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...seem enthusiastic, if curious, about the new method. But some fear that basic skills will suffer if uniform testing of students is abolished. "That would definitely be a mistake in math," says Steven Jarrett, an eighth-grade math teacher in Craftsbury. "Algebra needs to be practiced continuously." Concedes Ross Brewer, director of the Vermont project: "There are no smart people to copy. We are literally making this thing up as we go along...
...Brewer said the study's results indicate that AIDS is already a serious problem on college campuses, and that it is likely to "get a lot worse." After preliminary results of the study were released publicly in May 1989, there was a "real rush of universities and colleges getting a hold of us about programs. It showed us that there is a problem on university campuses," he said...
...Brewer said that about 80 schools wereoriginally contacted to look into the study.Researchers had hoped to recruit 20 of theseschools to participate, but only 19 agreed to takepart. But he said that in a second phase of thestudy, which is still under way, universities weremuch more willing to participate in the study...
...July 1, about midway through the secondphase study, .24 percent of 16,000 samples testedpositive for the virus. Brewer said that this isnot a significant statistical difference from thefirst stage results, which were based on 16,863blood samples...
...Brewer said that he expects full second phaseresults...