21.   Educators are criticizing plans for a national computer database to track foreign students, saying it was adopted in a climate of fear following the World Trade Center bombing.

22.   Nor does the data allow officials to accurately track students in specific classes as they progress through the educational system, he argued.

23.   The INS has acknowledged major gaps in tracking foreign students.

24.   The U.S. government has been working for years on a computer database to track foreign students.

25.   Under those statistics, which the department has started to compile, students are tracked through their high school years to their performances matched against their peers.