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Wednesdav, February 9, 1977
University Daily Kansan
KU helps young pupils catch up
Bv KATHY GANNON
Staff Reporter
The War on Poverty, declared by the late President Lyndon Johnson in 1964, inspired a campaign to help children from poor families achieve academic success so that as adults they might improve their social condition.
The University of Kansas department of human development undertook to help win that campaign in 1988 by devising and implementing national strategy called Behavior Analysis.
Behavior Analysis is one of 20 academic models or sponsoring organizations in a nationwide program called Follow. Following a pilot study in 67 under the Federal Office of Education.
FOLLOW THROUGH is an extension of Head Start, a federal program that began in 1964 to give preschool children from poor areas access to school that would bring them in elementary school.
The success of the Head Start program was uncertain, partly because improved academic performance of Head Start students were collected in the early elementary grades.
In 1867, Congress amended the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which provided the funding for Head Start. The amendment was the birth of the Follow Through program to aid children from kindergarten through third grade.
KU'S BEHAVIOR Analysis Follow through program, begin in 15 projects (schools across the nation) that are rated at least five thousand of children during its nine-year existence.
The Behavior Analysis approach is the brainchild of Don Bushell, professor of human development at UF. Follow Through program. He is now program adviser.
No $n$ program primarily emphasizes new educational techniques to encourage young children to learn basic skills—reading, writing and articulating words; reinforcement, team teaching, individualized instruction and parent participation in the classroom.
THE PROGRAM set up special types of teaching programs and creates a classroom
environment that permits and encourages learning, "Eugene Ramp, director of the KU Follow Through program since 1974; since Friday.
"Just making the children literate it isn't enough," Hump said, "but what we're doing is getting better."
The aim of the Behavior Analysis program is to make the academic performance of poor children in the program better. The goal is to increase on national achievement tests, be said.
POOR CHILDREN generally progress three months behind the average middle-aged child.
Studies by the KU Follow through staff show that while children are in the Behavior Analysis program, they function at or above the optional standards.
KU's Follow Through program now serves about 7,000 poor children in 15 schools in the following districts: Hopi District, Lake County District, Illinois, Waukegan, Ill.; Indianapolis, Ind; Louisville, Ky; Pittsfield, Mass; Karas City, Mo.; Portageville, Mont; Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Mont; Trenton, NJ; Bronx, N.Y., and New York.
VIVIAN FUEYO, district adviser for three Behavior Analysis ghetto schools in Philadelphia, said vandalism and absenteeism had decreased at the Philadelphia schools since KU introduced the Behavior Analysis program there.
Children at these three schools also are meeting national average in stan- dard achievement.
One of the Philadelphia schools was voted the best urban elementary school in Philadelphia because of the academic results of test scores.
"The key to the Behavior Analysis program is that we know the progress of each child." Fueyo said. "The analysis makes this program the only educational model that bases everything that goes on in the classroom on the outcomes of each child's progress rather than just an educational theory."
THE JOB OF a district adviser includes planning monthly visits to the project site, compiling reports and preparing reports.
classroom and in special workshops and
analyzing computer printouts of each
Evaluation aides in each district transit individual achievement reports to the KU computer at Summerfield Hall biweekly. "The computer is the heartbeat of our
"The computer is the heartbeat of our kids," Ramp said.
According to Randy Williams, district adviser for Waukegan schools, school staff members said there had been a major disruption. "We followed Through program was established."
One aspect of the positive teaching approach is the token system, which is used to motivate children, reinforce good behavior and teach independence.
"CHILDREN STARTED enjoying school and studying," Williams said. "The positive approach to teaching makes the children like school more."
Tokens or dacs are awarded for good behavior such as responding correctly, paying attention and working on assignments.
Children can exchange tokens for games, play materials or recess time.
Williams said parent participation was also an important factor of the Behavioral Assessment.
PARENTS ARE trained in fairly intensive workshops, Ramp said, before qualifying as Behavior Analysis teacher's aides.
Fueyo said individual instruction and a link between the school and the home was accomplished through parental involvement in the classroom.
Some parents in Williams' and Fueyo's districts have returned to high school or college to complete their education. A few parents have received teaching certificates. And parents have continued their education in other KU Follow Through districts.
Interpreting data from comparative studies of Behavior Analysis children and non-Behavior Analysis children with similar backgrounds, Fuey and Williams agreed that the Behavior Analysis children had been taken without KUJK: Follow Through program.
I DON'T THINK all our kids will be rich, "Ramp said, "If I love them I have a
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retired from a job with the Lawrence post office.
"I didn't know what to do, but I figured I'd find something," he recalled. "I couldn't stay at home doing nothing for even two weeks." I go crazy.
Ice isn't an usher anymore. Now he helps a policeman "escort" officials between the狸 multitude in Allen and their quiet locker room in the field house annex.
SO WHEN John Novotny, assistant athletic director at that time, offered him a job, ice accepted. Ice knew Novotty from an asus as an usher during basketball games.
The sign on the door where they stood said
"NO ADMITTANCE"-underlined twice.
The largest crowd of the year poured into Allen later that night, and Ice stood with the policeman at the end of a long white corridor in the annex.
The policeman walked in front and Ice walked behind.
Ice had changed into a better uniform for the game. He now wore a new blue and red Kansas Jayhawks cap, and carried a Hershey bar in his shirt pocket for dinner.
FINALLY, TWO officials emerged from their sanctuary, cracked several nervous jokes with their escorts and started down the long white corridor.
Ice said there usually wasn't any trouble until the K-State game.
ONCE IN THE white corridor, they started congratulating and joking with each other. Ice left the policeman alone and went to chance into his work clothes.
