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naniti Some test scores lowest in nation Wednesday, August 24,1983/The Battalion/Page 13 Texas’ future teachers rank 44th Press Intermit fi AR — TenriJ® 1111116 ” Prcss tnternational ed a 2-year-cr A report showed a 2-year-o] exas sch ° o1 seniors who iy retriever ant t0 * 3eC()rne teachers had to beinffrWuB the lowest reading and o. iath test scores in the nation, teenbeenno- | n e f ducat01 ' sa y s that signals a 0 candidates® b ! eak ’’ fu f ure for the of the Years' ate s educaUonal system. ober ArfwarJ it a North Aim A special report for the Car- "asnearbv.I e gj t . Foundation for the Adv- a ‘Jtettnii thttclinent of Teaching said col- (i the boyaMiigglbound Texas seniors who ave expressed an interest in f sintered si,, ;a(; |i n g ranked 44th in the e and twoliiaiLltry last year in both verbal child s j- ptile. it 40davsreeifl lake bites, nil ? fatal if note and math scores on the Scholas tic Aptitude Test. The Texas students averaged 385 out of a possible 800 on the verbal section of the test and 406 out of a possible 800 on the math portion, the report said Monday. The average scores of all col lege-bound Texas seniors were 415 verbal and 453 math. Nationwide the averages for teaching-bound students are 394 verbal and 419 math. “Those averages are damn ing. There’s jio question about that,” said Jajnes J. Muro, dean of North Te>ias State Universi ty’s college of education, the largest teacher education prog ram in the suite. “We’re not getting the num bers of talerued kids we did in the past,” Muro said. “That’s pathetic,” said Dallas Independent School District Su perintendent Linus Wright of the report’s findings. “That’s really disturbing to me as superintendent to know that’s the raw material we have to work with," Wright said. “The future’s very bleak in Texas for producing teachers to solve our education problem.” Muro said he believes several factors contributed to the de cline in the quality of students entering teaching, including low salaries, a lack of respect for the profession and additional job opportunities for women. “For years we lived off the backs of women,” said Muro. Until recent years women had relatively few career choices so many of the brightest women went into teaching, he said, but when “the world of work opened up for women,” many chose other careers. Texas next year will institute a literacy test for students who want to enter teacher-training programs. John Moore, a Trinity Uni versity professor and member of the Commission on Standards for the Teaching Profession, said when the test was adminis tered to a group of Houston teachers and college students majoring in education, about a third of the students and 60 per cent of the teachers failed it. “We’re going to have one ter rible teacher shortage when the ranks are decimated by this liter acy test,” Moore said. -CS reports lowest jobless rate marks said (iJjBUmted Press International enough a; AISTIN — Bryan-College at they doubt’itatpn apparently regained its r through Qsfion atop the list of cities coral bite, ith the lowest jobless rates. The I previously jties recorded a 3.9 percent rate ;ast three otrijlly- by poisonkwi The city with the highest un- Lowry of \ mpl tyment rate in the nation "s breeder, v- lie Texas border town of tion and n laredo — recorded a slight r the companw he Year a«| II go to the •ebruaryand award by Prtsl The overall unemployment rate for Texas in July was 8.3 percent compared to 8.5 per cent in June. drop in joblessness in July, the Texas Employment Commis sion reported Tuesday. Laredo’s jobless rate dipped from 26.6 percent in June to 26.2 percent jn July. The small improvement still left the bor der town, which has been suffer ing from the devaluation of the Mexican peso, far ahead of the city with the second worst em ployment rate in the nation — Johnstown, p^i., at 21.2 percent. Laredo has had the highest rate in the nation in for the past three months. Bryan-College Station had the lowest rate in the nation in May, but Nashua, N.H., was lowest with a 4 per cent rate in June. Other unemployment rates for Texas cities included: Abilene 5.2 percent, Amarillo 5.3, Austin 4.3, Beaumont-Port Arthur-Orange 14.2, Brown- sville-Harlingen-San Benito 16.6, Corpus Christi 11.7, Dal- las-Fort Worth 5.4, El Paso 12.3, Galveston-Texas City 12.4, Houston 9.8, Killeen-Temple 5.5, Laredo 26.2, Longview- Marshall 11.8, Lubbock 7.1, McAllenPharr-Edinburg 21.1, Midland 6.2, Odessa 9.5, San Angelo 5.4, San Antonio 6.2, ShermanDenison 7.7, Tyler 6.8, Victoria 10.2, Waco 5.5. staff photo by Brenda Davidson A soldier, statesman... Corps of Cadets freshmeri study the inscription on the statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross Tuesday afternoon. During Fish Orientation Week, n e \^ cadets in the Corps learn campus-ology — or facts and history of the campus. ird has been gK irs to “recojpi: s, champion^ js show to theii \en-L Ration# Burson. H United Press International HOUSTON — Houston Power Co. officials they have not ^ restoring power or K"b*g the damage to the from 39.6® coast follow,n g Hurr : |e Alina, a rate increase will Requested to help pay for jibmtnt damage done during Hurricane and May 20 torna- like K United Pres HOUSTON you krf . fished resit says rate needed JL&P officials said Monday Bompany may have to bor- Rnoney for repairs on power ■ and equipment, since its ; foi fuA ^i--aslt reserves for damages were , Kst depleted in May when lUTSday R,,;; caused an estimated $8 enu selectior llion in utility damage, nted • Pta;F ebui1 ' u P ,he Property m- 775-15HH nce reserve over a period ol t and (,uit P utt ‘ n g mone y the fund about five or six years ago, since Houston hasn’t had a bad storm in an extraordi narily long time,” said spokes man Graham Painter. While the damage to HL&P property would not be known for about 30 to 45 days, it will be a lot, Painter said. About 150,000 customers were still without power Tues day, but all but one of Houston’s city council members had elec tricity running into their homes. HL&P spokesman Jim Par sons said homes of council mem bers are considered a priority because they fall into the categ ory of restoring city services. Parson said other priorities are hospitals, fire departments, police stations, water plants, sewage plants and homes of in dividuals who rely on life sup port systems. sfies ouple commits filicide together ■ United Press International SAN ANTONIO — An elder- couple who represented Great itain in the 1936 Olympic lines committed suicide by acing plastic bags over their ads, the Bexar County Medic- ■ Examiner’s office said ilday. frhe couple’s attorney, Larry ibbs, said William R. Tomlin- 180, and his wife, Elsie Irene, iKesired that neither survive icjother’s death. ffhe couple, who represented teat Britain as figure skaters in e 1936 Olympics at Berlin, err discovered Monday sitting i|he couch in their north San nlonio home. Two empty wine Isses were found on the table. Ifhe “very private, very spe ak pair were holding hands hen they were found with plas tic garbage bags over their heads, Gibbs said. The couple apparently died Sunday. The Medical Examiner s office ruled the deaths suicide by suffocation. “It looked like the man and wife had both readily agreed to what happened,” said homicide Dect. Tack Summey. They chose to do these things together.” The couple moved to San Antonio from Mexico four years ago to be near medical facilities. Tomlinson reportedly suffered from cancer and progressive de generation of the spine and was not expected to live, he said. 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