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Center helps schools prepare for new curriculum
By KATHLEEN WEST
Reporter
Teaching a 5-year-old child
about the American economic
system is not an easy job. But
Texas A&rM’s Center for Free
Enterprise is helping make the
job easier, says Larry Wolken,
associate director of the center.
Beginning with the 1984-85
school year, a statewide curric
ulum will require that economic
concepts be taught at each
grade level, kindergarten
through 12. The Center For
Education and Research in Free
Enterprise is helping school dis
tricts prepare for the new cur
riculum by providing teachers
with material and instruction in
economics, Wolken said.
The center sponsors a four-
week workshop each summer
for teachers of various subject
areas and grade levels. Wolken
said the teachers are taught the
basic concepts of economics and
are shown ways to incorporate
economics into the courses they
are teaching.
Under tnt
e new curriculum,
kindergarten students are in
troduced to the basic concepts
of money, Wolken said.
“The children learn what
money is, what it’s used for and
what life would be like without
it,” he said.
When students reach the
fifth grade they are introduced
to the role that banks have in
the economic system, Wolken
said. Eighth grade students
learn about the development of
banks and the Federal Reserve
System, he said. High school
students are taught the divi
sions of the Federal Reserve
and how it relates to private
banks, Wolken said.
About 150 teachers apply for
the workshop each year, but
only about 50 are chosen to at
tend because of limited facilities
and space, he said.
“The people who will have
the greatest impact are gener
ally the ones picked,” Wolken
said. “If a music teacher and a
social studies teacher both ap
plied we would probably chose
the social studies teacher.
“The teachers earn five
hours of graduate credit —
three in economics and two in
education — for attending the
workshop
Dr. Svetozar “Steve” Pejo-
vich, director of the center, said
determining how successful the
center’s programs have been
depends on what criteria are
used.
One criterion is the rate of
return to the summer
workshop.
“Teachers do come back in
large numbers,” he said.
The center also conducts in-
service programs throughout
the year for Texas school dis
tricts. Some of the topics pre
sented include supply and de
mand, Reaganomics, the energy
crisis. Social Security, econom
ics of colonizing space, and la
bor unions.
Although most of the center’s
activity revolves around educa
tion, the center also researches
free enterprise, which Wolken
said is an economic system char
acterized by five features: pri
vate property, economic free
dom, economic incentives,
competitive markets andi
iled role of government
When studying free
prise, researchers look aij
impact that these featuroln
on public policy, Wolkens
Areas in which the centej
done research include thel«
fits and losses of the minkj
wage laws, the profitabiltij
major oil companies andtki
fluence of Marxism onthtll
economy.
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By KARI WEEKS
Reporter
Students at Texas A&M have
their Final opportunity to drop
a class without penalty today.
According to the 1983-84
Texas A&M University Regula
tions, when a student drops a
course after the 12th class day
of a semester or the fourth class
day of a summer term a Q is as
signed to that student’s record.
However, the student must Q-
drop during the official period.
After 5 p.m. today the official
period is over, and a drop will
be recorded as a withdrawal.
Unlike Q-drops, a withdrawal
on students’ records indicates if
a student was passing or failing.
The regulations do not indi
cate how many Q-drops a stu
dent can have or if certain con
ditions must exist before a
student can Q-drop.
The associate registrar for
admissions and records, Donald
M. Carter, said students need to
check with the individual policy
in their college if they have
questions about Q-drops.
Some of the colleges, like the
College of Education and the
College of Liberal Arts do not
place a limit on the number of
drops a student can obtain.
The records secretary in the
College of Liberal Arts, Jodi
Playter, said students must talk
with an adviser in their major
department. Then, the students
must have an adviser Fill out a
Q-drop form, she said. Once
the form is completed, the stu
dents take the form to the lib
eral arts college office, where
the drop becomes official. Stu
dent are encouraged to keep a
copy of the drop form in case
an F appears on their record by
mistake, Playter said.
As for the importance of a Q-
drop on your record, Playter
said that it does not look good
to Q-drop, but it does not do
that much damage either.
Other colleges are more rigid
about their Q-drop policy. The
College of Engineering allows
only one Q-drop in a student’s
curriculum. The College of
Business Administration allows
two Q-drops.
The curriculum in some col
leges does not make Q-drop
ping easy for the students.
Janis Reidlinger, a clerk for
the College of Medicine said
that students in thalcoilege do
not really Q-drop. Their course
schedule is too structured, and
the students can not afford to
drop a class that is necessary for
the next class, Reidlingers®^2 t
If students have difficulty®Th;
a class they usually getlB r y an
i at hei than drop, she said. | ari h
Dr. Kenneth R. PoenisdJ
assistant to the dean inthtCl
lege of Science, said thecolkj
primary consideration is ill
dropping will hurt some*
dents’ chances for professi|
studies. Actually a Qi
probably won’t hurt theiiii
less the student makes a m
it every semester Poenisdii
Lite n
The College of Architmj
and Environmental Designa
no limit on Q-drops righui
Melynda Cloud, thestudeml
cords secretary said. Thisfill
limit will be placed on themf
ber of Q-drops per class™
hour a student can have.Ckj
said.
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lion is somewhere in between,”
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