European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 31, 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 9 company s exams failed lest 6f timeliness firm still has t Given Dodds All results on standardized test by Mary Hladky education writer when the school year started administrators planned to give students standardized achievement tests in mid sep tember. They also expected the results one month later so teachers could discuss them with parents. Kids look the Lesu As planned. Bui parents did t learn their children s scores at Parent Lac lick conferences in november in fact some teachers and Parent still were wailing for results in March. Even now the five department of de sense dependents schools regions do not have regional lest summary data. And Dodds Headquarters officials Haven t received system wide results. The company that dropped the Hall cab Mcgraw Hill one of about six major testing companies in the United Stales. One series of examinations it produces is the widely used California achievement tests they promised four week  said Gerard Alt kerb is Dodds Germany evaluation coordinator a it turned out they could t even provide Bur month delivery Dodds contracted with the firm last year at a Cost of $382,441 to provide and score tests for student in second through Ullh grades. Secondary students were tested in Reading spelling language mathematics study skills science and social studies. Elementary students did not gel the science and social studies tests. Cab Mcgraw Hill had created a new computer pro Gram to score the tests. The program had serious deficiencies according to a letter sent april 17 from cab Mcgraw Hill general manager David Deffley to school administrators. We arc greatly embarrassed by the delay and apologize Tor the inconvenience we have caused you the schools teachers administrators and parents Deffley wrote. Dodds was among school systems in sever full Stales that experienced problems with the test that measures  children have Learned and what they need to learn. Only about 10 of our 44 schools received lest results Back by the end of october said Allan Netburn Calua lion coordinator for Dodds Atlantic Only about 10 of our schools received test results Back by the end of october Allan Netburn it com ruler program had a lol of kinks and quirks in in said a Lemons chief of supplementary education for dodos Mediterranean. When it became Clear that the test problems could not be corrected quickly enough Dodds director Beth Stephens negotiated a Deal with the company. Cab Mcgraw Hill provided at no Cost another test produced by the company known As the comprehensive tells of Basic skills. All students in third through 11th grades took the tests in late april and Early May. Results Are arriving now. Meanwhile Dodds will riot renew its contract for the cat and officials plan to accept bids from testing firms for a standardized test that will be administered next Spring Dodds will accept bids from cab Mcgraw Dodds has an inconsistent testing history. I began administering standardized tests in 1956, but halted the practice Between 1966 and 1974. Dodds regions in Europe created their own test which was used for three years. Then Dodds contracted with we Stinehouse learning corp. To develop social less for its students. In 1980, Congress ordered that Dodds Tysl students and provide results to parents. Dodds contracted for another special lest but parents complained that they could t understand the reports. In 1982, some Dodds regions bought a product used by Many other school districts Mcgraw Hill s cubs. This year Dodds switched to the cat and planned to test All students. The cat problems have thrown Dodds testing pro Gram into disarray. Some schools had planned to adminis Ter iwo batteries of tests during the fall and Spring this year. Under such a program the first tests show areas in which students arc weak that allows administrators to spot any teaching deficiencies and allows teachers to Brush up students skills in problem areas or make curriculum adjustments. The second tests measure what students have Learned and can be used to Sec How Well students teachers and schools Are doing. But because of Tramm Rudman legislated budget cuts Dodds officials in Washington told regional administrators not to buy a second Battery of tests for next school year. The Only test Given this tall will be a first Grade readiness lest. In addition cat results were so Laic that teachers and administrators can t use them for some of their Normal purposes the cancellation of testing next fall Means teachers and administrators will wait a full year before getting another look at How they Are doing. That does not disappoint All teachers. Many who oppose two Lessing sessions a year argue that Tea much emphasis is placed on testing and we Klong testing sessions Cut deeply into their leaching time. Reagan lauds veterans of Wii intelligence corps for Twilight War sacrifices Washington a America s spies of world War ii came to Honor presi Dent Reagan but he turned the situation around and saluted them saying the former Oss officers who heard no bugles and received no medals. Sacrificed so free Dom might  Reagan said Hie office of strategic serv ices spies fought a Twilight War. Where Praise and thanks can Only come from his tory and not your contemporaries the cloak and Dagger veterans whose Agency was a forerunner of the Cia wore tuxedos and brandished dinner Forks As they applauded Reagan s pledge to keep improving the nation s intelligence network. Reagan extolled the exploits of spies from Nathan Hale to the present including Cia director William Casey whom he singled out for special Praise. Reagan called Casey an Oss Veteran our Leader and Good Friend and surely one of the heroes of America s Fishl for Freedom in the postwar  Casey has launched a Public Effort to keep the news Media from disclosing secrets about intelligence gathering �pcraiions1,?l1, May have seen compromised by Ronald Pellon a former National Security Agency employee accused of Selling secrets to the soviet Union. Reagan did not specifically mention that controversy but instead emphasized the importance of secrecy through the years. He quoted George Washington who As american commander in chief during the revolutionary War wrote to one of his offi cers the necessity of procuring Good in ther Weed. Am that remains for me to you is thai you keep the whole matter As secret As possible. For upon. We of open skin most enterprises of this kind and for want of it they Are generally Defeated however Well planned and promising. Even then Washington seemed to sense that this business of secrecy docs not come easily to us americans Reagan said. We Are rightly regarded As a candid and open people who Pride ourselves on our free society. And yet our secret services our spies and intelligence have often provided the key to Victory in War and the preservation of our Freedom during an uneasy  the president also departed from his offi Cial text to go for some laughs. "1 asked whether this dinner was going to be Black lie and was told no Trench coat,1" he said Reagan said when he asked Casey for directions to the dinner he was told go to 17th and k Street Sand wait for the phone to  the veterans of the Oss presented Rea Gan with its William j. Donovan award named for the former chief of the service and medal of Honor Winner. Geoffrey Jones president of the group presented the award and read a letter of congratulations from British prime min ister Margaret Thatcher. The More than 600 people attending the dinner at the Washington Hilton also included some veterans of the intelligence services from countries that cooperated with the Oss Jones said. The president and his wife Nancy went from the Oss dinner to the Kennedy Cen Ter for the performing arts for the opening night performance of a revival of the play the Caine Mutiny court martial Star ring their old Friend Charlton Heston. They took As their guest former Oss officer and Excia director Richard Helms. Backstage after the play in which a naval officer is put an trial near the end of world War ii for relieving his commanding officer during a typhoon at sea Reagan was asked if reporters should t cover the Pelton trial. You could report on this trial the presi Dent suggested with a smile. Birds Eye View Sis Tholo do Tony flu role no ibis Stork in t taking rest after a Turret of Hohenberg Castle longed laying � perfect Cane of 1,000 eggs. It i Southeast of Hof Germany along in just taking in the Fiew from its nest atop  Border