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Good students, prepatation are the keys to high ISTEP scores: Evans

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Possibly higher motivation by students, greaterinvolvement by parents and better preparation by teachers may beresponsible for a better-than-ex-pected performance in the new statecompetency test. Fears that large numbers of students would fail the test have proven unfounded and some educators think the initial standards for it were too low. OFFICIALS HAD predicted 8 to 10 percent of the students taking the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress, known as ISTEP, test would fail. The test was hailed as a way to stop social promotion a crackdown on schools that pass students for reasons other than adequate grades. Statewide results will be released later this month, but state officials have said only 4 percent to 5 percent of 488,500 students taking the tests failed. And many districts are finding the test’s standards for mandating summer school and promoting students are below their own. Gov. Robert D. Orr and state education officials pushed the program through the legislature last year as part of an education reform package aimed at raising education standards and improving Indiana’s low ranking among states in national standardized tests. THE FAILURE RATE predictions were based on pilot tests given to 17,500 students last year. “Our district’s standards are higher than ISTEP’s standards,” said James A. Sweet, Pike Township Schools director of Banner Graphic (USPS 142-020) TM Daily iaawar EataMMwdlMO Dm Haraid Tba Dally RrapMc CstabHahad IBS3 Talaphona HHUI PaMika* daHy axsapt Saaday aad Holidays by BaaaordfrapMc, Inc. at 100 Marta Jadnoa •t., Srooncaotlo, IN 40130. ■acoad-Naaa postage pidd at arooacastlo, IN. POSTMASTER: So ad addroao ebaagoo to Ibe BaaaorArapMc, P.O. Box SOS, Sroonoaatlo, IN 40130 SabocripUoa Ratos Poi Week, by carrier. *1.20 Nr Week, by motor route *1.21 Mall Subscription Ratos R.R. la Rost of of Putnam County Indiana U-S-A. 3 Months *17.40 *17.70 *IO.OO 0 Months *32.28 ‘32.80 *10.70 1 Year *03.00 *04.00 *M.7O Mall subscriptions payaMo la advance._aot accepted In town and wkoro motor rooto son vlco Is available. Member of the Associated Press Tba Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for rapabHcation of all tbs local nows printed In this newspaper.

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H. DEAN EVANS Must reevaluate cutoffs

elementary education. The test, Sweet said, is not going to cause any more Pike students to be retained than the district would have held back. But he added, “Over the state, it might have some effect Some districts allow parents to have the final say-so over whether a child should be failed or not” Sweet believes the minimum passing scores should be reevaluated and State Superintendent of Public Instruction H. Dean Evans agrees. “IN THE NEXT FEW months, we need to re-look at that cutoff score; and each year we have to look at it,” Evans said. Evans also said he may recommend to the State Board of Education that the cutoff score for deter-

State conventions under way

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The biggest attention as the state’s two major political parties gather in convention this week should go to the Democratic race for attorney general and a Republican challenge to the incumbent school superintendent. Democrats held district caucuses Sunday before today’s start of their party convention in which candidates will be chosen to join gubernatorial nominee Evan Bayh and Senate candidate Jack Wickes on the state ticket. REPUBLICANS convene Wednesday and Thursday to complete the ticket headed by Sen. Richard G. Lugar and Lt. Gov. John M. Mutz, the GOP’s choice for gover-

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mining who should attend summer school be higher than the one used to decide who should be retained. They are now the same. Students failed the test if they scored below the 16th national percentile and below state standards on certain questions determined by Indiana teachers to be critical for success in the next grade. Depending on their grade level, students had to answer from 56 percent to 69 percent of these questions correctly to pass the state standards. STUDENTS WHO FAIL must enroll in 80 hours of summer math and reading classes. If they fail ISTEP again, they likely will be held back a grade, unless their schools believe they qualify for waivers. “If I could fault what has happened at all, it would be that there are students who would profit from summer school who aren’t going,” Evans said. Sweet said that using both national and state standards as criteria for summer school eliminates a lot of students who should be remediated. He suggested that only the state cutoffs be used. The state education department is looking for funds to hire a research firm to assess why Indiana students did better than the representative pilot population and better than students from many other states on the national standardized test, Evans said. HE BELIEVES SEVERAL factors contributed to this year’s results. They include: •Students were highly motivated, as shown by excellent attendance during the testing

