Students fail to make the grade in math, reading
Elementary students
outperform middle, high
school pupils in state tests
CHARLES E. BEGGS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SALEM — Most students showed
little or no improvement on this year's
state reading and math tests, the state
Education Department reports.
State Schools Superintendent Su
san Castillo said elementary school
students continue performing well
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low scores in middle schools and
high schools.
The 2004 test results were issued for
release Thursday.
fust 50 percent of 10th grade stu
dents met state goals on this year's
reading test, down from 52 percent
last year. Only 43 percent of the 10th
graders met state standards on the
2004 math multiple choice test, down
from 45 percent last year. In other cat
egories, scores have remained flat, or
else increased slightly.
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Although the scores are higher
than four or five years ago, Castillo
said she's concerned that recent re
sults are flat.
"Something is clearly wrong here,
and we need to take action," she said.
While schools have had to cope
with unstable budgets, shortened
school years and increasing class sizes,
she said, "We need to find ways to bet
ter use the resources we have."
Kris Kain, president of the Oregon
Education Association, the state's
largest teacher's union, said she was
pleased that more scores didn't drop
in view of the schools' money pinch
due to cuts in state aid.
"Maintaining is a good thing in the
climate we're facing. The fact we're not
declining speaks volumes," Kain said.
The state tests are important be
cause of the federal No Child Left Be
hind law. Test scores are a major fac
tor in whether schools are making
adequate progress under the law.
The department will release prelim
inary progress reports for all schools
next week.
Results are still being calculated
for the two other statewide tests in
writing and math problem solving,
which is separate from the math
multiple choice test.
Tests are given in third, fifth, eight
and 10th grades. Results are compiled
for each of the more than 1,200 pub
lic schools in the state.
Among third-graders, 82 percent
met state standards on the reading test
this year, the same as in 2003, and 81
percent passed the math test by at
least meeting state standards, up from
78 percent last year.
More than three-fourths of fifth
graders passed both reading and math
exams this year, about the same as in
2003. Six out of 10 eight-grade stu
dents passed the math and reading
tests this year.
Kain said the results are similar to
those nationally in which elemen
tary students perform better than
pupils in higher grades. An elemen
tary teacher usually deals with no
more than 35 students a day while
middle and high schools teachers see
as many as 120 pupils.
At Parkrose High School, dismal
test scores in math are among the
state's worst and have led officials to
make some major changes, said Prin
cipal Roy Reynolds.
Only 20 percent of the high
school's lOth-grade students passed
the math test this year, below last
year's 27 percent. The Parkrose School
District is in east Multnomah County
The 10th graders at the 1,000-stu
dent high school scored at about the
state average level on the reading test.
Reynolds said middle school and
high school math programs had op
erated separately and now are being
coordinated to pay closer attention to
students' needs.
So 9th graders entering high school
who were below state standards on
their 8th grade tests, he said, will be
given more intensive help.
Brad Royse, superintendent of the
360-student Enterprise School District
in Wallowa County, believes small
school size plus a strong emphasis on
testing helps results.
In the reading test, 73 percent of
Enterprise High School's 10th graders
passed this year, up from 56 percent
in 2003.
"Test scores always have been im
portant, and we feel the state and na
tional governments have put that level
of concern into them and we support
it," Royse said.
Charles E. Beggs is a writer for the
Associated Press.
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rule, McBride said.
He said the tennis program recently
received that exemption from the Pac
10 to play all tennis matches for the
2004-2005 season indoors at the Stu
dent Tennis Center, located behind
the Student Recreation Center and
McArthur Court.
Playing outdoors or indoors for the
varsity tennis players is not being fore
seen as a big problem for the athletes,
University men's tennis head coach
Chris Russell said.
"Some guys like playing outdoors;
some guys like playing indoors," Rus
sell said. "Whether they play indoors
or outdoors is a matter of preference."
Russell said he first heard about
the projected demolition of the ten
nis courts on East 15th Avenue two
summers ago and is looking forward
to the construction of a new outdoor
tennis facility.
'The tennis courts were old and the
fencing was outdated," Russell said.
