Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1991)
Plastic Money • Mention you are using your credit card and we'll give you 5(K off any of our coupon prices! Limited Offer - Act Now! VISA* Fast Free Delivery (Limited Area) (10 minute carry out guarantee) We Deliver From: Sunday - Wednesday 11 a.m. - 1:30 a.m. Thursday - Saturday 11 a.m. - 2:30 a.m. Ranch Dressing Available Serving TAMCI & Surrounding area 1702 Kyle 76-GUMBY Page 10 The Battalion Wednesday, April 24, Professor questions President's public education overhaul plan Continued from page 1 that by the time the plan gets through Congress, the intiative will be drastically different. "If it gets through, it won't be recognizable," he said. "I can't even speculate what it will look like." Dr. John Hoyle, a professor of educational administration, said Bush's plan offers nothing new. "Everything in it has already been discussed by education professors," he said. Hoyle said he is glad Bush is taking a broad stance on educa- tin tion because America is falling further behind in this area. The uestion is whether Bush will d the money to make the changes, he said. "It's naive to think we'll be No. 1 in education within 10 years," he said. "Education is a low priority financially." Hoyle said the United States ranks 13th in educational spend ing among the world's devel oped nations. School choice sounds good be cause it addresses Americans' "capitalistic spirit," and because FOLEY'S people want to make their 01 decisions, Hoyle said. "But children aren't objects sell in a marketplace," he sai "They are lives, and they ne special care." Hoyle said school choice est ates a social system even nw divided than the present system A gap between rich and pooi students will grow because moit privileged children will have an advantage over underpriviles students who might be forced attend lower quality schools, said. "The ideal is for the pi schools to be forced out by ridi schools," he said. "But this isn't going to happen." Hoyle said when come from privileged and attend higher qualili schools, they will make highei test scores. He said parents often do even not know where to seni their children to school. Hoyle said he believes anofoi bureaucracy will have to be oe ated to decide where underprivi leged children will go to school when all the "good" schools fi up. Dr. Patricia Alexander, date professor of curriculumani instruction, described plan as "innovative, butnotven expensive." The total cost of the plan isfa than $1 billion. "That's how much was spenl in a day during the Gulf Wai,’ she said. National testing is not neo essarily bad because it might al low for innovative assessment' of students, Alexander said. Essays and other creative test could be used in place of presen! standardized tests, she said. "If it's just another test, won't be of much value," Ale ander said. School choice might have positive effect because schodi would want to improve to attiac students, she said. But if school are allowed to decide which sb dents to take, they would war only the best stuaents, and 1 underprivileged would be ala disadvantage, she said Part of classroom problems i that students do not understaii how they will use what to learn after they get out of school Alexander said. She said she wants business; not only to provide fundings educahon research but to p» vide internships for students, Even at the high school M students should be allowed: work and learn, she said. Alexander calls Bush's plan "kernel of an idea" and saidil a good starting place forimpro ing education. "It's got to grow and expand she said. "This is a good step fa ward. It's not bad. It'sjustK good enough." Speaker says nations must work togethf Continued from pi! cord of seasonal temperature; their growth rings said. The data found in tree ns also shows the average tempc ture oscillates over the centime Man-made generation of S bon dioxide has increased s’h the last century, and the ami- of CO2 in the atmosphere ' double by the year 2030 nations reduce CO2 emisi Preining said However, that much die' in the atmospheric system®! upset a delacate balance, hese "To change one component the system that dramaticaf; something we should not« he said. The United States has world's highest carbon dio« emissions, but it has not yd 1 cided what to do about gld warming, Preining said. "In the U.S., the attitude:; wait and see how (global we' ing) develops and what then sequences are," he said. ^ can make the decision very^ ly." Global warming is a issue, Preining said. .. ments and industries must!" together to develop waystc* duce carbon dioxide emission However, all nations f work together to reduce eJ sions. Transferring carbon i ide reduction technology to veloping countries may ® S ving them capital as wel towledge, Preining said. "It is mixed between sde|; politics and public interest, ming said. Vol. Be Tex, versib degree get sit recent Coord Face budge ther d cation m mr K‘ 1 Oarre sixth- AS After court, o believes process plaints. Dave agriculti Discrimif A* , / Gen * s quali Texas * e m cha director stitute said Tue Dr. Army