European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday january 12, 1991 the stars and stripes a a Page 7 study likens 8 the graders to sponges Washington apr eighth Grade education is dominated by old routines and practices that May be creating the human equivalent of sponges a students who sit but Are not encouraged to think a group of educators said thursday. A Many schools Are organized As if Stu a dents Are sponges that will absorb whatever comes their Way a said Laurel m. Kanthak of the National association of secondary school principals. A a instruction is very Kanthak the associations director of Middle level education and John h. Lounsbury released results of a study of eighth Grade education that found much instruction to be passive with students spending much of their time listening to teachers copying from the chalkboard Reading assignments and taking tests. Instruction also is insufficiently focused on critical thinking and is not in touch with the needs of adolescents said the study entitled a inside Grade eight from apathy to a your look inside Grade eight does show that there is still far too much a dead Wood a old routines and practices that in the 1990s arc no longer appropriate for or effective with Early adolescents a said the study. The report was based on the observations and records of experienced educators in 162 schools in 41 states and the District of Columbia during March 1989. Earlier studies by the principals association focused on the sixth and ninth grades. Athe report said 14-year-Olds Are concerned about How they look and have a need to socialize for healthy emotional growth. They also demonstrate increasingly sophisticated thinking skills. The association is the nations largest school administrators organization representing 43,000 High school and Middle level educators. My state police in Bourne mass., Lead Carn St Norooz into a police Barracks. She is one of the three sniper suspects. 3 suspects arrested in slaying of Massachusetts teen by sniper Bourne mass. Up1 state police arrested three suspects thursday night and Early Friday in the sniper slaying of a 14-year-old Girj who was killed Riding to a High school basketball game on Cape cod last weekend state police said William Ferreira 42, of Wareham was arrested at the state police Barracks in Bourne where he was being questioned in the death saturday morning of Robyn Dabrowski of new Bedford. Caren Stenroos 32, also of Wareham was arrested at her Home and charged with being an accessory after the fact of murder in the shooting which occurred on route 25 in Bourne state police it. Lee Garrison said. The third suspect Scott Chipman 24, was arrested just after Midnight at his Home in Dennis state police said. Garrison described the shooting As an act of a random Ferreira and Stenroos were taken to the Bourne Barracks for arraignment Friday in Plymouth District court. For Beira complained of Chest pains and was taken to Toby Hospital in Wareham. State police said it was not known when he would be arraigned. Chipman was also brought to the Bourne Barracks to await arraignment. In the Wake of the Dabrowski shooting several other people reported they had been shot at by snipers in Southeastern Massachusetts in recent weeks. In the Wake of the Dabrowski shooting several other people reported they had been shot at by snipers in Southeastern Massachusetts in recent weeks. Garrison and assistant Barnstable county District attorney Joseph Vaughan who is heading the prosecution told a news conference however there was no apparent connection Between the girls death and other incidents. He said the attack on the bus which was carrying 13 girls from new Bedford a technical High school to a girls basketball game in Falmouth was a an intentional but apparently random recordings Are no fad experts say a Las vegas Nev. Up a digital tape and coi pact discs will probably survive Well into the next Century As complementary formats for recording distributing and listening to music experts at the consumer electronics show say. Consumers burned on such Short lived devices As eight track tape players Are Likely to take a careful look at the emerging technologies. Both methods can reproduce music with exceptionally High Quality. In fact Mike Vitelli vice president for personal audio products for Sony of America says it May be impossible to distinguish Between the sound Quality of the two technologies. But both formats have their weaknesses so there should be room in the Market for both of them for Many years. A a a a a. Compact discs need a stable platform much like record players of old. It would be hard to listen to a compact disc while jogging. Digital tape players Are much less sensitive to motion. Discs have several strengths according to Martin Homlish president of Sony audio component systems company. Disc players Are cheaper than digital tape machines and can handle multiple discs much. Like stacking a series of 33 rpm records on a turntable. There is no technology for mechanically changing tape cassettes. a Quot v a a a a a a a a most machines that play digital tapes can also record them. While Kenwood is showing a prototype compact disc recorder it says it does not know if it will Ever reach the consumer Market. As pricing Kenwood will Only say that it would expect any consumer machine to be less expensive than its $38,000 professional Modee Blank digital tapes Are relatively cheap but Mike Ranney of Kenwood says Blank compact discs that could be recorded Only once could Cost up to $40 each. Any song on a disc can be located and played instantly. Although digital tape rewinds and fast forwards quickly it is still not instantaneous. The two digital technologies compact discs and Digi Tal tape will gradually replace traditional cassette players and records. The older methods of recording and playing music Are called a a analog to contrast them with the newer digital methods. In a record a Groove is Cut to varying Depths so that the Needle passing through it approximates the sound of the music. Successive copies of the record could not be produced with grooves of exactly the same shape and depth. In a digital system the music is registered As millions of pieces of computer data. Because each bit of computer data can be stored As a spot on a tape that is sometimes magnetized millions of pieces of information can be reproduced with audio tape was first introduced last year. Vitelli says there Are 200 titles available in the format most in jazz and classical music which mirrors the pattern of the introduction of compact disc music. He says titles Are coming out for digital audio tape faster than they did for compact of nominee to appeals court urged Miami apr two Liberal advocacy groups have launched campaigns to defeat the nomination of a judge to the Federal appeals court Bench attacking his record in civil rights and constitutional rights cases. A people for the american Way a 290,000-member civil liberties group charged that . District judge Kenneth Ryskamp has an a atrocious record on civil the Alliance for Justice representing Public interest Legal groups claimed wednesday he has a demonstrated an unconscionable indifference to a also 25 democratic legislators from Florida signed a letter wednesday to sen. Joseph Biden d-del., urging the Senate judiciary committee to reject Ryskamp a nomination. A any nominee to the Federal Bench should have a demonstrated commitment to enforcing our civil rights Laws a said the letter written by state rep. Brian Rush. A judge Ryskamp a record on the Federal District court suggests serious insensitivity if not outright hostility to civil rights claims a he said. A for this reason we oppose this the american Way groups study of Ryskamp a record found he ruled against civil rights plaintiffs 90 percent of the time compared with 67 percent in the Miami District and 75 percent nationally during his tenure. Ryskamp a office referred Calls about the nomination to the Justice department. He has served on the Federal Bench since 1986, the last of five Reagan Nomi nees in the Miami judicial District. Ryskamp a nomination to the 11th . Circuit court of appeals in Atlanta his second was submitted late tuesday. I Lis first nomination died last year without a judiciary hearing following opposition by Florida groups including the a act and the National organization for women the two Washington based groups which did not come out against Ryskamp earlier attacked the nomination As another president Bush a civil rights record. A
