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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
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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.
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