University Daily Kansan, January 21, 1981 Page 7
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Bill to require teaching tests faces House
By DEBBY FOSTER Staff Reporter
Action is being taken on two fronts to require testing of students who are graduating from Kansas schools of entering the Kansas teaching market.
In the Kansas Legislature, a bill introduced by Rep. Anita Niles, D-Lebo, would require students seeking teaching certificates or re-certification to first pass basic skills tests in their respective fields.
Action on the bill by the House Education Committee could come as early as next week.
JAMES LOWTHER, chairman of the education committee, said that he expected controversy over specific wording in the bill, but that he thought it would be accepted. Similar bills were introduced but failed in 1978 and 1979. Lowther also expects one to be introduced in the Senate this term.
"There is a better chance this session for passage than ever before," he said. The Kansas Board of Regents is also taking action on teacher quality.
The Regents have asked the deans of the various schools of education to continue to assess student's basic math and English skills in order to form a uniform standard basic skills test as a prerequisite for admittance to the school of education, and to work with the state Department of Education to explore the necessity of a math curriculum.
KU's education program now has a math requirement for undergraduates and requires students to pass an exam before being admitted to the school.
KANAS TEACHERS are now certified for three years and must take additional college courses to be recertified every five years. If the Legislature passed the Niles bill, teachers would also have to take basic skills tests before their certificates could be renewed.
The tests Niles proposed would be standardized for individual fields and would be administered by each Regents school. Niles said that she thought testing was necessary and that because other professional fields had such tests "teachers should not feel threatened by it."
Wednesday, Jan. 21 Young Torless
"Voker Schloendorf (The Tin Dum)'s breakthrough film, strongly German yet with a touch of Truffaut. A young schoolchild teases the world and begins questioning his world. "A beautiful movie." - Vincent Canby, The New York Times. With Mathew Carrier, Barbara Starle, Plus: "Uses a 1928 (8:18 min.) German subtitle," BW 7.30.
Thursday, Jan. 22
Serfs (1963)
A free presentation of a film from the People's Republic of China. The story of conflicts in Tibet's case system during the Chinese Communist era coexisted with the Chinese Community Partly Cinematically, the best film to have come from China to that time. Presented by the East Asian Studies Department at Auditorium, 736, FREE ADMISSION
Friday, Jan. 23 North Dallas Forty
Peter Gent's story of an ageing quarterback falling out of love with game watcher (MacDavis) who just like booze, and cheerleaders is a wildly funny as any player. The story is brought up what at pro-football has become—for better or worse. With G.D. Spradin, Dayle Haddon, and Boeven Lippincott, the Griffin grindlion film ever made"—Leonard Matlin, TV Movies. Plus: Mikey Mouse Mickey, Mikey. (1997) mickey. Color: 3.30.
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Julia
(1977)
encore presentation of Fred Zimmerman's radiant film, based on Lifetime's *The Man with the Red Dress*, which he helms and Vansace Reddraweis for Julia, who joins the fight against rising Nazism and drawshelm in its awake. She stars in *The Dark Knight* and writes Alan写 Instruments (Ordinary People) all won Oscar Plus: Faith Holley (*The World.*) (11811 mm) color. #700.
unless otherwise noted, all films will be shown at Woodstock Auditorium in the Friday and Saturday evenings on Friday. Saturday, Popular and Sunday films are $15.00; Midnight films are $2.00. Music is available at the Union, 4th level, information: 864-387-437. No smoking or reflections at events.
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