European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 26, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 7 Bennett gives schools poor report card claims College test scores in dead stall Washington api Secretary of education William a bin null said wednesday thai College Entrance lest scorn Are in a dead stall and inc pub Lic is still not gelling in Money s Worth from the schools. In saying thai t am disappointed. I think 1 speak for the american people said Bennett in his annual report card an the states. Bennett was delivering that Var Dick at a news con Terence where he was also re leasing two Wall chans nearly 6 feet wide crammed with statistics ranking the states on lest scorn dropout rates How much they pay teachers and other Mea sures. It was the fifth straight year thai an education Secretary has released the controversial Wall charts. Bennett s predecessor. . Bell Inisi Atco the practice. John Weiss executive director of fair test. A Cambridge. Mass., group that is critical of standardised tests said. I makes no sense to use a Fouhy thermometer to measure the nation s educational health Bennett said inc Tschoi i Reform move ment is Ai ivc and yielding positive re sults in same Stales hut there is still too much resistance in sensible and needed changing goals College freshmen who by fax being vary Well Oti financially la in hhflu1 of very important object Tow in percent of nationwide Survey of naw Oiler Long College freshmen 1975 77 79 81. 83 85 87 Cha to Tibung Chin sources a Lahl Ltd Edu Calton Fleu Arch Kadlulo ii a american do until i educator Reform including accountability Mea sures and Merit pay. This year for the first Lime the Wall Chart includes a list of seven Stales a Kansas Georgia Kentucky new Jersey Ohio. South Carolina and Texas with Laws allowing stale officials to intervene in academically bankrupt school districts. It also lists the percentage of High scorers on the Scholastic aptitude test and american College testing program and the percentage of High school graduates who look advanced placement exams. The College Entrance Lesl scores were not new. They were made Public last fall. Bennett lamented that they Are in a dead stall. The 1937 scores arc basically unchanged from last year. The act average dipped by  Point 10 18.7, and the sat remained the same 906." the act is graded on a scale of 1-36 and the sat on a scale of 400-1.600. All of this is not particularly Good news said bin Nult. Who recently began his fourth year As Secretary of education. But he did find some encouraging signs. Last year a greater proportion of students look the act and sat test Sand he advanced placement cams than Ever before he sch. The