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7 Sunday, April 24,1988 The Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksvllle, Tenn. Pag9A if Rep orfc Schools Have Reformed Bu Have They Shown Improvement? 1 -V. I said, "There's no evidence that reform is working for any of our kids, except for maybe the 20 percent who have always made it in the traditional school system." 1 Bill Honig, California's superintendent of public instruction, offers a far more upbeat view of what has happened since "A Nation At Risk." Honig said California students are scoring higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test as well as state exams and thousands more are taking three years of math and science. California students passed 41,000 College Board Advancement Placement exams last year. AP Loserphoto mission of the States, 45 states and the District of Columbia have raised graduation standards since 1980.

In 1987, the average high school student had to take nearly 20 units of credit to graduate, up from 17 in 1980. But such groups as the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Committee for Economic Development have concluded school reforms have had little or no impact on urban schools. The Committee for Economic Development, led by top business executives, said, "Recent reform efforts have largely bypassed the problems of the educationally disadvantaged the 30 percent of children facing major risk of educational failure and lifelong dependency." The Carnegie Foundation for the The National Education Association will mark the anniversary with a protest Tuesday in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House. The union president, Mary Hat wood FutreH, has charged school reform is "withering on the vine" because of lack of federal funds. An NEA flier promoting the rally bears the headline: "1983: A Nation At Risk.

1988: An Administration Asleep." The first wave of school reforms involved top-down efforts by states to mandate stiffer course requirements and to impose tougher licensing requirements on teachers. The stick of accountability was often coupled with the carrot of big pay in-' creases. More recently, the push has been toward bottom-up reforms aimed at giving local teachers and school administrators more freedom to chart Crater WASHINGTON (AP) Five years after a searing report called "A Nation At Risk" warned that American education was sinking beneath "a rising tide of mediocrity," some experts say school reforms have had little impact on the worst problems. Forty-five states have raised then-high school graduation standards in the 1980s and teacher salaries have climbed 35 percent since 1983, from an average of $20,693 to roughly $28,000. The number of minority high school students taking advanced placement tests has nearly doubled, and businesses have forged new partnerships with public schools to combat dropouts and spur achievement The administration will mark the fifth anniversary of "A Nation At Risk" on Tuesday at the White House.

Secretary of Education William J. Bennett will give President Reagan his own assessment of how the schools are performing. Bennett told a school boards convention in New Orleans recently that his report will conclude the school system "is getting a little bit better, but it is nowhere near where it should be." After checking the cars that fell to the floor of the rooftop parkade collapse in Buraaby, B.C, rescue workers wait for cranes before they can search for possible victims. Cloovi op Parking Advancement of Teaching said last month, "The harsh truth is that the Arsci Col lops their own path toward better' reform movement has largely by- schools. passed our most deeply troubled schools." It said such prescriptions as more homework, more testing and more requirements for graduation were "irrelevant to many children largely black and Hispanic in our urban schools." Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, A 1986 Carnegie task force laid the groundwork for creating a private, non-profit National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, but it is still several years away from figuring out how to recognize outstanding teachers.

According to the Education Com Hijackers Believed L.IJI i BURNABY, British Columbia (AP) A rooftop parking area collapsed Saturday during the grand opening of a grocery store, dropping blocks of concrete and automobiles onto store displays and injuring 16 people, police said. It was not immediately known how many people were in the Save-on-Foods store when the parking area, containing 22 cars collapsed, but Constable Lloyd Wall of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Burnaby said estimates ran as high as 900. Many were elderly people being given a preview tour. Three of the injured were admitted to hospitals, with one in serious condition. Police used cranes to remove huge blocks of concrete and cars that fell about 40 feet from the park- ing area to the floor of the store, in the Metrotown shopping center, Mounted Police Constable Dave Muirsaid.

It took several hours for searchers, who used police dogs, to get through the rubble. Officials believed everyone was accounted for, Wall said. Some cars were piled on each other on the supermarket floor amid soda and produce displays, while above, other autos teetered on the edge of a hole about half the size of a football field "I heard a crack and I looked up and saw the center beam wobble and saw the floor from the parking garage come down so I immediately told people to get outside," said one witness, George Sanderson. ling In Beirut Pharmacy Your Health By Charles Warren, DPh (ACA, ASCP) ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) The Arab hijackers who held a Kuwait Airways jet for 16 days and killed two of its passengers have been traced to the stronghold of pro-Iranian extremists in Lebanon, diplo- Four Medicines for Glaucoma Glaucoma, a condition of increased pressure from fluid build-up within the eye, is the leading cause of blindness in the United States. Obituaries matic sources said Saturday.

