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A&M education expert: Reform!
don’t meet improvement goals 1
By Laura Ehrlich
Reporter
Texas public-school reforms are
not accomplishing their intended
goal of improving education, a
Texas A&M education expert said.
Dr. Dean Corrigan, dean of edu
cation at A&M, said he was pleased
that the Texas Legislature approved
the education-reform bill popularly
known as House Bill 72, but that bet
ter implementation of the reforms is
needed.
Corrigan made his comments in
response to a letter from the U.S.
secretary of education, William Ben
nett.
Bennett is mailing over 700 letters
to educators and civic leaders across
the United States to get their opin
ion of the nation’s education re
forms.
There are three reforms in which
Corrigan places special importance,
beginning with smaller class sizes.
^We must eliminate overcrowding
and the resulting easy anonymity
and shallow teacher-pupil contacts,”
he said.
Secondly, Corrigan said, tutoring
should be implemented prior to a
student’s failure. He stressed that
even gifted children deserve the ex
tra help tutoring provides.
“The student should not be sent
to a detention-like environment for
improvement after it is determined
he or she needs special attention to a
problem,” Corrigan said.
The third critical element of the
bill, he said, is to make the teacher’s
position a professional one, which,
in part, means higher salaries.
“This idea is to attract and keep
good people in teaching careers,"
Corrigan said.
Before House Bill 72, starting tea
chers were making $11,100 a year.
Now their base salary is $15,200 and
is expected to be $15,800 by the end
of this year.
Corrigan criticized standardized
testing that began with the Legis
lature’s reform bill, although he em
phasizes that the tests themselves are
not the culprits.
“Tests are not inherently bad; it’s
the mindless misuse of them that is
bad,” he said.
When test scores are the sole indi
cator of excellence, many equally im
portant values in education are ig
nored, he said.
“In addition," he said, “political
pressure for higher tests scores is
forcing teachers and administrators
to ‘teach the test.’
"They will want to teach the stu
dent according to the testing that
follows, thus repressing the students’
potential to reason, critically think
and verbally interact."
Corrigan said the most f lighten
ing aspect of the current emphasis
on testing is that the push fit
test scores has consequent!) (
more students to dropout.
“Right now the fastest!
school to come out on topinii
ings game of test comparisc .
increase the dropout rate,"he!i
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cation tool, tests havebecomuj
ical football.”
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ized testing is that the result!,J
are designed to help thes
seldom even seen by them,!
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unless the results are thoroti)!!
cussed and areas of imp
spe» died, Corrigan said.
“It is clear that whatever
its of present reforms, thevr
complete," Corrigan said,
portend both a present and;
disaster unless the needs oft!
advantaged are addressed."
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By Tom Reinarts
Music Reviewer
Joe “King” Carrasco and his band, Las Coronas,
came to Texas A&M University last Friday night for a
concert at Deware Fieldhouse and played before a mod
erately sized but enthusiastic crowd. Carrasco lead Las
Coronas through two energetic forty-five minute sets
that included a fair amount of audience participation.
The band played songs from each of Carrasco’s pre
vious records including “Bandito Rock,” his latest re
lease. The audience enjoyed the music which combined
the best elements of American rock ’n’ roll and popular
Latin American music. Several of those attending
formed large conga lines and danced their way through
the songs “Banana” and “Bandito Rock.” “Houston el
Mover” and “Party Weekend” were the best received
songs of the evening.
Carrasco jumped off the stage and into the audience
on several occasions, as he has been doing at concerts
for several years. From time to time he would run
around Deware and play his guitar off stage.
to set
for requests,
officials say
The performance by Carrasco and Las Coronas was
as good as any on campus in the last year. The lead
singer maintained a high energy level throughout the
concert. Carrasco did not just stand on stage and sing.
He also encouraged participation from the audience,
and even brought several members of the crowd onto
the stage for the closing numbers.
The most refreshing element of the concert was the
lack of a gratuitous encore. Rather than pretending to
be finished and then carrying on with a pre-planned
encore song or two, Carrasco and his band played theii
hearts out until the last song was finished and then quit
for the evening.
Town Hall did a good job of organizing the concert,
and with the exception of the delayed start, there were
very few problems with the evening.
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Reporter
Two flags that survived 48 days of
sub-zero temperatures and ex
tremely high winds in an Antarctic
expedition became part of the Texas
A&M Archives Friday.
The flags, one of which survived a
week-long separation from its
keeper, are memorabilia of A&M
graduate student Austin Mardon’s
participation in a meteorite-recovery
expedition in Antarctica.
A small Texas flag was given to
the A&M graduate student by the
Houston Museum of Science, and a
Texas A&M pennant was given to
Mardon by Dr. Frank Vandiver’s of
fice. Both flags were attached to
Mardon’s snowmobile and survived
the 48-day trek. Mardon said that at
one time winds of 100 miles per
hour ripped the A&M pennant off
of his snowmobile. He found the
flag about a week later several miles
from the camp.
“We’ll keep the flags as a rep
resentation of the accomplishments
of one of our graduate students,”
said Dr. Charles R. Schultz, Univer
sity archivist. The flags, as well as
copies of 30 letters of commendation
Mardon received, will be used as a
future exhibit in the archives, or in
Sterling C. Evans Library.
Space Center in Houston to protect
them from terrestrial contami
nation. They will be processed for
three years, and they then will he put
on public display.
Antarctica’s sub-zero tempera
tures allowed for minimal earthly
contamination of the meteorites re
trieved by the NASA-funded expe
dition.
Scientists at National Areonautics
and Space Administration are using
the specimens to learn more about
the solar system and the extinction
of prehistoric animals.
The research team returned with
over 500 meteorites. Their findings
are in special containers at Johnson
The trip was more than just re
search for Mardon. It evoked his
sense of honor and satisfaction, a
disposition Mardon considers his
special connection to the University.
“Aggie spirit is great patriotism —
idealism,” he said. But he is con
cerned that this idealism is disap
pearing from the campus. He said
many students and faculty members
focus too much on money. It is the
thrill of adventure and the honor of
accomplishment that Mardon said
he is interested in.
“I’m not interested in money,” he
said.
Mardon, 25, is working on his
doctorate degree in education at
A&M.
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plant wrapped up last km
Austin after an exhaustini
hearing days, longer than
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A jet
liner carrying Colombian President
Virgilio Barco made an emergency
landing Sunday at Kelly Air Force
Base when the front landing gear of
the plane would not retract after
takeoff from Travis Air Force Base,
Calif., officials said.
The presidential plane carrying
peopl
arrived at Kelly about 1:30 p.m.
CDT Sunday, officials said.
The blue and white Boeing 707
had taken off from Travis about 7
a.m. (PDT) and Kelly officials were
notified about 90 minutes later that
the plane would be diverted to the
base because of the mechanical diffi
culties with the front tires.
While in flight, the plane’s crew
made several unsuccessful maneu
vers to try and make the landing
gear retract, officials said.
After the plane arrived at Kelly,
some of the passengers — including
Barco — were taken to the Base Op
erations building and another group
was taken to the officer's club'*
freshments while officials
the plane.
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been designated by the Def^
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landing facility for the Sa/if
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