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I SAN ANTONIO — A group
Bl students in the state’s poorest
■ ban school district had higher
■■ades, better attendance and
■wer discipline problems after
jirticipating in a computerized
Jaching program called
JLATO.
■ “So far, we re very, very ex-
jd es " cJictl," said James Vasouez, su-
is ’ ifv l:rintendenl of the Etigewood
l ,, ■hool District in west San An-
‘ todo'pjltw Its initially showing
■ i ■me very significant trentls.”
r*above 1(1.^ y ear ' E<J g t ‘ wood spent
ent ihe $ / 50 - 000 to buy PLATO, a ba-
■ditforit ■ * ean, ‘ M g system that
piovides guidance on a per-
i isliml i* na * * evt ant * allows students
e to insurtl
to set their own instructional
pace.
Vasquez said the system lea
ches both remedial and accele
rated students and is being pro
grammed to leach vocational
education to adults in the eve
nings.
In the semester ending in
January, a group of students us
ing PLATO clearly outpro
duced a control group that did
not use the computer.
“And the attendance has
gone up with kids taking that
program,” Vasquez said.
“Thai’s something we didn’t ex
pect.”
He said many educational
computer systems work well
with either accelerated or reme
dial students, but PLATO
serves the whole spectrum.
“With kids in remediation, a
computer doesn’t take punitive
action,” Vasquez said. “It allows
kids to work at their own pace.”
PLATO- is connected to 21
terminals at Edge wood High
School, where students are us
ing it to learn math, reading,
science, language arts and life
coping skills.
The computer diagnoses
each student’s various skill defi
ciencies and problem areas,
then prescribes a curriculum
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HOUSTON — Walker
County Sheriff Darrell White
pleaded innocent Thursday to
charges that he lied during the
investigation and trial of a for
mer sheriff convicted of tortur
ing prisoners with watet to ob
tain confessions.
White, 57, surrendered to
federal authorities voluntarily
after a federal grand jury in
dicted him on three charges of
perjury.
U S. Magistrate Lingo Platter
accepted White’s plea of inno
cent and set a $10,000 bond. A
tentative trial date was set for
April 30.
A federal indictment re
turned Wednesday accused
White of lying during the inves
tigation and trial of former San
Jacinto County Sheriff James C.
“Humpy” Parker.
The indictment alleges that
White, a sheriff for 14 years,
lied twice to a grand jury and
once during Parker’s trial in a
Houston federal court in Sep
tember.
Parker was convicted of con
spiring to deny prisoners’ civil
rights by directing deputies to
subject them to water torture.
He was sentenced to 10 years in
prison.
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re given (^AUSTIN — T exas education
they had nujors may be required to take
ompeiencMadditional semester hours in
)n thequ It hing methods courses in or-
re turninjptr to obtain a Texas teacher’s
didn’t hafti'tificate.
level couJfbe proposed changes,
^t theirdeAliidt would increase tnethodo-
■y hours from 24 to 30, were
ire for tMbmitled to the Slate Board of
L'xains: Bhication by die commission
uld notihp Standards for the Teaching
at offerspolession. But the proposal
to validatMnt under tire Thursday by
[book, svlbplkge administrators and edu-
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hools forlCritics told board members
Ihat students already take
enough classes in the schools of
education and that what they
hen begijhd is added emphasis on gen-
dit fomS* a | education courses that give
aken ai Ipem well-rounded academic
Backgrounds.
Betty lane Kissler, chairman
of the history department at
Southwest Texas Slate Univer
sity in San Marcos, said that if
students are required to take
additional classes in education
they would have to take fewer
foreign language and fine arts
classes.
“It is short sighted to em
phasize training at the expense
of education,” Kissler said. “At
the time of a national outcry on
the sad slate of foreign lan
guage education in the United
Slates, the new standards make
even more difficult the possibil
ity of a student taking two years
of a foreign language.”
Gerald Pratt, chairman of the
education department at St.
Mary’s University in San Anto
nio, was one of the few in sup
port of the changes.
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