Page 16-Friday. May 12, 1978-The Michigan Daily PREPARE FOR: Est h MCAT ' DAT -LSAT'- GRE GMAT - OCAT' -VAT' -SAT NMB It]IIP, ECFMG- FLEX- VQE NAT.DENTAL BOARDS NURSING BOARDS Flexible Programs & Hours there 1 a difference!?! L N EDUCATtONAL CENTER Test Preparation Specialists Since 1938 For Information Please Call: (313) 662-3149 for Locations In Other Cities, Call: TOLL FREE: 800-223-1782 Cntrs ,in Majo "USCt es Senate probing loans to Nelson 'Contiued"rom Page must recommend to the Senate whether any action should be taken against Nelson. An aide to the committee said yesterday that it expects to take about two weeks toanalyze Nelson's dealings. "We plan to bring a lot of witnesses but we don't think it will take more than a few weeks," DeMaso affirmed. DeMaso said the committee could adopt any one of numerous options and propose them to the Senate. He said he The president's house on South University, built in 1840 as one of the first buildings for the University, has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service. expects the committee to review all the options and search for any precedent similar cases. He refused to predict the final recommendation. An aide to Senator Hart said the possibility of requesting a member of the Michigan Bar to advise the commit- tee was also proposed at Wednesday's meeting. The adie said it was likely that proposal would be voted on at the com- mittee's next meeting on Monday. The Senate is scheduled to recess at the end of June. Hart's aide said it was unlikely the Senate would vote to expel Nelson because there wouldn't be time to finish the debate before the recess. DeMaso objected, insisting the Senate would continue meeting through July until they makea decision. Among the potential possibilities con- fronting Nelson are a censuring and an expulsion resolution. _ rn' /'!.1 '" . ( , / r VOCE'- - .. CHICAGO officials want to make sure the city's children reach average national reading levels. The national norm for eighth graders on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills is 8.5. The Chicago average is 6.8. The officials said Thursday that 15,000 eighth-graders could not read at the level of a beginning eighth-grader. These are the pupils who must attend the summer sessions. Overall, 25,000 students at all levels will be taking remedial courses in Chicago schools this.summer, up from 2,000 last year. In the past, Chicago schools operated, on the basis of "social promotion," a belief that "children should stay with their age group, no matter what," said Angeline Caruso, associate superinten- dent for curriculum and instruction. "During the social revolution, there was the feeling that anything but 'social promotion' was discrimination. But now, we've had a whole generation session even if their reading ability still lags. But these students then must enroll in a special reading laboratory course in high school. IN NEW YORK \City, the Board of Education is considering denying high school diplomas to students deficient in reading and math. Jacksonville, Fla., school officials are trying to get a federal grant to pay the worst scorers on the state's new functional literacy test to attend sum- mer school. Plans are to pay 102 disad- vantaged 11th graders $477 each-$2.65 an hour-for attending summer session. School officials maintain these students are often the ones who most need to work in the summer. Florida students must pass the literacy test to get a high school diploma. They are given three oppor- tunities to pass, and if they fail all three times, they are awarded a certificate rather than a diploma regardless of their class grades. Remedial reading required in Chicago CHICAGO (AP)-About 15,000 of move through high schools without the Chicago's 40,000 eighth-graders will be skills tosurvive." required to attend summer school to improve their reading if they want to THE TOUGHER promotion policy goontohighschool. was approved by the Board of "For the first time, we will now have Education last summer. The summer an elementary school diploma that will sessions will cost the board $11.7 mean something," said school board million. member Catherine Rohter, a long-time Pupils attending the summer session critic of automatic promotion in the who will not be 15 by Dec. 1 must bring public school system. their test scores up to par by the end of The seven-week summer program is the summer or repeat eighth grade. part of a crackdown on laggard readers Those who will turn 15 before Dec. being instituted by the schooldistrict. 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