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Thursday, November 8. 1979
University Daily Kansan
Follow Through program challenges children in grade school systems across the country
By HAROLD CAMPBELL
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas is playing a role in the education of grade school students in the Brox, Philadelphia, and two Indian reservations.
The role arises out of the KU Follow Through program, a behavior analysis program designed by KU educational staff. The KU Ramp, program director, said recently.
The program is administered to kindergarten through third grade pupils in 13 public school districts nationwide.
It attempts to give children from families with incomes below the poverty level, $1,90 a year for a family of four, the chance for equal educational opportunities.
"Each child is given a academic tasks to do. Each task is given a certain task to do, each read up to a particular page in a book or of a certain number of math problems. If they
The program started in 1968 following passage of the Civil Rights Act and Economic Opportunity Act in 1964.
The two acts, which fund Follow Through and the two universities and educational foundations, were part of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" program, Rampage.
Each university involved with Follow Through designs its own programs to
present to school districts throughout the United States, Ramp said.
KU's program originally was accepted by 12 school districts in 1988. The Watts school district in Los Angeles adopted the program this year.
About 7,000 pupils are taught under the KU program.
THE DISTRICTS using the KU program are Pitfield, Mass.; the Bronx district of New York City; Philadelphia; Trenton, N.J.; Rochester, NY; Wakeau, Ill.; Meridian School District, Port; Portageville, Mo.; Kansas City, Mo.; Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation near Lame Deer, Mont.; Hopi Indian Reservation near the Watts school district, Los Angeles.
Ramp said the method of instruction at each school district was the same.
Students in the Follow Through classes are rewarded for academic success with tokens, such as Poppie sticks, that pupils can use to win prizes or play games or going outside, he said.
The student can exchange his token for permission to do extra academic work.
"It's surprising to see how many times students will exchange their tokens to do extra work in math or writing instead of changing them to play games. Hamp up."
Mo.schools that participate in the KU program, said the program at those schools emphasized the basics.
The schools involved in Kansas City are Woodland Elementary School and Wendell Phillips Elementary School.
MATTIE STORY, project director of Follow Through for the two Kansas City.
These basics, she said, were reading,
writing, math and spelling.
"We have had tremendous success with our program," she said.
The Kansas City program earned an exemplary rating from a panel of educational experts two years ago.
A total of 700 children and 16 teachers participate in the Kansas City program. Story said.
All the school districts involved with the KU program use seven methods to speed the academic progress of pupils, she said.
THE METHODS range from motivating pupils to do better in their school work to giving better individualized instruction and helping students current participation in classroom rework.
Marjorie McAllister, supervisor for the KU Follow Through Program in the Bronx school district in New York City, said parent education was emphasized in all school activities.
Some parents are trained to teach in Follow Through classes and some serve on a policy advisory committee to oversee the program.
There are 509 pupils involved in the KU program in the Bronx. Fifty percent of the pupils speak English as a second language and 40 percent are black, McAllister said.
The Bronx program has been successful, she said.
"We did an informal study of high school sophomores and juniors last year and found most of the students who had been in our class were well with those who weren't," she said.
HOWEVER,McAllister said,the program can not perform miracles.
"We can't reach everybody," she said.
"There are just too many factors we have to contend with outside the classroom for us to be totally successful."
Phyllis Bld Left Hand, executive director of the Follow Through program at the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, which has been forced to overcome a language barrier
"Many of the children then could speak only Cheyenne," she said. "We had to teach them English as part of the program."
She said, however, that increased English language programs at the reservation during the past 10 years had decreased the number of foreign students in the reservation's Follow Through program.
"We have found the students who have participated in the program are more diligent in doing work later in school than in doing it in class, and they were not involved in the program," she said.
Ramp said that the KU Follow Through program received about $5.5 million last year from the U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare.
He said $500,000 of the grant went to oncampus research to explore methods to improve the program and about $5 million went to the 12 school districts.
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Other universities with Follow Through programs include the University of Arizona, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Georgia and the University of North Dakota.
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TONIGHT: BRUCE CARAHAN, assist-
dant in the U.S. Senate, will speak to PSIPSA cla-
mbers and all interested persons at 7:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk room of the Union. The event is free.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN On Campus
TOMORROW, **ARTIFICS FILMS** "Why Man Creates" and "Music of the Spheres, Part I" will be shown at 9:30 a.m. in room 301 Bailey Hall. The **ADULT LIFE CENTER JOB CALL** will meet in the AICB building, 14th and Great streets.
TODAY: THE KANSAS RESEARCH INSTITUTE WORKSHOP will meet all day in the International Room of the Kansas Union. The ARMY will interview for civilian career opportunities at the Center. THE BURROUGHS CORP. AND UNION CARBIDE will interview in Summerfield Hall. HERCULES, HONEYWELL 2M, IM. NAVAL. WAIPONS CENTER 3M, IM. NAVAL. WAIPONS CENTER in Learned Hall. MARATHON OIL CO. will interview in Lindley Hall. LUC ROMAN, French singer and songwriter, will give a concert at 3:30 p.m. in Wooddraft Club. THE GERMAN CLUB will meet at 4:30 p.m. in the 4th floor of Murphy Hall.
p.m. in the Regionalist Room of the Union.
The SIGMA PSI RESUME WORKSHOP will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the University of Missouri, an American sociist, will speak at 7:30 p.m. in Big B Room of the Union. The GAY SERVICES OF KANSAS SKEAER's Bureau will present a panel discussion at 7:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the HARDIN, KU professor of English, will speak for the English Colloquium at 8 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union. The KU JAZZ ENSEMBLE will give a recital at 8 p.m. in Saworthiback Hall of Murray Hall.
The police originally investigated the death as a hit-and-run accident, then as a vehicular homicide.
No charges will be filed in fatal pedestrian accident
However, the vehicular homicide charge, a misdemeanor, could not be substantiated, Malone said.
No charges will be filed in connection with the incident. A medical technician, Nc. Stuart SL, who died from head injuries sustained Oct. 12 at Burcham Park, Mike Malone, Doloney County district attorney,
He said Jones had been walking in the park at Second and Indiana streets when he
challenged three men in a pick-up truck to fight. As the men were leaving the park, Jones grabbed the truck and was dragged for an undetermined distance. Malone said.
Jones hit his head when he let go of the truck, Malone said. He died Oct. 16 at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
"I believe negligence was involved, but I believe the gun and worst negligence necessary to establish vehicular homicide," she said. "The criminal charges could not be supported."
The names of the three men in the truck were not released.
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