Dr. Bob Bell and Dr. Rolfe Wylie, professors at Texarkana College, were among 1,300 educators from around the world who attended the 44th Biennial Council of Phi Delta Kappa November 4-7 in Nashville, Tenn. The delegates from 675 chapters, representing 43 states and 14 other countries convened to conduct the business of the professional fraternity in education and to take part in the Eleventh International Conference on Educational Issues.
Phi Delta Kappa is an education fraternity whose purpose is to promote public education through the ideals of research, service and leadership. Emphasis is placed on publicly supported education.
Among the issues addressed at the professional sessions of the council were students at risk, creating authoritative centers, recruitment of minorities, dealing with violence in the schools, the powerful workforce in the leading environment, affirmative assessment models, cognitive outcomes and integrating the curriculum.
A number of distinguished speakers addressed the council. These included Dr. Harold Hodgkinson, noted educator and demographer; Carolyn Warner, former state school officer in Arizona; Sharon Robinson, assistant secretary of education; Jack Jennings, general council, House Committee on Education and Labor; and Ted Kimbrogh, president of the National Alliance of Black School Educators.