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...educators are increasingly realizing, America's tunnel vision towards that one timespan has cost it dearly. Colleges across the nation are reporting illiteracy and academic incompetence to be so high among high school graduates that at least one school, the University of Texas at Austin, has begun matching many "no go" 18-year-olds back for tune-up math work. The dismaying caliber of the nation's pre-freshmen has spawned two curriculum reform proposals that promise a return to the days when high school grads could be counted on to do simple arithmetic and read had signs...
Beggars can't be choosers. Alderman Peter Grover of Austin, Minn., was out jogging one morning last fall when over the earphones of his portable radio he heard a report that a meat-packing plant just 40 miles across the border in Mason City, Iowa, had been ordered to close down. The plant was, said a Mason City judge, a public nuisance: noisy and smelly, regularly fouling surrounding streets with blood and animal parts. Grover knew an opportunity when he heard one. Within days, Austin had presented the plant's owners, North west By-Products Inc., with...
...plant opened in March, creating 27 new jobs for Austin citizens. Says Thomas Kucera, director of business development for Austin, already home to a Hormel meat-packing plant: "This isn't the kind of town that turns up its nose at a truckload of animal innards...
...nationwide), has petitioned the commissioner of education to allow positive as well as critical testimony in next year's hearings, and hopes to open up the proclamation process that sets standards for Texas books. Says Michael Hudson, a native Texan in charge of PFAW's office in Austin: "Next week I hit the roads across Texas. I'm going to try to increase the level of interest in the process. My role will be that of a catalyst to open things...
...Ellie McGrath. Reported by Sam Allis/ Austin...