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State Ed. Tests Are Topic of Forum
The first scores of the new State Ed. exams show a
real gap in performance between students in city schools and those
elsewhere.
GMI and the state Education Department are presenting a
forum titled “New York Learns: High Stakes in High Standards” on
Wednesday, Jan. 19, at 4 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.
State Education Commissioner Richard P. Mills and other
education leaders will discuss the issues in a forum moderated by Ed
Dague, managing director and anchor of WNYT NewsChannel 13.
The event is to be taped for broadcast on Jan. 27 at 10
p.m. on state public television stations.
Seating is limited. To reserve, call ext. 6238.
Panelists also are to include Patrick Allen, director of
Educational Studies at Union; R. Carlos Carballada, assistant to the
chairman and director of M&T Bank & Corp., Rochester; Mary Ann
Hawthorne, principal, Samuel Gompers School, Bronx; Katie Haycock,
director of Education Trust, Washington; Sonya Johnson, teacher, Samuel
Gompers School, Bronx; Stephen C. Jones, superintendent of Syracuse City
School District; and Philip Rumore of the Buffalo Teachers Federation.
Faculty Staff, Works Listed
Seth Greenberg, Gilbert R.
Livingston Professor of Psychology, Kathryn Johnson '00 and David
Payne of Binghamton University presented a paper “Is contextual
relevancy relevant to false memories?” at the annual meeting of the
Psychonomic Society in Los Angeles. The paper, based on Johnson's
thesis, investigates how personal relevancy of a situation affects a
person's recall of situational details. The results suggested that one's
familiarity with a situation reduced the tendency to make false
inferences.
John Garver, associate
professor of geology, delivered a paper titled “Detrital Fisson-Track
Thermochronology Applied to Sedimentary Provenance Studies” at the
recent annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. He was
co-author of another presentation, “A Test of Detrital Fission-Track
Analysis of Modern River Sediments for Provenance and Exhumation Studies
in the European Alps.”
It’s ‘Nott a Bus’
The students have spoken and the vehicle known as
the trolley has a name: “Nott a Bus.”
The selection follows a thorough solicitation of
nominations and thoughtful consideration by the Student Forum.
There were other suggested names, we're told, not all
of which would meet generally-accepted standards of taste.
“Nott a Bus” is making scheduled rounds to
nearby neighborhoods and to local shopping. Schedules are available in
Reamer Campus Center.
For students who live along the route, Campus Safety is
outfitting off-campus College properties with devices that can make porch
(or other) lights blink to alert the driver of “Nott a Bus” that
persons inside would like a ride.
Sort of like Paul Revere getting his signal from the Old
North Church.
The devices also are available to students in
non-College properties for a minimal deposit.