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Further, he said that education
needs to become socially ingrained
as something that is done lifelong,
not just until finishing required
courses.
He said that considering educa
tion as a temporary part of life may
have been satisfactory when peo
ple’s jobs didn’t change much over
a generation, and people worked at
one job or business for their entire
working career.
However, the modem work
environment requires that workers
be flexible and knowledgable.
That means, he said, that education
must be considered as something
that is continuous.
The charge to parents, teachers,
community and political leaders is
to not shortchange youth by under
estimating what they need, what
they can do, and by not undermin
ing their potential by underprovid
ing appropriate resources and
expectations.
He said agricultural education is
not what is used to be, it’s more
sophisticated. In Pennsylvania
there is to be more money directed
toward agricultural education, he
said, because it requires scientific,
technical and cutting edge
knowledge.
Further, he said that an incentive
program is to provide students in
grades K-12 with a better under
standing of the agricultural
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He said the vision for Pennsyl
vania agricultural education is
being developed and will require
the cooperation between Penn
State University, agricultural edu
cators, the state Department of
Agriculture and the state Depart
ment of Education.
He said that currently efforts are
underway to try to put together
regional standards for agricultural
education, to use the World Wide
Web to link classrooms, as well as
working with other states for
remote educational opportunities.
He said that if the audience were
aware of all that has been done, “I
think you would be pleased with
the direction. ”
He said there is a lot more to be
done.
Hickok said that perhaps the
most important issue is academic
standards.
He said work is being done on
state standards of achievement, so
that, for the first time, a bottom line
of achievement can be established.
For example, he said that in a
college course, students are given
a syllabus, which is an outline of
the course and expectations of stu
dents. He said it helps the student
and the college professor, because
they can both be held accountable
to each other.
What is sought, he said, are state
standards for the different major
disciplines. Benchmarks for stan
dards are being set with other
states, he said.
He did emphasize that what is
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The standards will be ”... what
we think they ought to know to
remain competitive."
Testing, he said, isn’t an adequ
ate measure of a student's ability.
What it means is that a student
tested well one day. “It doesn’t say
how proficient a student is in the
subject. We want both. That is the
system we’re moving toward.
Peformance and accountability,
that’s what education needs to
emphasize."
He said that with the state tax
payers paying $l4 billion this year
for public education, the system
ought to be open to improvement
and public knowledge about what
is going on.
He said every school district
(with a population over 3,000) is
being profiled by the state, and
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information on teaching, curricu
lum, courses, and “hundreds of
pieces of information" compiled
on each so that comparisons can be
made by people.
The goal is to “reconnect people
to public schools,” he said.
Four years ago, the state budget
had one line item for educational
technology and distant learning. It
was $500,000 and directed to lib
raries. This year with a mix of fed
eral, state and local funds, there is
to be $225 million delivered to
schools for improvements in
technology.
The Linked-to-Learn program
has been ranked tops in the nation,
he said.
“It sounds like a gimmick, but
I’ve seen it make a tremendous dif
ference." He said that in a small
school in Clinton County the stu
dents were linked to a college and
now have access to a network of
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In another example, he said a
rural physician would annually
leave his practice for a week to
travel for professional develop
ment. With computer technology
and linked-to-leam, he is now able
to achieve the same professional
development without having to
leave ids patients without a readily
available physician.
However, Hickok said, ‘Tech
nology will never take the place ol
the classroom. The classroom is
part of what makes education hap
pen. It is a tool.
“Through the smart use of tech
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small, but dramatic
improvements.”
He described one district in
which there was a 25 percent
increase in math scores one year
after using new technology.
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