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WHO’S WHO AMONG STUDENTS IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES 1997-98 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Who’s Who applications are now available for both undergraduate and graduate students in the following locations: Commandants Office (Military Sciences Building) Student Programs Office (2nd Floor MSC) Student Activities Office (125 John J. Koldus Building) Sterling C. Evans Library Office of Graduate Studies (125 Teague) Office of the Dean of each College Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs (10th Floor Rudder) Completed applications must be received by the Student Activities Office no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, September 26, 1997. They may be hand-carried to the Student Activities Office, sent through Campus Mail, or sent through U.S. Mail. (See the application for addresses.) WSC CAMAC, rOWH HA££, AHV HISPAftIC PRESIDENTS’ council PRESENT CpMEDI/W q3©T)T N CAll 845-1234 "T" The Battalion Nation Monday • September 22,19f Monday WASHINGTON (AP) — If President Clinton has his way, millions of fourth- and eighth- graders will soon sit down in their classrooms to take tests measuring how well they can read or do math. They’ll fill out multiple- choice questions. They’ll write answers: a few words, a sentence, sometimes longer. They’ll show how they solved their math problems — and might get some credit for us ing the correct approach even if the answer is wrong. As little as six weeks later, the grades will come back — a numerical score based on correct answers to the 90- minute tests, each given over two days. Each child’s skills and knowledge will be deemed basic, proficient or advanced in the sub ject — a judgment not made in the other widely used, commercially available tests now found in many American schools. And if the Education Department can iron out technical problems, the math results will be com pared with how students in other countries do. Whether the voluntary tests are given in the Clinton spring of 1999 as planned depends on Congress. The House voted last week to block them. The Sen ate has given them the green light, but only if an in dependent board takes control of testing from the Education Department. The Clinton administration says the idea be hind the tests is to give parents and schools new types of information in a more-timely fashion. First of all, the tests of fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math will be among the most public around, says Marshall S. Smith, acting deputy sec retary of education. A model test will be put on the Internet next spring, along with suggestions of activities or books for teachers and parents to use. “Everybody will see what the test is like,” said Smith. “There will be descriptions of the items, why they are on the test and what they are trying to measure.” The actual tests also will be made public soon after they are given so teachers and chil dren can go over them and other people can try them. Because of that public distribution, the tests would have to be changed each year. Also, the graded tests will be returned to par ents and schools before the end of the school l/Vrecl By Ch Spc year. “The teacher will be able to sit down with the kids and say, ‘This is where you’re strong, is where you’re weak,’” Smith said. Princip could use the test to help see that teachers better trained. But not everyone believes the uses benign. Civil rights groups worry that poorbl and Hispanic children in substandards sch; will he branded as inferior and unteachal Some teachers worry about the use of tests rate them and to compare schools Other people criticize the tests fortheopp site reason. “If a student fails or if a school is failing reach real skills and knowledge, all wehaveis formation,” said Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keat a Republican. “There are no consequences.' Oklahoma is one of 46 states creatingedii tion standards that all students should beak id the three word meet. Those who fail the state’s third-gradertt 1REAK THEIR W ing test get “intensive remediation” andmat icded to be said c held back. Oklahoma students now take the Assessment of Educational Progress, a federal tests given to a sample of student: tionwide to measure trends in achieveit ™g<-'last seasor Clinton’s national tests would be based math and reading portions of that national: sessment. i Without sayin eve McKinney s moon for theTe As he sat back v shirt did all of the ere cut off and it 1 The Aggies b aiifAuthwestern Lou n in every phase a 66-0 victory f 509 University Drive West ■ College Station ■ Phone:846-8721 kinko's 69* Colpr Copies Ask about free pickup and delivery December Graduates Official Texas A&M Graduation Announcements On Sale Now through October 3, 1997 For All Information and To Place Your Order access the Web at: http://graduation.tamu.edu 4L A/l orders must be placed over the Web All payments must be received by October 3 MSC Box Office 845-1234 Offer good on letter size, singlesided, autofed copies on standard white paper,alteratons extra. 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