"Everything will happen then," he said. Two hours later, the final buzzer sounded and the officials quickly slipped off the court with their escorts. Because the home win, the multitude had no wrath in their仇es and the officials left unnoticed.
As the crowd filed out, he went to the east side of the field house and a small crawl-stair.
Ice was just small enough to stand up straight in the room. It was a small office,
with an old cluttered desk sitting in one corner and an ancient refrigerator in the other.
He left on his Kansas Jayhawks cap but changed into a grubby pull-over shirt and was the best of them.
AS HE LEFT the room and walked up to the desk, he spoke about his past life in Kansas.
He remembered working in his father's store in Big Springs during the depression and "selling anything we could to make a nickel."
He said he gave up a scholarship to K-State after the war, and chose instead to go to college.
"You never make a lot of money working for the government," he said. "But you'll get richer and feel like a millionaire."
In 1952, he married, and he said he had never retested that either
THE WINDOWS ON the east side of Allen were dark now, except for a spotlight on the roof that illuminated the front of the field house. As ice stepped through the window and onto the wall last time that day, the unknownly light off the light, leaving him in the dark.
The cars began to pile up on Naimshi Drive, while below him people were still filtering out of the field house. A plastic cup lies near him, breaking the rooftop silence.
As ice started to untie the ropes, he said that if he didn't like working at Allen, he wouldn't be there. And he said, he didn't mind the responsibility of hoisting the flags.
Nemechek confession read
"Somebody has to do it."
SALINA (UPI) — In a signed confession admitted as evidence at his murder trial yesterday, Francis Donald Nemechek said he was convicted of killing another, a KU student, before killing them.
The KU student, Carla Baker of Hays, 20, disappeared June 1976. Her body was found three months later in a remote area of Cedar Bluff Reservoir.
Nemechek's confession, made to officers and his lawyer last October, described how he stabbed two women to death and killed two Iowa women with shotgun blasts.
The 26-year-old Nemechek, of WaKeeny, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to five counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of the four women and a small boy, who died of exposure after his mother and another woman were killed.
Lawyers for both sides asked that the confession be read at the trial. As it was read, Nemechek sat staring impassively toward the front of the courtroom.
30, depressed because he could find none of his friends, when he saw Baker riding her bicycle beside the highway. He stopped his pickup and exposed himself to her.
the document said Nemechek grabbed her and drove in his pickup to Cedar Bluff Reservoir 50 miles away. When there, the man knocked on the door of her in the carpeted back of the pickup, ripping off some of her clothes and trying to rape her before she kicked him between the legs. He grabbed a knife and stabbed her when he tried to run away, the confession said.
The confession included these points:
* Nomeckek was driving to Hays on June
He was angry and depressed after a fight with his ex-wife about visitation rights with his child in December 1974, when he stopped her from coming to his house. And Diane Lovette, 19, change a flat tire.
Lovette began cursing him, so he kid-naped them, took them to an abandoned farm house near Hill City and raped Miss Lovette before shooting them.
The 3-year-old son of Miss Young, Guy
Young, died of exposure at the scene. The
son was 15 years old.
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But the KU staff has data showing that Behavior Analysis children continue to perform better in later elementary grades. In contrast, Analysis children with similar backgrounds.
KU's Follow Through program isn't funded to monitor the progress of Behavior Analysis children after third grade when they enter the program to enter regular classrooms.
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Congress allocates $59 million annually for the 20 Follow Through program sponsors and 185 projects across the nation, which serve about 70,000 poor children.
The KU Behavior Analysis Follow Through project has received from $460,000 to $500,000 each year to direct its 15 projects, with funding from the fund, ranging from $200,000 to $800,000.
The 1967 legislation that started started Through expires on July 1, but Ramp said the program is funded through fiscal year 1978.
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Reflection
Steve Leben and Ralph Munyan, candidates for student body president and vice president, and the REFLECTION candidates, will be students on Senate issues, because they are their desire to open new lines of communication between the Senate and the part survey.
STUDENT ATTORNEY
Yes - 53% No - 36% No opinion - 9%
G—Some universities, including K State, have an attorney available to help any student who needs legal advice or other legal assistance. You can call them at (801) 327-5000 each semester to have legal help available to you at no additional cost; would you want such an attorney available at KU?
We will examine carefully how students' attorneys have been utilized at other schools and establish a student attorney program at KU as soon as possible.
TICKET SUBSIDY
Q - Would you like to have an opportunity to vote in a referendum on whether or not student fees should be used to subsidize season tickets to basketball and football games?
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Q - Based on what you know about the ticket subsidy question, would you favor the use of general student fees to subsidize the prices of season football and basketball tickets?
Yes — 62% No — 26% No opinion — 11%
We would propose a referendum on the ticket subsidy as soon as possible, because that is the only way to put this issue back us once and for all. We will do our best to present the pros, cons, and facts of the issue to the voters before the election.
WATSON LIBRARY
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Q- If it's generally agreed that Watson Library has many problems because of a lack of funds, Which problem has been the most troublesome for you?
   35% — not being open when I want to use the library
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8% — other
After examining the present lobbying efforts of KU and other Kansas schools, we have concluded that we must organize our own organization on this campus if the student body is to be effectively represented in Topeka. We will try to work first to make sure we get national attention on our website.
Steve Leben and Munyan—they care enough about you to ask your opinion. Vote for them on February 16 & 17.
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The only way to improve our libraries is to get more money to keep them open and to purchase materials. This requires a functional lobbying group on the KU campus to convince the Legislature of the seriousness of the problem.
<1% — neither, no major problems for me