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CMS Students Making Progress In ESAALP Ninety per cent of the I..2Ô8 Charlotte-Mecklenburg junior high students involved in last year's Emergency School Aid Act lab program made at least an academic year's progress in one weak skill area, accord ing to the findings of an outside evaluation of the pro gram. The average gain for all students was 1.5 years in arithmetic, 1.4 years in read ing and 1 year in spelling, according to studies of test results by Dr. Earl McCallom of North Texas State Univer sity. The findings are in Dr. McCallom's preliminary re ' port. a final report is expected in early September. "All major objectives stated in the project proposal were met," Dr. McCallom said.. "The ninety percent who gain ed at least one academic year exceeded the 75 per cent suc cess rate that had been projec ted as well as surpassed the 74 per cent figure in 1973-74 and the 81 per cent figure in 1974-75." "We are most pleased with the results of the ESAA pro gram," said a high ranking school official. "It repre sents a tremendous success in helping students master the UNCC Expects 8,000 Students The University of North Ca rolina at Charlotte expects nearly 8,000 students for the new academic year beginning Monday, Aug. 23. This compares with 7,570 students at UNCC last fall. UNCC Chancellor D. W. Vol vard will welcome some 85 new faculty and staff mem bers at the annual convocation at 10 a.m., Monday. New additions will bring UNCC's teaching faculty to about 422 this year. Chancellor Colvard in lys address is expected to call for a new level of support for the University because of its uni que position as a rapidly grow ing urban institution among ."the 16 campuses in the Univer rity of North Carolina system. New studqptçyuiM check into "the dormitories at 10 a.m., Sunday, Aug. 22. A session for their parents will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday and the Chancel lor's reception will be held at 3:15 in the Cone Center. A week of orientation activi ties will begin Sunday for students. The advising and registration process will begin : Tuesday, Aug. 24. Classes begin on campus Aug. 30. Registration for the Alexan der Graham Junior High School Center of UNCC will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 26 at the school. Students may also register for these courses Aug. 24 and 25 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at UNCC. This year will see the begin ning of new master's degrees in mathematics and urban administration and a new un dergraduate degree in human development and learning. Construction is expected to begin on a new $6 million classroom-office building au thorized in a bond election by North Carolina voters last spring. Other construction will Include a parking deck and some additional parking lots. Officials are hopeful also that construction can begin on dor mitory space for 290 students. I ■ 1 basics and is an example nf productive use of ferli-i .<1 funds." "I've seen students m and come out (of the lalis) with changed attitudes <uid improved skills," said Humid Deal, prinicpal of Ranson Jun ior High. "This is the greatest ■ program we've had from the federal government including Head Start and Title I Said another prinicipal, Eddie By ers of Kennedy Junior High, "As far as I'm concerned, for the good it does children in reading and math areas, it is the best thing that ever hap pened to us." The ESAA lab program has been operated in CMS junior • highs for the past three years. Under a $1.4 million grant last year, each of the system's .21 junior high schools had a lab with three full-time teach ers and a full-time aide. They provided special help to elig ible students in the basic skills of reading, spelling and aritli metic. Any junior high student who scored below the 2.">ili percentile in the school-wide testing program was eligible for the special help. In the labs each student was tested upon entering and leav ing as well as being given appropriate diagnostic tests. A multitude of materials were available within the labs so the teachers could pick the best possible learning situa tion for each student. The minimum acceptable "success" rate for each stu dent was a gain of at least an academic year in a Weak skill area. Once a student had progressed satisfactorily, he or she was rotated out to make room for another student. Dr. McCallom's findings are based on his computerized study of tests given to lab students when they entered and when they left the pro gram. Students were adminis tered Wide Range Achieve ment Tests. According ιο bo Davis, CMS director of the ESAA project, "someone from outside the school system was chosen to evaluate the test results to insure objectivity." Other resets included in Dr. re~ -While in the labs, students tended to make the greatest gains in arithmetic, followed by reading and then spelling. -Seventh grade students tended to make the greatest in the labs than eighth and ninth graders. --On various tests o! re.id ing, spelling and arithmetic, students at all three μι;κΙ<> levels demonstrated a* .1 group more than a ν ear > academic growth. This wa> especially true in arithnientie when 86.4 per cent ol the students made one year's pro gress or more. The ESAA labs will continue to operate in all junior highs next year under a $1 miHion grant. S.C. State Starts New Academic Year ORANGEBURG, S.C -Class es will begin Friday, August 27, for close to 4,000 students at South Carolina State Col lege in Orangeburg, following four days of orientation and registration for new students. College officials welcomed more than 800 freshmen, the largest group ever, to the Orangeburg campus Sunday. Five contestants took part in the "Miss Cassandra Pageant" Saturday. August 14. Contestants are pictured on the top row. They are Dorethea Ashford, third place: Flossie Grier, winner; Lois Porter, fourth place; Mae Rose Tate, second place and Esther Gainey, fifth place. Members of the Cassandra Social Club, bottom row left to right, are Martha McAfee, president, Dorothy Robinson, secre tary; Louise Williams, treasurer. Mazetté Lewis, business manager and Hazel Pickett, parlimentarian PSAT Test Set For October 19 If you're in high school imw and thinking about college. you may want to join o\ π ι 2 million other high school Mu dents around the world in taking the Preliminar\ Schol astic Aptitude Test - Nation.il Merit Scholarship Qualitun^ Test (PSAT-NMSQT) An important first step in making college plans, the lot will be given at about IT. >oo high schools on Tuesday <κ· tober 19. or Saturday, October 23, 1976. 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