European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday december 11, 1986 the stars and stripes Pago Ramstein High offers help with sat says baloney to claim students can t study for test writer Ramstein a Germany can coaching or leaching for the Scholastic api elude test raise scores Zamstein High school has a simple answer. Yes. But the educational testing service which devise the test has called such efforts worthless. Ets has been saying that you can t do it Saidra Stem High Schoor Counselor Jerry Engleson that Carol Franks agrees. In her second year As instructor for the semester Long sat prep course she uses Sample questions from past sat tests As the basis instruction. The sat offered five times during the school year is used by Many colleges and universities to help deter mine admission. The test often has been viewed As a comparative tool in evaluating school systems since students every where take the same test at the same time. Scores Range from 200 to 800 in both the verbal and mathematics sections Franks gives All 25 students a Sample sat lest at the beginning of the course. After 18 weeks of instruction students take another Sample test. Franks data fro the 1985-86 school year showed an average gain in verbal scores of 40. An average gain in math scores of 70. The highest gain was from an original 380 in mat to 610 at the end of the course. One student each semester failed to show any bought a copy of every sat prep Book on the Market said Franks who s qualified to teach mat hand English. I was going through them to find out what was covered. Then hooked at what my kids an staff have had trouble with and focused on the course is an elective providing credit but no toward English or mathematics. Most sat prep Stu dents also take English and math course it declared unique to department of defense dependents school in providing credit but principal Fred Drain said similar programs Are being done All Over the United states. The better High schools in the United states Are using Drain decided to provide the course after consulting with the school s teachers and Counselor. If the Content were unique., if we were teaching something that was really different we would have logo through Dodds for justification Drath there s nothing More Basic than language arts and Franks said they walk in the first Day and Hel them this is Reading writing and arithmetic review. This is toe most Boring class you Ever look if so the students have yet to get the message. Erg Leson said More students want to take the course but with a quota of 25 per semester they will have to wait although no one is excluded from the Coune. It i designed Tor students who Don t fit the High achiever category. Most of he students we get Are the top Hal of the Bottom half who maybe would like to get into the top half Engleson said some Dodds High schools provide non credit sat instruction on weekends. But offering the course during the school Day avoids conflicts with jobs sports and other activities you d get the super achievers Franks said of a weekend course. If we had a three session course on saturday we d have the entire enrichment Section of the senior class. We should t have those kids in this said he never viewed sat scores As a matter of life or death for this but he said the Public perception of the value of he test and student interest prompted him to address sat preparation. We thin kit s a pretty Good service to the kids. All we re trying to do is make a Good school 17oj-Ou 31i1uui a crts Jii unto. Maulell full. " 3 Small Block colleges facing loss of accreditation Atlanta a the accreditation of three Small Black colleges in Texas and Tennessee has been ordered revoked bythe major school accrediting Agency in the Southeast. The Southern association of colleges and schools on tuesday said Bishop col lege of Dallas Knoxville College of Knoxville tenn., and Morristown col lege Morris Iown tenn., failed to meet financial stability requirements. The schools retain their accreditation pending appeals which will be heard during the summer the Agency said. Loss of accreditation could make i difficult for students to obtain Federal financial Aid or Transfer credits to other schools. If the three schools Appeal and lose i would be the first time since the 1940s thai he 11,000-member association has removed a College or University from membership. Levi Watkins Bishop s interim presi Dent said that an Appeal would be Point less but that the College trustees would decide on Friday. Bishop lost Only ils accreditation but the people of Dallas lost a lot More Watkins said from his Home in Mont Gomery. Ala. Well just Start Over at Square one pay off the creditors an begin to build a greater Thomas a Carpenter chairman of the association s commission on col Leges and schools called the action extremely unfortunate and said financial instability is not unique to Black schools. Most Small private institutions fac serious problems he said. Demographics indicate this will continue. Enrol ment is not going up and most of these schools depend on tuition for much of their Jim Rogers executive director of the commission said the schools had been on probation for two years and had Bee notified Long before that of areas in which they were deficient. Bishop College affiliated with the pre dominantly Black National Baptist Church has 1,136 College is a private school with an enrolment of s43. Mom town affiliated with the United methodist Church has its Southern association also placed on probation Texas chiropractic Coll Geof Houston for financial problems and the universities of he americas at Puebla in Puebla Mexico for failure to com ply with standards regarding faculty preparation and libraries. The schools were Given two Yean to meet standards or lose their accredit non profit Southern association covers ii Southern states and Latina Erica. Sergeant s passion is making music with a bang _.TT, k a. L up to a Ohhi Connie Dickey staff writer Athens Greece when he s hot Hartley Chism can drum a Hole in on ironing he did just thai at the age of 10, in time to songs on the radio Bis Mother went out and got him some Drums. Ever since the hell Nikon a i ser Geant has been keeping the beat 1 got my first Sel of Drums As a Christmas pre sent he said. Before cd Tsimas my parents went out and i snuck into the living room and unwrapped and a Yed them then i wrapped them Back up. The Oklahoma native never had drum lessons. He Learned selections by Lisien into records and managed to become member of several bands. While at ,,neb.,.befocoin-, Chism became interested in " we degrees. And i was Able to pick upre8din�music,"chimniaid. A Niec in Junior High Chis a was in the school Archesi although he could t read music. It Mill have to do that i us ened to Isordi thai can to Ying like the Etc. Following your creative Tinea. To learn and tech. Sgt bail to a i. Home in at heat Knect. i bad to play percussion and the congas. I bought one Conga drum tin played All Day so 1 would be ready. Then. When i got up on stage someone drought Over a second Conga and i did t know what to that he was a member of Dino and the soul struts and later he became member of a band that never got out of the garage while Al tinker fab poured with a band called soul Satin and silk during an assignment to Germany. Working As a substitute drummer first then full time Chism and the band toured England and Belgium playing the military circuit "1 love being on Wittge Chint said. Thal i what 1 do Best How off. I was not a popular kid in school to i think Ming on stage is the greatest thing while drumming May be chum s Pas Sion he said he loves playing percussion More Kettle Drums sound effects cow Bells and wind Chimes when i m play ing percussion i m closer to the Audi ence. In makes me feel like the driving Force of the band Chism said. Chism practices about 30 minutes Aday through the week right after work and on weekends in the Early Way 1 Don t disturb anybody Chism advice to youngsters no want to be drummers is yeah listen to you favorite drummer copy him but Kara to Lead music and make Tun Una v what you want to a drum self can be expend
