A front-page item published on this day in 1986 gave HISD students low marks when it came to passing the TEAMS test.
More than half of schoolchildren in the third, fifth, seventh and ninth grades failed the test. It measures a student's proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic.
In other news, there's an item on John Kennedy Barefield, at the time charged in the murder of Rice student Cindy Rounsaville. He was eventually convicted and put to death in 1997.
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