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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, May 22, 1977

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 educational system blamed hispanic students study finds Denver a children of hispanic descent lag behind other students in every major area of classroom and the fault appears to lie with an educational system that does not meet the needs of minority a National study released Friday the concluded that the hispanic achievement level was often closer to the National level than Black the federally financed study by the National assessment of educational Prog Ress showed that students of Spanish heritage had not reached the same Levels of achievement As other students in read social studies and occupational if you As we that All Chil Dren can the data strongly suggest that hispanic students do not receive equal benefits from the education system of this said an accompanying commentary by two hispanic the Mere availability of Public Educa Tion simply is not said Jose Martinez of the California state department of education and Shirley Munoz Hernandez of the bilingual general assistance Center at Columbia the two educators recommended that studies be made on ways to use the instructional system More efficiently and suggested a reexamination of the Content and materials used in the various subject new approaches must be found to meet the needs of minority students that apparently Are not presently being they the National assessment of education Al Progress is a program of the education commissions of the a nonprofit organization that promotes cooperation among state education and political Lead ers for the improvement of in its More than students were tested Between 1971 and 1975 at Ages 13 and 17 to measure their educational of the More than 000 were determined to be of hispanic de scent primarily mexican americans and puerto Picans in the Western and northeastern parts of the the study showed that Only 54 per cent of the hispanic 17yearolds had reached the Lith compared to 61 per cent of the Black 17yearolds and 76 per cent of the White among other conclusions hispanic students from the West did better than those in the Northeast in All categories except math at Ages 9 and at age hispanic students from the Northeast were nearly 18 percentage Points below the nation in social studies and 17 percentage Points below in the study quoted 1976 census figures showing More than 11 million persons of Spanish heritage in the the majority in new Texas and new formal order is sighed for concorde tryout Landing at Kennedy Margaret and Jackie Margaret Trudeau wife of Cana Dian prime minister Pierre talks with an animated Jacqueline Ken laetrile is now Legal in Arizona Phoenix a a measure legalizing the manufacture and Sale of the controversial substance laetrile in Arizona was signed into Law Friday by Raul Castro i am Happy to sign it the governor because the measure car ried an emergency it takes effect there Are some suffering from cancer who have turned to laetrile and swear that it has helped Castro others Are not so but they at least have found mental peace with its and they have found tremendous the new Law allows the use of la Ernle within the made from Apricot and peach pits and bitter Las been banned from interstate com Merce by the food and drug administration the Fra contends that the substance has not been proven effective against cancer and May tempt cancer victims to put off other useful Nedy Onassis at a party after a new York Ballet in the Center is Oliver won it in 1900 new York up a Federal judge Friday signed a formal order allowing a tryout of the concorde supersonic Jet at new Yorks Kennedy Airport but he delayed enforcement of the order until May District court judge Milton Pollack Ord cd the delay in the controversial order to allow the port authority of new York and new Jersey time to Appeal his ruling on concorde Landing rights to the 2nd court of Pollack ruled May 11 that the author Tys ban on the set which was imposed in March was pollacks May 11 ruling was damned by residents and elected officials of the area surrounding Kennedy Airport who object to the noise the Hawk nosed plane makes on Takeoff and homeowners have complained that the noise level would be increased to intolerable Levels by the set property values would Tumble and their Homes could be shattered by vibrations from the medal of Honor hero ends his first Century they have vowed to carry their fight to the supreme court if pollacks May 11 ruling cited the supremacy of Federal regulations in the matter and granted British airways and air the cosponsors of the trans permission to land concorde at Ken which is operated by the fridays order enjoined the port author Ity from making any attempt to interfere or impede operations of the concorde at the effects vines of this order is stayed until 4 May on condition that the port authority shall promptly file notice of an Appeal for this Pollack when it files its Appeal the by state Agency is expected to seek another stay of pollacks order pending a final court ruling in the Patrick a lawyer representing the port contended that without the stay the two airlines could commence proving flights at any he would put unnecessary pressure on the courts in deciding the Stanley a lawyer represent ing air told the court that the proving flights from Paris and London were scheduled to begin no later than the end of this both air France and British which operate the have said they Hope to begin service by june by John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington Sis the nations oldest medal of Honor recipient will observe his 100th birthday on William a patient at the Brock a is brushing up on a few Lusty Navy ditties for his birthday party in the hospitals nursing Home care a a spokesman he said that a native of had moved to Canada As a Young live Shell kills collector Puli an 84 year old Man whose Hobby was collecting castoffs bomb shells from a nearby govern ment bombing practice Range died instantly thursday when one of them neighbors told police the Phil collected the shells for Many years and repeatedly ignored warnings that some of the shells might still be Man when he was a crewman on a Mer chant later seach came to the and enlisted in the Navy before the turn of the seach was awarded the medal of the nations highest decoration for military for action with the Relief expedition of the Allied forces in China during the Battles of 21 and 22 according to the a he said that seach had served As a member of the naval Landing party which completed scouting duties As part of the peking Relief expedition during the Boxer the spokesman added that at the time seach was an Ordinary Seaman aboard the seach remained with the Navy for 20 retiring in the Grade of the a spokesman said that among the guests at mondays birthday party will be Sachs wife of 65 a Resi Dent of South seach will be 85 on the Dandy of time May 1947 Lucius Neucom directed today that the Gar Misch recreation Center go on a strict self sustaining basis by charging a Moder ate fee for All services and May the first draftees to be sworn into the new German army took their enlistment May 1s67 Mendell chairman of the House armed services charged that us United states has not been destroying logical military targets and called for mining the port of  
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