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...author of the report, comes down hard on teaching methods. "We have taught kids to be little calculators, but they do not know why they do what they do," she says, adding, "They don't know what numbers mean." James Vasquez, superintendent of San Antonio's Edgewood school district, where 94% of the pupils are Hispanic, blames substandard preparation for teachers. He points out that Texas, like many other states, certifies elementary teachers who never took much math and may be almost as lost as their pupils...
...another group of parents brought the same charges against the state and won. A specific restructuring plan has not yet been worked out, but Texas has agreed that it is unfair that the children of Edgewood, a lower middle-class residential district with low property values, receive an inferior education. One possible remedy under consideration is allotting funds based on sales tax instead of property...
...Texas, the 100 top-ranked school districts spend an average of $5,500 a year per child, while the bottom 100 spend only $1,800. The results are evident in San Antonio's Edgewood district, one of the state's poorest, where 50% of students fall below the national norms in reading and writing...
Arthur R. Sullivan Jr. Edgewood...
Last week similar experiments, all done on the ground of national security, came to light at a Pentagon news conference held by Dr. Van M. Sim, chief of medical research at Maryland's Edgewood Arsenal. For twelve years beginning in 1955, affirmed Sim, the Army, as part of a chemical-warfare testing program, gave LSD to 585 men. Later in the week the Army revealed that another group of 2,490 volunteers were given other hallucinogens, and in some cases BZ, a temporarily incapacitating...