European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. April 26. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 nation is still at risk Bennett says new schools report echoes criticisms made in 83  it irk in i i sanitary of education Wil Liam j Chni Fatin a new report that the Overall  c no   a mils remains Unac Cep Labov  even thu i a Sivc Vear Campaign to in priv Moinul i Lias a  a Tih nut standards and led to i a it  is in \ Iii no Allieu mint. Tim num student a not graduate from our  limit and too mail those who do graduate have been poorly  i la Nncel in the report pre pared Lor i a ident . " or students know too Little and their command of i Lial skills is Loo  Bennett s Iii Cimisi. Which Eiho remarks he has previously made have the Adid significance of being p the  is to he delivered to Reagan at a ceremony tuesday in the East room of the while House. The report released to reporters sunday Marks the fifth anniversary of publication of a nation at  a report that listed the ills of american education and prescribed some Strong Medicine. Bennett said that the Means to improve school Are readily available hut that school Reform efforts arc too frequently blocked by the narrow self interested exercise of political Power by teacher groups and others with a veiled interest in the educational status quo " he specifically criticized the false claim that to fix our schools will first require a Fortune in new fund  characterizing this As opposition by  a nation at risk was released april 26. 1983. By the National commission on excellence in education an 18-Mcmbcr panel appointed by Bennett s predecessor. . Bell. It was a slinging attack on american schools which said the educational foundations of our society arc presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very  the precipitous downward slide of previous dec Ades has been  he said and we have begun the Long climb Back to reasonable  the report cited a previously unpublished study in which the department of education compared the Tran scripts of 15.000 students who graduated from High school in 1987 with those of a comparable group of 1982 graduates. It concluded that there has been a movement Back into a More rigorous academic  for example the transcript study found that the proportion of students in relatively undemanding general tracks decreased from 35 percent to 17 per an of a Long awaited formal report to the president. He document. American education making it the department of education has circulated More cent Over the five year period. Researchers also found an 100,000 copies of a nation at risk and it has that the percentage of High school seniors competing   .  to. Us history course jumped from 76 percent in 1982 Tola. Been credited with spurring Many state Legislatures to enact school improvement measures. In March 1987, while at an educational conference in Columbia mo., Reagan gave Bennett who succeeded Bell in february 1985, a Homework assign ment to prepare a formal report on How much schools had improved since 1983. In his new report Bennett said that the Good and Welcome news is that the performance of our schools is slightly  or j 86 percent last year. On the other hand Bennett said. We Are certainly not doing Well enough and we arc not doing Well enough fast enough. We Are still at  the Secretary said that curricular foolishness has not been eliminated from american High  and that Many of the academic gains arc concentrated in private schools or Public schools in wealthy suburban areas. Lightning strikes 8 girls 4 in serious condition Tustin. Calif. Al l seven girls struck by lightning As they huddled under a tree at a softball Field remained Hospital cd sunday four in serious condition officials said. Eight members of a girl s softball team and their assistant coach were injured sat urday during the downpour shortly before a game at a school near Here. There was this huge snap fire Ball and All the girls were thrown on the  said Carrie Leach whose 8 in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Ai Ril 26. 1948 uruguayan authorities reported the arrest of High ranking communist leaders from Brazil Argentina and Chile at a meeting in Montevideo aimed at forming a Western Hemi sphere  30 years ago today. April 26. 1958 Secretary of de sense Neil ii. Mcelroy agreed to reword president Eisenhower s defense reorganization proposal to Rule out the possibility that it would centrals .1 the armed serv ices. 20 years ago today. April 26, 1968 american and North vietnamese officials conferred in Vientiane. Laos but made no Progress in the search for a mutually agreeable site for preliminary peace talks. 10 years ago today. April 26. 1978 South african prime minister John Vorster accepted Western proposals for an internationally recognized plan to bring Black majority Rule to Namibia theater collapse kills 16 Beijing a a Rural movie Thea Ter built by a local Farmer collapsed with More than 100 people inside killing 16 people and injuring 18. The official China daily said saturday. The daily said the Accident occurred april 16 in Lingbao county Henan province and that a local Farmer had build the Heater in fcb Ruaro. Year old daughter Katie was Hurt. It was just awful. Ghoul half the girls were Lay ing on their stomachs and the rest were on i hair  a couple of them Slart cd to turn Blue because they could t breathe she said adding that her daughter was among those who looked like they were about to  coach John hates administered cardio pulmonary resuscitation to 9-year-old Kay Lee Whitfield. While assistant coach Steve Nicolai worked on another child witnesses said. She was  said Aylce s Mother. Kya while iced. I guess it was just one of those things where you Don t give  Kalec and three teammates were in serious condition Al children s Hospital of Orange county said nursing supervisor Sharon Hauer. Three children were Jis cd in Good condition at Western med ical Center in Santa Ana. Nicolai who recently had undergone heart surgery and the coach s 8-Ycar-old daughter Carrie were treated at St. Joseph Hospital. Bates had directed the team to Wail out the downpour under the 50-foot tree. There was no lightning before i told the girls to get under the tree he said. And there was no Thunder. Sure it was overcast but earlier that morning the Sun had been shining. This All happened so  smell the Flowers Din Llowell. 3, of Quincy mass umbrella Al the ready in Case of a Shower. Stops to sniff some tulips during a visit with his family to a local cemetery. Pilot critically Hurt in air show crash Eltoro Calif. Dpi a fighter Jet crashed in front of thousands of spectators during a performance at a Navy air show critically injuring the Pilot officials said. Marine corps col. Jerry Cadick 45, was trying to perform a Loop Manu Cvar in a Mcdonnell Douglas a Isa Hornet fighter when the single scat plane went Dow n about 1 30 . Sunday As thou Sands watched. Staff sol. Richard Ness said. The aircraft hit the ground about 1,000 Yards from the spectators and came to rest Al the intersection of two runways. Ness said. It did a Loop Over the air station and went Down it was really Low a wit Ness said. Then it just flattened right out on its belly. Fire came out the Back end and the foam truck went right  another witness Pilot Bill Gonsalo. Said the show s announcer had just said the plane was to pass straight Over the Field then climb quickly to 5,000 feel As part of the Loop Manucher. He Only went to about 900 feel then he came Over the top like he was going to do a Loop. Right off the Bat i said that s different from the program. He did what s called a Clover Leaf Loop where you come Down and turn away from where you were  Gonsalez said he then knew the plane was Loo Low and it was going to crash. He said it also appeared to him that the Marine colonel tried to Lake evasive action to avoid the crowd when he came off the lop of the Loop. None of the spectators attending the 38th annual Navy Relief air show at the Eltoro Marine corps base was Hurt. Sunday s show took place under Clear skies after a performance originally scheduled saturday was rained Oul. Cadick was pulled from the wreckage by Rescue Crew s and flow n to a nearby Hospital where he was reported in critical condition sunday night. Ness said Cadick is the commanding officer of the Marine aircraft group 11. 3rd Marine aircraft Wing band at Eltoro. The show continued after the crash with a performance of the Navy s famed Blue Angels an acro Hatic flight team that also uses the Fa-i8a aircraft. The Blue Angels who formerly used a-4 skyhawk fighter jets began living in Fa-18s last year. The a Isa is the marines newest and Best front line fighter said Mcdon Nell Douglas spokesman Tim Beecher. He said there Are Aboul 500 in the . Military inventory and that each costs $18.5 million. The Navy and the Marine corps oper ate the twin engine fighters which have a top Speed of nearly twice the Speed of sound from aircraft carriers he said