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Page 4/The Battalion/Monday. January 28, 1985 i hi hi wa BUI KB sun Uuliu 6 s STATE AND LOCAL B Bring this Coupon | & Save B H Warped PAY 14-4- by Scott McCullar 20% on all purchases i Does Not Apply To Specials B expires 2-15-85 Post Oak Mall College Station Exams screen out minorities fajErM CIniV FISH % CAMP Counselor Applications Open: Jan. 28 Close: Feb. 8 -t 213 Pavilion Texas teaching crisis University News Service New entrance exams for college students entering teacher education programs could create a serious def icit in minority teachers, say two leading state educators. In a report to the*State Board of Education, results of the first admin istrations of the test showed that only 52 percent of the students who took it passed all three parts com pared to 62 percent of the Anglo students. Dr. Dean Corrigan, dean of Texas A&M University’s College of Educa tion, said the results of the .first rounds of the tests indicate large numbers of minorities will be barred from the teaching profession while no comprehensive program is being designed to attract qualified mi nority students to take tneir place. Corrigan, a member of the Select Committee on Education which rec ommended sweeping reforms for the Texas educational system, said Texas A&M students are doing well on the tests with about an 85 percent pass rate. He is concerned, however, about schools with large minority en rolments which are not faring as well. “When I was on the select commit tee I made the recommendation that we really think about the conse quences of these tests,” said Corri gan. “The number of minorities in our schools is increasing while the number of minority teachers is de creasing — and will decrease even more sharply as a result of the tests unless something is done.” His concern is shared by Dr. G. Pritchy Smith, head of the Division of Education at Jarvis Christian Col lege at Hawkins which has a large A&M Flying Club COME LEARN TO FLY WITH US Interested people are urged to attend our meeting Jan. 29 at the Air port Clubhouse Jan. 29 7:30 P.M teachers is decreasing — and will more i the tests unless something is done. ” — Dr. Dean Cor rigan. minority enrollment. Smith recently completed a national study on the declining number of minority teach ers for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Low success rates among minori ties on the first administration of the new entrance exams translated to 12 blacks and 84 Hispanics able to pass, he said. “The percentage of minority stu dents who will be able to pass a stan dardized entrance examination for teacher education (such as the ones in Texas) will remain small for some time to come,” Smith said. For exam ple, only 33 percent of black high school seniors passed the mathemat ics portion of the 1983 TABS exami nation. “Educators have known for some time that a test score on a standard ized examination is the least satisfac tory way to identify truly talented minority students,” Smith said. “There is often little variance be tween the test scores of talented mi nority students and the test scores of minority students who actually do have minimal mastery of basic skills.” Corrigan, however, said he be lieves tougher requirements to enter teaching are a good step — as long as incentives to attract quality students to teaching are included in the pack age. One of Corrigan’s suggestions for an incentive is a statewide scholar loan porgram targeted at minorities. Corrigan has conceptualized a pro gram which would begin attracting top minority students to teaching as early as high school through loans that are “forgiven" a certain percent age for each year the recipient tea ches school after graduating from college. Corrigan said a scholar loan pro gram for minorities probably would not produce a surplus of qualified minority teachers and that educators in the administrative branch of the schools must begin to think of new ways to capitalize on a smaller num ber of really good teachers instead of large numbers of less qualified tea chers. The new quality controls are also keeping non-minority students out of teacher education programs, leading to an overall teacner short age crisis of even greater propor tions, Corrigan said. Statistics show that to keep up with children being born in the slate, Texas needs to add 91,000 teachers to dwindling ranks by the year 2000, he said. Currently only 5,000 newly qualified graduates are available to enter teaching while 15,000 teachers a year leave the profession, Corrigan said. “When I go around saying we have a crisis in teaching. I’m not kid ding,” Corrigan said. Fraternity members slashed By TRENT LEOPOLD Staff Writer Two Tau Kappa Epsilon fna nity brothers were injured earl\lj day morning at their second nj party of the semester. Paul Stewart, a 22-year-old at puter science major and his root mate. Drew Decker, a 20-ycaii electrical engineering major e*! had to have three stitches Fril? morning after a Bryan youth, ly them with a carpet knife aboutl| a. m. Bryan Police Department St Rick Etson said the youth wastali into custody, but later released. | Stewart was cut on his head#! Decker was cut on his handwhcniij youth returned to the partying f raternity house at 102 SouthPai|( in Bryan af ter being asked tobt; “We asked the young man tola after he came to the party i started getting out of hand,” Ste*! said. “He was just getting a littlednti I think. W’e thought at first heiEj have had a fake I.D., but we w™ really sure. “When he started gettingalh rowdy we asked him to leave. “He left, but then sooncameta with a roofing hammer.” A roofing hammer is similar; regular claw hammer except it places the nail-pulling daw witlu axe. ■ Stewart said, “Some of the brothers saw the hammer fallouii his coat and we took him outside “He said he lived nearby, tai turned out he actually workedk man near the fraternity house. I “After a brief discussion with! man the boy worked for, he assure us he would watch the boy andmi sure fie wouldn’t come back toil party. "However, he soon came lac with the carpet knife. "When he came in, he hit rati didn’t immediately know he cum or Drew (Decker). I guessmvadre alin began (lowing when the fip broke out. We were getting a lid frustrated with the guy.” Stewart and Decker were boc| driven in a private car to theA.!| Beutel Health Center where tk! were treated for the cuts and re leased. PF Dictionary YIPPIE: (Pronounced like Hippie) - Member of Youth International Party. Fond of Peace, Protest and Pot. eg. Abbie Hoffman. / YUPPIE: (Pronounced like Puppy) - Young Urban Professional who is fond of BMWs, Cash and Quiche, eg. Jerry Rubin. Examine one of each on January 31,1 985 at 1 :OQ p.m. in Rudder Theatre. Brought to you by MSC Political Forum. ^PID You KNOW A STUDENT OR&AN IZ ATI ON^ SNOWS 8 MoVIes A WEEK? THE tAE:|V\BEP.S the: FIljas > le Pue^ieiTy, and> OTHER ASPECTS AS WELL. THEY ALSO PI MO TIME TO PARTY. 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