
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, July 10, 1993                   TAG: 9307120242
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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STORY PUT ODD SPIN ON LECTURE

I ATTENDED Dr. Mark Resetar's lecture at Northside High School on June 25 when he exposed the many flaws in "outcome-based education." I did not see Larry Brooks of the Virginia Center for Staff Development challenge Resetar's statements, yet most of the June 26 news article by Laura Williamson ("Administrator denies consultant's charges") was about the opinions of Brooks and James Dyke, the state's education secretary, who wasn't even at the meeting!

Dyke, when interviewed, had a few uncomplimentary things to say about Resetar's speech. This is quite remarkable, as Resetar's speech did not take place until the following night - after Dyke's interview!

Brooks stated that outcome-based education would not create national files on students, or generate a new testing system. He's dead right, because both have been in place for years (see "Educating for the New World Order" by B.K. Eakman, Halcyon Press, 1992).

Resetar exhibited a number of education departments' documents (United States, Pennsylvania, Virginia, etc.). Many were marked "Confidential - Do Not Circulate." He obtained these by using the Freedom of Information Act, and projected these actual documents on a screen. If he projected the actual documents on a screen, how could Dyke possibly call them "bogus"? DAVID MENDS HUDDLESTON

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