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Reach fer the Stars

Find out about Capilano’s new
part-time Film and Television
Studies at a free information
night August 25 at 7:00 pm.,
room CE148, Evening and
weekend courses are wide-
ranging. Call Extension
Programs at 984-4901 for
information. Also, watch for
our Extension Calendar on
your doorstep this weekend.

Succeed in Today's
Business Worid

The Department of Applied
Business Technology still has
space in £wo programs
designed to provide you with
marketable skills, or prepare
you for entry into other
college programs. For
information on the
Accounting Assistant
Program and the Business
Fundamentals Program, call
983-7594,

Learn the Ropes of
Student Life

A series of free orientation
workshops for Capilano
College students will be held
August 29 to September 1.
Find out abour clubs,
recreation programs, study tips,
or how to survive at college.

” For information, call

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984-4990

Making a
Difference
Consisting of dedicated

_ volunteers, the Capilano

College Foundation proudly

> fecognizes the valuable

‘contribution of the many

’ ‘people who make a difference.

F Allan Taylor

The Capilano College
Foundation is pleased to
announce the appointment of
FE Alfan Taylor to its Board of
Directors. Mr. Taylor, president
and CEO of Sussex Realty
Corporation, has contributed
to such organizations as the
Lions Gate Hospital, North
Vancouver Ciry Advisory
Planning Commission, North
Vancouver Chamber of
Commerce and Big Brothers.
Mr. Taylor is also the recipient
of the Distinguished Citizen
Award given by the District of
North Vancouver in 1991.
For more information about

the Foundation, please call
984-4983

CAPILANO
COLLEGE

2055 Purcell way
North Vancouver
British Columbia

986-1911

Gwen Greenway Music School

Creative Music Lessons
Group Pop, Piano, Keyboard
986-2838

TSS

The Art of Improvisation
A 10-week course which explores the
basic principles of jaze and blues
"piano styles.

Session I:

Sep. 19-Nov. 28 L1am-noort or noon-Lpm

Session II:

Jan. 9-Mar. 13 L1am-noon or nocn-Ipm
Session IIT:

Apr. 3-June 19 1lam-noon or noon pm

$200 per session. Registration must be
received 1 {1 week prior to session date.

Today's economic climate dictates that students looking
for summer work use every available means to tet
potential employers know they are in the job market.
The North Shore News, in co-operation with Canada
Empioyment Centre for Students, gives students the
opportunity to let employers know what they have to ©
offer through our student employment ads.

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Reforms take many forms

BY NOW we've all heard about
education reform. It’s an issue in
the U.S, and Canada, where policy
makers, educators, parents and
Corporations are struggling with
questions about the best way to
prepare this generation for the
workforce or higher education.

By Dr. Robert 0. Minor
Contributing Writer

As the public attempts to fol-
low the story of education reform
as it is debated across the nation, it
may be helpful to know a little
about the many terms that are used
in discussions of how to change
our schools.

School choice is a concept
most people have heard, frequent-
ly itt conjunction with the concept
of school vouchers. School choice
would allow parents to pick the
schools their kids will attend
rather than be assigned to schools
by district maps.

School vouchers would provide
that parents could not only pick
their child’s school but would take
a certain dollar amount to that
school for the purpose of educat-
ing their child.

Critics of school vouchers
claim that the practice would draw
needed funds away from public
schools, leaving them in worse
shape than before.

Outcome-based education
refers to a system of measuring

educational progress by mastery of
content rather than by time. In
other words, 12 years of schooling
does not necessarily guarantee that
a student has attained a 12th-grade
mastery of subject matter,
Questions that arise are how
schools would handle wide dis-
crepancies in the ages and abilities
of children in a given classroom
and what to do for students who

66 Creativity and
resourcefulness
will be the key words
that will guide school
programs... 99

attain mastery very early or very
late.

School-based management is
a movement to shift decision-mak-
ing powers from a centralized
school district office to the school
site to allow groups of teachers,
parents, and community members
to control school curricula, bud-
gets and hiring decisions as well
as school behavior policies.

The argument is that profes-
sionals at the school site under-
stand more clearly the needs of
their particular students.

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Charter schools would allow
certain schools within a district to
operate independently through a
contract with the school district,
Thus, teachers, parents and stu-
dents would have more control
over school structure and, in turn,
would guarantee certain academic
outcomes for their students.

Competence testing is a con-
cept at the heart of the U.S,
national education goals and a cur-
rent hot debate in Canada. The
debate usually centres on whether
testing creates a curriculum
designed to develop subject mas-
tery.

In Canada, Sylvan Learning
Systems recently fielded a student
survey, Voices from the
Classroom, in which students
favored province-wide testing by
55.5% compared: to 22.6%
opposed and 21.8% undecided.

There seem to be several initia-
tives under way that will focus on
the systemic change of schools

and school systems.

Some of the changes to date
relate to privatizing a portion of
the education process.

Others focus upon hiring con-
tractors as the primary instruction-
al source, or simply modifying the
school year so that students have
more time in school.

Creativity and resourcefulness
will be the key words that. will ©
guide school programs into the
21st century and beyond.

These terms are sure to be
around for some time to come as
the debate continues over how. our
students are going to be prepared
to succeed in a global economy
alongside students. educated in
@urope and Japan. ~

Hopefully, parents will take it
upon themselves to become. edu-
cated about the issues so that they
can make informed decisions. ;

Dr. Robert O, Minor is vice--
president of education, Sylvan.
Learning Centres.

Let’s Dance

Ballet - Jazz
Modern - Tap
Theatre

_ Performing
Company

REGISTRATION DAY
Tues., Aug. 23, 3:30-7:00pm

North Shore
Academy of Dancing

1819 Capilano Rd.
(2 blks. north of Marine Dr.)

987-3814