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Kansas' primary education scores high
Emphasis on quality lands state in top 10
By Chesley Dohl
Kansan staff writer
If the American Legislative Exchange Council assigned grades, Kansas would get an A.
In its education report released Sept. 23, the council listed Kansas among the nation's top 10 states in educating kindergarten through 12th-grade students.
The report assessed the American education system by using 13 indicators, including pupil/teacher ratio, graduation rates and college entrance exam scores.
One of the report's findings indicated that states providing the best education tended to spend the least amount of money per pupil. Seven of the top 10 states in educational quality are Midwestern states, including Kansas, where students are more likely to attend small schools with generally fewer than 300 students.
Michael Imber, professor of educational policy and leadership, said there were a lot factors to consider when comparing spending in small, rural and large, urban schools. Imber said that in cities there are more distractions for educators, such as language barriers, standards of living
"It will cost a lot more to have a school in New York than in Kansas," Imber said. "There's a higher standard of living in New York so teachers will need higher salaries."
Imber said people might look at the report and jump to conclusions that conditions are better in small schools.
and social factors.
"There is no inherent advantage of small schools versus the large school," Imbar said. "And there is no direct correlation between spending and quality education."
D. J. Law, Albert sophomore, said he thought his small-town education contributed to his success at KU.
"In the smaller town everyone knows you and knows what you're up to—it's a push to please people," Law said. "I think I'm a pretty well-rounded person because I got the chance to be in speech, play football and do all the extras a lot of big-city kids don't get to do."
Looking beyond the successes of the top 10 states, report officials said the report was proof that America's education system had failed in its responsibility to provide a sound education for its students.
"Education is primarily a state responsibility, and we're obligated to provide this information to the public, so they can make informed choices about the performance of our
During the past 20 years, educational spending has increased by 62 percent, and the nation has little to show for it, Card said.
schools," said Noel Card, director of public affairs for the council that released the report.
"We're finding money alone isn't the answer to our problem," Card said. "But it' s how we spend that money."
The report also indicated that states requiring more core academic courses for graduation had higher educational quality.
Hohn said that when students are required to meet higher expectations, they tend to excel.
"When teachers have confidence in students, students tend to have more confidence in their own abilities and work harder to reach those higher expectations," Hohn said.
Core academic courses with an emphasis in problem solving and critical thinking, such as science and math, are important to success in higher levels of education, Hohn said.
He said that students need to be better prepared for college when they graduate from high school.
"College requires a great deal of individual thinking," Hohn said. "Rather than spoon feeding information to students, they have to learn to come up with their own ideas."
Top10
In a recent report, states were loosely ranked according to quality in K-12 education. Thirteen factors, including pupil/teacher ratio, graduation rates and test scores were considered. The 10 states that appeared most often in the top 10:
Minnesota Nebraska
Wisconsin
Teacher salaries
Nebraska North Dakota
teacher salaries
Highest: Connecticut. $48,850
South Dakota
Lowest: South Dakota,$24,369
Kansas:$33,133
Highest: Connecticut, $48,850
Lowest: South Dakota, $24,369
Kansas: $33,133
National average: $35,334
Highest: New Jersey, $10,561
Lowest: Utah, $3,128
National average: $5,598
Highest: Washington, D.C., 11:9
Lowest: Utah, 23:8
Pupil/Teacherratio
National average:17:2
1993SAT Scores (perfect score:
1600)
Highest: Iowa.1103
National average:902
Highest: Iowa, 1193
Lowest: South Carolina, 838
Kansas: 1042
More abused children find patricide a solution
Kansas:1042
KANSAN
By Chesley Dohl
Kansan staffwriter
A case involving a former KU student who was charged with the attempted murder of her father is one of an increasing number of cases nationally in which children who claim child abuse turn to violence.
In early September, Caroline Castleberry, Quivira Lake, who attended KU last spring, was charged with the attempted murder of her father, Charles Castleberry. Charles Castleberry has been released from an Overland Park hospital after being treated for a gunshot wound to the head. At the time of her arrest, Castleberry alleged her father was abusive.
Kevin Moriarty, Castleberry's attorney, said he was unable to confirm her allegations of abuse.
However, Moriarty said there was a growing number of people resorting to violence to end abuse. He said child abuse as a defense was becoming common place in the nation's courts.
"It's a widely recognized phenomenon that does exist," he said. "This isn't by any means a new situation — this has gone on across the nation for some
time."
Liane Davis, associate dean of social welfare, said that in many cases the victims of abuse saw violence as the only way out.
Davis cited an Oklahoma case that received national attention in which Herman and Druie Dutton went to trial in early September on charges that they murdered their father.
"Here's a situation where children continued to live with a violently abusive father," Davis said. "A lot of people knew of this abuse but nothing was done about it."
Davis said heavy social worker case loads and fears of the abused were two reasons why children do not get the help they need from outside sources.
"Even though their situations might be extremely abusive, children clam up when confronted by social workers." Davis said.
She said that despite the abuse, children feared losing the only families they knew.
Davis said that battered women found very little comfort in restraining orders. She said research showed that in many cases, abused women were worse off when they left their battlers.
"They see protective orders as pieces of paper that don't offer much help," she said. "Women don't find any kind of safeguard in them from physical and mental abuse."
Sometimes families living with abuse do not seek outside help because they see their situations as hopeless and embarrassing, Davis said. Many times, women and children are forbidden to get help and have had their lives threatened.
Threats are a very powerful tool used by the abuser, Davis said.
After enduring years of abuse, victims finally reach breaking points. Davis said.
The pain from physical abuse will end, but psychological abuse never ends. It remains with the victim," she said.
Researchers were still determining if violent measures taken by the abused were decisions or reactions to years of abuse, she said.
"When battered women kill, research has shown their behavior is primarily a reaction," Davis said. "These people see no way out — there's no alternative."
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