European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes sunday july 29,1990 Washington apr states should move away from the arbitrary grouping of students by age governors said saturday in a report that criticizes Quot Assembly line teaching 7 the recommendation is one of several in the report being offered at the National governors associations annual meeting in Mobile Ala. The report outlines the strategy for meeting the educational goals endorsed by president Bush and the governors in late february. The strategy was developed by the Nga task Force on education co chaired by goes. Bill Clinton of an Kansas and Carroll Campbell of South Carolina the task Force report criticized elementary and secondary schools for assigning students based on where they live grouping them according to age and narrowly defined ability and offering them curriculum and textbooks that Are a fragmented and  the present system requires too Many teachers who focus a largely on the Mastery of discrete Low level skills and isolated facts a the report said. By doing so the report says the system denies opportunities Quot for students to master subject matter in depth learn More Complex problem solving skills or apply the skills they do  Quot this arrangement was designed to prepare a work Force destined for the Assembly lines of the Industrial age a the report says. The task Force suggested that states rely on practices that a expand rather than limit Access to learning opportunities for Low achieving students said the report. The report noted that a Page grading and fixed school years could be detrimental to those preschool and younger children not making adequate Progress. States should consider other approaches such As upgraded Early primary programs Multi age grouping or summer programs that allow children to Progress at their own rate and still meet performance standards said the  specific recommendations include placing top priority on developing new tools for assessing student performance. The governors report said that portfolios essays or other open ended problems that require students to synthesize integrate and apply knowledge and data need to be developed As alternatives to the exclusive use of conventional multiple Choice tests. The task Force also asked states to conduct a statewide literacy assessment and asked employers to audit the literacy and other skills of their own employees a. A a a a a. Shirley Mcbay president of the Quality education for minorities network praised the strategies and underscored the governors recommendation to eliminate tracking and ability grouping a they have recognized As did we that nothing Short of restructuring the nations educational system will do and that a holistic coordinated approach is required a Mcbay said. The National education association a few weeks earlier called for elimination of academic tracking stressing that the practice keeps underachievers Down and lumps minorities into classes that can prevent them from realizing their potential. The american federation of teachers however complained the strategies fail to specify the role the Federal government should be playing in assisting the states. Saluting veto Norma Mccorvey grinning triumphantly Friday at the state Capitol in Baton Rouge la., salutes the veto of Louisiana a Tough anti abortion Law. Mccorvey the Jane Roe of Roe is. Wade the landmark supreme court Case allowing abortions was Happy to least that gov. Buddy Renu toed the Bill passed by the state , . Reach Accord on aids care new York apr the state has Given the roman Catholic archdiocese of new York approval to care for More aids patients in nursing Homes exempting it from requirements that patients receive contraceptives Safe sex counselling and abortion services. The state Public health councils action came despite protests by aids activists. Approval had been delayed while the archdiocese found ways to provide aids education without violating its stance against condom use extramarital sex homosexuality and other practices. The state requires that patients be told about using condoms to avoid transmitting the aids virus and about the dangers of intravenous drug use. Under the Compromise announced Friday the archdiocese will provide Edu Down on the farm a David Souter president Bush s Nomi meeting with Law makers in washing Nee to the supreme court arrives Fri ton All week Bush announced the Day at his farm in Weare n.h., after nomination of Souter on monday cation and information to nursing Home residents about sexual practices that transmit aids and the benefits of condoms health department spokeswoman Frances Tarleton said. Catholic nursing Homes will routinely refer patients to Oft premise agencies a for More intensive counselling or if they wanted to get condoms abortion or other gynaecological services like birth control a Tarleton said. The Compromise will result in 266 new aids Beds at three archdiocese run nursing Homes. Tarleton said that by the end of 1995, new York City will need an estimated 3,000 nursing Home Beds to care for aids patients. There Are now Only 44, All at the Terence Cardinal Cooke nursing Home run by the archdiocese. Cocaine laced soft drink puts Miami Man in coma Miami apr a Man who drank from a soft drink bottle containing dissolved cocaine was in a coma saturday and Federal officials who discovered two other tainted bottles checked possible links to colombian drug smugglers. Drug traffickers frequently smuggle cocaine by dissolving it in liquids officials said. Maximo Menendez 26, suffered convulsions and cardiac arrest after drinking from a bottle of the colombian soft drink bavarian malt that contained an unknown amount of cocaine said Jeanne Bush acting supervisor of the . Food and drug administration office in Miami. A the had a very violent reaction Quot she said a the is gravely ill Quot Menendez was listed in serious condition at Ami Kendall regional medical Center said Hospital spokeswoman Olga Parraga. Eight 6.16,ounce bottles of the drink were taken from Menendez a Miami Home and tests performed at an Fra Laboratory in Atlanta found High concentrations of cocaine in two of them. One bottle contained 54 Grams of dissolved cocaine and the other had nearly 37 Grams said Fra spokeswoman Estela Brown the other bottles contained untainted beverage. The drink bavarian malt is similar to a heavy non alcoholic Beer. After Menendez was stricken thursday the Fra ordered the drink removed from the shelves of the Miami supermarket where he purchased it additional tests on bavarian malt taken from the supermarket and other stores Are planned before a decision is made on any further recall said Brown. The drinks Label does not name a manufacturer in Colombia Brown would not identify the importers or distributors. She said the customs service was notified l customs spokesman Michael Sheehan said cocaine smuggling in liquid form is a common trick among drug traffickers a a we be seen dozens of cases of liquefied cocaine a he said. Quot we be seen cocaine dissolved in wine water All sorts of  Sheehan said one smuggling ring filled Clear plastic bags with a cocaine solution and placed them inside larger bags of water containing tropical fish from latin America. Other traffickers have soaked towels and clothing in solutions of cocaine he said