"The positive is we get brand new
courts and it's all for the better. It's def
initely a win-win situation for us."
The building of the LLC — which
is slated to open in fall 2006 — will
largely benefit incoming freshmen,
who will live in the 399-bed resi
dence hall that will include three
classrooms, faculty offices and a
cafe, University Housing Director
Mike Eyster said.
"I wouldn't say any residence hall
student would identify the tennis
courts as a primary resource for stu
dents living in the residence halls,"
Eyster said. "One of the important
things that we discovered about the
Living Learning Center is the impor
tance of involving faculty."
Eyster said University Housing con
sidered other sites, including the Bean
Complex parking lot, but the current
location was recommended by the
Campus Planning Committee and
the design advisory group.
"Proximity to the academic core is
significant, so that made this space a
primary consideration," Eyster
said.He said the new residence hall
will use the area more efficiently
than the tennis courts, which were
hardly used by people other than the
varsity tennis teams.
"This space will be much more
heavily used by students than the
tennis courts ever were," Eyster said.
"The varsity tennis teams are going
to probably end up having a nicer
facility than they currently have as a
result of this."
The original total cost for the ten
nis courts was $630,000. University
Housing helped pay more than two
thirds of the cost when they con
tributed $435,000 to build the
courts, Eyster said, adding that he
didn't know where the other third
came from.
"We concluded that this was the
best site for the LLC and that the
University would benefit by having
this located here and the new tennis
courts located somewhere else,"
Eyster said.
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and questioning convinced them he
was responsible for at least four bur
glaries at the stadium between Janu
ary and June of this year, said Eu
gene Police Department Detective
Scott Thomas.
Computer equipment, jewelry,
jerseys and merchandise signed
by former
uuck quarter
back Joey Har
rington valued
at $37,500 was
stolen from
several loca
tions in Autzen
Stadium, in
cluding the
skyboxes, gift
Billy Jess
Barnard
Accused burglar
shop and oper
ations center.
About two
thirds of the
stolen mer
chandise, valued at about $25,000,
was recovered at Barnard's Beaverton
apartment, including most of the Har
rington memorabilia, Thomas said.
Barnard lived at Parkgrove
Apartments, across the street from
the stadium, until his recent move to
the Portland area, according to
"If you see somebody that you
don't think belongs [there],
politely ask them if you can
help them ...It would have
been nice to have somebody
identify him earlier on."
— Scott Thomas
EPD Detective
an EPD press release.
The University of Oregon Book
store owned much of the stolen mer
chandise. Jim Williams, who has been
general manager of the bookstore
since 1976, said this is, as far as he can
remember, the first time the Book
store has ever been burglarized.
"We've never had a burglary,"
Williams said. "We're really happy
that the individual was apprehended.
If we do get most of our merchandise
back, that's an extraordinary thing."
Thomas said Barnard beat security
by using his knowledge of computers
and confidence and composure when
moving around Autzen facilities.
Thomas said Barnard is not a student
or University employee, but was able
to "move around with almost no con
frontation at all."
"Using his skills and his intelli
gence he was able to study security
and figure out how to beat it,"
Thomas said. "He did it at all times,
daytime and nighttime. He couldn't
even tell you how many times he's
been in Autzen Stadium, both lawful
ly and unlawfully..."
Thomas said he suspected the
burglaries were committed by the
same person because in all cases
there wasn't the usual "brainless .
vandalism." The Harrington-auto
graphed items were only in the
Autzen area temporarily, leading
Thomas to believe that whoever
stole them had insider knowledge
about when and where they were
going to be. In reality, "It was just
blind luck," Thomas said.
Thomas said he could not give
specifics, but that "changes have
been made and certain procedures
are being reviewed to see what we
can do to prevent this sort of thing
in the future."
Thomas said it would have been
helpful if staff would have ap
proached Barnard, instead of letting
him "wonder around."
"If you see somebody that you
don't think belongs [there], politely
ask them if you can help them,"
Thomas said. "It would have been
nice to have somebody identify him
earlier on."
editor@dailyemerald.com