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Test scores decline
States’ performance chart says
students still not making grades
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite
ballyhooed efforts at education re
form, student achievement is contin
uing a decline that began three years
ago, the government said Wednes
day in a controversial report.
Education Secretary Lauro Cava
zos said the annual state-by-state
performance chart, popularly called
the wall chart, “makes it clear that, as
a nation, we are still not seriously
committed to improving education
for all Americans.”
The chart has been criticized as
promoting flawed data and making
unfair state comparisons. Timothy
Dyer, executive director of the Na
tional Association of Secondary
School Principals, said American
“young people are simply too com
plex to hang on a wall.”
The chart, he said, “has as much
to offer educational improvement as
the Edsel offered the automotive in
dustry.”
Cavazos, however, defended the
chart.
“It is the only national mea
surement of educational perfor
mance,” he said. “It’s the best that we
have. Until we develop other mea
sures, we will have to rely on the wall
chart.”
Officials say the White House ar
gued for abandoning the 7-year-old
practice this year because President
Bush and the nation’s governors had
worked to develop national educa
tion goals and still are devising more
accurate forms of assessment.
The report found that the aver
age American College Testing Pro
gram examination scores declined
nationally by 0.2 of a point, to 18.6,
from 1988 to 1989, while the aver
age Scholastic Aptitude Test scores
declined by one point, to 903, dur
ing the same period.
A perfect ACT score is 36; a per
fect SAT score is 1,600.
The test scores are used by col
leges and universities as one stan
dard of admission. States administer
either the ACT or SAT, not both.
The report also found that the na
tional high school graduation rate
declined from 71.7 percent to 71.1
percent from 1987 to 1988; the per
centage of public high school grad
uates who received a qualifying score
on advanced placement examina
tions declined from 8.8 percent to
8.6 percent between 1988 and 1989.
Bill Honig, California superinten
dent of public instruction, said the
chart “causes more mischief than
benefit” because much of the data is
a rehash of statistics already made
public.
Keith Geiger, president of the Na
tional Education Association, said
the chart “only continues to confuse
and frustrate the public.”
Monty Neill, associate director of
the National Center for Fair & Open
Testing, said the chart should in
clude a consumer protection label:
“Warning! Misuse of Standardized
Test Scores Can Daman^e the Na
tion’s Educational Health.
President
makes error
in income tai
WASHINGTON (Ar
dent Bush made a mistaken
porting his income to thelRS
year and ended up owing an
ditional $7,497. He sent the!(
check for that amount, hisp : .
secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, j,
today.
The oversight involved i |
ferred compensation inco;
from a former job that he was*
titled to collect when he react
age 65, according to the ament
form he filed. He turned 6o
June 12.
He was entitled to thecompt
sation under an arrange®;
with Zapata Corp., the not*,
funct on firm he once headt
according to the explanation
tax preparers submitted. The
come was brought to the att
tion of the tax preparen af :
they had submitted his tax ret
last month, the amended for
said.
The deferred compensat
was received last year in the for
of a paid-up life insurance pot
instead of cash, but itshoultUt
been reported because it hadcj
value.
The life insurance policy;
valued at $26,250, but was not
eluded on his tax return.
Bush is paying interest
$40.77 that nas accrued on
upaid tax for 15 days sincethec
come tax filing deadline,
Fitzwater.
Greyhound workers resume talks;
contract negotiations open Saturda
WASHINGTON (AP) — Grey
hound Lines Inc. and its striking
workers agreed Wednesday to re
open stalled bargaining talks, and
the company said it was satisfied that
violence in the two-month-old walk
out was over.
Contract negotiations, halted
since mid-March, will resume Satur
day in Washington, Bernard E. DeL-
ury, director of the Federal Media
tion and Conciliation Service, said
after meeting with both sides.
will be the top issues in the talks, pre
dicted Greyhound Vice President
X
I he company is “satisfied
that the violence is behind
us ... we’re anxious to
move forward with
negotiations.”
tions until a week passed withoi
cident. That deadline passec
Monday.
The company is “satisfiedtk
violence is behind us ... we'rtlg
ious to move forward with nty,
tions,” Lannie said, noting thaiS
been 10 days since a snooM
bomb threat occurred.
“We’ve got some good things hap
pening here. They’re hellbent on
getting a contract,” DeLury told a
news conference called to announce
the weekend talks, which would be
the first since March 18.
Greyhound’s 6,300 bus drivers
and 3,000 clerical workers and me
chanics have been on strike since
March 2.
Wages and the question of
whether replacement drivers will be
given permanent jobs over strikers
— Anthony P. Lanny,
vice president
of Greyhound
If a violent incident occurs
Saturday, he said, “We’ll take
it comes.”
Anthony P. Lannie.
The company walked out of nego
tiations in Tucson, Ariz., on March
18 because of the shootings and
bomb threats against buses and ter
minals nationwide.
Since then, the Dallas-based com
pany has refused to resume negotia-
are satisfied that fruitful neJj
307601 tions can commence !|
this point forward.”
Edward M. Strait, president™
Amalgamated Council of G
hound Local Unions, told theii
conference that the union has:
demned the violence and if
strikers who know the respev.
E arties to turn them in. The it
as been willing to resume nee§
tions all along, he said.
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