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College to participate
in partnership program
By Susan Maguire
The Battalion
Texas A&M's College of Edu
cation will help restructure teach
er education as part of a national
program working with public
schools.
The College of Education will
work with seven other colleges to
improve public education through
a partnership program, said Dr.
Jane Stallings, dean of the A&M's
College of Education.
The program includes working
closely with student teachers and
the public school's administration.
This format offers the most
promise for developing the type of
educators and school organization
needed to serve the nation's chil
dren, she said.
A&M's education program
was one of 275 schools that ap
plied to participate in the pro
gram. Other universities chosen
include California Polytechnic
State University, the University of
Wyoming, Wheelock College in
Massachusetts, Miami University
in Ohio, Montclair State College,
University of Washington and a
South Carolina consortium of
some of the state's small colleges.
Dr. John Goodlad, director of
the University of Washington's
Center for Educational Renewal, is
the program's coordinator.
"I think we were chosen be
cause we already have a relation
ship with two schools in Houston
who are our partners for develop
ment of faculty and students," she
said. "We are committed as a col
lege of education to changing how
we develop teachers, administra
tion and school counselors.
"Also, I think it helped that
our president and provost are
very supportive of the college,"
she said.
During a weekend retreat for
faculty leaders in all departments
of the college, a member of Good-
lad's staff spoke about restructur
ing. This was followed by a sepa
rate retreat for each department to
discuss renewal efforts.
"Given Our tight budget, the
funds for the retreats came from
the Goodlad grant," she said.
The college has looked into
forming partnerships with several
other schools, Stallings said.
"We have met with several
schools and are forming partner
ships with a school in Bryan ISD,
Conroe and Houston," she said.
"We expect to develop a relation
ship with a school in College Sta
tion."
Stallings said because several
faculty members have traveled to
Seattle to talk with John Goodlad
and his staff, the college is ready
to do a self-examination of where
it stands on each of the 19 recom
mendations defined by Goodlad
and his renewal program.
The four main themes of the
recommendations are award sys
tems, diversity among faculty,
curriculum renewal and
school/university partnerships.
"Based on the examination, we
will set goals and begin develop
ment," she said.
The Center for Education Re
newal was one of four educational
restructuring initiatives men
tioned in President Bush's "Amer
ican 2000: An Education Strategy,"
an education proposal released in
April by the George Bush and
Lamar Alexander, U.S. Secretary
of Education.
Immigration institutes
family unity program
DALLAS (AP) — As of Tues
day,' a large new group of people
are eligible to apply to live in the
United States, but a spokesman
for one organization is warning
that the applications could be
used against them.
The family unity program,
which goes into effect Tuesday, is
part of the Immigration Act of
1990. It replaces another program
known as "family fairness," en
acted last year by the U.S. Immi
gration and Naturalization Ser
vice.
The new program reduces the
amount of time that children and
spouses of undocumented immi-
gran ts who .. have received
amnesty must have been in the
United States to be eligible to be
protected from deportation. The
previous cutoff date was Nov. 6,
1986. Now, it's May 5,1988:
Many immigrant families
were facing separation after pas-:
sage of the Immigration Reform
and Control Act of 1986. That law
granted amnesty to undocument
ed immigrants who could prove
that they had lived in the country
since before Jan. 1,1982.
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Mary Leigh Wolf (left), an assistant professor in agricultural engineering, and break in the shade of the System Administration Building in front of theA&M |
Debbie Cook, an industrial engineering research scientist, spends their lunch campus Monday afternoon.
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Houston man
gets artificial
heart pump
HOUSTON (AP) - A Hous-
ton-area man on Monday was re
covering from a failing heart with
the help of a portable, battery-
powered heart pump implanted at
the Texas Heart Institute.
Michael Templeton of Humble
is the second recipient of the elec
trically powered device produced
by Thermo CardioSystems Inc., a
subsidiary of Thermedics Inc. of
Woburn, Mass.
The first recipient, Larry Hein-
sohn, 52, of Shreveport, La., died
two weeks after the device was
implanted on May 9 at the insti
tute. Physicians said at the time
that Heinsohn's death was unre
lated to the device.
Templeton, an electronics
worker, had the experimental de
vice implanted in his abdomen
Sept. 3 at the Texas Heart Institute.
Environmental activists demand
stricter rules for disposal permits
AUSTIN (AP) — Protesters at a "tent city" out
side the Texas Water Commission called on officials
Monday to vote against new hazardous waste dis
posal permits until stronger state rules can be devel
oped.
But Water Commission spokesman Bill Colbert
said state law does not allow for such action by the
agency, which he said has held up 16 to 18 permit
applications during a temporary moratorium ap
proved by lawmakers.
Protesters at commission headquarters have set
up several tents, hung a "Toxic City, Texas" banner
and constructed a mock graveyard with tombstones
displaying such epitaphs as, "Earl E. Graves" and
"LM. Polluted."
"It's a mock graveyard here, but there are real
graveyards in our communities," said Rick Abra
ham, executive director of Texans United. "Toxic
waste in Texas is a serious problem ... Pollution in
Texas has killed people, has destroyed families and
communities."
Lawmakers earlier approved a four-month
moratorium on hazardous waste sites, while the
commission worked on new rules. The law included
guidelines for new agency rules on grantingha;
ardous waste disposal permits.
That moratorium is to end Wednesday, whentkl
Water Commission votes on its proposed new regt I
lations.
But environmental activists, who plan to stay si
their tent city through Wednesday, say the no
rules do not go far enough. For example, they sav: I
is insufficient to allow, only a half-mile 'buffer zone;
between hazardous waste disposal sites and honK
or schools.
Colbert said that the agency must follow the Ian
"I dare say if we attempted to impose a nen
moratorium, it would not take a court very long:
consider an appeal by a regulated industry to han
that lifted," Colbert said.
He said that the proposed rules track the lawainl
are stronger than past ones.
Monte Janssen of the Texas Chemical Council
called the protesters' request "somewhat absurd
He said that denying permits for hazardous waste
disposal sites will not eliminate the need forcompa
nies to get rid of such waste.
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