European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday March 26,19b8 25-cent stamp available at Post offices next Wujek vhe1nau, West Germany Askedsen Dinicu government to Provo that its troops had not infiltrated Honduras As charged by the honduran gov from papa 1 a plans for . Mili Larj Al the White  fucking. Toff the flow of . Dollars a currency after a Florida grand jury with multimillion Dollar drug tray Hep Down. We continue to watch he said the economic sanctions against Panama " successful in achieving our desired ing pressure on Noriega to get out. Order Wil be restored Here been ver i. A he said. Asked ering any move to seize Stal Wei  tests from Page 1 Kent Rottier Doods Early childhood coordinator did. This causes inaccurate results. Tto Tsuati also place Fie child in a More s Ressett Nili Ull a when he first begins his shoo Espenl a draft of Bredekamp s group s pos lion paper said partly because of misuse of tests Many kindergartens Are now highly structured watered Down first grades emphasizing workbooks and other paper and pc til activities that  inappropriate for 5  our biggest objection is when tests Are misused to keep children out of school. That should occur Only after Complete diagnostic evaluation said Bredel tamp in tin interview. Addi parents and teachers Gen Erauw reliable than tests in Fri fit Readi Ness of children for a Jim. Louise Balc throes co founder of the Gesell Institute which produces a widely used screening test said it was discouraging that these groups have taken this political position our position is that if there Are 2schildren in a classroom ail acting at 5 year old maturity level the teacher still has to individualize the curriculum to different ability Levels. But if you put children together at different maturity and ability Levels then you have differences you can t possibly Span 1 she said in a Telephone interview from the Institute s new Haven conn., Headquarters. A department of defense dependent schools spokesman in Wiesbaden said Friday that children entering Dodds Granen for the first Lime Are phys age cd and developmentally  system with records from Oglw site Rocili Are no screened or a sieved. This screening provides a finding physical pro Beejai Ujj the assessment chef Waltre muscle development  and verbal speech " in and assessment do not. R children meeting age requirement from entering kindergarten but help guide teachers in providing appropriate activities he said. Children develop in set stages he said. First they crawl Ihen they walk then they run. To put a child in a hurdle contest when he can t crawl yet Doe sat work for anyone. We don1 give work Toa child thai he can t physically be expected to  Rossier admits that b a class of to or More Siu Denu teachers May find in impossible to provide for each child s Spe Cial needs. But he said children in More advanced stages of development May actas role models for their slower class mates who usually look up to them. Al Issue Are three types of lest. Developmental screening tests like he resell preschool test Are design Ccu assess s child s ability to readiness tests  hire schooners and go ski mentally mature  kindergarten Follst Young Slyn to perform i hopping drawing straight or circles and counting to 10 Back Ward and Forward. T tests Are used As Early As measure whether a child has  to be promoted tothe Cit  youngster needs extra help or  Grade advancement a overseas school system is be l?3?esrfte1vf jT1 i wrote child. If a child u recommended u non promotable then a child study com Mittee i formed and a conference with the parents is scheduled Rosier said. Many slates and school District adopted vice testing after the late 1950s sputnik Era when educators decided that the very Young could and should handle academically demanding thu die. The school Reform movement of he 1980s accelerated the trend. In 1984, Minneapolis began  in Basic math and Reading skills. Ten percent a year flunked and hid to repeat kindergarten Juul per cent . Kofl Fife including David a wrote the Best Selling the Umed child criticize this get Lough trend saying elementary schools should return to leu stressful curricula More appropriate to thai age group. Last september. North Carolina legislators decided to end mandatory testing of lint and second graders because of concern Over mounting academic pres sure m those grades Tesu that exclude children from pub Lic education services or thai delay Ribeir Access to he educational mainstream Are antithetical to Legal and Constitution Al rights to free education and equal  wrote University of Michigan h.lT.iT, professor Samuel Meisels a in january 1987. .--w.0wm say readiness tej Ulike the get dub feted on a discredited theory of  children ascertain Ages behave incl go ways that Are largely beyond of teachers or parents. Few Leach Era today would  such a passive approach to Educa Tion Meisels wrote