European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday april 24, 1989  night gives clues to teens future b Dave Walczak education writer Frankfurt. West Germany the hundreds of teen agers who jammed into Frankfurt High school s gym were in no hurry. Strolling from table to Labie they look their Lime pausing occasionally to ask a question. Resuming their journey they trundled on wrapped in thought about a once Niitani educational future drawing near. " t just a big crowd said Tyler Peterson a Hahn High school Junior just a of of kids like myself wandering around looking at things.". Frankfurt High school s College night activities tuesday formed the backdrop for the onlookers. Stu dents came seeking clues Abtil he world called higher education located an Ocean away. E Rogr Atn organizers As Semb de representatives from is colleges and universities to answer inc teen agers questions. Among them were 31 Deans of admissions experts at providing information on everything from social Ifo to sociology. Troy Pace was one of the experts. The Vanderbil. University representative was winding up two hours of providing answers the fourth straight Day of similar i Coli be Reighl activities. This is the fourth City in four Days Pace said. I Doii i know where i ant right How. This is he most kids i be seen in one location thus far.". Like other College representatives. Pace insisted that Vanderbill had no firm number of overseas High school students targeted for admission into inc ten Nessee school. If you Start with a number it ends in a quota he said. We have one student who has accepted and already enrolled. 1c we can get one i figure let s get some  Roy Rutherford stood just a few Yards from pare but his thoughts were focused far from Tennessee. Where i d really like to go is Arizona state because of its wrestling program said the Hanau High school Junior and 145-Pound grappler. Rutherford had spoken to representatives from this is the most kids i be seen in one location thus far Troy Pace Vanderbilt University West Point the naval Academy and inc Citadel. His ambition he said is to learn japanese and work in  -.".  scope of  wound its Way around the gym to Robin Roberts Barry univer sity s Dean of admissions. Barry is located in Miami Fla. ".-. " ,. We re an International University be said we have Over so countries represented and Over 25 per cent of our student body is  Roberts termed his school s presence at Frankfurt a Courtesy visit since Harry University usually targets Only International schools for overseas visits. Fut last year we had 10 students enrol from Dod schools he said. Florida is very popular for students and their parents to go Hack  the Sunshine stale was certainly on Pence. L1i was looking at my Home state of Oklahoma and i did t think to look anywhere else. Until  Catholic school students score higher study finds 11 the Washington Post students in roman Catholic schools score better  Sci. Cnoc than their Public school counterparts according to a study by two University of Michigan researchers. Although Black and hispanic Stu dents. Scored lower than White class mates in both the Public and the Paro Chial systems i the discrepancy was smaller in catholic1 schools. By itch Grade the Gap Between White and minority performance. Narrowed markedly in Catholic schools Accord ing to the study released los a Wock. It found Hal boys Ditl better than girls in math Snoj science in both Ithol systems. Bui even though inc Lici Crice proficiency of females in Cath Olic High schools is below their male counterpart,.it is higher thai thai of males in Public schools the study noted. The study by Valerie e. Lee and Carole Siclari is based on data col. Lect cd by the. National. Assessment .of1 educational Progress a program to gather educational statistics that was mandated by Congress years ago. It is. Administered  educational test ing service located in Princeton . The study released by the National Catholic education Assoc Iarion = focused on math and science proficiency scores pro Starddard sized tests of Stu dents in grades three seven and 11, at All three Levels the report said the scores of parochial school students arc significantly above those of pub Lic school students indicating that these schools might be educating their. Students  Shirley Frye president of he National councilor teachers of mathematics did she was Noi surprised by. The finding that parochial school students had Superior scores. You Are talking about students who Are a select group she said parents who pay Tui Tion 10 Send their children to schools lend to have higher expectations for i hair children to  and support them and to help them at  the study Wartnow ledges that with the data available it is not possible to completely disentangle the possible. Causes for such higher proficiency of Catholic school students Between Superior educational treatment within the schools Andi the More advantaged students who  the Only Index of  status explored by inc study parental education Levels showed thai minority students  schools were particularly advantaged compared to their Public school minority coun terparts.". -. Nevertheless the study concluded that the achievement advantage of Catholic Over Public school students is greatest for children of parents with the least education. Other findings included mothers of Oil hoi in pupils were More Likely. 1n slay Home during their children s elementary and it ddts Schigol cars but slightly More Likely than Public school Mother to work. Outside the Home by the 1 Ith Grade. This May Bede to the higher tuition Levels in Catholic secondary schools the report said More than half of All third graders and seventh graders in both school systems spent at least four hours a Day watching television. More than four hours of television has a strongly and verse a i feet on lest scores i said.  a Quarter of inc Chil Dren in both Chol systems at the the acc Grade Levels studied had Access to Home computers. Math and science proficiency scores appear to be ref lated to haying a computer in the Home but inc correlation . "spurious,".the authors warned be cause both academic proficiency and computer ownership arc related to family  Cue is who is a  Al a Lescan West Germany High school Settle into the serious business of studying for a chemist lab exam. She is the a Aughtr of first sgt. And mrs. Charlesue Etc lesser