nor. Both parties, meeting at the Indiana Convention Center, will also select delegates for the national political conventions this summer. The Democratic convention has the most suspense with two contested races in which Bayh has publicly stated no preference. The three-way contest for attorney general could go beyond the first ballot, candidates agree. Ann M. DeLaney, an Indianapolis attorney who was the party’s nominee for lieutenant governor in 1984, had the bestknown name entering the race. BUST SHE HAS faced persistent competitors in John Rumple of Columbus, who announced his candidacy almost a year ago, and Joseph S. Donnelly, a Granger resident who practices law in South Bend. “I think it’s likely there will be multiple ballots,” said state Democratic Chairman John B. Livengood. “It’s a close race.” DeLaney believes she is the leader in the race, but concedes that “logistically, in a three-way race, it’s difficult to do it on the first ballot.” She also pointed out that while 2,069 delegates are authorized to vote, usually not all of them are on the floor during the balloting. “Attendance could determine if we can do it on the first ballot,” she said. AFTER A SECOND ballot, the third-place candidate would be dropped, ensuring someone would win a majority of the delegates on the third ballot Rumple believes he and DeLaney are about even with 650 to 750 delegates apiece, followed by Donnelly with about 300 to 350.

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period. •Parents were interested in the testing process and helped prepare their children. •Teachers and administrators worked hard to Dreoare for the test, spending much time on language arts and math. “What it may say is that we’re headed in the right direction. But we’re three years from telling whether there are any lasting improvements,” Evans said. The low failure rate worries Rep. Patrick B. Bauer, D-South Bend, an English teacher in South Bend Community Schools. ‘THE WHOLE PURPOSE of ISTEP was to have an even higher standard than the local districts,” Bauer said. “ISTEP may end up doing the reverse of what we wanted it to do.” Keith A. Brown, assistant superintendent for elementary instruction in Perry Township Schools, believes the test results show the legislation creating them may have had the wrong intent. “Maybe somebody thought there was a lot of social promotion out there when there really isn’t that much. And maybe it’s telling us that we are doing a good job,” Brown said. State Sen. John R. Sinks, R -Fort Wayne, said he expected criticism over ISTEP during the first year. “THIS IS JUST ONE of many, many factors in that (education reform) law to raise our educational standards,” said Sinks, chairman of the Senate Education Committee.

He predicted the key to victory could be in reaching the hundreds of uncommitted delegates and others appointed as delegates only recently to fill vacancies. Rumple doubts any deals will be cut to determine the outcome. “At the old-time conventions, you had a lot of political bosses and deals made,” he said. “But it doesn’t work that way any more.” Donnelly claims he’s “very encouraged by what we see” while counting delegate preferences. BAYH SAID THAT privately he knows which candidate he would vote for if the nomination were determined in a primary. But publicly, he said he will live up to his promise to the candidates not to reveal a preference. Bayh has given his only endorsement to Senate Minority Leader Frank L. O’Bannon of Corydon for lieutenant governor. O’Bannon, who folded his gubernatorial campaign to join forces with Bayh, is unopposed. In the Democratic race for state school superintendent, former Rep. Mary J. Pettersen of Hammond is favored to defeat former Crawfordsville Mayor Glenn Knecht, who entered the race just last week. At the Republican convention, the 1,767 delegates will choose between Superintendent of Public Instruction H. Dean Evans of Indianapolis and former U.S. Department of Education official David W. Bowell in the superintendent’s race. Evans, making his first run for public office, has the support of retiring Gov. Robert D. Orr, Mutz and state GOP Chairman Gordon K. Dumil.

