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Wednesday, August 24,1983/The Battalion/Page 13
Texas’ future teachers rank 44th
Press Intermit fi
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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
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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^
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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.
The couple, both British
citizens, apparently planned the
suicide, leaving money for the
telephone bill and letters for
their friends, Gibbs said.
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24 was incorrect. The correction is as
follows. We apologize for any
inconvenience.
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