Evening star., 1951-02-20
Corning Urges
Cooperation Of
Press
Sees Common Cause
Of Service to Public
In Convention ToIk
By Colt Hendley, Jr. .
Sfor Staff Correspondent '

Sfor Staff Correspondent
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Feb. 20.
School Superintendent
Hobart M. Corning declared here
yesterday that it is vital that the
press and the school system work
together in the common cause Of
service to the public"
DR.. Corning addressed meet
ing at the 77th annual convention
of the American Association of
School Administrators. It was one
of number of panel discussions
held for the approximately $4,000
school administrators meeting
here.
"The public wants information
about the schools and we want
them to have it," DR.. Corning said.
DR.. Corning was head of the
panel whose topic was the rela-
tionShip between the school super
intendent and the press. In re-
sponse to question from the au-
dience as to what was the best
way to handle complaints against
textbooks, DR.. Corning said the
problem probably would always be
with school superintendents.
This brought a big laugh from
his fellow superintendents. They
knew of DR.. Corning's trouble with
textbooks.
Textbooks Under Attack.
Certain books are under attack
currently in the District school
system by Adelbert w. Lee, Board
of Education vice president. Al
though the books have been re-
read and "re-cleared" by DR..
Corning, Mr.. Lee has indicated he
will press his objections at the
next board meeting that they are
slanted toward socialism.
DR.. Corning declared the schools
have no adequate means of re-
porting what goes on in the system
except through the press. He
said the schools depended on the
press to interpret school activities
and policies to the public.
Another speaker on the panel
was Mark c. Schinnerer, super
intendent of schools in Cleveland.
Ohio.
In discussing set of rules for
school heads, he said a teacher
should never use such words as
liar. sneak. cheat, stink, dirty,
moron or dumbbell. Other sug.
gest1onS he made to school SUPER
lntendentsswere that they should
be available to reporters at all
times, and that they admit the
existence Of unfavorable news.
Other D. C. Area Speakers.
Other educators from the WASH
lngton area who participated in
panel discussions yesterday in
cluded:
w. Earl Armstrong. associate
chief, teacher preparation, divi-
sion of higher education, Office Of
Education, who discussed needs in
teacher education; w. A. Early.
superintendent of Arlington
County schools, who spoke on the
need of an adequate adult educa-
ton program in rural areas; Ray
L. Hamon, chief of the school
housing section of the Office of
Education, who spoke on the
proper planning Of school
buildings.
Also Merrill F. Hartshorn, ex-
ecutive secretary of the National
Council for the Social Studies.
who spoke on indoctrination for
democracy at home and abroad:
Harley z. Wooden, executive sec
retary of the International Coun-
Gil for Exceptional Children, who
spoke on advances in special
education for handicapped chill
dren, and Jesse P. Bogue, execu-
uoe secretary of the American
Association of Junior Colleges, and
William R. Wood, specialist for
Junior colleges at the Office of
Education, who spoke on how
rural education needs could be
met by establishment of COM
munity colleges.
The plans of a new junior
senior high school for Falls
Church, Va. won an award Of
merit in school building archi-
tectural exhibit.
Architects for the building are
Mcleod and Ferrara of Washing
ton. The exhibit is sponsored
Jointly by the American Associa-
ton of School Administrators and
the American Institute Of Archi-
tects.