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WASHINGTON, Jan. 19— After abutment from Federal and accompaniment governments, boyhood accord in academy apprenticeship will steadily decrease, experts said actuality today at the 70th anniversary affair of the American Board on Education.
''It is abundantly bright that we charge new momentum,'' Robert H. Atwell, the council's president, said in his keynote speech. He and others alleged for added advancing activity and added government money for banking aid for acceptance and for colleges to recruit and accumulate boyhood acceptance in school.
The botheration of aggravating to accession boyhood academy acceptance in an era of ascent charge costs and beneath Federal apprenticeship grants is a affair that has been articulate afresh in Congress and on the Presidential attack trail. But experts actuality said that added generally than not, little absorption has been focused on the basal apropos of poverty. 'A Abiding Downturn'
In gluttonous to accompany added civic absorption to the problem, the council, the nation's above affiliation of American colleges and universities, fabricated boyhood accord in academy apprenticeship the affair of its four-day anniversary meeting, which ends Wednesday.
''Since the aboriginal 80's, we accept apparent a abiding abatement in atramentous accord in apprenticeship at every akin afterwards aerial academy graduation, and a backward advance in the absymally low akin of Hispanic participation,'' Mr. Atwell told added than 1,200 assemblage delegates.
The board additionally appear its sixth anniversary address on ''Minorities in Academy Education,'' which said that alike admitting atramentous and Hispanic youths were commutual aerial academy in beyond numbers, their acceptance in academy has collapsed back 1976.
That year atramentous undergraduate and alum academy acceptance accomplished a aerial of 9.4 percent of the civic total. It has back alone to 8.8 percent, the address said, as colleges are added accepting poorer luck in befitting boyhood acceptance and auspicious those who do alum to accompany avant-garde degrees. Broader Problems Outlined
Mr. Atwell said the country's educators accept fabricated absorbing strides in aperture the doors of their institutions to boyhood students. But he said abundance had blocked the consequence of the abundant broader problems of application boyhood students, the baby cardinal of boyhood adroitness members, cuts in apprentice aid and ''the aeon of poverty, breach and low aspirations.''
Further, he said, the Reagan Administration has not taken an alive role in administration civilian rights legislation or in announcement ''equity by spending the all-important funds on education.''
''Decent housing, able bloom care, acceptable diet and job opportunities are basic genitalia of the amalgamation that will accompany minorities into the amusing and bread-and-butter mainstream,'' Mr. Atwell said. ''Education can be the starting point, and added sectors of association charge accompany us.''
Similarly, the arch of the nation's better clandestine alimony armamentarium alleged on the bookish association to ''address the basal axiological affidavit abaft the chain of poverty.'' Criticism of Academicians
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The official, Clifton R. Wharton Jr., administrator of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Affiliation and the Academy Retirement Equities Fund, said in a accent Monday that for too continued academicians reflexively attenuated their approaches to adopting boyhood acceptance after attractive at the added accompanying problems.
''The problems of, and for, minorities in academy apprenticeship are alone appropriate of abundant beyond and added axiological challenges to our association at large,'' said Mr. Wharton, a above Chancellor of the Accompaniment University of New York. ''Surely, the institutionalization of a abiding 'underclass' who accept absent all accomplishment or acceptance in the American dream has become a ascendant agency influencing the absoluteness of minorities in academy education.''
Poverty and the costs of costs a academy apprenticeship are bearing a ''crisis affair for the nation,'' Reginald Wilson, administrator of the council's Office of Boyhood Concerns, said in an interview. He answerable that ''the abatement in boyhood enrollment'' has been ''exacerbated by Reagan Administration bread-and-butter policies.'' Bennett Says Enough Aid Exists
But Apprenticeship Secretary William J. Bennett, who batten today, said there had neither been a absolute abbreviating in the availability of apprentice banking aid nor in admission to academy for acceptance ''who are able to go.''
Mr. Bennett said that, amid acceptance with agnate accomplishment levels, blacks were aloof as acceptable to appear academy as others. The problem, he said, is that ''there are too abounding low-performing atramentous students'' with poor backgrounds at the elementary and accessory academy level.
Mr. Wilson characterized abounding of the Secretary's animadversion as ''cavalier.' He said that Mr. Bennett's statements on banking aid and admission were technically actual but that they blocked the actuality that the Federal Government has added confused the adjustment of costs academy apprenticeship from grants to loans.
The board said this anniversary that a agency of 34 leaders from government, academia and clandestine industry would abstraction the shrinking numbers of minorities in academy apprenticeship and its appulse on society. The commission, whose honorary co-chairmen are above Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford, is accepted to affair a address this spring.
The board additionally will absolution a handbook to advice colleges and universities advance boyhood accord in ''all aspects of campus life.''
Photo of Apprenticeship Secretary William J. Bennett (NYT/Jose R. Lopez)
