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By Megan Se
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If past scores on the
Examination are any indicate
USC students taking the exam
W. Savage. USC education prol
This rate of failure on the
from those directly involved
education.
Reaction to the NTE given
High School Saturday diffe
ministrators and some of th<
taking the test.
"I feel that it (the NTE) wee
master the subject well enou
people," John Hudgens, prin<
theast High School, said.
Mary Ruth Hughes, a US<
library science said she felt t
was "totally unapplicable and
IN ORDER TO pass the
teacher must be able to read a
year old and score about as u
other students in the United St
Hudgens said nationally ab
taking the test pass, but Sout
oassine rate. In the NTE give
February 1977, 40 percent of S
the test failed.
"I don't blame the people
NTE, I blame the institute
Savage said. "It's not fair for
a degree to anyone who's illite
During the time between N
1979, there was a great dea
changing the system of accre
Carolina.
THE GOVERNOR'S OJ
Assembly, the State Board <
groups were involved in form
Gov. Dick Riley signed into la
The new law changes teac
in three main areas, acco
George C. Lackey Jr., USC ec
Undergraduate students r
exam which includes i
mathematics before being
education. The undergradu
complete a full semester of st
The third provision states I
must be evaluated by a repre
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National Teachers form of evalual
an, about 25 percent of The new la>
i will fail, said William Carolina to be
fessor. The law set,
TE has drawn criticism Force that wii
I with South Carolina new 'aw is ach
at Richland Northeast THE NTE is
red between the ad- in the mornin
? prospective teachers test in a spec
ternoon. The a
ds out people who don't course of stud;
gh to teach it to other The generai
cipal of Richland Nor- except in inst
Service doesn
C graduate student in study, Savage
he test given Saturday This past S
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In January
test, the prospective that use of th<
s well as the average 17 South Carolir
/ell as 20 percent of the after the S.C.
ates, Savage said. Department c
out 90 percent of those and unfair tot
h Carolina has a lower "There was
n in November 1976 and biased," Sava
outh Carolinians taking
SOME FEI
who are flunking the minorities, wl
ons that train them," test,
any institution to grant "I feel ther
rate." this test. I thi
[ovember 1978 and July all for the 1
1 of debate concerning Chicanos or z
diting teachers in South English teach
states.
Others taki
FFICE, the General cerning mino
af Education and other one group of f
ling a new system which Some of tin
iw in August 1979.. Saturday felt
her-training institutions learn in coll
rding to an article by which you wi
iucation professor. said.
nust pass a basic skills "There w;
reading, writing and funds?' We <
allowed to major in teach", anotl
late student must also "The test v
udent teaching. would be dif
that all student teachers know some o
(sentative of their school from Indiana
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ion. p
,v also requires all teachers in South
evaluated periodically by district.
s up an Educator Improvement Task
II work to make sure the intent of the
ieved, Lackey said.
broken up into a "common" test given
g, covering general knowledge, and a
ific area of education given in the af- ||
rea test is taken in the student's major |1
knowledge test is no longer required ||
ances where the Educational Testing I
't make a test in the specific field of ip
said. t|
aturday, 160 people took the general jp
t and 479 took a test in a specific area.
1978 the U.S. Supreme Court decided
2 NTE for certification as a teacher in
la was constitutional. This happened
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laimed the tests were culturally biased
>lack teachers.
no evidence that the test was culturally
gesaid.
,T the test given Saturday now favored
hile others couldn't see any bias in the
e was a definite input for minorities in
ink minorities were favored, but it was
slacks. There were no questions for
iny other minority," said a high school
ler who has taught for 12 years in other
nrt JVin tact Oturtrl cnmo niipctinnc r?nn
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rities, "but nothing biased against any
>eople."
ie prospective teachers taking the test
. it contained questions students couldn't
lege. "It aimed at the ideal situation
ill never come into contact with,"Hughes
as a question on 'how do you allocate
ion't have any funds to allocate where I
her student said.
fas not easy but not unfair. Still, I think it
ficult for someone who never taught to
if the answers," said Barbara McGrady
University.
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