Hostages Return Home as Bush Welcomes Freed Americans
Thirty nine weary Americans freed after over two weeks in Beirut are greeted at Wiesbaden hospital by a flag waving crowd and VP Bush. The group, arriving on a C 141, receive medical checks and emotional reunions as Bush recalls Stethem’s death and Lebanese kidnapping victims.
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Beirut
Steve Willett
Choupic
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Freedom
Navy
Jay Coupe
Rhein-Main Air Force Base
America
Bush
Barbara
U.S. Navy
Robert Dean Stethem
Waldorf
Lebanon
Reagan
Teachers weighing national test at NEA convention
Washington D C teachers discuss a proposed national pre certification test for new teachers at the National Education Association convention. Odessa delegate Mary Reeves says Texas delegates will back shifting from long held opposition to tests with a preference for state level designs. Mary Futrell urged support for standardized testing while opposing veteran competency tests.
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Texas
National Education Association
Odessa
Mary Reeves
Ector County
Texas State Teachers Association
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Reeves
Mary Futrell
Futrell
Associated Press
NEA poll ties pay to teaching quality at convention
The National Education Association released a Gallup poll showing 63 percent say higher salaries would greatly improve teacher quality while 60 percent see competency testing as producing big gains. The survey of 1,501 adults, conducted April 29 to May 20, cites local recruiting struggles and tax-backed school funding support, underscoring a split on remedies.
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Gallup Organization
Gallup
Don Cameron
NEA
Televised courses offer equal access to advanced study
In Texas the Ti-In Network will let rural and small school students enroll in the same 8 am calculus class via television. An on-desk telephone link places pupils with the instructor, expanding access to honors calculus, statistics, trig, and other subjects across 50 districts for 1985 86, with costs possibly lower than hiring a teacher.
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