NEW BREAKFAST IDEA SWEEPS ANN ARBOR! Page 2-Sunday, September 9, 1979-The Michigan Daily 313 66 TURTLE ISLAND natural food restaurant S. State Breakfast: lam Lunch: 11 :30a 3-3525 Dinner: 4:3Op Fri & Sat til 4 Sc score a dom ago, TEN- YEAR TREND CONTINUES Scholastic Aptitude Test scores fall again holasticFrom AP andUPI (AT) A college board report, "National decline has affected students across the indicated schools m :holastic Aptitude Test (SAT) College-Bound Seniors, 1979," lists bad h study said.cstud coaching shosm es fell slightly this year, continuing scores and characteristics of about two- MINORITIES AND low-income help some students. wnward spiral that began a decade thirds of the students beginning college youths of all races generally score 100 The College Board released th the College Board said yesterday. this fall. onints b l.n+ other findings from a questionna nay ese tire -11:30am m-4:30pm m-8:3Opm 9:30pm FRESH FRUIT HOMEMADE YOGURT DAILY MUFFIN SPECIALTY OATMEAL WITH RAISIN SAUCEA OMELETTES FRENCH TOAST PANCAKES The drop made poor fortune tellers out of educators predicting an upturn this year. The average SAT verbal score dipped two points to 427 and the SAT math score dropped one point to 467. THE MULTIPLE-CHOICE test taken by one million college-bound seniors is scored on a scale of 200 to 80. Teniyears ago, the average verbal score was 463 and math 493. Originally, 500 was sup- posed to be average. Many inathe educational establish- ment within the last year expressed hope that scores in 1979 would start up again. a . i ,' 'Y Y' K ' x< . r, Lg p 'y J L f E e °k " >a i. f 1 u1 Y TI ft i F 4 R i , 1 f i { f 1 1 { 1 f . t 1 E f + .. A, I ,' "" " r u IT SHOWED also that the average score for Achievement Tests taken by the 1979 college-bound drop also declined for the third consecutive year. "Achievements" are given in a wide range of subjects. Although the test is designed to rate" students, not schools, the national decline has been viewed in many quar- ters as evidence that something is amiss in American education. Robert Cameron, a College Board of- ficial, said the latest decline is "disap- pointing in light of what many schools have been doing to improve education." BUT HE ADDED, "since there are many causes for the decline, schools cannot expect to reverse the trend quickly or single-handedly." A 1977 College Board study concluded that a variety of factors, including television, changes in the family, relaxed standards, and the turbulence of Vietnam and Watergate, were to blame for the drop in SAT scores since 1970. The top score in each section of the test is 800. Students in the 700-to-800 range are admitted by the nation's most selective universities - such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and the honors" sections at state univer- sities. The increasing numbers of minority students taking the SAT figured in a drop before 1970, but since then the .... .. _ za r Detroit schools will open Monday minus teachers puiJu . ue1w average on ne LL1 s. The test has been involved in a con- troversy recently over whether coaching increases students' scores. The College Board maintains that drills and cramming are not likely to raise students' scores very much, because the test measures skills developed over a long time. But a recent Federal Trade Commission given to test-takers: -Seventeen per cent were minorities, a record number. -Males had higher SAT scores, both verbal and mathematical, than females. -The number of. women taking the SAT exceeded that of men for the fifth consecutive year. , 4 ' J j U a r . /j t 1 By United Press International Administrators say Detroit's 300 schools will be open tomorrow but the district's 12,000 teachers planned to be on picket lines following rejection of a three-year contract. One administrator yesterday predic- ted opening of schools next week in the 213,000-student district - the state's largest - "will be chaos" with the teachers not on duty. THE TEACHERS, members of the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) Friday night rejected the proposed pact on a 5,149 to 4,537 vote. They had been in classrooms during the first week of the fall semester. Some 10,500 teachers in 27 other districts with 200,000 students remained on strike going into the second week of scheduled classes in the state. An ad- ditional 175 systems were without new pacts. DFT President Mary Ellen Riordan urged acceptance of the contract which granted Detroit teachers raises of 25 per cent over the life of the agreement. However, the contract did not contain a Cost-of-Living Allowance, a key teacher demand, or a wage reopener clause. AFTER THE vote was announced, Mrs. Riordan said teachers, who had been in classrooms since school began this past week, would "withhold ser- vices" beginning tomorrow. But School Board President George Bell said "the schools will be open and administrators will be there. "There has been no discussion of closing the schools by the board because of a strike," he said. SCHOOL BOARD member Gerald O'Neill said the plan to keep the classrooms open was "ludicrous." THE MICHIGAN DAILY (USPS 344-900) Volume LXXXX, No. 4 Sunday, September 9, 1979 is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday morn- ings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109.Subscription ratest: $12 Septem ber through April (2 semesters) ; $13 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer. session published Tuesday through Saturday mornings. Subscription rates: $6.50 in Ann Arbor; $7.00 by mail out- side Ann Arbor. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. POST- MASTER:Send address.changes to THE MICHIGAN DAILY, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. 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