Arab and Western diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the hijackers were believed to have made their getaway in an Algerian air force plane via the Syrian capital of Damascus before dawn Wednesday. The sources said the leader of the hijackers was believed to be Izze-dine Hassan, a Shiite hardliner known to have been involved in the 1985 TWA hijacking in which an American was killed. "Various diplomatic security and counter-terrorist agencies are trying to keep track of the gang," one diplomat said. "The men are believed to have gone underground with Hezbollah in a largely Shiite part of west Beirut where their trail is easily lost" Eye specialists commonly use one or more medicine groups to treat this condition. Each group has its own specific advantages and disadvantages.

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and two grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Thomas Wil-lard, George Tinsley, David Tomain, Bobby Bowers, Doris Owens, Dwayne Anderson and Mickey Butler. Donations may be made in her name to the memorial fund at New Providence Baptist Church. Robert Patterson Robert Patterson, 81, 775 Greenwood died Saturday, April 23, 1988, at his home. The funeral will be at 2 p.m.

Monday at Sykes Funeral Home Chapel with James Ashby and Virgil Allison officiating. Burial will be in Green- Jesse Coleman Jesse Woodrow Coleman, 48, 1803 Calloway Drive, died Tuesday, April 19, 1988, in Cheatham County as the result of an automobile accident A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Hooker's Crystal Chapel with the Rev. Euless Pettus officiating. The remains will be cremated Hooker Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

He was born in Gadsden, on Oct 18, 1939, son of Jesse and Willie Teague Coleman. He was employed by the Tennessee Department of Corrections and today. He was born in Montgomery County on March 24, 1907, son of Alonzo and Sally Evans Patterson. He was a retired construction worker and member of Crossland Avenue Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Ethel Patterson, Clarksville; two stepsons, Don Kirkland, Woodlawn, and Wendell Kirkland, Clarksville; one stepdaughter, Janey Thomas, Burns; two brothers, Herman Patterson, Dotsonville community, and Albert Patterson, Clarksville; one sister, Nancy Harrison, Louisville, and six stepgrandchildren.

Pallbearers will be George Graves, Wendell Kirkland, Don Kirkland, Tony Thomas, David Kirkland, Lester Matthews and Jeff Thomas. i was a member of Springhill Baptist wood Cemetery. Visitation will be after 9 a.m. mm nn mm i. i LTU fivcPr 1 "0 'Mm Church.

Survivors include his parents, Gadsden; his wife, Nellie Ash Cole-' man, Clarksville; two sons, Stanley Coleman and Rodney Coleman, both of Junction City, one daughter, Rhonda Coleman Clark, Clarksville; six brothers, Richard L. Coleman, James L. Coleman, Robert J. Coleman, Ray A. Coleman Willie F.

Coleman and Randall D. Coleman, all of Gadsden; six sisters, Elenor Derico, Bernice Coleman, Polly J. Howve, Gwendolyn Coleman and Jessica K. Coleman, all of Gadsden; and two grandchildren. Harry Jenkins Jr Harry H.

Jenkins 52, 1316 Courtney Drive, died Friday, April 22, 1988, at Scott Air Force Base Medical Center. The funeral will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Jarnigan Mortuary, Knox-ville. Burial will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Knoxville National Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Foston Memorial ChapeL He was born in Knoxville on March 15, 1936, son of Harry H. Jenkins Sr. andHavillah Rodgers Jenkins. He was a retired sergeant first class, a youth service worker at the Tennessee Youth Center in Joelton, and a member of the Mount Olive Baptist Church, Knoxville.

Survivors include his mother of Knoxville; two sons, Harry H. Jenkins III, Hooks, Texas, and Troy E. Jenkins, Johnson City; two brothers, Jeffrey Jenkins and Reuben Jenkins, both of Knoxville; three sisters, Sharon J. Knoxville, Margaret J. Brown, Croydon, and Saun-dra J.

Fulton, Floyds Knobs, Ind. Willorene Butler Willorene Butler, 72, Clarksville, died Friday, April 22, 1988, at Memorial Hospital. The funeral will be at 2 pm Monday at McReynolds-Nave ttarsori Funeral Home with the Rev. Robert Mitchell officiating. Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Gardens.

Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. today and Monday until the hour of the service. She was born in Warren, on Oct 22, 1915, a son of Walter and Eunice Spraggins Hairston. She was a homemaker and member of New Providence Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband, C.L.

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