined
by research or feasibility studies, but only action can come what at last
the top priority is selected.
Our advisory councils too, in order to act,
must select and-set priorities.
You must then make up your mind on the --
top priority and then do as much as you can do and go as fur as yoU,can go.
Over the past three years, State advisory councils have faced many
different problems and played many different roles; but none ato'important
as we-face here today,
You and I both know that most achiisory_councils
have refused to accept any-action idle except-for:provicii#LS onceia-year
evaluation6-At_tiMei, and often, the'terMlwalilitioq'ia Sbiised and tut.A.;.-
140. Many of-
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begin an action oriented program. lailUre of the councils to act -in the
petit Nisi only led to greater difficulty,
Many councils have failed to act,
because they are afraid to fail; fail to perform, because they are afraid
their performance may not be perfect.
Truly they are afraid to fail,
Many councils are artful at avoiding direct action, because action costs
its members time and .energy, and most members seem desirous of spending
little time and energy,
this time let its be different.
we can do, what we must do, to unify
should pledge to leave theory to the
phers, and dreams to the dreamers.
Let this be the day we vow to do what
our fragmented education system.
We
theorists, philosophy to the philoso-
We must surely now recognize, that the people of this Nation, -in
their concern for quality, relevant education, have spoken to its Congress,
which in turn has put forth within the new education amendments, legisla-
tion which so artfully provides determinations for the structure of our
nation's future educational system.
It le apparent in the remarks of the previous speakers of their,con-
cern for the integration and betterment of the total . ducation systemf
We here are all aware of the inflexibility, of the competition that lies
within our educational system.
That inflexibility and competition is also
apparent to Congress,
It should be, therefore, further obvious that some
element or some method must be found to link together the segments of our
education into one strong chain which can be pulled smoothly together.
The present situation reminds me somewhat of the age old story of
the old gentleman pulling a chain along the street.
When asked the ques-
tion, "Why are you pulling the chain down the street?"
He answered,
-
"Have you ever tried to push one?"
past efforts to,further the progress,
of pulling together education, may be as symbolic as pushing a chain.
Today tLe links of our educational chain are scattered all along
lifetime's hallway of learning.
Some links are on top, some on front,
some pushing this way, others pulling that, each vying gor top recognition.
At the same time, external forces are pushing each of the links'to and fro,
including our own State Vocational Advisory Councils.
No where, however;
until now, has a strong tool, an instrument to clamp the links of the edu-
cational chain together, surfaced.
If we take a close look at the new
.
educational amendments, you will See provided within the Act, State Voce-7
tional Advisory Councils as strong instruments for,the coordination of
education from kindergarten through the university.
Moat of the nation's advisory councils have been active in a concept
which we call career education,
Most Lave viewed the different means and
methods within career education for the past three years.
We have seen,
read,-and'heard many varied definitions of it.
What now has surfaced as
an obvious- definition-is that the -term eareer'edueation-la synonymoofiwih
the term education,
It seems to me'thelt earaer-d4eition provides
with
the-handle; upon WhiCh we can all grasp-to pull for a chance In education
,
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with the width and depth. to include all of e400000) segments, strong
enough. to sustain the full:weight:Of Al00cationAlneedaiencompasaing
enough to link together the UniVereties with-poat.OeCondary or junior
colleges, with high school, with elementary schools, 004:education, and
private education, toward a truly unified
dUCatiOnal Oyate0 serving a
goal of productive, knowledgeable students.
Aa Ralph Waldo Emerson said,
"The secret of education lies in respecting the student.". I would like to
add to that, "Truly the secret of education liee in respeCting the student
and his or her gotore411
As I stated before, we here today are provided with many challenging
altetnatives.
We can go home sad or happy and do nothing.
We can go home and repeat what has been said here and do nothing.
We can go home and duplicate all the materials picked up on the
front table, send them to all council members, and accomplish nothing.
We can go home and say to our friends, "The food was good, the shows
were good, the speeches were great," and do nothing.
I submit to you
that if you accept either of these alternatives, don't go home .- stay
here, for you will be in plenty of good company.
But for you that are truly concerned about the future of education,
you can go home with another alternative -- to accept your responsibility
that the people of this Nation have charged you with.
Go home with a
purpose.
A purpose to provide each State with an action program to join
the links of tie educational chain together.
Let us atop tiptoeing into
the future, '.et us step' ahead with long straight strides.
Let's go home.
Let's go home to the job before us -- truly our world of work.
Let's go home to the job so necessary, yet so neglected.
Let's go home to the job so challenging, yet so pleasurable.
Let's go home with one singular purpose -- to lead the march toward
a restructured, challenging, dynamic educational system.
A better edu-
cational system.
A more responsive education system.
A unified educa-
tional system.
Let's go home together.
'DDA DC 734/255
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE-FROM THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL
First Report
directed its comments and recommendations to the need
for change in national attitudes towards vocational
education
Second Report
recommended that the Federal government make necessary
policy changes in its approaches to funding, In the or-
ganization and role of the Office of Education, and in
present and proposed manpower policies and legislation
Third Report
chaliengod American education to deal with the needs of
the disadvantaged and minorities who do not enjoy ade-
quate educatjonal opportunities
turned its attention to five unique problems of financ-
ing and planning vocational education programs
Fourth Report
Fifth Report
Specia Report
Sixth Report
Seventh Repnrt,
attacked the educational establishment for paying lip
service only to career education concepts rather than
implementing realistic programs
Employment Problems of the Vietnam Veteran; urged new
efforts to meet the training and employment needs of
returning veterans
Counsel fta and Guidance: A Call fox, Ch,,,,
recommended
improvement in counseling and guidance services, includ-
ing greater attention to vocational and technical edu-
cation
Vocational Student Organizations; recommended increased
support at all levels of the education system for voca-
tional student cr$'enizations
Cooperative 'ay of Planning:
Proceedings of Joint Meetings with the
State Advisory Councils on Vocational Education
II
May 00
III
November 1970
IV
April 1971
V
November 1971
VI
May 1972
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