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Legislators hear teacher education plans
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A committee of Kansas legislators went to school vesterdav.
The Kansas Board of Regents and the Kansas State Board of Education want to improve the quality of teacher education, which wants to do it in a slightly different way.
Representatives from both boards presented their ideas yesterday for improvement to the Legislative Educational Planning Committee, which wanted to learn about both proposals.
AFTER THE BOARD of education files its proposal, the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules and Regulations will review them, said Drown bunker, chairman of the Legislative Educational Planning Committee. The rules and regulations committee will have the final say on whether the proposal is adopted, Crumbaker said.
At its Sept. 10 meeting, the State Board of Education passed its proposal for improving teacher education, requiring potential teachers to have a pre-admission test before entering the KU School of Education.
Floyd Grimes, chairman of the Board of Education, presented the board's proposal, which will be filed at the next week, making it the equivalent of law.
i the board's proposal has three parts:
- A uniform pre-admission screening test for prespective teachers entering the School of Education.
- A minimum 2.5 GPA for entrance into the School of Education.
- A teacher approval program to improve the quality of teachers.
The board also has two ideas for improving the quality of teacher education, but it did not add them to its proposal.
GRIMES SAID that sometime in the future, the board would like to add a certification test and a one-year permanent permit for teaching to the proposal.
The Board of Regents has its own proposal for improving teacher education, which is not radically different from the Board of Education's proposal. However, the Regents do not have the authority to make laws concerning education. The proposal is just an idea that they hope to convince the state board to adopt.
The Regents recommendation also has three parts:
- The prospective teacher must graduate from an approved teacher education program. This rule is already in effect.
- A pre-admission screening examination testing basic skills to be given before entrance to the School of Education. However, the Regents do not recommend a uniform test. They have alwaysaving each university make up its own.
- A certification examination to be taken before a teacher can be certified.
- A teaching internship jointly planned and administered by the school district and the university the teacher graduated from.
Joe McFarland, acting executive officer of the Board of Regents,
presented the Regents proposal. He said the Regents like the idea of an internship, but he admitted "might be an idea whose time hasn't come."
BOTH MCFARLAND and Grimes expounded their proposals, pointing out strengths and weaknesses, and annotations. They then better understand the proposals.
Grimes said a committee was formulating a pre-admission test, possibly based on the ability to recognize
"But if the Legislature doesn't appropriate $100,000, we're cut off at the paycheck."
The $100,000 is the cost of creating such a test. Grimes said.
The Regents are not totally opposed to a pre-admission test; they just do not want it to be uniform for each institution, McFarland said.
The content of the test should be left up to each university, McFarland said, giving each one the freedom to emphasize what it thinks is important.
THE 2.5 GPA was the major point of contention between the two boards.
The Regents are not opposed to
requiring a 2.5 GPA at the time of graduation, but they think a rigid 2.5 for admission to the School of Education is not feasible.
If passed, the 2.5 GPA would be required for entrance to the School of Education and would have to be in the school until the time of graduation.
At its Sept. 10 meeting, the Board of Education raised the GPA required for teacher certification from 2.0 to 2.5
Although the Board of Education is not in favor of a teacher certification test right now, Grimes said, he thinks it is a good idea. However, the board prefers to test students as early as possible, he said.
"The board wanted action early on instead," he said. "Graduation was too late."
MCFARLAND SAID the Regents thought a certification test was necessary and would probably institute a certification test if the Board of Education did not.
"We can twist enough arms in our institutions to make sure they do something like this," he said.
Secretary predicts continued air snags
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON—The impact of the walk-out by about 11,000 air traffic controllers may be felt for several more months in the form of delays at the nation's major airports, says transportation secretary Drew Lewis.
was going to be a cakewalk," Lewis said in a recent interview.
*We're going to have six months of *bite**
*tourism* to be used for education.
"I feel that the most difficult time for the public to endure is going to be through April 15, which gets us through the winter season," Lewis said.
Delays at airports for the last two weeks of September doubled from the same period last year, the Federal Aviation Administration reported.
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From a cold 6-pack to a hot pizza, from paperbacks to typing and toilet paper and 3,000 items in between, we've got it in stock at Kwik Shon.
And, when it comes down to basics, we have those, too - bread, milk, eggs, and all of college life's other necessities at prices we've cut to compare with supermarkets.
So go ahead. Think of what you're out of.
Then, think Kwik Shop.
845 Mississippi
on campus
TODAY
HILLLEL will sponsor Yom Kippur services at 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.在 the Lawrence Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Dr.
THE EPISCOPAL EUCHARISTIC
HOUSE will meet at noon in
Danforth Chapel
THE LIFE ISSUE SEMINAR will be a discussion on "Be Where You Are," at 4:30 p.m. in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
THE RENAISSANCE DANCERS AND STUDENT CREATIVE ANACHRONISTS will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Kansas Union.
THE SIMULATIONS GAMING GROUP will meet at 7 p.m. in Cork 2 of the Union.
WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS will meet at 7 p.m. in 303 Flint Hall.
LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY will present a film, "Puerto Rico," at 7 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
THE SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES LECTURE will present Xenia Gasiorowski, from the University of Wisconsin, speaking on it in Soviet Literature," at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union.
PLAZA BARBER SHOP
Feasting Bothe Sculpture Kit
Painting Workshop
Saturday - 10am
Twelve - 9pm, 8pm,
Twenty - 7pm, 6pm
Washington - 8:00, 7:00, 7:00 a.m
DILLIAN PLAZA SHOPPING CENTER
DILLIAN PLAZA SHOPPING CENTER
THREE MINORITY AFFAIRS
FILMS, "Geronimo Jones," "The
Forgotten American" and "Between
them" were shown at 7:39 p.m.
in 300 Worth Hall.
JOHN BOULTON, flutist, will perform at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Reception Hall.
THE SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL
JOURNALISTS, SIGMA DELTA CHI,
will hold an informational meeting with
the Society of Professional
director, at 7:30 p.m. in 303 Fint Hall.
THE HOMECOMING PARADE will be held on 30 p.m. at the west end of Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Jaipur.
THE SLAVIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES SEMINAR will feature Xenia Gasiorowski discussing "The Protracta of Peter the Great in Russian Literature" at 12:30 p.m. in the International Room of the Union.
TOMORROW
AN INTERMEDIATE JAZZ DANCE
IN MEMORIAM AT 12:30
p.m. in 242 ROBERTON CENTER
THE KU BLACK STUDENTALUMNI CAREER CONFERENCE will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Union.
Presents
Tonight
PLUS: Vigo's ZERO FOR CONDUCT
7:30 p.m. $1.50
Friday and Saturday
He who makes a beast of himself has rid himself of part of the pain of being a man.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Blair Brown
William Hurt
ALTERED STATES
3:30, 7:00, 9:30 p.m.
$1.50
AVCO. EMBASSY PICTURES RELEASE. COLOR
12:00 Midnight
$2.00
No one under 18 admitted without parent. Woodruff Auditorium.