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Clarence Pendleton, civil rights chief, dies at 57

SAN DIEGO (AP) Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., who rose from the slums of the nation’s capital to help lead President Reagan’s battle against racial quotas as the first black chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, has died. He was 57. Pendleton, one of the Reagan administration’s highest-ranking blacks, died Sunday after apparently suffering a heart attack while exercising, deputy coroner David Lodge said. PENDLETON DREW wrath by calling liberal black leaders “the new racists” whose support for the Democratic Party “led blacks into a political Jonestown.” He once termed the concept of comparable worth, which envisions women receiving the same salary as men with similar jobs, “the looniest idea since ‘Looney Tunes.’” He called affirmative action “divisive, unpopular and immoral,” and opposed busing. “Clarence Pendleton was an outstanding public servant and, like any American, he had the right to express his point of view, which may not have been a mainstream point of view,” Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson said in Los Angeles. IN 1981, REAGAN appointed Pendleton to replace the fired Arthur S. Hemming, who had criticized the administration’s civil rights policies as “in conflict with the Constitution.” The bipartisan commission is an advisory body that monitors enforcement of civil rights laws within the federal government. It lacks policy-making or enforcement powers. Pendleton was the lone dissenter when the commission voted 5-1 in 1982 to state that there had been retreat in all areas of civil rights enforcement during the administration. Last year, the commission rejected a Pendleton-promoted staff report assailing the Supreme Court for upholding job preferences for women in affirmative action plans. “HE WAS A GREAT human being,” commission member Robert A. Destro said. “We had our

Bank board to liquidate two S&L’s to pay its insurance

NEW YORK (AP) The Federal Home Loan Bank Board will pay more than $1 billion in insurance to depositors when it liquidates one or more savings institutions in what will be the largest such payout ever, according to a published report. The bank board’s chairman, Danny Wall, declined on Sunday to name the savings and loan institutions that are to be liquidated, The New York Times reported in Monday’s editions. HE SAID THE DETAILS of the action would be announced Monday in Washington. But savings industry officials told the Times they expected the liquidations to be in California. The Orange County Register , a Southern California newspaper, reported Sunday that federal regulators would be “quickly arranging a cure” for the American Diversified Savings Bank and the

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CLARENCE PENDLETON Succumbs after heart attack

disagreements and our agreements. He was a very dynamic person. He will be missed.” The White House declined immediate comment on Pendleton’s death. Pendleton was alone when he collapsed Sunday morning in the exercise room of the San Diego Hilton Beach and Tennis Resort, said Gary Lingley, director of the hotel’s tennis club. Pendleton was a new member of the club. HE DIED AN HOUR later after efforts failed to revive him, coroner’s officials said. He had battled high blood pressure for years, Police Chief Bill Kolender said. Pendleton’s wife, Margrit, was out of town with their daughter when he died. Kolender described Mrs. Pendleton as “distraught, upset, obviously.” Pendleton, an avid jogger and swimmer, once taught physical education in college and worked as a government recreation director in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore before being named director of the Model Cities Department in San Diego in 1972. He was president of the Urban League in San Diego from 1975 until 1982. Pendleton graduated from Howard University in 1954 and after serving in the Army he returned to earn a masters’ degree.

North American Savings and Loan, two troubled institutions in Costa Mesa, Calif. “The liquidation will be the largest payout of this type,” Wall said. Liquidation was a last resort, he added, taken only after such measures as a merger with a healthier institution could not be achieved. A SPOKESMAN FOR the bank board, Karl T. Hoyle, said the institutions to be liquidated had “very high-yielding accounts.” American Diversified and North American Savings are known to offer among the highest interest rates in the region. The bank board oversees 3,200 savings institutions. Last month, the General Accounting Office, the investigating arm of Congress, estimated that more than 500 were insolvent, and more than 200 “hopelessly insolvent”

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